That'll Teach the Birthers!

TJJJ · #1 10-14-2009, 10:51 AM

Federal judge in Ga. sanctions 'birther' attorney
October 14th, 2009 @ 9:51am

COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) - A federal judge in Georgia has fined a leader of the movement that claims President Barack Obama was born outside the U.S. and isn't eligible to be president.

U.S. District Judge Clay D. Land's scathing 43-page order says California lawyer and dentist Orly Taitz is attempting to misuse the federal courts to press "wild accusations."

Taitz is a leader of the so-called birther movement and sued on behalf of a soldier who claimed she shouldn't have to deploy to Iraq because Obama wasn't born in the U.S. Documents show he was born in Hawaii.

Land, appointed in 2001 by President George W. Bush, says he fined Taitz $20,000 "as a deterrent to prevent future misconduct and to protect the integrity of the court."

Taitz tells The Fulton County Daily Report the order is "an absolute outrage."

Sure looks like censureship to me by the Feds!

simplyme · #2 10-14-2009, 12:46 PM

Hey now, whatever happened to our RIGHTs??

Freedom of Speech, and so on?

CENSORSHIP is putting it mildly. I am sooo mad!

Baron1710 · #3 10-14-2009, 12:51 PM

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Originally Posted by TJJJ

Federal judge in Ga. sanctions 'birther' attorney
October 14th, 2009 @ 9:51am

COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) - A federal judge in Georgia has fined a leader of the movement that claims President Barack Obama was born outside the U.S. and isn't eligible to be president.

U.S. District Judge Clay D. Land's scathing 43-page order says California lawyer and dentist Orly Taitz is attempting to misuse the federal courts to press "wild accusations."

Taitz is a leader of the so-called birther movement and sued on behalf of a soldier who claimed she shouldn't have to deploy to Iraq because Obama wasn't born in the U.S. Documents show he was born in Hawaii.

Land, appointed in 2001 by President George W. Bush, says he fined Taitz $20,000 "as a deterrent to prevent future misconduct and to protect the integrity of the court."

Taitz tells The Fulton County Daily Report the order is "an absolute outrage."

Sure looks like censureship to me by the Feds!

Censorship would be telling him he can't say it. He is being told DON'T file another suit in federal court. Right or wrong they have dismissed his case, he needs to move on to another venue if he wants to be heard.

No one is provided a forum in the courts for free speech, that's not the purpose of the court.

n david · #4 10-14-2009, 01:20 PM

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Originally Posted by TJJJ

Land, appointed in 2001 by President George W. Bush, says he fined Taitz $20,000 "as a deterrent to prevent future misconduct and to protect the integrity of the court."

1) Love how they included the bit about the judge being appointed by GWB.
2) The reason being "to prevent future misconduct and to protect the integrity of the court," now that's funny. There is no integrity in the court these days.

coadie · #5 10-14-2009, 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Baron1710

Censorship would be telling him he can't say it. He is being told DON'T file another suit in federal court. Right or wrong they have dismissed his case, he needs to move on to another venue if he wants to be heard.

No one is provided a forum in the courts for free speech, that's not the purpose of the court.

Orly is a she and is Jewish.
The judge is being racist and sexist.

Baron1710 · #6 10-14-2009, 05:33 PM

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Originally Posted by coadie

Orly is a she and is Jewish.
The judge is being racist and sexist.

huh? I don't care if she is male or female my statement still stands and how is the judge racist and sexist?

Jermyn Davidson · #7 10-16-2009, 08:03 PM

The day I heard about this is the day the lights turned on in Georgia!

TJJJ · #8 10-16-2009, 09:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson

The day I heard about this is the day the lights turned on in Georgia!

So what you are saying is that you are doubting Obama's ability to be president because you are now a birther?

pelathais · #9 10-17-2009, 06:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Baron1710

Censorship would be telling him he can't say it. He is being told DON'T file another suit in federal court. Right or wrong they have dismissed his case, he needs to move on to another venue if he wants to be heard.

No one is provided a forum in the courts for free speech, that's not the purpose of the court.

You are correct. The infamous Fred Phelps filed so many frivilous lawsuits that he was fined, disbarred, jailed and then finally banished from ever filing in that particular court.

He certainly seems to still enjoy his right to free speech still to this day.

And the "birthers" are wacky. There was a birth annoucement in the Honolulu newspaper for Obama. They ceertainly had no interests in promoting the guy one way or the other almost 50 years ago. He was born there. He's one of us.

... Just like Jane Fonda, Bill Ayers, Roger B. Taney, John Wayne Gacy and all the rest.

Kae · #10 10-17-2009, 10:06 PM

Here is an interesting old article having to do with his place of birth.

http://web.archive.org/web/200406271...ws26060403.htm