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To: patlin

Why would Stanley renounce her son’s citizenship but not her own? It is possible that she considered him to have dual citizenship either Indonesian or Kenyan as well as US and that is why she crossed out his name.

When you consider all the Irish-Americans who applied for Irish citizenship and have not lost their US citizenship, or the immigrants who became US citizens and are still considered by their native lands to be citizens, or the children born here to immigrants (like the American born children of my French neigbors, who are French citizens according to France) - it is obvious that dual citizenship does not void US citizenship in practice.

When it comes to the presidency, maybe it is a different story. But I would not hold people liable for the decisions made in their behalf while they were children. If the French-American kid down the street wants to be president someday, let him renounce French citizenship. OTOH if his parents take him back to France, raise him as a French citizen, and he lives as a French citizen after the age of 18 - too bad for his presidential ambitions.


30 posted on 09/24/2010 12:19:20 PM PDT by heartwood
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To: heartwood
At the time, Indonesia did NOT recognize dual citizenship & you had to be an Indonesian citizen to attend school there. The change of name also implies that Lolo had formally adopted the lad. But this is only one piece of the corruption exposed. We need ALL of Dunham’s records prior to 1968 to get light on the entire scope of the corruption.
32 posted on 09/24/2010 12:25:07 PM PDT by patlin (Ignorance is Bliss for those who choose to wear rose colored glasses)
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