Who the $@$&% is Berg to demand his birth certificate
Yeah! You tell me just what right does he have to stand up for the Constitution?
The point, that you seemed to miss, was that who is Berg to demand that another citizen's birth certificate be handed over to him? It's like me demanding your birth certificate be handed over to me.
In the same vein, who is Berg to demand that Bush and Cheney be arrested for 9/11? Who are the dozens, if not hundreds, perhaps thousands of American citizens who file frivolous law suits against Bush and the U.S. government each year? Are their request/demands obeyed? No, most times the response is: Dismissal. The same way Barack Obama's lawyers and the FEC have filed for...dismissal.
If there is a real point of contention, then the federal government, the Justice Department, the FEC, etc would demand further verification from the State of Hawaii (which has ALREADY verified that the Birth Certificate is valid).
That's it. There isn't anything more I can say. If you guys still want to maintain this farce, go ahead. But at some point there has to be a basic level of substance to a topic for it to still qualify in "Politics & Law" and not be relegated to off-topic, entirely.
suspire, if you don't think it odd in the least that some of Obama's family members claim they witnessed his birth in Kenya, the birth certifcates Obama posted on the internet were deemed frauds, Obama can post a birth certificate on the internet yet cannot hand one in to a court of law, and Obama's sister claimed Obama was born at a different hospital in Honolulu as Obama claimed, then I think you are blinded. You are putting "blind" faith in Obama as if he were the messiah, and everything he speaks is true. Do you not know how corrupt politicians are, and what makes you believe Obama is any different when clearly his actions as a Senator in the Illinois Senate and his actions as a US Senator are clearly different that what he says he is going to do as President???
There are many petitions going around signed by "American citizens" demanding that Obama hand in his birth certificate into a court of law. Also, just for your information, the State of Hawaii never verified Obama's birth there. Where did you get that information?
Obama is doing himself and the American people a disservice by holding out in turning in his birth certificate. There are no if, ands, or buts about it.
Remember, myself and Berg aren't the only ones demanding his birth certificate. You know why Obama can't turn one in; it is because he doesn't have one. It is "my" right as an American citizen, and Berg's right as an American citizen to request Obama's birth certificate whether you like it or not.
1) Did you see, in a
reputable and major news source/outlet, that the family member was quoted (via tape/video/etc) claiming Obama was born in Kenya? The only thing I've heard is Berg's claims of having some audio tape of Obama's grandmother saying he was born in Kenya...and having yet to release it to the media. Huh. For a guy so eager to prove Obama isn't a U.S. citizen, he sure has been slow to do anything with this tape. Maaaaybe, he's just milking the moment for all the money he can get. Beyond Berg's claim, all I hear is the echo chamber repeating Berg's claim and citing one another. However, even if some relative made some claim...
2) Anyone, including family members, can be prone to odd fits of emotion, including jealousy--wouldn't put it past some of them to lie about where Obama was born for various motivations. Obama's family wouldn't be the first presidential family to cause
major trouble for either a candidate or a sitting president.
3) Obama's birth certificate were deemed forgeries? By whom? Which experts? Was it the "internet experts" who "proved" their "credentials" online? There is a difference between the "I'm a forgery expert, but um, I'm really 45 years old, a virgin and bunk bed in my mother's basement with my bestess buddy" expert and the "I'm a FBI counterfeit expert and I've determined that Obama's birth certificate is a forgery and spoke about it on 60 Minutes." Somehow, you know, with all these top notch forgery experts out there, with the FBI, and various police departments around the U.S. and all of them able to look up Obama's birth certificate easily online, I'd sorta, kinda, maybe think one of them would, you know, be on a top news outlet with their story. And if that weren't enough, I've looked up this issue in detail and "seen" some of these "experts" and then seen their arguments be debunked by other "experts". So yeah.
4) I am not sure how a man who thinks 9/11 was one huge vast conspiracy by the White House and the U.S. Government, and by Bush and Cheney specifically, who files RICO cases against Bush and Cheney and who calls on "all world leaders to
arrest Bush and Cheney for 9/11" is not, well, a nutjob. And it is not ad hominem to attack him on these points; lawyers do it all the time in court cases. It goes, as they say, to the credibility of the individual making the argument. Berg's credibility is zero. Hell, Berg is a huge Clinton supporter and instead of trying to prop up his arguments in order to secure her nomination, Clinton ran in the opposite direction from Berg, because she knew his ideas were so insane.
