Here’s yet another lesson on critical thinking and the nature of the Internet in spreading hoaxes and urban legends.
There is a blog named Scott Easterling on blogspot. In the article: Why I want to be Court Martialed, “Easterling” says:
My attorney, whom I have grown to respect, has informed me that I can subpoena “President” Obama, and that I can then ask the Court to direct his counsel to produce a valid, legal United States Birth Certificate. If he will do this, I will immediately obey any lawful Order he or his subordinates render.
But is this really Lt. Scott Easterling’s Blog? Commenters here at Obama Conspiracy Theories have been skeptical. Now Orly Taitz says:
1st Lt. Scott R. Easterling Does NOT Have a Blog.
Who do you trust? Do you trust a name on a blog? Do you trust Orly Taitz?
Hi! I want to know:
(1) Is Lt Scott Easterling really in the U.S. Army, and if so, is he really on active duty?
(2) Is Lt Scott Easterling an imaginary plaintiff that Dr. Orly Taitz, Esq. created?
(3) Is Dr. Orly Taitz, Esq. from Russia, and is she NOT a natural born citizen herself?
(4) Does Dr. Orly Taitz, Esq. really have a license to practice law?
(5) Does President Obama have the 14 years RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT to be President? Remember, on the Certification of Live Birth of Barack Hussein Obama is gives a legal notice:
(Rev. 11/01)LASER which proves he received it in or after November 2001.
(6) IF Lt. Scott Easterling is really an active duty U.S. Army combatant, then I hope he will read the legal research I did for him. What I read says that soldiers have to follow procedure in Military Tribunals. He shouldn’t be allegeldy led astray by some possibly Russian attorney who may not even be a natural born citizen herself. Scott, please read http://crisericson2010.blogspot.com where I have quoted some of the laws you might want to know.
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Hi! I want to know:
(1) Is Lt Scott Easterling really in the U.S. Army, and if so, is he really on active duty?
I’m fairly sure he is, based on the article about him on Military.com.
(2) Is Lt Scott Easterling an imaginary plaintiff that Dr. Orly Taitz, Esq. created?
I think his participation in the suit [if it’s ever filed] is real, although his BLOG is probably fake.
(3) Is Dr. Orly Taitz, Esq. from Russia, and is she NOT a natural born citizen herself?
That’s right. Orly Taitz emigrated to Israel, attended the Hebrew University there, and then came to the United States. She is not a natural born citizen.
(4) Does Dr. Orly Taitz, Esq. really have a license to practice law?
Yes. You can verify her law license on the California bar web site.
(5) Does President Obama have the 14 years RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT to be President? Remember, on the Certification of Live Birth of Barack Hussein Obama is gives a legal notice:
(Rev. 11/01)LASER which proves he received it in or after November 2001.
Yes. Obama has been a resident of the United States for about 38 years (since around 1971), see Hawaiian school year books, Occidental college photos, etc. etc. I must be misunderstanding your question as the date on Obama’s birth certificate is unrelated to where he has been living.
(6) IF Lt. Scott Easterling is really an active duty U.S. Army combatant, then I hope he will read the legal research I did for him. What I read says that soldiers have to follow procedure in Military Tribunals. He shouldn’t be allegeldy led astray by some possibly Russian attorney who may not even be a natural born citizen herself. Scott, please read http://crisericson2010.blogspot.com where I have quoted some of the laws you might want to know.
We have some of those laws posted here in comments, and there are also extensive comments on them at Politijab.com. I think Easterling is in some serious hot water.
If you seriously want anybody to read your blog, I suggest you change those horrific colors, to something more readable.
Hi! I went on over to U.S. Department of Defense Press Resources and clicked on U.S. Army and submitted a question about Lt. Scott Easterling.
http://www.defenselink.mil/faq/questions.aspx
I also did a search for news about him in all the military news at
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/
and there is none.
Apparently http://www.military.com is not an official news source.
I don’t know how many officers in Iraq are named “Scott Easterling”.
http://www.internationalivorysociety.com/ivorypicturespage4
It seems he is a real officer. I found him on the promotion list in January 2009 making First Lieutenant.
