Can this be real? This is either an elaborate hoax or the Birthers have all gone round the bend. Submitted, the Declaration of Lucas Daniel Smith. I will note that while the document is addressed to Judge Carter's court, there is no date stamp indicating that it was filed. However, there seems to be a history to this dispute.
This Declaration appeared tonight on scribd.com. I've excerpted the highlights.
I. My name is Lucas Daniel Smith. I am 29 years old ( DOB 01.04.1980). I was born in the state of Iowa. My hometown is Cedar Rapids, Iowa. I'm a Republican. Conservative. Wholeheartedly against entitlement programs / income-support programs. I believe in a society free of PROPERTY TAX other than that which we pay (one time) when we initially purchase the said property. I am of sound mind and free of any mental disease or psychological impairment of any kind.
II. Attorney Orly Taitz asked me (Lucas Smith) to lie under oath and to give false testimony in the Honorable Judge David O. Carter's courtroom, for civil action SACV09-00082-DOC (Anx).
Worse, below.
http://www.scribd.com/...
COMES NOW the Declarant, LUCAS DANIEL SMITH, and states and deposes that the following declaration is true, relevant to this civil action and needs to be brought to the attention of the Government of the United States of America which is a "government of the people, by the people, for the people." (Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania November 19, 1863).
I. My name is Lucas Daniel Smith. I am 29 years old ( DOB 01.04.1980). I was born in the state of Iowa. My hometown is Cedar Rapids, Iowa. I'm a Republican. Conservative. Wholeheartedly against entitlement programs / income-support programs. I believe in a society free of PROPERTY TAX other than that which we pay (one time) when we initially purchase the said property. I am of sound mind and free of any mental disease or psychological impairment of any kind. (sic)
II. Attorney Orly Taitz asked me (Lucas Smith) to lie under oath and to give false testimony in the Honorable Judge David O. Carter's courtroom, for civil action SACV09-00082-DOC (Anx).
III. Attorney Orly Taitz asked me to give false testimony in open court that attorney Gary Kreep had contacted me in June and July of this year (2009) during my eBay auctions for Barack Obama's Coast Province General Hospital Kenyan birth certificate and other related Items (!). Moreover, Orly Taitz asked me to testify in open court that attorney Gary Kreep offered to buy from me (Lucas Smith), Barack Obama's Coast Province General Hospital birth certificate. In addition, Orly Taitz asked me to give false testimony in open court that I'd ascertained from the wording of Kreep's eBay messages that he (Kreep) wanted to by the birth certificate so that he (Kreep) could 'bury" it so that it would never see the inside of a courtroom or news outlet.
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V. On two separate occasions while Orly Taitz and I were having discussions she (Orly Taitz) brought up the idea that I (Lucas Smith) should give false testimony in open court that it was me (Lucas Smith) that also obtained, in Kenya, the 1964 Republic of Kenya Certified Copy of Registration of Birth of Barrack Hussein Obama II....
Orly Taitz told me that she'd been supplied with the photograph of the 1964 Republic of Kenya Certified copy of Registration of Birth of Barack Hussein Obama II by MOSSAD...
Orly Taitz went on to tell me that she'd strategically planned from the outset of her public release of the photograph of the 1964 Republic of Kenya Certified Copy of Registration of Birth of Barrack Hussein Obama II for the possibility foe me (Lucas Smith) vouching (at a later date) for having obtained this birth registration while I was in Kenya and furthermore that it was I (Lucas Smith) that gave her the color photograph of the birth registration, as well.
[Lucas almost gets hit by a car outside of court in downtown LA. The driver waves, "I'm sorry" at him. He and his companion joke about it.)
... I mentioned to Orly Taitz the incident about the car and the subsequent "hitman" joke that Peyton Freiman and myself had chuckled about. Attorney Orly Taitz then told me she wanted me to give testimony in the Honorable Judge David O. Carter's courtroom that there had been an 'attempt on my life".... and that I feel that President Obama has sent 'operatives" to kill me before I have the chance to testify...
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.... At this point it began to become clearer and clearer to me that Orly Taitz had no understanding of the law. I also began to note that all filings, in all of Orly Taitz's civil actions against President Barack Obama, were actually being composed by the renowned Charles Lincoln III. Charles Lincoln III is a brilliant man who I hold in the highest esteem....
Charles Lincoln is a noble man...Charles Lincoln III earns his money by helping those who have fallen into foreclosure on their homes.... Patriots and concerned citizens wishing to donate to the cause of saving America and the ousting of Barack Obama from office of President of the United States should consider making monetary donations to the renowned Charles Lincoln III.
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Charles Lincoln III also talks openly about his illicit affair with married woman Orly Taitz....
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I have searched far and wide for supporting evidence which would back up or authenticate the two Kenyan birth certificates that have been filed in this civil case... However, all investigation, research and analysis... have led me to believe that the document is a fake and that Orly Taitz has known it was a fake from the onset.
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Orly Taitz is independently wealthy and her husband (Yosef Taitz) is a wealthy software programmer.
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XIV. It should be duly noted that approximately one week after I left the house of Charles Lincoln III that he (Charles) was evicted from his home....
Executed on 10.12.2009
Respectfully submitted,
s Lucas Daniel Smith
Um, what? I've left out plenty of scandalous but mystifying assertions, assertions which make me doubt the authenticity of this document. However, from what I've seen of Birthermania, it's entirely possible that this is indeed Smith's Declaration. What do you think?
