A Conservative Fox News Legal analyst agrees that the Cambridge police officer did not act very smartly. Nice to know some Conservatives understand the law. If a person in his own home is being rude to a police officer he cannot be arrested. What's more, according to this analyst, the officer may have violated the federal Constitution.
"You can't be disorderly if you're in your house or on your property because that is not a public place. So if Professor Gates was arrested because of the words he used to the police inside his house, on the front porch, on his own lawn - it was an improper arrest....So if we just take the police report, and we just take Massachusetts law and we take Federal law the question is, 'was there a proper arrest' - in my view there was not a proper arrest."
I received this email the other day. Sounds interesting....
"We are part of the True Origins Spacer movement. We go one step further than the Birther movement in that we believe Barack 'Hussein' Obama is a space alien. And we will not be convinced otherwise until he gives a DNA test proving he is a full fledged Earthling [a member of the human species] related to real Earthlings right here on this here Earth.
We know initially he will say no. But, if after saying no, he continues to insist on not taking a DNA test we will have to conclude that he is indeed a space alien and is trying to cover-up his true origins, which we do not at this time feel compelled to disclose.
Please note that we will not accept just any old DNA test done by one of Obama's doctors or any other high falutin doctor that we do not personally know. We will only accept a DNA test done by one of our doctors. [At this time we do not actually have any doctors in our movement - but as we let the world know about our movement we are sure we will get a few].
Anyway, this test must also be done in full view of all of the people in our movement and all those Americans who care about this country of ours.
Now, we know that a DNA test can take up to 30 days to produce results and will involve moving whatever it is they take from him from one place to another in order to determine his DNA. We also know there will be times when the stuff they take from him just sits in a beeker or something. But we have figured that out. We will set up a series of cameras in the testing / lab room[s] and make sure every moment is captured for all to see - most likely to be downloaded as thousands of ten minute videos on YouTube.
An important thing to note is we will need to also do tests on everyone who claims they are related to Obama. And we will expect them to go through the same procedure just to make sure everything is completely accurate. The reason is because [we concede] Obama may actually only be half or a third space alien.
We simply want to make sure beyond a reasonable doubt that our President is not a space alien. Although we think he is 100% so and we think this test will prove it.
The next question I know you are asking is how [if he is a space alien] that would disqualify him from being President. The reason is because we will then know for certain that he wasn't, in fact, even born on Earth - let alone Hawaii or where ever he claims he was born.
Stay tuned Earthings."
Hawaii on August 4th 1961.
A few looney right wingers continue to insist that Obama was born outside of the US.
The website PolitiFact does a really terrific job of setting the record straight. One particular point really stand out.
> We talked to reporter Will Hoover, who wrote a well-researched story for the Honolulu Advertiser on Nov. 9, 2008, about Obama's childhood years in the the Aloha State. It ran under the headline "Obama Slept Here."
In researching the story, he went to the microfilm archives and found the birth announcement for Obama. Actually, he found two of them, one in his Honululu Advertiser on Aug. 13 , 1961, and in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin the next day . They both said the same thing: "Mr. and Mrs. Barack H. Obama, 6085 Kalanianaole Highway, son, Aug. 4."
But here's the thing. Newspaper officials he checked with confirmed those notices came from the state Department of Health.
"That's not the kind of stuff a family member calls in and says, 'Hey, can you put this in?'" Hoover explained.
Take a second and think about that. In order to phony those notices up, it would have required the complicity of the state Health Department and two independent newspapers " on the off chance this unnamed child might want to one day be president of the United States. [Emp added].
FactCheck also has the info.
But of course with conspiracy theorists the madness never ends. Think Progress has an update.
