EDITOR-IN-CHIEF PRACTICED LAW IN FEDERAL DISTRICT AS JUDGE LAND, INFAMOUS SANCTIONER OF ORLY TAITZ
by John Charlton
Eric Erickson praticed law for six years with Sell & Melton, LLP, which is located in the same Federal District, as that of Judge Clay D. Land. Above the William Augustus Bootle Building, Macon, Georgia.
(Feb. 13, 2010) — Many Republicans are outraged following the discussion ban of the eligibility question imposed yesterday by the Editor-in-Chief of Redstate.com, a leading Republican News Blog published from Washington, D.C.
Eric Erickson justified his action in a post entitled, “Vigilance: I’m Banning Birfers, Truthers, and Groups Affiliated Therewith” for the following reasons:
We must be vigilant. We must be willing to draw a line in the sand and stand against fatuous nonsense that opens up the right to attacks by a left-leaning media intent on embarrassing the good people who have developed through the tea party movement a renewed sense of civic involvement.
Birfers and Truthers have no place among us. And they are most decidedly not welcome at RedState.
Erickson is evidently that kind of Republican who believes politics needs a sort of Inquisition-like approach, ever- vigilant for political “heretics,” and sees his duty as requiring him to ban them from exercising their free speech on constitutional issues.
He is also that kind of Republican effete who runs when Democrats shout “Boo!” on any issue, not wanting at all to seem politically incorrect to liberals.
He is also that kind of clever progressive, who, in order to hide the fact that he is banning a legitimate discussion, bans at the same time a position often advocated by those with an extreme anti-American or anti-government stance (in this case, “Truthers,” who believe 9-11 was engineered by the U.S. government), so as to appear to be middle-of-the-road.
But just who is Erickson, and why does he have such animus against the Eligibility question?
I decided to do some simple investigative reporting and found an amazing connection.
It appears that Eric Erickson, the Editor-in-Chief of Redstate.com, is an attorney who once practiced law in the same federal district as the infamous Judge Clay D. Land, who sanctioned Attorney Orly Taitz for having the daring to plead the Eligibility question in the case of Captain Connie Rhodes’s deployment.
Erickson himself admits that he was an attorney with Sell & Melton, L.L.P, of Macon, Georgia. His former law firm proudly displays an image of the William Augustus Bootle Building, which is the headquarters of the U.S. Middle District Court of Georgia, in which district Judge Clay D. Land presides. Erickson resides current in Macon, Georgia.
It is not known if the clients of Sell & Melton are known political donors to the Democrat Party, but if any were, that might be a reason for Erickson’s animus.
According to an anonymous source, The Post & Email has been informed that Judge Clay D. Land’s frequent drinking partner is none other than a local attorney who is notoriously opposed to the questioning of Obama’s eligibility, one who is affiliated with the Southern Poverty Law Center. It is not known who this individual is, but it seems that Eric Erickson shares the same prejudices as the personal friends and acquaintances of Judge Land.
Perhaps that is the real reason he has banned the Eligibility Question over at Redstate.com. He just cannot afford to lose an invite to any social gathering down in Macon, Georgia.
Does that sound like a Republican to you? Certainly it is a far cry from the manliness exhibited by our Founding Fathers.
More importantly, however, it should be recognized that Erickson does not stand alone. He is just one apparatchik of an entire generation of Republicans who have joined forces with the Democrats in a mass apostasy against the U.S. Constitution, and who have deemed themselves so worthy to rule, that they can dictate which terms of that document you and I must obey, and which they do not have to.
If America is to be taken back by the People, it would be naive, very naive indeed, to believe, as many writers are attempting to insist, in the face of the Tea Party Movement, that trusting the Republican Party to restore the constitutional order is a good bet. Like Scott Brown, how many will ride the wave of popular discontent, and when in office merely hand power back over to that same Elite (which includes Senator John McCain), which put Obama into power in the first place? Such an Elite shows no sign of repentance, rather, they glory in the rape they have perpetrated, and contemplate further crimes of moral turpitude against Lady Liberty.
As Editor of The Post & Email, I must, finally, deplore the slide into puerility, as evidenced by the use of the term “Birther” and now “Birfer.” My generation should know better than to babble, especially in public.
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[...] course, things didn’t end there. John Charlton over at The Post & Email responded to Mr. Erickson’s editorial decision, to which Mr. Erickson then responded to the response [...]
Great Post by Phil in answer to the two RedState posts.
American Majority has now also done the same thing, even calling it “truthers and birfers” just as Erickson did. Sheep. Follow the leader…. They are all following their leader…and it must be Obama.
I have never been to that website either as I have seen Erickson on Hannity several times and had already concluded he was an idiot. He is a good example of people inside the beltway losing their minds and forgetting about normal lives.
[...] Theories of Birthers, 9/11 Truthers” the report echoes the terminology and strategy adopted by Eric Erickson of Redstate.com; lump a legitimate constitutional, pro-American issue with an illegitimate anti-American issue so [...]
You have oft heard it said ; that we are a nation of immigrants well…..
The Founders/Framers had no intentions, what-so-ever, of permitting NON- U.S. immigrants to install their offspring as Commander in Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces aka “The President”
ARTICLE II SEC1 CL 5
NATURAL BORN CITIZEN=BORN OF CITIZEN PARENTS-ON THE SOIL UNITY OF CIT AT BIRTH NOTHING SHORT OF THIS PRESCRIPTION IS ACCEPTABLE NBC IS NOT A RIGHT IT IS THE PATH YOU TRAVELED TO YOUR CITIZENSHIP GRADE
Red State/Conservatives?
I went to this web site for the first time, thought It was for Obot’s. Maybe they are the Country Club, Beck/O’reilly variety of Conservative who get a little queasy when things get uncomfortable. Cowards
I have more respect for the Dem’s who challenged John Mc Cain on the NBC issue.
Dear readers of The Post & Email,
Eric Ericson has posted his “final thought” on the Eligiblity Question…
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2010/02/14/my-final-thought-on-the-birther-issue/
Read it, it’s juicy…
“final thought” is a misnomer, however; as it seems that Erickson is not really capable of the exercise of his rational faculty, and actually seems emotionally tied up with the impulse to deny such a use….for someone with a law degree, Erickson is a shocking example of a closed liberal mind.
I’d never heard of this Redstate.com website, so it didn’t matter much to me, but it was very funny when I heard my husband say this morning that he was deleting any future communication from them after he read about the “no further posts regarding the Obama b.c.” I had no idea that it was one of the ones that he frequently read. Over 40 years together and there’s still some surprises. We are both conservative, but read different news sites for our information. I tend to think that it gives us double the conservative news exposure.
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Mr. Charlton replies: Redstate.com proposes itself as a leading Republican news source from Washington D.C..
What I do not understand, being someone who has never affiliated with any party, a sort of political neophyte…is how naive politically Redstate.com’s editor is.
If the opposition is making fun of you for an issue, you don’t stop talking about that issue, you first investigate as to the motivations of the opposition and why they feel so vulnerable on that issue, and if they are vulnerable, you don’t comply with their ridicule, you double your push of that issue and use it to defeat them.
If you are afraid of the laughter of your enemies, you only show yourself to be pyschologically and emotionally unprepared for war.
I gather that this Ericson does not come from a military family, because he shows little signs of the virtues which reign therein.
If I were a big supporter of Redstate.com financially, I’d give them a phone call and ask them when did they lose both their marbles and their masculinity.
Eric is now a CNN apologist, who wants to be in the in crowd”. He is not a conservative if he blatantly ignores this issue. We must make sure that psudeo conservatives (like Eric) that we are here to stay. His blog is currently a subsidiary of Eagle Publishing, Inc., a conservative publishing house…despite Eagle Publishing’s ownership, RedState “claims” to remain a grassroots organization.
RED STATE & Plagiarism
Domenech, an owner for RedState under the pseudonym “Augustine,”[10] was hired by the Washington Post’s online arm to write a blog providing “a daily mix of commentary, analysis and cultural criticism.”[16] The blog, “Red America”, launched on March 21, 2006, but Domenech resigned three days later after only six posts, after other bloggers posted evidence that Domenech had plagiarized work from the Washington Post, The New Yorker, humorist P. J. O’Rourke, and several other writers.
In 2007 he began publishing posts at RedState again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Domenech
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RedState
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/07/atlas-exclusive.html
Gotta love Erickson’s rationalization for banning the “birfer” issue – it gives the left ammunition. Yet as soon as he announced his “ban”, the moonbats began burning up the intardnets announcing with delight: “Redstate.com bans Sarah Palin!”
Nice going Erick, you little genius.
I just twitted him that “parents” is plural.