The New York Daily News reported Saturday that Judge Arthur Schack charged Christoppher Earl Strunk, a serial birther litigant with some 20 lawsuits under his belt, $167,707 in attorneys' fees for three firms that handled his “fanciful, delusional and irrational” lawsuit, and slapped on a $10,000 sanction for emphasis.
The judge ordered Strunk to pay $177,000 for his 2011 frivolous lawsuit against President Barack Obama and the New York board of elections.
At the time Strunk’s lawsuit was dismissed in 2011, the judge gave a scathing rejection of the claim that Obama wasn’t a natural-born United States citizen. Strunk’s case also claimed a “massive conspiracy to defraud American voters [that] was perpetrated by hundreds of individuals, at the behest of the Roman Catholic Church and especially the Jesuits.”
“If the complaint in this action was a movie script, it would be entitled ‘The Manchurian Candidate Meets The Da Vinci Code,’” Judge Schack was quoted as saying.
Critics claim that it would be cheaper for birther-conspiracy hatemongers to stop all the lawsuits and simply admit they hate Obama for being black. They would then blend in with all the other paranoid conservatives who believe Obama is the antichrist, the Earth is only 6,000 years old, the moon landing was faked and global warming is just a hoax because it’s so cold outside.
Orly Taitz, the so-called queen of birthers, has had previous associations with Strunk and has met similar fates with judges throwing out her lawsuits and fining her for wasting the court’s time. She currently has a judge in Southern California considering sanctions for lying in a case.
Taitz is an attorney, though critics wonder if she got her license from a Cracker Jack box, and she failed in her bids for the Senate and for secretary of state in California.
Donald Trump has the distinction of being the richest birther, who hired investigators to find nefarious evidence in Hawaii that Obama’s birth certificate was a fake. That effort fell flat. The president, tired of all the distraction from incessant birther howling, released his long-form birth certificate in 2011, since the short form hadn’t been acceptable, nor the birth announcement from the Honolulu hospital.
Even the Supreme Court has refused to hear any claims based on discrediting Obama's citizenship.
People who are resistant to the birther movement are stunned the issue just won’t die. The conspiracy appears to resemble the monster in every horror story that lives on, regardless of beheading, amputation and groin-gouging.
Christopher Earl Strunk is a bigot on a mission, critics say, who will not be deterred by any judge’s ruling. His response to the decision on his birther case:
“I’m going to have this thing overturned and I’m not going to pay a dime.”
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