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Orly Taitz: To Put Obama On Ballot’s Treasonous.
Kansas board drops Obama ballot complaint
Dismissal of a challenge to President Barack Obama’s presence on the Kansas ballot Monday provoked an angry reaction from people skeptical the Democratic Party’s nominee is a U.S. citizen.
Secretary of State Kris Kobach, chairman of the three-person State Objections Board weighing the ballot complaint, said he was satisfied with documentation received since last week affirming Obama’s birth in Hawaii.
Kobach, Attorney General Derek Schmidt and Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer, all Republicans, generated a fire storm of controversy Thursday by delaying a decision on the complaint pending acquisition of authenticated Obama birth documents. The complaint filed by Manhattan Republican Joe Montgomery asserted Obama was not a natural-born citizen because his father was from Kenya.
However, Montgomery withdrew his 40-page claim Friday due to “intimidation directed not only at me, but at people around me.”
Neither Schmidt nor Colyer were present Monday for the meeting called to accept Montgomery’s withdrawal.
Mark Dugan, a staff member in the administration of Gov. Sam Brownback and the substitute for the lieutenant governor, made a motion to accept the new documents and close the case.
Before a vote could be taken, a leading figure in the “birther” movement that dedicates itself to questioning Obama’s citizenship status demanded to be heard. Orly Taitz, of California, said dropping the pending complaint in Kansas would amount to treason.
“You have evidence showing blatant forgery,” she said. “This is a matter of national security.”
She said Obama was using a Social Security number from the state of Connecticut. Elsewhere, she has made a series of claims: Obama donated money to Hamas, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is building internment camps for anti-Obama dissidents and Hugo Chavez owns the software company that runs American voting machines.
In 2008, Taitz filed a lawsuit in California alleging state officials failed to determine Obama’s eligibility for placement on the state’s presidential ballot. The case was dismissed in 2009 and the U.S. Supreme Court declined, without comment, to review the case in 2011.
She also filed a federal lawsuit claiming Obama was ineligible to be president, but that case was dismissed in 2009.
John Campbell, representing the attorney general at the hearing, objected to granting Taitz a platform to air her grievance.
“No, no, no,” he declared. “There is no reason not to adjourn.”
Kobach, who allowed Taitz to make remarks, said Taitz had no right to formally intervene at this point, because Montgomery withdrew the complaint and the board literally had nothing on the table to consider.
“At this point,” he said, “the board is without jurisdiction to rule on Mr. Montgomery’s objection. We have no authority to hear someone else. I understand you have very strong objections.”
Taitz and Kobach engaged in a rapid exchange of opinion — repeatedly talking over each other — about Kansas law on ballot challenges.
The vote of state board members to adjourn the 10-minute meeting was unanimous, but Kobach was intercepted at the exit of an auditorium in Memorial Hall by T.J. Gaughan, of Topeka, who criticized the state board for investigating claims Obama didn’t have standing to run for president.
“You’re phony baloney Kobach. You’re full of it,” Gaughan said as the secretary of state walked from the room. “I’m an American, I can say that. You give validity to the issue by recognizing it and putting it in front of a meeting. It’s absolutely embarrassing.”
In the lobby of building across the street from the Kansas Capitol, Taitz, Gaughan and others engaged in roaring exchange about Obama.
Taitz said the proceeding in Kansas demonstrated the “level of corruption in government.”
A woman who declined to give her name swooped in to declare Taitz part of a “fringe group” that had no business infiltrating the voting rights of Kansans.
“We should be ignoring this,” the woman said. “His mother was born in Kansas.”
Gaughan jumped back into the fray, but his comments were inaudible over those of Taitz.
J.A. Lee, a uniformed member of the Capitol Police, put an end to the fracas by ordering Gaughan and Taitz to leave the building.
“Get out,” he said.
Kobach, in an interview, said he found no reason for people to hold the State Objections Board up to ridicule because it was responsibly doing its job to faithfully consider each complaint.
“Our objection board hears every objection. Some of them are strong. Some of them are weak. We take every objection seriously. We listen to the facts. Then we make a decision,” Kobach said.
He said certified documents from officials in Hawaii confirmed birth records released by the White House were accurate.
“That, for me, settles the issue,” Kobach said. “There can be no doubt.”
http://m.cjonline.com/news/state/2012-09-17/kansas-board-drops-obama-ballot-complaint
Death penalties all round!
*facepalm*
Treason’s a crime and criticising the POTUS is a duty.
Few like Orly Taitz does, carry out their noble duty which was given by the Founding Fathers to us and most people are sheep and traitors ready to betray their laws and Constitution.
Ready to follow a tyrant