No Joy in Mudville for Orly Taitz

For those who are not familiar with Orly Taitz, Queen of the Birthers, click here. For those who already know about this poor excuse for a lawyer, read on.

Taitz recently filed another lawsuit, this one in Austin, Texas, on behalf of a flight surgeon named Connie Rhodes who is a Captain in the US army. Rhodes was summoned to active duty in Iraq and was to report to Fort Benning in Georgia on September 5. It seems that Rhodes does not want to go to Iraq, or, as Taitz claims, does not want to be sent to Iraq under the command of an “illegitimate president.”

Strike 1: Swing and a Miss

Taitz filed a similar lawsuit in Georgia on behalf of Stefan Cook, a soldier who did not want to comply with his orders to deploy to Afghanistan. The military rescinded his orders, the case was dismissed, and Cook subsequently lost his security clearance and his civilian job with a defense contractor. Taitz then filed a suit in Florida on Cook’s behalf demanding his reinstatement, but that suit was dismissed, as well, by Judge Richard Lazzara, who called it frivolous.

Strike 2: California Dreamin’

It seems that Taitz’s online fundraising at her Website has not been profitable enough for her to hire a clerk or someone who can, at a minimum, ensure that her documents are correct. Partly as a consequence of Taitz’s sloppiness, a California judge threw out her lawsuit asking for summary judgment on the basis of a photograph of a forged Kenyan birth certificate.

The judge’s order stated that Taitz’s motion was improperly filed because it was in the wrong format, it lacked proper notice, she failed to identify her Calif. State Bar No., and the description of the motion conflicts or is different from that which counsel entered on the Court’s e-docket.

Strike 3: Georgia on My Mind

The sloppy mistakes in the Rhodes filing, including Taitz’s failure to sign the document, resulted in it being dismissed within an hour–a record knockdown for Taitz. Taitz appears to have simply updated the document she used to file for Cook in Georgia. In doing so, she made some pretty egregious errors. To start with, she left the original heading of “United States District Court, Middle District of Georgia, Columbus Division.” She also frequently refers to Rhodes as “he” or “him.” In one line, Taitz writes, “he then and there did depose herself.” Is Rhodes a transsexual? The filing does not make that clear. She also kept this in: “He cannot abide the notion that he might possibly be implementing by force the policy of a government whose executive power and commander-in-chief may have assumed power unlawfully.” “He” is a “she.” How is she going to implement force? With a scalpel?

Some of the errors could have been caught by an entry-level proofreader, such as “August 30th till September 4t”; missing commas in city/state combinations like “Austin TX” and “Columbus GA” (but she does include the comma in “Fort Campbell, KY”); and improperly presented dates like “September 17th 2010” (versus September 17, 2010); the word “min8ute“; the “Chech” Republic; inconsistent capitalization of “Commander-in-Chief” (versus “commander-in-chief”); and “money damages” instead of “monetary damages.”

The lawsuit makes several absurd and verifiably false claims:

The general opinion in the rest of the world is that Barack Hussein Obama has, in essence, slipped through the guardrails to become president. 

Really? Which rest of the world does she mean and how does this constitute evidence? Polls show that is not even the general consensus of most Americans, except perhaps republicans in the south.

The United States and her military…are the targets of derision and ridicule abroad.

Actually, this has improved since President Obama took office. It was President Bush who made the United States and the military a target of derision and ridicule.

Plaintiff..demands proof..of the Barack Hussein Obama’s constitutional legitimacy.

For reasons unclear, Taitz continually refers to the president as “the Barack Hussein Obama,” as though he is an object rather than a person.

…His [sic] military adventures abroad will…be classified as slave armies engaged in private, piratical warfare.

By “his,” Taitz is referring to Rhodes. Slave armies? The US military is now a “slave army”?

According to a recent America on Line poll, vast majority of US population, 85% of US citizens believe that Barack Hussein Obama was never vetted.

What type of lawyer considers an online poll as evidential? As an experiment, I went to AOL and took an online poll. I was not asked to show my long-form birth certificate prior to clicking on this poll. In addition, there were only 11,000 responses–suggesting that the percentage of Americans answering these polls does not even come close to approaching 85%. Considering more than 50% of Americans voted for President Obama and still give him high marks, it seems unlikely they are among the supposed 85% who feel he “has not been vetted properly.”  Besides, according to the moronic World Net Daily (which has been pushing the birther meme since before Obama was elected), as of July 25, 2009, only “81% of 66,000 people” said to have taken the poll thought Obama should “show his birth certificate.” You can vote in the poll here. Feel free to use a proxy server and vote as often as you like.  

Over 30 states have either passed or considered the bills of Sovereignty lately, which can be a step towards secession.

Some of those supporting such legislation would disagree: ”Some authors of sovereignty resolutions insist it is slander to paint them as secessionists.  ‘That’s ludicrous. That’s not what we’re trying to do,’ said Rep. Manny Steele, the Republican whip of South Dakota’s House. Taitz invokes those “true American patriots” (I call them traitors) Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee as somehow justifying  the action, because they were “forced to follow the central government or their consciences.”

