Leo, this ones for you. “Thank You” for your dedication that lit a fire underneath me while educating me at the same time.
With persistence & perseverance, a researcher will inevitably come across the “ONE” document that brings full circle his/her research to a specific conclusion. Sometimes the conclusion backs the researcher’s theory and sometimes it does not.
I give you my final research to judge for yourself. Parts I & II with all the Congressional actions to eliminate ‘natural born’ from Article II, Sec I Clause V of the Cosntitution from 1973 forward can be found here.
Gasoline & Fire Do Not Mix
This is not a new concept in DC, yet it would seem these days that it has become the norm. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t as in the case of S. 2678, a bill [To clarify the law and ensure that children born to United States citizens while serving overseas in the military are eligible to become president].
The bill was sponsored by Sen. McCaskill (MO) and introduced in the Senate on February 28, 2008. After having been read twice, the bill was then referred the Judiciary committee. On February 29thSen. Obama (IL) signed on as a co-sponsor and then on March 3rdSen. Menendez (NJ) & Sen. Clinton (NY) were added as co-sponsors to the bill. By March 4thSen. McCaskill & team had recruited a Republican, Sen. Coburn (OK) to join the ticket to usurp the constitution.
Now, this particular bill was also 2 fold, its 1st point was to declare all children born to military ‘natural born’ citizens. The 2nd mission of the bill was to expand on the defininition of ‘natural born’ by including the following which is what jumped right out at me:
“Congress finds and declares that the term ‘natural born Citizen’ in article II, section 1, clause 5 of the Constitution of the United States shall include: ‘Any person born to any citizen of the United States while serving in the active or reserve components of the United States Armed Forces’.”(emphasis added)
So if we take McCaskill’s words ‘shall include’ and the singular use of ‘citizen’ we can conclude that Congress was aware of the Congressional history of the term ‘natural born’ and was looking for an out for McCain. But Obama, seizing his opportunity to ride the wave, rushed right over to McCaskill’s office and requested to be assigned as a co-sponsor of the legislation the very next day. Or was McCaskill the ‘fall gal’ all along? Did Obama & the Democratic elite know ahead of time of Obama’s ineligibility problem and used McCaskill or did she sign on to the corruption of her own volition? This we may never know.
Beginning sometime in 2007, the blogosphere was a buzz with a former Washington Post article from 1998 titled “McCain’s Panama Problem’ that had resurfaced and the search into the Panama Canal history took off at rocket speed. Questions regarding McCain’s eligibility continued to plague McCain & the RNC. The public announcement of S. 2678 on February 28, 2008 was like pouring gasoline onto an already burning fire.
A quick search of Internet archives shows that the issue was quite a ‘hot’ topic however I was not paying too much attention to it at the time which I will forever regret. But someone else was paying very close attention. A certain someone, who has remained very close to Obama since his years at Harvard, was quietly working the backrooms of college campuses for the Obama campaign.
Obama’s “Tribe”
On January 16, 2007, Lynn Sweet of the Sun Times breaks with the scoop that [L]aurence Tribe, one of the nation’s leading constitutional scholars, calls Obama “one the two most talented students I’ve had in 37 years in teaching…When I look at my kids and grandkids and ask what makes me hopeful about the future-one thing is Barack Obama.]
Now, while this is not a full out in the open endorsement, it does give the initial opening for a future endorsement which seems to come in June of 2007 when Tribe appears in a campaign TV ad for Obama, that kicked off in Iowa. Also in June, Tribe gives an interview to The Harvard Crimson in which he states that although [h]e would back Hillary if she won the Democratic Party’s nomination, he has always championed Obama’s cause.]
On September 17, 2007 the Chicago Tribune publishes an extensive list of Obama’s Policy team and listed under domestic policy is ‘Laurence Tribe (Harvard Law Professor). Then on November 19, 2007 MSNBC reports that the first Obama campaign mailing had been sent out to NH voters and inside the mailer is a quote from Tribe. In addition to the endorsement in the campaign mailers, Tribe spent quite a bit of time that November touring New Hampshire campaigning for Obama.
Moving on into December of 2007, Tribe’s former endorsement is officially listed at Obama’s my.barackobama.com by Eddie Lee, Obama Staff.
For some readers, this is where you may want to switch from coffee to a stiffer drink.
The “Fix” Is In
On January 31, 2008 Professor Tribe gives a persuasive talk with the main argument on electability. In his talk, Tribe openly states that
he [c]onsidered it highly probable the John McCain will be the Republican candidate] and also that [h]e is convinced that Hillary is unelectable]. Tribe finishes his persuasive by talking about the importance of voting in the primaries, the importance that a candidate not win by a small margin and how there was no room for complacency.]
