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ARIZONA STATE HOUSE OF

REPRESENTATIVES
 HB 2441: Presidential candidates; proof of
qualifications

SPONSERS
Sponsors: Representatives Burges, Ash, Barnes, Biggs, Gowan, Hendrix,
Lesko, Mason, Montenegro, Seel, Williams, Senators Gray C, Gray L,
Harper, Pearce R: Representatives Antenori, Barto, Boone, Court, Crump,
Driggs, Goodale, Jones, Kavanagh, Konopnicki, McComish, McLain,
Nichols, Pratt, Reagan, Stevens, Tobin, Weiers JP, Yarbrough, Senators
Allen S, Gorman, Huppenthal, Melvin, Nelson, Verschoor

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The BILL: HB 2441

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House Engrossed
State of Arizona
House of Representatives
Forty-eighth Legislature
Second Regular Session
2008
HOUSE BILL 2441
AN ACT
AMENDING SECTION 15-203, ARIZONA REVISED
STATUTES; RELATING TO THE STATE
BOARD OF EDUCATION.
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H.B. 2441
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1 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
2 Section 1. Section 15-203, Arizona Revised Statutes, is
amended to
3 read:
4 15-203. Powers and duties
5 A. The state board of education shall:
6 1. Exercise general supervision over and regulate the conduct
of the
7 public school system and adopt any rules and policies it
deems necessary to
8 accomplish this purpose.
9 2. Keep a record of its proceedings.
10 3. Make rules for its own government.
11 4. Determine the policy and work undertaken by it.
12 5. Appoint its employees, on the recommendation of the
superintendent
13 of public instruction.
14 6. Prescribe the duties of its employees if not prescribed by
statute.
15 7. Delegate to the superintendent of public instruction the
execution
16 of board policies and rules.
17 8. Recommend to the legislature changes or additions to the
statutes
18 pertaining to schools.
19 9. Prepare, publish and distribute reports concerning the
educational
20 welfare of this state.
21 10. Prepare a budget for expenditures necessary for proper
maintenance
22 of the board and accomplishment of its purposes and
present the budget to the
23 legislature.
24 11. Aid in the enforcement of laws relating to schools.
25 12. Prescribe a minimum course of study in the common
schools, minimum
26 competency requirements for the promotion of pupils from
the third grade and
27 minimum course of study and competency requirements for
the promotion of
28 pupils from the eighth grade. The state board of education
shall prepare a
29 fiscal impact statement of any proposed changes to the
minimum course of
30 study or competency requirements and, on completion, shall
send a copy to the
31 director of the joint legislative budget committee and the
executive director
32 of the school facilities board. The state board of education
shall not adopt
33 any changes in the minimum course of study or competency
requirements in
34 effect on July 1, 1998 that will have a fiscal impact on school
capital
35 costs.
36 13. Prescribe minimum course of study and competency
requirements for
37 the graduation of pupils from high school. The state board
of education
38 shall prepare a fiscal impact statement of any proposed
changes to the
39 minimum course of study or competency requirements and,
on completion, shall
40 send a copy to the director of the joint legislative budget
committee and the
41 executive director of the school facilities board. The state
board of
42 education shall not adopt any changes in the minimum
course of study or
43 competency requirements in effect on July 1, 1998 that will
have a fiscal
44 impact on school capital costs.
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1 14. Supervise and control the certification of persons engaged
in
2 instructional work directly as any classroom, laboratory or
other teacher or
3 indirectly as a supervisory teacher, speech therapist,
principal or
4 superintendent in a school district, including school district
preschool
5 programs, or any other educational institution below the
community college,
6 college or university level, and prescribe rules for
certification, including
7 rules for certification of teachers who have teaching
experience and who are
8 trained in other states, which are not unnecessarily
restrictive and are
9 substantially similar to the rules prescribed for the
certification of
10 teachers trained in this state. The rules shall require
applicants for all
11 certificates for common school instruction to complete a
minimum of
12 forty-five classroom hours or three college level credit
hours, or the
13 equivalent, of training in research based systematic phonics
instruction from
14 a public or private provider. The rules shall not require a
teacher to
15 obtain a master's degree or to take any additional graduate
courses as a
16 condition of certification or recertification. The rules shall
allow a
17 general equivalency diploma to be substituted for a high
school diploma in
18 the certification of emergency substitute teachers.
19 15. Adopt a list of approved tests for determining special
education
20 assistance to gifted pupils as defined in and as provided in
chapter 7,
21 article 4.1 of this title. The adopted tests shall provide
separate scores
22 for quantitative reasoning, verbal reasoning and nonverbal
reasoning and
23 shall be capable of providing reliable and valid scores at the
highest ranges
24 of the score distribution.
25 16. Adopt rules governing the methods for the
administration of all
26 proficiency examinations.
27 17. Adopt proficiency examinations for its use. The state
board of
28 education shall determine the passing score for the
proficiency examination.
29 18. Include within its budget the cost of contracting for the
purchase,
30 distribution and scoring of the examinations as provided in
paragraphs 16 and
31 17 of this subsection.
32 19. Supervise and control the qualifications of professional
33 nonteaching school personnel and prescribe standards
relating to
34 qualifications.
35 20. Impose such disciplinary action, including the issuance
of a letter
36 of censure, suspension, suspension with conditions or
revocation of a
37 certificate, upon a finding of immoral or unprofessional
conduct.
38 21. Establish an assessment, data gathering and reporting
system for
39 pupil performance as prescribed in chapter 7, article 3 of
this title.
40 22. Adopt a rule to promote braille literacy pursuant to
section
41 15-214.
42 23. Adopt rules prescribing procedures for the investigation
by the
43 department of education of every written complaint alleging
that a
44 certificated person has engaged in immoral conduct.
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1 24. For purposes of federal law, serve as the state board for
2 vocational and technological education and meet at least four
times each year
3 solely to execute the powers and duties of the state board for
vocational and
4 technological education.
5 25. Develop and maintain a handbook for use in the schools
of this
6 state that provides guidance for the teaching of moral, civic
and ethical
7 education. The handbook shall promote existing curriculum
frameworks and
8 shall encourage school districts to recognize moral, civic and
ethical values
9 within instructional and programmatic educational
development programs for
10 the general purpose of instilling character and ethical
principles in pupils
11 in kindergarten programs and grades one through twelve.
12 26. Require pupils to recite the following passage from the
declaration
13 of independence for pupils in grades four through six at the
commencement of
14 the first class of the day in the schools, except that a pupil
shall not be
15 required to participate if the pupil or the pupil's parent or
guardian
16 objects:
17 We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are
18 created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with
19 certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty
20 and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights,
21 governments are instituted among men, deriving their just
powers
22 from the consent of the governed. . . .
23 27. Adopt rules that provide for teacher certification
reciprocity.
24 The rules shall provide for a one year reciprocal teaching
certificate with
25 minimum requirements including valid teacher certification
from a state with
26 substantially similar criminal history or teacher
fingerprinting requirements
27 and proof of the submission of an application for a
fingerprint clearance
28 card pursuant to title 41, chapter 12, article 3.1.
29 28. Adopt rules that will be in effect until December 31,
2006 and that
30 provide for the presentation of an honorary high school
diploma to a person
31 who has never obtained a high school diploma and who
meets each of the
32 following requirements:
33 (a) Is at least sixty-five years of age.
34 (b) Currently resides in this state.
35 (c) Provides documented evidence from the Arizona
department of
36 veterans' services that the person enlisted in the armed
forces of the United
37 States before completing high school in a public or private
school.
38 (d) Was honorably discharged from service with the armed
forces of the
39 United States.
40 29. Cooperate with the Arizona-Mexico commission in the
governor's
41 office and with researchers at universities in this state to
collect data and
42 conduct projects in the United States and Mexico on issues
that are within
43 the scope of the duties of the department of education and
that relate to
44 quality of life, trade and economic development in this state
in a manner
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1 that will help the Arizona-Mexico commission to assess and
enhance the
2 economic competitiveness of this state and of the Arizona-
Mexico region.
3 30. Adopt rules to define and provide guidance to schools as
to the
4 activities that would constitute immoral or unprofessional
conduct of
5 certificated persons.
6 31. Adopt guidelines to encourage pupils in grades nine, ten,
eleven
7 and twelve to volunteer for twenty hours of community
service before
8 graduation from high school. A school district that complies
with the
9 guidelines adopted pursuant to this paragraph is not liable
for damages
10 resulting from a pupil's participation in community service
unless the school
11 district is found to have demonstrated wanton or reckless
disregard for the
12 safety of the pupil and other participants in community
service. For the
13 purposes of this paragraph, "community service" may
include service learning.
14 The guidelines shall include the following:
15 (a) A list of the general categories in which community
service may be
16 performed.
17 (b) A description of the methods by which community
service will be
18 monitored.
19 (c) A consideration of risk assessment for community
service projects.
20 (d) Orientation and notification procedures of community
service
21 opportunities for pupils entering grade nine including the
development of a
22 notification form. The notification form shall be signed by
the pupil and
23 the pupil's parent or guardian, except that a pupil shall not
be required to
24 participate in community service if the parent or guardian
notifies the
25 principal of the pupil's school in writing that the parent or
guardian does
26 not wish the pupil to participate in community service.
27 (e) Procedures for a pupil in grade nine to prepare a written
proposal
28 that outlines the type of community service that the pupil
would like to
29 perform and the goals that the pupil hopes to achieve as a
result of
30 community service. The pupil's written proposal shall be
reviewed by a
31 faculty advisor, a guidance counselor or any other school
employee who is
32 designated as the community service program coordinator
for that school. The
33 pupil may alter the written proposal at any time before
performing community
34 service.
35 (f) Procedures for a faculty advisor, a guidance counselor or
any
36 other school employee who is designated as the community
service program
37 coordinator to evaluate and certify the completion of
community service
38 performed by pupils.
39 32. To facilitate the transfer of military personnel and their
40 dependents to and from the public schools of this state,
pursue, in
41 cooperation with the Arizona board of regents, reciprocity
agreements with
42 other states concerning the transfer credits for military
personnel and their
43 dependents. A reciprocity agreement entered into pursuant
to this paragraph
44 shall:
H.B. 2441
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1 (a) Address procedures for each of the following:
2 (i) The transfer of student records.
3 (ii) Awarding credit for completed course work.
4 (iii) Permitting a student to satisfy the graduation
requirements
5 prescribed in section 15-701.01 through the successful
performance on
6 comparable exit-level assessment instruments administered
in another state.
7 (b) Include appropriate criteria developed by the state board
of
8 education and the Arizona board of regents.
9 33. Adopt guidelines that school district governing boards
shall use in
10 identifying pupils who are eligible for gifted programs and
in providing
11 gifted education programs and services. The state board of
education shall
12 adopt any other guidelines and rules that it deems necessary
in order to
13 carry out the purposes of chapter 7, article 4.1 of this title.
14 34. FOR EACH OF THE ALTERNATIVE TEXTBOOK
FORMATS OF HUMAN-VOICED AUDIO,
15 LARGE-PRINT AND BRAILLE, DESIGNATE
ALTERNATIVE MEDIA PRODUCERS TO ADAPT
16 EXISTING STANDARD PRINT TEXTBOOKS OR TO
PROVIDE SPECIALIZED TEXTBOOKS, OR
17 BOTH, FOR PUPILS WITH DISABILITIES IN THIS
STATE. EACH ALTERNATIVE MEDIA
18 PRODUCER SHALL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
ALTERNATIVE TEXTBOOKS IN ALL RELEVANT
19 SUBJECTS IN AT LEAST ONE OF THE ALTERNATIVE
TEXTBOOK FORMATS.
20 B. The state board of education may:
21 1. Contract.
22 2. Sue and be sued.
23 3. Distribute and score the tests prescribed in chapter 7,
article 3
24 of this title.
25 4. Provide for an advisory committee to conduct hearings
and
26 screenings to determine whether grounds exist to impose
disciplinary action
27 against a certificated person, whether grounds exist to
reinstate a revoked
28 or surrendered certificate and whether grounds exist to
approve or deny an
29 initial application for certification or a request for renewal
of a
30 certificate. The board may delegate its responsibility to
conduct hearings
31 and screenings to its advisory committee. Hearings shall be
conducted
32 pursuant to title 41, chapter 6, article 6.
33 5. Proceed with the disposal of any complaint requesting
disciplinary
34 action or with any disciplinary action against a person
holding a certificate
35 as prescribed in subsection A, paragraph 14 of this section
after the
36 suspension or expiration of the certificate or surrender of
the certificate
37 by the holder.
38 6. Assess costs and reasonable attorney fees against a person
who
39 files a frivolous complaint or who files a complaint in bad
faith. Costs
40 assessed pursuant to this paragraph shall not exceed the
expenses incurred by

41 the state board in the investigation of the complaint.

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SUMMARY of HB 2441
 

HB 2441 provides a procedure for determining a

presidential candidate’s eligibility for office.   
History
United States Constitution prescribes all powers, rights and
limitations to the executive branch of the federal
government, stating “the executive Power shall be vested in
a President of the United States of America.”  The
Constitution further prescribes the manner for the election
of the President and establishes the individual eligibility
requirements for the office of the President.  The
requirements includes that the individual be a natural born
citizen, at least 35 years old and have been a resident within
the United States for at least 14 years (United States
Constitution, Article 2, Section 1).    
Provisions
          Requires that written notice from a national political
party committee for a presidential candidate that is
entitled to representation on the ballot be sent to the
Arizona Secretary of State (Secretary), that contains the
party’s nomination of candidates for president and vice-
president.
          States that within 10 days of the submittal of the
names of the candidates, the national political party
committee shall submit an affidavit of the presidential
candidate which states the candidate’s citizenship and
age.

          Stipulates that presidential candidate affidavit

include documents that prove:
        That the candidate is a natural born citizen.
        That the candidate’s age.
        That the candidate meets the residency
requirements for President of the United States as
prescribed in the United States Constitution.
          States that the Secretary shall not place that
candidate’s name on the ballot if upon review of the
affidavit and other documents submitted pursuant to this
Act, the Secretary believes the candidate does not meet
the citizenship, age and residency requirements
prescribed by law.
          Makes a technical change.
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AN ACT
 

Amending section 16-507, Arizona Revised Statutes;

relating to conduct of elections.
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1.  Section 16-507, Arizona Revised Statutes, is
amended to read:
16-507.  Presentation of presidential electors on ballot;
notice; affidavit; verification
A.  When presidential electors are to be voted for, the
candidates therefore of each party shall be grouped and
printed together, arranged in each group in alphabetical
order, and the entire group of electors of each party shall be
enclosed in a scroll or bracket to the right and opposite the
center on which shall be printed in bold type the surname
of the presidential candidate represented.  To the right of
and on a line with the surname shall be placed a square in
which the voter may indicate his the voter's choice by a
mark as defined in section 16-400, and one mark opposite a
group of presidential electors shall be counted as a vote for
each elector in such group.
B.  The national political party committee for a candidate
for president for a party that is entitled to continue
representation on the ballot shall provide to the secretary of
state written notice of that political party's nomination of its
candidates for president and vice-president.  Within ten
days after submittal of the names of the candidates, the
national political party committee shall submit an affidavit
of the presidential candidate in which the presidential
candidate states the candidate's citizenship and age and
shall append to the affidavit documents that prove that the
candidate is a natural born citizen, prove the candidate's
age and prove that the candidate meets the residency
requirements for President of the United States as
prescribed in article II, section 1, Constitution of the United
States.
C.  The secretary of state shall review the affidavit and
other documents submitted by the national political party
committee and, if the secretary of state has reasonable
cause to believe that the candidate does not meet the
citizenship, age and residency requirements prescribed by
law, the secretary of state shall not place that candidate's
name on the ballot.
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60+ Lawmakers 7 States Tell Obama; if
you want on 2012 ballot, RELEASE
THE RECORDS!
March 2, 2010 ·

The Betrayal

Obama Release Your Records published

3 more states, South

Carolina, New Hampshire and Indiana have joined Arizona
in proposing bills requiring proof of Article II Eligibility
for POTUS. Does this mean this is no longer a crazy, fringe
conspiracy theory movement?
Snippets from Washington Independent; ‘Birther’
Conspiracy Roils GOP Campaigns – State Legislators,
Party Strategists Keep Anti-Obama Rumors Alive -
South Carolina-Bill 3389, freshman state Rep. Tommy
Stringer has introduced legislation that would amend the
state’s election code to make sure that “a candidate for
President or Vice President of the United States may not
have his name printed on a ballot in this State unless there
is conclusive evidence that he is a natural born citizen of
the United States.”…
New Hampshire’s House bill 1245, mandates that “the
names of the candidates shall not appear on the ballot
unless the secretary of state has received certified copies of
the birth certificates of the candidates.”

Indiana’s Senate bill 82, grapples with the legal standing

issue that has vexed “birthers,” granting the right to
challenge qualifications to “a registered voter of the
jurisdiction conducting the election.”… …more from the
Obot’s HERE.
Arizona House bill 2441, titled: presidential candidates;
proof of qualifications
…Within ten days after submittal of the names of the
candidates, the national political party committee shall
submit an affidavit of the presidential candidate in which
the presidential candidate states the candidate’s citizenship
and age and shall append to the affidavit documents that
prove that the candidate is a natural born citizen, prove the
candidate’s age and prove that the candidate meets the
residency requirements for President of the United States
as prescribed in article II, section 1, Constitution of the
United States… …view entire Arizona bill HERE.
Other states are also joining the war to defend our
constitution. According to the National Conference of
State Legislatures; New York, Virginia, Georgia and other
states are also working on the same type legislation. …
more HERE.
Also, let us not forget the federal bill proposed by Bill
Posey of Florida; H.R.1503 – Presidential Eligibility Act
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To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to

require the principal campaign committee of a candidate
for election to the office of President to include with the
committee’s statement of organization a copy of the
candidate’s birth certificate, together with such other
documentation as may be necessary to establish that the
candidate meets the qualifications for eligibility to the
Office of President under the Constitution…

…Congress finds that under – the Constitution of the

United States, in order to be eligible to serve as President,
an individual must be a natural born citizen of the United
States who has attained the age of 35 years and has been a
resident within the United States for at least 14 years. …
view entire bill HERE.
We should contact our elected officials in our respective
states and push for the same type of action. Contact info for
all Elected Officials, HERE;
http://conservativeusa.org/mega-cong.htm
Source:

Tagged: Resident in Chief, Constitution, Congress, Freedom, Liberty, election,

conservative blog network, Newsvine, Democrat, Barack Obama, Fiscal Responsibility,
Political Accountability, Whitehouse, Arizona, Barry/Steve, South Carolina, Indiana,
New Hampshire, Federal Election Campaign

http://socialismisnottheanswer.wordpress.com/2010/03/02/60-lawmakers-7-
states-tell-obama-if-you-want-on-2012-ballot-release-the-records/

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Other states are also joining the war to

defend our constitution

BORN IN THE USA?

Obama's eligibility becomes war among the states

Lawmakers jump into fray, seek answer to

constitutional question

Posted: January 19, 2010

8:20 pm Eastern

By Bob Unruh
© 2010 WorldNetDaily

The demand for documentation of Barack Obama's eligibility to

occupy the Oval Office is surging, with lawmakers in several states
now working on legislation that could be used to require future
presidential candidates to reveal precisely how they are qualified
under the U.S. Constitution's demand for a "natural born citizen."
WND already has reported on a bill co-sponsored by some three
dozen lawmakers in Arizona who want to require candidates not
only to submit the information, but state officials to independently
verify the accuracy.

Bill sponsor Rep. Judy Burges, R-Skull Valley, told WND she
already has started getting questions from other states who want
details about the proposal.

A separate proposal has been created by a freedom of information

action group in New York state, and now the National Conference
of State Legislatures, which monitors and tabulates the work of
legislative bodies, confirms through its database that several other
plans are in the works.

Some of the proposals are very clear even without the full text. In
New Hampshire, for example, a pending plan would require
"certified copies of birth certificates for nominees for president and
vice president."

Others are a little more oblique. In Georgia, for example,

lawmakers propose a bill "relating to procedures for qualification
of candidates generally, so as to require each candidate for public
office to be in compliance with certain disclosure requirements."

There is no definitive word on what that would mean to

presidential candidates.

An Indiana proposal is equally unclear, because it "authorizes a

challenge to a candidate's eligibility to seek an office to be filed by
a registered voter of the jurisdiction conducting the election." It
could apply only to local elections.

In Virginia, a summary says the proposal "provides that candidates

shall provide evidence of their qualifications for office to have
their names printed on the ballot. The State Board of Elections
shall provide a list of acceptable forms of evidence."

And in the New York state plan proposed by a freedom of

information organization to state lawmakers would provide that
"an individual seeking placement on the New York State's election
ballot(s) for the office of president or vice president of the United
States must present proof of eligibility, as per requirements that are
stated in Article 2, section 1, paragraph 5 of the U.S. Constitution."

Demand the truth by joining the petition campaign to make

President Obama reveal his long-form, hospital-generated birth
certificate!

The proposals essentially are moving the same direction as a

federal measure proposed by Rep. Bill Posey, R-Fla.

Posey's H.R. 1503 states:

"To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require

the principal campaign committee of a candidate for election to
the office of President to include with the committee's statement of
organization a copy of the candidate's birth certificate, together
with such other documentation as may be necessary to establish
that the candidate meets the qualifications for eligibility to the
Office of President under the Constitution."

The bill also provides:

"Congress finds that under … the Constitution of the United

States, in order to be eligible to serve as President, an individual
must be a natural born citizen of the United States who has
attained the age of 35 years and has been a resident within the
United States for at least 14 years."
The sponsors' goal is for the bill to become effective for the 2012
presidential election. The legislation now is pending in a House
committee and has more than a dozen co-sponsors.

But whatever support Posey's plan has, it faces massive obstacles

in a House and Senate dominated by Democrats, as well as a
president whose own status could be impacted by its requirements.

In Arizona, state Sen. Sylvia Allen, R-Snowflake, said the

controversy over Obama and his birth certificate has raised
questions.

"It just makes sense and will stop any controversy in the future to
just show you are a natural born citizen," she told the Arizona
Capitol Times.

If states start adopting such election requirements, their laws

possibly could have an impact similar to federal legislation, since
the information submitted to meet the requirements presumably
would be public.

The issue with Obama's eligibility is that although a computer-

generated image of a "certification of live birth" was posted online
by his campaign, the image does not actually document a
birthplace.

Hawaiian law at the time, for example, allowed family members to

register a birth in Hawaii by submitting information to the state.

A second significant factor is the multitude of documents that

Obama has kept from the public.

Besides his actual birth documentation, the documentation includes

kindergarten records, Punahou school records, Occidental College
records, Columbia University records, Columbia thesis, Harvard
Law School records, Harvard Law Review articles, scholarly
articles from the University of Chicago, passport, medical records,
his files from his years as an Illinois state senator, his Illinois State
Bar Association records, any baptism records, and his adoption
records.

Thirdly, another significant factor is the estimated $1.7 million

Obama has spent on court cases specifically preventing any of the
documentation of his life to be revealed to the public.

And as WND has reported, however, no controlling legal authority

ever directly addressed the question of whether Obama met the
U.S. Constitution's requirements to be president, that is being 35
years of age, a resident for at least 14 years and a "natural born
citizen."

The Arizona proposal, H2442, also would require that the secretary
of state in Arizona independently verify that the documents
submitted are correct. Any failure could cause the candidate's name
to be withheld from the ballot, officials said.

WND has reported on dozens of legal challenges to Obama's status

as a "natural born citizen." The Constitution, Article 2, Section 1,
states, "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 President."

