October 6, 2009
Updated birth certificate posts/videos/lawsuits
Wonders never cease.
The Washington Post did a write up on Orly Taitz.
One wonders why and who okayed it.
LIZA MUNDY sounds reasonable at first and then her bias is exposed. Though she has been the most factual – correctly naming the digital image of that COLB and saying that the staff provided an “official record showing barry was born in Hawaii” instead of birth certificate. But Hawaii has never officially vouched for that COLB – so it cannot be referred to as an official record. And she describes it as a “document” when all it is is a digital image. And that Dr Fukino viewed the “underlying vital records” when again the two have not been linked together.
Ask yourself why the man of transparency would “ignore the controversy”? Why would anyone ignore the controversy unless they couldn’t put an end to it?
“That’s the most ridiculous argument that I’ve ever heard,” [Taitz] says of Land’s comment that Obama’s political opponents had ample opportunity to challenge his birth record. “Nobody has seen proper documents. Period.”
Another breathtaking statement, or rather misstatement. After initially trying to ignore the controversy, Obama’s staff has indeed provided an official record showing that the president was born in Hawaii. The document is a computer-generated official certification of live birth attesting to the fact that Barack Hussein Obama II was born on Aug. 4, 1961, in Honolulu. The director of Hawaii’s Department of Health also has stated, rather wearily, that she has viewed the underlying vital records and that they are valid.
For it to be “official” it has to be attested to as such by an official. It hasn’t been.
And then comes the word “myth”, which one cannot use until barry’s actual physical birthplace is known absolutely. And then the necessary correlation that if someone questions – they are automatically adversaries.
But never mind! The myth of ineligibility has embedded itself in the consciousness of determined adversaries, chief among them Taitz, who in her allegation-filled but congenial interview explains why she wants Obama to surrender the vital records that underlie the computer-generated document. She has developed a scenario whereby Obama’s American mother gave birth in Kenya, his father’s native country, then persuaded bureaucrats to falsify his records and ease him back into this country. She also conjectures that he may be a citizen of Indonesia, where Obama lived for a time after his mother remarried.
And here’s where the post lost all credibility. She quotes HEIDI BEIRICH, who, although she is director of research at the Southern Poverty Law Center, knows nothing about barry or the birth certificate issue, as documented in this post. Her job is to track extremist groups and she has no problem using derogatory speech: “Right wing nutjobs are bizarre human beings”.
At a minimum, organizations who monitor extremist groups say that the fantasy of Obama’s ineligibility is now a central tenet. “The birther conspiracy itself is now totally widespread among military and paramilitary [militia] groups and new, what we would call quote-unquote ‘patriot’ groups, which are groups that are virulently anti-government,” says Heidi Beirich, director of research at the Southern Poverty Law Center. Beirich says that a popular conspiracy theory among such groups is that the government is going to round up citizens and put them in camps operated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
