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Critics of Cynthia McKinney may dismiss her as a loose cannon and a rabble-rouser, but to her supporters, the former Georgia congresswoman is someone with the courage to challenge convention and speak the truth. McKinney, 54, represented an Atlanta-area district as a Democrat from 1993-2003 and 2005-07. A vigorous critic of President George W. Bush, she gave voice to a theory, widely circulated on the political fringes, that Bush knew in advance of the Sept. 11 attacks but allowed them to happen because they would prove profitable to the global investment firm his father was associated with. In her final...

Conspiracy theorists awaiting Wednesday night's premiere of "Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura" might take interest in a curious comment Ventura made in the Los Angeles Times this weekend. Ventura, who has been doing the media rounds promoting his new venture on TruTV, told the paper that MSNBC cancelled his show "Jesse Ventura's America" in 2003 because he did not support the Iraq War. He said the network "in essence" paid him to be silent, which allowed him to purchase a house in Mexico. This is not your first venture into TV hosting since leaving the governorship. What happened to "Jesse...

This morning I posted a thread titled " Obama Orders 1 Million US Troops To Prepare For Civil War". My comment, " Fact or speculation? You decide", in the thread I posted clearly indicated no particular position for or against and with the assumption Freepers could openly debate the merits, or lack thereof, and provide input concerning the article located at another website as has occurred with many other dubious articles posted at FreeRepublic in the past. The thread was pulled with the premise the article was based on the "trutherism" subjectively defined as a conspiracy. I then posted a...

Earlier this morning I posted An article titled " Obama Orders 1 Million US Troops To “Prepare For Civil War". My comment was " Speculation or fact? You decide" The article itself had several links with information pertaining to the subject. Within twenty minutes the post had received over one thousand views and 33 posts running the gambit from outright denial to considering such an event possible. The premise of my comment was based on the possibility any or all of this article may or may not be true. I assumed that Freepers, being intelligent people with a vast array...

Originally I just saw a "thread pulled" message, but now it has: "Site has links to trutherism, don’t post it here again" So now content is banned because the site *links* to objectionable content? I'd suggest that's true of most major news outlets for one thing. "Free"republic should support "free speech", it's one of the cornerstones and strengths of our system. Censorship is the antithesis of the American system.

Charlie Sheen is a 911 Truther and has never felt the consequences from stubbornly holding on to such thoroughly discredited and un-American beliefs. I’ve always asked myself this simple, straightforward question about Charlie Sheen: Why is the man still (unfortunately) a viable, popular and high-earning figure in American entertainment when his 911 Truther beliefs are fanatical at best and all-out anathema at worst? Don’t you just hate it when a man such as Sheen has fanatically un-American viewpoints, yet is never shunned or even all-out rejected by the American people? I know I sure as heck do because in my...

When a lawyer files complaints and motions without a reasonable basis for believing that they are supported by existing law or a modification or extension of existing law, that lawyer abuses her privilege to practice law. When a lawyer uses the courts as a platform for a political agenda disconnected from any legitimate legal cause of action, that lawyer abuses her privilege to practice law. When a lawyer personally attacks opposing parties and disrespects the integrity of the judiciary, that lawyer abuses her privilege to practice law. When a lawyer recklessly accuses a judge of violating the Judicial Code of...

Renowned American historian Gore Vidal says that President Barack Obama would lose 2012 presidential elections, calling the first black US president "incompetent." In an interview with the Independent, Vidal sharply criticized Obama who took power when the United States was involved in two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. About the election of Obama, Vidal said that he was initially optimistic, but after witnessing the administration, he has relegated himself to despair. "He's incompetent. He will be defeated for re-election. It's a pity because he's the first intellectual president we've had in...

www.911Reality.com/myvideos.html VIDEO DOCUMENTARY SHORTS STEEL BUILDINGS COLLAPSE IN FIRES: STEEL-FRAMED Delft University (Holland) Architecture Building Partially Collapses from Fire Alone. PULVERIZED CONCRETE? NOTICE GIANT CLOUDS OF DUST & SMOKE AFTER COLLAPSE. "OXYGEN STARVED" FIRE? NOTICE BLACK SMOKE (Note: Taller Buildings WEIGH MORE, and Use Weaker Construction -- lightweight materials -- to Reach Great Heights. They hold tremendous weight up at greater heights, with far more energy. High-Rise buildings, are MORE likely to suffer progressive collapse.) Osama Bin Laden Admits Planning 9/11 in Private Meeting with Egyptian Terrorist, taped by Al Qaeda Second HALF of Video Starting at 5:30 Bin Laden...

