Ping!
Can we get a good fact check on this?
Now, if you want a REALLY bizarre story, read about Arthur’s grandson, Chester Athur III.
The comment about Gray is fascinating. Seen in that light, it does start to make sense about Wong Kim Ark. For a long time, I had thought that maybe the era when that decision was taken was some sort of nascent "liberal progressive" time, when attitudes towards non-White aliens were softening.
But this refutes that, and explains one more puzzle about Ark: why did the majority resort to English Common Law to produce the result that Ark was a citizen? As Eastman and Meese pointed out (see P. 18-19), the Constitution rejects feudalism and thus the resort to Common Law regarding Sojourners employed by Gray.
But it makes sense if Gray saw himself as an Englishman.
So he was no liberal, but rather a closet Monarchist, reaching back in to the Monarchist's trick bag to produce more serfs for the Kings.
As Cort Wrotnowski indicated in his Supplemental Brief to the SCOTUS back in December,
President Chester Arthur was not a “natural born citizen”, and hid those facts until his death.
From that Supplemental Brief: http://www.scribd.com/doc/8830185/Wrotnowski-v-Bysiewicz-Supplemental-Brief
The definitive biography of Chester Arthur's life is “Gentleman Boss” by Thomas Reeves.
Since Chester Arthur burned his papers around the time of his death, this biography fills
many gaps with interviews of family members and authentic documents such as the Arthur family Bible.
From “Gentleman Boss”, page 202 and 203:“…Hinman was hired, apparently by democrats, to explore
rumors that Arthur had been born in a foreign country, was not a
natural-born citizen of the United States, and was thus, by the
Constitution, ineligible for the vice-presidency. By mid-August,
Hinman was claiming that Arthur was born in Ireland and had
been brought to the United States by his father when he was fourteen.
Arthur denied the charge and said that his mother was
a New Englander who had never left her native country — a
statement every member of the Arthur family knew was untrue.”
(2) There is one major difference between the situations of Arthur and Obama: Arthur was beyond doubt a citizen of the United States at the time he assumed the presidency; in contrast, we still don't know if Obama is a citizen or even if he ever has been a citizen. (I admit that this has little bearing on Arthur's constitutional eligibility or lack thereof).
(3) As far as American troops saluting the British flag is concerned, my guess would be that, given the close proximity and working relationships between Americans and British in WWII and the stationing of many American troops in Great Britain, it possibly did occur during that time frame, but probably not on orders of the president.
Isn’t it time that the Chester Arthur incident be fully investigated and his name cleared or, if if it is concluded that eligibility was never satisfied, that every last bid of legislation signed by this man be (at least symbolicly) reversed.
I've saluted all kinds of flags over my career. BFD
BFT someone takes this seriously.