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Blogger admits Hawaii birth certificate forgery, subverting Obama claims (Uh-oh)
Israel Insider ^ | 3 July 2008 | Reuven Koret

Posted on 07/03/2008 4:35:19 PM PDT by SE Mom

Jay McKinnon, a self-described Department of Homeland Security-trained document specialist, has implicated himself in the production of fraudulent Hawaii birth certificate images similar to the one endorsed as genuine by the Barack Obama campaign, and appearing on the same blog entry where the supposedly authentic document appears.

The evidence of forgery and manipulation of images of official documents, triggered by Israel Insider's revelation of the collection of Hawaii birth certificate images on the Photobucket site and the detective work of independent investigative journalists and imaging professionals in the three weeks since the publication of the images, implicate the Daily Kos, an extreme left blog site, and the Obama campaign, in misleading the public with official-looking but manipulated document images of doubtful provenance.

The perceived unreliability of the image has provoked petitions and widespread demands for Obama to submit for objective inspection the paper versions of the "birth certificate" he claimed in his book Dreams from My Father was in his possession, as well as the paper version of the Certificate of Live Birth for which the image on the Daily Kos and the Obama "Fight the Smears" website was supposedly generated.

Without a valid birth certificate, Obama cannot prove he fulfills the "natural born citizen" requirement of the Constitution, throwing into doubt his eligibility to run for President.

McKinnon, who says he is 25-30 years old, operates a website called OpenDNA.com and uses the OpenDNA screen name on various web sites and blogs, including his comments and diary on The Daily Kos. In recent years he has divided his time between Long Beach, California and Vancouver, British Columbia. He is a Democratic political activist, frequent contributor to the left wing Daily Kos blog, and a fervent Barack Obama supporter.

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To: hoosiermama

Here it is ...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275438/posts

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=101566

Obama tied to Ayers ... at age 11
Anti-military congregation attended as boy in Hawaii linked to radical’s organization


8,161 posted on 06/23/2009 7:40:25 AM PDT by maggief
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To: maggief; wtc911; STARWISE; LucyT

Thanks Maggie, That’s it. I couldn’t even find it on my posts....This is the part that stood out to me...

“...Eventually, the police raided the church as well as another nearby Honolulu worship house...

Just wondered if the police record had a list of any names attached, and if it did, how we would find it.


8,162 posted on 06/23/2009 8:06:14 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Hey hey! Ho ho! Where's your Birth Certificate/ We've a right to know!)
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To: hoosiermama

I can’t access this article.

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20D15FA3F5D1A7B93C6AB1783D85F4D8685F9

24 G.I. WAR FOES NOW IN SANCTUARY; Servicemen Find Refuge in Two Honolulu Churches

August 24, 1969, Sunday


8,163 posted on 06/23/2009 8:32:20 AM PDT by maggief
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To: maggief; wtc911

Since its from the NYT, would it be available in a NYC library archive?


8,164 posted on 06/23/2009 8:42:18 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Hey hey! Ho ho! Where's your Birth Certificate/ We've a right to know!)
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To: LucyT; STARWISE; penelopesire

This is all that’s available unless you “buy the article”.

HONOLULU, Aug. 23 — The ancient religious tradition of sanctuary is being invoked here by 24 dissident young servicemen, eight of them Vietnam veterans, who have taken refuge in two churches to protest the war in Vietnam.


8,165 posted on 06/23/2009 8:52:13 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Hey hey! Ho ho! Where's your Birth Certificate/ We've a right to know!)
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To: hoosiermama

It’s not available via news bank.

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8,166 posted on 06/23/2009 9:02:13 AM PDT by maggief
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To: hoosiermama

Greg Morton’s “obama man”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhhkF3dqXR0&feature=player_embedded

I repeat myself, but what the heck..I shall plaster it everywhere..
did I not say it? I shall plaster it everywhere. :)


8,167 posted on 06/23/2009 9:45:12 AM PDT by Freedom2specul8 (Please pray for our troops.... http://www.americasupportsyou.mil/)
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To: maggief; ETL; wtc911

Either of you get home delivery of the NY Times and can check to see if there are any names listed. We know that the SDS were involved. Was either of the “folks in the neighborhood” involved? One of the churches was attended by BO as a child. Could they have met BO as a child?