This latest evidence really puts a nail in the coffin of the few remaining people who still believe Al Qaeda hijacked airliners and flew them into the World Trade Center (WTC) on 9-11-2001. As with 99% all evidence supporting the truther version of events, it takes the form of a YouTube video put together by amateurs with no training in physics, engineering, or thermodynamics. (VIDEO AT LINK) Remember, folks, the people who claim that Mossad/Bushitler/Halliburton/the Illuminati brought down the WTC are just "patriotic Americans asking questions." The only dangerous lunatics are the ones who wonder why B. Hussein Obama has...

Conservative journalists have exposed the Obama administration's attempts to politicize the National Endowment for the Arts. Andrew Breitbart's website has detailed two conference calls in August aimed at recruiting artists to shill for health care "reform" and environmental legislation. However, it has been overlooked that an NEA official and numerous employees in Valerie Jarrett's office hosted an earlier meeting on May 12 to enroll "artists" in advancing its political agenda - and to get their input in shaping it. Both aspects are troubling, as the invited participants included several of Van Jones's ideological fellow travelers, three people who claimed the...

29 Sep 2009 A very good day today for Orly Taitz I think all those prayers help. Today I had two of my motions granted. 1. Judge Carter had granted my motion for surreply. I can provide 10 more pages of argument and all the necessary attachments by October 1st. 2. Judge Land in GA granted my motion to withdraw as counsel. the reason, i had to do it, since Cpt Connie Rhodes was under tremendous pressure, intimidation by the military and department of defense and she stated that she didn’t want to proceed under this pressure. Now I don’t...

I have not dealt a great deal with the lawyers and their cases concerning Bearick Obama, as in analysis none of them have produced anything, and none of them has proceeded in ways which would set cases to leverage the exact Obama documents sought. It is like if you wanted a date with a person who was ignoring you. You don't keep after the person who says, "NO", you instead find another person who is interested to help you make the person envious. That is why I stated that tax cases etc... would be how to get Obama's records and...

<p>Federal Judge Clay Land may have made good on his threat of sanctions against a lawyer for an army officer fighting deployment on the claim that President Barack Obama was not born in this country. In an order today Judge Land denied a motion for a Stay of Deployment for Captain Connie Rhodes, filed by Attorney Orly Taitz yesterday. The motion was filed after Judge Land threatened sanctions and dismissed the complaint calling it frivolous. Taitz has 14 days to show why a $10,000 penalty as a sanction should not be imposed against her. We tried reaching Taitz. She has not returned our calls.</p>

This November, New York voters will vote on a ballot initiative to establish an official government "9/11 TRUTHER" commission with subpoena power and a $10 million a yaer budget from PRIVATE DONATIONS. The wording of the ballot initiative is seductive and low-key enough to win a majority of NYC voters, simply asking "Would you like to find out more about what happened on 9/11?" The ballot initiative does NOT make any accusations or mention any conspiracy theories. Therefore, the ballot initiative is likely to pass. Even those who do not believe in the conspiracy theories will want to know more...

The last few days left many of us at a loss of words as we recalled the horrors of September 11th, 2001. But while people share stories of tragic loss and hope, pictures and afterthoughts, we still have the 9/11 “truthers” who like to tell us our fellow Americans died at the hands of our own government. Last night’s Red Eye discussed Charlie Sheen, the latest celebrity truther idiot to shoot off his mouth. He recently released a YouTube video demanding both a meeting with the president and a reinvestigation of 9/11: Sheen’s main message: “We want our country back,...

Sheen had earlier written an open letter to the President in which he claimed that there was cover-up by the Bush administration over the 2001 attacks that claimed the lives of several thousand people. The six-and-a-half minute video - released on the eighth anniversary of the disaster - opens with news reports and footage of the incident with Sheen's voiceover: "The questions Mr President, the questions."

September 11, 2009, 0:00 a.m. A Ring of Truth(ers)Truthers vs. birthers. By Jonah Goldberg Herewith, two scenarios. Scenario A: The supposedly inept president of the United States carefully planned and orchestrated the worst terrorist attack on American soil in our history. Though “only� 3,000 people died, the plan was to kill many more by simultaneously attacking the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and either the U.S. Capitol or the White House itself on Sept. 11, 2001. Hundreds of people, including personnel from myriad agencies, participated. According to some versions of Scenario A, explosives were placed at the World Trade...

