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| Article 2 Section 1 Clause 5 of
the United States Constitution |
The question that the
court must decide is whether a person governed by the laws of Great
Britain at the time of their birth could be considered a natural "born
citizen" of the United States as required by Article 2 Section 1 Clause
5 of the United States Constitution.
No person except
a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time
of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of
President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall
not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen
Years a Resident within the United States.
The question remains unanswered in any
United States court. |
| The Chart |
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People are confused because they don't understand the meaning of the relevant
legal terms. This chart shows the elements for each of the constitutional
terms that are used in the Constitution or in caselaw by the Supreme Court.
For
each presidential candidate, they can put the factual history of their birth in
the equation and see if they fit the bill to be president of the U.S.
under
the Constitution of the United States of America,
Article II, Section 1, Clause 5, and the
14th
Amendment, Section 1, and the relevant federal law under
U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898), and
Perkins v. Elg, 307 U.S. 325 (1939). As you can clearly see, Obama is a
citizen of the United States, but he's not a "natural born citizen" of
the United States, and, as such, is not eligible
for
POTUS, because his father, a Kenyan, was not a U. S. citizen.
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| Citizenship
Types |
There are three citizenship types:
Natural born citizen
Native born
citizen
Naturalized citizen
All three are citizens of the United States of America.
The graphic above demonstrates the distinction between a "natural
born" citizen and a "native born" citizen." The child in the
left graphic is a "natural born" citizen because he or she was born
in the United States of America (jus
soli) and both parents are citizens (jus
sanguinis). The child meets both tests. The
child in the right graphic is a "native born" citizen because he or
she was born in the United States of America and both parents are
not citizens. The child meets only one test. Props to
graphics creator Erica at the Jefferson's Rebels
blog. |
| Obama... |
...is not a "natural born" citizen because his
father was a Kenyan national and a British subject, as was Obama, "at
birth."
...is a "native born" citizen because
his mother was an American and he was born in Hawaii.
...is
a "citizen" because his mother was an American and he was born in
Hawaii.
Obots always use the terms "citizen" and "native born"
citizen when referring to Obama. They refuse to accept the reality
of the distinction. Obama's own website refers to him as a "native
born" citizen and even has a statement describing his dual "at birth"
citizenship.
It's right there --
look!
See:
Right there where it says, "The Truth About Barack's Birth Certificate"
-- "The truth is, Barack Obama was born in the state of Hawaii in
1961, a "ative citizen of the United
States of America."
If you cursor down the page, Obama's
citizenship status is described:
"When Barack Obama Jr. was born on Aug.
4,1961, in Honolulu, Kenya was a British colony, still part of the
United Kingdom’s dwindling empire. As a Kenyan native, Barack
Obama Sr. was a British subject whose citizenship status was
governed by The British Nationality Act of 1948. That same act
governed the status of Obama Sr.‘s children.
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| John Jay's View |
The term natural born citizen was first codified in writing
in colonial reference books in 1758 in the legal reference book "Law of Nations."
That legal reference book was used by John Jay, who later went on to become the
first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Jay had the clause inserted
into the Constitution via a letter he wrote to George Washington, the leader of
the Constitutional Convention. Jay was considered the outstanding legal
scholar of his time and he was the one is responsible for inserting that term
into the U. S. Constitution, which was derived from the Law of Nations.
John Jay
wrote: "Permit me to hint, whether it would be wise and reasonable to
provide a strong check to the admission of Foreigners into the administration of
our national Government; and to declare expressly that the Commander in Chief of
the American army shall not be given to nor devolve on, any but a natural born
Citizen." |
| Law Of Nations |
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Emmerich de Vattel was a Swiss jurist who attained world preeminence in
international law. This was primarily the result of his great foundational
work, which he published in 1758. His monumental work -- The Law of
Nations -- applied a theory of natural law to international relations.
His scholarly, foundational, and systematic explanation of the Law of Nations
was especially influential in the United States.
The Law of Nations was so influential in the United States because his
principles of liberty and equality coincided with the ideals expressed in the U.
S. Declaration of Independence. In particular, his definitions in terms of
Law governing nations regarding citizenship, defense of neutrality, and his
rules for commerce between neutral and belligerent states were considered
authoritative in the United States.
Many have said that de Vattel's Law of Nations was THE primary reference and
defining book used by the framers of the U. S. Constitution. It is really
not possible to overstate the influence of de Vattel's Law of Nations as the
primary reference book in the drafting of the U. S. Constitution. Emmerich
de Vattel's Law of Nations is almost beyond comparison in its value as a
defining document regarding U. S. Constitution intent and interpretation.
The Law of Nations, or the Principles of Natural Law, published in 1758, is the
first, and ONLY, definitive work the Framers of the U. S. Constitution used for
the inclusion of the "Natural Born Citizen" phrase. It
nails what is meant by the "natural born citizen" phrase of
Section 1, Article 2, of the U. S. Constitution.
It is amazing how perfectly, precisely, and explicitly what Emmerich de Vattel,
wrote in paragraph 212, of book 1, chapter 19, of The Law of Nations entitled
CITIZENS AND NATIONS, applies to the Obama FRAUD. Quite clearly and
explicitly it defines why Obama, can
NOT possibly be qualified to be the President of the United States. Obama
MUST be disqualified from the office of President of the United States according
to the U. S. Constitution Section 1 Article 2.
"The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the
country, of parents who are citizens. As the society can not exist and
perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of the citizens, those children
naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all their
rights. The society is supposed to desire this, in consequence of what it
owes to its own preservation; and it is presumed, as a matter of course, that
each citizen, on entering into society, reserves to his children the right of
becoming members of it. THE COUNTRY OF THE FATHERS IS THEREFORE THAT OF
THE CHILDREN."
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| It's About Loyalty |
The Founders wanted the President to be a Natural Born Citizen to
ensure that the ONE person sitting at the top of the Executive branch
had UNQUESTIONABLE, UNWAVERING loyalty to the United States, first and
foremost.
At one point, the delegates writing the Constitution
in 1787 considered THREE "presidents" in the Executive for "checks and
balances." They considered a "natural born citizen" clause for
Senators as well. Debating those issues, they felt that a "natural
born citizen" clause for Senators would limit the pool of possible
candidates and could cause bad feelings with immigrants needed to "jump
start" the newly-formed republic.
In the end, the Framers
compromised that Senators be required to be US residents for 9 years,
while striking the "natural born citizen" clause for the office.
The Framers also compromised on ONE Executive vs. THREE. But to
ensure "checks and balances," the Framers inserted in Art II, Sect. 1,
Clause 5: "No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the
United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall
be eligible to the Office of President..."
The natural born
citizen clause was NOT an accident, nor was it an inane rule to be
restrictive to immigrants, and it certainly isn't just a "political"
issue. Loyalty to the US is the reason the natural born citizen
clause was inserted into the Constitution. |
| 1st U. S. Congress |
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| Parents (pl) |
In the official copies of the THIRD U.S. Congress (1795) margin
notes state "Former act repealed. 1790. ch. 3." referencing the FIRST
U.S. Congress (1790).
