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To: real_patriotic_american

As most of you know, this story is FALSE. I wrote the following to WND last night and the story has been removed. Now you get an error message when you click the link to it.


HR 985 appears to be about PROTECTING JOURNALISTS and their SOURCES.

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/webreturn/?url=http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.985:

Excerpt 1

“(a) Conditions for Compelled Disclosure- In any matter arising under Federal law, a Federal entity may not compel a covered person to provide testimony or produce any document related to information obtained or created by such covered person as part of engaging in journalism, unless a court determines by a preponderance of the evidence, after providing notice and an opportunity to be heard to such covered person—”


Excerpt 2

“(2) COVERED PERSON- The term `covered person’ means a person who regularly gathers, prepares, collects, photographs, records, writes, edits, reports, or publishes news or information that concerns local, national, or international events or other matters of public interest for dissemination to the public for a substantial portion of the person’s livelihood or for substantial financial gain and includes a supervisor, employer, parent, subsidiary, or affiliate of such covered person. Such term shall not include—”


123 posted on 05/25/2009 10:46:16 AM PDT by Technical Editor
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To: Technical Editor

Whether the story is true or false, Obama needs to provide his original birth certificate to prove that he’s eligible to serve as President. The courts must REQUIRE that he do so.

Note that Obama is spending an enormous amount of legal fees in keeping his original birth certificate hidden.


139 posted on 05/25/2009 12:38:11 PM PDT by real_patriotic_american
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