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20D15FA3F5D1A7B93C6AB1783D85F4D8685F9

24 G.I. WAR FOES NOW IN SANCTUARY; Servicemen Find Refuge in Two Honolulu Churches

August 24, 1969, Sunday

—FIrst paragraph:
The ancient religious tradition of sanctuary is being invoked here by 24 dissident young servicemen, eight of them Vietnam veterans, who have taken refuge in two churches to protest the war in Vietnam.


8,168 posted on 06/23/2009 9:47:37 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Hey hey! Ho ho! Where's your Birth Certificate/ We've a right to know!)
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To: penelopesire; seekthetruth; television is just wrong; jcsjcm; BP2; Pablo Mac; April Lexington; ...

The argument that Obama is a Muslim includes:

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* Obama declared in prepared remarks, “The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them.”[22]

* Obama’s background, education, and outlook are Muslim, and fewer than 1% of Muslims convert to Christianity.[23][24]

* Obama’s middle name (Hussein) references Husayn, who was the grandson of Muhammad,[25] which most Christians would not retain.[26]

* Obama recently mentioned his religion as “my Muslim faith.”[27]

* He has said that “Islam can be compatible with the modern world.”[28]

* Obama said the Muslim call to prayer is “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset,” and recited “with a first-class Arabic accent” the opening lines: Allah is Supreme! ... I witness that there is no god but Allah ....”[29]

* Obama stated that the autobiography of Malcolm X, a Nation of Islam leader who became a Muslim, inspired him in his youth.[30]

* Obama raised nearly $1 million and campaigned for a Kenyan presidential candidate who had a written agreement with Muslim leaders promising to convert Kenya to an Islamic state that bans Christianity.[31]

* Obama’s claims of conversion to Christianity arose after he became politically ambitious, lacking a date of conversion or baptism.[32]

* In the book Obama,”Renegade” his friends say that “he actually really wasn’t much of a churchgoer.” [33]

* On the campaign trail, Obama was reading “The Post-American World” by Fareed Zakaria,[34] which is written from a Muslim point-of-view.[35]

* Contrary to Christianity, the Islamic doctrine of taqiyya encourages adherents to deny they are Muslim if it advances the cause of Islam.

* Obama uses the Muslim Pakistani pronunciation for “Pakistan” rather than the common American one.[36]

* Obama was thoroughly exposed to Christianity as an adult in Chicago prior to attending law school, yet no one at law school saw him display any interest in converting. Obama unabashedly explained how he became “churched” in a 2007 speech:

“It’s around that time [while working as an organizer for the Developing Communities Project (DCP) of the Calumet Community Religious Conference (CCRC) in Chicago] that some pastors I was working with came around and asked if I was a member of a church. ‘If you’re organizing churches,’ they said, ‘it might be helpful if you went to a church once in a while.’ And I thought, ‘I guess that makes sense.’”[37]

* Obama is mentioned as helping to organize the 1995 million man march led by black Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan from the Nation of Islam. [38]

* Obama has chosen the Secret Service code name “Renegade”. “Renegade” conventionally describes someone who goes against normal conventions of behavior, but its first usage was to describe someone who has turned from their religion. It is a word derived from the Spanish renegado, meaning “Christian turned Muslim.”[39]

* Obama enjoyed a bigger increase in voter support in 2008 (compared to 2004) by Muslims than by any other voting group, including blacks;[40] “Muslim turnout in the U.S. elections reached 95 percent, the highest Muslim turnout in U.S. history.”[41]

* “President-elect Barack Obama has yet to attend [Sunday] church services since winning the White House earlier ..., a departure from the example of his two immediate predecessors.”[42][43]

* Obama used his Muslim middle name when sworn in as President.[44][45]

* Obama botched his public oath of office in which he placed his hand on a Bible, then chose not to use the Bible for his real, private oath.

