The ‘birther’ story claims a major victim
From the folks at McClatchy and the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer:
COLUMBUS, Ga. — U.S. Army Maj. Stefan Frederick Cook is seeking a federal court order to stall and eventually prevent an upcoming deployment to Afghanistan.
In the 20-page document — filed July 8 with the United States District Court, Middle District of Georgia — Cook’s California-based attorney, Orly Taitz, asks the court to consider granting his client’s request based upon Cook’s belief that President Barack Obama is not a natural-born citizen of the United States and is therefore ineligible to serve as commander-in-chief of U.S Armed Forces.
The major has achieved his first goal. He will not be deployed to Afghanistan. The Army would not put a man of such poor judgment in a command position and ask others to follow him, particularly in a war zone. The military doesn’t look kindly upon such shenanigans when perpetrated by a lowly enlisted person; when the nut in question has risen to the rank of major, the person becomes an embarrassment to the service.
In fact, the major’s deployment orders have already been revoked, according to his lawyer. “We won! We won before we even arrived,” Taitz told World Net Daily, the fringe site driving this story. “It means that the military has nothing to show for Obama. It means that the military has directly responded by saying Obama is illegitimate – and they cannot fight it. Therefore, they are revoking the order!”
As you can see, the lunacy compounds itself.
Taitz, a dentist with a correspondence-school law degree, has a plea up on her website recruiting members of the military to join her cause. And the hapless Major Cook may not be the first to fall in. Back in February, Lt. Scott Easterling allegedly joined Taitz, proclaiming that “until Mr. Obama releases a ‘vault copy’ of his original birth certificate for public review, I will consider him neither my Commander in Chief nor my President, but rather, a usurper to the Office — an impostor.”
At the time, Easterling was supposedly on active duty in Iraq. A story at military.com quoted a Washington attorney, Matthew Tully, regarding possible consequences for Easterling:
“If true, however, Easterling, as an Army officer, “is subject to … [provisions] against using contemptuous language toward the president.” There were such incidents in the 1990s, he said, when service members were disciplined for comments made against President Clinton. In one case brought under the provisions of Article 88 of the UCMJ a major general was forced to retire for comments he made, Tully said.
Easterling also could be charged with conduct unbecoming an officer, he said.”
My email is flooded daily with messages from these people, begging in the name of all that is Christian and American for help in removing “the usurper” from his ill-gotten office. The theme repeated in overwrought language is that the country cannot survive a full term with Obama in office.
There’s something strange, almost fascinating about how perfectly this storyline fills a psychological need among some to deny Obama’s legitimacy. But there’s also something dangerous about it. James von Brunn, the white supremacist madman who attacked the Holocaust Museum, was a believer in the usurper theory. Major Cook has thrown away his military career and will probably serve time in a military prison as punishment for being sucked into the madness. Taitz is trodding on dangerous ground as well by soliciting active-duty personnel into mutiny.
And the way these things work, any actions taken against Taitz, Cook and others will of course be taken as evidence that the conspiracy exists and must be exposed or overcome.
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Gandalf, the White! (!)
July 15th, 2009
8:24 am
First!
George American
July 15th, 2009
8:27 am
This is just the beginning of our brave soldiers standing up to the illegitimate “commander n’ chief”. Obama is wildly wrong to run the military and thank the real God that some brave Americans have the guts to stand up in the face of tranny. America cannot survive and become the socialist Obamanation.
The truth about Obama will come out and the truth will set the real America free again.
I Report :-) You Whine :-(
July 15th, 2009
8:28 am
Yeah, they took the birth certificate issue back of the table.
They don’t have a leg to stand on, apparently.
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Moreover, the conservative Republican vote was down in the last election because these voters were so disaffected by the moderate liberal Republican standard bearer John McCain. But these folks are going to be ultramotivated to vote next year, and probably contribute and volunteer as well, because of the prevailing Democrat ultraleftism that so alienates them. At the same time, Obama inspired a maximum left-wing vote last year. But a lot of those voters are going to be unmotivated next year when they realize after two years that Obama did not show up to pay their house and car payments, or arrive at their door to deliver new kitchen appliances and cabinets at taxpayer expense.-AmSpec
Dhimmi Carter, part duh.
Gandalf, the White! (!)
