Birthers Plan To Storm Washington For March On 'Obama Birth Certificate,' 'Obamacare'

Elyse Siegel contributed reporting to this post.

Washington DC has played host to any number of organized gatherings of the discontented over the years, but at long last the Birthers are coming to town to have a protest of their own. The date is Saturday, May 29. The place is South President's Park. The cause is to jibber incoherently at the scores of media professionals who will be pointing cameras at them.

The news of this festival of cray-cray comes courtesy of Philip J. Berg, Esquire, who helpfully includes details and a litany of complaints -- the form of a bulleted list -- right here. The new new thing is the framing of a health care reform repeal on the grounds that President Barack Obama isn't eligible to be President and thus cannot sign bills into law.

"It's time that we have a revolution in this country," Berg said in alerting his supporters to the march on The Jeff Kuhner radio show. "But I want a peaceful revolution...and I think that's the first first step we take."

Berg also explained on the program that he takes issue with health care reform because it "provides for Obama to have a private army, it provides for the IRS agents to be checking on us monthly, it's like big brother coming to take over."

David Weigel reports that he has not yet "seen word of this on other birther sites," and notes that Berg is "better known for his tenacity than his organizational skills." So, I wouldn't yet count on seeing the big names of the Birther movement -- like dentist-litigant Orly "Mars Attacks" Taitz -- on hand. Probably just a few dozen people milling about, pissing themselves over an organized conspiracy undertaken forty years ago by a shadowy cabal of state and federal officials to get a black guy from Kenya elected President, on a dare, I guess.

Supporters of the Birther march are being asked to bring copies of their own birth certificates when they come to Washington.

I'm kind of hoping they'll be willing to stage my one-act play about the "birther conspiracy." We'll see!

WATCH: Promotion For The Birther Movement's March On Washington

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Birthers prepare to march on Washington [David Weigel]

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Comments

[snesich]

01:05 PM on 05/01/2010

These people, comprising a very small percentage of the population, are obviously unhinged in their hatred for Obama. No matter how many times Obama's people produced the same Hawaii birth certificate, they refuse to believe it. They already made up their minds. Don't try and confuse them with the facts.

The question is: Why is the Huffington Post promoting this rally and giving attention to these nut jobs?

[Humanrights11]

02:46 AM on 05/01/2010

Are these protestors coming from Arizona? Racist!

[Scott MacDonald]

02:49 PM on 04/29/2010

I think birthers a a few steps below Insane Clown Posse fans but are just as challenging to one's belief in evolution.

[robphilnz]

08:21 PM on 05/03/2010

Ah-ah! Mustn't use the "e" word for them!

These people are not linked into evolution. They belong to that "other" species descended from a clay-based rib assembled 6,000 years ago and have refused to accept evolution.

The rest of us started a few hundred millennia earlier and have kept moving forward. They serve to confirm that evolution is a better system.

[badger2196]

02:39 PM on 04/29/2010

I hope someone will be there serving turkey legs and grits, otherwise they are all going to starve to death.

[Fretchen]

02:37 PM on 04/29/2010

As a conservative, I can only say to the birthers - "Enough already, Obama was born in Hawaii. He is a native-born citizen. Get over it."

This is about as misguided as those folks who believe NASA faked the moon landing. Geez.

[emjayosborne]

02:28 PM on 04/29/2010

Personally, I am sick of the birthers with their shenanigans and spurious arguments. Unfortunately bigotry and racism are alive and well in this country. How sad!

[MarkInTexas]

02:08 PM on 04/29/2010

Don Ho knew the truth and now he's d e a d. You people won't be laughing when the Kenyan-in-chief rounds you up and forces you to do the hula.

Makes about as much sense as the rest of it.

[MarkInTexas]

02:01 PM on 04/29/2010

Don't these people have jobs?

[SangZe]

02:02 PM on 04/29/2010

They're illiterate.

[WakeUp2021]

05:07 PM on 05/01/2010

Clown is a job right?

[greatlakesgal]

01:49 PM on 04/29/2010

Since their 'storm' is on a Saturday, during a holiday weekend, no one in Congress will be there to greet them. What a shame. Are they bringing guns, too? Just wondering

[electricladyland]

01:48 PM on 04/29/2010

They'd better hurry because its almost May.

[jcinco]

01:34 PM on 04/29/2010

I think the headline should read "Bottom Feeders plan to slime on washington for racist rally."

[willandjansdad]

01:31 PM on 04/29/2010

Based on the level of intelligence of the Birthers, I would imagine their Birth Certificates would show the same last name for both parents. That's certainly one explanation for being dumber than a sack of hammers.

[Hoosierbrad]

01:26 PM on 04/29/2010

I wonder how many of them will be able to show their papers? Oh, that is just in N-a-z-i Arizona, istn't it?

[willandjansdad]

01:24 PM on 04/29/2010

I've never actually seen my "long form" (whatever that is) Birth Certificate. Maybe I should go to Arizona and surrender.

[Cheryl2]

01:08 PM on 04/29/2010

I hope they all bring their "original" birth certificates with them, I would be interested to see how many have one.

[Guitar63]

01:27 PM on 04/29/2010

They have lost there birth certificates in the following ways:
1) What's a birth certificate?
2) They burned them because they thought they were tools used by the federal government to take away their individual rights.
3) They mailed them to Sarah Palin as part of a Ponsi scheme.
4) They used them for shooting practice with their assault rifles.
5) They needed paper to start a campfire.
6) They couldn't read it and threw it out with their old CD club membership.

[Cheryl2]

06:23 PM on 04/29/2010

Good ones.