This pretty much wraps it up for me as to why Obama signed onto S. 2678 so quickly and why the wheels shifted so swiftly from S. 2678 to S. Res. 511. With Tribe already on Obama’s policy team, you can bank on the fact that discussions were already had that S. 2678 would have to be resubmitted as an amendment to the constitution, however there was a much swifter and less ovbious way to proceed that would sanitize Obama’s eligibility problem through McCain. With the help of the 2 most prominent/influential constitutional lawyers known to the DC circuit, they would use a non-binding, but publically accepted backdoor method called a Resolution.
Already laying out the background on Laurence Tribe, we must now look at Theodore Olson. Olson was born in Chicago; however he grew up in the same liberal stomping grounds of the San Francisco valley as Tribe. He received his law degree at Berkley in 1958 & is a member of The Federalist Society. While serving under Reagan & Bush Jr., Olson championed conservative & constitutional causes, though his actions out of public office lean more to the liberal progressive causes. After retiring from Solicitor General in 2004, Olson returned to Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher at their DC office. Olson had previously worked for Gibson Dunn in Los Angeles (beginning in 1965) as an associate where he eventually made partner. Soon after the 2008 elections, Olson jumps the conservative ship & joins David Boies, (lead council for Gore in Bush v. Gore & an invited guest to Olson’s nuptials to Booth in Napa Valley, Ca in 2006) in Boies’s lawsuit to overturn Prop 8 in California.
Thus the question begs to be answered, why would a member of the Federalist Society, co-write an analysis that is in complete conflict to what the Federalist Society’s review of natural born citizen is? Is his membership for decoration purposes only? Maybe, however I believe Olson finally released his inner ‘liberal civil rights activist’ that has been pent up for decades.
Note must also be taken that Olson’s wife, Lady Booth is very active in the liberal activist realm & was a staunch supporter of Obama during the 2008 campaign. Thanks to commenter ‘royll’ for bringing this to my attention.
The Two Views Become One
As I stated earlier, the change from S. 2678 to S. Res. 511, a resolution [R]ecognizing that John Sidney McCain, III, is a natural born citizen] moved curiously swiftly.
I will also not go into all the ‘whereas’, as I have already covered this. You can read them here, along with my commentary. What I will do is pick a couple of them apart that pertain to Olson & Tribe’s analysis, as well as the testimony/analysis of Olson & Tribe. I will also place special emphasis on Tribe who is on record as officially endorsing Obama as well as a current member of Obama’s domestic policy team well before S. Res. 511 was introduced. I do believe Olson’s part, for the most part, was pure decoration for the benefit of the GOP to get them to go along with the scheme. I’ll let you judge for yourself by reading this article from the ‘World Socialist Website’. There could be no better cover-up, than to put a so called conservative constitutional lawyer who is loathed by the liberal left, but also happens to be a closet liberal civil rights activist in bed with a progressive one.
First let’s begin with the written analysis/testimony that was permanently recorded in the congressional record on April 30, 2008 but was officially sent to the Senate on April 8ththrough the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.
The analysis which begins by citing that the Constitution does not define ‘natural born’ citizen & that Congress has never given a definituion either can be argued against. Some argue otherwise, however the best place to find the definition would be in the 39th Congress records of 1866 when the 14th Amendment was being drafted. They then go on to cite Marsh v. Chambers, 463 U.S. 783, 790-91 which is a 1983 Supreme Court case on freedom of religious speech. While this had me baffled for a day or so, it suddenly hit me. Maybe they were not using the deciding opinion of the case. Maybe they went to the dissenting opinion. BINGO! Justice Brennan dissenting wrote:
“Finally, and most importantly, the argument tendered by the court is misguided because the Constitution is not a static document whose every meaning on every detail is fixed for all time by the life experience of the Framers. We have recognized in a variety of constitutional contexts that the practices that were in place at the time any particular guarantee was enacted in to the Constitution do not necessarily fix forever the meaning of that guarantee…”
So basically what they did was take Brennan’s dissenting opinion and use it as precedent to usurp our guarantee, our national security protection under the Rule of Law that the person attaining to the highest office of land, the Commander of our military forces would have no foreign influences or intrigues. But let us not stop there with this opinion, Brennan goes on to write:
“Our primary task must be to translate “the majestic generalities of the Bill of Rights, conceived as part of the pattern of liberal government in the eighteenth century…”
And there we have it, that big ‘it’s my constitutional right to be president some day’ analogy thrown right in our faces. Framers be damned!
So now that we have an initial grasp of the view of the Constitution these two men hold, let’s look further into their true interpretation of who they believed the Framers to be. You know, those men who were our founding fathers and who also fought a bloody war. A war to end America’s ties to an all powerful Monarchy and put in the hands of the people, the power to govern themselves by drafting a Constitution & establishing a Republic.
