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Birther Queen Slapped With $20,000 Sanction
Birther leader Orly Taitz has been fined for "wasting the judicial resources" of the Middle District of Georgia with her "frivolous and sanctionable conduct."
Taitz filed a lawsuit demanding that President Obama prove his citizenship before deploying an Army captain to Iraq and Afghanistan. However, the soldier herself has disavowed her lawyer and threatened to file a bar complaint against Taitz.
Judge Clay Land wrote that Taitz's behavior in the case "borders on delusional" and "demonstrates bad faith."
| Quote: | | Regrettably, the conduct of counsel Orly Taitz has crossed these lines, and Ms. Taitz must be sanctioned for her misconduct. After a full review of the sanctionable conduct, counsel's conduct leading up to that conduct, and counsel's response to the Court's show cause order, the Court finds that a monetary penalty of $20,000.00 shall be imposed upon counsel Orly Taitz as punishment for her misconduct, as a deterrent to prevent future misconduct, and to protect the integrity of the Court. Payment shall be made to the United States, through the Middle District of Georgia Clerk's Office, within thirty days of today's Order. If counsel fails to pay the sanction due, the U.S. Attorney will be authorized to commence collection proceedings. |
In an interview with Talking Points Memo, Taitz said she had no intention of paying the fine. "Are you kidding? Of course not," she said. "This is a form of intimidation."
The full document:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/20996403/Gov-uscourts-gamd-77605-28-0
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Ann Coulter says she's a crank. She must be a crank. Right Fly?
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THE CURE
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That's the only way you're going to stop some of the nonsense.
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| Quote: | Judge Land, appointed in 2001 by President George W. Bush had already dismissed the lawsuit, but Taitz continued filing motions. He said he fined her $20,000 "as a deterrent to prevent future misconduct and to protect the integrity of the court."
"The absolute absence of any legitimate legal argument, combined with the political diatribe in her motions, demonstrates that Ms. Taitz's purpose is to advance a political agenda and not to pursue a ligitimate legal cause of action. "Land wrote.
Jay Bookman
Birthers aren’t conservative, they’re just nutty
9:27 am September 26, 2009, by Jay
It’s a cool, cloudy Saturday, with more rain in the forecast for the ATL, so let’s throw out a little more playful topic.
Can we all agree, or mostly agree, that the full-blown birthers are nuts?
They aren’t conservative, they aren’t Republican, and they don’t tell us anything about conservatives or Republicans in general. They’re just nuts, but they’re nuts in a very special, entertaining and almost endearing way. Fly, there's your chance to jump off the birther train and get back in the Republican conservative mainstream, I understand, we all get carried away from time to time. 
Here, for example, are excerpts from a late-night “birthermercial” airing on a few stations around the country, compiled by Talking Points Memo:
Once we get consensus that these folks are a little crazy – once conservatives no longer have to worry about being tarnished by the craziness — maybe liberals and conservatives can sit back and enjoy the circus together. Because really, the mental contortions and conspiracy theories needed to hold the whole birther thing together can be a wonder to behold.
For example, you may recall that last summer, BirtherWorld was all atwitter at the discovery of a Kenyan birth certificate in the name of one Barack Hussein Obama. The news was greeted with hallelujahs. Finally, that Rat Usurper SIAP (”Suspected Illegal Alien President” for you uninitiated) was exposed!! Off with his head!! Redemption!!
All of a sudden, other dots began to be connected. For example, why was Hillary Clinton traveling to Kenya? Because she had been sent on a secret mission to bottle up the truth about the Kenyan birth certificate, that why!!
Sadly for the birthers, that Kenyan birth certificate was exposed as a transparent forgery within 48 hours. Such humiliation, such disappointment. How could the birther cause ever recover?
Well, fear not, for human imagination will always provide.
You see, according to “The Right Perspective,” the fake document “may have been leaked to lawyer Orly Taitz by a special Obama Administration team, who created the document to discredit the so-called “Birther” movement.”
That’s right, it wasn’t the birthers’ fault after all! In fact, Obama is so worried about the birthers that he dispatched a special team to discredit them!! And according the The Right Perspective, they even have proof for that assertion, in the form of “an overlooked Internet posting from the conspiracy website Repubx.”