President Obama bowing to the King of Saudi Arabia - April 2009

* At the G20 summit in April 2009, Obama bowed deeply to Saudi King Abdullah, a Muslim who is also the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques.[46] Never before in the history of the U.S. has a president displayed such shocking deference to a foreign official and Obama has not bowed to any other royal leaders.

Obama later stated, “We have to change our behavior in showing the Muslim world greater respect.”[47] Obama’s spin doctors and left-wing apologists dismissed the obviousness of the bow. One anonymous aide stated, “It wasn’t a bow. He grasped his hand with two hands, and he’s taller than King Abdullah.”[48]

However, in video of the incident, Obama’s left hand can clearly be seen staying at his side until after he had finished his bow.[49]

Additionally, Obama also met with Queen Elizabeth, who is much shorter than King Abdullah, but he did not bow when he shook her hand and neither he nor the queen appeared to have any difficulty.[50]

(Many liberals and even a handful of conservatives have proposed that President Bush also bowed before King Abdullah.[51] However, there is a vast, inexorable difference between bending down to receive a medal as Bush did and bowing in deference to a foreign leader as Obama did.)

* Obama required that a religiously affiliated college take the extraordinary action of concealing with wood the monogram “IHS”, which represents the name of Jesus, during a speech by Obama there[52]

Obama tries to downplay his Islamic background by claiming that his Kenyan Muslim father was a “confirmed atheist” before Obama was born, but in fact less than 1% of Kenyans are atheists, agnostics, or non-religious.[53]

There is apparently no evidence of any Christian activities or local church participation by Obama while he was in Massachusetts from 1988 to 1991, nor of Barack Obama’s joining of a Mosque (The Islamic house of worship) at any time in his life.

Finally, Obama abruptly left his radical Christian church in Chicago in 2008, when it became politically controversial, without first finding another church to join. On April 7, 2009, Obama visited a mosque in Istanbul, Turkey.[5]

http://www.conservapedia.com/Barack_Obama


8,169 posted on 06/23/2009 10:40:46 AM PDT by STARWISE (The Art & Science Institute of Chicago Politics NE Div: now open at the White House)
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To: hoosiermama; maggief

Wish I could help. I use to have Lexus Nexus through my son’s college ID, but he graduated. Boy do I miss it too!

This might help:

http://www.refdesk.com/paper.html


8,170 posted on 06/23/2009 11:18:23 AM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: STARWISE

then chose not to use the Bible for his real, private oath.
____________
I didn’t know that. hmmmmmmmmmmmm


8,171 posted on 06/23/2009 1:27:16 PM PDT by mojitojoe (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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To: mojitojoe
You didn't ? Pictorial proof.

CLICK


8,172 posted on 06/23/2009 1:59:57 PM PDT by STARWISE (The Art & Science Institute of Chicago Politics NE Div: now open at the White House)
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To: STARWISE

That list of examples leaves no doubt the kenyan is totally mooslum and explains his clear hatred of America and its’ Judeo-Christian values as found in the Constitution. God help us all....


8,173 posted on 06/23/2009 2:09:20 PM PDT by newfreep ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: hoosiermama

Made news in Hawaii on historical site:

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Seventeen AWOL servicemen protest the Vietnam War in the sanctuary of Mo’ili’ili’s Church of the Crossroads.

Twenty-four Vietnam servicemen take refuge in two Honolulu churches.

http://www.hawaiihistory.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=ig.page&year=1969

___________________________

First Unitarian Church of Honolulu —(and **Obama’s Toot)

n September 1969, the church made national headlines when it offered refuge to U.S. servicemen protesting the war in Vietnam. The servicemen were arrested by military police within the church grounds.

The resulting action brought about an unsuccessful lawsuit filed by the church against the military - Bridges v. Davis, 443 F.2d 970 (9th Cir., 1971). [2] The private memorial service for Madelyn Dunham, grandmother of US President Barack Obama, was held there in December 2008.[3] It is also where President Obama attended Sunday School during his youth.[4]

The Rev. Mike Young has been the church’s minister since 1995.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Unitarian_Church_of_Honolulu

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Workers World spoke with John Lewis, a national field organizer of the American Servicemen’s Union (ASU) in August 1969, when an earlier sanctuary struggle took place in Honolulu in protest of the war against Vietnam.

