Obama 'birther' hit with Cal Bar complaint: The Swamp
The Swamp
Chicago Tribune
Posted September 17, 2009 5:51 PM
The Swamp

by Andrew Zajac

A day after telling a political blog that the federal judge who threw out her case was corrupt and might merit a trial for treason, leading Obama birther Orly Taitz was slapped with a California Bar complaint alleging professional misconduct.

Cleveland attorney Subodh Chandra fired off the complaint after reading Taitz's interview with TPM in which she made her accusations against Judge Clay Land, a George W. Bush appointee, and compared herself to Nelson Mandela.

Chandra's complaint asserts that Taitz "violated her duty to maintain the respect due to the courts of justice and judicial officers."

Read Chandra's filing here: Taitz Complaint.pdf

Taitz, of Mission Viejo, Calif, is among the highest profile birthers, a persistent, noisy and thoroughly discredited subculture of conservatives who believe Obama is ineligible to be president by virtue of circumstances connected to his birth.

Among other things, birthers assert, falsely, that Obama can't be a US citizen because his father wasn't. Others question the validity of Obama's Hawaii-issued birth certificate. Numerous suits on the subject have been filed and tossed by a variety of courts.

Taitz represents Army Capt. Connie Rhodes, who wants to disregard a deployment order because, she claims, Obama is not a legitimate president.

Chandra, a former Cleveland law director and a Democratic candidate for state attorney general, said Taitz is damaging the legal profession with her incendiary allegations.

"I'm a member of a self-regulating profession," said Chandra, a Stanford grad who formerly practiced law in the LA area. "Baselessly accusing a judge of treason and corruption undermines the justice system's integrity, as does filing a complaint without any evidence and based solely on discriminatory motives."


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Captain Rhodes should be court martialed for desertion, and disobeying the orders of superior officer.


Instead of wasting time beating up on the "birthers," how about getting Obama to release the real and true records that he has been withholding!

• Original, vault copy birth certificate — Not released — over $1,000,000 spent to conceal — birth certificate — $15.
• Certification of Live Birth — Released – probable counterfeit
• Admitted British/Kenyan citizenship at birth — Admitted
• Hospital of birth --- Three hospitals have some claim --- 2 in Hawaii 1 in Kenya
• Obama/Dunham marriage license — Not released
• Obama/Dunham divorce — Not released by Obama --- released by independent investigators
• Kindergarten records – “lost”
• Soetoro/Dunham marriage license — Not released
• Soetoro adoption records — Not released
• Fransiskus Assisi School School application — not released by Obama --- released by independent investigators
• Punahou School records — Not released
• Soetoro/Dunham divorce – concealed by Obama --- released by independent investigators
• Selective Service Registration — Released – and proven counterfeit
• Occidental College records — Not released
• Passport — Not released --- investigation witness shot dead
• Columbia College records — Not released
• Columbia thesis — “Soviet Nuclear Disarmament” – Not released
• Harvard College records — Not released
• Harvard Law Review articles — None
• Illinois Bar Records — Not released.
• Medical records — Not released
• Illinois State Senate records — None
• Illinois State Senate schedule — “Lost”
• Law practice client list — Not released
• University of Chicago scholarly articles — None


Do it, Republican-Libertarian fringe, continue with your screaming, your moaning, your whining, America needs it right now !! She needs to know exactly what you are offering America, to get her out from under the bus, your Dynamic Duo, the Bush&Cheney fringe, had left her !! I suggest you work harder on your name-calling skills. The present crop of name-calling has come up, way too short !! Also, let's see more arms at your dissenting disruptions of the Town Hall meetings. Elderly citizens love it, when you scare the heck out of them. I will leave your updating of your arsenal of confusion, distortion and lying to your imagination. That way, we are assured that your tactics will never fly higher, nor succeed further, than your ridiculous record to date, indicates. One day, I hope that you will have a first hand experience as to how abysmal our healthcare system. I know, if you do, you will have a change of heart, as to your position, supporting President Obama's initiatives. Now, go out there and show America you can learn from your mistakes and support America's ideals, in stead of trampling on them !!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.


HA HA HA!!!


I can't decide who is more crazy - the Wingnut Birthers or the Wingnut Deathers.
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http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/why-msnbc-allowing-matthews-repeat-deather


I hope these nutjobs keep speaking out because it's only their GOoPer base ([white] Southerners) who takes these birther nuts, like this Oily Tatz whackjob, seriously, but the rest of the country thinks she's fracking nuts.


This birther conspiracy theory is a Republican/Conservative/right wing/White Deep South (the GOP base) racist conspiracy theory. And America needs to be reminded of that at every opportunity availed.



This just shows you how diverged the political conversations have become in this country thanks to right-wing propaganda outlets like Fixed News and the Wingnut AM Hate Radio morons.


