Obama Citizenship

My Response to TheExaminer, HoustonPress RE: Dr. Taitz

By Phil

Thanks to a handy, dandy Google Alert of mine, I found out that two separate news sites have taken my site’s name in vain! Well, not quite, but apparently there’s a lot of confusion over what Dr. Taitz had said regarding what Officer Ronald Dischler Sr. of the Beaumont Police Department had to say about further investigating the President.

From Richard Connelly of the HoustonPress blog (excerpted):

As the Examiner tells the tale, Officer Ronald Dischler Sr. of the Beaumont Police Department agreed to tackle the earth-shattering case of whether Obama’s birth certificate is real or not. (This is Wingnut 101 these days, along with calling him a “socialist” or a “fascist” interchangeably.)

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In his reply to Taitz, Dischler agreed to pursue the matter. “I have received your e-mail and I will use it to further my investigation into the Criminal matter concerning Barack Hussein Obama,” Dischler wrote in his correspondence with Taitz, which became public when she posted it on her Web site, The Right Side of Life.

The site does exist, and seems to be consumed with the birth-certificate BS.

Beaumont police chief Frank Coffin told the Examiner any investigation into Obama’s shady past has been halted. [emphasis mine]

Well, yeah, of course my site exists, however it is not Dr. Taitz’ site! My name is Phil and not Orly Taitz, and I have no connection with her site or activities in any way; I merely report on what she says in context of the eligibility saga. And no, I don’t mind if those in the press want to call me or my ilk names because I question the eligibility of this President who, it would appear in their worldview, is unquestionable.

Despite the absolutely shoddy reporting of the above blog, and while Jennifer Johnson, Orange County Editor for TheExaminer, similarly gets my site confused as well, she does at least provide a reasonable update on the Officer’s viewpoint (excerpted):

Both Taitz and Dischler confirmed the authenticity of the e-mail exchanges in separate interviews with The Examiner. Their correspondence, which took place at the end of March 2009, was initiated by Taitz in an effort to have the president investigated criminally for acts such as forgery, fraud and identity theft. Taitz told The Examiner she requested Dischler’s assistance in obtaining “immediate investigation, subpoena of the records and prosecution to the full extent of the law” in matters related to Obama’s legitimacy as President.

In his reply to Taitz, Dischler agreed to pursue the matter.

“I have received your e-mail and I will use it to further my investigation into the Criminal matter concerning Barack Hussein Obama,” Dischler wrote in his correspondence with Taitz, which became public when she posted it on her Web site, The Right Side of Life. [Get it freakin' right, people! This is my site, not hers!] …

Dischler said he was a veteran of 27 years of police work, the last nine on the Beaumont PD. He also insisted he still does not recognize Barack Obama as the legal president of the United States, but admitted he has found no proof of wrongdoing.

“I don’t want you to think this was a renegade mission, either,” Dischler told The Examiner. He said his superiors were aware of his investigation, but the powers that be eventually told the patrol officer to abandon the case.

“I looked at it and informed my sergeant and my lieutenant what I was doing. Sometimes, we have to choose our battles,” said Dischler, whose earnest manner seemed at odds with the words he was saying.

“First of all, it is not winnable and then, this is something the feds have to do. What I was trying to do was bring this to the front and try and end all this because I’m not the only person asking this question,” he continued. “I didn’t take this up on my own. A citizen brought this to me and I felt an obligation to investigate. This is not something I took up on my own as a quote, un-quote vendetta.”

Dischler said the total elapsed time of his investigation spanned two weeks.

“I went online and I looked and looked and looked and couldn’t find what I was looking for,” he said, describing the early phase of his investigation. Dischler said he realized the supporting information he did uncover was inadmissible in any court where the Beaumont officer could file a case. He said he heeded the advice of his superiors and decided to call it quits.

Dischler may have decided he was through with the case, but it was far from over.

Although the criminal investigation of President Barack Obama will not likely lead to an arrest, it has led to even more tense exchanges within the police department.

One black Beaumont officer who spoke with The Examiner on the condition of anonymity said Dischler’s most recent undertaking is seen by certain members of the force as a racially-motivated attack.

“You can’t be a racist and serve a diverse community,” the officer said. “You can’t act that way, and in the national spotlight, and expect to be able to serve a community as mixed as ours.”

Dischler acknowledged he “sometimes” catches grief around the department “but I defend my position. My opinion is my opinion, and that’s given to me by the Constitution. Just because I feel this way doesn’t make me a fanatic, a radical, non-American, or an Adolph-Hitler type of individual. This is my opinion and I am entitled to it.”

The veteran police officer seems to have never been given the advice that, when you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

“Just because your political views are different than mine doesn’t mean you aren’t entitled to good law enforcement,” said Dischler. “This is not political. The direction this person (the president) is leading us in - him, and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid - I believe they are leading us away from what the Constitution says, what the Constitution meant. But what you believe is what you believe. When I deal with you as a law enforcement officer, I will deal with you as an individual and I will deal with you with whatever I’m there to deal with you for.”

Beaumont Police Department Chief Frank Coffin agreed that while Dischler is entitled to his opinion, he had no business touting the department in connection with what must be perceived as a political activity. …

According to the chief, he was unaware of Dischler’s investigation of President Obama until a source outside the department informed him of a potentially politically-charged issue involving the department about two weeks ago and that it was only this week he learned more details. Following the timeline supplied by Dischler, by that time his investigation had ceased.

Dischler said he is sorry his correspondence with Taitz hit the Internet and insisted that under no circumstance did he expect the exchange to be made public. Additionally, he said he told Taitz the investigation had been abandoned long before their e-mails were made public.

In the end, Dischler characterized his investigation as business as usual.

“It’s like any other criminal case. There’s just sometimes you investigate something to the end and there’s nothing more you can do,” he said. “I can’t make up law to suit her; I can’t make up policy to suit her. Had another situation taken place, it would have been a horse of a different color.”

Even though both news organizations got wires crossed on who has which Internet site, I do appreciate the publicity that they are nevertheless creating for both the eligibility issue as well as for Dr. Taitz and myself. And to be perfectly honest, I will again say that, in my opinion, Dr. Taitz tends to take too much of a “ready, fire, aim” approach to her litigation. Pursuing multiple avenues of justice is perfectly fine, but it’s a very good idea to be thorough about such endeavors, else something — like the above — is going to come back to bite you in the butt.

A current listing of common law grand jury updates and eligibility lawsuits can be found here.

-Phil

Full post as published by The Right Side of Life on April 24, 2009 (boomark / email).