So, in its usual comprehensive and well-documented style, the Wikipedia has added a biography article on Orly Taitz. I thought it was a good article, and a good complement to the article on Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories.

By the way, the Wikipedia is looking for a photo of Orly to include in the article. They don’t use copyrighted images, so if any of you have snapped your own image, you might consider contributing it.

Orly Taitz, DDS, Esq

While Orly Taitz’s blog is infected with the H1N1 Swine Malware, I’ll continue sporadic reports, using my full body respirator virtual machine browser. [Recall last April it was that Orly said not to get H1N1 vaccinations.] It looks like Orly is including email addresses of the folks whose emails she posts.

• Post from queenofshina: Orly, I filed an official complaint with the FBI’s cyber division on Saturday about your Site being hacked…
• Post from Lowell Banner: It have cancelled [sic] my emails from WND. Farah and Kreep are just in this for the money…
• From Reader Gary Maslaac (who signed his note “Eddie”): Dear Champion of Freedom, The article focused mainly on Gary A. [sic] Creep [sic], [sic] it appeared you were in the court but contributed nothing. This report is a dis service [sic] to readers and is scarcely accurate…
• From Reader carmen: Dr. Orly, Thank you for the unbelievable amount of good you are doing…. The favor of God is on you and with you…
• From Reader KBB: Last week, I emailed my entire address list and advised them to not give a dime to USJF and specifically to Gary Kreep…
• From Reader pip: …That pesky Judge seriously needs to consider growing a backbone [not clear which judge]
• MORE COMMUNITY LEDERS [SIC] AMONG THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE THAT SIGNED UP AS MY FRIENDS ON FACEBOOK
• NOTICE: I got a phone call from Liza Mundy, Washington Post reporter. She stated that the article was postponed to Tuesday. I guess theya [sic] are waiting for judge Carter’s opinion.
• NADA [appropriately named article contains no text]

Birthers release forged Kenyan birth certificate for Obama, August 3, 2009, Salon.com. The document is just another in an increasingly long line of fakes intended to prove Obama wasn’t born in the U.S.

Forged Kenyan Document Splinters ‘Birther’ Movement, August 3, 2009, The Washington Independent. The new focus on a bogus document from an anonymous source has riven the small community of activists who are trying to prove that Barack Obama cannot be president of the United States.

When Did Americans Turn into a Bunch of Raving Lunatics?, August 4, 2009, Esquire. “Everyone who voted for him ought to leave the country,”

DNC Goes All In: Takes On Birthers, Conservative “Mob” In New Web Ad, August 4, 2009, Huffington Post. The Democratic National Committee released a notably aggressive web ad on Tuesday evening, accusing the Republican Party of being taken over by an angry mob of “birther” conspiracy theorists and disgruntled partisans.

Kenya ‘birth certificate’ said to be fake, August 4, 2009, UPI. In a post on the Politjab.com Web site, Steve Eddy of California said he discovered through an online search that the document released by “birther” Orly Taitz was a doctored version of the birth certificate for David Jeffrey Bomford, born in South Australia in April 1959, Salon.com reported Tuesday.

Freemasons to ‘Birthers’: rise of D.C. conspiracy theories, August 4, 2009, The Christian Science Monitor. “The Internet perpetuates these things because of the ease with which you can look up all of this so-called ‘evidence’ on the web – no matter how far flung the idea is – and build whatever worldview you want while ignoring other evidence,” says James LaPlant, who teaches a class on political conspiracy theories at Valdosta State University in Valdosta, Ga.

The Berserk ‘Birthers’, August 4, 2009, The Washington Post. If there’s been a more clinically insane political phenomenon in my lifetime than the “birthers,” I’ve missed it. Is this what our national discourse has come to? Sheer paranoid fantasy?

Forget Obama’s Birth Certificate–Now You Too Can Be Born in Kenya, August 5, 2009, US News and World Report. While I go ask my mother some tough questions about my real history, you can generate your own Kenyan birth certificate at the Kenyan Birth Certificate Generator site. (But remember that the information listed is the stuff of password security checks and the like — when you make your Kenyan birth certificate you might not want to use real names and dates.)

Salon’s handy-dandy guide to refuting the Birthers, August 5, 2009, Salon.com. In the spirit of public service, Salon has compiled this list of the most popular Birther myths, along with all the debunking you could ever ask for.

Is the “Birther” Movement a Liberal Conspiracy?, August 6, 2009, The Atlantic. It is not Obama’s right-wing opponents, however, who are devoting the most attention to this obscure, Internet-driven “movement,” if one can even use that label to describe such a paranoid groupuscule. Rather, it’s liberals, bent on portraying their conservative opponents as extremists….

Punking the Birthers, August 7, 2009, The Week. It looks like Orly Taitz and her fellow Obama “birthers” have been “punk’d” by an Obama supporter.

The conspiracy theory about President Obama that refuses to die, August 7, 2009, The Sydney Morning Herald. Even though the Obama campaign team published an official certificate from the state of Hawaii stating that he was born there on 4 August, 1961, and two Hawaiian newspapers confirmed they had published birth notices at the time, a significant portion of the US population – 11 per cent, according to one poll – still dispute Mr Obama’s birth details.

Robert Kennedy

Noted psychic Robert F. Kennedy predicted the election of an African American president in 2008. In a 1968 radio address on the Voice of America, Kennedy said:

[Things are] moving so fast in race relations, a Negro could be president in 40 years … There is no question about it. In the next 40 years a Negro can achieve the same position that my brother had.

See the Washington Post (Washington, D.C.) May 27, 1968.

Kennedy was killed later that year.

Journalist Tim Russert died suddenly just 5 days after mentioning this prediction on the Meet the Press program (June 8, 2008).

Dr. Conspiracy

Fundamentalism refers to a belief in, and strict adherence to a set of basic principles (often religious in nature), a reaction to perceived doctrinal compromises with modern social and political life. Wikipedia.

The idea of using the category fundamentalism to describe some of the constitutional discussions tangential to Obama Conspiracy Theories came to me after reading an article about ConstitutionWatch.org filing a lawsuit saying Hillary Clinton was ineligible to be Secretary of State. Here’s the section from the Constitution:

No Senator or Representative shall, during the time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil office under the authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the emoluments whereof shall have been increased during such time: and no person holding any office under the United States, shall be a member of either House during his continuance in office.

The Washington Post reports:

In Clinton’s case, during her current term in the Senate, which began in January 2007, cabinet salaries were increased from $186,600 to $191,300. This situation has arisen before, most famously in the case called “The Saxbe Fix,” but it involves a controversial, somewhat tortured reading of the Sacred Document.

That “fix” came in 1973, when President Nixon nominated Ohio Sen. William Saxbe (R) to be attorney general after the famed “Saturday Night Massacre” during the Watergate scandal. Saxbe was in the Senate in 1969 when the AG’s pay was raised.

Congress lowered Saxbe’s salary to pre-1969 levels, and Saxbe took office. But the Constitutional fundamentalists, ignoring the obvious intent of the Constitution to prevent a particular abuse, cling to the letter of the document with an outcome never intended.

Another case is the humorous argument that George Washington was ineligible to be president.

A mindless literalism appears among the nObama when they say that an 18th century Swiss jurist de Vattel’s work, Le Droit des Gens. ou Principes de la Loi Naturelle, appliques a la conduite & aux affaires des Nations & des Souverains, is written into the US Constitution because the phrase “The Law of Nations” appears therein (and that is a translation of a bit of Vattel’s French title).