Blogger admits Hawaii birth certificate forgery, subverting Obama claims (Uh-oh)

Jay McKinnon, a self-described Department of Homeland Security-trained document specialist, has implicated himself in the production of fraudulent Hawaii birth certificate images similar to the one endorsed as genuine by the Barack Obama campaign, and appearing on the same blog entry where the supposedly authentic document appears.

The evidence of forgery and manipulation of images of official documents, triggered by Israel Insider's revelation of the collection of Hawaii birth certificate images on the Photobucket site and the detective work of independent investigative journalists and imaging professionals in the three weeks since the publication of the images, implicate the Daily Kos, an extreme left blog site, and the Obama campaign, in misleading the public with official-looking but manipulated document images of doubtful provenance.

The perceived unreliability of the image has provoked petitions and widespread demands for Obama to submit for objective inspection the paper versions of the "birth certificate" he claimed in his book Dreams from My Father was in his possession, as well as the paper version of the Certificate of Live Birth for which the image on the Daily Kos and the Obama "Fight the Smears" website was supposedly generated.

Without a valid birth certificate, Obama cannot prove he fulfills the "natural born citizen" requirement of the Constitution, throwing into doubt his eligibility to run for President.

McKinnon, who says he is 25-30 years old, operates a website called OpenDNA.com and uses the OpenDNA screen name on various web sites and blogs, including his comments and diary on The Daily Kos. In recent years he has divided his time between Long Beach, California and Vancouver, British Columbia. He is a Democratic political activist, frequent contributor to the left wing Daily Kos blog, and a fervent Barack Obama supporter.

Eligibility Lawsuits

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Latest and the Greatest – December 31, 2008, 1:00 PM (PDF brochure)

Latest Update: (07/27/09)

Common Law Grand Jury Updates:

* Grand Jury Update
* Citizen Grand Jury Presentments Received in DC
* Citizen Grand Jury News
* TX Grand Jury Presentment
* Eligibility Update: US Attorney Taylor Resigns, Another Grand Jury Indictment, GA Voter Case Headed to SCOTUS
* Grand Jury and Secret Service!
* Jury Update: WorldNetDaily Coverage of Citizen Grand Jury Indictments
* Rhode Island and Media Take First Glance at Citizen Grand Jury Movement
* Military Officers Sign on to Treason Complaint; More Citizen Grand Jury Action
* Jury Update: Fraud, Treason Indictment; Juries Now Online
* Jury Update: Texas, Arkansas and Evidence

Older updates can be found in my Eligibility Case Archive.

Supreme Court:

* Oklahoma (Steven Craig): (07/06/09)
o Petition for writ filed
o Craig v. United States

DC Circuit Court of Appeals:

* DC (Gregory Hollister): (07/23/09)
o Briefing Schedule Set. Appellant’s Brief due August 5, 2009. Appellee’s Brief due September 4, 2009. Appellants’ Reply Brief September 18, 2009. See June 26, 2009 Order.
o Hollister v. Soetoro

Third Circuit Court of Appeals:

* Berg v. Obama (07/23/09)
o Case tentatively tentatively listed on the merits on October 26, 2009 (No decision yet as to whether oral argument will be permitted.) See July 10, 2009 Order.
o This case caused SCOTUS case for writ of cert to be denied

Federal Court for the District of Arizona:

* Allen v. Soetoro (07/07/09)
o Filed
* Hamblin v. Obama, et. al <— This link is folder to all docs below, plus more
o Obama Opposition to Motion for Default filed July 20, 2009
o Hamblin Second Motion for Default against Obama filed July 6, 2009
o Hamblin Reply in Opposition to McCain Reply filed July 7, 2009
o McCain Reply in Support of Motion to Dismiss filed June 19, 2009
o Hamblin Opposition to Motion to Dismiss filed June 12, 2009
o McCain Motion to Dismiss filed May 29, 2009
o Amended Complaint filed April 4, 2009

Federal Court for the District of Columbia:

* James v. Obama (03/29/09)
o James v. Obama: Motion for Quo Warranto, USDC for DC
o Not currently docketed

Federal Court for the Central District of California:

* Keyes v. Obama (07/23/09)
o On July 17, the Court issued a Notice of Deficiency re: Taitz’s renewed Motion for Default.
o On July 17, the Judge issued a written Order requiring Taitz to properly serve defendants no later than August 16, 2009, and file Proof of Service of such on or before August 23, 2009.