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http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/01/army_officer_promotions_012109w/
February officer promotions released
Posted : Friday Jan 23, 2009 6:45:14 EST
Orders authorizing February promotions for the following active-component commissioned officers and warrant officers were issued by Human Resources Command in mid-January:
FIRST LIEUTENANT
ARMY COMPETITIVE CATEGORY
[…]
Easterling Scott R
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Thanks for that confirmation ❗
I am a retired atorney with 40 years of practice.
If Orly files for a declaratory judgment, it will be dismissed. Although the Constitution does not specifically designate how the issue of “natural born citizen” is to be addressed, there is strong indication that the only way to deal with this is through an impeachment procedure in Congress.
Using Occam’s Razor, it is clear that the Constitution and Supreme Court cases such as US v Wong Kim Ark, 169 US 649 (1898) recognize only two classes of citizen: natural born and naturalized. All citizens are one or the other.
The birthers are trying to create multiple classes of citizenship:
Natural born (both parents citizens),
Native born (father citizen),
Semi-natural born (mother citizen),
Unnatural born (neither parent citizen),
Naturalized.
This is ridiculous.
I wonder why having a citizen mother puts you at a lower point on their “scale” then having a citizen father. If you think about it, you always know who the mother is.
At one time in history, women were not considered as legally important as they are today. [Assume all exceptions are acknowledged.]
Courts said that too when in some of their cases. (You always know who your mother is)
I get a chuckle out of the concept of being unnaturally born.
What? Like the babies are chemically man-made?
“Know that Obama was from his mother’s womb untimely ripped!”
Accursed be that tongue that tells me so,
For it hath cow’d my better part of man!
Somebody posted the joke that Obama was not a natural born citizen because his hospital record really showed he was born by Cesarean section. http://drorly.blogspot.com/2009_01_01_archive.html
This is her reply…
I’m taking digital photos of HRS statutes and putting them online. Sorry, I only have a cheap digital camera. I have posted two so far as jpg. images. Feel free to copy. Will do more of applicable law. http://crisericson2010.blogspot.com
Obama gave a speech at USMC Camp Lejeune earlier today. This speech will not make Orly Happy. All those U.S. Marines cheering is certainly not good for her cause. When Obama said “Semper Fi”, those U.S. Marines cheered wildly.
She’s probably going over all the video footage with a magnifying glass looking for one Marine shooting the President half a peace sign.
What’s wrong with linking directly to http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/site1/hrs/default.asp ?
Are you afraid someone might then be able to actually read the entire law rather than the deliberately misleading partial images you have posted?
While the browser window is active, you can press alt-PrintScreen. This will put a nice sharp image of your browser windoe onto the Windows clipboard. Then must paste into a program and save to disk. You’ll get much better results than with photography.
But why are you pasting screen images instead of just the text?
…or raising his hand to object.
… or one clapping slower than others !
According to Dr. Taitz, she “now has 93 Plaintiffs including 8 Active and a large number of Active Reserves” in the Military Action.
The latest victim is Reserve Sgt, Matthew Michael Edwards.
If Orly were to get past the standing issue, and the issue of jurisdiction of the subject matter, which has not yet been raised, the then next issue would be for Obama’s counsel to move to require Orly to make the case a class action one making all 300 million of us parties. This would become a total circus, with tens of thousands of lawyers representing various groups of parties. The case would probably be tried somewhere about the year 2075.
They are indeed discussing the speech over on Orly’s site and of course, they didn’t see these Marines supporting President Obama. They saw them clapping reservedly and just following orders. Talk about spin doctors.
I did notice on the blog attributed to Scott Easterling, that the writing appears to have turned a corner into the bizarre, as well as racist.
In a bizarre turn of events, Scott Easterling has transmogrified into Pope Benedict XVI. [I’ve been waiting for decades for a chance to use that word.]
Re: Step Grandma Obama’s statement on which Taitz and Berg have been heavily relying.
I have listened to the complete tape. In answer to the question of where BHO was born she clearly responded Hawaii the first time. MacRae became very flustered.
