November 24, 2008

Total media blackout on the December Surprise - Obama's ineligibility for office

For over a year now American's have tolerated the covering up, not the covering of news related to Barack Obama. Since the election, mainstream media insiders are coming out of the woodwork admitting the media bias favoring Obama was "disgusting."

Columnist David Limbaugh noted: "Never has that been clearer than in the 2008 presidential election, during which they are covering up rather than covering Barack Obama's shady past and alliances, his knee-deep involvement in corrupt practices threatening the very core of our democratic system, and his many policy misrepresentations." Limbaugh noted that the press went into a tizzy over Sarah Palin's wardrobe, but ignored extravagances like Obama's "obscenely idolatrous million-dollar Greek coliseum mirage."

Right now there are 17 lawsuits in 12 states challenging Obama's eligibility for the office of the Presidency. In less than two weeks all nine justices of the Supreme Court will review this matter. And this is not news?? Excuse me? We are witnessing a total media blackout on what is ramping up to be a very unwelcome December surprise. Should this come to pass this will put the current economic crisis headlines on page A23.

Tulsa Today published some interesting speculation today as to why the deafening silence, even from conservative media. It's pretty, in fact, way far out there for me but included in the article is a thorough listing of the credible people and organizations who are challenging Obama's eligibility despite zero help from the media.

Many are thinking out loud right now about what if Obama is not eligible to become President. It's anybody's guess as there is no historical precedence to go by.  Directive 51 is a likely possibility. Directive 51 means Bush stays in office until the storm passes. This will throw the left into hysterics. Martial Law keeps the peace on the streets and Obama goes to jail for fraud and usurping.

Responsible reporting of this matter would serve to at least prepare the populace for something that is at least in the realm of remote possibility right now - a Constitutional crisis whereby Obama is denied the presidency. If nothing comes of this, the story dies with a million other hypothetical stories that get reported that are nothing more than vain imaginations. Yet, if there is substance here, and Justice Thomas does see enough merit to host a Conference of the other eight justices, if there is substance here the media will share the blame for the fallout of not talking about this sooner. The more time people have to think about something, the more reasoned their reaction will be to a worst case scenario. The 52% of this nation that fell under the Obamaspell are driven by emotion anyway. They can't handle what may be right around the corner.

Perhaps the media knows how incendiary this is and therefore they are sitting on this story as long as possible. Perhaps they are hoping to get Obama so far down the track of ascension to high office there is no turning back. I've shared with those who labor night and day praying for the Supreme Court that these next few weeks are perhaps the most critical days yet to intercede for these justices. Can you imagine the guts it would take to rule Obama is ineligible? Thomas and Scalia possess those guts. I'd think there would be Constitutional gymnastics to try and wiggle around the reality here. Perhaps we'd ignore the Constitution rather than face enormous civil unrest. If that happens, America has been hijacked.

Maybe you are wishing I'd admit that the media is simply ignoring this because the charges are ridiculous and you think Obama has put forth sufficient proof of his eligibility. I'd suggest you familiarize yourself with the details of the lawsuits sitting before the Supreme Court. The point of this post is not to convince you he's ineligible, the point here is to do what the media should be doing - talking about it.

One of the Obama eligibility lawsuits was thrown out on Friday because the judge found "insufficient evidence to indicate that the public interest supports" the release of his official birth certificate. I thought the judges looked at the facts and the laws, not public opinion. My bad. Maybe that is the media's only hope - keep the lid on this so the public doesn't get "interested" enough to care.

I think the people care. Currently 55,000 people have signed a petition demanding this issue be resolved. They've been signing up at a rate of 1000 people per hour. I encourage you to put your name on that petition and forward the link to a your friends.

If you are new to this subject, here are a few links to my earlier posts which will get you up to speed - look here, here and and the third paragraph of this post.

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November 24, 2008

Chris @ 1:17 pm

This is truly fascinating…

That's about all I can say at the moment. Even if the charges would prove to be incorrect - the entire sequence of events is fascinating.

They did say this would be an historical election…

Mobius @ 3:41 pm

Nice summary. This story just gets more dire as time goes on and the majority of the Judiciary in this country tell us 'it's none of your business'. Amazing, huh?

