Quite frankly the idea that our military has become an evangelical camp-meeting scares me more that the Obama presidency scares the people who think he's a Muslim secret agent or that the Hawaii Bureau of Vital Statistics cooked up a fake birth certificate and the Honolulu newspapers recorded his birth forty some odd years ago as part of a plot to make Baby Obama the future president. It's not just theBiblically deluded nature of such people but also the uncontrollable urges they have to believe things for reasons hard for others to understand.
It's hard to know whether U.S. Army Maj. Stefan Frederick Cook really believes the fantasy or whether he simply doesn't want to go to Afghanistan and couldn't bring himself to wear a dress. I would have to assume that he does believe. He claims that he has tremendous support from fellow soldiers -- 90% is his frightening claim.
He would get on the next plane says he if only it could be proved that his birth certificate was real. That's a remarkable statement and if birth certificates needed to be proved beyond establishing that the birth was properly registered, we could easily disallow every president. Quite a can of worms, this is and perhaps it's better to ask for some evidence that, like John McCain, he wasn't born in the USA. Of course there isn't any evidence beyond that malignant viral meme that seems to spread from loony to loony like lice in a flop house.
Of course it isn't just the loons and psychos keeping the idea alive. one of the favorite tricks of our scandal addicted media is to presentnasty, stale old memes in new bottles and so we often have Fox hinting that "people are saying" when they aren't and we have Lou Dobbs, fresh out of stories about the Mexican Menace saying "new questions are being raised." No they're not, Lou, it's the same insane calumny coming from yet another psycho. and shame on you for trying to keep the meme alive for fame and profit.
Of course and as we expected, a Federal judge threw the case out this morning and the Federal dumpster already contains the smelly remnants of other similar suits, but thanks to Lou and Fox and the Army of Believers the idea will survive and perhaps longer than our republic. It's not completely new of course, Clinton faced opposition from some in the military based on some some notion that he wasn't really the President. What does it tell us, I have to ask, that the notion that the SCOTUS decision to stop counting ballots in Florida and the serious evidence of voting machine fraud made W's presidency illegitimate has faded away? Maybe it tells us that the great ship of insanity lists heavily to the right. New questions are being raised, you know -- and people are saying.
The courts should be fining these loonies heavily for tying up the courts and it's resources with unsubstaniated, frivolous suits.
ReplyDeleteNext ... voices in the head. I would add "delusional thinking" but we already know that. This "birther" thing is either a mass psychosis, or we are really in deep doo-doo finding ourselves surrounded by "Night of the Living Dead" ghouls from the lunatic fringe.
ReplyDeleteThere is no rational explanation ...
This is what I found on the Cook character:
ReplyDelete"For one thing, it turns out that Cook had volunteered for duty in Afghanistan just two months before filing a lawsuit to get out of it:
Earlier today, Quon said Cook submitted a formal written request to Human Resources Command-St. Louis on May 8, 2009 volunteering to serve one year in Afghanistan with Special Operations Command, U.S. Army Central Command, beginning July 15, 2009. The soldier’s orders were issued on June 9, Quon said.
Now, you might think that makes no sense. Why would Cook volunteer for duty in May, and then file a lawsuit in July claiming that he shouldn’t be “forced” to go because Barack Obama isn’t a natural born citizen ?
Perhaps it’s because he was planning to file this lawsuit all along.
As I noted yesterday, Cook has been a member and frequent poster over at Free Republic since 2003, and here’s something he posted back in March:
Well, looks like things may well be moving along.
As a Plaintiff in this class action, I get mailing from Dr. Taitz from time to time. This is an attachment to one of those mailings.
As always, have at it
And then there’s this from back in February:
US Army Major signs on as plaintiff for Dr. Orly Taitz… RE: Obama’s Eligibility to Hold Office
— On Sun, 2/1/09, Stefan Cook wrote:
From: Stefan Cook
Subject: ATTORNEY HAFFEY REFERRED
To: dr_taitz@yahoo.com
Date: Sunday, February 1, 2009, 6:40 AM
Dear Attorney Orly,
My name is Major Stefan F. Cook. I am an officer in the Army Reserve of the United States of America and understand that you are heading up a class action suite to request that Barack Obama show he meets the Constitutional qualifications to be our Commander In Chief. As an officer in the U.S. Army, I have the right to know that I am following the lawful orders from a Constitutionally qualified Commander In Chief.
I would like to sign on as a participating plaintiff in this class action.
Please advise.
V/R
STEFAN F. COOK
MAJ, EN, US ARMY
Major Cook went on to send Dr. Taitz a signed, notarized consent form authorizing her to name him as a plaintiff in this suit."
Source
Ah - so it really is a conspiracy. I don't know what people like that hope to gain, other than contributions from the deranged, but yes, there should be some way to control ridiculous, malicious and meritless law suits like these. It's a tax on all of us.
ReplyDeleteAll in all, it feeds my notion that our information age is making democracy impossible.