A $10 document VS $1,000,000 in legal fees to hide the $10 document, to save a job that pays less than half that a year.
It don't pass the smell test let alone the math test!
Indonesian Go Home!
Posted on 09/02/2009 10:07:39 PM PDT by Spaulding
As far as I can tell, President Obama himself never publicly stated during or after the election that he isn’t a Kenyan citizen.
In a now famous report, Factcheck.org, in response to a story originally published in The Rocky Mountain News, attempted to lay rest to allegations that Obama was currently a Kenyan citizen. In that report, Factcheck.org. stated that Obama had been a Kenyan citizen up until August 4, 1982 when they allege Obama’s Kenyan citizenship expired.
Obama republished – at his web official site, Fightthesmears.com – only that part of the Factcheck.org analysis which stated that the President was a British citizen at birth. Obama republished this word for word thereby admitting the truth of the following assertion:
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…
The question arises as to why Obama didn’t republish the full article by Factcheck.org concerning his various foreign citizenship issues. Perhaps by placing a link on his page – just above the quote above – back to Factcheck.org, Obama intended to endorse all of the conclusions made by Factcheck.org in the report....
FACTCHECKING Factcheck.org
Obama’s failure to endorse all of the Factcheck.org report inspired me to investigate whether all of the information presented therein was accurate.
I can now report that it has been conclusively established – the Factcheck.org report contains false information. Two inaccuracies have been discovered.
Factcheck.org – Inaccuracy #1: President Obama’s Kenyan Citizenship did not expire on August 4, 1982.
(Excerpt) Read more at naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com ...
Reading Kenya’ laws carefully suggests that Barack Obama is likely still a citizen of Kenya, along with the British Commonwealth and Indonesia.
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I don’t even think that you have to go that far ...
By his own admission, per proprius lacuna (by one’s own words), Obama has stated that he is or was a dual national now or at one time.
This should be enough to warrant an inquiry to the Supreme Court as to whether or not he is a natural born citizen ...
Under the Founding Fathers’ concept of natural born citizen, Obama is almost certainly NOT ...
I am taking the position that he WAS born in Hawaii (to satisfy the libs), AND that he was ALSO subject to the British Nationality Act of 1948 (which declared him to be a British citizen through his father’s British citizenship).
This NECESSARILY disqualifies him from assuming the office, since he IS NOT a natural born citizen ...
ping
And I suppose you are suggesting that somehow this detail is of some consequence to our country? </sarc>
Obama, with his czars and deemphasis of both the judicial and legislative branches, is following a road map closer to the British system, with no constitution, a House of Commons and House of Lords (Senate), and a combination King-prime minister, a bit like Hugo Chavez. I came across an analysis by Alexander Hamilton of the problems with the British system, and the reasons for the importance of Vattel’s interpretation of ‘natural law’. I can be windy, and get frustrated with long quotes in a blog, but will take the chance that some may appreciate Hamilton's essay:
Emmerich de Vattel’s text, “The Law of Nations” was crucial in shaping American thinking about the nature of constitutions.
To this day, Great Britain does not have a written constitution, but instead a collection of laws, customs, and institutions, which can be changed by either the Parliament or the monarchy, or by the ``Venetian’’ financiers who are the real power over the British Empire. Consequently, the British constitution remains to this day little more than a mask for the arbitrary power of the oligarchy.
The only place of appeal which the American colonists had for unjust laws was to the King's Privy Council. Attempts by the colonists to argue that actions by the British Monarchy and Parliament were unlawful or unconstitutional would be stymied, if they stayed within this legal framework which was essentially arbitrary. Although Vattel praised the British constitution for providing a degree of freedom and lawfulness not seen in most of the German states, his principles of constitutional law were entirely different from the British constitutional arrangements. Consequently, the American colonists attacked the foundation of the King and Parliament's power, by demanding that Vattel’s principles of constitutional law be the basis for interpreting the British constitution.
