The Adventures of Duncan Hunter

The Adventures of Duncan Hunter

Monday, April 22, 2019




When Donald Trump and Barack Obama’s Paths Crossed or What is the Genesis for all the Trump Hatred?

Before Barack Obama oozed onto the national stage as the keynote speaker at the Democrat National Convention, Donald J. Trump was another Democrat billionaire with a television show, a jet and a helicopter, with skyscraper hotels and golf courses, and another exotic model wife. 

Before running for President, the most “famous” thing Barack Obama had done was “write” two autobiographies.  He had an unremarkable career as a lawyer, a Chicago politician, and a radical past.  How many politicians could get elected being part of a dope-smoking, cocaine-using “choom gang?”  The Apprentice star didn’t touch alcohol.  In many ways Barack Hussein Obama was the antithesis, the polar opposite of Donald John Trump. 

In 2008, Hillary Clinton secured The Donald’s endorsement: “I know Hillary and I think she'd make a great president or vice-president.”  During her campaign, Candidate Clinton questioned the legitimacy of Barack Obama’s citizenship through surrogates.  Barack Hussein Obama II was the child born in the unambiguous State of Hawaii, of a Kenyan father and an American mother. 

For over two hundred years, children across America had been taught the Bill of Rights and the Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.  The special eligibility criterion to be President was always discussed and was probably a test question during examinations: What is a “natural born citizen” under Article II of the U.S. Constitution?  Answer: When a person is born in America to American parents.

Americans with a basic understanding of the U.S. Constitution and knowledge of the autobiographical history of the Democrat President Barack Obama were baffled at how the son of a foreign national could be considered a “natural born citizen?” 

Across the nation, learned men, military men filed lawsuits to challenge the eligibility of Barack Obama to be President.  The former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania and a lifelong Democrat, Philip J. Berg, filed a lawsuit to force Barack Obama to produce a certified copy of his original birth certificate to prove that he could run for the office of President of the United States.  The DNC filed a motion to dismiss the Berg action along with the others.  The cause for dismissal always focused on “standing.”  Only those who would be materially harmed in some way to the election of the candidate possessed “standing.”  If Hillary Clinton had filed a lawsuit, she would have had standing.  Berg did not. 

McClatchy Washington Bureau Chief James Asher, the investigative editor and in charge of Africa coverage, assigned a reporter to go to Kenya, and that reporter determined that the allegations of Barack Obama being born in the country now called Kenya was false.  Media coverage was relentless and stinging.  Questions continued in large part because Republican leaders and right-leaning pundits and academics refused to stand up and make their voices heard.

In a 2009 article, Dr. Jerome Corsi, a “person of interest” who will ignominiously pop up during the Mueller investigation, asked, “Did Obama’s grandmother say he was born in Kenya?”  In 2012, Donald Trump began pushing the issue during television interviews as he considered whether to run against President Obama.  “I have some real doubts,” Trump told the “Today” show.  He claimed to have sent his own investigators to Hawaii, where Obama was born.  “I have people that actually have been studying it and they cannot believe what they're finding.”  Trump raised another issue in an interview with “Good Morning America,” suggesting Obama was trying to conceal his religion by withholding his birth certificate.  “Maybe it says he’s a Muslim,” he said. 

Donald Trump told Mother Jones magazine, “I am proud of the fact that I was able to get President Obama to release his birth certificate.  Hillary Clinton couldn’t do it, Senator McCain couldn’t do it—no one else could do it!  Frankly, many people were surprised that it took so long for this to happen.  Is his birth certificate legitimate?  I hope it is for the good of the country, but that’s for experts to determine—not me.”

Candidate Trump claimed the original “birther” was Hillary Clinton.  Clinton, at a speech in the nation’s capital, said Trump needed to apologize.  “For five years, he has led the birther movement to delegitimize our first black president,” she said. “His campaign was founded on this outrageous lie.” (Italics mine)

To the outrage of the women on theThe View,” Candidate Donald Trump sat on the sofa with Barbara Walters and Whoopi Goldberg and said, “There’s something on that birth certificate that he doesn’t like.”  Well before President Trump became a candidate, he offered millions of dollars for proof that President Obama was born in the U.S.  Trump said in 2014, “Pick your charity, for $50 million, and let me see your records!  And I never heard from him.”  President Obama’s lawyers quickly sealed all of his records immediately after his inauguration.   

Who were President Obama’s lawyers?  Dr. Orly Taitz posted on her website that President Obama “has paid more than $5 million in legal fees to national law firm Perkins Coie to keep his personal, and possibly professional, records hidden from the public.”  Who or what is Perkins Coie?