Some of the lawsuits question whether he was actually born in

Hawaii, as he insists. If he was born out of the country, Obama's
American mother, the suits contend, was too young at the time of
his birth to confer American citizenship to her son under the law at
the time.
Cont. At : http://www.wnd.com/index.php?
fa=PAGE.view&pageId=122542

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Bill Posey of Florida; H.R.1503 –
Presidential Eligibility Act -

To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to

require the principal campaign committee of a candidate for
election to the office of President to include with the
committee's... (Introduced in House)

HR 1503 IH

111th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1503

To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require

the principal campaign committee of a candidate for election to the
office of President to include with the committee's statement of
organization a copy of the candidate's birth certificate, together
with such other documentation as may be necessary to establish
that the candidate meets the qualifications for eligibility to the
Office of President under the Constitution.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

March 12, 2009

Mr. POSEY introduced the following bill; which was referred to

the Committee on House Administration

A BILL
To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require
the principal campaign committee of a candidate for election to the
office of President to include with the committee's statement of
organization a copy of the candidate's birth certificate, together
with such other documentation as may be necessary to establish
that the candidate meets the qualifications for eligibility to the
Office of President under the Constitution.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of

the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. FINDING.

Congress finds that under section 5 of article II of the

Constitution of the United States, in order to be eligible to
serve as President, an individual must be a natural born
citizen of the United States who has attained the age of 35
years and has been a resident within the United States for at
least 14 years.

SEC. 2. REQUIRING PRINCIPAL CAMPAIGN

COMMITTEES OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES TO
PROVIDE DOCUMENTATION OF CANDIDATE'S
ELIGIBILITY TO SERVE AS PRESIDENT.

(a) In General- Section 303(b) of the Federal Election

Campaign Act (2 U.S.C. 433(b)) is amended--
(1) by striking `and' at the end of paragraph (5);
(2) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (6)
and inserting `; and'; and
(3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
`(7) in the case of a principal campaign committee of a
candidate for election to the office of President, a copy
of the candidate's birth certificate, together with such
other documentation as may be necessary to establish
that the candidate meets the qualifications for eligibility
 to the Office of President under section 5 of article II of
the Constitution.'.
(b) Effective Date- The amendment made by subsection (a)
shall apply with respect to the election for the office of
President held in 2012 and each succeeding election for the
office of President.

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Birther’ Conspiracy Roils GOP Campaigns

State Legislators, Party Strategists Keep Anti-Obama Rumors Alive

By David Weigel 3/1/10 6:00 AM

Still from an advertisement by John McCain's re-election
campaign (YouTube)

In the wake of Sen. Scott Brown’s (R-Ma.) upset victory in

Massachusetts, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
issued a memo to campaign managers suggesting a few ways to
prevent their candidates from becoming the next Martha Coakley.

“Create sufficient pressure for your moderate opponents to be

forced to weigh in on the positions of your far right opponents,”
argued the memo writers. The memo set up a hypothetical scenario
in which a front-running candidate would have to respond to
someone who questioned whether President Barack Obama was a
natural-born citizen of the United States. The so-called “birther”
question, they argued, could trip up Republicans just as well as
questions about the gold standard or nullification of federal laws.
Republicans and conservatives rolled their eyes at the scheme.
“That has got to be the most brilliant campaign strategy since
Michael Dukakis and [former Georgia Senator] Max Cleland
raised questions about their own patriotism,” joked conservative
columnist James Taranto in The Wall Street Journal.

But it wasn’t Democrats who fired off the first attack ad on the
“birther” conspiracy theory. On Feb. 24, Sen. John McCain’s (R-
Ariz.) re-election campaign released a 78-second video accusing
his primary challenger, J.D. Hayworth, of indulging the conspiracy
theorists. Footage of wild-eyed “birther” attorneys segued into
footage of Hayworth mulling over the “questions” surrounding the
birth of the 44th president.

The attack from McCain followed several days of under-the-radar,

intra-Republican rumor-mongering about Hayworth’s apparent
indulgence of the “birthers.” While they haven’t launched such
full-on assaults, some Republican strategist have also nudged
reporters to pose the “birther” question to California U.S. Senate
candidate Chuck DeVore and Kentucky U.S. Senate candidate
Rand Paul, as well as Rep. Nathan Deal (R-Ga.), a candidate for
governor of Georgia. Even Sarah Palin, who gave a wishy-washy
answer to a conservative radio host when asked about Obama’s
citizenship, has taken some quiet friendly fire from Republicans
bracing for her to hit the 2010 campaign trail. More than 18
months after the conspiracy theory debuted, it continues to dog the
GOP — with some prodding by strategists and activists in both
parties.

Most Republicans argue that the prominence of “birther”

conspiracy theories is the fault of the left, and of liberal think tanks
and bloggers like Mark Stark who have captured Republicans on
video fumbling the question. Outwardly, they say it’s a distraction
that won’t matter.

“The fact that national Democrats are focusing on birthers,” said

Brian Walsh, a spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial
Committee, “instead of the national unemployment rate… is
absolutely bearing fruit [for the GOP.] Republican candidates are
now ahead in the polls in eight Democrat-held Senate seats along
with all five contested open seats. It’s clear Democrats have not
learned a thing from their losses in New Jersey, Virginia and
Massachusetts.”

Still, the issue succeeded in shaking up the GOP primary in

Arizona. The “Identity” video sparked a war of words between
Hayworth’s and McCain’s press shops, with the former accusing
the latter of desperation. But there’s a reason for the “birther”
resurgence: a bill in the Arizona state legislature, co-sponsored by
most Republicans, that would demand “documents that prove” that
any future presidential candidate “is a natural born citizen.” The
existence of that measure lengthened the news cycle for McCain’s
attack, with Hayworth saying he’d support a version of that kind of
legislation and McCain taking a pass, his spokesman Brian Rogers
telling TWI that the senator “generally doesn’t tell the state what to
do.” Hayworth’s campaign called that a dodge.

“This law specifically requires documentation for the presidential

primary,” said Hayworth’s spokesman Jason Rose in an interview
with TWI. “It should apply to anyone seeking any office. When
J.D. goes to the polls he has to provide an ID, so why have a
different, lesser, standard for this office?”

Despite the local legislative issue, Rose clarified that Hayworth’s

position on Obama was that “the questions about the president
have been asked and answered.” But the hubbub there could be
repeated in five other states where legislation about the eligibility
of presidential candidates has been introduced — in every case, by
Republicans. Indiana’s Senate bill 82 grapples with the legal
standing issue that has vexed “birthers,” granting the right to
challenge qualifications to “a registered voter of the jurisdiction
conducting the election.”

New Hampshire’s House bill 1245 mandates that “the names of the
candidates shall not appear on the ballot unless the secretary of
state has received certified copies of the birth certificates of the
candidates.” And in South Carolina, freshman state Rep. Tommy
Stringer has introduced legislation that would amend the state’s
election code to make sure that “a candidate for President or Vice
President of the United States may not have his name printed on a
ballot in this State unless there is conclusive evidence that he is a
natural born citizen of the United States.” In an interview with
TWI, Stringer said the Certificate of Live Birth made available by
Barack Obama’s campaign in 2008 “satisfies” him, unless
“someone comes up and proves he was born in Kenya or
someplace.” The rationale, he said, was not shaming Obama, but
demanding transparency.

“As far general opinion goes, Americans don’t trust the

government at either the federal or state level,” Stringer said.
“Whatever we do to enforce trust and accountability — something
like proving citizenship for office — that’s a minimal thing that
could establish some trust.”

Stringer was bearish on the chances of his legislation — he

doubted it would pass in 2010, though he plans to introduce it
again in 2011. The “birther” movement itself has been just as
persistent. At last month’s Conservative Political Action
Conference, two leading “birther” attorneys drew a mixed response
from attendees and a negative response from politicians. Phil Berg,
the Pennsylvania attorney who filed the first suit against Obama in
2008, handed out advertisements, occasionally finding sympathy.
But Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli pulled out of a panel
because Gary Kreep, a California attorney who has represented
Alan Keyes in a “birther” lawsuit, would be on the podium.

After chatting with Berg, Ken Timmerman, a Newsmax.com

reporter and former editor of Reader’s Digest, told TWI that the
media’s blackout on the conspiracy theory had affected him, too.
He’d had articles about the subject spiked. Conservatives, he said,
were worried about tackling it.

“What they do is use the Saul Alinsky response,” said Timmerman,

“just to ridicule us. ‘Well, it’s the birthers again, the crackpots.’ I
think that’s what a lot of the hesitation is about. They don’t want to
allow the left to dismiss a legitimate movement because of
something like this.” Timmerman understood the thinking of
conservative leaders, and understood why liberals thought it was a
target for mockery. He just thought they were both going to proven
wrong.

Arizona Democrats, meanwhile, are enjoying the circus.

“John McCain hasn’t been a leading voice in the anti-birther

movement,” said Jennifer Johnson, a spokesperson for the Arizona
Democratic Party. “He saw this as a way to draw a distinction and
paint J.D. as an extremist, and less of a legitimate candidate.” And
McCain, she said, had no reason to worry about offending hard-
right primary voters. “He lost them years ago.”

http://washingtonindependent.com/77867/birther-conspiracy-roils-
gop-campaigns

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INDIANA SENATE BILL 82

 January 22, 2010

SENATE BILL No. 82

_____

DIGEST OF SB 82 (Updated January 19, 2010 6:42 pm - DI 102)

Citations Affected: IC 3-8.

Synopsis: Challenges to a candidate's eligibility. Authorizes a

challenge to a candidate's eligibility to seek an office to be filed by
a registered voter of the jurisdiction conducting the election (rather
than a registered voter of the election district the candidate seeks to
represent).

Effective: July 1, 2010.

Young R Michael
    January 5, 2010, read first time and referred to Committee on
Elections.
    January 21, 2010, amended, reported favorably _ Do Pass.

January 22, 2010

Second Regular Session 116th General Assembly (2010)

PRINTING CODE. Amendments: Whenever an existing statute (or

a section of the Indiana Constitution) is being amended, the text of
the existing provision will appear in this style type, additions will
appear in this style type, and deletions will appear in this style
type.
Additions: Whenever a new statutory provision is being enacted
(or a new constitutional provision adopted), the text of the new
provision will appear in this style type. Also, the word NEW will
appear in that style type in the introductory clause of each
SECTION that adds a new provision to the Indiana Code or the
Indiana Constitution.
Conflict reconciliation: Text in a statute in this style type or this
style type reconciles conflicts between statutes enacted by the 2009
Regular and Special Sessions of the General Assembly.
SENATE BILL No. 82
    A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning
elections.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:

SOURCE: IC 3-8-1-2; (10)SB0082.1.1. -->     SECTION 1. IC 3-

8-1-2 IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE
JULY 1, 2010]: Sec. 2. (a) The commission, a county election
board, or a town election board shall act if a candidate (or a person
acting on behalf of a candidate in accordance with state law) has
filed any of the following:
        (1) A declaration of candidacy under IC 3-8-2 or IC 3-8-5.
        (2) A request for ballot placement in a presidential primary
under IC 3-8-3.
        (3) A petition of nomination or candidate's consent to
nomination under IC 3-8-6.
        (4) A certificate of nomination under IC 3-8-5, IC 3-8-7, IC 3-
10-2-15, or IC 3-10-6-12.
        (5) A certificate of candidate selection under IC 3-13-1 or
IC 3-13-2.
        (6) A declaration of intent to be a write-in candidate under
IC 3-8-2-2.5.
        (7) A contest to the denial of certification under IC 3-8-6-12.