Explicit Language Warning, and thanks to Cracked and Popular Mechanics, which gave me a lot to agree with Something that has pissed me off since the first time was the question, "Didn't you know 9/11 was an inside job?" It was asked to me by a friend, who then showed me part of the famously idiotic "Loose Change," which proposes that September 11, 2001 was an attack on the White House and Pentagon, not by terrorists, but by our very own government and a host of engineers. I was about 15 at the time; yet Loose Change still seemed to...

"Truthers" are the people who believe the 9/11 terror attacks were an inside job. That the Bush administration had advance knowledge of them and let them occur. In the more extreme version of an already extremist theory, truthers believe the U.S. government itself carried out the attacks as an excuse to take the nation to war. At the very least the truthers question the official version of events and want the government to reopen the investigation. In a way, they have a lot in common with those who to this day refuse to believe that Lee Harvey Oswald fired the...

A California judge today tentatively scheduled a trial for Jan. 26, 2010, for a case that challenges Barack Obama's eligibility to be president based on questions over his qualifications under the requirements of the U.S. Constitution. If the case actually goes to arguments before U.S. District Judge David Carter, it will be the first time the merits of the dispute have been argued in open court, according to one of the attorneys working on the issue. In a highly anticipated hearing today before Carter, several motions were heard, including a resolution to long-standing questions about whether attorney Orly Taitz properly...

The White House tried to bury the news of Van Jones’s resignation – see my news report here – by announcing it after midnight on Sunday on a Labour Day weekend. But that hasn’t stopped the Right from trumpeting a major victory or the Left from gnashing its teeth over what it regards as a craven capitulation. Although Jones was in some ways a relatively insignificant figure in the administration, the White House’s handling of the affair tells us a lot about Barack Obama and the weaknesses that could result in disaster for him this autumn if does not put...

Van Jones loved the spotlight. Heck, who wouldn't, after being named a special adviser and green jobs czar for President Barack Obama. In Kansas City last week, Jones was one of the federal officials flown in to take a look at the Green Impact Zone, an idea to upgrade 150 blocks of low-income neighborhoods. Jones was introduced twice by fellow, higher-ranking fed officials -- and on both occasions, Jones made sure to interject that he was a "special adviser" to Obama. But now he's not part of the administration at all, thanks to imprudent remarks and a petition he signed...

A document purported to be a copy of President Barack Obama’s Kenyan birth certificate was filed with the federal court in Santa Ana on Friday by Orly Taitz, the Mission Viejo attorney suing to have Obama removed from office. She alleges that he wasn’t born in the United States. However, the authenticity of the document is far from certain. Hawaii’s chief public health officer has said he’s examined pertinent documents and confirmed Obama’s birth there. The Annenberg Public Policy Institute also investigated Obama’s U.S. birth documents and determined them to be authentic and valid. Additionally, another court filing by Taitz,...

The Van Jones era is now over. Under the cover of weekend, and cloaked by a cloud of misinformation and blame-shifting, Van Jones has resigned as Green Jobs Czar. The money quote: "On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me. They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide." Given that Political Castaway has been negligent in writing anything about this man or his record of radical activism, perhaps now is the best time to review that record in light of that quote.

Smoking Gun evidence, finally? We report you decide, Specially the naysayers denigrating Orly's case and stating she is the one in the court's cross hairs based wrongly on previous rejection by a Magistrate Judge Nakazato for technical reasons not the merits.

Jones likens Bush to a 'crackhead' in latest video gaffe By Tony Romm - 09/04/09 02:33 PM ET Another video of White House green jobs czar Van Jones has hit the Web today: This time, Jones labels former President George W. Bush a "crackhead" for his policy to lower the price of foreign oil. Although it is unclear when and where Jones delivered his diatribe, this latest video is the first in which the subject of Jones' remarks somewhat relates to his work with the White House Council on Environmental Quality. The clip picks up with Jones in the middle...

You wouldn't know it if you relied on the MSM, but the Van Jones stink smells worse by the minute. It would appear, for security reasons, that Google is not available on West Wing computers. The track record of the Smartest Administration Ever when it comes to potential and actual hires makes one curious as to what exactly is asked during the vetting process.

He held off on talking about it until halfway through the show in order to give the White House a chance to respond. They didn’t — but they’re going to. You’d better flush this Truther turd, Barry, or it’ll be a righty talking point every time any liberal opens their mouth to whine about Birtherism or some other form of conservative kookery for the next four years. Capitalizing on the buzz, Fox has a print piece out tonight recounting Jones’s greatest hits. My favorite bit: “In this environment, I think the Obama administration should be very careful of its dealings...

