Hate Group Leader to Serve as California State Judge
Gary Kreep, a longtime antigovernment activist, 鈥渂irther鈥� and hate group leader who uses anti-Obama rhetoric as a proxy for anti-Muslim hate, has emerged victorious in a tight race for a seat on San Diego鈥檚 Superior Court, the reports.
Kreep, who received the San Diego County Bar Association鈥檚 lowest rating of 鈥渓acking qualifications,鈥� beat opponent Garland Peed, a deputy district attorney of 27 years who received the county bar association鈥檚 highest rating and who was supported by local police unions and sitting judges.
The San Diego Superior Court is part of the state鈥檚 trial court system, which handles a wide variety of cases, including civil lawsuits and felony criminal cases. Kreep will serve a six-year term and earn an annual salary of $178,789.
Discussing his surprise victory with the Tribune, Kreep said, 鈥淚 think the government鈥檚 increasingly being seen as the enemy. And the idea that we were going to have more government lawyers become judges is something that resonated with people.鈥�
Kreep, who in recent years has received national attention for filing numerous 鈥渂irther鈥� lawsuits claiming baselessly that President Obama is constitutionally ineligible for office because he is supposedly not a U.S. citizen, is no government lawyer.
He is, however, founder and head the United States Justice Foundation (USJF), an anti-Muslim hate group that insists Muslim terrorists, with Obama鈥檚 help, are engaged in a campaign to destroy the U.S. Constitution and establish a government based on Islamic Shariah law.
In a 2011 fundraising letter for USJF, Kreep suggested that the president is a 鈥渟tealth jihadist,鈥� Marxist, and 鈥渟trident enemy of America,鈥� who 鈥渋s working to destroy our sovereign republic.鈥�
鈥淲hen you put together the puzzle pieces, the picture becomes clear: Barack Obama hates America 鈥� and you!鈥� he wrote.
He also bragged about the USJF鈥檚 efforts against 鈥渓iberal groups that seek to steal YOUR basic freedoms,鈥� especially 鈥渢he gun-grabbing, border-erasing globalists at the United Nations.鈥�
Kreep founded USJF in 1979 and has worked there full-time since 1992, involving himself with all manner of bigots and antigovernment activists.
In 2008, he Rick Scarborough, head of the virulently anti-gay , to raise money to fund a lawsuit demanding that Obama produce his birth certificate. The same year, after a California Supreme Court decision legalized same-sex marriage in that state, he filed a lawsuit asking the state to stop issuing gender-neutral marriage licenses.
In 2009, Kreep the Californian Department of Transportation for revoking an adopt-a-highway permit granted to the , a nativist extremist group so extreme that other border-vigilante 鈥淢inuteman鈥� groups have rejected it.
In 2011, he filed a brief asking a federal court to overturn several verdicts against antigovernment icon Bernard von Nothaus, creator of an alternative currency called the 鈥溾�� and head of his own , who was on charges of conspiracy and counterfeiting.
This spring, he signed on to represent Gary Stein, a Marine sergeant who was given an 鈥渙ther-than-honorable鈥� discharge for Internet postings in which he described the president, among other things, as a 鈥渄omestic, economic and religious enemy.鈥�
As a Superior Court judge, Kreep will no longer be permitted to represent clients as an attorney. He will also be required to abide by , which, among other things, notes that 鈥渆xpressions of bias or prejudice by a judge, even outside the judge鈥檚 judicial activities, may cast reasonable doubt on the judge鈥檚 capacity to act impartially.鈥�
Philip Carrizosa, a spokesperson for the California Administrative Office of the Courts, told Hatewatch that sitting judges may not engage in political activism, except as it pertains to the administration of justice. Asked if challenging the president of the United States鈥� citizenship would be considered unacceptable political activism, Carrizosa said, 鈥淗e would have to cease doing that.鈥�
