I suppose it’s at least refreshing to see one of them finally show his true colours.
Google the guy’s name and you’ll end up smack dab in the middle of downtown Whackville. He wrote this document (.pdf) proving that the gummint is deceiving us by printing proper names in all caps in legal and legislative documents, and therefore (very last sentence), “The only courts today are statutory commercial tribunals collecting tribute (plunder) from the alleged Creditors who think they have conquered the country on their way to ruling the world.”
The pdf file says it was written anonymously, but the page it is linked from says “by Gordon Warren Epperley and Lightbringer - we have been told”. Since it doesn’t read GORDON WARREN EPPERLEY, it must be true.
I like that it mentions the “purported” ratification of the fourteenth amendment. Does he detail why it was only purportedly ratified? I thought those kinds of arguments were usually reserved for the sixteenth amendment.
As crazy as the Birthers are, this example of one being deranged whacko racist crazy is not evidence that all of “these people” are racist. And we need no additional evidence to be able to call them deranged whacko crazy.
Sure the racists will often be Birthers, but you really can be a deranged whacko without being a racist as well.
John Cain was born in Panama, under legal loopholes that had to be fixed via legislation so he would be a citizen. Obama was born inside the goddamn USA, so why weren’t the birthers howling in rage about McCain?
I would agree in general, but not in this particular. Birtherism is inherently racist, a reaction against the “Other”. This whacko is overt about the racism rather than covert, but reading birther commentary shows that this is part of a continuum rather than an exception.
Those states were required by the Reconstruction Acts to (among other things) ratify the Fourteenth Amendment to resume full representation in Congress. Some do not view the Reconstruction Acts as constitutional.