Aug 122009
 

Federal authorities have launched an effort to detect lone attackers who may be contemplating politically charged assaults similar to the recent murders of a Kansas abortion doctor and a Holocaust museum security guard.

The effort, known as the “Lone Wolf Initiative,” was started shortly after President Obama’s inauguration, in part because of a rising level of hate speech and surging gun sales.

“Finding those who might plan and act alone, the so-called lone offenders … will only be prevented by good intelligence, the seamless exchange of information among law enforcement at every level, and vigilant citizens reporting suspicious activity,” said Michael Heimbach, the FBI’s assistant director for counterterrorism.

Secret Service spokesman Malcolm Wiley said the FBI is sharing information with his agency.

Agents from all of the FBI’s 56 field offices have been dispatched on a range of assignments, said two U.S. law enforcement officials who were not authorized to speak publicly about details of the program. Among the duties:

• Reviewing records in domestic terrorism investigations that may point to more suspects.

• Analyzing records for suspicious purchases at fertilizer or chemical suppliers whose materials could be used in bombmaking.

• Checking rolls of prisoners scheduled for release or who have been recently released for past links to extremist groups.

One of the goals, FBI officials said, is to develop more comprehensive information on possible lone attackers to disrupt plots before they are launched.

Continues at USA Today

 Posted by at 5:59 am
Aug 122009
 

I guess this is on the order of: If They Can Do It, We Can Do It. I don’t really know. I’m not familiar with the writer, RedCrane, or deeply familiar with the website, PoliticalBase, and it doesn’t read like political satire to me.

But here is a conspiracy theory from the left (I think):

If she is Russian, then we can ask the question: Is Madame Taitz an agent of the Federal’naya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti (FSB), the new Russian security organization that replaced the KGB. We might also ask: Is Madame Taitz actually a communist agitator?

It has always been in Russian interests to have a weakened U.S. president. Sometimes they miscalculated, as they did with JFK. But most certainly they attempted to take advantage of the declining power of LBJ, Nixon, and Jimmy Carter. Witness the invasion of Afghanistan while Carter had to deal with the Iranian hostage crisis.

To add to this, the coalition of the “Birthers” with the “Birchers” is clear. The old members of the John Birch Society also sought and seek the weakening of any president they consider “liberal.” To them, anything “liberal” is equivalent with “communist.” One only need listen to Rush Limbaugh to see how an uneducated person can unwarrantedly link and equate one set of political views with another completely contradictory one. All resources are brought to bear to bring down any “liberal” president. These people do not accept democratic outcomes that threaten their ideologies.

This is but a step in the direction of a coalition between the “Birthers” and the FSB. They seek to develop opportunities to weaken President Obama in the eyes of his own body politic. A weakened president will have consequences for American policy in the Middle East, Iran, Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Western China — areas where U.S.-Russian interests conflict. The struggle to access energy, uranium, precious metals, among other things, is at stake.

Madame Taitz, even if she were not an FSB NOC agent, given her background, ought to understand what is at stake more than most Americans, almost all of whom have never been outside the U.S., beyond a few miles south or north of the border. Almost all natural born American citizens have a limited frame of reference to judge the effect of their actions on international politics. By making common cause with the Birchers and the Russians, Madame Taitz is helping to undermine U.S. policy abroad.

The problem I have, mostly, is it makes me squirm, because too much of it is real to me.

The world is watching for any weakening of the President. The unholy alliance of dangerous far right groups with Birthers far worse than Birchers is something that is undeniable, and I agree the Birchers were the Birthers of their day. See Part II of Esquire’s two part-series out yesterday: What Really Happens When You Demand the President Produce His Birth Certificate? This follows Part I: When Did Americans Turn into a Bunch of Raving Lunatics?

Whatever folderol is pushed and pulled and stretched into “evidence” against Obama by Birthers and friends—be they Sovereign Citizens, white supremacists, secessionists, militia, tax deniers, or whatever—they have one purpose: To bring down a liberal government by whatever means it takes. Treason is what these bastards have for breakfast. If it stops being the birth certificate, the natural born citizen “clause,” the passport, WHATEVER, it will become something else, because they have no intention of stopping short of civil war or coup d’état. (They seem to think the left isn’t armed and it’s a fight they can win. Lots of luck with that, traitors.)