5) Berg's case
has been dismissed. Just Google it. Like hundreds and thousands of frivolous lawsuits and cases every year. The response to madmen is not to capitulate, because they will never be satisfied: You provide one thing for them, and then they'll ask for the next, and the next, and the next. Obama and the DNC filed for a dismissal, because that's how such stupidity is always handled. That's how the U.S. government, Bush and Cheney handled Berg previously as well. It isn't like the U.S. government went: "Well, shit, there are a ton of U.S. citizens who don't believe 9/11 was done by terrorists, so we'll just let them access all of Ground Zero and the Pentagon and the Pennsylvania site and do their own investigations in the name of the truth. Thousands of American citizens died here, so they are entitled to do their own home brew investigations." Um. No. They are handled by law enforcement organizations. The debunking of the myths was left to various other sources. Same here: Barack Obama doesn't need to go around and debunk every Joe Schmoe with access to 50 bucks to file a case against him: the FEC has checked him out, the State of Hawaii has backed it up, etc. It's over and done with.
6) Here is the bit about the State of Hawaii confirming the validity of Obama's birth certificate:
http://www.politifac...ficate-part-ii/ and here is Factcheck.org talking about it, too:
http://www.factcheck...in_the_usa.html The latter explains the whole short form versus long form controversy as well.
Unlike you right wingers, I don't put blind faith in anyone and no one is my messiah; I am happily an atheist and skeptical of all politicians. I do like Barack Obama better than John McCain, partially because I feel McCain has lost his way and gone off the reservation since 2000. I also prefer Obama's policies, including tax, health and foreign. But I don't go to extremes and believe in every radical theory that supports my world view or political affiliation, or I'd be your polar opposite and be a 9/11 Truther-type (pretty much the left wing version of a lot of the stuff you post on these boards, luv2increase).
Basically, almost all of this stuff stems from one or two sources. Berg reminds me of Ahmed Chalabi, the thoroughly debunked source of much of the WMD "intelligence" on Iraq. Chalabi and a few other sources kept repeating this stuff and repeating this stuff and repeating this stuff, and along with folks like Cheney and a couple of others, it just blew up. It was an echo chamber--all sound can be traced to a single nonsensical source. You should watch Bill Moyers and "Buying The War" for a lesson in this:
http://www.pbs.org/m.../btw/watch.htmlThe arguments you keep parroting are arguments all coming from the same polluted well.
So unless you have a major news outlet, some major, reliable, credible news source that runs the story on how Barack Obama's birth certificate is a forgery or he isn't a U.S. citizen, there is nothing left to argue. The entire basis of your position is a few crackjobs and their kool-aid drinking followers on the internet.
You know what, I take that back. You don't need to get a credible or reliable news source to run the story on Obama's birth certificate for me to be a believer. If you even get
Fox News, the propaganda wing of the Republican Party, to run a
news story on it, I'll sit up and pay attention. It has to be a news story, as in: "Fox News reports that sources at the FEC/FBI/Justice Department/whoever are now investigating Barack Obama's birth certificate for possible forgery..." If that comes out, I'll be happy to entertain this discussion again. An opinion piece by Sean Hannity where he has Crazy Corsi on spouting his conspiracy theories or one of the other opinion folks hinting that there might be something to the story doesn't count, because that's just subtle (or not so subtle) disinformation. It has to be a real piece on Fox News (or any other major outlet--NY Times, WSJ, BBC, CNN, etc).
That said, you know, I really think you're on to something. You and Berg and other true patriots are
demanding Obama's birth certificate and since the courts aren't listening to you, I think you should do the right thing. I recommend that Super-Duper-Really-Extra-Real-True-Blue-Red-Blooded-Patriots should take action! I mean, I am sure you're the type of real man, unlike us wussy liberals, to defend this nation! You are positive Obama is not an American citizen. So he is violating the Constitution and has broken various laws by committing fraud, creating forgeries, etc. For the sake of America, nay the world, I think you and your buddy Berg should go out there and
arrest Obama! You know, a citizen's arrest for all the crimes he has committed! What would the Founding Fathers do? They wouldn't take this lying down! Go out there, put your money where your mouth is, and arrest him for his massive and vast conspiracy. Do it for your country, man. You're a true patriot. While you're at it, you might want to recruit Savage and biknut to the cause--they seem like really, super-duper-cool patriots from, you know, the Real America, those cutesty, folksy little pockets of Extra-Real (with pepperoni) America where men still love their guns, their whiskey and their sisters.
Come on. You should go out and arrest Obama. I am not kidding. This has got to be one of the most heinous crimes ever to be perpetuated on the American people in our entire history and you, you alone, have the proof! If good men do nothing in the face of evil, how will America survive?