Document ONE: the actual text of the THIRD
CONGRESS in 1795 states, "...children of citizens [plural, i.e. two
parents] of the United States...shall be considered citizens of the
United States; Provided That the right of citizenship shall not descend
to persons, whose fathers have never been resident in the United
States..." (THIRD CONGRESS Sess. II. Ch.21. 1795, Approved January
29, 1795, pp. 414-415. Document margin note: "How children shall obtain
citizenship through their parents" Document margin note: "Former Act
repealed 1790 ch.3.") See Attachment A.
Document TWO: the
actual text of the FIRST CONGRESS in 1790 states,
"...children of
citizens (NB: plural, i.e. two parents) of the United States...shall be
considered as natural born citizens of the United States; Provided That
the right of citizenship shall not descend to persons, whose fathers
have never been resident in the United States..." (FIRST CONGRESS Sess.
II Ch.4 1790, Approved March 26, 1790, pp. 103-104. Document margin
note: "Their children residing here, deemed citizens." Document margin
note: "Also, children of citizens born beyond sea, & c. Exceptions.")
See Attachment B.
Document THREE: the actual text of the
Constitution from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional
Convention, 1774-1789, and subsequent official printings, of the
Constitution of the United States of American: Article II Section 1
Clause 5 states,
"No person, except a natural born citizen, or a
citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this
Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President…" See
Attachment C.
Source |
| John Bingham |
Rep. John
Bingham of Ohio, considered the father of the Fourteenth Amendment,
confirms that
understanding and the construction the framers used in regards to birthright and
jurisdiction while speaking on civil rights of citizens in the House on March 9,
1866:
" ... I find no fault with the introductory clause [S 61 Bill], which is simply
declaratory of what is written in the Constitution, that every human being
born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents
(plural,
meaning two) not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language
of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen..."
Bingham is also quoted saying in the Spring of 1868 some serious
warnings:
"May God forbid that the future historian shall record
of this day's proceedings, that by reason of the failure of the
legislative power of the people to triumph over the usurpations of an
apostate President, the fabric of American empire fell and perished from
the earth!...I ask you to consider that we stand this day pleading for
the violated majesty of the law, by the graves of half a million of
martyred hero-patriots who made death beautiful by the sacrifice of
themselves for their country, the Constitution and the laws, and who, by
their sublime example, have taught us all to obey the law; that none are
above the law..." |
| 14th Amendment |
The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States
Constitution is one of the post-Civil War Reconstruction Amendments,
first intended to secure the rights of former slaves. It was proposed on
June 13, 1866, and ratified on July 9, 1868.
The amendment
provides a broad definition of citizenship, overruling Dred Scott v.
Sandford (1857) which had excluded slaves and their descendants from
possessing Constitutional rights.
Section 1. All persons
born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the
jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of
the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any
law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty,
or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within
its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
The 14th
Amendment does not address the "natural born citizen"
issue, only citizenship. |
| Minor v. Happersett |
Natural Born status is mentioned in case law:
Minor v. Happersett
(1874) 21 Wall. 162, 166-168
"'At common law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the
constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born
in a
country, of parents [plural] who were its citizens
[plural], became themselves, upon their birth,
citizens also. These were natives or natural-born citizens,
as distinguished from aliens or foreigners. Some authorities go further,
and include as citizens children born within the jurisdiction, without reference
to the citizenship of their parents. As to this class there have been
doubts, but never as to the first. For the purposes of this case, it is
not necessary to solve these doubts. It is sufficient, for everything we
have now to consider, that all children, born of citizen parents within the
jurisdiction, are themselves citizens.' Minor v. Happersett (1874) 21 Wall. 162,
166-168."
Under Happersett, a natural born citizen is clarified to
mean born citizen without a doubt. Doubt entered the picture due
to Obama being born a British citizen under The British Nationality Act
of 1948, in effect at the time of his birth. He cannot be, as a
state of nature, considered a born citizen of the United States, when he
was born British. |
| Chester Arthur |
Chester A. Arthur perpetrated a fraud as to his eligibility to be
Vice President by spreading various lies about his parents’ heritage.
Arthur’s father, William Arthur, became a United States citizen in
August 1843, but Arthur was born in 1829 -- 14 years before.
Therefore, Arthur was a British Citizen by descent, and a dual citizen
at birth, if not his whole life.
He wasn’t a "natural born
citizen" and he knew it.
We’ve also uncovered many lies told by
Arthur to the press which kept this fact from public view when he ran
for Vice President in 1880. Garfield won the election, became
President in 1881, and was assassinated by a fanatical Chester Arthur
supporter that same year.
Historical facts
here. |
| U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark |
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U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark's
(1898)
importance is that it is the first case decided by the Supreme Court that
attempts to explain
the meaning of "natural born citizen" under Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 of
the U.S. Constitution. Natural born citizen is similar to the meaning of what
a natural born subject is under Common Law in England. That is one of the
reasons why the framers specifically included a grandfather clause (natural
born Citizen OR a Citizen of the United States, at the time of adoption of this
Constitution). The founding fathers knew that in order to be
president, they had to grandfather themselves in because they were British
subjects. If they didn't, they could not be President of the U.S. The holding
in U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark states that Wong Kim Ark is a
native born citizen. If
you look at the fact of Wong Kim Ark being born in San Francisco, CA, of Chinese
parents, that
holding is correct.
In U. S. v Wong Kim Ark, the court
thoroughly discussed "natural born citizen," and in doing so, Justice Gray
quoted directly from the holding in a prior Supreme Court case, Minor v. Happersett
(above).
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| Perkins v. Elg |
|
Perkins v. Elg's
(1939)
importance is that it actually gives examples of what a "natural born citizen" of the U.S. is;
what a "citizen" of the U.S. is; and
what a "native born citizen" of the U. S.
In this case, the U.
S. Supreme Court
found that a "natural born citizen" is a person who is born of
two U.S. citizen
parents AND born in the mainland of U.S.
Citizen:
On cross appeals, the Court of Appeals affirmed the decree,
69 App.D.C. 175, 99 F.2d 408. Certiorari was granted, December 5, 1938, 305 U.S.
591, 59 S.Ct. 245, 83 L.Ed. --. First.-- On her birth in New York, the plaintiff
became a citizen of the United States. Civil Rights Act of
1866:
Ms. Elg was found to be a "citizen" because she was
born in
the mainland USA (New York)
Native Born citizen:
This principle was clearly stated by Attorney General
Edwards Pierrepont in his letter of advice to the Secretary of State Hamilton
Fish, in Steinkauler's Case, 1875, 15 Op.Atty.Gen. 15. The facts were these: One
Steinkauler, a Prussian subject by birth, emigrated to the United States in
1848, was naturalized in 1854, and in the following year had a son who was born
in St. Louis. Four years later Steinkauler returned to Germany taking this child
and became domiciled at Weisbaden where they continuously resided. When the son
reached the age of twenty years the German Government called upon him to report
for military duty and his father then invoked the intervention of the American
Legation on the ground that his son was a native citizen of the United States.
