Posted on 11/26/2008 4:26:05 AM PST by dascallie
Tulsa Today
The Great Birth Certificate Scandal/Cover-Up of 08
By Joan Swirsky
Monday, 24 November 2008
Analysis: Last week, newscasters reported that al Qaedas #2 terrorist disparaged the election of Barack Obama, and hurled racial slurs at Obama himself. The report has not been confirmed by the State Department, they all said, but they reported it anyway.
Fox News reporter Carl Cameron told viewers that three anonymous insiders of Sen. McCains campaign said that Sarah Palin was, in essence, a diva and a dunce. He and dozens of others who picked up the story on other channels never identified, or even verified, the sources of the quotes, but they reported them anyway.
Contrast these shabby examples of journalism with the legions of identifiable, verifiable and credible sources who for months have been investigating the disturbing allegation that Barack Obama is ineligible for the presidency because he has failed to meet one of the three requirements that the U.S. Constitution mandates, specifically that he provide proof of his natural born U.S. citizenship.
What follows is a partial list of people and organizations that have challenged Obamas eligibility. Further on I will comment on how egregious the medias failure to cover this story has been. And last, I will speculate on the reason for the cover-up of this full-blown scandal.
Attorney Philip J. Berg, former deputy attorney general of Pennsylvania and a longtime Democrat partisan, sued Obama and the Democratic National Committee for what he alleged was the DNCs failure to vet Obama, and Obamas failure to provide an authentic and verifiable U.S. birth certificate. The suit was dismissed as too vague Berg filed a writ of certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court on Oct.30, to force Obama to produce his birth certificate. On Nov. 3, Justice David Souter rejected Bergs emergency appeal for the court to halt the tabulation of the 2008 presidential election results, but set a schedule for a response from Obama, the DNC and all co-defendants on or before Dec. 1. Berg claims to have a tape recording of Obamas Kenyan grandmother saying that she was present at Obamas birth in Kenya, along with his half-brother and half-sister. Here is his website.
According to WorldNetDaily, blogger Jeff Schreiber said a second case was presented to the Supreme Court on the same issue, i.e., the Federal Election Commission (FEC) has waived its right to respond to a complaint brought by attorney Philip Berg, possibly among other reasons because they liked their odds of Bergs petition getting denied. Berg said that if the FEC filed not solely on its own behalf but on behalf of the DNC and Barack Obama too, it reeks of collusion.
Dr. T.B. Bradley, a forensic psychologist, stated, as part of the Berg case, that, Upon reading all of the books written by or about Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. aka Barry Soetoro (hereinafter Obama) Applicant discerned that Obama was not a natural born citizen of the United States or if he was a natural born citizen that he had lost his citizenship when his biological mother married Lolo Soetoro, a citizen of Indonesia. Obama then became a citizen of Indonesia as a result of his mothers expatriation of herself and her son, by self declaration on legal public educational records that Obama was formally known as Barry Soetoro, a citizen of Indonesia [and] was not US Constitutionally qualified to hold the Office of the United States Senator from Illinois or the Office of the President of the United States.
Author, radio host, blogger, and Chicago attorney Andy Martin filed a suit in Hawaiis Supreme Court to compel Gov. Linda Lingle to release a certified copy of Obamas vital statistics record. His request was denied. On Nov. 18, he petitioned a judge in Hawaii for access to Obamas original 1961 birth certificate, and reported that the judge reserved judgment. But when he arrived back in the states, he learned that Judge Bert Ayabe had dismissed the case.
Former presidential candidate Alan Keyes filed a suit with the California Secretary of State asking that the states 55 Electoral College votes not be cast on December 15 until Obama verifies his eligibility to hold the office. Keyes suit was filed by Gary Kreep of the United States Justice Foundation, along with California Electors Wiley S. Drake and Markham Robinson. The action states: Should Senator Obama be discovered, after he takes office, to be ineligible for the Office of President of the United States, and, thereby, his election declared void .(a) usurper will be sitting as the President of the United States, and none of the treaties, laws, or executive orders signed by him will be valid or legal. Former California Secretaries of State have reviewed background documents to verify the eligibility of candidates. In 1968, the Peace and Freedom Party submitted the name of Eldridge Cleaver as a qualified candidate for POTUS. Then Secretary of State, Frank Jordan, found that according to Cleavers birth certificate, he was only 34 years old, one year shy of the age needed to be on the ballot. Mr. Jordan removed Mr. Cleaver from the ballot. Cleaver unsuccessfully challenged this decision to the Supreme Court of the State of California and to the Supreme Court.
