Posted on 12/03/2010 1:22:45 AM PST by rxsid
"McCain 2008 lawyer is the culprit in Wikipedia Lakin deletion
Columnist Diana West (Washington Examiner/November 24) exposed the warp speed deletion of an entry about Army LTC Terry Lakin, in the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. This is a link to LTC Lakin entry before it disappeared down what West described aptly as the memory hole:
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The Wiki entry on LTC Lakin was removed in record time- an hour and 11 minutes after being flagged for deletion. The culprit in the Wiki deletion was ID'd by a Wiki user as Washington, D.C. lawyer, Theodore Frank, who worked on the McCain campaign in 2008. The Wiki deletion was recommended for extirpation by someone with user name, THF. Up until now, the focus has been largely on the Obama Administration for its role in concealing all of the President's citizenship-related records (and for misrepresenting the Obama online Certification of Live Birth as an original birth certificate)- but Frank's involvement is a new twist and shifts the eligibility spotlight to Obama's 2008 rival campaign.
THF is the initials of Theodore "Ted" Frank-- founder and president of the Center for Class Action Fairness. It's already been claimed on many websites that activists in the Wiki community believe Wiki user THF was Ted Frank. Frank's past activity indicates someone unconcerned about being recognized for his blogging activity. A quick examination of articles mentioning Frank shows that he's been active on Wikipedia, including battles with Michael Moore. These items indicate that Frank changed his Wiki username to THF: Wikipedia at one time labeled Michael Moore's web site as an attack site, deleted references to it, and went out of its way to protect and support Ted Frank (Wikipedia user THF), including suggestions that he was "outed" even though he originally called himself TedFrank on Wikipedia, only recently changed it to THF, and is a public figure with a Wikipedia article written about him."
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Frank was one of three lawyers who vetted Governor Palin before she was selected to run for Vice President on the McCain ticket. Did he have other vetting responsibilities on the McCain campaign? In particular, who on the campaign legal staff was responsible for vetting the online Certification of Live Birth that the Obama camp provided to Daily Kos and FactCheck.org- which falsely proclaimed it to be a birth certificate (and notably this online Certification of Live Birth was missing any Hawiian hospital name or attending physician's signature)? A laser-printed, computer-generated document is clearly NOT an original birth record, but the McCain campaign seemed confused over this key point.
When I questioned Frank about the Wiki deletion, he volunteered that he participated in a discussion about the second recreation of the article. He explained further that the rule of thumb is that Wikipedia doesn't have articles about living people just because they're in the news for one event. A second rule of thumb is that if there is consensus that an article should be deleted, the recreation of the article should also be deleted. He claims that he merely stated his agreement with those two rules in application to that particular case and that "the result would have been the same no matter what I said; I wasn't the one who flagged the article." But then he commented further, "As for Lakin himself, there's lot to complain about when it comes to Obama--why waste resources counterproductively rehashing a discredited theory about constitutional eligibility?" And this is the rub (aside from the fact that a Wiki blogger claims THF is the user who actually deleted and redirected the entry 71 mins after another user had nominated it for deletion)- given paternal step-grandmother Sarah Obama declaring Obama was born in Kenya- and in March, a Kenyan Cabinet Minister affirming Obama's birth in Kenya- shouldn't Frank and others be aware that the "born in Kenya" premise is gaining traction and that their earlier comments were appallingly ill-informed?
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How was it that McCain unfairly became the subject of a Senate hearing, was hounded by the media (the original "birthers") and felt compelled to produce his original birth certificate to prove he was "natural born"-- but never asked his rival to do the same? Did Frank and others miss what may prove to be the greatest political scandal in American history? With a decorated Army officer imminently facing jail at Fort Leavenworth- and denied the right to evidence to defend himself by the Army-- it's past time that key operatives during the 2008 presidential campaign were forced to explain their actions and at all costs, to avoid being accused of being part of the cover-up."
Continued: http://www.safeguardourconstitution.com/mccain.html
"McCain 2008 lawyer is the culprit in Wikipedia Lakin deletion"
Look for Soros connections to Theodore Frank. I’ll bet they are there.
Do we have anything that will link McCANE to $oro$? Is this the missing link?
Were thinking on the same line....
Another reason not to vote for Sarah Palin....she supported McCain over Hayworth in the AZ Senate race.