To an inquiry by our Minister, the father declined to give an assurance that the
son would return to this country within a reasonable time. On reviewing the
pertinent points in the case, including the Naturalization Treaty of 1868 with
North Germany, 15 Stat. 615, the Attorney General reached the following
conclusion: 'Young Steinkauler is a native-born American citizen.
Mr. Steinkauler was found to be a "native
born citizen" because he was born in
the mainland USA (St. Louis)
Natural Born Citizen:
U. S. Supreme Court's Relevant Facts: Miss Elg was born in Brooklyn, New York, on October
2, 1907. Her parents, who were natives of Sweden, emigrated to
the United States sometime prior to 1906 and her father was naturalized here in
that year. In 1911, her mother took her to Sweden where she continued to reside
until September 7, 1929. Her father went to Sweden in 1922 and has not since
returned to the United States. In November, 1934, he made a statement before an
American consul in Sweden that he had voluntarily expatriated himself for the
reason that he did not desire to retain the status of an American citizen and
wished to preserve his allegiance to Sweden. [Perkins v. Elg, 307 U.S. 325, 327
(1939).]
U. S. Supreme Court's Holding: The court below, properly recognizing the existence of an
actual controversy with the defendants (Aetna Life Ins. Co. v. Haworth, 300 U.S.
227, 57 S.Ct. 461, 81 L.Ed. 617, 108 A.L.R. 1000) declared Miss Elg 'to
be a natural born citizen of the United States' (99 F.2d 414) and we
think that the decree should include the Secretary of State as well as the other
defendants. [Perkins v. Elg, 307 U.S. 325, 350 (1939).]
Rationale of the logic is as follows: The U. S. Supreme
Court in 1939 held that Elg was a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN because she was born in
Brooklyn, New York on October 2, 1907, her father was naturalized as a
U.S. citizen in 1906 under the
Naturalization Act of 1906, and her mother derived her US citizenship in 1907 under the
Expatriation Act of 1907. The
Expatriation Act of 1907 extended the logic
linking a woman's citizenship to her marital status and the status of her
spouse.
Ms. Elg was found to be a "natural born citizen" because she was
born in
the mainland USA (New York) of
TWO US citizen parents.
As the above chart clearly shows:
You can be a "citizen" under the following circumstances:
1. You
were born of one citizen parent (Obama), or
2. You were born in the US
mainland (anchor babies --
DEL), or
3. You were naturalized
(Schwarzenegger).
To be a
"natural born citizen" you
must be born in the US mainland of two US citizen parents.
Obama is a citizen -- not
a natural born citizen because he was (probably) born
in the State of Hawaii of one US citizen parent. |
| The Acts of 1906 and 1907 |
After the Naturalization Act of 1906 created the Naturalization
Standards for U.S. Citizenship, Congress passed the Expatriation Act of
1907 to allow SPOUSES of naturalized U.S. citizens to be considered
naturalized U.S. citizens as well.
Perkins v. Elg doesn't explain
that but that was THE LAW ENACTED at the time when Elg was born in New
York. The Court's job is to apply the relevant facts to the law. The
law as discussed in U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark in 1898 was that in order to be
a "natural born citizen," you had to be
born in the U.S. Mainland AND
born to U.S. Citizens PARENTS (PLURAL NOT SINGULAR). The key
here is BOTH PARENTS WERE U.S. CITIZENS at the time of Elg's birth.
The U.S. Supreme Court, in 1939, ruled that Elg was a "natural born
citizen" using DEDUCTIVE REASONING to clarify why. The law is
corroborated.
All you have to do is read the Expatriation Act of
1907 (federal
statute) as proof. Remember, Elg was born prior to enactment
of the U. S. Constitution's Nineteenth Amendment, ratified on August 18,
1920, and a woman's status was tied to that of her husband. |
| Derivative Law |
Elg's Mother derived US citizenship when her father was naturalized. This was automatic -- it's called derivative citizenship. These are the forms of derivative citizenship that were effective due to
federal statute at the time Elg was born:
1. An alien woman
obtained automatic US citizenship when she married a US citizen male.
2. An alien woman obtained automatic us citizenship when her alien
husband became naturalized.
So, in 1907 when Elg was born on US
soil, both of her parents were US citizens, therefore she was a "natural
born citizen."
Funny thing is, when the US Supreme Court decided
the case, the derivative citizen laws had changed, however, they
retroactively applied them... because they had to. They had to use
the law at the time of Elg's birth... because that's when she was born,
hence she was a natural born citizen at the time of her birth and
nothing could change that.
In essence, the 19th Amendment gave a
woman equal footing under the law overriding the common law (e.g. judge
made law) which referred to women as "property" of a man. That is
the essence of derivative citizenship. |
| 19th Amendment |
The Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) to the United States
Constitution prohibits each of the states and the federal government
from denying any citizen the right to vote because of that citizen's
sex. It was ratified on August 18, 1920.
Prior to this
date, a woman's citizenship was derived from her husband. If the
husband was an American citizen, then the wife was an American citizen
(derivative law).
This fact plays a role in determining natural
born citizen status -- two American citizen parents.
With the
passage of the 19th Amendment, a woman's citizenship status is
determined on her parents, place of birth or naturalization. |
| Immigration And Naturalization |
| 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act Title3 Chapter1,
Nationality at Birth and by Collective Naturalization. |
|
TWO Citizen Parents |
Why does it require two
citizen parents? What is the policy behind the language requiring two US
citizen parents? Policy as used with regards to the drafting of laws is
a legal term of art. It’s analogous to concern. What legal concern is
acknowledged by requiring two citizen parents?
Leo Donofrio
addresses why Senate Resolution 511 doesn’t state that a person born
abroad to one citizen parent is a natural born citizen. |
| Even Wikipedia |
Even Wikipedia
gets it right:
"It is generally agreed that
these constitutional provisions mean anyone born on American
soil to parents who are U.S. citizens is a
"natural born citizen" eligible to someday become president or
vice-president..."
Two American parents and on American soil --
simple as that. |
| Conclusion |
It should be
noted, that to define a term is to indicate the category or class of
things which it signifies. In this sense, the Supreme Court of the
United States has never applied the term "natural born citizen" to any
other category than "those born in the country of parents who are
citizens thereof".