It's already suspect - why would this man NOT spend the ten bucks it takes to get a Long Form certificate to the public and be done with it?

Classic Richard Nixon denials and stonewalling, right out of Chuck Colson's playbook. Didn't turn out well for them, either.

Ken Karlson @ 4:36 pm

I remember when I was a little boy growing up in Evanston Il. I was with my Mom at Webolts a downtown dept. store during the Christmas shopping season. I will never forget the old, ragged guy I saw standing out in front of the store with a homemade sign that read " The End Is Near " I asked my Mom what that meant and she said she remembered someone just like that when she was little and that the End did not come then either…..Hard to tell what to believe now. The difference now is that there does not seem to be any sense of right and wrong that we had in the 50's. Honesty is the ONLY WAY OUT!

Ted @ 7:20 pm

I think the article below is a good read on the subject.

It's a week after the election, and I'm still getting e-mails that holler about how Barack Obama is ineligible to be president because he's not a "natural born citizen" under Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution. Enough already!

Last winter, even the New York Times was suckered into taking seriously the loopy theory that John McCain is not a natural born citizen because he was born in the Panama Canal Zone. As I explained then, his parentage sufficed no matter where he was born, since his parents were U.S. citizens.

So too with Obama. All indications are that he was born in Hawaii in 1961. The state authorities say they have his birth certificate (though the fact that a modern printout of an electronic record has been made available rather than a photocopy of the 1961 original has sent some people round the bend).

And what if Obama was not born in the U.S. but instead, as some claim, in Kenya? Well, his mother was an American citizen, and as UCLA law prof and blogger Eugene Volokh explained to the Chicago Tribune, the applicable statutes about foreign birth with one U.S. citizen parent are on Obama's side here.

At this point the spluttering begins, from loons like Pennsylvania lawyer Philip Berg, who try to bootstrap an argument that young Barack lost his U.S. citizenship while living in Indonesia. This isn't a reach. It's preposterous.

Berg's frivolous lawsuit (and "frivolous" is putting it nicely) was tossed out for lack of standing shortly before the election by a federal district court. The howls only increased in volume, from people who have no understanding of the limits of judicial power. This question—if it were even a question—is to be settled not by judges but by the electors in their state capitals next month, and by the Congress that finalizes the election in January when the electors' ballots are counted.

Give it up and get on with life. Barack Obama is going to become president on January 20, 2009. He won, fair and square, an office he is eligible to occupy. So stop with the fetid, fervid, fevered e-mails, okay?

Another good one.

http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/born_in_the_usa.html

http://bench.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZThmOTdhZmU4NDZhMWRlOGFiOTViYjhhYmNlN2E1NTY=

anonymous @ 8:04 pm

Actually if Obama is found ineligible before the swearing in , the VP serves. That's very clear in the Constitution. If after the swearing in, I believe it is an impeachment issue.

victor p mertrud @ 9:24 pm

This phoney should have been dumped years ago. How could anyone be so gullible as to swollow his line of crap.

November 25, 2008

AC @ 7:34 am

"Directive 51 means Bush stays in office until the storm passes. This will throw the left into hysterics. Martial Law keeps the peace on the streets and Obama goes to jail for fraud and usurping."

That sounds like the book of Revelation. Hope I get my rapture on with kirk cameron so i don't have to be pained by one more minute of mr lame duck.

Detroit Lewis @ 9:18 am

You guys are grasping at straws on this one. Shouldn't you be praying with the end so near?

Amy @ 10:59 am

I am praying DL; I'm praying for you!

Amy @ 1:18 pm

I grabbed this from a comment on a FORBES story on the birth certificate question (finally) from yesterday. Good points being made. Same questions I have had all along:

"Obama was not investigated by any governmental agency. Not the DNC, not the FEC, not the FBI, CIA, or any other acronym. Certainly not by our fair and unbiased media (CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX). The FEC told me they audit campaign finances, not verify constitutional eligibility. Apparently, BHO is going to get a pass on a financial audit, too. Makes me SICK to see all these people fawn all over him like he's the "golden child."

It has nothing to do with race. It has nothing to do with being a sore loser. It has everything to do with meeting the constitutional requirements for the office he seeks to hold. Pretty simple requirements…BHO has turned it into a very divisive issue with everything he's kept sealed.