The struggle started when Louis “Buffy” Perry entered the Crossroads Church there amid a flurry of publicity on Aug. 6. “I’ve chosen to begin a lifestyle of noncooperation, on any level, with the military establishment,” Perry told reporters. “I urge all my brothers and sisters to do the same.”

Began with a mass protest

The local anti-war movement, known as the Hawai’i Resistance, held an anti-war march and rally of 350 people on Aug. 10 to commemorate Nagasaki Day. GI participants and their civilian supporters demanded “a bill of rights” for military personnel. By the end of that day, six GIs went AWOL and sought sanctuary inside the Church of the Crossroads, joining Perry.

During the next week, Black Marines rebelled at the nearby Kaneohe Marine Corps Air Station and a delegation from the sanctuary church demonstrated support for them. Marines and soldiers from other bases and from the tens of thousands visiting Hawaii on rest and recreation break from Vietnam began to join those in the sanctuary. Some who didn’t join the sanctuary brought food and other material aid.

The Hawaii People’s Coalition for Peace and Justice quickly formed to support the soldiers. Two “sanctuaries” for AWOL soldiers were established: the Church of the Crossroads and the First Unitarian Church of Honolulu.

During the next four weeks, Honolulu became a hotbed of GI resistance, with over 100,000 military personnel on the island of Oahu at Pearl Harbor, Wickham Air Force Base, Scofield Barracks and Kaneohe Marine Corps Air Station, plus GIs on leave from Vietnam.

According to legal records from a case brought three years later, at least 24 soldiers refused to cooperate in a war they didn’t agree with and took refuge in the churches.

“You have to picture the grounds of the Crossroads teeming with people,” said Cindy Lance, who stayed at Crossroads Church during the sanctuary struggle. “In the evening there would be maybe a couple hundred support people bringing food and other supplies or just coming to stay for the evening, singing and talking with the GIs.”

About dawn on Friday, Sept. 12, military police stormed the two churches and seized some 12 AWOL GIs. Others escaped. The Unitarian Church caretaker remembered waking up with an MP’s gun to his head. The raids occurred simultaneously and were over quickly. The soldiers would face court-martial.

“It was a dramatic end to a dramatic demonstration,” Unitarian pastor Gene Bridges said of the raid. He explained that the sanctuary idea derives from medieval Christian practice, when a person fleeing authorities could find safe haven inside a church.

Liberated Barracks

Cindy Lance continued to work with Liberated Barracks, an organization spawned by the sanctuary movement that continued to reach out to GIs after the sanctuary raids. “I think the military simply wanted the sanctuary movement to die,” Lance said. “They probably thought we would be demoralized after the bust and just fade away. On the contrary, we continued to visit the guys in the brigs and attend their trials.”

Many GIs defied the MPs’ efforts to arrest them. The cops only caught John Lewis after a dramatic chase across Honolulu by a convoy of vehicles—documented by a BBC-TV news team in Honolulu to cover the sanctuary movement. Lewis ended up in the Fort Dix stockade in New Jersey.

Other GIs who had participated in the sanctuary decided to leave the country and go to Canada. The life-and-death gravity of the situation changed not only the lives of the GIs, but also the thinking of some anti-war activists. Community members began secretly housing AWOL GIs in their homes.

http://www.workers.org/2009/us/gi_resistance_0122/


8,174 posted on 06/23/2009 2:10:39 PM PDT by STARWISE (The Art & Science Institute of Chicago Politics NE Div: now open at the White House)
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To: STARWISE

Community members began secretly housing AWOL GIs in their homes.

Hmmmm


8,175 posted on 06/23/2009 6:22:13 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Hey hey! Ho ho! Where's your Birth Certificate/ We've a right to know!)
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To: hoosiermama

“It was a dramatic end to a dramatic demonstration,” Unitarian pastor Gene Bridges said of the raid. He explained that the sanctuary idea derives from medieval Christian practice, when a person fleeing authorities could find safe haven inside a church. ——> Liberated Barracks.