Hence every U.S. Citizen must accept this
definition or categorical designation, and fulfill his constitutional
duties accordingly. No member of Congress, no judge of the Federal
Judiciary, no elected or appointed official in Federal or State
government has the right to use any other definition; and if he does, he
is acting unlawfully. |
| A Question Of Allegiance |
The supreme law of the United States of America is the Constitution
and Amendments thereto. Everything else is subordinated to the
Articles of the Constitution, which is why the Supreme Court of the
United States (SCOTUS) is virtually powerless to remove any usurper in
unlawful occupation of the Office of the President as the court of
original jurisdiction. The Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution
giving Congress the sole authority to inaugurate and remove a President
and Vice President to the Congress. Congress in turn subsequently
authorized by Public Law and statute for the Supreme Court to establish
an inferior court, the Federal District Court for the District of
Columbia, to be the only Federal with jurisdiction for the removal of
Federal Public Officers, which includes the President of the United
States (POTUS).
With respect to questions about a "citizen"
versus a "natural born citizen," The Articles of the Constitution are
superior to and take precedence over anything Congress enacts as a
Public Law and statute in the U.S. Code and anything the Supreme Court
and inferior courts hold as their decisions. This is what is meant
by the impropriety of legislating from the bench. The only lawful
means of changing and altering the Constitution is for Congress to
lawfully enact an Amendment to the Constitution.
Since the
"natural born citizen" phrase is a provision of the Constitution, no
Public Law or statute can lawfully change the meaning of the phrase as
it was stated in the Constitution without an Amendment doing so.
At the time the Constitution was adopted, it did not include any
provisions to determine the requirements for being a citizen of the
United States, because each State was already responsible for enacting
their own State Constitutions and state laws and statutes governing
natural born and naturalized citizenship in the State. Whosoever
was a citizen of a State was thereby also a citizen of the United States
of America.
This circumstance arose as a consequence of the
sequence of events occutring during the American Revolutionary War.
Upon adoption of the Declaration of Independence by Congress on 4 July
1776, the preceding English or British common-law governing citizenship
was abolished. Since the States in the Continental Congress had
not yet formed a national government, each State was responsible for the
task of replacing the former British legal codes and common-law by
enacting its own state Public Laws. The adoption of the Articles
of Confederation and later adoption of the Constitution resulted in many
important changes, but Congress continued to respect the power of each
State to enact its own citizenship laws in the State constitution and/or
public laws and statures of the state. As a result, the
qualifications for natural born and naturalized citizenship were
sometimes different from one State to the next. The statutory laws
of some States continued the previous common-law in part before changing
it altogether at a later date, while other Sates adopted little or none
of the previous common-law in their new statutory law. Uniform
national laws and statutes regarding citizenship and naturalization were
not established by the federal Government of the United States until the
mid-19th Century.
Consequently, the qualifications and methods
for determining who was a natural born citizen with allegiance only to
the United States was determined by state constitutions and or state
laws or statutes governing who was a natural born citizen of the State
during the Early Republic. In every circumstance, however, a
person could be natural born with one and only one allegiance and
attendant citizenship to a sovereign government. Dual citizenship
was not recognized.
What created a conflict, however, was the
establishment of the Federal uniform citizenship and naturalization
statutory laws which began to confer U.S. citizenship upon persons who
were previously ineligible due to the dual citizenship. The
Founding Fathers included the "natural born citizen" phrase in the
Constitution for the stated purpose of excluding any person natural born
with an allegiance to a foreign sovereign and government from being
eligible to the Office of the President and Commander-in-Chief of the
American Army, responsible for protecting the Constitution and Citizens
of the Republic from all enemies, foreign and domestic. Dual
citizenship was not recognized in the Law of Nations at the time the
Constitution was adopted, so a person could be born with allegiance and
therefore citizenship to only one sovereign and nation. When the
Law of Nations and the Federal statutory laws were changed to begin
recognition of dual and multiple citizenship status, a potential
conflict was created with the original "natural born citizen" phrase in
the Constitution.
Absent an Amendment to the Constitution which
specifically changes the "natural born citizen" phrase and its purpose
as stated by the Founding Fathers, previous Supreme Court decisions
demand that the phrase and its intended purpose take precedence as
superior law over any Federal statutory law, state constitution, state
law, or Supreme Court case law.
Consequently, who was and was not
a natural born citizen was and still may be determined by state
constitutional law, state statutory law, Federal statutory law, and
Federal case law as determined by Congress; but it may only do so to the
extent it gives effect to the Founding Fathers’ intent and
Constitutional phrase to make a person eligible to the Office of the
President who is a natural born citizen as it existed at the adoption of
the Constitution, which did not admit any possible allegiance to a
foreign sovereign and government at birth. |
| Obama Continues To Be A British Subject |
Attorney Mario Apuzzo sys that assuming that Obama was born in the
United States, he was not only born a dual national of the United States
and Great Britain, but at present he continues to be such. Some
maintain that American law on citizenship cannot be subjected to any
foreign law. But such an argument does not resolve the question of
Obama’s dual nationality, for each nation has the sovereign right to
make its own citizenship laws and one nation cannot deny another nation
that right. This point can be better understood when we consider
that McCain was born in Panama to U.S. citizen parents and U.S.
citizenship law declared him a U.S. citizen even though he was born in
Panama and Panamanian law may have declared him a citizen of Panama.
Neither Panama nor any other nation questioned the United States' right
to pass a law that gave McCain U.S. citizenship by descent from his
parents even though he was born in Panama. Great Britain, being a
sovereign nation, has the same right as does the United States to pass
such citizenship laws. Now let us examine the British law that
applies to Obama and his father and which makes Obama a British citizen
not only at the time of his birth in 1961 but still today.
The
British Nationality Act of 1948 provides in pertinent part as follows:
"4. Subject to the provisions of this section, every person born
within the United Kingdom and Colonies after the commencement of this
Act shall be a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by birth:
Provided that a person shall not be such a citizen by virtue of this
section if at the time of his birth—
(a) his father possesses such
immunity from suit and legal process as is accorded to an envoy of a
foreign sovereign power accredited to His Majesty, and is not a citizen
of the United Kingdom and Colonies; or
(b) his father is an enemy
alien and the birth occurs in a place then under occupation by the
enemy.
5.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, a person
born after the commencement of this Act shall be a citizen of the United
Kingdom and Colonies by descent if his father is a citizen of the United
Kingdom and Colonies at the time of the birth ...."
Under the
British Nationality Act of 1948, Obama's father became a British citizen
under Section 4 by being born on the soil of an English Colony, Kenya.
Under Section 5, when Obama was born in 1961 in Hawaii or some other
place, he automatically became a British citizen by descent from his
father who was a British citizen under Section 4.
Obama has
deflected attention to his British citizenship by focusing the public’s
attention on his former Kenyan citizenship. Notwithstanding what
Obama may lead the public to believe, this British citizenship is not a
type of citizenship that he has since lost. Moreover, this
citizenship did not expire with Obama's 21st birthday nor is it one that
had to be registered in any specified period of time.
Continue
reading
here . . . |
|
Born Subject To A Foreign Power |
Attorney Mario Apuzzo
believes that being born subject to a foreign power, Obama cannot be
President and Military Commander.