There are more "pregnant questions" about BHO's citizenship than a simple birth certificate will fix. He has sealed all school records, adoption records, college records, medical records, and birth records. For a man whom the Obama-supporters claim has nothing to hide, a lot of things have been hidden from us, the voters.

Just how are we supposed to verify anything about him when we have access to nothing?! I'm just supposed to take his word for it? Not on your life! I wouldn't take McCain's word on it either. Oh, yeah, McCain granted access to all his records, didn't he?"

Steve @ 2:40 pm

This answers some questions - like would it go to Biden? No. http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=81944

Purge Needed @ 3:48 pm

To anybody who fears the results of declaring a true "usurper" ineligible via the SCOTUS you need to consider the possibility of have a President with no legal authority to direct the military, or sign treaties or laws, etc… The Supremes will realize this.

I expect a 9-0 ruling in favor of appellant Leo Donofrio and the entire decertification of the election.

Read Dr. Viera's "Stand Up or Sit Down" a real sobering read.

Amy @ 4:57 pm

Janet Porter weighs in: This is really good.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=81943

November 26, 2008

Jordan @ 1:08 am

The media is not covering this story because the charges ARE ridiculous!!! First ask yourself… Why is John McCain eligible to be President of the United States when he was born down in the Panama Canal region?!?! Well… HIS PARENTS ARE US CITIZENS! Therefore legally making him a "NATURAL BORN US CITIZEN." Now say Obama was born in Kenya or any other country for that matter.. IT DOESN'T MATTER!!!!! Barrack Hussein Obama's mother is a US CITIZEN and was at the time of his birth!!!! SO GET THE FUC* OVER YOURSELVES AND ACCEPT THE FACT THAT HE WILLLLLLL BE YOUR NEXT PRESIDENT. Once again… these charges are ridiculous and no one else cares except for you!!! That is why the mainstream media is not wasting their time and energy on covering these stupid as* accusations.

Detroit Lewis @ 4:04 pm

What a shame it would be to boot out such a great talent like Obama because of something silly like a birth certificate.

Stephanie @ 10:22 pm

DL,

The same thing that requires a birth certificate is the same constitution that protects you! Do you really thing it's a shame?

December 2, 2008

fightdpwr @ 10:34 pm

Jordan

You get over it. I am one that is tired of bleeding heart liberal who are trying to help poor Black people. It is people like you who have made American Black people the most pathetic,undeserving, unthankful, idolators on the continent. Imagine trampling a man to death to buy a big screen t.v. at Walmart! How dare you give us a man of this caliber as the first Black president. Martin Luther King Jr., A republican, has turned over in his grave many times. You liberals should come up with a new tactic. The old house negro (mulatto/mutt/muslim)method has played out. I must admit it is still effective. I must fault Blacks for their own stupidity and greediness, and reliance on the government. Hussein was put on the ticket to bring blacks to the polls. It was the only way the Clintons and the democrats could get back to power. The same rules apply to Hussein as to any white man who is elected to office without legal documentation of birth. If he does not produce a birth certificate he will not be elected to the Presidency. Your boy is a lawyer he should not have a problem with this constitutional requirement. So let the riots begin. We have a strong national guard. Don't worry they will only burn down the miserable slums they have created. For all godly blacks who did not vote for this pimp thank you for using your intelligence. I'm Black and I am proud that I was not among the hood-winked. My faith is built on nothing less than Jesus Blood and Rightousness, not the government, the Clintons, or the democrat party.A day will come when the democrat party will not be able to control Black Politics.

December 3, 2008

Tig @ 12:23 am

Hmmm…it seems some posters don't know the meaning of the word "natural born citizen". It doesn't matter if Obama's mother was a citizen, if he was not born in the United States (or on US territory such as the Panama Canal like McCain), he is not "natural born". The Founding Fathers meant what they wrote. Not naturalized…NATURAL.

