I’ve heard him talk about this trial a few times and I still don’t have a good idea of what it’s about. Can someone paint the broad strokes for me?
Rev. James Manning believes he has proof that Obama didn't attend Columbia University and instead worked for the CIA under President Reagan helping the freedom fighters in Afghanistan. He plans to make this information public at a trial in his Harlem Church. Manning believes the 10th Amendment gives his trial legitimacy, and he expects law enforcement will have no choice but to arrest Obama and the president of Columbia University should they be found guilty.
Manning issued subpoenas to several people, including Condoleezza Rice and Rod Blagojevich, and will have any of them arrested if they fail to show up.
During the trial, as many as 30,000 are expected to march around the Columbia Campus, as Joshua marched to the city of Jericho. They will wear masks of the people who were issued subpoenas but didn't show up, and will be wearing hooded robes to symbolize something or other.
Rev. Manning and Andy Martin are competing to fill the void left by the apparent abdication of Orly Taitz as CEO of Birther inc.
Andy Martin, while claiming not to be a birther, went to Hawaii to investigate the birth certificate of Barack Obama.
Rev. Manning, clearly unwilling to concede to an upstart, has escalated the competition by putting on Birthapalooza. The festivities will include: Obama as a CIA agent show trial, a Condoleezza Rice and Rod Blagojevich costume contest (Winner gets a Pulitzer Prize), a dramatic reading of the transcript of the Kenyan Minister claiming Obama was born there, a DIY Birth Certificate Booth, an Anti-Birther Dunk Tank and a Honorary American Grand Jury Lead Prosecutor Law License raffle.
...and donkey rides for the kids...
Basically, he's going to pretend he's a judge, and get a couple people to pretet they are lawyers, and they are going to pretend to hold a trial in his basement.
The "judge" will make a "ruling" that Obama's not eligible, which will be ignored by everyone except the kooks in his basement and the tinfoil hat wearers on the blogoshpere.