Having just won a revolution,
the Founders were faced with constituting a new nation. Under the
constitutional plan devised by the Founders, they had to identify who
were the members of the new nation. They called these members
"citizens" of the United States. Thus, they created our first generation
of United States "citizens." These persons were either born abroad
or in the British colonies before July 4, 1776 or abroad or in the new
States thereafter, but in all cases inhabited one of the colonies or
States and were loyal to the American revolution. The Founders
under Article II grandfathered these original "citizens" to be eligible
to be President. Under this plan, once the new nation had its
first generation "citizens," it was placed in position to have in the
future its Article II "natural born Citizens," who would be born in the
United States after the adoption of the Constitution and descend from
mothers and fathers who were both original "citizens." Given that
America was already a land of immigrants and that the Founders expected
that many more immigrants would come to its shores in search of a new
life and to share in its vast resources, they gave Congress in Article
I, Sec. 8, cl. 4 the power to naturalize aliens and thereby create more
future first generation United States "citizens." Having become a
naturalized "citizen," one would then be in a position to procreate with
another "citizen" (born or similarly naturalized) a "natural born
Citizen" who would be eligible to be president.
Throughout
American history, there have been no doubts or disputes as to who is a
"natural born Citizen." As we have seen, it was not English common
law but the
law of nations that became United States common law that defined a
"natural born Citizen." It defined such a citizen as being born in
the country to parents who are themselves citizens. It is this
definition which our United States Supreme Court incorporated into our
federal common law. It is this definition that creates subsequent
generation "citizens" who are "natural born Citizens." They are
subsequent generation because born in the country to a mother and father
who are citizens.
On the other hand, throughout our history,
there have been doubts and disputes as to who may be a born "citizen"
(as distinguished from a "natural born Citizen" or a naturalized
citizen). These disputes have concerned the question of whether to
be a "citizen," must a child be simply born on U.S. soil and be subject
to its jurisdiction, without any reference to the citizenship of the
parents (jus soli which follows the old English common law), or must
that child also be born to U.S. citizen parents (jus soli and jus
sanguinis united which follows the law of nations’ definition and which
any way only applies to "natural born citizens"). This dispute has
concerned the question of whether we should declare a child a first
generation "citizen" (in effect having the same status as one of the
original first generation "citizens" which Article II grandfathered to
be eligible to be President). The dispute has not been with
whether we should declare that child a subsequent generation "natural
born Citizen." The Fourteenth Amendment settled who could be a
"citizen" by bestowing such status upon those born in the United States
or naturalized here and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.
"Citizens" who meet this Fourteenth Amendment definition can be either
first or subsequent generation United States "citizens." If first
generation, they are simply "citizens." If subsequent generation,
they are not only "citizens" but also "natural born Citizens."
Congress has also declared who may be a born "citizen" through
legislation and has thereby not only confirmed what is already stated in
the Fourteenth Amendment but has also granted citizenship to children
born out of the United States to U.S. citizen parents (one or two).
Senator McCain, being born in Panama, falls into the two United
States-parent category. The question of whether foreign-born
children, born to two United States parents and thus falling in this
category (by definition they would be subsequent generation "citizens"
but not born in the United States) are "natural born Citizens" has not
been resolved by any Court. If such a child were born to just one
United States citizen parent, he or she would not only acquire the
allegiance and loyalty of the nation on whose soil he or she may be born
but also that of his or her foreign parent’s nation and thereby further
compromise his or her claim for "natural born Citizen" status.
A
study of citizenship and nationality case law, statutes, treatises, and
other sources shows that one acquires allegiance and loyalty through
citizenship. Obama has admitted that under the British Nationality
Act 1948 when he was born, his father was a British subject/citizen and
not a U.S. citizen and that he himself was a British subject/citizen by
descent from his father. Therefore, what is clear and established
by his own factual admissions is that Obama cannot satisfy the
definition of an Article II "natural born Citizen," for he was born with
allegiance and loyalty not only to the United States (assuming he was
born here) but to the same degree also to Great Britain. The best
that Obama can be is a Fourteenth Amendment "citizen," assuming that he
was born in the United States and assuming that one born subject to a
foreign power can also be born subject to the full and complete legal
and political jurisdiction of the United States. In such a case,
he would be a subsequent generation "citizen" through his American
mother but only a first generation "citizen" because of his foreign
father. If Obama was not born in the United States or if being
born in the United States he was not born subject to its jurisdiction,
then he is not even a "citizen" under the Fourteenth Amendment or any
applicable Congressional Act. Hence, we can see that Obama is
missing the mandatory Article II constitutional status of being at a
minimum a second generation "citizen" through both a citizen mother and
citizen father. What creates further allegiance and loyalty
problems for Obama is that his birthright British citizenship, which
continues in effect until today, also allowed him to gain Kenyan
citizenship from the age of 2 to the age of 21 or 23. Being 47
years old when he was elected, just his Kenyan allegiance and loyalty
occupied him for almost one-half of his then life span.
It is
Obama’s being only a first generation U.S. citizen because of his father
not being a United States citizen at Obama’s birth that caused his
divided allegiance and loyalty at birth (United States v. British and
Kenyan) and disqualifies him to be President and Commander in Chief.
It is through his father that Obama was born with allegiance and loyalty
to Great Britain (which continues until today), which then converted to
allegiance and loyalty to Kenya. It does not matter that his
mother was a United States citizen because at birth Obama inherited
allegiance and loyalty to a foreign power (Great Britain) from his
father just as he would have inherited allegiance and loyalty to a
foreign power if born to parents who were both non-United States
citizens. By Obama’s mother being a United States citizen at his
birth, Obama was just spared acquiring even another foreign allegiance
and loyalty. Just like a naturalized citizen who -- despite taking
an oath renouncing all foreign allegiances and loyalties and which
incidentally Obama has never done -- cannot be President because he or
she is born with allegiance and loyalty to a foreign country, Obama,
born with allegiance and loyalty to a foreign country, also cannot be
President. All this leads to the inescapable conclusion that Obama
is not an Article II "natural born Citizen" and is therefore ineligible
to be President and Commander in Chief of the Military. |
| All Ineligible |
All three of the 2008
presidential candidates, Obama (aka Soetoro), McCain, and Calero were not eligible under
Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 of the U.S. Constitution to serve as
Commander-in-Chief.
Just like a
residential purchase of a home is void if
fraud in the inducement
(where one party conceals a material fact that if people knew about it ahead of
time, they would not enter into a residential purchase of a home), the same
thing has occurred with the primaries and presidential election on November 4,
2008.
Because these three candidates (Obama (aka Soetoro), McCain, and Calero)
were ineligible under Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 of the U.S. Constitution,
the 2008 presidential election and its results should be voided.
Regardless of
what game of charades people in the mainstream media and people
within our federal government are trying to pull. That is a
legal fact that can not be
disputed.
Obama has
only one US citizen parent. His father was British subject and a
Citizen of Kenya -- as was Obama.
