Obama Conspiracy Theories
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Barack Obama
Obama conspiracy theories have it all: a charismatic man rising from nowhere to be elected President of the United States, allegations of forged documents, tied to cover-ups by both federal and state officials. Best-selling authors and hundreds of web sites have taken up the cause, led by familiar conspiracy theory faces, themselves all with “interesting” pasts and associations. We have foreign intrigue in at least 4 countries, grandmothers and Anabaptists bishops, and a wealth of claims and counter claims playing out in the courts including the Supreme Court of the United States. One by one, everyone who could dispel the questions turns up dead. As his inauguration approached, there were predictions of mass chaos in government, mutiny in the armed forces, the demise of the rule of law, violence and bloodshed in the streets, and the end of life as we know it. Even now, controversy and lawsuits continue.
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Licenses and Certificates
How do you get a driver’s license? You show up with some documents, say a Social Security card and a birth certificate. You take an eye test. You take a written test. You take a driving test, and the tester more than likely signs a piece of paper with your score on it. All that goes to a clerk who types that information into a computer screen, takes your picture, and prints a drivers license with a computer-assigned number for you. I daresay none of the paperwork that went into the computer is kept.
My driver’s license doesn’t have my Social Security number on it; it doesn’t have my written test score; it doesn’t have the letters I read off the eye chart. It doesn’t have the signature, or even the name of the person who gave me my manual test. Nevertheless, when I have to prove that I’m licensed to drive a car no one seems to care about all that paperwork; they just want to know if the state says I’m a licensed and they tell that by looking at a document with the state seal and the governor’s signature on it.
A birth certificate is pretty much the same thing, especially now in the days of electronic health records. A baby is born and the time of birth and some medical findings are entered into a computer EHR. The attending physician might sign a signature pad to capture an electronic image, or he may just key in a password and swipe an access card. Later on the mother is interviewed, or given a worksheet to fill out. It all gets keyed, and transmitted from the hospital to the state vital statistics entry. They make sure everything is filled out and they mark the record as registered and assign a certificate number.
Your birth certificate is a dump of some of the birth registration data from that computer system onto a nicely formatted piece of security paper, with the state seal, and signed by some responsible authority. Nobody asks you for the mothers worksheet, your APGAR score, the doctors dictation recording, the delivery room nurse’s name, or anything else. The process was followed in the past and now it’s the state who certifies the information.
Driver’s licenses and birth certificates are really very much alike. In both cases someone goes through a prescribed process to get the paperwork into the computer, and in both cases, the state issues a document certifying that the process was indeed followed, and the information they print on it follows the state regulations required to record it.
Hawaii Homelands declares Short Form GOOD ENOUGH!
Obama COLB
Those trying to keep alive the doubts about Barack Obama’s birth certificate make a big deal about the difference between birth certificates Hawaii used to issue and the ones they issue today. So what is the difference in the validity of the Certificate of Live Birth and the Certification of Live Birth?
When we spoke to a spokeswoman for the Hawaii Department of Health, she said too much was being made of the difference between the so-called “long” and “short” forms.
“They’re just words,” said spokeswoman Janice Okubo. “That (what was posted on the Internet) is considered a birth certificate from the State of Hawaii.”
“There’s only one form of birth certificate,” she said, and it’s been the same since the 1980s. Birth certificates evolve over the decades, she said, and there are no doubt differences between the way birth certificates looked when Obama was born and now.
“When you request a birth certificate, the one you get looks exactly like the one posted on his site,” she said. “That’s the birth certificate.”
As for the theory that Obama’s original birth certificate might show he was foreign born, Okubo said the “Certification of Live Birth” would say so. Obama’s does not. Again, it says he was born in Honolulu.
Franken Wins!
The Washington Post today reports that Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty (R) signed the election certificate declaring Franken the winner yesterday evening.
Al Franken is perhaps best known for his comic performances on the television show, Saturday Night Live, for which he was also a long-time writer. I first took serious notice of Franken when I came upon his book, irresistibly titled, Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot. This was followed by the mildly interesting book, Lies: and the lying liars who tell them and a work that I think is quite insightful, The Truth: with jokes.
The Truth, published in 2005, contained a rather remarkable future letter from Franken to a future grandchild:
October 2, 2015
…Barack, I’ll never forget the moment I first saw you in the maternity ward at the hospital, and your mother asked me to suggest a name. In retrospect, I guess it was kind of an obvious choice, but at the time I had no idea that Barack would soon become America’s second most popular baby name.
The state was set for the 2008 presidential elections…Some criticized me for getting behind the President so early…but it certainly didn’t hurt me in my victorious 2008 Senate race.
It’s been a long wait, but Minnesota finally has two Senators, and maybe politics will start to be fun again.
Deep Throat
President Obama
Woodward and Bernstein had their informant, highly-placed in the Nixon administration, who provided them with information and direction in investigating the Watergate scandal. I don’t have any sources in the Obama administration, but I do have the occasional attorney and journalist who send me things. Like Woodward and Bernstein, I don’t disclose my private sources.
One of these sources forwarded the following email sent to the New Jersey State Assembly, by Dr. Sanford Aranoff who, if my research is accurate, has a PhD in Theoretical Physics and is a professor in New Jersey. Other publications by Aranoff include the article “The Age of the World” discussing methods employed to reconcile the Torah (Jewish scripture) and scientific views about the age of the world (no, he is not a Creationist).