Jordan @ 1:09 am

 

EDITED by SH … Last warning Jordan and you are blocked - no swearing. You are a product of the spirit of the age and far more religious than I. Why should your atheist religion be allowed to displace other faiths in America??  Separation of church and state????? You are ignorant of history and reality. You have no idea what you are talking about when you say what you say about the Bible. SH 

"My faith is built on nothing less than Jesus Blood and Rightousness" - fightdpwr

That is your problem right there!!! Religion is what has turned this country against everybody. Since everyone is so XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX concerned with keeping this country founded on the constitution and what our "founding fathers" founded us on then get the XXXXXing religion out of our government. Ever heard of something called separation of church and state??? Thomas Jefferson, and many other founding fathers, said themselves that religion is a perverted system that should never be indoctrined into the government. Obviously we have ignored that for years now. THE GOD DXXXX GAY PEOPLE IN AMERICA CAN'T EVEN GET MARRIED!!!!!! All because some stupid little book (which by the way is proven to be a copy cat of hundreds, if not thousands, of other religious texts before its time) implies that marriage is between a man and a woman. Well sXXXX if it is really "Adam and Eve" and not "Adam and Steve" then fine I'll take that argument.. but in doing so we also have to stop and kind of interracial marriage, and interreligion marriage and everything else that Adam and Eve weren't! So all I'm saying is get the XXXXXing religion bullshit outta of our government. Believe what you want to believe, just don't force it onto others, just like our government does. As an atheist, I am accepting of everyone, no matter if they believe or not, but the majority of religious people look down upon atheists and try not to associate with them. GET THE XXXXXXXXX OVER YOURSELVES AND MOVE ON WITH YOUR LIFE!! Stop worrying about what other people believe and what not. LET THE GAYS GET MARRIED! LET WOMEN GET ABORTIONS WHEN THEY WANT!!! LET STEM CELL RESEARCH GO FORWARD! THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS MESSING WITH GOD BECAUSE THERE IS NO GOD!!!!!!!!!!!

justthefactsmaam @ 10:13 am

The first Berg lawsuit wasn't 'thrown out for lack of standing'.

The first Berg lawsuit was dismissed due to, according to law, BERG having lack of standing.

Check your laws, hon.

That is why the Alan Keyes lawsuit is now important since Keyes was on the (Ca) presidential ballot, he DOES have standing i.e. can prove injury from Barry, whereas Berg, as just a citizen, could not.

Btw, there are now 17 lawsuits in 12 states.

justthefactsmaam @ 10:16 am

Barry could have settled this over a year ago. Instead he chose to spend good money to stall the entire process.

He gets what he deserves.

justthefactsmaam @ 10:18 am

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS MESSING WITH GOD BECAUSE THERE IS NO GOD!!!!!!!!!!!

And yes, Virginia, there IS a God.

marvin @ 7:18 pm

Why won't he show it? What possible reason could there be? Will it be made a matter of national security and hid from us for 50 years? Other people have to produce them to get jobs etc. Well this job is important and maybe even more so than my granddaughter having to prove she's 15 to work in a grocery store!

AC @ 9:15 pm

it doesn't show it to bug the XXXX out of you loonies.

December 29, 2008

ms helga @ 12:14 pm

]THE COMING TRAIN WRECK -

I found this on the internet the othe day.

Citizen Wells

I started writing to my Congressman, and the more I wrote, the more I realized that the nation is heading straight into a Constitutional Train Wreck!

I now disagree with MOST other commenters — I know now that both Obama and McCain have already FULLY DISCLOSED their ‘Citizenship Status,’ and the real problem is that everyone else has kept their ‘emotional blindfolds’ on, covering their faces with their hands over their eyes (while shrieking) perhaps even SCOTUS!

Dick Cheney is the guy who needs to understand this, because he’s standing right in the middle of the tracks!

Here’s what I came up with –

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The Great Train Wreck of January 8, 2009

The train has already left the station, but a broken “bridge is down on the track ahead,” somewhere between December 15, 2008 and January 20, 2009 — and this will affect all Electors, all Senators and all Representatives from every State in the Nation.

We can see far enough ahead now so the ‘gap in the line’ has caught the attention of the national media. It’s not complicated. What that means is that when a wider audience finally grasps what’s going on here, the political fallout is likely to be “NUCLEAR!”

This is what happened: both major parties in every State have elected Electors, but both major parties have offered Presidential candidates who are NOT ELIGIBLE to serve.

This has been done out in the open, and both Presidential campaigns have understood that their candidates may be NOT ELIGIBLE, and both campaigns have taken steps to notify the public that it may be possible their candidates are NOT ELIGIBLE to serve.

