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Is the Secret Service Targeting the Birthers?
mother jones ^ | Thu Jan. 7, 2010 3:05 AM PST | By Stephanie Mencimer

Posted on 01/07/2010 5:49:05 AM PST by Sophia777

http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/01/secret-service-targeting-birthers

Over the past year, Secret Service agents charged with protecting President Obama seem to have taken a keen interest in the Birther movement, the committed group of anti-Obama activists around the country who claim the president was born in Kenya, not Hawaii, and is thus ineligible to serve. The idea has been widely and repeatedly debunked (see FactCheck.org's thorough takedown here), but that hasn't stopped Birthers from doggedly making their case in American courtrooms, to US attorneys, and even to a rural county grand jury, in the hopes that a judge will rule in their favor and Obama might eventually be removed from office. Those efforts have failed spectacularly, but they seem to have succeeded in placing the Birthers on the radar of the Secret Service.

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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: americangrandjury; birthcertificate; birthers; certifigate; domesticterrorists; secretservice; targetingbirthers; usurper
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At least a half-dozen prominent anti-Obama activists who've petitioned various federal agencies or courts to investigate the president's citizenship or publicly questioned his eligibility to serve say they've been visited by Secret Service or Homeland Security agents. Of particular concern to the Secret Service, it seems, are the individuals who are trying to interest federal prosecutors in bringing criminal charges against the president for fraud and treason, a movement spearheaded by a retired Navy lieutenant commander, Walter Fitzpatrick III.
1 posted on 01/07/2010 5:49:10 AM PST by Sophia777
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To: Sophia777

wow


2 posted on 01/07/2010 5:51:26 AM PST by Perdogg ("Is that a bomb in your pants, or are you excited to come to America?")
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To: Sophia777
Those efforts have failed spectacularly

Um, how can they fail spectacularly when cases are dismissed due to standing? Apparently Americans have no standing to challenge a President based on the Constitution. Who knew?

3 posted on 01/07/2010 5:52:59 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: Sophia777
The idea has been widely and repeatedly debunked

Oh? Did they prove a negative? Did they prove that Obama was not born outside the US?

All I can say is that until I see the long-form birth certificate I do not feel that they have proven a positive -- that Obama was born in Hawaii. I want to see the proof. Why is that so difficult?

4 posted on 01/07/2010 5:53:11 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (We have the 1st so that we can call on people to rebel. We have 2nd so that they can.)
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To: LucyT

Ping


5 posted on 01/07/2010 5:53:58 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: Sophia777
Over the past year, Secret Service agents charged with protecting President Obama seem to have taken a keen interest in the Birther movement, the committed group of anti-Obama activists around the country who claim the president was born in Kenya, not Hawaii, and is thus ineligible to serve. The idea has been widely and repeatedly debunked (see FactCheck.org's thorough takedown here)

Always throw out a false premise. The Birther movement just wants to see actual proof of Obama's birth and verify he meets the Constitutional requirements. Nothing has been debunked since it is a fact, Obama has not released his Birth Certificate.

6 posted on 01/07/2010 5:55:26 AM PST by Always Right
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To: Sophia777

well, at least they’re not tracking muslims identified in FRIENDLY NATION data bases as terrorists

sarc

I wonder, have birthers threatened suicide bombings and WMD attacks against the American people? And wouldn’t it be great if al Qaeda’s demands could be met by obama producing a $10 document!


7 posted on 01/07/2010 5:56:09 AM PST by silverleaf
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To: DJ MacWoW

Interestingly, they target the birthers and give terrorist a pass, who would have thought?

Also I have to add, Obama must be terrified of this issue,
or,

One, he would show the BC and,
Two, he wouldn’t be sending out the CIA to intimidate people.


8 posted on 01/07/2010 5:58:56 AM PST by Sophia777
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To: silverleaf

The thing that amazes me is the millions of dollars he has spent trying not to produce that $10 document.


9 posted on 01/07/2010 5:59:33 AM PST by Melinda in TN
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To: DJ MacWoW

Amazing, isn’t it? Don’t question ANYTHING about *the won*. Free speech??? Yeah, right.


10 posted on 01/07/2010 6:00:02 AM PST by azishot
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To: Sophia777

‘Birth-certificaters’ is more accurate. That movement hasnt moved on yet?

News Flash : “Obama was sworn in almost a year ago”


11 posted on 01/07/2010 6:00:26 AM PST by sickoflibs ( "It's not the taxes, the redistribution is spending you demand stupid")
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To: Sophia777

When was this debunked? If they have, that is great news, now we can actually focus on just his ineptness. Has President Obama unsealed his records to the public? If so, where is the link and which Supreme Court Judge reviewed the originals?


12 posted on 01/07/2010 6:00:41 AM PST by castlegreyskull
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To: Sophia777
"The idea has been widely and repeatedly debunked "

Really??

When did that happen?

13 posted on 01/07/2010 6:02:31 AM PST by evad (BHO is a Clear and Present Danger to This Nation's Security)
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To: Sophia777

I’m sure he is. And with his ego, he’s probably angry that ANYONE would DARE....


14 posted on 01/07/2010 6:03:09 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: castlegreyskull
now we can actually focus on just his ineptness

Please don't wait too long.

15 posted on 01/07/2010 6:03:23 AM PST by rhombus
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To: Sophia777
"The movement's "queen bee," Orly Taitz, reportedly recruited many of them at the Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot and military gun show, a semi-annual Kentucky event that's a hotbed of right-wing and racist radicalism."

I especially like this comment!

16 posted on 01/07/2010 6:03:23 AM PST by mark3681
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To: azishot

The left gets so hysterical! If we did HALF of what they put Bush through,or Palin, their heads would explode.


17 posted on 01/07/2010 6:04:39 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: Melinda in TN
“The thing that amazes me is the millions of dollars he has spent trying not to produce that $10 document.”

I try to be nice and think why he would fight this. If it was a conservative president; and there were any questions at all; I would adamant that president/candidate also produce what is needed.

Those millions he has spent, could have been used to feed hungry people.

18 posted on 01/07/2010 6:05:00 AM PST by HereInTheHeartland (The End of an Error - 01/20/2013)
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To: Sophia777
Big Brotha...who will propose the Bill in Congress for funding birther reeducation camps...this is a crises...
19 posted on 01/07/2010 6:05:11 AM PST by PoloSec (Note to Princess B H Obama: May PISS be Upon Mohammads Head...You Pervert)
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To: Sophia777
I know the feds are monitoring this sight, and not just for the BC.
I got tagged last night.
I tried to post a reply to someone and a message popped up that my sat signal was out because of weather. When my signal is out because of weather I can't get on line. Everything was working fine I just couldn't post a reply. The message that popped up was also different than what usually pops up.
20 posted on 01/07/2010 6:05:17 AM PST by IMR 4350
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