Posted on 07/02/2009 1:10:57 PM PDT by RogerWilko
A sixth auction by an eBay seller who has claimed to have an original birth certificate – from Kenya – for President Obama has been scrubbed by the giant corporation, and doubts have begun to flourish as a promised YouTube video about the issue also failed to appear.
There also has been no response from the seller to WND's multiple attempts to make contact, except a written promise on the sixth auction description to meet with the news website.
All this despite written assurances from the YouTube poster known as "InspectorSmith" that work on the project was under way.
"We are working on the video right now," InspectorSmith promised late last night. But today, with no new video, there were both worries over the seller's health and condemnation of his actions.
Send a contribution to support the national billboard campaign that asks a simple question: "Where's the birth certificate?"
"InspectorSmith – hello out there. We are getting ansy? (sic)" wrote one YouTube observer. "I still haven't given up on you. Please let us know if you are okay. It's pretty scary stuff!"
Added another, "This is nothing more than a money making scam, instead of a (sic) honest disclosure of the truth."
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
Illegal alien? LOL. As far as I know, he's a natural born American citizen who will become eligible in January, 2016.
http://barackryphal.blogspot.com/2009/07/colmadonaranja-revealed.html
Then tell me his legal name.....He has 5 or 6 aliases. Until some proof is offered, the executive branch has become a ‘sancturary office’.
This auction highlighted how worried all the bed-wetting ‘foreign born deniers’ really are....they became hysterical and flooded ebay with fraud and abuse calls. What are they afraid of? Why are your panties in a bunch?
It does not constitute hysteria to notify eBay about an obvious fraud. Especially, when you turn out to be absolutely right!
Now it may be LIKELY that it's a fraud, but until the evidence is examined... they can't call it a fraud!
The person that makes the purchase is the only one that can say if they got scammed or not. So who are all these people calling "fraud" when they have no idea whether it is or not?
Someone's obviously worried about something !
What is that, fish breath? I think the word you want is "bated" (short for "abated").
I just read the other thread, lucy thnx for the ping. You know what’s bad? That WND didn’t do their homework before reporting this.
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NEWS JOURNAL
The Gazette (Cedar Rapids-Iowa City) - Tuesday, September 16, 1997
CEDAR RAPIDS Fast-food worker charged An employee at a Cedar Rapids fast-food restaurant was charged Monday with assault for allegedly throwing hot cooking grease on four people during an argument.
Lucas D. Smith , 17, of 518 39th St. NE, faces four counts of assault causing bodily injury stemming from the incident at about 6:30 p.m. Sunday at the McDonald’s at 1530 First Ave. NE.
According to the complaint, Smith threw the grease at Adonis Clark, 19, and Marland Dean, 22, with whom he was having an argument.
The grease also struck two boys, ages 3 and 7, who were standing at the counter when the alleged incident occurred, the complaint said.
All four victims were treated at Mercy Medical Center and released.
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LINN DISTRICT COURT/Felonies
The Gazette (Cedar Rapids-Iowa City) - Friday, July 21, 2000
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Lucas D. Smith , 20, of Cedar Rapids, pleaded guilty to second-degree theft. He was accused of passing several checks totaling more than $1,000 between Oct. 1, 1999, and Jan. 17, 2000, after opening a checking account with false identification. Smith was given a five-year suspended sentence and placed on probation.
LINN DISTRICT COURT/Felonies
The Gazette (Cedar Rapids-Iowa City) - Thursday, May 11, 2000
CEDAR RAPIDS Action has been taken on the following felony cases in Linn District Court:
Lucas D. Smith , 20, of Cedar Rapids, was cited for violation of terms of a deferred judgment received in May 1998 on a charge of forgery. Smith was judged guilty, given a five-year suspended sentence and returned to probation. He also was ordered to reside up to 365 days at the Hinzman Center.
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THE LOG
The Gazette (Cedar Rapids-Iowa City) - Tuesday, September 12, 2000
Information for The Log is collected by The Gazette from public safety agencies in Eastern Iowa. Charges are subject to review by county attorneys’ offices.
Linn County
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ASSAULT CHARGES
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Lucas D. Smith , 20, of 618 18th St. SE, charged with assault causing bodily injury; accused of striking Jermaine Harris in the face with a metal clothing hook, Sunday at the Linn County Correctional Center.
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HOUSES SOLD
Gazette, The (Cedar Rapids-Iowa City, IA) - Sunday, December 10, 2006
Central State Conference-Smith - Central State Conference of SDA sold 1626 Fifth Ave. SE to Lucas D. Smith . Skogman Realty.
Call me stupid, but if it the same Lucas as well as the one involved in the kidney scam shouldn’t he be in jail?
