i was going to open this diary noting that "this sh*t just writes itself, folks", but that's just not really true.
because, when it comes to birthers and their uncanny ability to balance the fate of constitutional republic on nothing but thin air, it takes real dedicated idiocy to produce comedy gold like this:
thinking the legally "unthinkable" in the KSM trial
by jack kemp*, intellectualconservative.com
if khalid shaikh mohammed is clever he will turn his trial into an obama birth certificate circus. the new york post has an excellent piece by attorney michael schwartz, pointing out the difficulty of predicting a jury's verdict in the pending khalid shaikh mohammed trial in new york city. his article is entitled "why the gov't could lose this case." but there is a complex, two-part possibility that attorney schwartz did not consider.
*no, not that jack kemp.
ksm has said he wants to put the US government on trial and will probably bring up the bush administration and mention waterboarding as torture in the courtroom, playing to the international media. but why would he limit himself to attacks on the last administration? KS mohammed could well bring up the subject of barack obama never producing his long form birth certificate and thus claim he is not qualified to be president of the united states, thus rendering invalid his appointment of attorney general holder. it would throw the court into an uproar and possibly cause a constitutional crisis, exactly what KSM wants – and the obama administration doesn't want to see on television just before the 2010 or 2012 elections.
oh noes, obama! look out! don't do it! it's a twaaaaap!
there's gotta be more to this story, folks — the usurper can't possibly be that blind!
... perhaps khalid shaikh mohammed has worked out a private deal with the obama administration to not bring this up, but he would obviously be more than willing break that deal and advance a media-based jihad where he could extend the trial for a number of months.
but, c'mon now, the most skilled political operative of our time couldn't possibly be that naive ...
... just ask joe lieberman!
um ... or let's not.
still, trap or no trap — why do i get the feeling jack "not-that-jack-kemp" kemp isn't really all that worried that one of al qaeda's most powerful supervillians just might have the leader of the free world's most powerful democracy by the shorties?
... this brings us to the second part of this complex situation regarding a possible courtroom discussion of obama's legal citizenship. just as a prudent person never loans out anything they won't mind never getting back, what if obama has figured for KSM's questioning the obama presidency's legal authority – and would enjoy a constitutional crisis that throws the country into an uproar? obama is governing as if he has one TWO-YEAR term, not four. what if the destruction of constitutional rule and capitalism is his aim, as many a website has made a case for? that would mean obama would relish a constitutional crisis and might even want to use it to declare martial law.
don't assume that obama wants what most people want in america. if that were true, he never would have flown a 747 trailed by a jet fighter over manhattan as if it were another 9/11 – or moved this trial to the new york federal courthouse. why would you give the man who appointed a bunch of unaccountable, unconstitutional czars and is involved in passing an unreadable healthcare bill in the middle of a saturday night the benefit of the doubt?
so please god, i'm beggin' ya, for the safety of this country, just this one time ... let the terrorists win.