Lt. Col. Donald Sullivan, a retired 23-year veteran of the Army, National Guard, and Air Force filed another suit in North Carolina, which claimed Obama should not have been on the states election ballot because his citizenship is in doubt.
David M. Neal of Ohio filed a suit in Warren Common Pleas Court to force the Ohio Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner, to request documents from the Federal Elections Commission, the Democratic National Committee, the Ohio Democratic Party and Obama to show the presidential candidate was born in Hawaii. The case was denied.
Cort Wrotnowski of Connecticut asked the court to order Secretary of State, Susan Bysiewicz, to verify Obamas citizenship before allowing the candidate to appear on the state ballot. The case was denied.
Steven Marquis filed a suit Washington State Superior Court, calling for Secretary of State, Sam Reed, to determine whether Obama is a citizen before Election Day, claiming the Hawaii birth certificate reveals neither the hospital where Obama was born nor a doctors name the babys footprint. The case was denied.
Rev. Tom Terry of Georgia appealed to the Georgia Supreme Court the day before the election to determine authenticity of Obamas original birth certificate and his qualifications to be president. Georgia Superior Court Judge Jerry W. Baxter denied Terrys request for an injunction against Secretary of State Karen Handel.
Author Jerome Corsi, who has written extensively about this case, traveled to Hawaii and Kenya. He learned that the Certification of Live Birth that the Obama campaign posted is, according to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, not the same as a Certificate of Live Birth, which authenticates Hawaiian birth.
Obamas half-sister, Maya Soetoro, has named two different Hawaii hospitals where Obama could have been born. In November 2004 she said he was born at Queens Medical Center in Honolulu, but in February 2008, she said he was born in the Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children. Before the election, the Internet site, WorldNetDaily, retained a private investigator in Hawaii to visit both hospitals, but he reported that sheriffs deputies were stationed at both hospitals to fend off inquiries.
Leo C. Donofrio a retired attorney, started a website and filed a suit in New Jersey on November 3, asking Secretary of State, Nina Mitchell Wells, for an emergency stay prohibiting Obama, Sen. McCain, and Socialist Workers Party candidate Roger Calero, from appearing on New Jerseys ballot, claiming all three are not natural born citizens. On Nov. 6, Supreme Court Justice David Souter denied Donofrios application. But the case has now entered the docket of the U.S. Supreme Court and Justice Clarence Thomas has decided to send it to conference on December 5th! This means that only 10 days before the Electoral College votes, the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court will meet privately to discuss Donofrios case.
Douglas J. Hagmann, director of HomelandSecurityUS.com, has reported that 17 lawsuits in 12 states are challenging the eligibility of Obama to become the next President of the United States.
Numerous activist groups have undertaken letter-writing campaigns to the Supreme Court Justices, members of the Electoral College, and elected officials, as well as sending urgent appeals to the White House and the Department of Justice.
Websites like Citizens for the United States Constitution, We The People, PeoplesPassion, America Must Know, and Faith2Action have sprung up in passionate defense of our Constitutions integrity. The last of these has even posted the names and addresses of Electoral College members from each state, as well as an ad in The Washington Times.
Dozens of petitions, like this one, have been circulated.
And dozens of mostly-conservative writers (including Devy Kidd and Miichelle Malkin), bloggers and journalists have written about his strange case and potential Constitutional crisis, as I have in a series of articles here and here and here and here.
Coverage of the above by the media: Zero.
A DEAFENING SILENCE
It is no mystery that the leftist media have refused to mention this potentially looming Constitutional crisis in virtually all of their print and electronic coverage. Having shilled for Obama for the past two years dismissing his longtime radical associations, obfuscating his radical voting record, and taking a pass at their jobs of vetting a presidential candidate their failure to cover the most explosive story of the 2008 campaign speaks volumes about collusion of the highest order.
Then there are the late-night comics, as well as snarky humorists like Bill Maher and Jon Stewart, who take pride in being irreverent and outing both people and subjects that others avoid. Not a word.
But what about the failure of the powerful conservative media how to explain their total blackout of this story? Lets look at their reactions:
Fox News: Total Silence. Did the healthy shares that Saudi Arabia bought of Fox influence the networks non-coverage of this story? After all, its no secret which candidate the Saudis endorsed! We know that TV shows, including Fox, are on a seven-second delay, the better to bleep out offensive or inappropriate material. Doesnt it strike Fox viewers as strange that not one of their outspoken guests, even once, mentioned this story? Who warned them not to?