McCain was not born in the
mainland US. John Sidney McCain III was born at the Colon Hospital,
located at Avenida Melendez and 2nd Street, Manzanillo Island, City of
Colon, Republic of Panama. The time of birth on the birth
certificate issued by Panama Railroad Company (which owned the Colon
Hospital) was 5:25 PM and the day and date of birth was Saturday, August
29, 1936.
Calero was not born in the mainland US.
He was born in Nicaragua. |
|
Senate Judicial Committee Chairman Says Obama Not Eligible
-- And Obama Agrees |
On April
10, 2008, Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Claire McCaskill (D-MO)
introduced a resolution expressing the sense of the U.S. Senate that
presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was a 'natural born
Citizen,' as specified in the Constitution and eligible to run for
president. Sen. McCaskill knew Obama was not a U.S. Citizen,
that’s why she introduced this bill -- dressing it up to look like it
was in Sen. John McCain's cause.
It was during the bill's hearing
that Sen. Patrick Leahy, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee,
made the following statement:
"Because he was born to American citizens, there is no
doubt in my mind that Senator McCain is a natural born citizen,"
said
Leahy. "I expect that this will be a unanimous resolution of the
Senate."
At a Judiciary Committee hearing on April 3, Leahy asked
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, himself a former Federal
judge, if he had doubts that McCain was eligible to serve as President.
"My assumption and my understanding is that if you are
born of
American parents, you are naturally a natural-born American citizen,"
Chertoff replied.
"That is mine, too,"
said Leahy.
What's
interesting here is that Sen. Leahy, the Chairman of the Senate
Judiciary, confirms that a "natural born" citizen is the child of
American citizen parents.
Parents -- that's two. That's BOTH
parents.
Every time the words, "citizen" and "parent," are used
by Sen. Leahy and Sec. Chertoff, the plural case, "citizens" and
"parents," is used. The plural case is the operative case.
It is Sen. Leahy's opinion -- his own recorded words, in a formal Senate
Resolution and on his U. S.
Senate website -- that Barack Obama is not a "natural born"
citizen, and therefore not eligible to serve as Commander-in-Chief,
regardless of his birthplace.
Obama had one American parent
--singular -- his mother. His father was a citizen of Kenya, and a
subject of Great Britain.
Obama, himself, "at birth," was a
citizen of Kenya, and a subject of Great Britain -- he
says so on his own campaign website.
This fact introduces the concept of "divided loyalties," -- the reason
the founders created the eligibility requirement in the first place -- a
fact that further underlines
Obama's ineligibility.
The source of this information is Sen. Leahy's own website.
The webpage contains a statement about the resolution; the resolution, itself;
the Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.); and an excerpt of Sec.
Chertoff's testimony.
The plural word "parents" is used four
times. When used to identify the parents, the word "citizens" is used
five times. That's nine times that Sen. Leahy, on his own website describes the
eligibility requirement. There is NO PLACE in any of these four
documents where the singular case of "parent" or "citizen" is used.
The real purpose of this bill
was to change article II, section 1, clause 5 of the Constitution of the
United States with reference to the requirements of being a "natural
born citizen" by the Democratic Party leadership -- paving the way for
an Obama run.
Both Leahy and Chertoff avoid
addressing the "in the US mainland" (jus solis) element of the
eligibility requirement and focus solely on parentage
(Jus sanguinis) in making their arguments
and by doing so bring focus to the fundamental reason Obama is not
qualified. He had one American parent and one foreign parent.
Barack Obama is not a natural born citizen -- no matter where he was
born.
Obama is
a co-signer of this resolution. So, I guess he too agrees that one
needs two American parents to be eligible for POTUS -- except he doesn't
care -- after all, he's the Obamamessiah. Rules don't apply to
him. |
| 35 Or 36 |
Since the 1870s, assorted Congress critters have
attempted to
define or redefine "natural born" citizen status nearly 30 times!
There
were five attempts to re-define "natural born" citizen status since 2001
-- that's six attempts, if you include Sen. Leahy's Resolution for
McCain in March 2008. |
| Rule Of Law |
|
All U. S. military
personal and every other American under oath to protect and defend the U. S.
Constitution will be duty bound to remove the fraudulent usurper. This
situation is REGARDLESS of votes, electors, media blackouts, high profile
embarrassments, state court decisions, supreme court actions or inaction, birth
certificates real or forged, or any other documents -- Obama can NOT LEGALLY BE
The US President.
No documentation is required. Everyone should understand and KNOW the
answer to the question of what country is the country of which Obama was a
natural born citizen. It is IMPOSSIBLE for Barry Obama, Barry Soetoro, or
Barack Hussein Obama II, to be a natural born United States citizen.
Obama can NOT POSSIBLY be a "natural born citizen" of the U. S. because his
father, Barack Hussein Obama Senior, was a subject of Great Britain and a
citizen of Kenya.
He was a British subject whose
citizenship status was governed under Section 32(1) of the
The British Nationality Act of 1948.
Even the Obots at FactCheck.org, confirm the British Act
governed Obama's status until he was 21 years of age.
Kenya’s Constitution specifies that at age 21,
Kenyan citizens who possesses citizenship in more than one country
automatically lose their Kenyan citizenship unless they formally
renounce any non-Kenyan citizenship and swear an oath of allegiance to
Kenya.
Obama’s American citizen parent, Ann Dunham, had
to have been a resident of the United States for 10 years, at least five
of which were over the age of 14. Dunham did not meet that
requirement (of the Nationality Act of 1940, revised June 1952) until
her 19th birthday in late November of 1961, almost four months after
Obama was born.
Whether Obama was born in
Hawaii, Kenya, or the moon, is irrelevant. Birth documents, real or
forged, are irrelevant. Yes, even VOTES ARE IRRELEVANT. Even Supreme
Court action, or inaction, is irrelevant. It is simply FRAUD and illegal
for Obama to be put in the office of U. S. President by
any means or reason.
Obama is at the epicenter of the greatest national
disaster in the history of the United States. NOTHING that Obama would
ever do in the office of U. S. President could ever be anything other than FRAUD
and ILLEGAL.
|
|
The Holy Grail Of POTUS Eligibility Law |
Leo C. Donofrio says that a legal fraud is being perpetrated upon
this nation through ridicule and straight up major media propaganda.
The great weight of authority indicates Obama is not eligible to be
president, but we are losing the PR war.
He recognizes arguments
which take issue with some of these conclusions. But the point is
urgently made that this issue is not settled and has never been directly
adjudicated by a federal court. Such adjudication is the necessary
outcome of this debate.
He hopes the following piece of history
serves as a wake up call to the snarky sarcasm being leveled at this
very serious legal question. There is nothing funny about this
issue. The repercussions for generations to come are potentially
disastrous.
And with that he leaves you with the Holy Grail of
all natural born citizen law review articles.
