Oh, For Goodness Sake

When wingnuttery converges, things can go a little screwy

Dr. Orly Taitz’s nutty case, Cook v. Good, the one where a Marine Reserve Officer is seeking a Temporary Restraining Order challenging the legitimacy of his Commander-in-Chief, just got a whole lot nuttier.

I can’t tell where this originated. It appears to be a press release. It’s posted at a couple of right wing sites, including Tree of Liberty, concerning the new lawsuit discussed yesterday.

This jumped out at me:

Dr. Orly Taitz, ably assisted by Dr. Charles Lincoln who drafted the pleading, filed the lawsuit today on behalf of Major Cook in the U.S. District Court at Columbus, Georgia. In the complaint, Cook claims the Uniform Code of Military Justice implicitly requires him to question the lawfulness of orders, particularly when he has good reason to believe the President holds the Presidency in violation of the Constitution.

Does Dr. Orly Taitz, Esq. know what she’s getting into here?

So yes, indeed, between December 9, 2007 and February 2, 2008, I was privileged to see the inside of seven prisons (from the comparatively happy position of an illegal arrestee, not even falsely charged with any genuine crime, nor correctly but sincerely charged with any fake crime. I knew my time in the custody of the Marshals was finite, no matter how long it seemed.

For the benefit of any who might doubt where we’re headed in this Country, I just want to share what I have learned: (1) we are no longer free in this Country; (2) the Federal Prisons are the template for a future well-ordered society based on Maoist Chinese principles upgraded to technological perfection; (3) the State and Private Prisons are the product of an earlier, technologically imperfected version or cruder adaptation of Mao’s cultural revolution; (4) there are few if any genuine “criminals” in prison (at least not in the Federal system)—in my 54 days behind bars, during which I met or had conversational contact probably with over 500 fellow-inmates, I met at most one or two people of whom I was even mildly apprehensive, never mind afraid—and I met no genuine criminals, no threats to society, no “bad guys” at all, and (5) the values that are taught in prison are entirely communistic “All Good Flows from the State to the People at the State’s sole, arbitrary and capricious whim” and “Private Property and Private Identity are Forbidden, now and forever.”

Now that I think about it, they may be well-suited, except Dr. Orly Taitz, Esq. hasn’t been disbarred yet, while Lincoln has managed it in, at least, two, maybe three, states:

CHARLES EDWARD LINCOLN [#171793], 44, of Cedar Park, Texas was disbarred Jan. 11, 2004, and was ordered to comply with rule 955.

In 2000, Lincoln was convicted in Texas on a federal charge of falsely representing his Social Security number, a felony. As a result, he gave up his license to practice in the state.

Originally charged with five felonies, the case resulted from Lincoln applying for a checking account using a false Social Security number.

In a second matter, he was disbarred from U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas after a federal judge requested an investigation of Lincoln because two of his clients had a falsified receipt. The receipt purported to be from the federal court clerk and represented funds the clients had given Lincoln. The clients believed Lincoln was depositing their money in an escrow account related to their case.

Two days before a hearing by the federal court’s admissions committee, Lincoln went to his clients’ home, instructed them not to tell the judge that he gave them the receipt, which he asked them not to produce, and he gave the clients a cashier’s check for $6,000. He did not appear at the hearing.

In a previous lawsuit, the same judge determined that Lincoln was involved in discovery abuse and filed duplicative motions. The judge issued sanctions and dismissed the lawsuit with prejudice.

The State Bar Court determined that Lincoln’s misconduct in Texas amounted to violations of California law as well.

Dr. Orly Taitz, Esq., of course, is a California lawyer, and surely she checked Dr. Charles Edward Lincoln III’s standing with the California Bar Association. I mean, she couldn’t possibly be that casual with her clients’ interests. Could she?

Well, now, it seems Taitz and Lincoln may know each other fairly well. He wrote from Cambridge MA, where his son is taking summer classes at Harvard:

Last week I was in Philadelphia for the first (and quite possibly, I would hope, the last) hearing in Berg v. Taitz, which I would rate as one of the stupidest lawsuits I’ve ever seen in my life—two unique Political radicals originally dedicated to the same worthy cause of deposing de facto President Barack Obama fighting each other inside the system they would be more likely to reform if they worked together….I was pleased and honored to be on the side of the clear winner in the case, Dr. Orly Taitz….

I take note, now and then, of Dr. Orly Taitz’s harassment of judges and court clerks, adding now her upcoming Georgia appearance, but she is small potatoes compared to Lincoln, who managed to get in trouble even in his own child custody case:

“[The Court:] Okay. If I see another letter like this (indicating) and I find out that you get something like this done and it starts getting circulated in the mail, you will woefully regret the first day you ever saw me. Do you understand that?” 2/19/03, at 35: 19-23.

“The Court: Okay. I’m not going to put up with this garbage for five more minutes because what you’re doing with this kind of letter and this kind of stuff…is, as far as I’m concerned, child abuse and I’m not going to put up with it. Is there any misunderstanding or lack of appreciation as to how seriously you think I take this, Mr. Lincoln?

A: I think you take it very serious, your honor.

The Court: Okay. Don’t push me again on it. I was perfectly prepared to put you in jail today for just this kind of conduct. I was perfectly prepared to cut off your visitation today. I wouldn’t push me another time. You understand that?..” 2/19/03, at 35:25-36:13

Well, if Dr. Orly Taitz, Esq.’s new assistant disbarred lawyer shows up with her at the Cook v. Good Temporary Restraining Order hearing at a US District Court in Georgia on July 16, it should be quite a show.

Now that it’s clear Lincoln wrote the brief, we can see where this is all going:

(33) Plaintiff points out that there was another time in United States history when officers of the military were forced to make a choice whether to follow the central government or their consciences. That time in United States history was in 1861 when some of the finest officers of the United States Army felt that they and their constitution had been betrayed by the central government, and that is how Mexican War heroes Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee, among so many others, became the leaders of the Confederate States of America.

(An earlier screwy case Lincoln assisted on was one of Federal Reserve conspiracy theorist and tax protester Jacques Jaikaran’s, who was involved with the antigovernment separatist group Republic of Texas. Jaikaran was trying to buy for the group, which advocates secession from the United States, a building in Houston with machine-gun turrets and a bomb shelter. Members, at one point, were plotting to assassinate President Bill Clinton and other government officials, using a poison dart shot from a cigarette lighter.)

But this is pure Orly::

The evidence contained in Exhibit B shows that Barack Hussein Obama might have used as many as 149 addresses and 39 social security numbers prior to assuming the office of President. The social security number most commonly used by Barack Hussein Obama, is one issued in the state of Connecticut, the state where Barack Hussein Obama never resided and it shows him to be 119 years old.