Federal Court for New Jersey, Camden:

* Kerchner v. Obama (07/27/09)
o Defendants file Reply to Plaintiffs opposition Brief

Federal Court for Middle Georgia, Columbus:

* Cook v. Good (07/23/09)
o On July 16, the Court issued an Opinion re: dismissal of Cook Injunction

Federal Court for Middle Florida:

* Cook v. Simtech (07/27/09)
o Dismissed
o On July 22, Cook filed a Motion for TRO/Injunction in the Middle District of Florida. (He filed this case pro se)
o On July 23, the Court dismissed the TRO/Injunction, without prejudice, for failure to follow local rules. (Cook may refile TRO with required complaint.)

At the State level: Latest update: 07/05/09

* California:
o Joan Corbett: Corbett v. Bowen (11/16/08)
+ AmericaMustKnow history
* Florida:
o Spencer Connerat: Connerat v. Obama (07/05/09)
+ Case Refiled
* Hawaii:
o Birth Certificate Brief File in HI Appellate Court
o Andy Martin: Martin v. Lingle (05/27/09)
* New York:
o State Department, DHS Respond
o Christopher Strunk: Chris Strunk FOIA (05/01/09)
* North Carolina:
o New case to be submitted
o Lt. Col. Donald Sullivan: Sullivan v. Marshall (03/20/09)
+ AmericaMustKnow history

Other Reports: (02/09/09)

The following presumably does not include all above action:

* Various Other Cases Against Obama
* Per Stephen Pidgeon:
o London Solicitor working on UK connection
o Operatives looking for POE (Port Of Entry) info
o Leads in Seattle
o Leads in DC
* Phil Berg mentioned another Berg v. Obama case under seal at this time
* Georiga: Filed December 2008
* Alabama: Filed December 2008
* Illinois: Filed December 2008
* Michigan: Filed December 2008
* Virginia: Challenge
* Ohio: Challenge
* California: Legal action
* North Carolina: Legal action
* Massachusetts: Challenge
* Maryland: Commitment from numerous individuals to file a challenge
* Virgin Islands: Commitment to file a challenge

After Inauguration: (01/12/09)

* If all other actions fall through, Philip Berg plans on filing a Petition for Writ of Quo Warranto (be sure to read the linked wikipedia article], challenging the President-Elect’s qualifications for President

Seeking an Attorney (02/17/09)

* Ms. Cris Ericson: Ericson v. Obama (12/24/08)
o Challenging Obama’s birth certificate

Lawsuit with Military and ex-Military Plaintiffs

Per Dr. Orly Taitz’ recent commentary (now said to have approximately 50 Plaintiffs, one of whom is a blood relative of Obama)

[I]n re. to military case. We were planning to file today [01/08/09] in GA. A local attorney that was supposed to co-sign the papers has some personal problems. We need a local attorney in GA. Please contact me if you know of a GA attorney that can co-sign simply for the purpose of receipt of the documents from the court.

For an archive of defunct cases, see the page Eligibility Case Archive. —http://www.therightsideoflife.com/?page_id=3214

http://www.therightsideoflife.com/?page_id=1518

Ann Dunham: A Personal Reflection - UH Anthropology

Alice Dewey and Geoffrey White

Article reproduced from Anthropology News, November 2008, page 20.
All images courtesy of Bronwen Solyom.


	Ann Dunham at Tanaha, Bali 1990s

Ann Dunham (also Ann Soetoro), now gaining recognition as Barack Obama’s late mother, was an anthropologist who embodied many of the values and visions of her time. Given that she is attracting increasing attention as the campaign for the Presidency heats up, we felt that other anthropologists would appreciate hearing something about her career (see, for example, David Maraniss, “Though Obama Had to Leave to Find Himself, It Is Hawaii That Made His Rise Possible,” Washington Post, August 22, 2008). Whereas the scope of an AN essay does not allow any kind of comprehensive portrait, our goal is to offer a brief personal reflection about Ann Dunham’s formative years as a practicing anthropologist. We’ve chosen an interview format, with one of us (White) interviewing the other (Dewey) as friend, colleague and former chair of Ann Dunham’s doctoral committee at the University of Hawai‘i.

Geoffrey White: What do you recall of Ann Dunham as a former student?