Read
this outstanding opinion at Natural Born Citizen blog . . . |
| Spiked! |
Charges that Barack Obama is not a natural born citizen of the U.S. and,
therefore, constitutionally ineligible to serve as president top the
list of the 10 most "spiked" or underreported stories of the last year,
according to an annual survey.
At the end of each year, news
organizations typically present their retrospective replays of what they
consider to have been the top news stories in the previous 12 months.
The authors have long considered it far more newsworthy to
publicize the most important unreported or underreported news events of
the year -- to highlight perhaps for one last time major news stories
that were undeservedly "spiked" by the establishment press.
Joseph Farah has sponsored "Operation Spike" every year since 1988.
Here are the picks for the 10 most underreported stories of 2008
-- and four of them are about Obama. |
|
Allegiance Issues |
The definition of "natural born citizen" at the framing
came from the jus solis of the English common law
"When Barack Obama Jr. was born on Aug.
4,1961, in Honolulu, Kenya was a British colony, still part of the
United Kingdom’s dwindling empire. As a Kenyan native, Barack
Obama Sr. was a British subject whose citizenship status was governed by
The British Nationality Act of 1948. That same act governed the status
of Obama Sr.‘s children.
Jus sanguinis
(Latin for "right of blood"), by which nationality or citizenship is
not determined by place of birth, but by having an ancestor who is a
national or citizen of the state.
Jus soli (Latin for "right
of soil"), or birthright citizenship, by which nationality or
citizenship can be recognized to any individual born in the
territory of the related state.
This is the case we have in
the US now: If you're an illegal alien, and you "break your water"
and give birth ON US SOIL, that child is a US Citizen. The history
of American citizenship has long been centered around MEN. While
the 1790 Naturalized Act included all (white) "persons" and so
included women, it also declared that "the right of citizenship
shall not descend to persons whose fathers have never been resident
in the United States...."
This prevented the automatic grant
of citizenship to children born abroad whose mother, but not father,
had resided in the United States. As a course of Congressional law,
this was the case until 1868, although citizenship court cases in
New York and other states as early as 1802 extended the right to
women as well in judicial manner. Legally, until the ratification
of the 14th Amendment, Citizenship (NOT to be confused with Natural
Born Citizenship which is NOT addressed in the 14th Amendment) was
inherited exclusively through the father. In terms of
Naturalization, the US Congress did not remove this until 1934, when
the mother could extend her US citizenship to her children born
overseas (with age requirements as well).
Remember also that
the 14th Amendment did NOT resolve all citizenship issues. Children
of immigrants were barred from citizenship until Wong Kim Ark in
1898, but many rights were STILL not completely granted to this
group until 1952. Also, in Elk v Wilkins, the SCOTUS felt the
Indians owed alliance to their tribes and thus were NOT part of the
United States. Congress however extended Native Indians birth
citizenship in 1924. Subsequently, that same right has been
extended to Puerto Rico, Guam and other US Territories. Illegal
aliens born ON US SOIL are extended US citizenship as a matter of
Executive policy exercised through the State Department. But no
Congressional law or SCOTUS decision officially and specifically
recognizes the group of "illegal alien" and Citizenship rights. So
let's look at British Law (PAST AND PRESENT):
The British
Nationality Act of 1981 came into force on January 1, 1983. Prior
to 1983, British nationality was only be transmitted from the father
through one generation only, and parents were required to be
married. This is jus sanguinis or possibly even a type of lex soli
in Obama Sr's case, but not jus soli (unless you want to give the
Kenyan birth theory credence...).
Because England has LONG
been in the business of worldwide Colonization, this policy has been
in place since AT LEAST the year 1350. Going back BEFORE America
was "discovered" is statute 25 Edw. III st. 2 (Status of Children
Born Abroad Act of 1350) that naturalized children of English
parents born overseas. THIS IS JUS SANGUINIS AND IS STILL IN
PLACE TODAY. This was in place throughout the British empire
-- regardless of birthplace, because of Colonization in FAR-OFF
LANDS such as "New England", Hong Kong, India and British East
Africa (later subdivided and in part known as "Kenya"). If you
want to consider the specific case of BHO Sr. and his heirs,
entitlement to the status of British subject/citizen was first
codified by the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act 1914.
Fast forwarding to CURRENT LAW, just like the US today, the UK today
is currently BOTH jus solis and jus sanguinis. Taking the
position that BHO was born ON US soil, he was born a US Citizen
while also UK Citizen, later a Kenyan Citizen (and maybe even an
Indonesian Citizen). The UK/Kenyan bond of allegiance did NOT
dissolve until he turned 21 years of age, per the Kenyan
Constitution. BUT keep in mind that ALL of those countries
WOULD restore his Citizenship RIGHT NOW if he desired it -- ALL of
their Constitutions and nationality laws permit this. THAT IS
THE TWO-WAY BOND OF ALLEGIANCE. So yes, there ARE allegiance
issues with him holding DUAL or MULTIPLE NATIONALITY for nearly half
his life! |
| Adoption Implications |
U. .S law makes it impossible for a parent to PERMANENTLY renounce a
minor’s US citizenship. The US is a signatory to the Hague
Convention’s standards for international adoption, and those rules
do allow the legal parents and guardians to renounce
any former citizenship of a custodial minor. Upon reaching the age
of 18, the minor can go before the appropriate US State Dept Official
and apply for re-instatement of citizenship, and swear allegiance to the
US.
There is no evidence that Obama has done so, and even if he
did, he would then be a NATURALIZED citizen and will forever have lost
any natural born citizen status to be president. |
| Perception |
|
Several times a week I get an email like this
one:
----- Original Message -----
From: Senator Robert
P. Casey, Jr.
To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@msn.com
Sent: Tuesday, March
10, 2009 7:45 PM
Subject: Response from Senator Casey
Dear
Mr. XXXXXX:
Thank you for taking the time to contact me about
President Obama and his eligibility to be President under Article II of
the Constitution. I appreciate hearing from all Pennsylvanians about the
issues that matter most to them.
Article II of the Constitution
states that "No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of
the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution,
shall be eligible to the Office of President." This clause is
generally interpreted to mean that one must be born as a U.S. citizen on
American soil in order to become president. During the 2008
presidential election, concerns were raised about the ability of both
Senator McCain and then-Senator Obama to meet this constitutional
requirement. Questions about Senator McCain's eligibility centered
around his birth on a naval base in the Panama Canal Zone, but a Senate
Resolution, S. Res. 511, passed by unanimous consent on April 30, 2008,
officially recognized Senator McCain as a natural born citizen.
While not every American voted for Mr. Obama, and it is unlikely that
that you or I will agree with every decision he makes while in office,
I am confident that Mr. Obama meets all the
constitutional requirements to be our 44th president. Mr. Obama
has posted a copy of his birth certificate on his campaign website and
submitted an additional copy to the independent website FactCheck.org.
The birth certificate demonstrates that he was born in Honolulu, Hawaii
in 1961, thereby making him a natural-born citizen eligible to be
president.
