A Jan. 15 WorldNetDaily article by Bob Unruh promotes a new “quo warranto” lawsuit over Barack Obama’s presidential eligibility, making a big deal of the status of the filer as a self-proclaimed “contender for the presidency.”
Unruh pumps up the credentials of the filer, “former lawyer” Montgomery Blair Sibley, citing his “a colorful history, including a grandfather who was the last private owner of Blair House – now a government property – across from the White House.” But Sibley’s background is much more colorful that Unruh described it, starting with the reason Sibley is a “former lawyer.”
That’s because Sibley has been disbarred first in Florida in 2008 and then in a reciprocal action in the District of Columbia. The D.C. disbarment ruling contains the background of the case.
Sibley failed to pay his ex-wife child support, in an amount that ultimately totaled $100,000 by the time Florida authorities found him in contempt and ordered him incarcerated. Meanwhile, Sibley was sanctioned for filing “vexatious and meritless litigation” regarding his divorce. According to the Washington Post, Sibley once threatened his wife: “We will litigate until I am disbarred and bankrupt if necessary.”
In 2006, the Florida Supreme Court appointed a referee to the Sibley case, finding that Sibley had willfully failed to pay child support and had initiated meritless litigation and recommended suspension of Sibley’s law license, for which he must show fitness for reinstatement.
Unruh writes of Sibley’s lawsuit that he states that “given his access to the Internet and mobile information technology, his support could rise quickly.” That dramatically understates what Sibley actually said:
While this Court is doubtlessly paled by the implications that flow from this Petition for Writ of Quou Warranto reaching a jury, the impact and reach of the present day Internet and Mobile Information Technology platforms create a force multiplier effect which could benefit Sibley in his campaign which has known no like since Leonidas of Sparta chose the ground of Thermopylae to make his stand.
Sibley also repeatedly misspells Obama’s name as “Barrack” throughout.
Unruh did mention that Sibley is a former attorney for “D.C. Madam” Deborah Jeane Palfrey, but not that, according to the Washington Post, federal prosecutors in Palfrey’s case said that Sibley’s filings are so ignorant of basic legal tenets that they are “almost incoherent.”
Further, you may remember Sibley as the former lawyer for the utterly discredited (and WND-promoted) Larry Sinclair. Sibley showed up at an infamous press conference for Sinclair wearing a kilt, which he justified by talking about his genitalia.
Funny that Unruh didn’t mention any of this. Can the birther case really be all that formidible if the best person WND can come with to defend it is a disbarred lawyer?