Hi “Protect the Bill of Rights,
Give it up already.
If that was true I’d have went to jail or prison or at very least been questioned by some law enforcement agency. You should read the story and ask yourself it makes sense. What kind of person goes through several months or testing to scam $600???????????? People in Bangladesh India don’t even sell their kidneys for a price that low.
You might want to point out next time you cite this story that this young man that you have plastered the picture of did receive a kidney (for free) from a woman from Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 2004.
The young man lived until 2008 when he passes away from related health problems.
You should research your claims before you around the Internet claiming that someone has no character.
Idiot. What’s next, I was born in Iowa and I have no right to expose Obama because this state was the first to support Obama? Or let me guess, you’ll bring up the fight I had when I was 17 years old at McDonalds and claim that that somehow discredits my find in Mombasa of President Obama’s birth certificate?
So how long was Lucas D Smith, 29 in prision for FORGERY and 2nd DEGREE THEFT? The article is not clear. 2 years or 4 years?
Lucas Smith of Cedar Rapids has surfaced, then disappeared, again, this time on the fringe of the fringe world of Obama birthers.
Smith recently claimed to have a birth certificate proving President Barack Obama was born in Kenya. That’s according to a July 19 post at Worldnet Daily, the conservative Web site that’s become a clearinghouse for theorists’ claims that Obama is constitutionally unqualified to be president.
According to the post, someone claiming to be Lucas Smith , “a former resident of Cedar Rapids,” tried to auction a Kenyan birth certificate for Obama on eBay. But when Worldnet tried to verify the document, Smith dropped out of contact, “only fueling belief the sale was a scam.”
Smith, whoever he is, gained local notice in 2003, when someone by that name agreed to sell a kidney to an Oswego, N.Y., man who needed a transplant, The deal broke down when Smith demanded $600 upfront from the man’s family.
A police investigation failed to locate Smith, or any evidence that he was in the area — or whether his aborted attempt to sell a kidney was illegal.
Online court records say Lucas D. Smith, now 29, was convicted in Linn County of forgery in May 1998 and second-degree theft in May 2000. He was released from prison Dec. 25, 2002, the Department of Corrections says.
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