	Ann Dunham and colleagues, Bank Rakyat Indonesia. 1989.

Alice Dewey: Well, first there is the matter of her name. Stanley Ann Dunham is her birth name. Her father had wanted a son so they called her Stanley. Then she got married and her name was Mrs. Barack Hussein Obama until she married her Indonesian husband and became Mrs. Lolo Soetoro, the old Dutch spelling. Everybody in Indonesia knew her as Ann Soetoro.

She moved to Indonesia because she married Lolo Soetoro, a Javanese. But she soon came to love Java and the arts. She was herself a craftsman and weaver. She taught weaving and just loved it. Most of her clothes were Indonesian. Java was as much her home as Honolulu. Ideally, she moved back and forth. She’d be in Indonesia for a few years and then she’d get home sick for Honolulu and move back here for some months to pursue her studies, see her parents and friends, and then back to Java because she’d get homesick for Java and also need to earn money.


	Ann and friend. Toraja?, Indonesia

GW: What can you tell us about Ann’s entry into anthropology?

AD: Despite some reports that she majored in mathematics, she majored in anthropology here at the University of Hawai‘i (BA 1967, Department of Anthropology, prior to the MA and PhD). That’s when she met Obama senior in a Russian language class and eventually married him. After she broke with Obama she married her second husband, Lolo Soetoro, in 1965 I think. When Ann, Lolo and Barack returned to Indonesia, she taught English in Jakarta. Her son Barry, who was six-ish, was starting first grade I think and her daughter Maya with Lolo was born several years later.

GW: It is obvious that Indonesia transformed Ann. Since that is your own field of interest, how do you read her involvement there?

AD: Ann stayed about four or five years in Indonesia before she and Barry returned to Hawai‘i. In the early 1970s she applied for graduate school and received a scholarship from the East-West Center, so she appeared back here with a lot of knowledge of Java and the crafts. She wasn’t like the undergraduate who finishes their BA, and shows up saying, ‘Gee what do I look at in my dissertation?’ She knew well what she wanted to do (“Well, there are these crafts that I want to study.”)

When she came to do the MA she was already thinking about the dissertation. She was one of those students that you think ‘Why don’t I let her lecture?’ She had much more contemporary knowledge of Indonesia [than I]. She did really good research, intensive work in central Java. It was a time when the modernization paradigm held sway and the prevailing view was still that the village is falling apart and peasant society and the handicrafts had all disappeared. We both knew this was crap.

And Ann knew that this is what she wanted to do for the rest of her life, to study this type of thing, talk about it, explain it, clarify it for other people, and guide people on how to assist the crafts people.

There was also a gender dimension to her interest that would surface more clearly beyond the PhD as she took up work with the Ford Foundation and later USAID and the World Bank projects concerned with policies that would be, “beneficial to poor women with micro and small enterprises”.

Just as Ann’s mother was a tough working woman, women in Indonesia are that. Nine tenths of the market is women. Iron tools are made and sold by men but the rest are women traders, craftswomen, farm women. They’re an essential part of the economy and the family.


Ann and friends. tile project, Lombok Indonesia.

GW: Why blacksmithing as a focus for her dissertation? (titled “Peasant Blacksmithing in Indonesia: Surviving and Thriving Against all Odds” 1992)?

AD: It’s powerful, spiritually powerful. The smithy area is sacred; women couldn’t go into that area. The story is that blacksmiths forged human souls for the next generation. There’s a carving in one of the temples depicting one of the demi-god heroes as a blacksmith. It’s highly symbolic. You put offerings on the anvil. So you have a sacred craft that developed over some 2000 years. She wanted to do the whole spectrum of crafts but that wasn’t practical for the kind of in-depth dissertation that she did. I’d say, “For God’s sake, choose one!” So she wrote a thousand pages on one, on the blacksmiths. The blacksmiths study was an example of a larger phenomenon. She was interested in crafts and their markets. Every time, she’d go to Indonesia, she’d go back to her blacksmithing village, Kajar near Yogyakarta, and get a chance to go to six other crafts villages as well, especially Batik. So she was constantly in and out of these villages and adding new ones and going out to the outer islands. She eventually set up microcredit schemes all over Indonesia as well as in Pakistan and Kenya.