July 15th, 2009
8:28 am
Jay, sounds like the Military might be hiding something…Why not deploy this guy? He’s a dentist. He won’t hurt soldiers intentionally. Maybe he’s on to something? Just sayin’ All they would need to do to win this would be to produce documents proving Obama a natural born citizen. Why would he allow this to go on? Why can’t Barry just produce the docs? Maybe the dont’ exist? Not sure, but the militay caving like that doesn’t sound right to me…
Doggone/GA
July 15th, 2009
8:28 am
“Taitz is trodding on dangerous ground as well by soliciting active-duty personnel into mutiny”
Jay! Now REALLY! It’s “treading” in this instance, not “trodding”
First!
July 15th, 2009
8:29 am
Congratulations. You must be really proud.
We’re you First! on “Idol Chat” too?
Normal
July 15th, 2009
8:29 am
This is not the military I served in…You went ehere you were told and did what you were told. The commander In Chief was too far up the food chain to even consider…It was the Chief petty Officers I worried about. It sounds more like trying anything to avoid Afganistan. That would be dereliction of duty. Just sayin’.
By the way, wasn’t there some question about McCains right to be President because he was born overseas as a military dependent?
Gandalf, the White! (!)
July 15th, 2009
8:29 am
I thought the double post glitch was long gone…
Gandalf, the White! (!)
July 15th, 2009
8:32 am
First!
July 15th, 2009
8:29 am
Congratulations. You must be really proud.
We’re you First! on “Idol Chat” too?
TANKS! I B PROUD! WHY DON’T YOU TURN YOU PC OFF AND GO AWAY? TANKS AGAIN!!
Gale
July 15th, 2009
8:33 am
I figure the FBI was satisfied. Personally, I consider him just as much an American as any anchor baby of an illegal alien in this country. I am more disturbed by his dual citizenship. It doesn’t seem right to me for the President to have dual citizenship.
Mrs. Godzilla
July 15th, 2009
8:33 am
I predict deployment to Leavenworth…..
That’s a new twist on stop loss ain’t it?
Mrs. Godzilla
July 15th, 2009
8:36 am
Gale
Better fact check yourself…..
http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/does_barack_obama_have_kenyan_citizenship.html
Gandalf, the White! (!)
July 15th, 2009
8:37 am
MRS. G, a deployment would be assignment, you mean a courts marshall followed by a sentence to Leavenworth? What do you suggest for calling the POTUS a fraud? Life? Or even death by firing squad? This happened a lot under Stalin, Hitler, and Mao.
First!
July 15th, 2009
8:37 am
Please join the double post glitch!…
FinnMcCool
July 15th, 2009
8:37 am
Imprisonment and then a dishonerable discharge.
That should do it.
Joey
July 15th, 2009
8:39 am
That we have people in all walks of life and all political leanings who are whacked-out is a given.
Evidence, perhaps proof, that some of them are not sane is that they would email Jay Bookman requesting his help to oust a Democrat President.
Gale
July 15th, 2009
8:40 am
Thank you, Mrs Godzilla. I feel better.
Brad Steel
July 15th, 2009
8:40 am
Bravo for Taitz. Certainly everyone must agree that this country needs more brave lawyer-dentist:
“The tooth will set you free!”
- Leon Spinks
Doggone/GA
July 15th, 2009
8:40 am
“I am more disturbed by his dual citizenship”
What “dual” citizenship? America and Hawaii?
FinnMcCool
July 15th, 2009
8:40 am
Gandalph, the soldier isn’t the dentist.
The dentist is the person with the law degree.
Normal
July 15th, 2009
8:41 am
Gandalf, Good Morning! As you get older, you repeat yourself alot…just sayin’…just sayin’
Mrs. Godzilla
July 15th, 2009
8:43 am
Gandalf
Firing squad? Na….Too messy.
Punishment for insubordination or whatever the brass can slap on him…hell yes.
Why do you support dishonorable behavior in the military?
That happened alot under Stalin, Hitler and Mao.
Brad Steel
July 15th, 2009
8:44 am
It’s amazing how many rubes believe the dual-citizenship and birth certificate lies disseminated by the wingnut fringe. Shameful gullibility.
bob
July 15th, 2009
8:44 am
He did go to Europe and claim to be a citizen of the world, whatever that was supposed to mean. I think it meant he put the world ahead of the U. S.
Normal
July 15th, 2009
8:44 am
Brad Steel: “The tooth will set you free!”
- Leon Spinks
That was good…Alabama Lawyer?
Redneck Convert
July 15th, 2009
8:45 am
Well, we might of lost the election but we can make this Obama so miserable that maybe he’ll step down and let a Real American like Sarah take his place. Anyhow, I say let’s just keep raising cain the way we done since he took office. It can’t hurt nothing. We’re out in the wilderness anyhow, so what worse could happen to us? Maybe we can stop paying taxes too because this Obama ain’t our real President and they got no right to take our money. If we all done it they couldn’t put us all in jail.
