Lutz man says he was fired for complaining Obama not U.S. citizen

A Lutz Army reservist who claims he was fired from his job after fighting his deployment to Afghanistan on the grounds President Barack Obama is not an American citizen is asking a federal judge here to order his former employer to rehire him.

A federal judge in Georgia dismissed a petition by Stefan Frederick Cook earlier this month after the Army revoked Cook's deployment orders. Cook's motion had sought an injunction preventing his deployment.

Cook says in his Tampa complaint that his private employer, military contractor Simtech Corp. of Odessa, was pressured by the Department of Defense to fire him after he went public with his claims against the president.

According to Cook's resume, he worked for Simtech as a senior systems architect from 2007 until earlier this month.

"Plaintiff seeks to avoid not only court-martial in this country, but also treatment as a war-criminal or terrorist, not eligible even for protection under the Geneva Convention , if he were found to be a merely mercenary soldier in a private army of slaves 'owned' or controlled by an unconstitutional and therefore illegal commander, if he does not ask the question, 'is this order legal?'" Cook's complaint states.

Cook is being represented by California attorney Orly Taitz, who maintains a blog encouraging soldiers to file similar actions, fighting their deployment on the grounds that Obama was not born in the U.S.

Although such claims by "Birthers" have been discredited by several media outlets, the belief that Obama was born in Africa and that his Hawaii birth certificate is illegitimate has taken hold among some segments of the population.

Cook's complaint asks that Obama be compelled to produce "his true and complete 'original' birth certificate."

Factcheck.org, among others, analyzed Obama's birth certificate and proclaimed it legitimate after it was posted to Obama's Web page.

Cook's Tampa filing includes attachments that purport to discredit Obama's birth certificate as fraudulent. It includes a report by a forensic examiner that maintains that the certificate posted on the Internet cannot be verified as legitimate and must be considered a fraud.

The complaint also asserts that "Barack Hussein Obama might have used as many as 149 addresses and 39 Social Security numbers prior to assuming the office of president."