Why we went dark |
Posted on 11/27/2008 12:43:11 PM PST by ckilmer
Why we went dark |
By David Arnett, Publisher | |
Thursday, 27 November 2008 | |
Monday morning Tulsa Today posted an analysis by veteran New York journalist and the recipient of seven Long Island Press Awards, Joan Swirsky, titled, The Great Birth Certificate Scandal/Cover-Up of 08 questioning the missing Barack Obama birth certificate and his eligibility to serve as President of the United States. Two hours and 10,000 page views later, our local Internet Service Provider and domain hosting service, Tulsa Connect locked us off the Internet.
This action was taken without warning or formal notice, but after several telephone conversations the picture became clear. Our agreement with Tulsa Connect was for shared hosting service. In that type of service, they load many domains on the same computer server. We were told that of the 300 to 600 client domains on that one piece of equipment, Tulsa Today always experienced the highest levels of traffic, but the overwhelming interest in the Obama birth certificate story slowed service to the other clients and rather than consider that reader traffic a peak that would soon recede, Tulsa Connect discontinued Tulsa Todays public access. They contend that there was no way their equipment could handle such a high volume of traffic.
By telephone we pleaded for an option. As Tulsas original (est. 1996) local live Internet news service, off-line is never acceptable. There was no immediate solution or work-around offered by Tulsa Connect. The only option they suggested was to move our site to a separate server for a cost increase of about 600 percent. There was no guarantee from Tulsa Connect of when they would be able to return functionality to Tulsa Today.
Fortunately, Tulsa Today found another service and within 8 hours, the site was moved and is now available for readers worldwide. Evolution Studios now provides hosting for Tulsa Today at a lower cost than shared service from Tulsa Connect and with no limitation on reader traffic. They are customer service orientated, responsive and pulled Herculean duty to accomplish this task as fast as computers could load our admittedly huge site. Evolution Studios provides 24-hour technical support and they used some of those after-hours to get this transfer done. As a web developer, I have worked with them on other projects in the past and their consistent focus on clear communication with and quality service for their clients has been a blessing in a niche field oddly populated by pinhead techno-bully-nerds with limited interpersonal skills. There is no indication that Tulsa Connect limited options or blocked public access to Tulsa Today because of the political content of the story. Any conspiracy theory suggested by anyone at this time is without credible justification. Tulsa is the heartland; we believe in the Constitution of the United States of America and the free speech promised to both the press and to the people. Tulsans of all races, creeds, and both genders have and will fight to defend it. However, we are rethinking our buy local business procedure. Evolution Studios is not based in Tulsa. Come to think about it, we might help them open an office here. They are a national provider of Internet based services apparently and significantly more attentive to client need than many other providers. Tulsa Connect was provided advance notice of this story and invited to make a statement explaining their actions. None was forthcoming as of this writing. We understand their equipment dilemma, but it was not our responsibility to monitor their server traffic or anticipate and provision for their company's growth. Apparently they prefer clients with small web sites few visit. There is some personal sadness in this change as I began Tulsa Today with the Tulsa Connect folks in 1996 when they were called WebZone. The Great Birth Certificate Scandal/Cover-Up of 08 continues to see huge readership as it has been linked to major national and international web sites including: World Net Daily (which features an entire page of Obama birth certificate stories), Right Side News, Lucianne and others. One reader wrote most concisely, Obama has spent over $800,000 and several months fighting to avoid presenting a $10 copy of a long-form birth certificate begging the ultimate question, why? Critics have assailed the work both to Tulsa Today and author Joan Swirsky. The piece posited just one speculative idea and the angry Left calls it packing so many conspiracy theories Ya got to love the angry Looney Left, allergic to facts and satisfied to refute them with gratuitous personal insults. We can do that. Additionally, the blogosphere is ablaze with stories about it, pro and con, according to Oklahomas own Mike McCarville who notes an e-mail from Bunny Chambers of Oklahoma City, a Republican elector this year saying, There must be something to hide if BHO wont release proof, if he has it, that he is a natural born US citizen. He isnt officially elected until the Electoral College meets on December 15th. I am a member of the 2008 Electoral College. I cant believe that this is actually happening right before our eyes. We must do something! Ive worked over 30 years to protect our US Constitution and now it seems that it will have been all for naught." No Bunny, as long as we have life there is hope. Hope that citizens will continue to demand honest transparent government, hope that all government service will be conducted at the highest moral and ethical standards, hope that the courts will act according to the Constitution, and hope that media will be the guardians they proclaim is not dead. Hope thrives as we live. We give hope every day around the kitchen table. I have taught my daughter and she is teaching her children stand for what is true, just, and right in honor of those before you that have fought and died to guarantee that precious freedom. We will granddad, the kids answer. Thus freedom flourishes despite whatever crisis of the day may come technical or political from dark to dawn. About the author:
David Arnett began his career in professional journalism in 1985 and has published Tulsa Today since 1996 years before Al Gore invented the Internet and "blogs" began. He has won two national awards as a First Amendment Publisher. Arnett is an idea guy, a Constitutional Republican, a Conservative Media Critic and a proud pain in the political derriere of the disingenuous.
This analysis may be reproduced without charge with proper attribution and links to the original source. Arnett is available for interview by recognized media. |
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No, I have not personally viewed Obama’s passport.
