An interview with Phil Berg
Philip Berg
From the Race 4 2012 blog, comes a new interview with Phil Berg, Obama nemesis attorney. It’s an interesting read. Here are a couple of teasers:
“I think he traveled his entire life on an Indonesian passport”
“But even if he were [born] in Hawaii, he would have had his birth certificate in Kenya.”
The interview, I assume transcribed from a recording, appears to have the occasional misinterpreted word.
Massive birther identity theft attempt?
Batshirt crazy
We deal with a lot of things on this web site that have a questionable rational basis, but this is really totally wacko.
I received an email from Phil J. Berg, Obama denialist litigant, and confirmed that it’s the same as what appears on his web site, ObamaCrimes.com. Berg is planning a “Birth Certificate March on Washington.” That in and of itself is in my opinion silly, but what is totally wacko is this:
Berg is requesting all citizens of the United States to email, fax or mail a “copy” of their Birth Certificate that will be presented to Obama demanding that Obama resign because he has failed to produce his long form [vault] Birth Certificate to show he is “Constitutionally eligible” to be President.
Now think for a moment. You call up your bank and they want to verify that you are who you say you are. They ask you a “security question.” The question is something like “what’s your mother’s maiden name?” or “what’s your father’s middle name?” or “what is the city where you born?” or “what’s the name of the street where you lived as a child?”. Well DUH! All of that information could be found on your birth certificate! In some places, a birth certificate gives you enough information to show you are entitled to a real state-issued certified copy of a birth certificate, which along with a fake social security card will get you a driver’s license and then a passport, and then a way to get around that pesky terrorist watch list at the airport.
I bet the scam artists are already casing Berg’s office for the robbery of all that juicy personal information.
I don’t who is more out of their mind, the person who would ask for something like that, or the person who would send their personal information to a fax number or an email address they found on the Internet.
Obamacrimes reasserts old claims
The BadFiction blog has produce series of articles about the Obama Indonesian citizenship myth:
- The Indonesian Citizenship Myth
- The Indonesian Citizenship Myth – Part 2
- The Indonesian Citizenship Myth – Part 3
Phil Berg’s web site, ObamaCrimes.com has responded in articles including this response to Part 3. In that response, questions are raised about the audio transcript of the interview with Sarah Obama published at BadFiction. McKinnon says that he got his recording from the America First web site (who got it from Berg), and the recording on this web site came from the same source. (The recording, by the way, is still on the Americas Right site.) The recording and transcript are featured in my article: Sarah Obama speaks!
I plowed much of this ground in my article Hollister v Indonesian Citizenship Law. It all boils down to whether you want to believe facts and primary sources, or rumors.
Berg v. Freeze
Conservative law student Jamie Freeze has written a scathing criticism of the birthers, those who believe Barack Obama was born outside the United States. Attorney Phil Berg, a leader in putting forward that version of the birther point of view, has replied in kind in a December 24, 2009 article, JAMIE FREEZE CALLS ANYONE QUESTIONING SOETORO/OBAMA’S CITIZENSHIP STATUS “INCOMPETENT IDIOTS” at his ObamaCrimes.com blog.
Berg, as an experienced litigator, immediately pounced on the weak point of Freeze’s article, it gratuitous insults, ridicule and name calling. Berg can cast himself as the wise instructor of the inexperienced student. He becomes a sympathetic figure, and quickly brings the jury over to his side. Whenever Freeze (or I for that matter), makes a gratuitous criticism or a sarcastic remark, attorneys like Berg (or Apuzzo) can pounce on it, answer it, and divert attention from the more substantial points.
For example, in a very long response, Berg fails to acknowledge and answer the fact that the head Hawaii Department of Health said unequivocally that Barack Obama’s birth certificate says he was born in Hawaii, but continues to claim that Obama’s birth in Hawaii is unsubstantiated. Berg continues to say that the COLB has been “deemed to be forged” while not admitting that those claiming it was a forgery were themselves fakes and forgeries (anonymous persons claiming credentials they never had and using fake analysis).
They cross swords over the situation that would be the case should Obama have been born in Kenya of a US mother and Berg continues to claim Obama’s name is Soetoro so that his campaign was a fraud. You can read it if you want. I’ve lost that fire in the gut to go swim in the sewers.
What attorneys must learn is to focus their message on what is necessary to persuade the audience, and not to try to appear sarcastic, witty, or irrelevantly well-informed.
Hollister to Berg: Butt Out!
The case of Hollister v. Soetoro, having been previously dismissed, is now before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. It was widely believe that the legal “brains” behind the case where those of Philadelphia attorney Phillip Berg, although the complaint was signed by DC attorney John Hemenway. Hemenway drew a sanction from the court for the frivolous nature of the lawsuit.
Hemenway is pressing the appeal on behalf of Mr. Hollister, and Berg is no longer welcome. Now in documents filed by attorneys Phil Berg and Lawrence Joyce, we learn that Joyce claims to have written almost all of the Hollister suit, and that Berg and Joyce want to file an amicus brief in the case, largely it seems to defend their honor.
In any case, in a motion in opposition, Hollister and Hemenway have made it clear that they want nothing to do with the amicus brief.
The legal wrangling seems to be over whether other court decisions in other federal districts should be introduced as part of the appeal.
Phil Berg to represent Pastor Manning
Philip Berg
Philadelphia attorney Philip J. Berg, in a press release today (November 26, 2009) wished everyone a happy Thanksgiving, and wrote that he is representing [should the need arise] Pastor James David “Show the dog gone birth certificate” Manning. Manning, head of ATLAH Ministries in New York, claimed he was visited by Homeland Security and the NYPD after he said in a public video that either Obama dies, orAmerica dies.
Christopher Earl Strunk previously made an unsuccessful attempt to get a restraining order against federal agencies to prevent them from talking to Manning.
Esquire v. Esquire
Berg, Joyce move to file amicus brief in Hollister
Hollister v. Soetoro
Attorney Philip J. Berg, Esquire and Lawrence J. Joyce, Esquire filed an emergency motion in the federal appeals court in DC today (November 24, 2009) requesting that the court permit them to file an amicus curaie (friend of the court) brief in the appeal of Hollister v. Soetoro. The normal time for filing amicus briefs has passed, but Joyce and Berg beg the court to grand an exception to the rules due to unforeseen circumstances.
What the motion reveals is a parting of the ways between attorney of record, John D. Hemenway, Esquire and Berg and Joyce. Joyce claims to have done all the work, and Hemenway largely got in the way and obstructed [my read of the text]. Joyce was extremely upset that Hemenway requested the Court to take judicial notice of Barnett v. Obama, the case filed by Orly Taitz, Esquire, in the California District Court. Joyce didn’t want her shenanigans tainting the appeal.
The motion is quite a soap opera (albeit not always the best grammar). I note that the word “Esquire” appears 57 times.
Hollister Appeal | Emergency Motion Re Amicus Brief (Berg & Joyce), filed Nov. 24, 2009