Lib...Barracks!!

now we know where he really got his name from!


8,176 posted on 06/23/2009 11:18:31 PM PDT by Gemsbok (Dead men tell no tales!)
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To: Gemsbok; penelopesire; seekthetruth; television is just wrong; jcsjcm; BP2; Pablo Mac; ...

From Leo Donofrio 6-24-09

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Why do both Obama’s State Department and the Senate require two US citizen parents for those born abroad to attain natural born citizen status?

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d. 7 FAM 1131.6-2 Eligibility for Presidency
(TL:CON-68; 04-01-1998)
a. It has never been determined definitively by a court whether a person who acquired U.S. citizenship by birth abroad to U.S. citizens is a natural born citizen within the meaning of Article II of the Constitution and, therefore, eligible for the Presidency.

http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/86757.pdf

The State Department is part of the Executive Branch. The Foreign Affairs Manual is hosted at “State.gov” (see URL). Please note that the analysis of eligibility by the State Department – now controlled by Obama – requires two US Citizen parents.

Many have argued that Senate Resolution 511 – which served to falsely sanitize John McCain’s POTUS eligibility – states that a natural born citizen is a person born abroad to “American citizens” – plural.

[UPDATED: 9:07AM] – The actual language of the resolution reads as follows:

Whereas John Sidney McCain, III, was born to American citizens on an American military base in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936: Now, therefore, be it

Resolved, That John Sidney McCain, III, is a ‘‘natural born Citizen’’ under Article II, Section 1, of the Constitution of the United States.

Furthermore, the official statement of Senator Leahy which is part of the congressional record to the proposed resolution states:

Because he was born to American citizens, there is no doubt in my mind that Senator McCain is a natural born citizen.

And finally, the testimony of Secretary Cherthoff who was a Federal Judge was also made part of the official record. He stated:

My assumption and my understanding is that if you are born of American parents, you are naturally a natural-born American citizen.

The argument has merit to the Obama eligibility issue in that Senate Resolution 511 – co-sponsored by Obama – does not state that a person is a natural born citizen if born abroad to only one citizen parent.

The magic question is:

Why was it important to all who co-sponsored Senate Resolution 511 that both parents be citizens?

What was their logic? The question is certainly not the same as to Obama because McCain was born abroad and not on US soil. Assuming Obama was born in Hawaii, his supporters argue birth on US soil alone makes him a natural born citizen. I recognize there is a difference in circumstance.

However, the important point to be made with regard to Senate Resolution 511 concerns the policy that appears to prohibit a person from natural born citizen status if born abroad to only one citizen parent.

Why does it require two citizen parents? What is the policy behind the language requiring two US citizen parents? This is where the issue can be further supported by your questioning of Senators. 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? Get the Senate and Obama to answer that question.

Obama eligibility supporters have argued that back when the framers drafted the Constitution women couldn’t vote and therefore a preference for acknowledging the father’s citizenship prevailed as to the son. These Obama supporters argue that if the Constitution ever required two citizen parents for natural born citizenship such requirement is not relevant any longer since women can now vote by Constitutional amendment.

To that argument I will now ask why Senate Resolution 511 doesn’t state that a person born abroad to one citizen parent is a natural born citizen?

WHY DOES THE SENATE REQUIRE TWO CITIZEN PARENTS FOR NATURAL BORN CITIZEN STATUS OF THOSE BORN ABROAD?

What is so important and relevant to natural born citizen status that both parents must be citizens if the child is born abroad? How would Obama, who co-sponsored Senate Resolution 511, answer this question? This is the question you need to now ask your Senators who agreed unanimously to Senate Resolution 511. Get a quote on the record answering this question.

I’m trying to imagine their answers in light of the Obama dual nationality issue and the arguments which claim he is not eligible according to the framer’s intent and Vattel’s definition of natural born citizen. They would have no other reason to argue both parents be citizens other than the safety of the nation and the framers intent.