Fresh from huffily telling an African student questioner that she, Hillary R. Clinton, was U.S. Secretary of State, not her husband, Clinton continues to set an example of how not to make friends and influence people in foreign lands, following the lead of her boss, President Barack Obama (D). Clemente Lisi of the NY Post reports on her most recent arrogant, defamation of the country she represents while uttering a slanderous lie. Clinton caused another firestorm during her trouble-plagued Africa tour last night by drawing comparisons between political corruption in Nigeria and President Bush's contested election win nine years ago...

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the Democratic National Committee in a new web video is depicting the protestors as irrational birthers who want to "destroy" President Obama.Woodhouse said: "The right wing extremists’ use of things like devil horns on pictures of our elected officials, hanging members of Congress in effigy, breathlessly questioning the president's citizenship and the use of Nazi SS symbols and the like just shows how outside of the mainstream the Republican Party and their allies are. This type of anger and discord did not serve Republicans well in 2008 -- and it is bound to backfire again."

Writing in the New York Daily News, James Kirchick highlights the curious trajectory of the recent spate of news stories and blog posts about "birthers"--a fringe group of conspiracy theorists who deny President Obama’s birth in Hawaii and concoct elaborate but specious arguments in favor of his removal from office on the basis that he is not a "natural-born citizen". Because the United States uses a jus solis rule for determining citizenship by birth within the territory of the United States and because the birth certificate already displayed by the Obama campaign last year meets all the legal requirements used...

Political conspiracy theories – like the so-called “birther” allegation that Obama is not a legitimate US citizen – are as old as the nation. In the late 1700s, it was rumored that the Freemasons were actually a Satanic cult and George Washington was a member who was elevated to the presidency so they could control the country. Such views were generally held by a few fringe groups and were viewed by the mainstream culture as a bit nutty. But in the past few decades, conspiracy theories have tended to become a part of mainstream political culture, say political analysts. They...

Journalist are often sent to places — a war zone, a natural disaster, or a crime-ridden slum — that are physically scary. Those assignments routinely win prizes. Sometimes they may be asked to cover a story that is intellectually scary. Those assignments are less dramatic but can reveal more about human nature. Perhaps the most intellectually scary assignment I have had in recent years was to cover a meeting of the so-called "9/11 Truth Movement" in the East Village, New York. This gruesome assortment of conspiracy theorists insists that the attacks on the US of September 11, 2001 were an...

Twenty-eight percent of Republicans believe President Obama is not a natural-born citizen of the United States, and 30 percent are "not sure," according to this poll. But before liberals begin to smirk, here's a poll from 2007, in which 35 percent of Democrats said that President Bush knew in advance about the 9/11 attacks, and 26 percent were not sure. So if 58 percent of Republicans are living in a delusional fantasy world because they are out of power, then 61 percent of Democrats were doing the same thing until just recently (perhaps they still are). It's a clean, apples-to-apples...

The Obama "long form" birth certificate has been in question for a long time. A large movement is asking for his official birth record (see reasons below). Likewise, another movement is growing -- saying that the first group is nuts and is wasting everyone's time. Lawsuits are continually being filed for proof of President Obama's eligibility. The latest from someone in the military. The "Vault or Long Form" certificate has been wrongly interchanged with the "Certificate of Live Birth" as proof of birth although they are two different documents. Although I do not subscribe to either side of the debate,...

Throughout the 2008 campaign, Barack Hussein Obama claimed it was a “smear” to refer to him as “Barack Hussein Obama.” The candidate had initially rhapsodized over how his middle name, the name of the prophet Mohammed’s grandson, would signal a new beginning in American relations with the Muslim world. But when the nomination fight intensified, Obama decided that Islamic heritage was a net negative. So, with a media reliably uncurious about political biographies outside metropolitan Wasilla, Obama did what Obama always does: He airbrushed his personal history on the fly. Suddenly, it was “just making stuff up,” as Obama put...

One of the very good local talk radio shows invited me to be on this morning to debate a "birther" on whether those who argue that Barack Obama is not a citizen, and therefore is ineligible to be President, should give it up. I do think they should give it up, but I haven't studied the issue closely and won't debate anything I haven't studied, so I declined the invitation. It did get me thinking, though, about conspiracy theories in contemporary politics. The "birthers" are named after the "truthers," who believe that the World Trade Center wasn't knocked down by...

During a discussion of the Obama birth certificate controversy, MSNBC host Chris Matthews and his guests implied that anyone who questions the official 9/11 story, thinks the Bilderberg group are exercising power to create a world government, people who are worried about gun control and immigration, or even people who are merely skeptical of government, are psychologically insane. Responding to Matthews’ implication that people who had questions about Obama’s birthplace were “full mooners” and insane, MSNBC political analyst Howard Fineman included “people who are worried about the government taking up the guns, people who deny the federal government has a...