That's funny. Over on this other thread, Freeper 668 - Neighbor of the Beast referred to the culprit as "Hennypenny or whatever". Henny Penny, Inc. makes deep fryers commonly found in fast food kitchens.
He was selling a photo of himself with Andylenny, I just couldn’t think of the name.
Andylenny, hennypenny, cynwoody...oops!
You're welcome. Wonder if they followed the FR threads and assumed it was legit because it was posted here.
eBay Founder Linked To Obama
Ebay founder Pierre Omidyar’s politics have become the subject of blog commentary because the web auction site over the last week repeatedly scrubbed an offering of an allegedly genuine copy of Barack Obama’s birth certificate — from Mombasa, Kenya.
But eBay said it wouldn’t get involved in any discussion of Omidyar’s activities or political statements. Spokeswoman Evonne Gomez said, “We certainly wouldn’t comment on our founder’s political concessions or beliefs. He is not involved in the day-to-day operations of the company.” She said if a question was submitted in writing, she would consult on whether it would be answered. A question submitted by WorldNetDaily didn’t, however, produce a response.
“I will coordinate with colleagues on the corporate side,” she said. “We wouldn’t comment on his political views or associations.”
Omidyar, a billionaire, former CEO and current chairman of eBay, was appointed by Barack Obama to serve on the 28-member President’s Commission on White House Fellowships earlier this month.
According to a White House press release from June 17, Omidyar joins Obama’s sister Maya, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, General Wesley Clark, former NBC anchor Tom Brokaw, and several others on the committee, which recommends candidates to the president for selection as White House Fellows. The release calls the White House Fellowship “America’s most prestigious program for leadership and public service, providing young individuals with experience working at the highest levels of the federal government.”
Omidyar further serves as a trustee of the Punahou School in Hawaii, the elite private high school that Obama and Maya graduated from in 1979, and endorsed Obama’s candidacy for president on his blog in March 2008.
WND reported has reported that over the last week eBay has scrubbed at least five auctions offered by a seller known to the public only as “colmado_naranja.”
The sale was for a document that purportedly was a Kenyan birth certificate for Obama.
Colmado_naranja claimed, the auction pages were removed because of an eBay policy prohibiting the sale of government documents, even though several foreign birth certificates and even a driver’s license — albeit all from 1935 or older — were discovered for sale on the auction site.
An eBay help desk representative said the fifth auction auction for “the dissertation” was removed because the company believed, “a third party had accessed the [seller’s] account.”
The latest offering from colmado_naranja is an auction for a photograph of several people who reportedly helped in the hunt for the “birth certificate,” and a promise that more information would be unveiled in a planned YouTube video.
Obama’s place of birth, however, remains only one of several questions and possible avenues for answers that remain in determining whether or not Obama is a “natural born citizen” under the U.S. Constitution and eligible to serve as president.
You're welcome. Wonder if they followed the FR threads and assumed it was legit because it was posted here.
Both sort of alarming thoughts for WND's credibility.
WND didn’t do their homework before reporting this.
To be honest I don’t give WND must credit anyway , I take everything they write with a grain of salt.To even entertain the thought that this ebay thing was possibly real is a joke.
A 7 year old kid could see that a mile away.
His LATEST listing is STILL up !!
Autographed photo of Smith and Andylenny, abroad
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=160346224684
Item number: 160346224684
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I sent him a note on June 28th:
Dear colmado_naranja,
Hello!
When you list the 0bama Birth Certificate item, can you send me the link?
I am VERY interested in this item.
Thank you!
- meektrader
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... and he replied:
Dear meektrader,
Thank you 100 times for your note and for taking the time to write to me. Please see auction number # 160346224684. “Autographed photo of Smith and Andylenny, abroad.” And again, you’ll have to seach for the listing by it’s number, for now. It could be half a day before it becomes searchable by name. This is very much the same listing as the previous auction. However, this auction includes the info that everyone is seeking. Thanks again for your help, your mail and your thoughts. Please keep in touch.
- colmado_naranja
Current bid: US $2,025.00
Everytime I come in to take a shower I stop by the laptop just to check-in. I need to shut it down for a bit or I’ll never get clean! :-)
Threw hot grease? LOL!
This sounds like the Jerky Boys movie at the drive through when character “Sol Rosenberg” says “His mutter threw hot grease at.....and I fell down the stairs and shoes fell off”. Short clip but there is (warning) some swearing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3_NhDYmANA
Johnny Brennan from Queens is the main Jerky Boy and does the voice of “Sol Rosenberg.” Apparently, Johnny’s voice as Sol is also “Mort Goldman” on the TV cartoon Family Guy.
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