On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Thomas Dalton
<thomas.dalton(a)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