    (b) The commission has jurisdiction to act under this section

with regard to any filing described in subsection (a) that was made
with the election division. Except for a filing under the jurisdiction
of a town election board, a county election board has jurisdiction to
act under this section with regard to any filing described in
subsection (a) that was made with the county election board,
county voter registration office, or the circuit court clerk. A town
election board has jurisdiction to act under this section with regard
to any filing that was made with the county election board, the
county voter registration office, or the circuit court clerk for
nomination or election to a town office.
    (c) Except as provided in subsection (e), before the commission
or election board acts under this section, a registered voter of the
election district that a candidate seeks to represent jurisdiction
conducting an election that includes on the ballot the office for
which a candidate has made a filing described in subsection (a)
must file a sworn statement with the election division or election
board:
        (1) questioning the eligibility of a the candidate to seek the
office; and
        (2) setting forth the facts known to the voter concerning this
question.
    (d) The eligibility of a write-in candidate or a candidate
nominated by a convention, petition, or primary may not be
challenged under this section if the commission or board
determines that all of the following occurred:
        (1) The eligibility of the candidate was challenged under this
section before the candidate was nominated.
        (2) The commission or board conducted a hearing on the
affidavit before the nomination.
        (3) This challenge would be based on substantially the same
grounds as the previous challenge to the candidate.
    (e) Before the commission or election board can consider a
contest to the denial of a certification under IC 3-8-6-12, a
candidate (or a person acting on behalf of a candidate in
accordance with state law) must file a sworn statement with the
election division or election board:
        (1) stating specifically the basis for the contest; and
        (2) setting forth the facts known to the candidate supporting
the basis for the contest.
    (f) Upon the filing of a sworn statement under subsection (c) or
(e), the commission or election board shall determine the validity
of the questioned:
        (1) declaration of candidacy;
        (2) declaration of intent to be a write-in candidate;
        (3) request for ballot placement under IC 3-8-3;
        (4) petition of nomination;
        (5) certificate of nomination;
        (6) certificate of candidate selection issued under IC 3-13-1-
15 or IC 3-13-2-8; or
        (7) denial of a certification under IC 3-8-6-12.
    (g) The commission or election board shall deny a filing if the
commission or election board determines that the candidate has not
complied with the applicable requirements for the candidate set
forth in the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of
the State of Indiana, or this title.

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NEW HAMPSHIRE- BILL 1245

HB 1245 – VERSION ADOPTED BY BOTH BODIES

03Mar2010… 0353h

03Mar2010… 0595h

2010 SESSION

10-2043

03/09

HOUSE BILL 1245

AN ACT relative to declarations of candidacy and intent by
presidential candidates.

SPONSORS: Rep. L. Christiansen, Hills 27

COMMITTEE: Election Law

AMENDED ANALYSIS

This bill modifies the declaration of candidacy and the declaration

of intent to be filed by candidates for president by inserting the
presidential qualifications contained in the United States
Constitution.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and

struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted
appears in regular type.

03Mar2010… 0353h

03Mar2010… 0595h

10-2043

03/09

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Ten

AN ACT relative to declarations of candidacy and intent by

presidential candidates.
 Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in
General Court convened:

1 Presidential Nominations; Declaration of Candidacy. Amend

RSA 655:47, I to read as follows:

I. The names of any persons to be voted upon as candidates for

president at the presidential primary shall be printed on the ballots
upon the filing of declarations of candidacy with the secretary of
state in the following form and signed by the candidate:

I, _______________, swear under penalties of perjury that I am

qualified to be a candidate for president of the United States
pursuant to article II, section 1, clause 4 of the United States
Constitution, which states, “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
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.” I further
declare that I am domiciled in __________, in the city (or town or
unincorporated place) of _______________, county of
__________, state of __________, [and meet the qualifications for
the office of president;] that I am a registered member of the
__________ party; that I am a candidate for nomination for the
office of president to be made at the primary election to be held on
the __________ day of __________; and I hereby request that my
name be printed on the official primary ballot of said __________
party as a candidate for such nomination.

2 Declarations of Intent; Presidential Candidates. Amend RSA

655:17-b, II to read as follows:

II. I, __________, swear under penalties of perjury that I am

qualified to be a candidate for president of the United States
pursuant to article II, section 1, clause 4 of the United States
Constitution, which states, “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
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.” I further
declare that I am domiciled in the city (or town or unincorporated
place) of __________, county of __________, state of
__________, and am a qualified voter therein; that I intend to be a
candidate for the office of __________ to be chosen at the general
election to be held on the __________ day of __________; and I
intend to file nomination papers by the deadline established under
RSA 655:43. I further declare that, if qualified as a candidate for
said office, I shall not withdraw; and that, if elected, I shall be
qualified for and shall assume the duties of said office.

3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its
passage.

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SOUTH CAROLINA- BILL 3389

South Carolina General Assembly

118th Session, 2009-2010

Download This Version in Microsoft Word format

Bill 3389
Indicates Matter Stricken
Indicates New Matter

(Text matches printed bills. Document has been reformatted to

meet World Wide Web specifications.)

A BILL

TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA,

1976, BY ADDING SECTION 7-13-315 SO AS TO PROHIBIT
THE NAME OF A CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT OR VICE
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES BE PRINTED ON A
BALLOT IN SOUTH CAROLINA UNLESS THERE IS SHOWN
CONCLUSIVE PROOF THAT THE CANDIDATE IS A
NATURAL BORN CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South

Carolina:

SECTION    1.    Article 3, Chapter 13, Title 7 of the 1976 Code is

amended by adding:

"Section 7-13-315.    (A)    A candidate for President or Vice

President of the United States may not have his name printed on a
ballot in this State unless there is conclusive evidence that he is a
natural born citizen of the United States.

(B)    This section applies to a person, petitioner, or party placing

the names of electors on the ballot."

SECTION    2.    This act takes effect upon approval by the

Governor.

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Friday, April 16, 2010

Newspaper Birth Announcement Ads in 1961

in two Hawaiian Newspapers do NOT prove
Obama was physically born in Hawaii

Newspaper Birth Announcement Ads in

1961 in two Hawaiian Newspapers do NOT prove Obama was
physically born in Hawaii

The two announcements in the Hawaiian newspaper in 1961 only

prove a birth was REGISTERED there, not that he was born there.
A registration was allowed under Hawaiian law in 1961 to be made
by any family member via a simple mail-in form to the state Health
Department. No 3rd party or independent witnesses to the birth
were required. The statement of a family member registering a new
born child as born home was accepted into the registration system
with little or not questions back then. Thus the family could lie and
register a birth in Hawaii when it occurred elsewhere, anywhere in
the world, simply to get the child U.S. citizenship, a highly coveted
status then and now. The false registration was not done so he
could be President some day. The false registration was done to get
the new born child citizenship for that time. It was a case of birth
registration fraud to illegally gain U.S. citizenship for a foreign
born child of the family.

Given Hawaii's very lax birth registration laws in 1961, as I said,

Obama could have been born anywhere in the world and if
Obama's maternal grandma filled out the form and mailed it in to
the birth registration office saying Obama was born at their home
in Hawaii, a vital record would be created. And the birth
announcement was on the list of births registered that week and
which lists were sent routinely each week to the two newspapers.
With data systems it is GIGO, garbage (false registration data) in
yields garbage out (fraudulently created birth record in the state's
vital record system out). And with a falsified birth registration in
the system, subsequent computer print outs in later years and
carefully crafted statements by Hawaiian officials that they have a
record of Obama being born in Hawaii can be obtained and made.
But those printouts and statements are being made based on a
falsified vital record mail-in registration form back in 1961.

WND.com, an online newspaper, did investigations on this first in

2009. They also did follow on stories in 2010 into how the
newspaper ads were placed in those two papers in 1961 and the
research revealed that the birth announcements were placed by the
state, not the family. See these two article links below and many
other articles as to how the Honolulu Advertiser and the other
sister pub got the birth announcements from a list from the state
each week, not from the families. These were public service birth
announcements provided by the state. Garbage/falsified data on the
available and simple birth registration mail-in form sent into the
birth registration office in 1961 by a fraudulent filing by Obama's
grandmother to get her foreign born new grandson U.S.
citizenship, illegally but easily given Hawaii's lax laws back then,
yielded a birth announcement in the paper for a birth in Hawaii that
was registered there but did not physically occur in Hawaii. Obama
was physically not born in Hawaii, as James Orengo, Member of
Parliament, in Kenya recently attested to, as have other MPs in
Kenya and as have members of Obama's paternal line family in
Kenya.

2009 investigation into the two Obama Birth newspaper

announcements:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=104678

2010 follow-up investigation report in the Obama Birth newspaper

announcements:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?
fa=PAGE.printable&pageId=121136

My explanation to Bill Cunningham on his nationally syndicated

radio show in the summer of 2009:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmZpwcRf3FQ

See the name of the section at the top of the newspaper column
which clearly tells you the source of the information in the
announcement lists, "Health Bureau Statistics":
http://www.kerchner.com/images/protectourliberty/newspaper-
announcements-were-placed-by-health-bureau-statistics.jpg

The main stream media is deliberately lying about how these birth
announcements got into those newspapers when they tell America
that the family placed the ads and that someone was anticipating
that someday Obama would run for President. First the family did
not place the ads, the state did. And the family member simply
filed the false birth registration data on the mail-in form for the
obvious purpose of gaining the child U.S. citizenship, a highly
coveted status then and now. Birth registration fraud occurs today
and it occurred then. And it occurred in 1961 with Obama. The
Hawaiian authorities were victims of the birth registration fraud by
Obama's grandmother back in 1961 and now instead of admitting
it, they are covering up that there is no independent evidence to
verify the false registration that Obama was born in Hawaii. No
hospital or doctor's name no medical attendants name at the home.
Nothing. Just the false testimony of the grandmother on a mail-in
form that no one verified back in 1961.

With the contradictory statements being made in Kenya by

government officials there and members of the family there that
Obama was born in Kenya and is not a native born American, the
true legal identity needs to be investigated in a court of law. Any
reasonable person looking at the evidence for and against Obama
being born in Hawaii would say there is reasonable doubt he was
born in Hawaii and would demand a further investigation. But the
media is covering up for Obama by making false statements to
protect him. The media created Obama, covered up for him, and is
still a propaganda organ for him. This is a national disgrace.
CDR Charles Kerchner
Pennsylvania
http://puzo1.blogspot.com
http://www.protectourliberty.org

Cross Link Update:  Kenyan Minister of Lands, James Orengo, states in open session of
the Kenyan Parliament that Obama was "born here in Kenya" and is "not a native
American":
http://puzo1.blogspot.com/2010/04/current-minister-of-kenyan-government.html
####

Posted by cfkerchner at 10:37 PM *

http://puzo1.blogspot.com/2010/04/newspaper-birth-
announcement-ads-in.html
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Sunday, April 11, 2010

Current Minister of Kenyan Government

Declares Obama "was born here in Kenya"
and Is Not a “native American”

A debate on the adoption of a new Kenyan

Constitution took place in the House of the National Assembly of
Kenya on Thursday, March 25, 2010. The Official Report of that
House, dated Thursday, March 25, 2010, and recorded in the
Kenyan government's depository, Hansard-the official source of
printed transcripts of parliamentary debates-provides the details of
that debate. One of the speakers (see pages 29-31) during that
debate was The Minister for Lands, Mr. James Orengo. Ironically,
he expressed to the Parliament in open debate that "[i]f we do not
live by the values and principles contained in this Constitution, all
that is contained in this Constitution will be of no significance...."
He continued saying that Kenyans must follow the rule of law and
especially the Constitution, stating that the "unmaking of Kenya
began by disregard and non-compliance of the law. We ended up
in a dictatorship that we had to fight for so many years...." He
further explained that under the new proposed Constitution, the
"Executive authority of the President . . . is derived from the
people...."

He then continued to tell the Parliament that Kenya must overcome

its problem of elements of its population excluding people from
participating in Kenyan life because of their ethnicity or tribal
affiliations. He asked that all Kenyans unite, regardless of ethnic or
tribal affiliations, stating: "The other thing that we are addressing
through devolution is exclusion. What has made us suffer as a
nation is exclusion. Once people feel excluded, even when you
want to employ a policeman or constable or you want to build a
dispensary, it must come from the centre. In the colonial days,
these things were being done on the ground and they could give
bursaries and build roads. I commend devolution. Those who fear
devolution are living in the past. They are being guided by their
ethnic consideration and objectives. They are living in the past. If
America was living in a situation where they feared ethnicity and
did not see itself as a multiparty state or nation, how could a young
man born here in Kenya, who is not even a native American,
become the President of America? It is because they did away with
exclusion. What has killed us here is exclusion; that once Mr.
Orengo is President, I know of no other place than Ugenya. That is
why we were fighting against these many Presidencies in the past.
I hope that Kenya will come of age. This country must come of
age. People want freedom and nations want liberation, but
countries want independence."

