Bod Notbod wrote:
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
That's great fun! If I had more faith in humanity, I'd assume it was somebody's idea of a joke... (a joke which wastes the court's time, at that).
The petition states that the Foundation cannot be traced to a physical address. That can't be right, can it? And then he signs at the bottom which warns that - if he knowingly states a falsehood - he commits perjury; so if he *is* aware that the Foundation has an address he has perjured himself.
Googling "Wikimedia Foundation" gives you as top hit the site you would expect and as soon as you click "contact us" you are given the Foundation's address.
Is idiocy a defence to perjury? If one assumes good faith one is left with the conclusion that he did not have enough lights on to look and see the address.
In any event, the action is against Homeland Security, and WMF is specifically excluded as a defendant. I think that it is reasonable to speculate the Homeland Security (and other departments like the FBI) has considerable experience in dealing with such extraterrestrials.
Ray