American writers quoted {The Law of Nations} on constitutional law, almost immediately after the book's publication. In 1764, James Otis of Massachusetts argued, in one of the leading pamphlets of the day, ``The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved,’’ that the colonial charters were constitutional arrangements. He then quoted Vattel, that the right to establish a constitution lies with the nation as a whole, and the Parliament lacked the right to change the fundamental principles of the British Constitution. Boston revolutionary leader Samuel Adams wrote in 1772, ``Vattel tells us plainly and without hesitation, that `the supreme legislative cannot change the constitution,’ `that their authority does not extend so far,’ and `that they ought to consider the fundamental laws as sacred, if the nation has not, in very express terms, given them power to change them.’|’’ In a debate with the Colonial Governor of Massachusetts, in 1773, John Adams quoted Vattel that the parliament does not have the power to change the constitution.
The adoption of a constitution, by the Constitutional Congress in 1787, based on Leibnizian principles rather than British legal doctrine, was certainly not inevitable. However, British legal experts such as Blackstone, who argued that the Parliament and King could change the constitution, were increasingly recognized by the Americans as proponents of arbitrary power. The early revolutionary leaders’ emphasis on Vattel as the authority on constitutional law, with his conception that a nation must choose the best constitution to ensure its perfection and happiness, had very fortunate consequences for the United States and the world, when the U.S. Constitution was later written, as we will see below.
Alexander Hamilton
The fact that he has it locked and seal is the dead give away. At the very least he has terrible grades. According to Wayne Allyn Root (a classmate of Obama at Columbia) said everyone knew Obama had poor grades because it was rare in Columbia. Makes you wonder how Obama was accepted at Harvard? I am sure it was not his grades.
A $10 document VS $1,000,000 in legal fees to hide the $10 document, to save a job that pays less than half that a year.
It don't pass the smell test let alone the math test!
Indonesian Go Home!
It's clear that there are legitimate questions about the Kenyan Clown's natural born citizenship status.
Obama's failure to answer these questions in the most honest and forthright manner is profoundly corrosive. He should publish all of the documentation: original vital records, all passports both expired and current, and his citizenship or visa status he held for his long sojourn in Indonesia.
Instead of simply airing his case, he depends on the very weak reed of a cult of personality — a dangerous dependency on a personal popularity that has rapidly faded away.
This disrespect for our Constitution and for our populace is the most disgusting aspect of this loathsome presidency. Appointing open communists, attempting to indoctrinate our children into a personality cult, even his political decisions that threatening to destroy our social fabric and our defense capabilities, pale against the Kenyan Clown's fundamental contempt for the rule of law.
Now granted it's been decades since I studied Latin, but doesn't this translate more like "through his own hole or missing space"? "Lacuna" most certainly does not mean "words."
Ping.
Does this help? I couldn't find a clean etymology.
Well, Obama flunks the legitimacy test about 50 different ways. But I still don’t believe that he was born in Hawaii, either.
Actually, he could claim not dual, but quadruple citizenship. British, Kenyan, Indonesian, and American. But the last is dubious, since he was foreign born, did not qualify for natural-born citizenship, and never bothered to apply for it.
And it’s not known whether his parents were even married. If they were, it had to be in Kenya under Muslim law, since in America it would have been bigamy.
So he’s British, Kenyan, Indonesian.
You may be right, but I can’t find it. Lacuna does normally mean a blank or an empty space. My Latin is also rusty at this point, but wouldn’t it be something more like verbum impsum?
Arggh. Verbum ipsum.
Not really, since “lacuna” is a legitimate Latin word.
I could be totally wrong (like that would ever happen!)
Never formally studied Latin, but have been fascinated by all the places English borrows from. (To use a preposition to end a sentence with)...
Take 2:
per proprius lacuna (by one’s own words)
is closer to:
per proprius lacuna (by one’s own failure to speak up)
In the sense that one can give tacit approval of something simply by allowing it to stand.
(Still guessing!)
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