There we have it clearly stated by a current Minister of the Kenyan

Cabinet that Obama was born in Kenya and is not a "native
American." It is unbelievable that a high-ranking member of the
Kenyan government would make such a matter-of-fact statement,
given the debate that is raging in the United States about whether
Obama was born in Hawaii or Kenya. From his statement, it
appears that Mr. Orengo believes that the American electorate
knew that Obama was born in Kenya and still voted for him to be
President. It is also significant that no one in the Kenyan
Parliament corrected or challenged Mr. Orengo when he made his
statement, given that Obama's place of birth debate must be well-
known in Kenya and is important to Obama's legitimacy to be the
President of the United States. Kenya would not only be
embarrassed but would also be negatively impacted upon if Obama
were found not to be the legitimate President of the United States.
One would also think that Mr. Orengo would share his knowledge
with the American people. I surely hope that the American media
will immediately fly to Kenya and personally speak to Mr. Orengo
to find out why he believes that Obama was born in Kenya. The
full House report was originally found at
http://www.bunge.go.ke/parliament/downloads/tenth_forth_sess/H
ansard/RDRAFT25.03P.pdf. [Direct viewing scrubbed/disabled on
Kenyan server as of 15 Apr 2010. A copy of the Kenyan National
Assembly PDF file which was saved and uploaded to
SCRIBD.com can still be downloaded at this link.] The speech of
Mr. Orengo starts at page 29 and ends at page 31. The above quote
is found on page 31.

For a catalog of evidence concerning whether Obama was born in

Hawaii or Kenya, see my essay entitled, Is the State of Hawaii
Covering Up Birth Registration Fraud in the Case of Obama?
Hawaii Law Makers Contemplating Stopping Concerned
Americans from Investigating Whether Obama Was Born There -
Plus a Catalog of Evidence for and Against Obama's Physically
Being Born in Hawaii and Not Just Falsely Registered There After
the Fact, at: http://puzo1.blogspot.com/2010/03/hawaii-law-
makers-contemplating.html

Mario Apuzzo, Esq.

April 11, 2010
Updated April 14, 2010
http://puzo1.blogspot.com/
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19 April 2010 Update: A Kenyan minister stated on the record on

14 April 2010 in the Kenyan National Assembly that Obama
should repatriate himself to Kenya. See full story here:
http://jeffersonsrebels.blogspot.com/2010/04/kenyan-minister-
khalwale-asks-when.html
####

Cross Link: Newspaper Birth Announcement Ads in 1961 in two

Hawaiian Newspapers do NOT prove Obama was physically born
in Hawaii. The two announcements in the Hawaiian newspaper in
1961 only prove a birth was REGISTERED there, not that he was
born there.  See this link for details:
http://puzo1.blogspot.com/2010/04/newspaper-birth-
announcement-ads-in.html
Posted by Puzo1 at 4:20 PM

http://puzo1.blogspot.com/2010/04/current-minister-of-kenyan-
government.html

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Monday, April 19, 2010

Kenyan Minister Khalwale Asks When Obama

Will Repatriate Himself
Excellent question!
The following transcript is of an April 14, 2010 debate on the floor
of the Kenyan National Assembly.  The question under discussion
concerns the repatriation of Kenyan artifacts which were removed
from the country by colonialists.  The Ministers want to know what
is being done to return the artifacts, or failing their return, how and
when Kenya will be compensated for their loss.  They argue that
museums in the US and elsewhere have earned money on these
artifacts, thus those countries are indebted to Kenya.  Importantly,
in 2006, when Barack Obama visited Kenya, strategized with, and
campaigned on behalf of Raila Odinga, the Senator also promised
to help with the return of artifacts to Kenya or to seek financial
compensation.

The most amazing question asked on the floor is by Dr. Bonny

Khalwale, of the Ikolomani Constituency, and concerns the
"repatriation" of Barack Obama!  Dr. Khalwale's remarks are
highlighted in red in one of the paragraphs below the fold.

If I was allowed a vote in the Kenyan National Assembly, I would

happily vote yea for repatriating Barack Obama to his "home
country" (0:45).  What say you?

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
OFFICIAL REPORT
Wednesday, 14th April, 2010

Excerpt below came from this pdf:

http://www.bunge.go.ke/parliament/index.php?
option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=64&Itemid=
Question No.145
LIST OF CULTURAL ARTEFACTS MOVED FROM
KENYA BY COLONIALISTS/FOREIGNERS

Mr. James Maina Kamau asked the Minister of State for

National Heritage and
Culture:-
(a) whether the National Museums of Kenya (NMK) has a list of
cultural artefacts moved from Kenya by former colonialists and
other foreigners or in possession of people outside the country and,
if so, what the NMK and the Ministry are doing to recover these
artefacts, indicating the specific date by which the country expects
to have the artefacts returned;
(b) if he could confirm that in 2006, the then Senator Barrack
Obama promised to support NMK and the Ministry in the
identification and return of the artefacts held in the United States; 
and,
(c) what the Ministry is doing to follow up on the promise,
considering that Mr. Obama is now the US President.

The Minister of State for National Heritage and Culture (Mr.

ole Ntimama): Mr.
Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply.
(a) I admit that the NMK does not have a comprehensive list of all
the artefacts moved from Kenya by former colonialists, as no
documentation was done when they were leaving the country. The
only list in our possession is of the artefacts some of the museums
and institutions abroad have and not what is in private hands.

Mr. Speaker, Sir, nevertheless, Kenya is a state party to United

Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO) and has been negotiating for the return of the cultural
artefacts under the support of the Inter-Government Committee for
Promoting the Return of Cultural Property to its countries of origin
or its restitution in case of illicit appropriation. It is, therefore, not
possible to give specific dates for their return as the Ministry must
work under the guidelines of this UNESCO Committee. In
addition, the National Museums of Kenya is working with
museums abroad to identify what is Kenyan and has put in place
modalities for their return upon identification. Towards that end,
progress has been made with return of some of the artefacts from
the United Kingdom (UK) and, United States of America (USA) in
2007 and 2008 respectfully.

Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is true that the delegation from my Ministry

and the National Museums of Kenya visited the USA to recover
cultural material, specifically the Kigango which is a sculptured
post erected, as part of the Mijikenda ritual, memorizing the spirit
of a male who has died.

However, Hampton University in Virginia USA were reluctant and

unwilling to release the identified Kigango for repatriation, which
prompted my Ministry to conduct the then Senator Barrack
Obama’s office for assistance. However, I would like to assure the
Member of Parliament that the Senator’s office was of great
assistance and Kigango was eventually released and repatriated to
Kenya and has since been returned to the respective family in
Kilifi District. I confirm that my Ministry’s officials especially the
National Museums of Kenya are working hard to identify any other
Kenyan artefacts in the USA, the UK and elsewhere in the world.
Also my Ministry with the help of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
has contacted Kenyan embassies abroad requesting them to assist
in the identification and location of these artefacts. In case of any
difficulties in returning the identified ones to Kenya, we shall seek
assistance from the respective governments of the world.

Mr. James Maina Kamau: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to

appreciate the answer given by the hon. Member but I would like
to indicate to this House that there are over 2,000 lying out there,
especially in the British Museum. Others are spread across the
USA Museum. What are they doing? It looks like it is taking them
too long to make sure that those artefacts are brought to Kenya?
We need them in Kenya because they are important. They teach
our young people what was happening in those days.

Mr. ole Ntimama: Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I have said in my answer,

we are trying our best and the good team from my Ministry has
been visiting some of these countries to try and identify all the
artefacts that are there and negotiate their return. So, we are not
asleep but doing our best.
Dr. Khalwale: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Minister has told us that the
office of the then Senator Obama gave him a lot of assistance. That
is very good to hear. Could he tell us what commitment the same
office made by way of compensation to this country because those
artefacts in those museums have been attracting visitors who were
paying to view them? What commitment did they make about
compensation and more importantly, the biggest artefact in the
USA today that belongs to this country is one Barrack Obama.
How does he intend to repatriate himself or part of the money that
is realized from all the royalties that he is attracting across the
whole world?
The Assistant Minister for Roads (Dr. Machage): On a point of
order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Is the hon. Member right to refer to the
President of the USA as an artefact? Mr. Speaker: Dr. Khalwale,
you are out of order! The President of the USA cannot be classified
as an artefact. You should withdraw and apologize. Dr. Khalwale:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I withdraw and apologize, may I clarify that
this was not mischief. In one of the museums in USA---

Mr. Speaker: Order, Dr. Khalwale! I have given directions. If you

wish, you can quote to the House, perhaps a medical dictionary,
but I am certain that the English dictionary will not define the word
“artifact” as including any human being, let alone President
Obama. Dr. Khalwale: Mr. Speaker, Sir, most obliged. My
withdrawal and apology still stands but I just wanted to clarify that
the artefacts that I am referring to indeed exist. It was not the hon.
Obama. If you go to the museum in Washington, there is a huge
statue not just of Obama alone but also his wife and all the
previous presidents of the USA.

Mr. Speaker: Order, Dr. Khalwale! If you are referring to a statue

then you should have said so but that is not what you said. Please,
Dr. Khalwale, do not be vexatious and neither should you be
frivolous. As a medical practitioner, I expect much more out of
you. Even as a Member of Parliament. And you must stop there, I
am afraid! I rule you out of order.
Dr. Khalwale: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the matter rests but then it brings
me to the issue of compensation. What commitment has the USA
made in the need to compensate this country for all the money that
they have earned over the years from our artefacts in their
museums?
Mr. ole Ntimama: Mr. Speaker, Sir, do not forget that we are
dealing with independent nations just like Kenya. Do not also
forget that we were colonies of other people for a long time and
they had the opportunity to collect those artefacts from private
people and other institutions and take them to their land. What we
are trying to do now is to negotiate and bring those artefacts back.
We are not talking of compensation yet because that is also a
complicated affair which has to be calculated in many ways.

Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to thank you just for one thing: controlling
frivolity because some people talk so freely in this Parliament that
they do not consider that some of the things they talk about are
frivolous.

Mr. Ruto: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. With great

respect for the hon. Minister, who is very senior, is it in order for
him to assist you in determining what is frivolous and what is not
while we know you are quite competent?

(Laughter)

Mr. Speaker: Order! Order! Mr. Minister, you need not respond to
that. Hon. Ruto, I am afraid you, yourself, on that point of order
are being frivolous and vexatious. What you have uttered amounts
to an abuse of the proceedings of Parliament! The hon. Member for
Kandara, you did not ask the last question. I think that matter rests
there.

Mr. James Maina Kamau: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Among
the items that this country needs most, we have the famous
freedom fighters like Koitalel arap Samoei, who was deemed to
have been among the first freedom fighters in this country. When
he was killed, his skull was taken to the British Museum. What is
the Minister doing to make sure that, that skull and the famous
man-eaters of Tsavo are returned to Kenya?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir.

10 Wednesday, 14, April, 2010(P)

Mr. ole Ntimama: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the case of Samoei and other
heroes and whatever happened to them, we are following up very,
very closely, indeed.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir.

Mr. James Maina Kamau: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir.

Mr. Speaker: Order! Order! Mr. Minister, will you respond to the
aspect on man-eaters of Tsavo; when will they be returned?

Mr. James Maina Kamau: And why it has taken so long---

Mr. Speaker: Order, hon. Member for Kandara!

Mr. ole Ntimama: Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I had
wanted to mention the case of the man-eaters of Tsavo. We have
really tried to put this case to the Illinois Museum in United States;
we are even now sending our experts there. The problem now is
that the US Museum is saying that they bought the man-eating
lions of Tsavo from a man called “Patterson”. The lions cost them
so much money that they are saying that they will not release them
until they get their money back. That is actually the whole position
today. Patterson was the name of the man who shot the lions in
Tsavo.