Democrats are debating how to tackle health care and whether a public option works best and how best to get costs under control..........Meanwhile, the Republican party has become fixated on the idea that Barack Obama's family faked his birth certificate 47 years ago, knowing he would run for President eventually and need a cover story?!?!


Ha Ha Ha!!! And the Repugs wonder why they can't win elections anymore?!?!



Good for Chandra.
This is the way to check the real fascists; Through logic, and legal means.


Hee, hee, hee. Why do I think this is hilarious?


Actually, another, anonomous complaint was also filed back in May.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/15546236/Taitz-State-Bar-Complaint


One of the main birther arguments is that President Obama in not a “natural born” citizen because his father was not a citizen. This argument makes the claim that to be a natural born citizen; both parents have to be citizens. This claim is patently absurd. It was settled by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) over 100 years ago in the case United States v. Wong Kim Ark (WKA). In this particular case, The Government of the United States (in particular, the custom service) attempted to exclude Mr. Wong Kim Ark from entry in the states after he returned from a trip to China. WKA was born in San Francisco.

As an American, I find many things in the history of the United States of America to be proud of. There are also a great many things that I find reprehensible, indefensible and simply wrong. The Chinese Exclusion Acts and the general policy towards minorities in the past two hundred years is a prime example.

One thing I do find admirable about this country are certain SCOTUS decisions. The WKA, like Brown v. The Board of Education, 50 years later being classic examples of correct, moral and right decisions in the face of entrenched opposition.

Anyway, WKA sued the United states claiming that he was a citizen by right of birth within the United States as per the 14th Amendment. The case wound its way to SCOTUS where in a 6 to 2 decision, WKA was indeed found to be a citizen by right of birth, and by the history of the term, a natural born citizen.

What is particularly interesting is the legal brief presented to argue the side of the Appellant, (the United States). In a typical legal brief, a lawyer will present his best and strongest argument last.

In the case of WKA, the Appellant’s last and supposedly best argument is a particularly loathsome, repellant, and vile racial attack.

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’For the most persuasive reasons we have refused citizenship to Chinese subjects; and yet, as to their offspring, who are just as obnoxious, and to whom the same reasons for exclusion apply with equal force, we are told that we must accept them as fellow-citizens, and that too, because of the mere accident of birth. There certainly should be some honor and dignity in American citizenship that would be sacred from the foul and corrupting taint of a debasing alienage. Are Chinese children born in this country to share with the descendants of the patriots of the American Revolution the exalted qualification of being eligible to the Presidency of the nation, conferred by the Constitution in recognition of the importance and dignity of citizenship by birth? If so, then verily there has been a most degenerate departure from the patriotic ideals of our forefathers; and surely in that case American citizenship is not worth having.”

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I think any sane and moral American would be hard pressed indeed to defend that argument. Some will try, though and that is to our shame.

What is interesting is that two things jump out at you.

First is the fact that the counter argument to the WKA decision readily and freely conceded that the mere fact of birth as an American citizen was sufficient to qualify one for the office of president. When SCOTUS confirmed that WKA was indeed a U.S. citizen by way of birth, it also confirmed that he was also a natural born citizen.

Secondly, for those who say that the birther issue is not about race, simply replace the word “Chinese” with the word “Kenyan” in the above and you will have the entire birther argument in a nutshell.


Posted by: Captain Steve | September 17, 2009 6:17 PM

Wow! I thought maybe Orly was Rush's girlfriend but maybe she belongs to you?


There are good reason for smacking down birthers such as Orly Taitz. Much of the information that birthers want are none of their business as the court has decided.

This obvious includes Obama's "Law practice client list", as Captain Steve seemed as being an adequate request.

Captain Steve comments started "Instead of wasting time beating up on the birthers, ..." Which is a real hoot, like it is obvious that they Captain Steve a birther.


"and by the history of the term, a natural born citizen."

WRONG!

WKA was found to be a citizen, but NOT a NBC.

Might I suggest you get the WHOLE case file and RE-read it this time interpreting the decision correctly.


Captain Steve is onto something. I have seen the "lost" Obama Kindergarten records. They are truly shocking, It is immediately apparent why the massive criminal coverup of these records has taken place. I believe tha american people have a right to know the true facts about their President and his deviant actions in kindergarten.

While in Kindergarten, Barack Hussein Obama, repeatedly colored outside the lines dispite his teacher's instructions not to. Also, and even more disturbing, there are indictation in the documents that Barack Hussien Obama, sometime during his first semester of kindergarten, may have eaten paste.
I think we can all agree that these are very serious charges that demand a fuller investigation, and may form a possible grounds for impeachment and criminal prosecution. Write your Congressman and demand that Congressional investigation begin to determine whether the President truly is a secret outside the lines colorer and paste eater.


