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AL GOP Leader Issuing "White Paper" on Obama's Birth Certificate. Who's Bringing the White Sheets?

by: countrycat

Tue Jan 31, 2012 at 16:20:16 PM CST


In yet another example of "what happens when we defund community mental health clinics," Madison County GOP Executive Comm. member (and Tom Butler-slayer) Hugh McInnish is holding a presser.  In an - ahem - interesting email being circulated throughout the state, Mr. McInnish is making some big promises.  Birthers of America rejoice... Hugh McInnish has proof, yes PROOF!, that President Obama's birth certificate is false.Hugh McInnish & his tinfoil hat

Let's share his missive in its entirety, shall we?  (Thanks to Alabama Democratic Party Chair Mark Kennedy for forwarding the text):  (emphasis mine)

For the last several months I have been working on a white paper presenting the evidence that Mr. Obamas so-called birth certificate is a forgery. I have completed this paper and it contains some 30 pages of text and exhibits. I and my colleague Dean Johnson, who is a lawyer, will present it in a press conference on the steps of the Alabama Capitol in Montgomery on Thursday, February 2 at 1:30. The public is, of course, invited, and if you are patriotically inclined please join us. Signs are invited (but please leave your AK47s at home in the closet.)

Meanwhile by fortuitous circumstances the pot is boiling over across the Chattahoochee in Georgia. There a court hearing has been heard challenging Obamas right to be on the Georgia ballot. Neither Obama nor his lawyer responded to the subpoena to be present, and the judge considered summarily ruling against Obama. However the complaining parties, in what at first brush seems surprising, asked him not to take that step, but to let the hearing proceed. On second thought this makes good sense. It allows the plaintiffs to put their case on the record, and there it will be for use if the case gets a favorable ruling and is appealed. Generally, courts of appeal take no evidence themselves but rely on the evidence developed in the original court.

And that evidence is most impressive. See it below.

Many attempts have been made to get the Birthers case laid before the courts, but in ever instance the courts have wimped out and found an excuse not to examine the case on its merits. But now that has happened. And assuming a ruling against Obama, expected in about a week, there may be widespread repercussions.

For one thing, we Birthers can take off our tin hats and wear them as an iconic badges of honor. For another, it should encourage similar actions in the other states, all 49 of themor did I get that right? Maybe its all 56 of them. And finally, I hope that the case in George will intensify interest in my appearance on the Capitol steps at 1:30 on Thursday, February 2.

In my white paper I will present what I believe is conclusive evidence that the Obama birth certificate is a forgery and Obama himself a forgerer. Do you realize what that would mean? Just think of it! It would mean that the most powerful nation in the world is under the direction of a felon. It might mean, as some legal expert contend, that all of his executive actions are null and void.

It would also mean that the Fourth Estate is asleep while perhaps the greatest story of the 21st century boils beneath their feet. And finally it would mean that all of our so-called leaders have failed us miserably.

Please use your influence to bring people to the State Capitol Thursday.

A cataclysm may be building!"

Note that the grammatical errors are on the part of the author, not Left in Alabama.

hmmm..... let's consider the source of this putative "proof" and look back to those "thrilling days of yesteryear," to Mr. McInnish's last major press conference: 
Unfairness of Life is Cause of Racial Disparities in HSV Public Schools

 

countrycat :: AL GOP Leader Issuing "White Paper" on Obama's Birth Certificate. Who's Bringing the White Sheets?

Here's a link to McInnish's entire letter to the Department of Justice.  As ThinkProgress put it:

McInnish offered a litany of bizarre “proof” that racial disparity isn’t “manmade,” claiming “blacks misbehave on average more frequently than whites do,” and that black students are unable to perform as well as white students. To McInnish, the only “manmade unfairness here” is that the DOJ wants to “correct a problem that is not of their making”
[...]
McInnish won posts on the executive committees for both the county and state Republican parties in June but insists he “Was not speaking out as a representative of either group.” “Some of them will be aghast at what I’ve said,” he mused.

But as much as McInnish is concerned about racial "justice," he's even more obsessed by President Obama's birth:

That last one is truly breathtaking in its conspiracy theory craziness:

When Obama wrote a book and said he was mentored as a youth by Frank, (Frank Marshall Davis) an avowed Communist, People said it didn't matter.

When it was discovered that his grandparents, who were strong socialists, sent Obama's mother to a socialist school, and introduced Frank Marshall Davis to young Obama, People said it didn't matter.

When people found out that he was enrolled as a Muslim child in school and his father and stepfather were both Muslims, People said it didn't matter.
[...]
When he refused to disclose who donated money to his election campaign, as other candidates had done, People said it didn't matter.
[...]
When people started treating him as a Messiah and children in schools were taught to sing his praises, People said it didn't matter.

When he stood with his hands over his groin area for the playing of the National Anthem and Pledge of Allegiance, People said it didn't matter.


When he surrounded himself in the White house with advisors who were pro gun control, pro abortion, pro homosexual marriage and wanting to curtail freedom of speech to silence the opposition People said it didn't matter.

[...]
When he appointed a science czar, John Holdren, who believes in forced abortions, mass sterilizations and seizing babies from teen mothers, People said it didn't matter.
[...]
When he appointed Kevin Jennings, a homosexual, and organizer of a group called gay, lesbian, straight, Education network, as safe school czar and it became known that he had a history of bad advice to teenagers, People said it didn't matter.

When as president of the United States , he bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia , People said it didn't matter.

