Posted on 09/17/2009 9:05:24 AM PDT by GoldStandard
Today a federal judge down in Columbus dismissed yet another suit by a military officer seeking to duck service in Iraq by claiming that Barack Obama is not a citizen.
Just for grins, I went and read the order. It’s pretty good stuff.
Here’s a taste from the acid pen of Judge Clay Land:
First, Plaintiff’s challenge to her deployment order is frivolous. She has presented no credible evidence and has made no reliable factual allegations to support her unsubstantiated, conclusory allegations and conjecture that President Obama is ineligible to serve as President of the United States. Instead, she uses her Complaint as a platform for spouting political rhetoric, such as her claims that the President is “an illegal usurper, an unlawful pretender, [and] an unqualified imposter.” (Compl. ¶ 21.)
She continues with bare, conclusory allegations that the President is “an alien, possibly even an unnaturalized or even an unadmitted illegal alien . . . without so much as lawful residency in the United States.” (Id. ¶ 26.) Then, implying that the President is either a wandering nomad or a prolific identity fraud crook, she alleges that the President “might have used as many as 149 addresses and 39 social security numbers prior to assuming the office of President.” (Id. ¶ 110 (emphasis added).) Acknowledging the existence of a document that shows the President was born in Hawaii, Plaintiff alleges that the document “cannot be verified as genuine, and should be presumed fraudulent.” (Id. ¶ 113 (emphasis added).)
In further support of her claim, Plaintiff relies upon “the general opinion in the rest of the world” that “Barack Hussein Obama has, in essence, slipped through the guardrails to become President.” (Id. ¶ 128.) Moreover, as though the “general opinion in the rest of the world” were not enough, Plaintiff alleges in her Complaint that according to an “AOL poll 85% of Americans believe that Obama was not vetted, needs to be vetted and his vital records need to be produced.” (Id. ¶ 154.)
Finally, in a remarkable shifting of the traditional legal burden of proof, Plaintiff unashamedly alleges that Defendant has the burden to prove his “natural born” status. (Id. ¶¶ 136-138, 148.) Thus, Plaintiff’s counsel, who champions herself as a defender of liberty and freedom, seeks to use the power of the judiciary to compel a citizen, albeit the President of the United States, to “prove his innocence” to “charges” that are based upon conjecture and speculation. Any middle school civics student would readily recognize the irony of abandoning fundamental principles upon which our Country was founded in order to purportedly “protect and preserve” those very principles.”
Judge Land tossed the suit as frivolous, granted the defendants (the US Army) court costs and warned wacko birther attorney Orly Taitz that if she brought another such suit into his court she would face legal sanctions.
In an apparent effort to cement her claim to the crown of wacko birther, Taitz told the folks at Talking Points Memo that Judge Land is “a typical puppet of the regime — just like in the Soviet Union” and that “somebody should consider trying [Land] for treason and aiding and abetting this massive fraud known as Barack Hussein Obama.”
The human species is remarkable in its wondrous diversity and ability to entertain, is it not?
“FREE THE LONG FORM!”
Not a credible news source!
Clay Land needs a bib. He’s got some Obama on his chin.
What is called the rabbit hole is really a search for truth. The search is not reliant upon 1 court case or judge. There are multiple cases and public pressure to bear. It may take a year or decades, but the truth is in and of itself the highest goal. We will carry the water for those who ridicule and obstruct because we focus on that goal alone.
I think this judge reveals much about the quality of his thought when he applies the criminal law standard “innocent until proven guilty” to the Zero.
Bookman? That leftist punk makes Cynthia Tucker seem moderate.
Battles will be won and battles will be lost.
Barack Obama needs to release the Long Form now so we can be done with all these legal challenges.
There is no evidence that says 0bama is a natural-born citizen. That is all that is needed to say for the case to go forward.
I can’t wait for the AJC to go bankrupt. Abb, keep your DeathWatch posts coming!!
It’s clear to me that Land had the case decided long ago.
GoldStandard
Since Mar 9, 2009
Well at least it's nice that the Atlanta Communist Journal has decided that what our men and women are doing in Iraq is “service” to our country rather than perpetrating some WAR FOR OIL scheme to enrich George Bush, Dick Cheney and their buddies at Haliburton.
So the new standard for the "natural born" qualification is that a citizen needs to prove that the president is ineligible? As atheists are fond of saying "you can't prove a negative". Therefore, the "natural born" qualification has effectively been judicially nullified.
” by claiming that Barack Obama is not a citizen.”
They did ?
Citizen, natural born citizen and naturalized citizen are now synonymous ,
apparently.
I guess I can avoid a similar "remarkable shifting of traditional legal burden of proof" by ignoring any police officer's request to see my drivers' license by using the exact same logic as this idiot judge, and make the police officer prove I don't have a valid license, right?
...Taitz told the folks at Talking Points Memo that Judge Land is “a typical puppet of the regime — just like in the Soviet Union” and that “somebody should consider trying [Land] for treason and aiding and abetting this massive fraud known as Barack Hussein Obama.”
She's exactly correct.
What seems really strange to me is that he was so adamant on the Friday that there should be a hearing and Cook attend and was so gun ho to go, then on Monday, went into the usual fake judicial rant that all the others went into.
What’s even stranger is that the defense attorneys pointed to no points of law in their Motion to Dismiss, it was just ranting and calling people nuts.
Today, September 17th—Constitution Day—another federal judge relegated a
portion of the US Constitution, Article 2, to the rubbish heap using the
same circular argument: `You won’t get anywhere without the birth certificate and
I’m not going to order that it be produced,’ and then abused the plaintiff.
What do you think of that, GoldStandard?
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