Shallowthroat,

You forgot the "stolen milk money" scandal that Obama was involved in. The more you look at his Kindergarten record (Kindergarten??? I believe that is a German word, hey wait a minute, Obama's a Nazi, milk money stealing, socialist, communist, fascist, anti dentite). Sorry for that outburst, I couldn't help it. Now where was I? Oh yeah, Obama steals milk money and only from the white kids, what a racist.


Tim, yes, I was remiss in not mentioning the stolen milk money scandal, which is even worse than we previously thought. I have a witness who will now say that Obama used the stolen milk money only to buy chocolate milk, not good, all american white milk. Chocolate milk. Could the racism be any clearer or more vile? I'm sure chocolate milk is the milk of choice in Kenya .


I became friends with Hussein Obama in the Kindergarten. Our teacher said we would be great Martyrs one day. I'm surprised he doesn't want his records to be released. He was very gifted. He had 47 patches by the time he was 7 years old. We were both in Lil' Terrorist Scouts.


"I'm sure chocolate milk is the milk of choice in Kenya ."

Posted by: Shallowthroat | September 18, 2009 11:24 AM

Oh, you can bank on that. As we sit typing, Obama's secret ninja army of anti-dentite Kenyan thugs is moving, like shadows through our once great country, replacing white milk with anti-American chocolate Kenyan milk---the kind Obama was raised on during his now re-written childhood.

Once all our kids are zombified on anti-American milk, Obama will continue to address them in speeches designed to instill repellent values like self-respect, hard work, and perseverence, thus creating an entire generation of thugs-in-training who will grow up and then take away all our guns.
I only hope that Orly Taitz is strong enough to stop this looming disaster. With all our help, she will be.


Capt Steve, Could you list the section and specific wording of the constitution that requires any one of the items on your lengthy list? Since you can not, you might want to pick something else for you and Glen Beck to to cry about.


So...according to OT, any US soldier is no longer bound by his/her oath of service-the Army and Navy are without legitimacy. How does the chain of command work? Let's see-the Joint Chiefs report to the Secy of Defense, right, and the military reports to them. So...whether you question the legitimacy of Obama or not, how can you question the legitimacy of the Secy of Defense, who was legally appointed by the previous President and serves at the discretion of whomever is President...Obama or Biden or Bush or McCain until removed.

From where I see it, the only possible conclusion is this:

Soldier, get your butt on the airplane.


Captain Steve is Sam Sewell...a mega birfer who runs the site The Steady Drip. A sad little site.

He is a rabid birfer who seems to think that Obama's BC is more important than the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, Sudan, the economy, foreign relations, etc. He is the stereotypical birfer.

I could ponder his many reasons for such beliefs, but, as with the majority of birfers, the main reason starts with the letter "R".


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Posted by: Sally Hill | September 18, 2009 9:03 AM
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Sally,

The entire case if Wong Kim Ark v. United States can be found here: http://supreme.justia.com/us/169/649/case.html
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You are correct in asserting that the Court found that Wong Kim Ark was a “citizen” without passing on the question of whether he was also a “natural-born citizen.” That’s because the latter issue was unnecessary to determine whether Wong Kim Ark had the right to enter the United States. The fact that he was a citizen by any mode meant that he had the right to re-enter the country.
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But that doesn’t end the matter. In reaching this decision, the Court quoted the common law of England as follows:
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“It thus clearly appears that, by the law of England for the last three centuries, beginning before the settlement of this country and continuing to the present day, aliens, while residing in the dominions possessed by the Crown of England, were within the allegiance, the obedience, the faith or loyalty, the protection, the power, the jurisdiction of the English Sovereign, and therefore every child born in England of alien parents was a natural-born subject unless the child of an ambassador or other diplomatic agent of a foreign State or of an alien enemy in hostile occupation of the place where the child was born.
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“III. The same rule was in force in all the English Colonies upon this continent down to the time of the Declaration of Independence, and in the United States afterwards, and continued to prevail under the Constitution as originally established.”
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(Wong Kim Ark v. United States, 169 U.S. 649, 658 (1898).)
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The Court’s reference to the common law is relevant to defining a “natural-born” citizen because the common law gives meaning to provisions of the Constitution. (See United States v. Sanges, 144 U.S. 310, 311 (1892) ["[T]he Constitution . . . is to be read in the light of the common law, from which our system of jurisprudence is derived."); and Smith v. Alabama, 124 U.S. 465, 478 (1888) [same].) Thus, if every child born of alien parents in England was considered a “natural-born subject” unless the child of an ambassador or an enemy in hostile occupation, the inference is irresistible that a the term “natural-born citizen” is a child born in the United States, even to parents who are aliens, unless the parents are foreign ambassadors or alien invaders. (We don’t have “subjects” in the U.S.; there are only citizens or aliens.) The ratio decidendi, or rationale” of Wong Kim Ark leads inexorably to that conclusion.