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Page 1 of 11
Clearing the Smoke on Obama’s
Eligibility Updated
In December ‘08 a retired CIA officer commissioned an
investigator to look into the Barack Obama birth certificate
and eligibility issue. On July 21, 2009 westernjournalism.com
obtained a copy of the investigator’s report and published it.
Thousands have since read the report. The report is featured
as one of the Key Documents on the
safeguardourconstitution.com website that is maintained by
the American Patriot Foundation that supports Lieutenant
Colonel Terry Lakin.
Lieutenant Colonel Lakin is refusing to deploy as ordered to
Afghanistan until Obama permits the Hawaiian Department
of Health to release his original birth certificate to support the
claim that he is a natural born citizen and thereby meets the
eligibility requirement for his office mandated by the
Constitution. This may lead to Lakin’s facing a court-martial.
Much new information has surfaced since the original
publication and the investigator recently submitted to us an
updated version of the report. Even if you have read it
before, please consider reading the updated version that
includes this new information. The situation for Lt Col Lakin
is grave and we salute his courage, and we reaffirm the
accuracy of this important research.—The Editors
Clearing the Smoke on Obama’s Eligibility
Most people think of an original birth certificate as a state or
hospital document containing a statement by a doctor or
midwife. The hospital document usually is accompanied by a
footprint.
No one has ever presented any evidence that such a
document has ever existed in the United States for Barack
Obama. The Hawaii Dept of Health refuses to give a yes or
no answer to the question whether they have such a
document on file.
Instead of the birth certificate on file at the Hawaii Dept of
Health, the Obama campaign posted on the Daily Kos blog
and the Fightthesmears website a “Certification of Live
Birth”. This Certification of Live Birth is not a copy of the
original birth certificate. It is a computer-generated document
that the state of Hawaii issues on request to indicate that a
birth certificate of some type is “on record in accordance with
state policies and procedures”. And there is the problem. As
will be shown below, given the statutes in force in 1961, the
Certification of Live Birth proves nothing unless we know
what is on the original birth certificate. There are several
legal areas (involving ethnic quotas and subsidy) for which
the state of Hawaii up until June 2009 did not accept its
computer-generated Certification of Live Birth as sufficient
proof of birth in Hawaii or parentage. Why should the citizens
of the United States be content with lower standards for
ascertaining the qualifications of their President than were
required by the Department of Hawaiian Homelands for
ascertaining whether an applicant for its programs was born
in Hawaii?
Obama has refused to allow the Hawaiian Dept of Health to
release his original birth certificate. The Hawaiian Dept of
Health has refused to provide any information about the
hospital, or doctor, or midwife. It also refuses to confirm
whether it has on record any information about a hospital, or
doctor or midwife.

Jonathan Alter, senior editor at Newsweek magazine, told

Keith Olbermann on MSNBC on Feb 20, 2009 that “They
[the Republicans] are a party that is out of ideas so they
have to resort to these lies about the fact that he’s not a
citizen. This came up during the campaign, Keith. The
Obama campaign actually posted his birth certificate from a
Hawaii hospital online.” But it is Alter who resorted to lying to
the American people on television. “The Obama campaign”
never “actually posted his birth certificate from a Hawaii
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Page 2 of 11 On July 17, 2009 CNN’s Kitty Pilgrim lied when
she stated that the Obama campaign had produced “the
original birth certificate” on the internet and that
FactCheck.org had examined the original birth certificate.
The Certification of Live Birth that was posted by the
campaign and FactCheck.org is not, and by definition,
cannot be the original birth certificate or a copy of the
original birth certificate. It contains no space for the signature
of a doctor or midwife. It contains no space for the hospital
or house where Barack Obama was born. There is no space
on the Certification for any probative evidence that can be
checked up on to see whether the Certification is valid.
There were no computer generated Certifications of Live
Birth in 1961, the year Obama was born.
Actual 1961 Certificate of Live Birth that Obama refuses to
release
The digital copy that Obama did release
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Page 3 of 11 Obama’s original birth certificate was a very
different document from this Certification of Live Birth on
FactCheck.org. that Kitty Pilgrim, Chris Matthews, Jonathan
Alter, and Keith Olbermann have waved around to end the
discussion. On the FactCheck.org web site, the claim is
made that “FactCheck.org staffers have now seen, touched,
examined and photographed the original birth certificate.”
They only saw and touched the Certification of Live Birth. So
FactCheck.org is lying about this as well.
FactCheck.org gets its prestige from a reputation for
objectivity. Why would those who run this site choose to tell
so obvious a lie and so endanger the site’s reputation? The
answer is in the date of the posting, August 21, 2008. It was
in mid-August that questions about the Certification of Live
Birth began to reach a critical mass and threaten to enter the
public discourse. The mostly pro-Obama television and
newspaper/magazine media had to be given an excuse and
cover for their collective decision to dismiss or ignore the
substantial questions about whether Obama met the
qualifications for the office set forth in Article II section I of
the Constitution. And those reporters and editors who were
not in the tank for Obama had to be deceived. After Labor
Day the swing voters would begin to pay attention to the
Presidential campaign. The truth had to be killed. And with
its lie about “how it examined and photographed the original
birth certificate“, FactCheck.org killed it.
Birth Certificate and Citizenship Law when Obama was
Born
Under Section 57 of the Territorial Public Health Statistics
Act in the 1955 Revised Laws of Hawaii (which was in effect
in 1961), a mailed-in form (without mention of a hospital,
doctor, or midwife) signed by one of his parents (who could
have been out of the country and pre-signed a form or
whose signature could have been forged by a grandparent)
would have been enough to set up a birth record and a birth
certificate at the Dept of Health. The Dept of Health would
then have automatically sent the names of the parents, their
address as given on the mailed-in form , the gender of the
child, and the date of birth to the Honolulu Advertiser and
Star-Bulletin. (The address given for the parents in the
newspaper announcements is actually, however, the August
1961 home address of Obama’s maternal grandparents
Stanley and Madelyn Dunham [6085 Kalanianaole Highway],
and not the 1961 home address of Barack Obama, Sr. [625
11th Ave].) This notification would then have automatically
generated the newspaper announcements. (This was the
practice of the Honolulu Advertiser and Star-Bulletin at the
time).
This meager birth record would also be enough to generate
the computer-generated Certifications of Live Birth in 2007
and 2008. This series of events is certainly possible. It is
also the most likely explanation for Obama’s refusal to
request and release (or authorize the release of) his original
birth certificate. When these considerations are placed next
to the statements by Sarah Onyango Obama, Peter Ogego
(the Kenyan ambassador to the U.S), and now a Kenyan
cabinet minister, James Orengo, in the Kenyan Parliament
that Barack Obama was born in Kenya (on page 31 of the
following pdf
http://www.bunge.go.ke/parliament/downloads/tenth_forth_s
ess/Hansard/RDRAFT25.03P.pdf
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?
fa=PAGE.view&pageId=139481

sufficient questions have been raised to justify a call for

Barack Obama to release his original birth certificate. (There
are no doctors, nurses, midwives or other witnesses to Ann
Dunham giving birth to Barack Obama in Hawaii. In fact,
from mid-February 1961 through August 1962, there are no
witnesses to or evidence that Ann Dunham was in Hawaii at
all.) If the American people are not shown the original birth
certificate, his birth in Kenya or elsewhere becomes a clear
possibility. And if Obama continues to refuse to allow the
state of Hawaii to release the original birth certificate, it
begins to look like he was not born in a hospital in Hawaii (as
his campaign has claimed) or at home with the assistance of
a doctor or midwife.

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Page 4 of 11 When you actually look closely at the carefully
lawyered statements by the Hawaiian Dept of Health, all that
its director is willing to assert is that she has “personally
seen and verified that the Hawai’i State Department of
Health has Sen. Obama’s original birth certificate on record
in accordance with state policies and procedures.” But
according to the Territorial Public Health Statistics Act in the
1955 Revised Laws of Hawaii, no hospital’s name, or
doctor’s or midwife’s statement was necessary to establish
an original birth certificate.
Now, if it should turn out that there is no hospital or physician
record in the original birth certificate, then of course Barack
Obama wasn’t born in a hospital in Hawaii. And a home birth
or non-hospital birth can then probably be ruled out for the
following reason.
When someone has a home birth or is not born in a hospital,
this becomes a part of his family’s lore and is now and again
spoken of by his parents. He and his siblings grow up
knowing that he was born at home or his uncle’s house, etc.
The fact that someone in the campaign told a Washington
Post reporter that he was born in Kapioliani hospital and his
sister said he was born at Queens hospital indicates that
there was not and is not any Obama/Dunham family memory
of a home birth or non-hospital birth in Hawaii.
A reasonable person would acknowledge that there are
serious reasons to doubt that Barack Obama was born in the
United States and to ask why the more substantial evidence
that the media assume exists, has not been provided. This is
especially true because, if Obama was born in a foreign
country, his family had a compelling reason to lie about it.
In 1961 if a 17 year old American girl gave birth in a foreign
country to a child whose father was not an American citizen,
that child had no right to any American citizenship, let alone
the “natural born” citizenship that qualifies someone for the
Presidency under Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution.
In 1961, the year that Barack Obama was born, under Sec.
301 (a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, Ann
Dunham could not transmit citizenship of any kind to Barack
Obama.
“ 7 FAM 1133.2-2 Original Provisions and Amendments to
Section 301
(CT:CON-204; 11-01-2007)
“a. Section 301 as Effective on December 24, 1952: When
enacted in 1952, section 301 required a U.S. citizen married
to an alien to have been physically present in the United
States for ten years, including five after reaching the age of
fourteen, to transmit citizenship to foreign-born children. The
ten-year transmission requirement remained in effect from
12:01 a.m. EDT December 24, 1952, through midnight
November 13, 1986, and still is applicable to persons born
during that period.
“As originally enacted, section 301(a)(7) stated: Section 301.
(a) The following shall be nationals and citizens of the United
States at birth: (7) a person born outside the geographical
limits of the United States and its outlying possessions of
parents one of whom is an alien, and the other a citizen of
the United States who, prior to the birth of such person, was
physically present in the United States or its outlying
possessions for a period or periods totaling not less than ten
years, at least five of which were after attaining the age of
fourteen years: Provided, That any periods of honorable
service in the Armed Forces of the United States by such
citizen parent may be included in computing the physical
presence requirements of this paragraph.”
The Immigration and Nationality Corrections Act (Public Law
103-416) on October 25, 1994 revised this law to
accommodate “a person born outside the geographical limits
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Page 5 of 11 person, was physically present in the United
States or its outlying possessions for a period or periods
totaling not less than five years, at least two of which were
after attaining the age of fourteen years”.
But in 1961, if Barack Obama had been born outside of the
country, the Dunham family had no way of knowing that in
1994 Congress would pass a law that would retroactively
make him a citizen. At that time, the only way to get
citizenship for him would be to take advantage of the
loopholes in the Territorial Public Health Statistics Act.
People can debate the meaning of the term “natural-born
citizen” as long as they like but this is clear: If, in 1961, 17
year old Ann Dunham gave birth to a child on foreign soil
whose father was not an American citizen, then the
Immigration and Nationality Act at that time denied Barack
Obama any right to American citizenship of any kind.
Therefore if at the time of his birth Obama was ineligible for
American citizenship of any kind, then he cannot be a
“natural-born citizen”. This is true even if the Immigration and
Nationality Act was changed 33 years after he was born.
Even if the law was retroactively changed to grant citizenship
(but not “natural-born” citizenship) to some of those who had
at birth been denied it. If a person is not at the time of his
birth an American citizen, he cannot be a natural-born
citizen. Therefore, that person is ineligible under Article II,
Section 1 for the Office of President of the United States.
Obama’s Passport File
It should be added that “Obama’s top terrorism and
intelligence adviser”, John O. Brennan, heads a firm that
was cited in March 2008 for breaching sensitive files in the
State Department’s passport office, according to a State
Department Inspector General’s report released this past
July.
“The security breach, first reported by the Washington Times
and later confirmed by State Department spokesman Sean
McCormack, involved a contract employee of Brennan’s firm,
The Analysis Corp., which has earned millions of dollars
providing intelligence-related consulting services to federal
agencies and private companies.
“During a State Department briefing on March 21, 2008,
McCormack confirmed that the contractor had accessed the
passport files of presidential candidates Barack Obama,
Hillary Rodham Clinton, and John McCain, and that the
inspector general had launched an investigation.
“Sources who tracked the investigation tell Newsmax that
the main target of the breach was the Obama passport file,
and that the contractor accessed the file in order to
‘cauterize’ the records of potentially embarrassing
information.
“ ‘They looked at the McCain and Clinton files as well to
create confusion,’ one knowledgeable source told Newsmax.
‘But this was basically an attempt to cauterize the Obama
file.’
“At the time of the breach, Brennan was working as an
unpaid adviser to the Obama campaign.
” ‘This individual’s actions were taken without the knowledge
or direction of anyone at The Analysis Corp. and are wholly
inconsistent with our professional and ethical standards,’
Brennan’s company said in a statement sent to reporters
after the passport breach was made public.