I share your strong belief in upholding the
Constitution and want to thank you for sharing your concern with me.
Please do not hesitate to contact me in the future about this or any
other matter of importance to you.
If you have access to the
Internet, I encourage you to visit my web site,
http://casey.senate.gov. I
invite you to use this online office as a comprehensive resource to stay
up-to-date on my work in Washington, request assistance from my office
or share with me your thoughts on the issues that matter most to you and
to Pennsylvania.
Sincerely,
Bob Casey
United States Senator
Sen. Casey parrots the the "official story" -- his
birth certificate -- independent website FactCheck.org -- Honolulu.
If you believe that, you're "mainstream." You're OK!
Where to begin?
1.
Obama has never, ever released his birth certificate to anybody at any
time. As a matter of fact he's spent over a million dollars and
has legal teams in a dozen states fighting its release. So, Sen.
Casey is factually incorrect when he says, "Mr.
Obama has posted a copy of his birth certificate on his campaign
website." He hasn't.
2. FactCheck.org is hardly independent and is in
the same financial stream as the unrepentant domestic terrorist, Bill
Ayers' Woods Fund. FactCheck.org also incorrectly identifies the
website document as Obama's "birth certificate." It isn't.
FactCheck.org is factually incorrect in its analysis of Obama's "birth
certificate."
Here
is an analysis of FactCheck.org's "birth certificate" page.
3. Obama's birth certificate (the real one) only
affects Obama's eligibility if it shows he was born outside the US
mainland. Obama is not eligible to be POTUS because his father was
a British subject and a Kenyan citizen -- as was Barack Obama -- AT
BIRTH! Obama
admits this on his own website, using a FactCheck.org reference
-- Barack Obama is not a "natural born citizen."
Notice how FactCheck.org keeps popping up as the
organization that stamps their imprimatur on Obama's
eligibility.
Sen. Casey's understanding of the facts are incorrect
-- as is his conclusion. There is no "birth certificate" and Obama
is not a "natural born citizen." Nothing anybody does is going to
change that.
Sen. Casey is mainstream. Sen. Casey is OK!
But, Sen. Casey's facts are just plain wrong!
I know Obama is fighting the release of his birth
certificate tooth-and-nail -- and Internet geniuses, like Ben Smith,
assign me to "the fringe" with the UFO-ers, while also getting his facts
wrong in the process.
I know that as a British subject and a Kenyan citizen
for 21 years, Obama has the "divided loyalties" that caused the founders
to place the "natural born" language in the US Constitution, in the
first place. The founders specifically wanted to bar Brits!
Obama's behavior towards the Brits in his first four
months underlines the dangers of "divided loyalties."
Now, start adding in Obama's other loose ends:
Was Grandma Sarah in the delivery room at Mombasa,
Kenya, like she says she was?
What was Anna doing in Seattle days
after giving birth?
Did Lolo adopt Barry -- was/is Barry a citizen of
Indonesia?
Was Barry's
attendance at Occidental financed by a foreign-student scholarship?
Did
Barry travel to Pakistan on an Indonesian passport?
Did Barry ever
sell drugs?
And, no
documentation
-- none, nada, zilch!
I'm sure there's more, but you get the idea.
There's plenty to question about this guy.
I believe many Americans, including Sen. Casey are
just simply afraid to turn this rock over -- they're terrified at what
they might find -- and where it might lead.
|
|
U.S. Rep. Bill Posey |
A new member of Congress
arrived in Washington to a flood of questions from his constituency
about Barack Obama's eligibility to be president. Was he really born in
the United States, and was he qualified under the Constitution's
requirement that the office be occupied only by a "natural born"
citizen?
So U.S. Rep. Bill Posey did what most congressmen would
do regarding a subject of grave concern to their voters. He
proposed a
bill that would require future presidential candidates to document their
eligibility, and that action has earned him scorn and ridicule.
U.S.
Rep. Neil Abercrombie, D-HI, a close, personal friend of Obama's mom and
dad,
has gone so far as to suggest that Posey's judgment is skewed, saying,
"It's one thing to try to be responsive to your constituents, no matter
how marginal. I understand
that. But to take it to the point of putting it into a bill -- you open
yourself up, then, to having your judgment questioned."
Abercrombie, whose judgment is obviously beyond question, said
legislation generally is to "address common issues or concerns. The
citizenship of someone who has reached the point of running for
president of the United States is not really an issue," Abercrombie
said, ending all debate
(sarcasm off).
"Why'd I do this?" Posey
wrote on his blog. "Well, for a number of reasons and the more and
the more
I get called names by leftwing activists, partisan hacks and political
operatives for doing it, the more and more I think I did the right
thing."
He said, "I've been called some pretty nasty things. That's fine. But none of these tolerant people actually want to discuss
the issue at hand … whether or not a presidential candidate should have
to file these documents with the government.
"I could easily
fill up a page listing all the activities an American needs to show
their ID for … everything from playing youth soccer to getting a drivers
license, buying cigarettes and alcohol, to opening bank accounts and
even playing little league. So I was pretty surprised to find out that
to run for president, despite the constitutional requirement and the
media scrubbing that goes on, it's not required for a candidate to file
these documents when they submit their statement of candidacy with the
FEC," he said.
"I thought I could offer a solution to this
question on eligibility," he wrote. "There's nothing anyone
can do about changing past elections… the president won. All the
lawsuits in the world are not going to change that. But if what some
folks are worried about -- that presidential candidates don't have to submit to the same
documentation that average folks have to submit to -- well, then we can
change that for the next election."
Posey cited an AOL poll that
found three-quarters of Americans participating in the survey agreed.
"I'm willing to discuss this issue with anyone who wants to talk
in a rational manner, but I WILL NOT engage in name calling, smear
campaigns, or any other venomous activity," Posey wrote. "For one thing,
it's childish. But on another level, we're supposed to be able to have a
civil debate on the issues in this country."
Posey's spokesman,
George Cecala, said the congressman has no plans to withdraw the
proposal, even though it may not get a lot of support.
Abercrombie told the Times that Posey's suggestion is "the kind of sick
politics that permeates a certain portion of the electorate."
Here are some comments
from the geniuses in Congress. |
| Fewer Than Half Of Arkansans Think Obama Is Natural Born |
An October 23rd item
reported that three-in-ten Americans think their current head of
state was not born in the United States, according to a poll by Angus
Reid Strategies. 70 per cent of respondents believe Barack Obama
was born in the U.S., while 30 per cent do not.
Now, Goddard's
Political Wire
points to a new Public Policy Polling
survey in Arkansas shows that only 45% of voters in the state say
they believe Obama was born in this country, while 31% say they think he
was not and 24% are unsure.
"Arkansas is the first of four states
where we've polled the birther issue (Virginia, North Carolina, and
Colorado were the others) and found less than half of respondents
confident that Obama is a natural born citizen. The numbers are
particularly dramatic among Republicans with 49% saying Obama was not
born here to just 23% who grant that he was." |
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