I am hoping Capt Rhodes does not have to deploy.

No soldier deserves to get medical care from someone who is demonstrably weapons-grade stupid.


• Original, vault copy birth certificate — Not released — over $1,000,000 spent to conceal — birth certificate — $15.

You know, that figure of "$1 million" spent to conceal was the product of an April Fool's letter this year.

It's a hoax figure. It's a hoax claim.

God save us from idiots who claim April Fool's prank letters as evidence against a good man.


This all goes back to Obama's voodoo mamma who has controlled everyone he has ever met by her evil spells...she foresaw his rise to the WH when he was born and has controlled the world through her voodoo spells ever since.


Cap'n Steve and his birthers along with Orly have it all figured out. The world was put in a trance the day he was born to fool us all on his heritage. Included in the conspiracy against the REAL AMERICANS are all the judges no matter who appointed them.


Judge Land just ordered Orly to show why she should not have to pay a $10,000 fine for official misconduct.


Funny but the prestigious international Action for Justice Organization known as AXJ has discovered a hidden 1964 birth certificate filed in Hawaii for the divorce which clearly states Obama was born in Hawaii. Just check the AXJ-Hawaii website. How do you like them apples if everything Orly Taitz has said turns out to be true in the Discovery Hearing on October 5, 2009 in Santa Ana, CA.?


Don’t fall for Obama’s tricks. Obama is ADMITTEDLY NOT Constitutionally legal to hold office. “Obama republished – at his web official site, Fightthesmears.com – only that part of the Factcheck.org analysis which stated that the President was a British citizen at birth. Obama republished this word for word thereby admitting the truth of the following assertion:
“When Barack Obama Jr. was born on Aug. 4,1961, in Honolulu, Kenya was a British colony, still part of the United Kingdom’s dwindling empire. As a Kenyan native, Barack Obama Sr. was a British subject whose citizenship status was governed by The British Nationality Act of 1948. That same act governed the status of Obama Sr.’s children…” There it is, a CONFESSION that came straight from Obama. How much more proof do you folks need before you understand the TRUE situation?! Birthplace is NOT the issue, “natural born Citizen” status is ONLY AVAILABLE if BOTH PARENTS were U.S.Citizens at the time a child is born. THAT IS LAW.


The birthers, the tea baggers, the screamers, and the deathers continued extreme minority presence will become tiresome to mainstream America, if it has not already done so. To all the birthers in La, La Land, it is on you to prove to all of us that your assertion is true, if there are people who were there and support your position then show us the video (everyone has a price), either put up or frankly shut-up. I heard Orly Taitz, is selling a tape (I think it’s called “Money, Lies and Video tape”). She is from Orange County, CA, now I know what the mean when they say “behind the Orange Curtain”, when they talk about Orange County, the captial of Conspiracy Theories. You know Obama has a passport, he travel abroad before he was a Senator, but I guess they were in on it. In my opinion the Republican Party has been taken over the most extreme religious right (people who love to push their beliefs on others while trying to take away the rights of those they just hate) and that’s who they need to extract from their party if they real want to win. Good Luck, because as they said in WACO, “We Ain’t Coming Out”. I heard that she now wants to investigate the “Republican 2009 Summer of Love” list: Assemblyman, Michael D. Duvall (CA), Senator John Ensign (NV), Senator Paul Stanley (TN), Governor Mark Stanford (SC), Board of Ed Chair, and Kristin Maguire AKA Bridget Keeney (SC).


Please Mr. " Lawyer" sir, show us all where that "LAW" is written?

LOL! Lyin' lawyer is more like it.

"Birthplace is NOT the issue, “natural born Citizen” status is ONLY AVAILABLE if BOTH PARENTS were U.S.Citizens at the time a child is born. THAT IS LAW.

Posted by: Lawyer | September 24, 2009 4:44 AM "


No matter what else is true, it is FAIR to demand the evidence. It is never fair to hide it. Obama has hidden his original birth certificate.


BATTLE HYMN OF THE UNSINKABLE BIRTHERS!
(Sung to the tune of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic")

Mine eyes have not yet seen
Obama's birth certificate.
It is hidden in a vault
Where only God's Right Hand can get.
Obama's C. O. L. B. is a
Lousy counterfeit.
It's truth we're marching for!!!!

Orly! Orly! Hallelujah!!!
Orly! Orly! Hallelujah!!!
Orly! Orly! Hallelujah!!!
It's truth we're marching for!!!!


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