  ----- WTF?  It's ok to hold hands with the Saudi King, but not bow?  

[...]
When he designed plans to take over the health care system and put it under government control, People said it didn't matter.
[...] When he finally completed his transformation of America into a Socialist State , people finally woke up -- but it was too late.

Ok... who thinks that the public will greet McInnish's "revelations" with the same "it doesn't matter" fervor that they greeted all of McInnish's other specious allegations?

Our next question: which GOP officeholders and candidates take money from this guy?  Should be interesting to find out!

 

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I doubt that he knows what a "White Paper" is, but... (4.00 / 3)

he'll be damned if he'll use "Colored" paper.  In an interview with "Cœur d'un Cochon", a prominent French journal, he stated "I never used their water fountains and I ain't gonna use their papers".

* Correction: while technically true that McInnish lives in a gated community, I am assured by authorities that the locks on the gate are to keep McInnish in, unless accompanied by his keepers.

But, here is one more or less serious observation.  Of all the things he listed (all of whaich truly don't matter), none of them refer remotely to Obama's citizenship.  Where is his proof that Obama is a forgererererer?



"BOUNCE THE BASTARDS". Piggieheart

wait until Thursday, Grasshopper.... (4.00 / 1)
McIninnish promises that "all will be revealed!"

There are no "safe" Republican districts. You can run but you can't hide.  - Rahm Emmanuel



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This is not April 1st ... (4.00 / 3)

But I still wonder if you're pulling our leg, countrycat.  Seriously, would anyone write crap like this as anything other than a joke?

Signs are invited (but please leave your AK47s at home in the closet.)

and

we Birthers can take off our tin hats and wear them as an iconic badges of honor.

Then I googled Hugh McInnish.  He's not only a birther, he's a shameless apologist for an alleged Nazi war criminal.

For a number of years Hugh wrote a weekly column for the old Huntsville News, and from one of the stories that he pursued came the book which he wrote, An American in Exile. Written under Hugh's pen name of Thomas Franklin, it is the tale of Arthur Rudolph, the former NASA scientist who was stripped of his citizenship and banished from the country for war crimes allegedly committed during the war.

Arthur Rudolph was one of the German rocket engineers brought to the US after World War II.  He was in charge of V2 production during the war, production which used slave labor.  From Rudolph's obituary in the NYT:

At the time of his entry into the United States, Mr. Rudolph was described by the American military government in Germany as an "ardent Nazi," but he was not classified as a war criminal. Army documents from two years later showed, however, that Mr. Rudolph had indeed been classified as a war criminal by West German and United States officials.

These documents surfaced when the Office of Special Investigations was formed in the Justice Department to investigate war crimes. The office conducted an investigation and interviewed survivors of forced labor at the V-2 factory. Fred* Sher, the director of special investigations, said that this evidence was presented to Mr. Rudolph and that he signed a document agreeing to relinquish his United States citizenship. In return, the Justice Department agreed not to pursue his case in the United States.

* Correction, the agent was Neal M. Sher, not Fred.

From Dora and the V2 at the UA Huntsville website:

Faced with shortages of labor, Arthur Rudolph, the chief V–2 production engineer, in a memo of April 12, 1943, recommended that the missile program at Peenemünde adopt the exploitation of SS camp labor like that he saw at an aircraft factory. The first prisoners arrived at Peenemünde on June 17. Following the Royal Air Force bombing of the site, von Braun, technical director of the V–2 project, chaired a staff meeting on August 25 that recommended producing missiles underground with camp labor.

Slave laborers working alongside German civilians, photograph by Walter Frentz. Courtesy of La Coupole History and Remembrance Centre.

Rudolph became technical head of V–2 production at the underground Mittelwerk factory; he and von Braun requested that the SS provide more prisoners for V–2 production, most clearly in an August 15, 1944, memo in which von Braun described his trip to the Buchenwald concentration camp to select prison workers and arrange their transfer to Dora. Missile engineers at Peenemünde adapted the V–2 design for assembly by prison laborers. At Dora, Rudolph and other engineers, who had responsibility for the pace and quality of V–2 assembly, were implicated in prisoner abuse and hangings in reporting ”saboteurs“ to the SS for punishment, as a June 22, 1944 Mittelwerk memo mandated.

So, Hugh McInnish is on record defending a man who was an "ardent Nazi," was implicated in prisoner abuse and hangings in Germany and was sufficiently concerned he could be prosecuted for war crimes that he voluntarily gave up his US citizenship.  Hugh McInnish said that man should still have his US citizenship, but Barack Obama, who has produced his birth certificate, whose mother was an American citizen, who was born on American soil and who happens to be black -- well, Mr. McInnish is convinced he isn't an American citizen.

Combine that with his previous racist writings and you know all you need to know about Hugh McInnish.  It isn't President Obama's birth certificate that bothers him, it's his skin color.

Racists.  That's what the AL-GOP and the Madison County GOP have been nursing to their bosom.



Work harder and work smarter!

You say that like you're surprised (4.00 / 2)
Racists.  That's what the AL-GOP and the Madison County GOP have been nursing to their bosom.

Or maybe I'd just jaded.

"When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak." (Audre Lorde)


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Not surprised at the fact of it (4.00 / 2)
But somewhat surprised at such an open linkage. HM has not only been elected to both the state advisory and county GOP cmmtes, he's one of the party old timers. He ran for Congress a couple of times and just barely missed being the nominee once. Racism is the dark heart of the ALGOP. I'm surprised they don't try to hide it better.

Work harder and work smarter!

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