Okay, I can be a believer. Just prove that Dr. Orly Taitz, Esq. is a KGB>FSB agent, (here are a few items that need clearing up), and I’m good to go. Unless you want me to do like a Birther and take your word for it, which I might consider doing just for spite.

 Posted by at 2:41 am
Aug 112009
 

First, the case name Keyes v. Obama has changed to Barnett v. Obama.

It’s possible to read too much into this. The change in lead Plaintiff is most likely a simple technical matter. The First Amended Complaint of July 15, 2009 added Plaintiffs and changed the order of Plaintiffs’ names in Keyes. v. Obama to alphabetical. This would have changed the lead Plaintiff from Alan Keyes to Patricia Barnett, the first name on the list, intentionally or not.

It should also be remembered that Dr. Orly Taitz, Esq. sometimes lists Plaintiffs that don’t know they are Plaintiffs. For example, Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Carroll D. Childers in Cook v. Good in Georgia. So we’ll have to see how Capt. Pamela Barnett feels about being lead Plaintiff and how Alan Keyes feels about being demoted.

Finally, keep in mind that disbarred lawyer Charles Edward Lincoln, III has been doing much of her work for her all summer, she is still in Moldova or Israel, so Dr. Orly Taitz, Esq. may know even less than usual about what she is doing.

On August 1, in US District Court, Central District of California, Santa Ana (Southern) Division, Keyes v. Obama, Dr. Orly Taitz, Esq. asked for expedited discovery and authentication of the Fake Kenyan Birth Certificate. The document, a color photograph or “copy,” was stricken on August 6.

That same day, August 6, it was filed as an Exhibit to a Motion in Cook v. Simtech in Florida, which was denied that day.

Anyhow:

For a few days now the rumor has been posted to right wing sites that the Fake Kenyan Birth Certificate will be refiled.

From a couple of posts on her blog, it looks as if it might be the case (not linking due to malware issues):

We need to post request for Kenyan BCs in their newspapers
August 8th, 2009

We need to put an ad in major Newspapers in London, Nairobi and Mombasa. We need people to come forward and provide their Birth certificates from Kenya from 1961- preferably received in Coast general hospital of Mombasa and ones that got certified copies of their BCs in 1964. (we need 3-5 of each) We might need to pay them a small sum for their trouble. Can anyone help with this? Can anyone pay for this?

Can someone trace this Bowford?
August 7th, 2009

This is the only link I could find that said it was where the Australian BC originated. When clicked it says “Does not exist ” When I ran it through the Wayback Machine, it found no record. Is there another link that it supposedly came from ?

Stop searching for “Bowford” maybe. Bomford Bomford Bomford.

There is plenty of intrigue in the California case, no matter what it’s called, or if the Fake Kenyan Birth Certificate never reappears in court papers.
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 Posted by at 4:31 am
Aug 112009
 

pretties1

No, wait, don’t!! winkwink

Ezra Klein interviewed Sen. Johnny Isakson on the topic of Is the Government Going to Euthanize your Grandmother?

Is this bill going to euthanize my grandmother? What are we talking about here?

In the health-care debate mark-up, one of the things I talked about was that the most money spent on anyone is spent usually in the last 60 days of life and that’s because an individual is not in a capacity to make decisions for themselves. So rather than getting into a situation where the government makes those decisions, if everyone had an end-of-life directive or what we call in Georgia “durable power of attorney,” you could instruct at a time of sound mind and body what you want to happen in an event where you were in difficult circumstances where you’re unable to make those decisions.

This has been an issue for 35 years. All 50 states now have either durable powers of attorney or end-of-life directives and it’s to protect children or a spouse from being put into a situation where they have to make a terrible decision as well as physicians from being put into a position where they have to practice defensive medicine because of the trial lawyers. It’s just better for an individual to be able to clearly delineate what they want done in various sets of circumstances at the end of their life.

How did this become a question of euthanasia?

I have no idea. I understand — and you have to check this out — I just had a phone call where someone said Sarah Palin’s web site had talked about the House bill having death panels on it where people would be euthanized. How someone could take an end of life directive or a living will as that is nuts. You’re putting the authority in the individual rather than the government. I don’t know how that got so mixed up.

You’re saying that this is not a question of government. It’s for individuals.