But, this is what both campaigns failed to see: They are asking Electors, Senators, and Representatives from every State in the Nation to violate the Law.

And that’s the broken bridge that’s down on the tracks ahead,’ between the Electoral College and Inauguration Day. It’s a bridge neither party or candidate can cross! So, the House of Representatives is likely have to elect our next President.

* * * * * * * *

What both major parties have now to explain is why they spent so much time and treasure (much of it in taxpayer dollars) to nominate and promote TWO candidates, neither of whom was ever eligible to serve!

This will be the scene of the “train wreck:”

On Tuesday, January 6, 2009 the 111th Congress will meet, and all Members will take their Oath to support and defend the Constitution and to faithfully discharge their duties. On Thursday, January 8, 2009, at 1:00 PM, a Joint Session is scheduled to count the Electoral College votes of the 2008 Presidential election.

At that moment, the President of the Senate, Dick Cheney, and all Members of Congress will know that they are required under Article II of the Constitution to elect only a “natural born Citizen . . . to the Office of President.” And, that Citizen will be neither Senator John McCain nor Senator Barack Obama, because by Law neither is eligible and cannot serve, and both of them know it; and both have disclosed that fact to the public that there is this possibility, so they can not be criticized for not informing all parties.

They will both be asked to withdraw their names from consideration. And, at that moment the political fallout is likely to be “NUCLEAR!”

* * * * * * * *

How did this happen? The Republican Party questioned the eligibility of Senator John McCain, and so asked Laurence Tribe of Harvard and former U. S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson to offer a legal opinion. They did – finding that Senator John McCain was indeed a “natural born Citizen, under legal precedent and historical practice.” They attempted to meet head on a 1964 Supreme Court decision that ‘natural born Citizen’ meant ‘born inside the United States.’ What they failed to address were the full ramifications of all Acts of Congress, so their analysis was challenged, and that disclosed the fact that Congress had already acted years ago (under its authority) to address McCain’s Citizenship Status. That contradicts the legal opinion of Tribe and Olson.

It has always been known that the rights of citizenship of the ‘native Citizen’ and of the ‘naturalized Citizen’ are of the same dignity and are coextensive. The only difference drawn by the Constitution is that only a ‘natural born Citizen’ (Article 2, Section 1, Clause 5) is eligible to be President; and you can’t be a ‘natural born Citizen’ if your Citizenship is achieved through Article 1, Section 8, Clause 4 of the Constitution, the authority of Congress to establish an Uniform Rule of Naturalization, because you are then a ‘naturalized Citizen,’ and that is how McCain’s citizenship was achieved.

To his credit, Senator John McCain knows that the opinion offered by Tribe and Olson has been challenged as falling short. However, it’s no longer consequential, because his Electoral votes have also fallen short. His major concern now is the audit by the Federal Election Commission (which will take about three years to complete), and whether the Commission will raise this issue, in order to recoup taxpayer matching funds.

This is Senator Barack Obama’s obstacle: The 111th Congress will know that never in the history of the United States has a Citizen who has ‘Dual or Multiple Nationality’ on his or her ‘Date of Birth’ (subject to the laws of the United States) been considered by any Act of Congress, legal precedent or historical practice to be anything other than a ‘naturalized Citizen’ under Article 1, Section 8, Clause 4, regardless of where he or she was born. Why? Because ‘Dual or Multiple Nationality’ is addressed by an Act of Congress, and Article 2, Section 1, Clause 5, specifically excludes it.

Most Senators and Representatives have received letters from constituents about the Citizenship Status of Senator Obama and have replied by saying they are willing to accept assurances from Senator Barack Obama that he was born in the State of Hawaii, in Honolulu. Most letters have discussed the files of the Office of Health Status Monitoring, because Senator Obama seems unwilling to open them to the public. It’s irrelevant!

Why? Senator Obama has posted on his website, “Fight the Smears,” and this information has been confirmed by FactCheck.org: Senator Obama is the son of a British subject, one who (at the time) owed his allegiance to the Queen, and this status governed all of Obama Sr.s’ children. Senator Obama has disclosed that he was a ‘Dual National’ on the ‘Date of Birth,’ (the only day that counts). Therefore, under the laws of the United States, he is a ‘naturalized Citizen’ no different from Senator John McCain.

