Readers Weigh In On President-Elect Obama`s “Natural-Born” Status; Peter Brimelow Comments.
Letters Editor
Joe
Guzzardi writes:
As
Barack Obama races
to appoint his Cabinet, rumors surrounding his
eligibility to be President continue to swirl. Some
skeptics
claim that Obama
is rushing his
appointments to establish himself as
de facto
president and to render any challenges to the legitimacy
of his presidency as after the fact.
[A
Handpicked Team for a Sweeping Shift in Foreign Policy
by David Sanger,
New York Times,
November 30, 2008]
Still, agitation mounts that Obama may be unqualified to
be president because he does not meet the Constitutional
requirement that he is “natural born citizen.”
Obama`s parental grandmother has been quoted as saying
she was present in the
delivery room during his birth—in
Kenya.
Obama claims to have been
born in Hawaii.
According to some analysts, if born abroad, Obama
does not even meet U.S. citizenship standards,
because his father was a
Kenyan citizen and his mother was
not old enough to qualify him.
Obama could presumably resolve the uncertainties about
his citizenship by proving the necessary documents. But
his critics claim he has
evaded the questions
posed to him.
Two readers offer their analyses; Peter Brimelow
comments.
An Australian Reader Says “Emperor Obama” Threatens The Constitution
From: Andrew Fraser (e-mail
him)
I don`t understand the deafening silence of VDARE.COM
on the question of whether Obama is a natural-born U.S.
citizen.
Surely, the fact that the ever-sensible
Reverend Manning Marable
has seen fit to take up the issue in
the
video linked here provides prima facie
cause to have your site investigate the pleadings in the
Leo Donofrio, the
Alan Keyes, and the
Philip Berg
lawsuits all challenging Obama`s citizenship.
Where`s there`s so much smoke, there must be a good
chance that a fire is about to break out. Here`s
a link to one exposition of the basic issues.
In another lawsuit, one of the most sharply focused,
the plaintiffs, including
Alan Keyes who was on the California ballot as
Presidential candidate for the
American Independence Party and who in 2004 ran
against Obama as
Republican Party candidate for the
Illinois US Senate,
ask that the
California Secretary of State and Democratic
electors certify that Obama does in fact meet the
constitutional qualification for eligibility.
More is at stake than a mere
legal technicality—although, to be fair, any
ordinary person reading the pleadings in the Berg or
Donofrio case will throw up his hands at what appears to
be legalistic double-talk.
But in making almost any case every lawyer
customarily argues "in the alternative." For
example, "I contend that Obama was not born in the
U.S. but, even if he was, he is not a
`natural born citizen.`"
What some might call a "technicality" seems to
Berg, Keyes et al to be a fundamental question of
Constitutional legitimacy.
The courts, however, and the
Supreme Court in
particular, may refuse to deal with the problem. The
Electoral College, too, may wash its hands of
the issue. Congress may be indifferent as to whether or
not the incoming President is a usurper. The people may
remain in their stupor. The
Mainstream Media may pretend that
the Messiah has come by a miracle outside the
Constitution.
But if Obama takes the oath of office under
fraudulent circumstances, the Constitution will be dead.
From the moment Obama places his hand on
the
Bible held before him by the
Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court, he will know that his will to usurp
the presidency has become a law unto itself, higher even
than the Constitution.
Obama is a Harvard Law graduate. He is well aware
that his life story reads like a well-crafted
hypothetical problem on a
Constitutional Law exam.
Obama knows that the Constitutional meaning of
the phrase
"natural born citizen" has never been raised,
much less resolved, in a court of law.
He must be counting now on the obvious damage to the
established order that would follow any assertion, from
the Supreme Court or the
Electoral College that he is a Constitutional
impostor.
Altogether apart from legitimate fears of civil
disorder should Obama`s eligibility be questioned, the
issue of natural born citizenship is a matter of the
deepest significance. Obama`s campaign has always
presented (albeit until now implicitly) a revolutionary
challenge. From the beginning, Obama has presented
himself, not as an American patriot but more as a
citizen of the world. He now represents the
Third World immigrant invasion in the most literal
sense.
