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GrateWire » Topic: More Right Wing Lies and Fearmongering - Birther Edition.... http://gratewire.com/topic/more-right-wing-lies-and-fearmongering-birther-edition News & Opinion - Grated Fresh Daily en-US Sat, 18 May 2013 15:07:13 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 <![CDATA[Search]]> q http://gratewire.com/search.php Black Lion on "More Right Wing Lies and Fearmongering - Birther Edition...." http://gratewire.com/topic/more-right-wing-lies-and-fearmongering-birther-edition#post-101421 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:46:29 +0000 Black Lion 101421@http://gratewire.com/ <h1>AP Newsbreak: AZ sheriff played probe for laughs</h1> PHOENIX (AP) — An audio recording has surfaced of an Arizona sheriff playing his refusal to cooperate in a racial profiling investigation for laughs at a fundraiser for an anti-illegal immigration group in Texas. He ridicules politicians who sought the probe and displayed contempt toward federal authorities who were — and are still — investigating him on two fronts. The dismissive comments in 2009 by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio came as the U.S. Justice Department had already launched a civil rights probe of his trademark immigration patrols and the FBI already was examining abuse-of-power allegations for the sheriff's investigations of political foes. In the September 2009 speech in Houston, Arpaio boasted that he arrested hundreds of illegal immigrants after politicians and federal investigators started to pick apart his patrols. He said he wouldn't cooperate with the inquiry, but said he would tone down the patrols — if he was proven wrong. "But I'm not. After they went after me, we arrested 500 more just for spite," the self-proclaimed "America's toughest sheriff" said, pausing for laughter and applause. In an interview Thursday, Arpaio defended his comments before Texans For Immigration Reform as a collection of humorous off-the-cuff remarks intended merely to show that he wasn't going to back down to critics. "These are not official, under-oath speeches," Arpaio said. "It's strictly a speech that when I'm talking to certain groups, they like to hear what I have to say, because they know I'm under the gun." The sheriff currently awaits a lawsuit that the U.S. Justice Department has promised to file over its civil rights allegations. Arpaio's office is accused of racially profiling Latinos and retaliating against critics of its immigration patrols. Talks to settle the case before going to court fell apart earlier this month when Arpaio balked at a proposal to let a court-appointed official monitor his operations to make sure his office isn't making unconstitutional arrests. The current status of the criminal investigation against Arpaio's office is unknown. At the time of the speech, the FBI was already several months into its investigation of the sheriff's anti-public corruption squad that criminally investigated county officials and judges who were at odds with Arpaio in legal and political disputes. A grand jury has been investigating those allegations since at least December 2009. Two county officials and a judge were charged in cases that collapsed in court just a few months after they were filed. An Arpaio ally who prosecuted the cases was disbarred in a ruling earlier this month by an ethics panel of the Arizona courts. That decision said the cases were brought to embarrass the trio of county officials and that evidence suggested the sheriff conspired with the prosecutor to intimidate the judge with unfounded criminal charges. But the panel said it didn't have jurisdiction for potential criminal cases. The FBI declined to provide an update on its investigation. Federal prosecutors didn't respond to a request for an update. The recording of the Texas speech was given to The Associated Press recently by Joel Robbins, a Phoenix attorney and longtime Arpaio critic who said he bought a copy from the group after reading about it in a newspaper. At the time of the speech, only Maricopa County Supervisor Don Stapley had been criminally charged, though the sheriff was investigating other county officials. "We have already indicted one, so I am not their favorite guy," Arpaio said in Houston, drawing laughter. "The county has cut my budget $35 million just for spite. But I'm still locking them all up. I have ways to get the job done." Paul Charlton, an attorney who represented Stapley and has listened to portions of Arpaio's speech, described the comment as "close to a confession as you may ever get." "He