Rush Limbaugh: Total Silence. Why has the Excellence-in-Broadcastings Dr. of Democracy the man who eats sacred cows for breakfast not touched this story?
Mark Levin: Total Silence. Why has this popular radio host, commonly known as the Great One, abandoned his well-deserved reputation as a Constitutional scholar to studiously not address this Constitutional issue?
Laura Ingraham: Total Silence. Here is another radio powerhouse and former clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas taking pains not to mention this case not a word!
Bill OReilly: Total Silence. Yes, the guy who claims hes just looking out for the folks voiceless!
Sean Hannity: Total Silence. The iconic radio and TV host who tackles every controversial subject under the sun missing in action!
I could go on and on, but you get the picture. The very people the so-called loyal opposition who should have been shouting this story from the rooftops for months on end went mute. Ordinarily they would be the first to tell you that our Republic has no more precious document than the U.S. Constitution a document that set the stage for the greatest experiment in human freedom since the beginning of recorded history. People like me and multi-millions of others are aware of what happens when the salami tactics of tyrants are employed in the service of leftwing ideology.
First, there is a charismatic character promising change and hope, but who changes his tune once in power. Second there is a whittling down of the laws of the land and the arrogant dismissal of the documents on which the nation was founded. Third there is the blacking-out of all media that disagree with Dear Leaders message. And fourth there is the rounding-up and incarceration or worse of all dissidents.
This is not theory. This is history. But while both left and right media thought it appropriate to comment at length about Obamas seven-page for those seeking work in his administration a probing that makes a Pap Test, Questionnaire mammogram, colonoscopy, and endoscopy in one visit seem mild by comparison not one of these cowardly journalists has asked the simple question: Mr. Obama, where is your birth certificate?
Or were they not cowards but patriots?
SCROUNGING FOR ANSWERS
Ive written several books, not one of them fictional. And thousands of articles, not one of them based on sinister suspicions or conspiracy theories. But the case of the U.S. medias complete non-coverage of this major story has gotten me to speculate on what or who may be behind this phenomenon. What force could be so powerful as to silence our countrys putative guardians of free speech the titans of the Fourth Estate?
Perhaps the mystery goes back to 2004, when President Bush won his second term in office and in his first press conference in the White House said that he had earned political capital and intended to spend it.
Then suddenly and inexplicably he went into a year-long hibernation. He rarely appeared in public and gave no major speeches. Finally he reemerged albeit weakly in late November or early December of 2005
Could it be that shortly after the presidents reelection, he and major government officials received highly credible evidence from Americas ruthless Islamist enemies that they had a number of devastating (probably nuclear suitcase) weapons set up and ready to be activated in as many as six-to-10 of our major cities unless he (the president) tacked left and played nice for the following two years?
Was America taken hostage?
The president, one could speculate, had only two choices: (1) play chicken and possibly sacrifice the lives of millions of Americans and the destruction of major American cities, or (2) opt for the lesser of two evils, the second being to pave the way for a dangerous Trojan Horse qualified or not to capture the White House.
Could it be that the media blackout of the most explosive story of any presidential election in American history has been choreographed by none other than the current POTUS the most powerful man in the entire world? This would certainly explain why President Bush has not been himself since January 20, 2005. It would also explain why the all-powerful media have taken his marching orders including the New York Times, which takes particular pleasure in undermining and sabotaging the president, even when it comes to national security issues.
If this happened, it would have had to involve the highest echelon in our intelligence services, who might have paid personal visits to publishers throughout the United States, as well as to top TV and radio executives, who themselves would have passed down iron-clad orders to their anchors, broadcasters, even comedians to follow the blackout order or face Draconian consequences.
On November 4 Election Day the Dow was above 9,000. It is now plummeting, suggesting that even the globalists among us prefer tax cuts and capitalism to tax hikes and not creeping but galloping socialism or what the esteemed Dr. Jack Wheeler insists is fascism.
Buyers remorse is in the air. America has been hijacked. What a price we will pay if the Supreme Court and the Electoral College abandon their oaths to uphold the U.S. Constitution by capitulating as the media have to our enemies. God Save America!
About the author: Joan Swirsky (www.joanswirsky.com) is a New York-based journalist and author who can be reached at joansharon@aol.com.
Last Updated ( Monday, 24 November 2008 )
Link works for me?
This is the 3rd or 4th time this has been posted. Need to search for article before posting it.
ok..noted.
I actually posted it again as a service because it appeared the article or site has been taken down. Link still does not work for me.