“The passport files include ‘personally identifiable

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Page 6 of 11 “The files may contain additional information
including ‘original copies of the associated documents,’ the
report added. Such documents include birth certificates,
naturalization certificates, or oaths of allegiance for U.S.-
born persons who adopted the citizenship of a foreign
country as minors.”
“The State Department Office of Inspector General (OIG)
issued a 104-page report on the breach last July. Although it
is stamped ‘Sensitive but Unclassified,’ the report was
heavily redacted in the version released to the public, with
page after page blacked out entirely.”
http://www.newsmax.com/timmerman/brennan_passport_bre
ach/2009/01/12/170430.html
The following may be relevant:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/apr/19/key-
witness-in-passport-fraud-case-fatally-shot/
Key witness in passport fraud case fatally shot
Saturday, April 19, 2008
“A key witness in a federal probe into passport information
stolen from the State Department was fatally shot in front of
a District church, the Metropolitan Police Department said
yesterday.
“Lt. Quarles Harris Jr., 24, who had been cooperating with a
federal investigators, was found late Thursday night slumped
dead inside a car, in front of the Judah House Praise Baptist
Church in Northeast, said Cmdr. Michael Anzallo, head of
the department’s Criminal Investigations Division.
“Cmdr. Anzallo said a police officer was patrolling the
neighborhood when gunshots were heard, then Lt. Harris
was found dead inside the vehicle, which investigators would
describe only as a blue car.
“Emergency medics pronounced him dead at the scene.
“City police said they do not know whether his death was a
direct result of his cooperation with federal investigators.
“We don’t have any information right now that connects his
murder to that case,” Cmdr. Anzallo said.
“Police say a “shot spotter” device helped an officer locate
Lt. Harris.
“A State Department spokeswoman yesterday declined to
comment, saying the investigation into the passport fraud is
ongoing.
“The Washington Times reported April 5 that contractors for
the State Department had improperly accessed passport
information for presidential candidates Sens. Hillary Rodham
Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain, which resulted in
a series of firings that reached into the agency’s top ranks.

“One agency employee, who was not identified in documents

filed in U.S. District Court, was implicated in a credit-card
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Page 7 of 11 There is a possibility that the breaches of the
passport files associated with the “credit-card fraud scheme”
were a cover for or associated with the breaches of the
passport files by the employee of Brennan’s Analysis Corp.
Protecting Hawaii’s Favorite Son
Until June 2009, the reasonable doubts about where Obama
was born could have quickly and finally been resolved if he
had authorized the release by the Hawaiian Dept of Health
of his original birth certificate or else applied for it himself
and released it to the media. But as these doubts have
increased and reached the point where they are no longer a
“fringe” phenomenon, the Hawaiian state govt has recently
taken certain steps that would create procedural and
possibly legal barriers to a resolution of the controversy.
On June 7, 2009, a spokeswoman for the Hawaii
Department of Health, Janice Okubo, announced that “The
state Department of Health no longer issues copies of paper
birth certificates as was done in the past. The department
only issues ‘certifications’ of live births, and that is the
‘official birth certificate’ issued by the state of Hawaii, she
said. ” [Honolulu Star Bulletin]
http://www.starbulletin.com/columnists/kokualine/20090606_
kokua_line.html
This 2009 announcement sets up a way for the bureaucracy
to stonewall any requests by Obama’s relatives or other
interested parties who, before the change in policy, had a
right to obtain his original birth certificate. (Now they will be
fobbed off with the certification of live birth which the Dept of
Health has now declared to be the ” ‘official birth certificate’
issued by the state of Hawaii”, a very dodgy bureaucratic
maneuver that I doubt would stand up in a court of law if a
relative contested it.) It also violated the long-standing right
of all Hawaiian citizens to obtain copies of their original birth
certificates. This right was often a legal necessity.
As late as June 10, 2009, the Department of Hawaiian
Homelands insisted that it would not accept the Certification
of Live Birth as adequate proof of birth in Hawaii. All
applicants for its special programs had to present an original
birth certificate, and the Department of Hawaiian Homelands
described the simple procedure by which the original birth
certificate could be obtained from the Department of Health.
This was the statement on their website on June 10, 2009:
“In order to process your application, DHHL [Department of
Hawaiian Homelands] utilizes information that is found only
on the original Certificate of Live Birth, which is either black
or green. This is a more complete record of your birth than
the Certification of Live Birth (a computer-generated
printout). Submitting the original Certificate of Live Birth will
save you time and money since the computer-generated
Certification requires additional verification by DHHL.
“Please note that DOH [Department of Health] no longer
offers same day service. If you plan on picking up your
certified DOH document(s), you should allow at least 10
working days for DOH to process your request(s), OR four to
six weeks if you want your certified certificate(s) mailed to
you.” On July 8, 2009 the web site World Net Daily
accurately reported that “The state, which had excluded
the controversial document [the Certification of Live
Birth] as proof of native Hawaiian status, has changed its
policy and now makes a point of including it.”
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?
fa=PAGE.view&pageId=103408

Here is the new statement on the Department of Hawaiian

Home Lands web site [July 8, 2009]. “The Department of
Hawaiian Home Lands accepts both Certificates of Live Birth
[original birth certificates] and Certifications of Live Birth …
Although original birth certificates (Certificates of Live Birth)
are preferred for
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Page 8 of 11 their greater detail, the State Department of
Health (DOH) no longer issues Certificates of Live Birth.
When a request is made for a copy of a birth certificate, the
DOH issues a Certification of Live Birth.
The web site theobamafile.com picked up this significant
change in procedure on the Dept of Hawaiian Homelands
website on June 18, 2009.
http://www.theobamafile.com/_BogusPOTUS/20090608.htm
#HawaiiRuleChange
Sometime between June 10, 2009 and June 18, 2009 the
state of Hawaii changed its long-standing rule on what
documents and data were necessary to prove a birth in
Hawaii for the Dept of Hawaiian Homelands, thereby
upgrading the apparent status of the Certification of Live
Birth which it had formerly regarded as insufficiently
probative. Why?
A family that I am acquainted with has a child who was born
in Hawaii in December 2008. They filled out and mailed in a
form to the Dept of Health, as did their doctor. In return the
Dept sent them in the first week of June, 2009, the same
computer-generated form that last year on the Daily Kos and
subsequently on the Obama campaign web site was called a
“Certification of Live Birth”. The form that this family received
this year is identical in format to the Certification of Live Birth
on the Daily Kos web site with one exception: the title at the
top of the form.
On June 12, 2008 the title for this form was Certification of
Live Birth. The title for the form that this family received in
the first week of June 2009 is Certificate of Live Birth. I
called The Dept of Health and confirmed that the title of the
form had been changed. The bureaucrat that I spoke to said
the change had been made “recently”, but could not or would
not tell me when. Sometime between June 12, 2008 and the
first week of June 2009 the Hawaiian Dept of Health
changed the title of this abbreviated form from “Certification
of Live Birth” to “Certificate of Live Birth“. Why?
The use of the word “Certificate” rather than “Certification”
makes the form feel somewhat more like a traditional birth
certificate than the “Certification of Live Birth” that the Daily
Kos website and subsequently the Obama campaign posted
on the Internet even though, like the “Certification“, it also
lacks any information about the hospital, doctor, or midwife.
This renaming of the document will be very convenient for
the Hawaiian Dept of Health in future stonewalling should
any legal pressure be brought against them to produce
Obama’s “Certificate of Live Birth”. Instead of producing the
original “Certificate of Live Birth”, they will produce the
“Certification of Live Birth” form that the Dept of Health has
now renamed a “Certificate of Live Birth” and claim that they
are doing so “in accordance with state policies and
procedures” in the words of the Dept’s Director, Dr. Chiyome
Fukino.
What is a “Natural Born Citizen”
It is only by examining the 18th century usage and definition
of a term that we can ascertain its meaning in the
Constitution. In the 18th century, and at the time of the
framing and ratification of the Constitution by the states, the
term “natural-born” subject or citizen was always used or
defined in such a way as to exclude the child of a British or
American girl or woman when that child was born in a
foreign country and that child’s father was a foreign citizen.
No 18th century jurist would have thought the term “natural-
born” citizen or subject could have been extended to the
child of a British or American girl or woman when that child
was born in a foreign country and that child’s father was a
foreign citizen.
Here is Blackstone’s classic exposition in 1765 of the legal
meaning of the term from the Commentaries on the Laws of
England.

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Page 9 of 11 William Blackstone, Commentaries 1:354, 357–
58, 361–62
1765
“Natural-born subjects are such as are born within the
dominions of the crown of England, that is, within the
ligeance, or as it is generally called, the allegiance of the
king; and aliens, such as are born out of it.. . .
“When I say, that an alien is one who is born out of the king’s
dominions, or allegiance, this also must be understood with
some restrictions. The common law indeed stood absolutely
so; with only a very few exceptions: so that a particular act of
parliament became necessary after the restoration, for the
naturalization of children of his majesty’s English subjects,
born in foreign countries during the late troubles. And this
maxim of the law proceeded upon a general principle, that
every man owes natural allegiance where he is born, and
cannot owe two such allegiances, or serve two masters, at
once. Yet the children of the king’s ambassadors born
abroad were always held to be natural subjects: for as the
father, though in a foreign country, owes not even a local
allegiance to the prince to whom he is sent; so, with regard
to the son also, he was held (by a kind of postliminium) to be
born under the king of England’s allegiance, represented by
his father, the ambassador. To encourage also foreign
commerce, it was enacted by statute 25 Edw. III. st. 2. that
all children born abroad, provided both their parents were at
the time of the birth in allegiance to the king,…might inherit
as if born in England: and accordingly it hath been so
adjudged in behalf of merchants. But by several more
modern statutes these restrictions are still farther taken off:
so that all children, born out of the king’s ligancy, whose
fathers were natural-born subjects, are now natural-born
subjects themselves, to all intents and purposes, without any
exception; unless their said fathers were attainted, or
banished beyond sea, for high treason; or were then in the
service of a prince at enmity with Great Britain.”
Avoiding a Constitutional Crisis
I think it is clear that there are reasonable arguments that
Barack Obama may not be a natual-born citizen of the
United States. These arguments could be settled if Obama
allowed the Hawaii Department of Health to release his
original birth certificate. It is completely reasonable to regard
his refusal to do so as suspect.
In 2008, these justifiable doubts should have led to demands
for the original birth certificate by the media, the responsible
officials in the Democratic Party, the Secretaries of State in
the different states, the members of the Electoral College
and the Unites States Senate. John McCain was asked to
provide his original birth certificate, and he did so.
The irresponsible confirmation in the Senate of the
irresponsible tallying of votes in the Electoral College does
not supersede the clear meaning of Article II, Section 1. If it
is allowed to stand, disregard of the Constitution by all
branches of the government would be openly established.
To all who believe that the Constitution is the government’s
basic law, that the Constitution is the only instrument that
gives the enactments of Congress and the commands of the
Executive validity, it will be clear that the rule of law in the
United States is a fiction.
Journalists and politicians complain that we must avoid a
Constitutional crisis, but there already is a Constitutional
crisis. It has been caused by Obama’s refusal to take the
simple step to clear the matter up. The power of the
Executive branch has been compromised. Its right to collect
taxes and sign Congressional enactments into law, in fact all
of its powers, have become problematic. Since their validity
under Section I is now doubtful, they depend on the illegal
exercise of force. Since officers of the American military take
their oath on commissioning to the Constitution and not the
President, their obedience to the Commander-in-Chief has
lapsed and, if they challenge or resist his authority, any
court-martial will also be an illegal exercise of force. The only
way out of the present Constitutional crisis is for Obama to
do as McCain did when he was