She believes the legitimacy of the president needs to be established before the health care system, as we know it, is completely dismantled and is replaced with rationed health care, where decisions will be made by governmental bureaucrats instead of doctors, treating the patients.

What exactly does the plaintiff’s fear of healthcare reform have to do with the case? It has no bearing on the president’s legitimacy or whether she should be sent to Iraq on September 5.

Taitz attaches the photocopyof the photograph of the Kenyan birth certificate that has been wholly discredited. She also attaches a list that a researcher compiled of names the President has allegedly gone under in his lifetime. According to the filing (this is my favorite part), Barack has gone under the names:

Barbara, Baraq, Barake, Barak, Barak Quincy, Barrack, Barrok, Barry M, Batock, Benedicto, Bertrand H, Bertrand H Obang, Bertrand O, Betty, Billy, Binlad Sr, Bob, Borack, Borak, Brack, Brianna, Burak

According to this list, Obama has lived as a man and a woman. He has claimed to be a wide range of ages and has lived in innumerable states. Basically, Taitz added anyone with the last name Obama to the list or with a first name starting with the letter ‘B’. A quick “people” search at yellowpages.com, revealed that Obama is currently living in Philadelphia, New York, and Texas. He is living under assumed names in Illinois and Washington, D.C.

When the case was thrown out, the court said it was not likely to succeed on its merits. The court derided the “proof” as “opinion,” and “speculation,” and no “fact.”

Foul Ball

Taitz claims that if Obama would just show his birth certificate, proving that he is “legitimate,” this would all go away. But one line in her filing makes it clear that this would resolve nothing:

…showing that he is a Natural Born Citizen, meaning one born in the country to two US citizen parents.

No birth certificate Obama could produce would ever demonstrate this, because he readily acknowledges that his father was not a citizen of the United States. In other words, this is all a smokesscreen. Taitz is demanding the president show something that he readily admits will not show what she insists it must show. Not only that, but Taitz’s reading of the law is incorrect; there is nothing in the Constitution that defines natural born citizen as someone born on US soil to two US citizens.

If At First You Can’t Succeed…

But Taitz is not done! She has since filed another birth certificate that she claims is the president’s “true” Kenyan birth certificate:

As was also the case with the first forged birth certificate…this new document is a pretty obvious hoax. It’s so clearly fake, in fact, that Jerome Corsi of World Net Daily — one of the chief promoters of the Birthers and their myths — has already debunked it.  Taitz apparently obtained it from one Lucas Smith, who’d previously made several aborted attempts to sell it on eBay. Corsi claims that Smith has “a lengthy criminal record” and once “attempt[ed] to sell his kidney to a man in need of an organ transplant.”

In addition to the obvious errors pointed out by others like Jerome Corsi at World Net Daily (hardly what one would call a credible source, however), I would like to add another.  The British Empire used the Imperial system of measurement at the time of Obama’s birth, and the Imperial inch was equal to the inch in the US customary measurement system. The alleged height of newborn Obama is listed at 18″ on this forged certificate. This would make Obama one short baby–2″ shorter than the average male birth height of 20″.

Science has shown that birth height strongly correlates to adult height.  Babies <47 cm (18.5″) at birth attain a mean adult height of 175.2 cm (5′9″). Babies >56 cm (22″) at birth, attain a mean adult height of 184.3 cm (approximately 6′-1/2″).  Obama is listed as 6′ 1-1/2″–far greater in height than one would expect a very short 18″ baby to attain. An 18″ baby who is 7 lb 1 oz would be quite fat, considering that the average weight for a 20″ newborn in the US is 7 lb 6 oz.

Taitz also is not giving up on the Rhodes case, though if I were Rhodes, I would give up on Taitz. Taitz has refiled the Rhodes case in Georgia. She also managed to clear the hurdle of filing a proper document in California to the point where US Attorneys had to file a Motion to Dismiss. Click here to see Taitz’s case taken down.

It seems long past due for Taitz to get disbarred for continuing to file knowingly false evidence and waste the court’s time with frivolous, improperly filed lawsuits. A petition to disbar Taitz has been submitted to the State Bar of California; it remains to be seen what will happen with it.

2 Responses to “No Joy in Mudville for Orly Taitz”

1. Stanislaw says:

   September 8, 2009 at 5:32 pm

   Excellent takedown of this moonbat shyster. She’s an embarrassment to the legal profession, but apparently she’s the best that the birthers can do right now. It would be funny if it weren’t so sad.
2. ChrisM says:

   September 8, 2009 at 6:50 pm

   Thanks! I have been trying to find out if she is a naturalized citizen or not. I think that would be the greatest of ironies if someone who is not even a citizen were seeking to get the president ousted. I don’t know why she has not been disbarred already.