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Orly Taitz demands to be made Queen of the United States

Queen Orly

“I am uniquely the person to exercise moral power above government, as in Queen of England.”

In an email letter to her massive list of supporters late last night, Orly Taitz has once again pushed out the bounds of credulity by demanding that she take on the role of Queen to resolve what she calls a constitutional crisis. I’m still trying to wade through this 116 page document (which is like pulling teeth — no pun intended) to try to find a logical thread to guide a summary for you. Here’s the best I can put together so far (and this is far more coherent than what she really wrote):

Dr. Orly Taitz, Esq as the only attorney still standing to challenge Obama’s eligibility, and the only attorney who has moved to join her quo warranto case in DC with the bakers dozen state attorneys general challenging the new health care reform, sees herself as the one person uniquely qualified to fix the constitutional crisis in the United States caused by the unconstitutional health care law and Obama’s failure to prove his eligibility. She notes the inaction of the courts, Attorney General Eric Holder and the Congress. Because, in her words, “government has lost all legitimacy” Orly is vetoing the health care reform law, dissolving Congress and calling for new congressional and presidential elections to be held next June 2. Taitz points out that the Queen of England has the authority to dissolve parliament and appoint her own prime minister, and that in this time of constitutional crisis when no legitimate authority exists (since Obama has not proven his eligibility) that it only natural for her to become Queen for a day. It was not clear who she would decide on as interim president until after the new elections.

In line with our policy of not hyperlinking to the Taitz web site because of persistent problems with browser exploits and malware there, I will paste the first few pages of her email here. (Jump down to the section in bold for the queen stuff.) (more…)

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Donofrio, Pidgeon to file suit on behalf of Chrysler dealers

scales2I’ve hesitated writing about this story because I don’t have any reliable sources (discounting the Post & Email Blog, or WorldNetDaily) to know how much is true and how much is posturing.

Nonetheless, it appears that Obama denialist attorneys Leo C. Donofrio and Stephen Pidgeon have joined forces to represent some Chrysler dealers that lost their franchises as the result of the Chrysler bankruptcy. The dealers may have a difficult time proving that they suffered harm as the result of government action (since they would have lost their dealerships in a bankruptcy whether or not the government had intervened), but it’s a start.

They will file in the DC Federal District Court asking: by what right does President Obama hold the office, that heads the government, that administered the TARP, that bailed out Chrysler, that disenfranchised the dealers, that lived in the house that Jack built? This is what is called a quo warranto (Latin for “frivolous”) lawsuit.

Putting the silliness aside for a moment …

Leo Donofrio has claimed for some time that the only way to remove President Obama from office (short of the constitutional mechanism of impeachment) is a quo warranto action in DC. (Orly Taitz tried quo warranto, but not in DC, the only place where it can be filed.) The scant news coverage names no plaintiffs and no actual lawsuit appears to have been filed yet as of today, December 10, 2009.

We’ll just have to wait to see if the Supreme Court hands Leo his hat again.

[OK, tell me the truth. Did I overdo the hyperlinks?]

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Donofrio absquatulates

Leo. C. Donofrio

Leo. C. Donofrio

In an article entitled The Truth, anti-Obama theorist and legal challenger Leo C. Donofrio announced the closing of his blog, Natural Born Citizen. After one last gasp of legal assertion about how to unseat the President (quo warranto in the DC federal court), he wrote:

The blog is taking too much of my time and energy.  Therefore, it is going dark.  I have work to do.  My legal blogging days are over.  I may eventually publish a book on this era of my life.

Not only has Leo written that he’s going to stop posting, he deleted all of the blog’s former content including his articles and an extensive base of commentary from others.

Leo has withdrawn before, and wiping the slate totally may just be be a way of escaping all the legal mistakes and crank history he’s written up until now. Time will tell. I personally don’t think we’ve heard the last of Donofrio and Obama Conspiracies.

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Donofrio team pries previously known information out of Hawaii

Leo. C. Donofrio

Leo. C. Donofrio

I don’t want to make too much fun of Donofrio and his article DoH Reverses Course – Releases Index Data For President Obama, Stanley Ann and Barack, Sr; No Records For Maya Exist. While the fake dramatic aura written into his article is silly, at least it presents some facts.

It has been clear to me since last year that this, and another approach to obtaining records from Hawaii, if pressed, would result in disclosure of this  already-public information. The other approach is the Verification in Lieu of a Certificate. But the information pried out of the Department of Health, is the same information the DOH sent to the Hawaii news service and was subsequently printed in two Honolulu newspapers 47 years ago. I suppose it’s nice that Donofrio has another voice from the same source saying the same thing, but there is no surprise here. This really is “old news”.