Americans have recently come to know that the law firm Perkins Coie had been retained by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee “to conduct research into allegations about Donald Trump’s connections with Russian and possible coordination between his campaign and the Kremlin.”  Marc E. Elias, a lawyer representing the Clinton campaign and the DNC, retained Fusion GPS; Fusion GPS hired dossier author Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer with ties to the FBI and the American intelligence community. 

So, the law firm entrusted to seal all of President Obama’s records from Donald Trump’s millions was the same law firm at the center of the conspiracy to frame Donald Trump for Russian collusion and obstruction? 

For Barack Obama, President Donald Trump wasn’t just the pain in the ass who would not go away.  Donald Trump had more money than God and could not be intimidated, either by the media or the Democrats, with threats of losing his job or with never-ending lawsuits.  The Donald was impervious to ridicule and he was persistent.  Whatever obstacle or distraction they threw in his way, the media and the Democrats could not stop his pursuit of the truth that they so cleverly hid from the American public, that Barack Obama wasn’t the man he claimed to be, he was the son of a foreign national and that fact alone meant that he wasn’t a “natural born citizen.”  

Hillary Clinton may have been instrumental for paying to manufacture dirt on Candidate Trump but she is not the reason the DOJ and the FBI and the intelligence community marshalled forces to rid Trump from the race or office.  She had no power to tell them “to jump.”  No, the ultimate decision to use the full force of the U.S. government to “kill” Candidate and then President Trump; not by bullet or bomb but by paper—stunningly, egregiously embarrassing or felonious paper, rested with the man in the Oval Office.  Barack Obama tried everything within his power to punish Donald Trump for continually questioning his legitimacy as the 44th President. 

After his inauguration, President Obama engaged lawyers at the law firm Perkins Coie to seal all of his records, the same records Donald J. Trump offered $50M to see to delegitimize the sitting President.  This same law firm, led by Marc E. Elias, and retained Fusion GPS who hired the dossier author Christopher Steele to create a fictional history.  Perkins Coie is the same law firm that President Obama used, through government and political surrogates, to destroy the legitimacy of Donald Trump’s presidency in the eyes of his children and wife under the guise of Russian collusion and obstruction. 

The redacted Mueller report found no collusion or obstruction.  It also didn’t find that the Trump-Obama food fight has been going on for ten years. 

Tuesday, March 26, 2019


It’s Time to Decertify DSM-5 and Reinstitute DSM-4

Rarely is there a discussion under what authority can a biological male compete with biological females.  World class tennis champion Martina Navratilova says “transgender women” are ‘cheating’ if they compete in women’s sports.  What is the authority whereby a biological male can legally use the shower or restroom facilities or dressing rooms set aside for biological females?  The problem is that there isn’t a law or an authority but rather the absence of terms used to describe mental disorders, specifically, sexual disorders.

For decades, Transgenderism and Gender Identity Disorder had been classified as mental disorders by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) in their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).  The DSM evolved from systems for collecting census and psychiatric hospital statistics, and from a United States Army manual on mental illnesses.  Revisions since its first publication in 1952 have incrementally added to the total number of mental disorders, and removed those no longer considered to be mental illnesses. 

In December 2012, the APA quietly announced changes to their DSM.  In version 5, Transvestitism, Transgenderism, and Gender Identity Disorders were eliminated and replaced with a new term, “gender dysphoria.”  Dysphoria is the distress a person experiences as a result of the sex and gender they were assigned at birth.  With a stroke of a pen, transvestitism, transgenderism, and gender identity disorder were no longer considered to be mental disorders. 

In essence, the APA announced the behaviors previously associated with transvestitism, transgenderism, and gender identity disorders were now considered “normal.”  Based on the DSM-5, if you are a male and identify as a female, this is now considered “normal.”  This new “normal” defies logic and common sense and one of the many unintended consequences of the APA’s cowardly actions is that the new DSM is used as the authority for sports competitions, something the APA never envisioned and the DSM was never designed for.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders was supposed to offer a common language and standard criteria for the classification of mental disorders.  It was not designed to be misused to give biological males athletic advantages over biological females.  The most important aspect of the DSM is that it “serves as a universal authority for psychiatric diagnoses.”  There are few parts of America or the United Nations the DSM doesn’t touch or influence.  “It is used, or relied upon, by clinicians, researchers, psychiatric drug regulation agencies, health insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, the legal system, and policy makers.”  Athletic organizations are not listed. 