Could it be that shortly after the presidents reelection, he and major government officials received highly credible evidence from Americas ruthless Islamist enemies that they had a number of devastating (probably nuclear suitcase) weapons set up and ready to be activated in as many as six-to-10 of our major cities unless he (the president) tacked left and played nice for the following two years?
Was America taken hostage?
The conspiracy theorist always makes the same logical error. Speculate, then build a second speculation on the first without testing the first. Then a third on the second, and so on, in a chain of speculation that soon loses track of itself.
It's some sort of mental pathology.
I just have a question: Can someone tell me why McCain’s ‘natural born’ citizenship status is being questioned? What is the basis of that argument?
I understand the Obama case but not McCain.
What is more concerning is why he/they didn't just produce the certificate and end the controversy at any time. Instead, the document they placed on the Internet has been widely declared a fraudulent document. Again, why?
Initially, this all sounded like a stretch of our anti-Obama imaginations, just some campaign mud slinging. Not a natural born citizen? Yeah, right. But none of what he/they have done instills trust. They act guilty, like they are stalling for time and covering up. Not a good sign.
OK this WAS a great article until he went into speculation that George W. Bush went inot hiding for a year saying “Could it be that arab terrorist have 6-10 nuclear bombs hidden in our country”
That was the single stupidest paragraph and kills what otherwise would have been a great article.
Beginning to see more and more people jumping in on what may yet prove to be the greatest wannabe case of all time—unfortunately, all internet sources, of course!
here’s another surprising one—surprising by both its source and scope and detail....
Starting with the assumption that Obama isn’t eligible, Obama and his allies have had more than enough time to create the appropriate documents and alter the necessary records.
***That’s what I’ve been worrying about since zer0bama’s first trip to Hawaii. We would need real experts like Polarik to examine the paper copy right next to some legitimate copies. It is likely to be the highest quality forgery possible.
THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA'S UPBRINGING
I’ve been thinking about this BC issue and how Obama is trying his hardest to make it appear that he is already the actual President. I think he’s doing that on purpose to reinforce the idea and image of a President Obama. IF the Supreme Court should pursue the BC issue, and IF Obama is unable to produce absolute proof of his legitimacy, then most people will likely say, “So what? He’s already the President! Forget about it.”
Why isn’t O’s questionable US citizenship frontpage news?Why aren’t R’s in DC demanding anwsers?I don’t buy the suitcase nuke scenario.Too much to swallow.As far as R’s(GW+friends)are concerned,I think it’s primarily due to a lack of backbone.The msm have their own agenda.
Most of the guys I've known named "Hussein" were also named "Mohammed". I figured he was covering THAT up until after the election, and it made perfect sense to me. But why now? Why not just slap the damned thing down on a table and say "Here it is. FOAD."?
I agree. They’ve had plenty of time (and you know they have the means) to create a very good forgery and to get it into the right place, but they have not done this.
It makes me wonder if Obama is, in effect, showing us all just how “powerful” he is by refusing to follow the “rules” and demonstrating that rules to not apply to HIM and that he CAN and WILL get away with anything.
The fact that judges and anyone else who should have a say in any of this are just blatantly looking the other way, dismissing this whole issue, etc. just concerns the heck out of me!
Hang on folks, we are in for a very rough ride.
McCain was not born on American soil, that means nothing in his case because his parents were BOTH citizens, they were married and his father was in the military and they were abroad temporarily due to military service.
His citizenship was brought up possibly as a cover for Obama who was likely born outside the US but in his case his reported father was NOT a citizen, there is doubt that they were married and his mother likely did not qualify to pass on natural born status on her own. Also Obama iived in Indonesia as a child and apparently was adopted by an Indonesian named Lolo Soetoro, this would have made him an Indonesian citizen.
In short, there really never was a question on McCain but they apparently tried to use his status as a smokescreen for Obama.
I thought the EXACT SAME THING. Look at the proliferation of press coverage, press conferences—for someone not even inaugurated.
They want him dug in hard in the public’s mind if an effort to throw him out arises...so the opposition will be even more fierce. I think this is a certainty.
Because with the complete, total media blackout...there really isn't a controversy! Nothing here...let's move on! (sarc/off)
“To a wrongly stated question there can be no right answer. ...a fundamental question stated in a certain way can hold the minds of men in bondage for centuries, not to say millenia.”
Anders Nygren, Agape and Eros, p.47
“An explained thing, except for very resolute thinkers, is almost inevitably ‘explained away’. Speaking generally, it may be said that the demand for explanation is due to the desire to be rid of mystery.”
__________, The Seventeenth Century Background, p.14
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