Leo also “learned” that Obama’s sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng does not have a Hawaiian birth certificate which–while still claimed otherwise by birthers as recently as by a filing in Hollister v. Soetoro a week ago–is impossible under Hawaiian law. So TechDude (who claimed he could see that the COLB was constructed from a base copy of Maya’s birth certificate) is exposed as a fraud (wait, TechDude was already exposed as a fraud).

It remains to be seen if Leo Donofrio will be believed or demonized by the birthers. The odds are on the latter.

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Donofrio alleges Obama birth records amended!

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Leo. C. Donofrio

Flash!

Leo Donofrio has made a stunning claim on his blog in a new article: Pending Litigation: Hawaii Confirms That Obama’s Vital Records Have Been Amended.

One has to translate that headline from “birther speak” to normal usage. “Pending Litigation” means “we haven’t filed a lawsuit” and “Confirms” means “we say so, but we won’t tell you why or how”.

Hawaiian law requires that certificates that have been amended be distinctly marked “altered”, and Obama’s Certification of Live Birth clearly is not marked “altered”. This fact justifies a high degree of skepticism on Donofrio’s claim. Of course the word “Amended” in birther speak might mean something totally different from the normal usage.

Donofrio says:

I will issue a full statement and press release on behalf of TerriK via this blog in the days ahead.  This statement will include a complete history of correspondence between TerriK and Hawaii state officials in the Office of Information Practices (OIP) and the Department of Health (DoH). (more…)

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Donofrio v FactCheck – the Saga Continues

The only “desperate need” is the one that Mr. Donofrio himself is trying mightily to create!

Donofrio continues to pillory FactCheck in a new article: FactCheck capitulates.

In perhaps an allusion to this blog, Donofrio says:

Hearing from bloggers who do not have any legal authority to speak for him settles nothing. It simply causes confusion and that very confusion testifies to the desperate need for clarity and guidance by the President….

Of course Leo Donofrio is himself a blogger, and I think that his casting his legal theories on a largely naive public does more to cause confusion than anything else. The only “desperate need” is the one that Mr. Donofrio himself is trying mightily to create!

Because of Mr. Donofrio’s complaint, I have removed the phrase “former lawyer” from my earlier article. I had said that because on his own blog Mr. Donofrio had stated that he no longer practiced law (or at least that is how I remember it). I need to raise my own standards to stamp out my tendency to make the occasional snide remark. Of course, this is just a blog…

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Donofrio v FactCheck.org (Updated again)

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Leo. C. Donofrio

[When I learned of Donofrio's article discussed here, I contacted FactCheck.org, and received a reply Sept. 3rd from director Brooks Jackson that FactCheck would be issuing a correction on one point discussed below in an article titled: Obama and Kenya Again. FactCheck suggests that they are tired of the whole Obama conspiracy mess, and have referred folks to another web site for more information.]

Leo C. Donofrio has challenged FactCheck.org and come out swinging.

Anyone who has been following Obama conspiracy theories and the attendant novel legal theories on citizenship will be familiar with the article by FactCheck.org, Does Barack Obama have Kenyan citizenship? from August 6, 2008. This article contains the famous quotation:

When Barack Obama Jr. was born on Aug. 4,1961, in Honolulu, Kenya was a British colony, still part of the United Kingdom’s dwindling empire. As a Kenyan native, Barack Obama Sr. was a British subject whose citizenship status was governed by The British Nationality Act of 1948. That same act governed the status of Obama Sr.’s children:

immortalized by its inclusion by the Obama Campaign in its Fight The Smears web site.

Donofrio, who has made denying Obama’s eligibility to be president his own personal crusade through a failed lawsuit (Donofrio v. Wells) taken all the way to the Supreme Court, and his Natural Born Citizen his web site, has now taken issue with FactCheck.org  with a brand new article: CONFIRMED: Factcheck.org Published Bogus Fact Regarding Obama’s Kenyan Citizenship. We covered much of the same ground on this blog in my article: Is President Obama a British Citizen? But let no one deride this blog for refusing to cover the same ground over and over.

Donofrio opens his attack by planting a vague, undefined doubt:

The relationship between President Obama and Factcheck.org has been on my mind recently….

But propaganda tactics aside [Obama has no relationship to FactCheck], what is the meat of Donofrio’s complaint? (more…)

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