The symbolism of the coming Obama presidency goes to
the heart of what is means to be an American citizen.
The Constitution implies that a distinction must
be made between ordinary "citizens" who are
not eligible for the Presidency
and those
"natural born"
citizens who are.
Obama may be, in fact and in law, a natural-born
citizen. But why doesn`t he produce the relevant
documentation that would allow some duly constituted
authority to reach that conclusion for itself?
Instead, he has enlisted
battalions of lawyers to stonewall all requests for
proof.
Until an authorized party passes public judgment on
Obama`s eligibility, the problem will remain a running
Constitutional sore—no matter how many people shut their
eyes to the real possibility that
Emperor Obama is riding into town without a shred of
constitutional clothing to cover his naked ambition.
Andrew Fraser, a law
professor emeritus at Macquarie University in Sydney,
Australia, was the victim of a
notorious Political Correctness scandal
in 2005. He is a VDARE.COM contributor (here).
A Washington State Passport Expert Says Barack Obama Is An Illegal Alien
From: James Coats (e-mail him)
Barack Obama`s so-called birth certificate is what is
referred by specialists as an "abstract birth
certificate."
In today`s identity-sensitive environment, Obama would
not be able to prove his citizenship to the State
Department with his current birth certificate failing to
show a witnesses` signature.
When Obama or any other politician travels abroad, the
State Department issues them a "diplomatic
passport" which is taken back as soon as they
return.
My wife currently works for the U.S. Postal Service and
I am retired from it. In her position, my wife has
processed thousands of U.S. passports.
To obtain a passport, you need a viable birth
certificate. There are two elements of a birth
certificate that, if missing, disqualify you from
obtaining a passport:
-
The attending physician`s signature, a midwife`s
signature or
verifiable secondary evidence of U. S.
Citizenship
-
The name of the hospital in which you were born, or
treated after your birth should it have occurred at
home, in a car or any other location within the U.S.
These elements are missing from Obama`s birth
certificate. My professional evaluation is that Obama is
an illegal alien is subject to deportation.
To support my argument, I encourage you to review the
citizenship information put out by the
State Department.
Here is a link to my
website dedicated to passport issues. It shows a
comparison between Obama`s clearly falsified 1961
Hawaiian birth certificate and my sister`s birth
certificate—she was actually born in Hawaii in 1962. Her
document is what real Hawaiian birth certificates looked
like at that time.
People often engage in fraud in their attempts to gain a
U. S. passport. These schemes are uncovered by small
errors.
For example, Obama`s father would not have been referred
to as "African" in 1961 but would have been
identified as "Negro”.
The "n" of “Negro would have been in lower case,
not capitalized.
Obama himself would have been identified as "mulatto",
and if he had been born out of wedlock as
"illegitimate" or
"bastard",
depending on the state he was born in.
Finally, there is a huge difference between a "Certification
of Live Birth" and a
"Certificate of Live Birth."
A "Certification of Live Birth" is a testament to
the fact that you were born of a woman, easily proven by
all of us.
However, a "Certificate of Live Birth" is a
testament of proof to the fact of
"where" you
were born—something that Obama refuses to do.
This matter is poetic justice for John McCain. His support
of illegal immigration has indirectly resulted in an
alien outlaw defeating him and becoming U.S. president.
Peter
Brimelow comments:
Actually, we
have written about Obama`s
citizenship (see
here and
here,
the latter being
Steve
Sailer`s debunking of the
idea that Obama was born anywhere except
Hawaii. And Steve
ought to know.)
Don`t
get me wrong. It may look like a technicality, but if
Obama was not born in the U.S., he is not eligible to be
president and the Supreme Court should disqualify him “though
the heavens fall“. Similarly, Bill Clinton`s affair with Monica Lewinsky may or may
not have been a serious dereliction, but he
unquestionably committed
perjury about it, and his impeachment should have
resulted in conviction and removal from office.
But,
as Drew Fraser says, this matter is being pursued
elsewhere. We`ll let them sort it out and focus on stuff
no-one else will touch, like the
Minority Mortgage Meltdown and the deceptive
non-reporting of the white vote.