UPDATE Per Katzy, "It's not on the electronic docket as having been filed. Sadly."
To delete or not to delete? If this is a prank it's pretty good. Got me.
UPDATE
Not that this proves anything, but here's his his sig on his original declaration. Compare with sig on linked doc. Obviously, any prankster could have done a cut and paste.
UPDATE Someone has posted alleged chat comments by Smith from YouTube. Note that scribd is open to anyone to upload whatever.
http://www.scribd.com/...
UPDATE Lucas Smith YouTube:
UPDATE Admittedly, I am grasping at straws here. Signatures:
So Anyway
http://www.ocweekly.com/...
Smith, 29, first appeared in the birther world in June as eBay user “colmado_naranja.” He was holding an auction for an artifact he claimed to have found: Obama’s original birth certificate from Mombasa, Kenya. After opening and closing the auction a few times, Smith in late August posted a video on YouTube showing himself surrounded by black children and holding the purported birth certificate. Right-wing news site World Net Daily—the organization that has sponsored “Where’s the Birth Certificate?” billboards across the country, including one in Buena Park—pounced on the story, reporting that Smith has a criminal record that includes forgery and an attempt to sell his kidney, and calling the certificate “not a valid document.”
In early September, Smith fired back at World Net Daily with a series of YouTube videos before filing a declaration with Taitz’s Barnett v. Obama lawsuit, vouching for the authenticity of the Mombasa birth certificate and saying he had obtained it by paying off a military officer in Kenya. Taitz paid for Smith’s plane ticket from the Dominican Republic, picked him up and brought him to court on Sept. 8, where he believed he would be given a chance to speak. A week later, though, Smith posted a message on his YouTube channel: “Im sorry everyone but, [sic] I cannot work with Orly Taitz any longer. She wants me to lie under oath.”
Smith isn’t the first in the Obama-conspiracy world to quarrel with Taitz. In May, Pennsylvania lawyer Phil Berg teamed up with his assistant, Taitz’s former webmaster and an online-talk-show host to sue Taitz for slander, harassment and privacy violations (see “Birth of an Obsession,” June 18). Buena Park pastor Wiley Drake and American Independent Party chairman Markham Robinson, after originally being represented by Taitz in their lawsuit against Obama, changed their attorney to San Diego lawyer Gary Kreep. He, in turn, has become a source of ridicule on Taitz’s website. At the Sept. 8 hearing, Carter said he would “force” the two attorneys to work together. “Your personal likes or dislikes or inability to work together isn’t a good reason for the court to allow separate lawsuits to proceed,” he said before asking Taitz and Kreep to move their chairs together.
That conflict ultimately led to the falling-out between Smith and Taitz, Smith says. Taitz supposedly asked Smith to testify in court that Kreep had approached him months ago to buy the Kenyan birth certificate from him, with an interest in preventing it from ever being filed in a lawsuit. Smith says she also asked him to vouch for the veracity of another Kenyan birth certificate that Taitz has filed as an exhibit in her lawsuit—the same certificate that won Taitz headlines around the world in August as quickly as it was debunked as a likely forgery.
“I’m not going to discredit my own story for her lawsuit,” Smith said. “Let’s not fight lies with lies.”
UPDATE Okay, maybe the uploader's avatar is our clue.
UPDATE joshsmeth points to these comments by Smith on his YouTube page:
http://www.youtube.com/...
InspectorSmith (20 hours ago)
You can view it by going to Scribd and searching for "Lucas Smith 10.12.2009"
The title is "Lucas Daniel Smith 10.12.09 new Declaration SACV09-00082-DOC (Anx)"
InspectorSmith (20 hours ago)
Another declaration dated 10.12.2009 by Lucas Daniel Smith filed in Orly's Civil Action SACVO9-00082-DOC (Anx) CAPTAIN PAMELA BARNETT vs BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA.
UPDATE added 10/24 12:50 ET
It's real. Amazingly enough. From Smith's YouTube page:
http://www.youtube.com/...
InspectorSmith (7 hours ago)
Dear zanesbil, thanks for your kind remarks. You can find the new 10.12.2009 Declaration by going to Scribd and searching on their website for " Lucas Daniel Smith 10.12.09 new Declaration SACV09-00082-DOC (Anx) " My Scribd user name is Patriot1980. If that's not the user name that you see when you find the declaration, then you are looking at an upload of what another Scribd user has uploaded of my declaration. (Which could just be another user making sure that my declaration stays online incase my user name gets kicked off.....or it could be a user that has altered my declaration and wishes to present their fake version to the world). Thanks again.
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InspectorSmith (9 hours ago)
Dear katabole, you state that because I have filed the new 10.12.2009 Declaration that now "We all look like total loons." For the record, WEVE ALL LOOKED LIKE TOTAL LOONS from the OUTSET. Especially with Orly Taitz being crowned the so called QUEEN of the BIRTHERS. So give me break. If you don't like the truth then I suggest you sign up for the Obama utopian society plan. I refuse fight lies with lies. People like think like you (overlook Orlys lie and unethical tactics) are just as bad as Obama supporters who overlook the SMALL fact that Obama is ineligible to serve as President.
Patriot1980 posted the document I've linked above. Patriot1980 is Lucas Smith. The court might not accept this Declaration, as Smith is not a party to the lawsuit, and while it may or may not be factual, it seems to be Smith's actual statement.
Total. Birther. Meltdown.