In previous versions of the DSM, where the behaviors associated with transvestitism, transgenderism, and gender identity disorders were considered a mental disorder, health insurance companies and hospitals would not authorize sexual reassignment surgery for a mental illness, that corrective surgery was not warranted.  Those seeking sexual reassignment had to pay for the surgery themselves either at a private clinic or overseas.  Prior to DSM-5, the appropriate treatment for gender identity disorders was therapy.  With the new DSM-5, no longer is gender identity disorder considered a mental disorder.  Those people with previous gender identity disorders argued that they no longer have a mental illness but they have a medically-correctable condition, just like surgery is needed to correct a physical birth defect such as cleft lip and palate.

There were many members of the APA who saw that the aggressive lobbying efforts of LGBTQ and other sexual activists would result in a substantial body of APA member psychiatrists kowtowing to the activists’ demands.  In one of the most artful displays of a mental illness, Dr. Dana Beyer wrote of their successful lobbying of the APA, in The End of Transgender as a Mental Illness: “Our greatest accomplishment on the Working Group was reconceptualizing the state of ‘being trans’ from a mental illness to a normal human variant.”  What the hell is a “normal human variant?”  This is chapter and verse from the movie Gaslight.  Normal human “variants” don’t pretend to be boys and race or wrestle girls.  Variants need therapy, not lessons on how to cheat in athletics.

There was more interest in changing the DSM to correct a perceived social injustice than understanding and treating a longstanding mental disorder.  One side caved to social injustice and agreed to eliminate sexual identity disorders from the DSM.  The other side didn’t have the votes to stop the madness. 

Dr. Paul R. McHugh, the former psychiatrist-in-chief for Johns Hopkins Hospital reiterated that transgenderism is a “mental disorder” that merits treatment, that sex change is “biologically impossible,” and “that people who promote sexual reassignment surgery are collaborating with and promoting a mental disorder.”  Dr. McHugh was one of the losing 49% of the over 9,000-strong APA whose vote failed to retain the DSM-4 standard regarding sexual identity disorders. 

“‘Sex change’ is biologically impossible,” said Dr. McHugh. “People who undergo sex-reassignment surgery do not change from men to women or vice versa. Rather, they become feminized men or masculinized women.  Claiming that this is civil-rights matter and encouraging surgical intervention is in reality to collaborate with and promote a mental disorder.”  Feminized men, whatever they have done to them surgically or medically, can dress up in sports bras and running shoes and play make believe female athletes but they are still males competing against females.  Martina said it: “They are cheating.”

The DSM as the U.S. universal authority for psychiatric diagnoses has been corrupted by external pressures.  “Various authorities criticized that many DSM-5 revisions or additions lack empirical support; inter-rater reliability is low for many disorders; several sections contain poorly written, confusing, or contradictory information; and the psychiatric drug industry unduly influenced the manual's content.  Many of the members of work groups for the DSM-5 had conflicting interests, including ties to pharmaceutical companies.  Various scientists have argued that the DSM-5 forces clinicians to make distinctions that are not supported by solid evidence, distinctions that have major treatment implications, including drug prescriptions and the availability of health insurance coverage.  General criticism of the DSM-5 ultimately resulted in a petition, signed by many mental health organizations, which called for outside review of DSM-5.”

There’s only so much accomplished APA members, like Dr. Paul R. McHugh, can do against a social justice steamroller.  The APA and their DSM have been fully compromised and is now subject to social engineering, undue influence, and new definitions that are not supported by the evidence. 

If you thought you had problems with men in your daughter’s locker room or men winning women’s track events, wait until the LGBTQ activists are able to remove their next offending personality disorder, pedophilia, from the DSM.  Without their parent’s knowing, transgenders and transvestites in drag are reading to children across the country, in schools and libraries.  In Nicole Russel’s article, Forget Mr. Rogers: Drag Queen Reading Hour coming to a library near you, “It’s one thing for drag queens or transsexuals to lobby for equality via marches and even legislation.  It’s quite another to show up at a taxpayer-funded facility and showcase a very abnormal lifestyle as healthy, common, and educational.”  Kids coming from these events suddenly tell their folks they identify as another sex.  Where do you think they get that from?

The Trump administration needs to take the APA to court and decertify the compromised DSM-5 as the universal authority for psychiatric diagnoses in the United States and reject the APA’s guidance and the DSM-5 as the source reference for mental illnesses.  Secretary of Health and Human services, Alex Azar, should suspend the DSM-5, institute an immediate return to the DSM-4 standard, and form a working group to determine the need for a system of cataloging and diagnosing mental disorders that are not subject to the whims of political activists.

The federal government federalized airport security when they learned it had been fully compromised by a hostile and aggressive force whose sole goal was to destroy American culture.  The APA has been fully compromised by a rabid group of sexual activists and the DSM needs to be federalized and managed as a “national standard.”  A national diagnostic and statistical manual should not be subject to social justice and party politics influence.