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Birthers bring the crazy to the local level

Some of the folks who refuse to accept the fact that Barack Obama was born in the United States and is President of our country have concocted an "indictment" out of a common law grand jury. This is as much absurd as it is hilarious:

Having totally struck out in every court of law on every case brought to date, "hundreds of thousands" of names on petitions, righteous indignation on tens of American eagle and bunting-strewn websites about the Usurper Hussein Obama/Soetero and epic fail getting anyone except fellow lunatics to pay attention, the "Birther" (or Birfer) movement thinks its may have found it's Holy Grail to remove the scary black Muslim uncitizen from the office of POTUS.

The screaming headline across the Birfosphere reads, "At approx. 4:15 p.m. March 28th in the city of Stockbridge Ga. the people of Georgia returned an Indictment against Barack Hussein Obama!!!!!! 25 Jurists, duly sworn in, heard tesitmony and in a unanimous vote, Indicted the usurper".

The original pre-constitutional concept of a "Common Law Grand Jury" - different from the state and federal grand juries we are familiar with today that act on a requests from prosecutors- does not appear to have the official capacity to indict my left knee, however it seems as though there is some historical precedent for the concept in states like Kansas who can convene a grand jury by petition. I'll let others brighter than me in this area argue the legalities of sitting this type of jury with the expectation of an actionable indictment.

So, as you can imagine, a "common law grand jury" as no real authority. Even if it did, like the rest of the Birther conspiracy theories, it would be tossed out of court.

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This is no great embarrassment after all we are talking about Stockbridge a city that can tear down historic buildings to make a parking lot and designate a flower shop as a "historic site" to keep the owners from being able to improve it ... all because the city couldn't steal it to make more parking lots for a building that won't need more than 10 parking spaces.... and that's for the staff...
Don

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