It empowers you to be able to make decisions at a difficult time rather than having the government making them for you.

Thank you, sane Republican.

 Posted by at 12:38 am
Aug 102009
 

The legal eagles on Politijab predict the case against Orly is the one left standing in Liberi v. Taitz. Phil Berg will win his application for a Temporary Restraining Order against her, for the Social Security numbers she has defiantly kept on her website. They expect charges against the other defendants are unlikely to survive the final ruling.

Judge Robreno, on Friday, after denying without prejudice one of Orly’s motions, said only that he would take the whole shebang “under advisement,” but his main interest seemed with the Social Security numbers on Orly’s website.

There are probably hundreds of Social Security numbers and other identifying information on her blog and website combined, Orly does it all the time, including a neighbor of the Dunhams in Seattle years ago. (I won’t link because of the current malware issue.) I don’t see this judge will concern himself with any but Lisa Liberi’s, but Orly’s careless practice of posting people’s personal information could be a whole lot of privacy lawsuits waiting to happen.
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 Posted by at 4:36 am
Aug 102009
 

The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals slapped down another birther lawsuit this week, referring to the plaintiff’s argument as “somewhat difficult to distill.” According to the decision:

Though it is somewhat difficult to distill Mr. Craig’s arguments on appeal, he continues to assert that due to the lack of a legal definition for natural-born citizen, the existence of citizens who are naturally born, as understood by the Constitution’s Framers, is no longer acknowledged. According to Mr. Craig, this has resulted in the “involuntary expatriation” of those whom he believes fall into this category of citizens. Mr. Craig argues that the definition is knowable, and he proffers a definition from a 1758 Swiss philosophical treatise.

The judges found:

Even liberally construed, Mr. Craig’s claim is not grounded in a constitutional or federal question: there is no such “right” (a) to have courts adopt his proffered legal definition, (b) to be classified as a citizen pursuant to that definition, or (c) to obtain certification of the status he attempts to define.

The decision continues:

Thus, Mr. Craig’s claim is sufficiently attenuated, insubstantial, and frivolous that the district court’s dismissal of this case under Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(1) was not in error.

MediaMatters

 Posted by at 3:48 am
Aug 102009
 

He’s sending all his—whatever they are, supporters? parishioners?—to Dr. Orly Taitz, Esq.’s malware-ridden website to fight the usurpin’, murderous, long-legged mack-daddy occupying the Oval Office.

Is anyone in the Birther movement sane? What is a long-legged mack-daddy? Is it Hitler?

That is one God-loving, Obama-hating, Harlem reverend. Hate. Hate. Hate. It’s all about hate. And everyone was so worried about Rev. Wright?

 Posted by at 3:09 am
Aug 102009
 

The Birther Song by Dr. Adequate

Here is a puzzle concerning the President:
where is the land where he’s legally resident?
Sure, we can guess
that it’s not the US;
but beyond that I’m baffled, I have to confess.
Is he Spanish or Turkish or Swedish or what?
Could the Belgians have spawned this insidious plot?
Does he come from Iran
or Peru, or Japan?
I don’t know what he is, but I know what he’s not.

Here is a puzzle that people should notice:
oh, what is the race of the forty-fourth POTUS?
It’s possibly true
that Obama’s a Jew
‘cos he’s running my country and that’s what they do.
Oh, is he from Poland or Chad or Tibet?
Some say he’s American, but you can bet
that those folks just ain’t right
‘cos the man isn’t white
unlike every American I’ve ever met.

Here is a puzzle we should and we can debate:
is he some sort of Manchurian Candidate?
Maybe (I’ve heard)
he’s an Arab, or Kurd
(but to say he’s American would be absurd).
Does he trace his descent from the Germans or Greeks?
And will somebody tell me what language he speaks?
I have to deny he
was born in Hawai’i;
to list the alternatives might take me weeks.

Here is a puzzle that needs rationality:
what’s the Commander-in-Chief’s nationality?
Prove to me, please
if he’s Senegalese
or Honduran or Russian or Dutch or Chinese.
Oh, where does he come from? (I wish he’d go back.)
Is it Cuba or Canada, France or Iraq?
Some people will say
it’s the old USA,
but if he’s American, why is he black?

Randi.org
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 Posted by at 12:05 am