Ask them specifically how they have determined their level of concern requiring two US citizen parents. It will not be easy for them to craft a response which doesn’t also acknowledge the very same concerns for person’s born on US soil to a parent who was never a US citizen.

But more important is that the very same question now needs to be asked of Obama’s own State Department which to this day also acknowledges the necessity of citizen parents on the same issue in their continued publication of the Foreign Affairs Manual at 7 FAM 1131.6-2.

Again, that section states:

“It has never been determined definitively by a court whether a person who acquired U.S. citizenship by birth abroad to U.S. citizens is a natural born citizen within the meaning of Article II of the Constitution and, therefore, eligible for the Presidency.”

Why does the Obama State Department’s continued publication of the Foreign Affairs manual acknowledge that the issue requires two US citizen parents?

What is the policy requiring both parents be US citizens as opposed to just one?

Please also note that Senate Resolution 511 does not discuss ordinary “citizenship”. This is a fine distinction which needs to be noted clearly.

In Senate Resolution 511 they acknowledged that natural born citizenship is not the same as citizenship. Since one can become a citizen by naturalization, neither parent would need to be a US citizen.

In Senate Resolution 511, the Senate has acknowledged that “citizens” are not the same for Constitutional purposes as “natural born citizens”.

This is confirmation, even signed on by Obama, that it takes something more to be a “natural born citizen” of the US rather than just a “citizen” of the US.

Those who argue they are the same for purposes of POTUS eligibility must be confronted by Obama’s own admission in both co-sponsoring Senate Resolution 511 and publishing the Foreign Affairs manual that they are not one in the same thing.

I do not agree at all with the Senate’s definition of “natural born citizen” in Senate Resolution 511, but I do agree with the Senate and Obama that all citizens are not natural born citizens for purposes of satisfying the rigid requirements to be President in Article 2 Section 1 of the US Constitution.

http://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/2009/06/24/why-do-both-obamas-state-department-and-the-senate-require-two-us-citizen-parents-for-those-born-abroad-to-attain-natural-born-citizen-status/


8,177 posted on 06/24/2009 2:20:41 PM PDT by STARWISE (The Art & Science Institute of Chicago Politics NE Div: now open at the White House)
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To: STARWISE; hoosiermama; LucyT; Polarik
It has never been determined definitively by a court whether a person who acquired U.S. citizenship by birth abroad to U.S. citizens is a natural born citizen within the meaning of Article II of the Constitution and, therefore, eligible for the Presidency.

Many of us have read that State Department document. I'm rather surprised Obama and Hillary haven't changed the wording...

Congress has proven themselves UNABLE to resolved this Constitutional question. Amendments proposing to define the Constitutional requirement of "Natural Born Citizen" have been introduced in Congress subcommittee more than 28 times since the 1870s, only to have died in SUBcommittee -- EVERYTIME.

In order to force the SCOTUS to confront this, perhaps they need to hear a Civil Rights lawsuit (they love those cases) where someone wants to know if they can legally SERVE in the office of President, if elected. That person could sue the Federal Election Committee, the DNC, the RNC and the Sec of State for their state to FORCE them to come up with a universal definition of NBC -- they won't be able to, of course.

I would think that in a case like that, the SCOTUS would be compelled to define NBC because over nearly 140 years (really nearly 220 years), in context that Congress has NOT been able to come to a DEFINITE consensus on the definition of "natural born citizen".

Anyone know of a person, who has a parent that is NOT a US citizen, who would like to PUSH this issue?

8,178 posted on 06/24/2009 3:18:15 PM PDT by BP2 (I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
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To: STARWISE

Um, let’s not forget what’s going on in DC right now. Cap and Trade, destruction of our health care and immigrattion reform all at once. I have to wonder if we put the same effort into those things we might could have saved this country. That is NOW!! We can try to stop those them try to nail the poser you know? Method of distraction?


8,179 posted on 06/24/2009 6:11:43 PM PDT by mojitojoe (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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To: hoosiermama

Hmmm what? What does this have to do with anything?


8,180 posted on 06/24/2009 6:13:12 PM PDT by mojitojoe (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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