The letter ties recent events in Latin America to the Obama eligibility controversy. It makes a remarkable logical leap in suggesting that Obama would ignore the Supreme Court should they ever rule against him.
The Honduran military ejected president Manuel Zelaya from office after he ignored a Supreme Court ruling backed by the Honduran Congress which barred him from holding a referendum this week that would have empowered him to endanger democracy.
Suppose the U.S. Supreme Court rules that Obama was not born in the U.S., and so cannot be President. Will Obama ignore the ruling? (more…)
News v. Not News
Sometimes I visit Orly’s web site or follow a link from a visitor here to WorldNetDaily and I see an item and just shake my head at the silliness.When I do that, you don’t see an article here because I don’t think that it’s news. To me, things that lack validity, are total nonsense, and are going nowhere are not news. (A great example of what I think is “not news” is this people’s grand jury nonsense.)
But then I get an email from someone saying: “Hey Doc, did you see so and so? What’s up with that?” and then I realize that it’s news from some people’s point of view.
The two “not news” items du jour are the WorldNetDaily article on Kerchner v. Obama suggesting that the court is friendly to Kerchner’s case or thinks that is important. Nothing the court says implies this. And WND suggested that the court was soliciting letters from concerned citizens, due in by today. They aren’t.
Update: The court ordered the letters removed:
06/29/2009 ORDER directing the Clerk to strike and remove from the docket all letters from non-parties including but not limited to : Doc. Nos. 18,19,20,22,23,24 and 25. Signed by Magistrate Judge Joel Schneider on 6/29/09. (js) (Entered: 06/30/2009)
The other is the auctioning off on eBay of a purported Kenyan Birth Certificate for Barack Obama, now listed as a “dissertation” after eBay pulled previous listings. Scam? or publicity stunt? One or the other, but not news.
Update: eBay deleted the dissertation too!
[Thanks to NBC here and Tes on Politijab.com for the Kerchner update.]
Lawsuits Poll
“Many are called, but few are chosen,” so the saying goes, and many lawsuits have been filed around the issue of how presidential candidates are vetted and whether Barack Obama meets the constitutional requiremens for the US presidency.
Do you think anything will come out of this issue? Courts might hear a case about candidate eligibility for the next election, but do you think any court will decide the question of Barack Obama’s eligibility to be president now? Here’s a chance for you to express your opinion.
What do YOU think?
Loading ...Natural Born Citizen poll
Is Barack Obama a natural born citizen? This poll lets you express your opinion on just what makes a Natural Born Citizen. Is it place of birth, parents or both? Can Congress legislate who is a natural born citizen.
Let us know what YOU think:
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Orly Taitz, DDS, Esq, has been called in the press “The Birther Queen Bee.” She’s launched a national crusade focused on removing Barack Obama from office through law suits, complaints to government officials, media appearances, a series of web sites and presentations before “citizen grand juries.”
What makes Orly tick? Why does she do it?
Tell us what YOU think.
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Kerchner v Obama
“judges and adverse parties need not try to fish a gold coin from a bucket of mud”
In documents filed today the US Government notified the US District Court of New Jersey that it intended to move to dismiss the lawsuit brought by Mario Apuzzo on behalf of Charles Kerchner.
Obama Conspiracy Theories has been following this lawsuit closely, publishing 2 feature articles:
The round of delays is now over and the government has responded with notice of a forthcoming motion for dismissal.
Read what the government has to say.
I want to add a personal note here. When I went through Kercher’s 2nd Amended Complaint, replying point by point to the substantive claims it made, I wrote, “There are over 300 of these freaking points!” expressing the royal pain it was to schlog through the misinformation and twisted rhetoric. Imagine my delight to learn that there are federal rules against such things. (more…)
The polls are open
According to site statistics, there are thousands of you sitting on the sidelines. Here’s your chance to express your opinion. Introducing Obama Conspiracy Polls. A random poll is located on the right sidebar. Just click your answer and then see the results.
Select “Polls” under the Conspiracies section of the right sidebar to see all the polls.
Enjoy.
Discussions about polls and suggestions for new polls may be left as comments to this article. You can discuss each poll in the comments for each.
What motivates Orly Taitz?
- A true belief that she can rescue the country from an ineligible president. (35%, 50 Votes)
- She's in it for the notoriety. (28%, 40 Votes)
- She's in it for the money. (16%, 23 Votes)
- She believes Obama is a threat to Israel. (12%, 17 Votes)
- She's a front for a conservative smear campaign. (9%, 13 Votes)
Total Voters: 143
Start Date: June 28, 2009 @ 1:20 pm
End Date: No Expiry
I think a "natural born citizen" of the United States is (select all that apply):
- Anyone born in the United States and under its jurisdiction (56%, 125 Votes)
- Anyone born a citizen of the United States (53%, 118 Votes)
- Anyone born in the in the United States to two US Citizen Parents (42%, 95 Votes)
- Anyone born in the Unted States to at least one US Citizen parent (37%, 83 Votes)
- Children born in the United States whose parents are in the US illegally (-88%, 77 Votes)
Total Voters: 224
Start Date: June 27, 2009 @ 11:59 am
End Date: No Expiry
Will any court decide Obama's eligibility before the end of his term?
- No (85%, 158 Votes)
- Yes (15%, 28 Votes)
Total Voters: 186
Start Date: June 25, 2009 @ 9:26 pm
End Date: No Expiry