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you your elected Republican officials. Only one, Trent Franks (R-Arizona), issues an unequivocal denunciation of the Birth Certificate loons. Most of the others avoid the question, and one or two seem to be Nirthers themselves.

9/11 widow Ellen Mariani(Derry, N.H.) says George W. Bush is a gangster. We talk to her and her lawyer Philip J. Berg: Ellen Mariani last saw her husband Louis Neil early on the morning of September 11, 2001, at Logan Airport, where they were taking different flights to Los Angeles for a daughter’s wedding. He hadn’t gotten his tickets until the last minute, and couldn’t get on her flight, but there were seats open on Flight 175. Neil Mariani died when that plane crashed into the south tower of the World Trade Center, and after rejecting a settlement offer of...

It's been one of those weeks. A week when the nation was asked to focus on long-sought healthcare reform, a week when a lot of people wanted to talk about President Barack Obama's birthplace. "This whole thing could be settled in a minute if the president would simply produce a valid birth certificate,'' said - wait - G. Gordon Liddy, arbiter of all things up and up. Well, replied MSNBC's Chris Matthews of Hardball, the Honolulu-born president has in fact supplied the sort of certificate that anyone needs to apply for a passport. Matthews held it up. Still, radio talk-show...

Among those on television who've been covering the sudden public resurgence of the Birther movement -- but in a much more responsible way than Lou Dobbs -- is MSNBC's Chris Matthews. The other day, he beat up pretty badly on Rep. John Campbell, R-Calif., who's a co-sponsor of the "Birther bill" that would require future presidential candidates to provide proof of their natural-born citizenship. Thursday, he hosted Watergate burglar turned radio host G. Gordon Liddy, who's fallen under the Birthers' sway. Liddy himself looked decidedly unwell, and sounded out of sorts -- even Matthews seemed to realize that making him...

Persistence pays off. Six months into the election of President Barack Obama, the unsubstantiated, unfactual and unenlightened belief that President Obama was born in Kenya and not on the Hawaiian island of Oahu as his official birth certificate attests, has made it to the annual of “Seven Wonders That Defy Common Sense” list. “The fact the people can look at his actual birth certificate and see in black and white that he is a U.S. citizen and still entertain the notion that he’s not a citizen after repeated documentation is what propels this particular idiocy of the American public to...

They are called birthers a term which is meant to be derisive. A birther is anyone who demands that Barack Hussein Obama cease stonewalling on the issue of his birth certificate and release the original vaulted certificate so that his citizenship can be confirmed. Don’t worry the Revolutionaries of our country’s birth were called insurrectionist by the British government so birthers are in good company. I reject the term birther. People who are attempting to protect the Constitution and seek truth should be honored as patriots. People who oppose them are the crackpots because they work against theirs and their...

For the first time, NBC Nightly News took a look at the so-called "birth certificate" controversy surrounding President Barack Obama. Instead of researching and investigating the various claims, NBC News' Pete Williams cast everyone raising the issue of whether Obama is a "natural born citizen" as a kook with no legal basis for their claims. The report began by showing an angry woman standing up at a Delaware town hall meeting conducted recently by U.S. Rep. Mike Castle (R-DE) and questioning whether Obama is a U.S. citizen and demanding an investigation to get to the bottom of it. (See video...

It's hard to believe, but more conservative luminaries seem to be latching onto the conspiracy theory that Barack Obama is not a United States citizen. Despite the fact that his certificate of live birth has been released, and there was an ad in the newspaper announcing his birth several days after he was born, both Lou Dobbs and Rush Limbaugh have now come out of the closet as full blown birthers. Dave Weigel reported earlier this week that moderate Republican Congressman Mike Castle was booed by birthers at a town hall meeting earlier this month. I think the fundamental racism...

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Anti-Obama conspiracy theorists are gaining momentum with a new video clamoring for the president’s birth certificate. John Avlon on how the roots of the “Birther” movement lie in the 2008 campaign. Signs of the Birthers’ grassroots conservative conspiracy-theorist momentum have popped at a town-hall meeting hosted by centrist Republican Rep. Mike Castle in Delaware. A video of the event shows a nascent modern American know-nothing movement rallying around a crazed quest for Barack Obama’s birth certificate. It’s a perfect example of Obama Derangement Syndrome, defined as “pathological hatred for the president, posing as patriotism.” In the clip, an unidentified woman...