After he was charged with filing false liens and other crimes and jailed near Seattle, AdSurfDaily story figure and purported "sovereign citizen" Kenneth Wayne Leaming apparently thought it prudent to sue President Obama and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder

Leaming, 56, advanced a theory that Obama was not born in the United States, was not eligible to be President and had appointed Holder unlawfully.

It therefore followed, according to Leaming and co-plaintiff and former business colleague David Carroll Stephenson, that Holder was “Personating [sic] the Attorney General of the United States” and could not lawfully appoint or delegate authority to “Any United States Attorney.”

And because Holder had oversight responsibility over the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Western District of Washington that had brought the criminal charges against Leaming and Stephenson after an FBI probe, the duo apparently surmised, it followed that the prosecution was unlawful and should be declared “VOID For FRAUD” because the U.S. Attorney also is “personating” [sic] a federal officer.

Nothing says "kook" quite like a poorly handwritten suit which asks for a thousand ounces of silver as relief.

In this Court’s view, plaintiff’s/petitioner’s claims are substantively frivolous and do not
warrant detailed discussion. However, to the extent petitioners have legitimate jurisdictional
challenges to present, they should present those challenges in the context of the ongoing criminal proceedings and not by way of a separate habeas action.

I keep reading this thread as "Learning v. Reality". Very different concept.

Thank you, for telling me I am not alone in my creative reading of the subject line.

I keep reading this thread as "Learning v. Reality". Very different concept.

The Court therefore feels some measure of responsibility to inform [Kenneth Wayne Leaming] that all the fancy legal-sounding things he has read on the internet are make-believe. Defendant can call himself a ‘public minister’ and ‘private attorney general,’ he may file ‘mandatory judicial notices’ citing all his favorite websites, he can even address mail to the ‘Washington Republic.’ But at the end of the day, while sovereign citizens and Defendant cite things like ‘Universal Law Ordinances,’ they are subject to both state and federal laws, just like everyone else. – U.S. District Judge Ronald B. Leighton, Feb. 12, 2013

This quote should be immortalized in stone, IMHO.

Read more at the link:

http://www.patrickpretty.com/2013/02/13 ... e-believe/