Passport requirements - proof of US citizenship
You can prove your US citizenship with one of the following:
Original Birth Certificate (if born in the United States);
or Old (undamaged) passport;
or Original Certificate of Citizenship or FS-240, DS-1350 ( if born outside the US );
or Original Certificate of Naturalization issued by the Immigration and Naturalization Office.
If Obama used an FS-240 or ds-1350 form indicating that he was born outside the US or if he has been naturalized by the INS, those records would be on file at the US State Department.
Found this.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/21/obama.passport/index.html
Why can’t journalist find this stuff — and ask questions?
VERY INTERESTING COMMENT FOUND HERE:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23736254/
Quote
State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the violations of McCain and Clinton’s passport files were not discovered until Friday, after officials were made aware of the unauthorized access of Obama’s records and a separate search was conducted.
End of Quote
Please note that Obama’s passport was not violated, only his records. . . .
Question remains: Does Obama have a U.S. passport?
Question: Is it a federal offense to submit a forged document to obtain a passport? Perhaps he DOES have a U.S. passport and he lied to get it.
Maybe this is another reason that Obama is so intent on not being forthcoming.
Hhhhmmmmmmmmmmmm
Can an American citizen apply for and receive an Indoneasian passport? He certainly had one.
Why isn’t anyone looking into this passport question?
Passport files of candidates breached
Records of Clinton, McCain, Obama inappropriately accessed, officials say
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23736254/
my theory on that hacking was hitlery minions did it; I bet they discovered he was a foreigner too but no way to get proof off of an illegal hacking.
I figured it out long after everyone else did.
***Dont you remember that during the primary campagin Obama travelled to Iraq and to Afghanistan to visit the troops on a US passport and he spoke in Berlin on a US passport as well.***
Then why doesn’t he show it to prove that he’s a natural born citizen?
Actually the reason the whole passport “Gate” story died a swift death was it was discovered that the break in to his files were done by the employees of an Obama Adviser.
It’s sad that the press just refuses to do their job.
Interesting quote from Obama at that site:
“One of the things that the American people count on in their interactions with any level of government is that if they have to disclose personal information, that it stay personal and stay private,” Obama said in Portland, Oregon.
“And when you have not just one but a series of attempts to tap into people’s personal records, that’s a problem not just for me but for how our government is functioning,” he said.
I guess this only applies to Obama, though, and not to others like, oh, for example Joe the Plumber.
The American People want to know, who sent you?
Obama has lived for 48 years without leaving any footprints — none! There is no Obama documentation — no records — no paper trail — none — this can’t be an accident.
Original, vault copy birth certificate — Not released
Certificate of Live Birth — Released — Counterfeit
Obama/Dunham marriage license — Not released
Soetoro/Dunham marriage license — Not released
Soetoro adoption records — Not released
Fransiskus Assisi School School application — Released
Punahou School records — Not released
Selective Service Registration — Released — Counterfeit
Occidental College records — Not released
Passport (Pakistan) — Not released
Columbia College records — Not released
Columbia thesis — Not released
Harvard College records — Not released
Harvard Law Review articles — None (maybe 1, unsigned?)
Baptism certificate — None
Medical records — Not released
Illinois State Senate records — None
Illinois State Senate schedule — Lost
Law practice client list — Not released
University of Chicago scholarly articles — None
http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaLatest.htm
***You got it because youre her mom. If obumas mother went shed get his too (if she was alive). Its unrelated parties that cant get access.***
Yes, that’s true. I was making the point that a birth certificate CAN be obtained by someone other than the “birthee,” but Hawaii says ONLY the “birthee” can get it. Interesting. Hawaii is liberal, but the governor is a Pubbie. One wonders whose political career might be at stake.
“why doesnt he show it to prove that hes a natural born citizen?”
I’d not heard the details of this - it sounds a little suspect.
“State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the violations of McCain and Clinton’s passport files were not discovered until Friday, after officials were made aware of the unauthorized access of Obama’s records and a separate search was conducted.”
look at the post above yours, why can’t anybody respond to it?
Deo volente
Barack Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural born citizen. He is the legitimately elected President of the United States.
Obviously this is not a simple question. Tens of millions of words have been written arguing as to the meaning of the Second Amendment, a much simpler and direct issue.
One should not need to be a Constitutional lawyer or a forensic linguist to ask a simple question.
High Res Facsimiles - National Documents
"No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of the President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States."
Questions abound and will be debated forever. What distinguishes assertion from uninformed speculation or unfounded opinion is boundless. Googling "birthcertificate" will yield hundreds of thousands of these; not very useful.
Obviously, the framers of the original document knew what they meant, although they failed to consider that a couple of hundred years later ignorant people would interpret "welfare" as the world of FDR (google FDR and Supreme Court) or LBJ.
As examples of critical ambiguity, does the child of an American Diplomat serving overseas lose Citizenship? Obviously and clearly not, if born within the American Embassy coumpound.
How about an ordinary citizen traveling overseas who gives birth? A different, less obvious set of circumstances.
And finally how about a native born American citizen who has expatriate status, and who might or might not have de facto or de jure renounced American citizenship and gives birth?
The remarkable thing about this debate is how trivial a matter it seems to be for many, including News Networks, radio personalities and commentators, as if the entire issue no longer matters.
Most, I assume, view it as another fringe "conspiracy theorists" subject not worthy of discussion. This may be due to the moonbat nature of conspiracy theorists, but in this case the messenger is irrelevant.
The least that the skeptics of the importance of citizenship can do is verbalize exactly, or even approximately, why the subject is not worthy of discussion, or even comment.
Possible ping for your list.
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