We need to give the Medal of Honor to this major. I know there’s some people that will claim he’s just a big coward for not wanting to go fight the Towelheads, but they’re just a bunch of crybaby libruls.
Anyhow, I know there are some people that will claim My President wasn’t really the commander in chief on account of he was elected by the Supreme Court not the people. But they’re wrong. My President had a birth certificate showing he was born right here in the U.S. of A. This major is Right. We don’t need no foreigner that wasn’t even born here in the White House. If he was born here he would be able to show his birth certificate. He ain’t got none. I bet if you went to Africa you would find one for him. Probly in some tribal village. Now I ain’t got a birth certificate on account of I was born at home and you didn’t get one back then but I could get a whole bunch of people together that would say they remember my Mama having me. That’s more than this Obama could do.
With this fat librul woman about to get on the Supreme Court we need to do all we can to put Conservatives back in power. Seems to me this major took the first step. Too bad they’re liable to court martial him and kick him out.
Have a good day everybody.
FinnMcCool
July 15th, 2009
8:46 am
I Report, thanks for that post. I didn’t know the American Spectator was that demeaning to anyone who doesn’t earn as much as their writers do (is the word for that classist?.)
You saved me any time I might spend perusing that site.
You got anything good from the Heritage Foundation today?
Trust me
July 15th, 2009
8:46 am
Like we need even more proof regarding Georgia’s education system. Then again, maybe it’s something in the water. After all, Columbus’s water comes out of the river after passing through Lake Lanier and that can’t be good. I think there’s also a nuclear power plant down in that area and that may have also afflicted this poor fellow. Besides, it’s not like the good old days of draft dodging when you had to come up with stuff like bum knees and bad tickers and forged birth certificates to show that you were too young to go to war.
First!
July 15th, 2009
8:46 am
bob: “I think it meant he put the world ahead of the U. S.”
Of course you would, hater. But no one really cares what you think.
Mrs. Godzilla
July 15th, 2009
8:47 am
A little related reading:
Neo-Nazis are in the Army now
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/06/15/neo_nazis_army/index1.html
Personally, I’d rather have a homosexual Arab language expert than
a skin head in the army any day.
josef nix
July 15th, 2009
8:52 am
Brad Steel: “The tooth will set you free!”
- Leon Spinks
G-d! I wish I’d said that! That’s TOO good!
NORMAL–vis a vis McCain, yep the question did come up. The Canal Zone at the time was incorporated US Territory.
Back in the 1960s when Romney the Elder was running the question was raised. He was born in Mexico of US parents and in that case, there really was a question. It never reached the courts because he didn’t get far enough in the primaries,
JRH
July 15th, 2009
8:53 am
Hit the nail on the head. Cook is flirting with “dereliction of duty” and deserves what he may get. Have we really gotten to the point that President Obama is so despised by this racist cult, that they cannot even be civil. Seem to recall that the past administration did lots of damage to our country’s presitge and integrity by blatantly taking an international course of my way or no way. At the same time, allowing anything goes for civilian contractors and business.
Obama does not have to produce a birth certificate, that issue was over a longtime ago. There is no conspiracy, there is no illegitamcy.It does not even make for good discussion.
FinnMcCool
July 15th, 2009
8:53 am
The bill would levy a surtax starting at 1 percent on individuals earning more than $280,000, rising to 5.4 percent for those earning $1 million a year. Businesses would have to pay a tax of 8 percent of their payroll if they do not offer coverage, with an exemption for businesses with payrolls less than $250,000.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/14/MNUM18OG90.DTL
I believe that $280,000 translates to $450,000 for couples. So, if you’re married and your wife doesn’t work and you make less that $450,000 you don’t pay.
Sounds good to me.
Trust me
July 15th, 2009
8:55 am
Personally, I’d rather have a homosexual Arab language expert than
a skin head in the army any day.
Put them (the skinheads) on the front line in Afghanistan and let’s see how they do. And, put this major and and any other military birthers over there as their commanding officers. Let them choose their own career path — stand and fight, switch sides, run away…Or, maybe they’ll come up with a more creative option all on their own.
USinUK
July 15th, 2009
8:55 am
the question is – how did a nutjob such as Cook rise to the level of Maj in the first place???
(shades of Major Major)
FinnMcCool
July 15th, 2009
8:55 am
The good side of all this is that it offers us the opportunity to cull out the supremacists and other idiots from the military. This is just as good as stepping forward and raising your hand.