Below is a transcript of the tape filed by Berg in One of his lawsuits. Emphasis has been added by me.
Please note that MacRae references her son as the one running for President.
Here is the transcript:
BERG V OBAMA: Affidavit of Reverend Kweli Shuhubia
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA
CIVIL ACTION NO: 08-cv- 04083
Transcript:
Two Rings:
Kweli Shuhubia: Hello? [Back ground music]
Ron McRae: Brother Tom? [music] Brother Tom? This is Brother McRae.
Kweli Shuhubia: Yes.
Ron McRae: Okay. How are you today?
Kweli Shuhubia: Now. We are okay. How are you?
Ron McRae: I’m doing very well. You said you are there with, uh, Barack Obama’s grandmother?
Kweli Shuhubia: Yes. I am just in the home now. She is right here. We’re, we’re waiting to talk in a uh long conversation. And [unitelligible] a good family and she is ready to talk.
Ron McRae: Good. She’s not there at the present?
Kweli Shuhubia: Yes. She’s here right now.
Ron McRae: Okay. Is it possible to speak to her?
Kweli Shuhubia: Yes. It is possible. I ah, along with her and her family, uh, you and me.
Ron McRae: Uh, is it possible for you to put her on the speaker phone and translate for me?
Kweli Shuhubia: Yes! Yes! I will do that.
Ron McRae: Okay.
Kweli Shuhubia: Yes?
Ron McRae: Okay.
Kweli Shuhubia: Yes. Go ahead [speak to her in Swahili]
Sarah Obama: [Replies to him in Swahili]
Ron McRae: Ms. Obama?
Kweli Shuhubia: Yes go ahead.
Ron McRae: Mrs. Obama, my name is bishop Ron McRae.
Kweli Shuhubia: Ametaja bishop Ron McRae, Ron McRae. Go ahead.
Ron McRae: I am, I am the bishop of the Anabaptists Churches of North America.
Kweli Shuhubia: Yeye niaskofu Anabaptists makaisa.
Sarah Obama: Shikamooo! [Hello, good day].
Translator: Are you speaking English and , and we will tell her in Luo. Okay?
Ron McRae: Now give me that again. Explain it to me again.
Translator: It is welcome. She is very grateful for your interest.
Ron McRae: Okay. Thank you! Tell her I count it a great honor to speak to here since her son Barack Obama is running for President of the United States.
Translator: Eh makasema yuko kiuu mgomba Obama kwa mwenyekiti America. Yah, she says she is very helpful for got to you to please pray for Obama. She is asking you to pray for him. For Obama.
Ron McRae: Yes Sir. Uh…Ms. Obama, you can rest assured that I am praying for your son, for your grandson.
Translator: Yes. It is helpful also towards it is beginning to help.
Ron McRae: Okay.
Sarah Obama: [unitelligible from Ms. Obama because of room noise].
Translator: She says she is covet your prayers for he [unintelligible] her son.
Ron McRae: Okay. And tell her that I will be coming there in December and I would like to come by and meet with her and pray with her.
Translator: Yes. Ye atakuwa mwezi Desemba.
Kweli Shuhubia: In December. He will come in December and he wants to come and talk with you.
Sarah Obama: [unitelligible]
Translator: Oh she says you’re so encourage her. Your coming in December so you can talk together with her.
Ron McRae: Amen. I am so thankful. Could I ask her, uh, about his, uh, his actual birthplace? I would like to see his actual birthplace when I, when I come to Kenya in December. Uh, was she present when he was, was she present when he was born in Kenya?
Translator to Sarah Obama: Alikuma zalima Obama [unintelligible].
Kweli Shuhubia: He is asking her, he wants to know something was ah she present when he was born?
Translator: Yes. She says, “Yes she was! She was present when Obama was born.”
Ron McRae: Okay.
The above can be found at:
http://nativeborncitizen.wordpress.com/2009/02/28/berg-v-obama-affidavit-of-reverend-kweli-shuhubia/#more-644
When she says she was present when Obama was born, which one does she mean? Remember she is not BHO I’s birth mother but his step-mother.