Ann completed requirements for the MA in 1974 [although it was not formally granted until 1986]. Prior to that she was offered a job with the Ford Foundation (Regional Southeast Asia office in Jakarta) that suited her so well we said, “you’re still getting your degree but this is just the job you want when you finish. Go grab it now while the offer is hot.” And so she did. The best way to summarize the range of her work at that time is to quote from a letter written to Alice February 13, 1984:

“This year I have major projects for women working on plantations in West Java and North Sumatra; for women in kretek factories in Central and East Java; for street food sellers and scavengers in the cities of Jakarta, Jogja and Bandung; for women in credit cooperatives in East Java; for women in electronics factories, mainly in the Jakarta-Bogor area; for women in cottage industry cooperatives in the district of Klaten; for hand-loom weavers in West Timor; for shop girls along J1. Malioboro and market–sellers in Beringharjo (still tentative); for slum dwellers in Jakarta and Bandung; for street food sellers in Thailand….”

It wasn’t until 1992 that Ann would file her dissertation, just prior to taking up a position with Womens World Banking in New York. At the time of her death she was working for Bank Rakyat of Indonesia. She died on November 7, 1995 back in Hawai‘i.

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Alice Dewey, Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai‘i
Geoffrey White, Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai‘i


	Ann Dunham at Tanaha, Bali 1990s

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Who else was in Bali in the 90's ??

This if the FIRST time I’ve come across anything saying his mother helped him with his book. She was in Bali in the 90’s ........

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Dreams from My Father

She helped her son write his book, Dreams from My Father, while she was battling cancer. Obama wrote:

During the writing of this book, she would read the drafts, correcting stories that I had misunderstood, careful not to comment on my characterizations of her but quick to explain or defend the less flattering aspects of my father’s character.[11]

Obama noted in the book that it was Ann rather than his natural father who taught him about his African American heritage.

She would come home with books on the civil rights movement, the recordings of Mahalia Jackson, the speeches of Dr. King. When she told me stories of schoolchildren in the South who were forced to read books handed down from wealthier white schools but who went on to become doctors and lawyers and scientists, I felt chastened by my reluctance to wake up and study in the mornings…

Every black man was Thurgood Marshall or Sidney Poitier; every black woman Fannie Lou Hamer or Lena Horne. To be black was to be the beneficiary of a great inheritance, a special destiny, glorious burdens that only we were strong enough to bear.[12]

Obama noted in the book that he might have written a different book if he had known she was dying when he wrote it:

I think sometimes that had I known she would not survive her illness, I might have written a different book—less a meditation on the absent parent, more a celebration of the one who was the single constant in my life.

In my daughters I see her every day, her joy, her capacity for wonder. I won’t try to describe how deeply I mourn her passing still. I know that she was the kindest, most generous spirit I have ever known, and that what is best in me I owe to her.[13]

http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Ann_Dunham

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His mother = his first class and race propagandist and mentor

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/13098

~excerpt:

“...In the puerile fantasy world concocted by Ann Dunham, the Third World was where all of the good people were. When she migrated to Jakarta with little Barry, she promptly interjected herself into the local Javanese community. She was enchanted by the Javanese culture and rejected her second husband, Lolo Soetoro, when his career with Mobile Oil began to advance. She refused to attend social gatherings with his co-workers, insisting that they were not her people.

Obama’s mother wouldn’t complete her doctoral dissertation until 1992, just a few years before her death. Her final work was the 1067 page tome, Peasant Blacksmithing in Indonesia: Surviving and Thriving Against All Odds.

Blacksmithing in Indonesia is the exclusive province of males. How remarkable fervent feminist Ann Dunham would bestow so much time and effort to the study of a male dominated craft. According to Dewey, blacksmithing Indonesia style is something more than bending metal:

“It’s powerful, spiritually powerful. The smithy area is sacred; women couldn’t go into that area. The story is that blacksmiths forged human souls for the next generation. There’s a carving in one of the temples depicting one of the demi-god heroes as a blacksmith. It’s highly symbolic. You put offerings on the anvil. So you have a sacred craft that developed over some 2000 years.

In other words, the blacksmithing vocation, which so fascinated Barack Obama’s mother, is infused with magic and superstition.

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Alice Dewey and Geoffrey White

Article reproduced from Anthropology News, November 2008, page 20. All images courtesy of Bronwen Solyom.

Article reproduced from Anthropology News, November 2008, page 20.
All images courtesy of Bronwen Solyom.