is drawing the nexus himself between the budget cut of $35 million dollars and an investigation of the Board of Supervisors. A threat to lock them up, which in fact he did," Charlton said. Arpaio maintains that he never investigated county officials because they cut his budget. Elsewhere in the speech, Arpaio — a former federal drug agent — makes the Justice Department the butt of his jokes, saying, "It usually takes them two years to open a letter up and then another two years to buy the airline ticket." The sheriff also boasted of kicking federal civil rights investigators out of his office. And he acknowledged that most controversies were only to his benefit, pointing out that his re-election campaign raised $50,000 when the Rev. Al Sharpton came to Arizona to criticize his immigration patrols. The crowd cheered and whistled when Arpaio raised the possibility of subpoenaing President Barack Obama to testify in a civil rights lawsuit that might be filed by the federal government. They lined up to have Arpaio sign a copy of his latest book. Meanwhile, a modest but noisy protest brewed outside the hotel. Several dozen anti-Arpaio protesters carried signs saying "No To Racism," while his supporters carried signs such as "Sheriff Joe Arpaio, USA Hero." Democratic state Rep. Steve Gallardo, a longtime Arpaio critic who listened to portions of the speech, said the sheriff's comments prove that he uses illegal immigrants to elevate his national political profile. "This is not about enforcing our laws," Gallardo said. "This is about going after human beings. This is about targeting elected officials. This is about, exactly, using immigrants as props or pawns in his own world." For his part, Arpaio said his only regret in making the speech was that he used the wrong figure for the number of illegal immigrants arrested after the civil rights inquiry began. "It was wrong," Arpaio said. "It wasn't 500. It was thousands." Black Lion on "More Right Wing Lies and Fearmongering - Birther Edition...." http://gratewire.com/topic/more-right-wing-lies-and-fearmongering-birther-edition#post-101417 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:42:14 +0000 Black Lion 101417@http://gratewire.com/ <div>OBAMA LAWYER ADMITS FORGERY ONLY TO CLAIM BIRTH CERTIFICATE IRRELEVANT TO ELIGIBILITY!</div> <img height="1" src="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/0c63abc741fff5c4813d80e0a/images/tan_horz_line.png" width="100%" /> Fellow Patriot, <img align="right" height="253" src="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/0c63abc741fff5c4813d80e0a/images/Alexandra_M_Hill.jpg" style="width: 174px; margin-bottom: 5px; height: 253px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" width="174" />In the most bizarre turn of events yet – events that unsurprisingly the mainstream media still refuses to cover! – Alexandra Hill, an attorney representing Barack Hussein Obama, has argued in a New Jersey court to prevent the long-form birth certificate image that was released by the White House nearly a year ago from being placed into evidence. Hill made the shocking admission IN COURT that the image of Obama’s birth certificate was a forgery. But she didn’t stop there. Oh no, she went on to make the absurd claim that the birth certificate is irrelevant to Obama’s eligibility according to New Jersey law and therefore cannot be used as evidence to confirm his lack of natural born citizenship! INCREDULOUSLY – and to the detriment of America - SHE WON! <div><a href="http://sm1.netatlantic.com/track?t=c&eas=1&mid=468266&msgid=411042&did=408508&sn=16825942&eid=s_blaine99%40hotmail.com&uid=s_blaine99%40hotmail.com&fl=&extra=MultivariateId=&&&2001&&&https://www.fundraisingbynet.net/fbn/ContributePac.asp?guidRegistration=5E565E59" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">HELP MMPAC SHERIFF JOE AND THE COLD CASE POSSE HOLD BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA ACCOUNTABLE TO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION! STOP OBAMA’S FORGERY, FRAUD AND CONSPIRACY TO DECEIVE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE - SELECT HERE!