* * * * * * * *

One thing to observe: If, at any time or under any circumstance, your Citizenship Status needs to be “clarified,” you are NOT a ‘natural born Citizen.’ So, there’s no mention of ‘natural born Citizen’ in the Code of Federal Regulations, except in passing.

Congress made the mistake once in 1790. Five years later, in 1795, they repealed the Act, realizing that to pass an Act regulating ‘natural born Citizen,’ they would need to amend the Constitution. And, they have not made this mistake again since!

FactCheck.org: “Clarifies Barack’s Citizenship.”

“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.

Let me repeat that last line again:

“That same act ‘governed the status’ of Obama Sr.’s children . . .”

British Nationality Act of 1948 (Part II, Section 5): Subject to the provisions of this section, a person born after the commencement of this Act shall be a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by descent if his father is a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies ‘at the time of the birth.’

That is the FULL DISCLOSURE by the Obama Campaign that Great Britain ‘governed the status’ of Barack Obama at the time of his birth.

That begs the question: Is he responsible for the fact that voters of his party nominated him for the Presidency of the United States, even though he has FULLY DISCLOSED his Citizenship Status — and many voters still want to check out his Birth Certificate?

His party is willing apparently to ignore the FULL DISCLOSURE, believing perhaps that Congress can cure the disability. However, other members of the public have shown themselves to be unwilling to ignore the FULL DISCLOSURE, and so it is the subject of legal challenges currently before the Supreme Court of the United States.

* * * * * * * *

However, because Barack Obama achieved his Citizenship Status through Article 1, Section 8, Clause 4, as understood by the Framers of the Constitution, his disqualification to serve as President of the United States is ‘incurable’ by the Congress, or the Courts.

That word ‘incurable’ is an advance description of the train wreck!

Never before has this come up during his career, because ‘naturalized Citizens’ legally are equal in almost all respects to natural born Citizens. The single distinction is the disqualification of ‘naturalized Citizens’ for the offices of President and Vice President.

Is it unfair?

It’s the Law.

Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr., (Illinois) IS qualified for the office of President: Sen. Barack Obama, Jr. (Illinois) IS NOT!

There are (in fact) FIVE obstacles standing in Senator Obama’s way:

1. The ‘natural born Citizen’ clause applies to his ‘date of birth’ (so his Kenyan and Indonesian ‘Dual Citizenships’ and what he has done about them are noteworthy, but not really relevant;

2. ‘Dual and Multiple Citizenship’ is addressed by the Code of Federal Regulations, subsequent to an Act of Congress, the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, as amended through 1994, and is our current law;

3. The 14th Amendment clause “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” usually is understood to mean “subject to the laws” of the United States” (therefore, subject to the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, as amended);

4. Obama’s particular form of ‘Dual Citizenship’ (British) was specifically precluded by Article 2, Section 1, Clause 5 (and therefore is ‘incurable’ by Congress or the Courts);

5. The constitutional duty of the President is to take care that the laws of the United Stated be faithfully executed. That is not possible to do, if the President is already disqualified from entering upon his office.

* * * * * * * *

Here is some history about this: We need to go back to the 39th Congress, where Rep. John Bingham of Ohio, father of the 14th Amendment, commenting on March 9, 1866 on the Civil Rights Act of 1866 (42 U.S.C., Section 1982), said that the first sentence of the 1866 Act means:

“Every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents ‘not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty’ is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born Citizen.”

Then, late 19th Century, the Supreme Court decided in United States v Wong Kim (169 U.S. 649 (1898)) (my summation) that on the basis of the 14th Amendment that every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States is a ‘Citizen,’ but stopped short of declaring Kim a ‘natural born Citizen’ [because to do that would require still another amendment to the Constitution].

Finally, we go all the way back to the Constitutional Convention, where according to James Madison’s notes, Mr. Gouverneur Morris of Pennsylvania said:

“As to those philosophical gentlemen, those ‘Citizens of the World’ as they call themselves, He owned he did not wish to see any of them in our public Councils. He would not trust them. The men who can shake off their attachments to their own Country can never love any other.”

Today, these words might be considered the words of a bigot!