If McCain’s people are that pro-Obama so to delete LTC Lakin
wikipedia entry...to cover for Obama’s obvious foreign birth....I will not vote for any candidate remotely tied to McCain.
I wonder if McCain buddy, George Soros, told him and his staff to do this
McCain’s Reform Institute has received a lot of money from Soros group Open Society. In fact, many of McCain’s 2008 staffers (Rick Davis was one) were top people in the Reform Institute....their pay basically funded by Soros.
Yes, Soros has deep $$$ ties to McCain. One reason I will not vote for a certain possible front-runner....you are who you support
>>He explained further that the rule of thumb is that Wikipedia doesn’t have articles about living people just because they’re in the news for one event.<<
BS! There is a page for Falcon Heene (Balloon Boy Hoax), Divine Brown (Hugh Grant’s prostitute) and the lawyers for Tawanna Brawley (Maddox and Mason). All living and arguably,and “just because they’re in the news for one event”. There’s even a page for the most offensive TV show in history “Heil Honey, I’m Home”, a British TV show “inspired” by “Springtime for Hitler”. It was cancelled after ONE episode!
(your PDS is shining!) Sarah Palin has the creds, dude! Your little cabal of anti's are wearing out your welcome. You can keep chipping, but she will just get more popular with the exposure.
>>Another reason not to vote for Sarah Palin....she supported McCain over Hayworth in the AZ Senate race.<<
So did Jeb Bush, Steve Forbes and Joe Perry of Aerosmith. I guess the first two fall into the same category and you won’t be listening to Aerosmith any more. Oh BTW, Rush endorsed him in 2008.
You’ll have to find a better excuse to insure 0bambi’s reelection.
Hmmmmm...very interesting. These establishment elites know that they are going to be found out one day. They were either in on the ruse, incompetent or both. Either way, they shirked their responsibilities to our constitution and their oaths.
My question is this— Is a theory “discredited” because it is
current practice to corrupt speech and now define Erroneously
that the term natural born citizen is now morphed to mean the same thing as native born citizen—when the term as understood in the Founding era clearly required both parents of a citizen also be citizens for one to be considered natural born citizen
I think the reference to Vattel has been significant and is found credible despite the political convenience to go along just to get along.
Yet more evidence that the RINO establishment is just as dangerous to the American people as the DNC.
Dittos!
Off topic..but the unemployment numbers just came out. It has jumped to 9.8%. Alarming because you would think that seasonal employment would help the numbers somewhat.
If we don’t get control of our out of control government..this country may never recover.
This article isn’t true. The person who deleted the article was NawlinWiki. See http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Terrence_L._Lakin&action=historysubmit&diff=396357139&oldid=396351151
In response to your questions, I’ve never received money from Soros (or the Koch brothers), and haven’t spoken to McCain in two years; he certainly doesn’t know anything about my Wikipedia hobby—where I’ve long complained about double-standards against conservatives on that site.
Freepers have quoted many articles I’ve written. I’ve sacrificed millions of dollars in income to promote free-market economics and civil justice reform for non-profits instead of working as a $700/hour lawyer. Why are you so quick to believe lies about a long-time ally?
>>There is a page for Falcon Heene (Balloon Boy Hoax), Divine
>>Brown (Hugh Grant’s prostitute) and the lawyers for Tawanna
>>Brawley (Maddox and Mason). All living and arguably,and
>>“just because they’re in the news for one event”.
There is not a page for Falcon Heene; like the Lakin article, it redirects to the Balloon Boy hoax article.
The others have been in the news for more than one event; Mason, for example, was involved in the Bernie Goetz case.
If you see a double-standard, I’m happy to try to fix it. The article about the crazy woman who claimed George W. Bush raped her was deleted.
There is lots to complain about when it comes to Wikipedia double-standards, but the Lakin article isn’t one of them.
OK... You say this article is not true and that you selflessly stand for fairness on Wikipedia.
You’ve stated, in essence, that there was no proof the Obama was not who he said but sufficient “proof” that he was - i.e.COLB from hawaii, newspaper announcements etc.
Given the level of secrecy since your original involvement and given exposure of Pelosi’s mechanizations to certify, do you have a revised opinion on eligibility? If so, shre please.
He could not even get re-elected to his seat in Congress let alone State wide..If not for Sarah we would have one less R in the Senate. I know you would rather have a Dem then a(in your words) Rino.
Mc Cain in good for our military
I'll take a Rino over a liberal Dem anytime...
Statists look after their own.
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