</a></div> During a three-hour eligibility hearing before a New Jersey administrative law judge on April 10, Hill successfully argued that New Jersey law does not require Obama to present a valid birth certificate to establish his qualifications under Article 2, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution in order to be on the New Jersey Democratic Party primary ballot. Judge Jeff S. Masin who heard the argument ruled in a written opinion on the same day that New Jersey law does not require Obama to produce ANY proof he is eligible to be president in order to be placed on the primary ballot. Masin prevented the petitioner’s counsel, Mario Apuzzo, from placing Obama’s birth certificate into evidence. Apuzzo wasn’t even allowed to call to the stand a witness offering expert testimony that Obama’s birth certificate is a FORGERY despite his correct argument that Obama, according to the Constitution, has to be a “natural born Citizen” and that he has not met the burden of proof to show that he is eligible to be on the New Jersey primary ballot! <div><a href="http://sm1.netatlantic.com/track?t=c&eas=1&mid=468266&msgid=411042&did=408508&sn=16825942&eid=s_blaine99%40hotmail.com&uid=s_blaine99%40hotmail.com&fl=&extra=MultivariateId=&&&2002&&&https://www.fundraisingbynet.net/fbn/ContributePac.asp?guidRegistration=5E565E59" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">HELP MMPAC SHERIFF JOE AND THE COLD CASE POSSE HOLD BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA ACCOUNTABLE TO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION! STOP OBAMA’S FORGERY, FRAUD AND CONSPIRACY TO DECEIVE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE - SELECT HERE!</a> </div> <img align="left" height="293" src="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/0c63abc741fff5c4813d80e0a/images/bho_bc.jpg" style="width: 200px; margin-bottom: 5px; height: 293px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" width="200" />Like us, Mike Zullo, the lead investigator in Arizona Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s first-ever law enforcement investigation into Obama’s birth certificate and eligibility to be president is questioning why the White House did not instruct Hill to champion the birth certificate as legitimate... Could it be because it’s part of a large White House scheme to divorce itself from the FORGERY by acting as if the Obama birth certificate is of no consequence in establishing the fact of Obama’s birthplace and constitutional eligibility? We think so. Challenges to Obama’s name on the 2012 election ballot have already appeared in more than six states, and thanks to your continuing support, we’re already expecting more in the near future. But Obama’s million-dollar legal dream-team is desperately trying to avoid arguing that the birth certificate released by the White House on April 27, 2011, is legitimate. Hill even affirmed that Obama’s birth certificate had never been presented to the New Jersey secretary of state to establish his eligibility in the first place! She also affirmed that the Obama re-election campaign had no intention of doing so. We can only wonder why the Obama campaign is so determined to not present Obama’s birth certificate in court… and that’s because we have them backed into a corner, and they know it! <div><a href="http://sm1.netatlantic.com/track?t=c&eas=1&mid=468266&msgid=411042&did=408508&sn=16825942&eid=s_blaine99%40hotmail.com&uid=s_blaine99%40hotmail.com&fl=&extra=MultivariateId=&&&2003&&&https://www.fundraisingbynet.net/fbn/ContributePac.asp?guidRegistration=5E565E59" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">HELP MMPAC SHERIFF JOE AND THE COLD CASE POSSE HOLD BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA ACCOUNTABLE TO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION! STOP OBAMA’S FORGERY, FRAUD AND CONSPIRACY TO DECEIVE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE - SELECT HERE!</a></div> Speaking from the bench, Judge Mason, referring to the birth certificate, said “The campaign has not produced me anything and I assume you’re not planning on doing that.The campaign hasn’t shown me anything on the Internet. There’s no birth certificate that has been presented to me – good, bad, indifferent – real, forged, certified, anything – it’s not here.” Apuzzo even pressed to be put on the record a White House counsel stipulation that the Obama campaign was not using the long-form birth certificate as proof that Obama was born in Hawaii or as proof he was qualified to be president as a “natural born citizen” under the Constitution. Hill only repeated she had no intention of presenting Obama’s birth certificate to the court. In his decision, Masin wrote: “There appears to be no affirmative requirement that a person endorsed in a nominating petition for the presidency present to the Secretary of State any certification or other proof that he is qualified for the office, at least not at the time when nominating petitions are to be accepted or rejected by the secretary... In this matter, as the petitioners’ objection is that Mr. Obama has not provided the secretary with proof of the place of his birth by means of a birth certificate or otherwise, the lack of any obligation on his part to do so means he has not failed to act in accordance with the applicable law.” Now, I ask you – Are WE THE PEOPLE really going to let Obama get away with this AGAIN? <div><a href="http://sm1.netatlantic.com/track?t=c&eas=1&mid=468266&msgid=411042&did=408508&sn=16825942&eid=s_blaine99%40hotmail.com&uid=s_blaine99%40hotmail.com&fl=&extra=MultivariateId=&&&2004&&&https://www.fundraisingbynet.net/fbn/ContributePac.asp?guidRegistration=5E565E59" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">HELP MMPAC SHERIFF JOE AND THE COLD CASE POSSE HOLD BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA ACCOUNTABLE TO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION! STOP OBAMA’S FORGERY, FRAUD AND CONSPIRACY TO DECEIVE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE - SELECT HERE!</a></div> <img align="right" height="239" src="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/0c63abc741fff5c4813d80e0a/files/fraudobama.jpg" style="width: 187px; margin-bottom: 5px; height: 239px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" width="187" />Obama’s desperate strategy to hide behind lax state laws and continue his current occupation of the Oval Office – eligibility be-damned – must be stopped, and it must be stopped now! Obama has been riding the wave of Leftwing political popularity, presenting it to the American people as the “legitimate qualification” needed. Only the U.S. Constitution, not state laws, restricts eligibility to hold the office of president to natural born citizens – and unless we act together right now, slippery Obama is going to be that much harder to catch, and our time is fast running out as the presidential elections are a mere six months away! Your hard work and continuing support are keeping Obama on his toes – but this fight is far from over. Right now, we need your support more than ever to keep the pressure on Obama. With upcoming legal challenges to Obama’s eligibility to take place across the country, we still have ample opportunity to defeat Obama once and for all. We have the evidence that Obama is not eligible but evidence of forgery, by itself, is not what legally excludes Obama from appearing on the ballot. But we need the court. Until some authority is willing to consider the Cold Case Posse’s investigation findings – that the long-form birth certificate released by the White House last year is a forgery – as an indication of actual ineligibility in a court of legal authority, we are stuck in limbo. <div><a href="http://sm1.netatlantic.com/track?t=c&eas=1&mid=468266&msgid=411042&did=408508&sn=16825942&eid=s_blaine99%40hotmail.com&uid=s_blaine99%40hotmail.com&fl=&extra=MultivariateId=&&&2005&&&https://www.fundraisingbynet.net/fbn/ContributePac.asp?guidRegistration=5E565E59" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">HELP MMPAC SHERIFF JOE AND THE COLD CASE POSSE HOLD BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA ACCOUNTABLE TO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION! STOP OBAMA’S FORGERY, FRAUD AND CONSPIRACY TO DECEIVE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE - SELECT HERE!</a></div> Keeping Sheriff Joe’s Cold Case Posse team of volunteer retired law enforcement officers and subject matter experts going stronger than ever before is our only chance at holding Barack Hussein Obama accountable to the American people. Obama’s document forgery and usurpation of the Oval Office have resulted in a mockery of the U.S. judicial system where Obama can publish poorly counterfeited records to prove eligibility for political purposes, yet those same records are held by the courts as irrelevant for determining Obama’s legal eligibility status BECAUSE – and here’s a real kicker – according to judges, they are “so poorly forged” they are obviously meant to be satirical and not to be taken seriously. Obama may well have made a fool of the entire legal system, the presidential officer, and America – do not let him make a fool of US! Obama’s mockery of the Constitution must stop, and it must stop NOW! <a href="http://sm1.netatlantic.com/track?t=c&eas=1&mid=468266&msgid=411042&did=408508&sn=16825942&eid=s_blaine99%40hotmail.com&uid=s_blaine99%40hotmail.com&fl=&extra=MultivariateId=&&&2006&&&https://www.fundraisingbynet.net/fbn/ContributePac.asp?guidRegistration=595F5D56" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">SELECT HERE TO SUPPORT SHERIFF JOE AND THE COLD CASE POSSE!</a>