He who lives by the hoax, dies by the hoax.
People have been complaining for months about Barack Obama’s birth certificate, complaining that the official, under seal document from the State of Hawaii should not be honored, contrary to Hawaii law, contrary to federal immigration law, and contrary to the Constitution’s full faith and credit clause. Something must be wrong with the document, they have claimed over and over, though no credible evidence of any problem has ever surfaced, let alone been presented to any authority. Lawsuits have been dismissed for standing, dismissed for failure to state a case, and lately dismissed with warnings that nuisance suits will bring Rule 11 sanctions (Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure require that an attorney not file false or misleading documents, and that they swear that what they allege in a complaint is actual controversy and not hoax or false).
Even a reiteration from Hawaii officials didn’t quell the lunatic screams from the birther asylums. (Here’s I’ve usually referred to the birth certificate-obsessed, or BCOs; I’ll continue using that acronym.)
The BCO universe erupted with glee over the weekend with the presentation of a document purported to be a birth certificate for Barack Obama, Jr., from Mombasa, Kenya.
While warning more sane and cool people that they were not skeptical enough of Obama’s Hawaiian birth certificate, BCOs claimed they now had the smoking gun. Orly Taitz, a California dentist/lawyer, promised to blow the case of Obama’s alleged ineligibility wide open with new filings of documents in California state courts.
They wanted so badly for the document to true and accurate, even though it would have offered no new ammunition for their claims, since Obama’s mother was a citizen and under U.S. law a child born to a U.S. citizen is considered a born citizen no matter where in the universe it is born . . .
That was Friday night. Beginning Saturday morning, the hoax began to unravel.
BCO’s were had! Someone had hoaxed them!
So, of course, they have gotten louder in their demands that the White House toss Obama to the crowd with pitchforks and torches, so they can investigate.
The document is a classic hoax, delivered where and when gullibility made the BCO arguments most vunerable (which is any time, really).
Just after having complained that long-established and well-respected hoax debunking site Snopes.com could not be trusted, WorldNet Daily, the modern electronic analog to the pre-lawyered National Enquirer crossed wtih Saga magazine, now claimed it had the smoking document, and showed pictures of it.
Hoax birth certificate for Barack Obama, Jr, alleged to be showing birth in Mombasa, then Zanzibar
Never mind that the certificate offered suffers from more problems than the BCOs claimed to find with the document Hawaii offered — no signatures of any official, no attending physician, unintelligible seal, not a “long form,” etc. — it was, WorldNet Daily, Orly Taitz and others said, THE jenyu-wine article. They even offered close-ups.
Another view of the hoax document offeree by BCO Orly Taitz.
See? Right there you can see: Barack Obama, Sr. (Obama’s father), 26 years old. The Registrar, E. F. Lavender. Registered in Mombasa on August 5, 1961, one day after Obama’s birthday. It even shows the book and page number of the original registration document, and the date the official who signed this document issued it in Mombasa, Republic of Kenya, on February 17, 1964.
Okay, students: How many problems can you find with the document?
See below the fold.
Posted by Ed Darrell 
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