* * * * * * * *

Now here is the Act of Congress: Justice Rehnquist (later Chief Justice) said the Constitution is “a political document noted for its brevity,” but it contains 11 instances addressing the ‘Citizen’ distinction: Art. 1, S 2, c 2; S 3, c 3, S 8, c 4; Art. 2, S 1, c 5, Art. 3, S 2, c 1; Art. 4, S 2, c 1, and in the 11th, 15th, 19th, 24th and 26th Amendments.

The Constitution, in Article 1, Section 8, Clause 4, gives Congress authority to establish an Uniform Rule of Naturalization, and as a result, the 82nd Congress passed The McCarran-Walter Act, that is called “The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952.”

The 82nd Congress was controlled by a Democratic majority in both houses and that President Harry Truman vetoed the McCarran-Walter Act, but Congress overrode the veto and the Act became law.

The Act was the product of the most extensive Congressional study in the nation’s history of the subject of Immigration and Nationality. It brought together and codified for the first time successive laws and decisions on immigration and naturalization.

In the Act, Congress decided that the Secretary of State and the Attorney General were authorized, in their discretion and on a basis of reciprocity, to severally prescribe regulations implementing the Act. Those regulations are now codified in the Code of Federal Regulations.

The Secretary of State codified her regulations concerning Citizens “born . . . in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof” in the 7 Foreign Affairs Manual (Consular Affairs), in order to advise U.S. nationals about their Citizenship: 7 FAM 1100 deals with the Acquisition and Retention of U.S. Citizenship and Nationality; 7 FAM 1110 deals with Acquisition of U.S. Citizenship by Birth in the United States, including specifically ‘Dual or Multiple Nationality’ (7 FAM 1111.4).

* * * * * * * *

Before the “McCarran-Walter Act,” there was ‘common law:’ Under common law, as is clear from the comments made by Rep. John Bingham of Ohio, the phrase ‘natural born Citizen’ means “birth to parents who are Citizens,” and “subject to the laws of the United States.” The phrase was so understood by William Blackstone’s Commentaries, “Natural-born subjects are such as are born . . . within the allegiance of the king . . .”

It should be obvious that the applicable phrase in first sentence of the 14th Amendment, “subject to the jurisdiction thereof,” is a substitute for the phrase, “within the allegiance of the king,” in Blackstone’s Commentaries.

That same word, “allegiance,” is used by Rep. John Bingham of Ohio when he says above that “every human being” born to parents “not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereign is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born Citizen.”

The common law was displaced in full when the Secretary of State codified her regulations concerning ‘Dual or Multiple Nationality’ (7 FAM 1111.4), in fulfillment of the McCarran-Walter Act. Therefore, any Citizen whose Citizenship Status is subject to the Act is by Law a “naturalized Citizen,” and also disqualified for the Presidency.

* * * * * * * *

What can be done? All Electors can object. All Members of Congress can object. Then the House and Senate will withdraw to their respective Chambers to consider the merits of objections according the procedure set out under 3 U.S.C. Section 15.

Before the list of the votes are entered on the Journals of the two Houses, the President of the Senate, Dick Cheney, will call for the objections, if any.

“Every objection shall be made in writing, and shall state clearly and concisely, and without argument, the ground thereof, and shall be signed by at least one Senator and one Member of the House of Representatives before the same will be received.”

The Electoral College consists of 538 electors (one for each of 435 members of the House of Representatives and 100 Senators; and 3 for the District of Columbia.

If, based on any objections, no presidential candidate wins a majority of electoral votes, the 12th Amendment to the Constitution provides for the presidential election shall be decided by the House of Representatives. I’m convinced that this will be the case!

The House will select the President by majority vote, choosing from three candidates who received the greatest number of Electoral Votes. (However, remaining are only two candidates: Senator Joseph Biden (Delaware), and Governor Sarah Palin (Alaska)).

The vote would be taken by State, with each State delegation having ONE VOTE. How many State delegations are Republican, and how many are Democrat?

The House will vote for President, the Senate will vote for Vice President.

So, it’s not impossible that Senator Joseph Biden (D, Delaware), or Governor Sarah Palin (R, Alaska), will be our next President of the United States, and the other will be our next Vice President of the United States.

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