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I guess trying to undermine the security of Washington families isn’t enough for some people. Referendum 71 attorney and anti-Obama birther Stephen Pidgeon has just filed a federal grand jury petition in federal court on behalf of Patriot’s Heart Media Network and several individuals. He claims that Obama is a British citizen. He names the defendants
BARRY SOETORO, a/k/a BARACK OBAMA, BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, a/k/a BARRACK HUSSEIN OBAMA II, a/k/a BARRY OBAMA, NANCY PELOSI, in her authority within the Democrat National Committee, HOWARD DEAN, in his authority within the Democrat National Committee, and JOHN DOES and JANE DOES, 1-20, members of media and press organizations
Some people stretch their fantasies a little too far into the real world. Btw, there is no such thing as “Democrat National Committee”. But someone bent on denying the citizenship of a biracial man who became president certainly can’t be bothered with factual details.
This isn’t the first birther lawsuit Pidgeon has filed. Back in 2008, he sued Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed in Broe v. Reed for counting ballots cast for Obama, which Pidgeon claimed were invalid because Pidgeon said he thought that Obama isn’t a natural born citizen. The Washington State Supreme Court quickly dismissed that tripe case. Strangely, although Pidgeon says he fervently believes we are being ruled by a usurper, he chose not to appeal his case to the US Supreme Court.
Despite (or perhaps because of?) the dismissal, Pidgeon seems to still pursue an animus towards Secretary of State Reed, now charging that Reed is letting “personal politics of those employed in your office…trump the integrity of [the R-71 signature certification] process”. He does this in league with R-71 pushers Larry Stickney and Gary Randall. Btw, Gary Randall’s jumped into the Obama’s gonna kill your granny! clown car. What a bunch of wackos.
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Yikes
I’m all for creative lawyering, even for unpopular suits (I still maintain that HRC should be on the short end of a fraud action for accepting contributions from people who actually believed its assertions regarding ENDA, etc.) but an absolutely unsupportable cause of action should be a ticket to disbarment.
And even if, somehow, the suit is found not to be worthy of disbarment, using this standard Republican slur in a legal filing should be.
Constitution, anyone?
Strictly speaking, there’s nothing in the Constitution that says someone not a natural-born American can’t run for the office of President.
Arnold Schwarzenegger could seek the Republican party’s nomination for the presidency.
The Republicans could nominate him.
No state would be legally entitled to not count popular or electoral votes for him.
And if he were to win?
Even if someone produces a video tape of Barack Obama’s mother giving birth to him in Kenya, such evidence would not invalidate John McCain’s loss to the Obama-Biden ticket in the presidential election; it would only mean that Joe Biden is president – and then the birthers would begin filing suits to claim that a Catholic actually can not be president…
and then they’d begin filing suits to claim that a woman actually can not be president…
and then they’d begin filing suits to declare Robert Byrd incompetent to hold public office…………
The ninth level of crazyThere are varying degrees of batshit crazy, but this kind of thing is absolutely untethered to any grounding in reality. Deluded and crazy. Can’t this moron be held accountable somehow for his frivolous filings? What an abject waste of the court’s time. He should be punished for bringing this nonsense into court at all.
And “Democrat” National Committee is so unbelievably juvenile! A new hall of fame-worthy effort in the pantheon of right wing fanatics.
Curiouser and curiouserSo Obama is a Brit, not a Kenyan? I want to see a debate between this bonehead and Orly Taitz. It would have to be a source of great merriment, like the debate I once saw between the president of the Flat Earth Society and a man who claimed the earth is on the inside of a hollow sphere.
Where were these halfwits when John McCain, who was born in Panama, was running too? Why do I think if he’d been elected we’d never have heard a peep out of them?
Filing suits against a Catholic POTUS might be dangerous…given that one of the most highly-regarded US Presidents of the last century, JFK, was Catholic.
I suspectthat the British thing came from Kenya being a British colony when Obama was born. It didn’t become independent until 1964 I think. I wonder if Pidgeon is also willing to call the Founding Fathers British citizens and not Americans?
OyeNow I feel better.
Still, this PIDGEON is the same whacko who distorted my blog and took lines WAAY out of context, and then went on KIRO TV saying that I urged gays to go “get guns and kill people”, instead of READING how I was advocating self-defense against gay bashers. Fascinatingly, KIRO mentioned my response (that I didn’t say KILL HETS) on their website but NOT on their broadcast.
Not highly-regarded by the birther-oids
Thank you, oh lord,…for giving us such wonderfully exploitable caricatures such as these.
Disbarment isn’t likelyDisbarment is not likely, although if the opposing party really wanted to push the point, not only is the complaint subject to dismissal (FRCP 12 b 6) but also Pidgeon and his counsel could be subject to a motion for sanctions under Rule 11 (frivolous causes of action.) If the opposing party won the motion, Pidgeon and his counsel could find themselves on the hook for the opposing party’s attorney fees and court costs. The crap about the “Democrat National Committee,” actually the Democratic National Committee, comes from the GOOpers referring to the Democratic Party as the “Democrat” Party in order to diss the Democrats. Tom DeLay always referred to the Democratic Party as the “Democrat” Party.
Which still sounds dumb, doesn’t it?Bush did that too, which made him sound even dumber, if that’s even possible. It’s not like we call them the “Republan” party and we don’t live in “Amera”… ;^)
Please, let Mr. Pidgeon keep putting that foot in his mouth!This is a BIG gift to the Approve R-71 campaign. I hope they realize this. They should cut an ad asking why, in these tough times, these wackos want to waste taxpayer dollars on such stupid things as these birther law suits AND misusing the ballot box to strip people of their civil rights.
PRESIDENT Obama can’t please these idiots no matter whatEven if PRESIDENT (I lover saying that, PRESIDENT) Obama produced his original long-form Certificate Of Live Birth, with a raised state seal and his newborn inked footprint on the back, the birthers/racist/paranoid nut jobs would then claim the CIA or some other nefarious group (The Homosexualist?) manufactured it.
Dena
P.S. I wonder how many of these birthers can come with anything other than a certified copy of their BC. If they can’t come up with the original, they need to STFU.
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Instant Messenger PIDGEON?I wonder if his family changed the spelling of their name to avoid having messages tied to their ankles?
Anyhoodle, I’m a-might confused by all the Obama aliases. Does he mean to insinuate that Obama goes by Nancy Pelosi as well? Kiddin’. But he did a great job in making Obama sound like some Bond villain. If only it were that interesting.