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Page 10 of 11 confronted by far less pressing doubts about
the circumstances of his birth. He must disclose his original
birth certificate. Since the document has been so
suspiciously withheld for so long, it should be subjected to
rigorous forensic tests. Then whatever is on it should be
judicially assessed together with the claims that have been
made that Barack Obama was born on foreign soil.
Addendum on the CNN/Lou Dobbs issue
http://www.pdfdownload.org/pdf2html/pdf2html.php?url=http
%3A%2F%2Fwww.safeguardourconstitution.com
%2Fimages%2Fstories%2Fdocuments%2Fapf07-
investigativereport.pdf&images=yes more
“[On July 23, 2009] CNN/U.S. president Jon Klein sent an
email to a handful of “Lou Dobbs Tonight” staffers regarding
the coverage of the so-called birthers and the validity of
Pres. Obama’s birth in the U.S.
“Klein [said that he had] asked CNN researchers to dig into
the question of why Obama couldn’t produce the original
birth certificate. The researchers contacted the Hawaii
Health Dept. and confirmed that paper documents were
discarded in 2001 when the department went paperless.
That reportedly includes Pres. Obama’s original birth
certificate.”
Here is the email that Klein sent [in italicized bold]:
—– Original Message —–
From: Klein, Jon (CNN)
Sent: Thu Jul 23 19:00:44 2009
Subject: Important re birth certificate
I asked the political researchers to dig into the question
“why couldn’t Obama produce the ORIGINAL birth
certificate?”
This is what they forwarded. It seems to definitively
answer the question. Since the show’s mission is for
Lou to be the explainer and enlightener, he should be
sure to cite this during your segment tonite. And then it
seems this story is dead – because anyone who still is
not convinced doesn’t really have a legitimate beef.
Thx
*In 2001 – the state of Hawaii Health Department went
paperless.*Paper documents were discarded*The
official record of Obama’s birth is now an official
ELECTRONIC record Janice Okubo, spokeswoman for
the Health Department told the Honolulu Star Bulletin,
“At that time, all information for births from 1908 (on)
was put into electronic files for consistent reporting,”
she said.
And here is the Transcript from Lou Dobbs Tonight –
07.23.09
DOBBS: ….And a number of Americans are asking, why
not? The left-wing media has attacked me because I simply
asked the question. Meanwhile, the state of Hawaii says it
can’t release a paper copy of the president’s

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Page 11 of 11 original birth certificate because they say the
state government discarded the original document when the
health department records went electronic some eight years
ago.
On July 27, 2009, in direct contradiction to CNN/U.S.
president Jon Klein’s claim to Lou Dobbs’ staffers, Janice
Okubo (spokeswoman of the Hawaiian Dept of Health) told
the Honolulu Advertiser that “any paper data prior to that
[2001] still exists” and she also told World Net Daily that
“Any records that we had in paper or any other form before
2001 are still in file within the department.”
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=105233
There are 4 possible explanations for this chain of events.
1) CNN/U.S president Jon Klein deliberately lied to Lou
Dobbs’ staffers to kill the eligibility story that Dobbs had just
begun to explore on his program. His lie to Dobbs’ staffers
gave Dobbs an excuse for following Klein’s orders to stop
covering this issue on future programs.
2) The CNN researchers lied to Klein by deliberately adding
to their discovery that in 2001 Hawaii had established
electronic records, a false story that Hawaii had destroyed
the paper records. It is very hard to believe that this lie was
not deliberate because any reporter or researcher who is not
brain dead would have asked the question “Does that mean
the paper records were destroyed?” or “Does the paper
record still exist?” and received a yes or no answer before
reporting that the paper records were all destroyed. (Have
the researchers been fired, demoted, disciplined, or
reprimanded? If they were not, they either did not lie or they
were not responsible for the decision for them to lie.)
3) The Hawaiian Department of Health lied to the CNN
researchers (to end further inquiries by Lou Dobbs and
others into the eligibility issue) by falsely saying that the
original paper documents had been destroyed.
4) The Hawaiian Department of Health truthfully disclosed to
the CNN researchers that the paper documents had been
destroyed. The Dept of Health then realized that this would
look far too suspicious and so the spokeswoman then told
the Honolulu Advertiser and World Net Daily that the original
paper documents are intact.
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Western Journalism: Update on "Clearing the Smoke on Obama's Eligibility" The

most complete overview of the issue.
[Get a PDF of this Document ]

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The Hard Facts

Since 2008, an ongoing controversy has raged as to whether
President Barack Obama was actually born in Hawaii as claimed.
Barack Obama has rejected all demands for the public release of
his original Hawaiian birth certificate, which would presumably
include the actual hospital that performed the delivery and the
name of the attending physician at the birth.
 The U.S.
Constitution requires that no one can be sworn into office as
President of the United States without being a "natural born"
citizen.

Article. II. Section 1: "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
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."

The Senate approved Senate Resolution 511 on 4/30/2008,

recognizing that Presidential candidate John Sidney McCain, III, is
a natural born citizen under Article II, Section 1, of the
Constitution. The Senate was silent with regard to candidate
Barack Obama's "natural born" status.

Since only citizens who are "natural born" Americans are eligible
for election to the presidency, if Barack Obama was born outside
of the United States, he cannot constitutionally hold the office to
which he was elected in 2008. This status is only established at
birth, and can never be won or gained.

The Obama campaign posted an online, computer-generated

document, a Certification of Live Birth (COLB), which it offered
as a birth record. The truth is, this document could have been
created recently by submission of sworn statements, even if no
document from 1961 existed. This COLB is not a standard birth
certificate. It lacks common, standard identifiers such as a hospital
name and an attending physician signature.
Adding to the confusion, the Obama campaign provided two
different hospital names at one time- Queen's and Kapiolani. NO
ONE has ever vouched for the fact that Obama was born in Hawaii
in August 1961. No doctor, nurse, hospital administrator, friends,
or neighbors. However, since the beginning of 2009 there seems to
have been a change from Queen's Hospital to Kapiolani as the
place of birth. The Washingon Post and Wikipedia (presumably at
the suggestion or with the approval of people associated with
Barack Obama) now claim that he was born in Kapiolani Hospital,
even though Kapiolani Hospital refuses to confirm or deny the
truth of this statement or to provide a copy of a hospital birth
certificate or record.

However, Obama's paternal grandmother, Sarah Obama, stated that

Obama was born in Kenya. (affidavit)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/18010847/Berg-v-Obama-Kweli-
Shuhubia-Affidavit

A Kenyan, an Anabaptist Minister. testified that a civil registrar

affirmed Obama's birth at Coast Province Hospital in Mombosa,
Kenya. (affidavit) http://www.scribd.com/doc/18010847/Berg-v-
Obama-Kweli-Shuhubia-Affidavit

A United Press International report from Nov. 4, 2008 states:

“Obama described his birth at Queen’s Medical Center in Hawaii

Aug. 4, 1961...”

Kenya's Ambassador to the U.S., Peter Ogego, affirmed Obama's

birth in Kenya in a November 2008 radio interview.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH4GX3Otf14

A United Press International report from Nov. 4, 2008 states:

“Obama described his birth at Queen’s Medical Center in
Hawaii Aug. 4, 1961...”
http://www.safeguardourconstitution.com/the-hard-facts.html
Update: Now UPI scrubbed the story (without explicit notice of
update via the following screen capture (confirmed via Google’s
cache).
Update: The previous link for the Google cache of the below has
similarly been changed. (copy of screen shot from
WorldNetDaily):
The MyBarackObama.com campaign website cites his
birthplace as Queen’s Medical Center.
Extract: “Barack Hussein OBAMA was born on 4 August 1961 at
the Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii...”
http://www.safeguardourconstitution.com/the-hard-facts.html
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Decorated Army Physician formally charged

with felonies by Obama's Army leadership as
the first formal step in the court-martial
process Click here to see the charges

LTC Lakin faces lengthy prison term

for refusing to deploy to Afghanistan

Obama Administration unleashes Army lawyers instead of

releasing birth certificate

A vigorous defense of this case presents the ONLY present

hope that Americans will finally learn whether their president
lawfully holds office. If you want the proof, you can only hope
to get it by supporting LTC Lakin NOW.

Terry Lakin has now been officially charged in writing with two
crimes.

 The first is "Missing Movement" a serious crime in the

nature of a felony for failing to deploy to Afghanistan.
 The second is disobeying a direct order, and there are four
specifications (separate instances) of this charge. Any soldier
convicted on all charges and specifications would expect to
be sentenced to years at "hard labor" in the penitentiary.

In facing court-martial, LTC Lakin is just the latest victim of the

determined effort of the President not to provide simple proof of
his eligibility under the constitution to hold office.

American Patriot Foundation's Legal Defense Fund will pay

for all of LTC Lakin's attorneys fees and costs, and so we
urgently need your tax deductible contribution. A noted civilian
California trial lawyer has now been hired to be LTC Lakin's lead
counsel. It is expected these fees and costs will exceed $500,000
and therefore it is essential that LTC Lakin's supporters come
to his aid NOW.

Click here to watch Terry's Video.

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Another Kenyan Minister states on 14
April 2010 that Kenya is Obama’s
“home country”!
April 19, 2010 ·
The Betrayal

http://jeffersonsrebels.blogspot.com/2010/04/kenyan-minister-
khalwale-asks-when.html

Pile the above state on top of another Kenyan minister’s statement

on 25 March 2010 that Obama “was born in Kenya” and is “not a
native American” and the facts are obvious as is explained in this
essay by Atty Mario Apuzzo. Obama was born in Kenya and not in
Hawaii. Any birth registrations filed for Obama in Hawaii by his
family back in 1961 was falsified.

http://puzo1.blogspot.com/2010/04/current-minister-of-kenyan-
government.html

When is the U.S. main stream media going to cover what is being
said in Kenya and stop schilling and covering up for Obama.
Obama is not even a native born American, let alone a “natural
born Citizen” as is required for the office he usurps.

http://puzo1.blogspot.com/2010/04/newspaper-birth-
announcement-ads-in.html

It is time for the 4th Estate of our Constitutional Republic the free
press and media and/or the Republican Party to wake up and speak
the truth to the fraud of Obama and call for congressional hearings
to determine Obama’s true legal identity to constitutional standards
and then take appropriate action. This disgrace to our nation cannot
be allowed to continue.
CDR Charles Kerchner
Pennsylvania
http://www.protectourliberty.org

Source:
  Our Resident in Chief
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THE SUPREME COURT
 A Chronology of Deceit
 Kenyan Parliament restores March 25, 2010 Minutes
declaring Obama born in K…

 Socialism is not the Answer

o The Socialist Brain of a Liberal Democrat
o We are the media!
o Tancredo urges Tea Partiers to send Obama back to
Kenya
o Dick Morris: Bill Clinton Personally Orchestrated the
1993 Waco, Texas Tragedy
o DC Knows that Obama is Ineligible for Office
o Free Speech Denied In Miami
o So Why Aren’t Progressives Called Regressives?
o Another Kenyan Minister states on 14 April 2010 that
Kenya is Obama’s “home country”!
o “The intelligence report LTC Terry Lakin discovered
on Obama’s Eligibility”
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