Normal
July 15th, 2009
8:56 am
Good Morning Josef! I thought I had heard that. Thanks for the info.
@@
July 15th, 2009
8:56 am
Didn’t this whole birth certificate thing start off with a lawsuit filed by Hillary supporter, Philip Berg? It all looks “Orly” to me. J/K.
Were they able to trace who offered this comment on her site:
“Did you know that if you tried your citizens’ arrest bullsh*t and tried to forcibly remove the president, I and millions of others would shoot you on spot and burn your body for the world to see???????? YOU LITTLE F#*K.”
Reads like it was an Obama supporter, don’t it?
Mrs. Godzilla
July 15th, 2009
8:57 am
Gale
Thanks for the thanks, but can I ask a question(s)?
Why would you believe such a silly thing? Where did you hear it? Why would you not have checked it out yourself? You are computer literate enough to appear on the blog, certainly you could have googled for the correct info?
I have a dear friend of many years who still gets most of his political
news and views from unattributed, unsigned emails. He forwards them to me and says, “well, what about THIS????” and I send him back the homework he should have done himself.
Sent me one recently that just HAD to be true, because it contained a link to snopes.com. So I checked it out and DAMN if snopes debunked the email. Somebody thinks Americans are so stupid, that they will attach a link making the assumption that the receiver won’t bother to actually check it out.
Ya’ gotta’ fight to get the truth these days and YOU Gale, can be part of the solution rather than part of the problem!
FrankLeeDarling
July 15th, 2009
8:57 am
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthcertificate.asp
throw the book at the guy and make a harsh example of him.
the military I grew up in would never tolerate this kind of crap.
I just shows what the military has to take nowdays.
DB, Gwinnettian
July 15th, 2009
8:58 am
The military doesn’t look kindly upon such shenanigans when perpetrated by a lowly enlisted person; when the nut in question has risen to the rank of major, the person becomes an embarrassment to the service.
Nicely turned phrase, Jay.
Also, it’s your opinion and it’s very true.
meanwhile, Finn axed:
You got anything good from the Heritage Foundation today?
Or the WSJ opinion page, which is essentially the same thing.
DB, Gwinnettian
July 15th, 2009
8:59 am
Jay! Now REALLY! It’s “treading” in this instance, not “trodding”
“Hath trod” mighta worked.
jt
July 15th, 2009
9:03 am
Birthers VS Warmers
Sigh.
Bosch
July 15th, 2009
9:03 am
This has shades of Klinger from MASH to me. Next we’ll see enlisted men dressing up as women claiming mental illness. I guess eight years ago, fighten them Mooslims and killin us some A-rabs as we beat our chests seemed like a good idea, now people are stooping to obviously insane ways to get out of fulfilling an obligation they volunteered for. Why? Because even they know such a thing is futile.
Brad Steel
July 15th, 2009
9:04 am
Normal queries: “Alabama Lawyer?”
Leon Spinks – former world heavyweight champion boxer, philosopher, and homeless guy
Gale
July 15th, 2009
9:06 am
Mrs G, I remember hearing the dual citizenship issue in the campaign. Because no one else seems at all bothered by it, I kicked it to the curb. Just because something doesn’t seem right to me does not make the issue worthy of investigation. I don’t really believe everything I read. Most of what appears on the internet is suspect. Sometimes I even look stuff up without being prompted. However, I don’t mind in the least if someone corrects me. Actually, I prefer it to continuing along my misled way.
Bosch
July 15th, 2009
9:07 am
jt,
You forgot prompters. Double sigh.
Unemployment > 10% in Georgia
July 15th, 2009
9:08 am
Looks like those “green shoots” would be more aptly described as “brown shutes”.
Different imagery, but more appropriate.
TnGelding
July 15th, 2009
9:08 am
I Report
You Whine 
July 15th, 2009
8:28 am
The AmSpec paragraph is silly and not representative of what people expected or want from Obama.
On topic, I wouldn’t attempt to assign a motive to the challenge or challenge the major’s right to make it. It seems like a simple request; present a birth certificate. We need to establish a screening commission for presidential candidates, or as Newt has suggested, remove the CinC assignment from their duties. It makes no sense to have someone serve in that role that would be rejected by the military if they tried to enlist. There shiould be minimum qualifications for the job and applications should be verified.
TnGelding
July 15th, 2009
9:09 am
Unemployment > 10% in Georgia
July 15th, 2009
9:08 am
Rejoice! Misery loves company.