BHO I was born in a very small rural village in Western Kenya; I believe that Sarah Obama (the step-mother) comes from the same village. “Present” doesn’t necessarily mean in the same room. In any case, we don’t know the relationship between the step-mother and the birth mother — they might have been very close friends. There’s a good wikipedia article describing the village, which is called Nyang’oma Kogelo:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyang’oma_Kogelo
(current population about 3600 — but I don’t know what it was when Obama’s father was born)..
Just an added note to get a sense of how isolated that village is: the village did not get electricity until November of 2008, after Obama’s election. Sarah Obama’s house was one of the fist to be connected. See: http://www.nation.co.ke/News/-/1056/493964/-/item/0/-/ytfh4tz/-/index.html
Of course — the conditions in the village are one more reason why the notion that Stanley Ann Dunham would have given birth in Kenya or that Sarah Obama could have witnessed it is preposterous.
As well as the fact that a black chap isnt going to take a white woman (or girl) to have a baby in Kenya when they were still under colonial rule,; its one thing if they met in kenya & had a baby but to take a white woman all the over to kenya when she’s already due & risk arrest all because of what exactly ??
Do you have any documentation or references on what the laws used to be in British colonial Africa regarding interracial marriages?
The evidentiary rules will prevent that transcript from ever seeing the inside of a court room.
as will Ron McRaes fraudulent title of Bishop and reputation for being a completely apeshit loonytune. (Ask his daughter, Cherie)
Ron McRae picked on the wrong kid this time>
http://wolfsheadandvixen.blogspot.com/2009/01/when-croydon-lost-its-marbles-innocence.html
http://wolfsheadandvixen.blogspot.com/2009/01/when-croydon-lost-her-innocence.html
His certification of birth, in the lower left corner, says that the birth was recorded on August 8, 1961. I am 68. Some of you older folks, like me, will remember that they used to keep you in the hospital forever. If, as they claim, BHO II were born in a hospital in Mombassa on August 4, 1961, she would not have been discharged until the eighth. Add to that a very tiring train trip to Nairobi of 10 hours and at the barest minimum a 30 hour air trip to Honolulu, she could not have been in Honolulu on the 8th to register the birth. Considering that there was only one flight a week to London abd three flights a week to Bombay in 1961, the trip would have been a lot longer.
THe Berg and Orly people are thinking with their emotions, which raises the question: What is driving them? The most logical answer is racism.
Those people need to come back from the Land of Oz and need to take a logical, realistic and unemotional look at Obama and the mess he is trying to deal with.
I have seen many blogs claiming that he is stupid. Get real!! He did not become editor of the Harvard University Law Journal by being stupid. I have seen claims that he is a Communist and a Muslim. That is idiotic. Those two groups despise each other with an intense passion.
I fixed a typo on the birth recorded date (6 to 8).
Berg was fixated on 9/11 conspiracy theories too. I won’t guess about motivations, but there is surely a great deal of knee-jerk and unexamined criticism of Obama. But that’s another story for another blog.
http://blog.indecision2008.com/2009/03/03/us-soldier-refuses-to-acknowledge-barack-obama-as-president-until-he-disproves-warrantless-claims/
No documents as of yet however did speak to my father & uncles (they all studied in Uk, Europe & the USA) some of whom married white woman none would return home till the 1970s. It was not just that most cultures didnt readily accept the wives there was also the fact that one would stand out as a swore thumb in the midst of all the black folks, & this was AFTER colonial rule.
I will see if i cant get documents but you must remember this is black Africa we dont exactly keep record the way there kept in Europe but i’ll see what i can find
A quick search on the internet about attitudes during colnial rule & intermarrying
see http://www.fordham.edu/campus_resources/enewsroom/inside_fordham/december_8_2008/in_focus_faculty_and/scholar_studies_inte_32479.asp
http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/articles/pages/5926/Africa-German-Colonies.html
http://iluvsa.blogspot.com/2008/11/afrikaner-survival-under-black-rule.html
http://ancestralenergies.blogspot.com/2008/03/kenyas-colonial-past.html
Note the marriages been spoken off was between a white man & a black lady