Dear Alleged Journalists:
I had to show an official copy of my
birth certificate just to get a driver's license.
Is it really too much to ask that the future captain of the ship of state do the same?
To claim the priviledges of citizenship, the burden of proof is on the citizen. Anything else is
nonsense. To see why is easy: we could take any random person from a third world country with no reliable official record-keeping and claim that they are, in fact, a natural-born US Citizen, and dare anyone to prove otherwise. Surprise! You
can't prove otherwise without an official record, and there aren't any - or maybe there are, but you can't see them. Voila! Everyone with no records or with "unavailable" records is now automatically a US Citizen.
But how...convenient...that the MSM et al has framed this entire issue as a "prove that he's not a citizen" challenge, when the only possible proof is...conveniently...beyond the reach of anyone but the Big O.
I don't think the Supremes will do anything, yet Occam's Razor strongly implies that there is something very wrong about this situation: it would be trivially easy for him to prove citizenship by authorizing the release of his official Hawaii birth certificate, so why doesn't he do so?
The simplest theories are:
- he's not a natural-born citizen, or
- there is something else incrimiating in that document.
For an example of the latter, suppose the Big O is a natural-born citizen but is not the son of the father that he claims; this would be a major embarrassment -
but it would not disqualify him from being President.
Therefore the strongest theory is that he is not a natural-born citizen.
This theory is easily falsifiable, which makes it a good theory.
Of course, no one expects the MSM to acknowledge facts or logic any more!
suppose the Big O is a natural-born citizen but is not the son of the father that he claims; this would be a major embarrassment - but it would not disqualify him from being President.
Not in a legal sense, but who cares about the law? Much worse it would turn the only sources of biography on the man, his two books, into bullshit. He'd have to entirely re-invent himself, and do it in public. On Oprah. He'd be the first actual clown-president, and that would be a spectacle. I think his fans would have him deported, citizen or not.
The simplest theories are: * he's not a natural-born citizen, or * there is something else incrimiating in that document.
For an example of the latter, suppose the Big O is a natural-born citizen but is not the son of the father that he claims; this would be a major embarrassment - but it would not disqualify him from being President.
Therefore the strongest theory is that he is not a natural-born citizen. This theory is easily falsifiable, which makes it a good theory.
Of course, no one expects the MSM to acknowledge facts or logic any more!
People in power want control of information. They don't want anything leaking out and don't make concessions without a fight. "Executive privilege" grows out of that desire for control.
You can't say, "this is the strongest reason for wanting to restrict information, therefore it's the reason someone in power wants to limit access." Simply asserting that one reason is stronger, doesn't eliminate other reasons.