In a post dated April 19, months before the discovery of the Kenyan birth certificate, someone at RepubX reported the following:
“Don’t know about 9/11 conspiracy, but do know from DC source that an Administration team is working on perfecting a forgery of the long-form birth certificate. They plan on presenting it in a a month or so. The source is FBI agent who has drinking buddy from University of Illinois now in the Administration. Its second hand, but the source is supposed to be solid.
They have already prepared the forgery with special paper and ink. The document was printed on a fully functional 1960 Heidelberger printing press located at a print museum in Toronto. Access was arranged by a trustee of the museum who is connected to a large Canadian banking/investment firm with major US interests.
The blanks in the forged form were filled in with an old Underwood Manual typewriter bought at an estate sale in Skokie, IL. The raised seal was the easiest piece to fake, since you can by a special order corporate seal from just about any online office supply store.
The only reason they haven’t rolled out the foregery yet is that it is “seasoning” under mild UV light and a back and forth rotation between between a humidifier and a sauna. Get ready….one to two months tops.”
You know, you can’t make stuff like that up. Except that somebody did.
Now, if you want to fall still deeper down the rabbit hole, go to that RepubX site, where you find the following conjecture about the alleged “DC source” quoted above:
“Hopefully his friend in the administration is not the young Federal witness they just found dead who was going to testify in the passport and credit card fraud case. This kinda smacks of the Whitewater investigations where folks who knew something damaging simply ended up dead. If it is I pray we do a better job of connecting crimes to the source than we did with the Clintons. Where’s Clint Eastwood when you need someone to protect a witness?”
Orly Taitz and the birthers, falling down into the rabbit hole
6:03 pm September 16, 2009, by Jay
Today a federal judge down in Columbus dismissed yet another suit by a military officer seeking to duck service in Iraq by claiming that Barack Obama is not a citizen.
Just for grins, I went and read the order. It’s pretty good stuff.
Here’s a taste from the acid pen of Judge Clay Land:
First, Plaintiff’s challenge to her deployment order is frivolous. She has presented no credible evidence and has made no reliable factual allegations to support her unsubstantiated, conclusory allegations and conjecture that President Obama is ineligible to serve as President of the United States. Instead, she uses her Complaint as a platform for spouting political rhetoric, such as her claims that the President is “an illegal usurper, an unlawful pretender, [and] an unqualified imposter.” (Compl. ¶ 21.)
She continues with bare, conclusory allegations that the President is “an alien, possibly even an unnaturalized or even an unadmitted illegal alien . . . without so much as lawful residency in the United States.” (Id. ¶ 26.) Then, implying that the President is either a wandering nomad or a prolific identity fraud crook, she alleges that the President “might have used as many as 149 addresses and 39 social security numbers prior to assuming the office of President.” (Id. ¶ 110 (emphasis added).) Acknowledging the existence of a document that shows the President was born in Hawaii, Plaintiff alleges that the document “cannot be verified as genuine, and should be presumed fraudulent.” (Id. ¶ 113 (emphasis added).)
In further support of her claim, Plaintiff relies upon “the general opinion in the rest of the world” that “Barack Hussein Obama has, in essence, slipped through the guardrails to become President.” (Id. ¶ 128.) Moreover, as though the “general opinion in the rest of the world” were not enough, Plaintiff alleges in her Complaint that according to an “AOL poll 85% of Americans believe that Obama was not vetted, needs to be vetted and his vital records need to be produced.” (Id. ¶ 154.)
Finally, in a remarkable shifting of the traditional legal burden of proof, Plaintiff unashamedly alleges that Defendant has the burden to prove his “natural born” status. (Id. ¶¶ 136-138, 148.) Thus, Plaintiff’s counsel, who champions herself as a defender of liberty and freedom, seeks to use the power of the judiciary to compel a
citizen, albeit the President of the United States, to “prove his innocence” to “charges” that are based upon conjecture and speculation. Any middle school civics student would readily recognize the irony of abandoning fundamental principles upon which our Country was founded in order to purportedly “protect and preserve” those very principles.”
Judge Land tossed the suit as frivolous, granted the defendants (the US Army) court costs and warned wacko birther attorney Orly Taitz that if she brought another such suit into his court she would face legal sanctions.
In an apparent effort to cement her claim to the crown of wacko birther, Taitz told the folks at Talking Points Memo that Judge Land is “a typical puppet of the regime — just like in the Soviet Union” and that “somebody should consider trying [Land] for treason and aiding and abetting this massive fraud known as Barack Hussein Obama.”
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