Next, Tribe & Olson brings up the subject of common law at the time of the founding and also reference Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649, 655 (1898). If this surprises you, then you have not been paying attention because it is the premise to all their legal analysis. Tribe has written, lectured extensively, as well as teaches in depth Blackstone’s English Common Law as the guide to interpreting our Constitution. In the analysis sent to the Senate Judiciary, they write:
“These sources ALL confirm that the phrase ‘natural born’ includes both birth abroad to parents who were citizens, and birth within the nation’s territory and allegiance.” (emphasis added)
Oh, really?
Tribe & Olson go on to mis-cite the specific part of Wong Kim Ark they are relying on for their conclusion, and they also do not cite the case Minor v. Happersett (1874) 21 Wall. 162, 166-168 which we know for a fact, from extensive research done by Leo Donofrio & team, was the guiding case for the Wong Kim Ark decision.
“In Wong Kim Ark, the court thoroughly discussed “natural born citizen”. And in doing so, Justice Gray quoted directly from the holding in a prior Supreme Court case, Minor v. Happersett. The following passage is a quote from Minor as quoted by Justice Gray in Wong Kim Ark:
‘At common law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country, of parents who were its citizens, became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners. Some authorities go further, and include as citizens children born within the jurisdiction, without reference to the citizenship of their parents. As to this class there have been doubts, but never as to the first. For the purposes of this case, it is not necessary to solve these doubts.It is sufficient, for everything we have now to consider, that all children, born of citizen parents within the jurisdiction, are themselves citizens.’ Minor v. Happersett (1874) 21 Wall. 162, 166-168.” (Emphasis added)
Look at that, you have Justice Gray citing the court in Minor who are themselves citing the “Laws of Nations” definition (they didn’t directly cite that treatise but the definition used is taken therefrom) of natural born citizen = person born in US to “citizen parents” = nbc .
In Minor,they clearly established who was a “natural born citizen” beyond any doubt, a definition that does not include Obama. As to persons born in the US to foreign parents they said, as directly quoted in Wong Kim Ark by Justice Gray, “As to this class there have been doubts, but never as to the first.“
Now, why, would the Supreme Court be relying on the Law of Nations if in fact, as Tribe & Olson claim, the Framers relied on English common law. The same law that kept them oppressed while under the rule of the English Monarchy. The fact is they didn’t. In the 1st commentaries on the Constitution written by Supreme Court Justice Wilson (who was appointed by George Washington, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and was as member of the Continental Congress), Wilson specifically refers to the law of nations as the guiding force behind our Constitution and it interpretation.
“The law of nature, when applied to states and political societies, receives a new name, that of the law of nations. This law, important in all states, is of peculiar importance in free ones. The States of America are certainly entitled to this dignified appellation…But if the knowledge of the law of nations is greatly useful to those who appoint, it surely must be highly necessary to those who are appointed…As Puffendorff thought that the law of nature and the law of nations were precisely the same, he has not, in his book on these subjects treated of the law of nations separately; but has every where joined it with the law of nature, properly called so…the law of nature is applied to individuals; the law of nations is applied to states.”
Clear, concise & truthfully spoken. This is also one of the most inspirational commentaries on our Constitutional law & patriotism I have read. If you have not read James Wilson, Of the Law of Nations, Lectures on Law (1791) as of yet, I encourage you to do so.
So, putting Wilson’s ‘Lectures on Law’ to task, we can say with confidence that Tribe is completely misguided and flat out wrong when he claimed:
“British statutes in force when the Constitution was drafted, which undoubtedly informed the Framers’ understanding of the Natural Born Citizen Clause. Those statutes provided, for example, that children born abroad to parents who were ‘natural born Subjects’ were also ‘natural-born Subjects…to all Intents, Constructions and Purposes whatsoever…The Framers substituted the word ‘citizen for ‘subject’ to reflect the shift from a monarchy to democracy…”(emphasis added)
For supposed constitutional scholars, Tribe & Olson really miss the mark on this one. They also make reference that we are a democracy which is just an out right lie. The Framers wrote a Constitution for a Republic with citizens as sovereigns who are superior to the government institution itself, not Subjects to some Democracy who are ruled by a central government put in place by mob rule and where individual rights are only those given to you by the government. Democracies rarely last, they either give cause for revolution or they ascend to a Monarchy or Dictatorship.
Hitting More Pay Dirt
In a recent Illinois Public Law & Legal Theory written by Professor Lawrence B Solum of the U of IL, College of Law, Chicago, Solum further explains why the English common law definition of ‘natural born subject was not the definition adopted by the Framers for the Sovereign citizens of the United States of America.
[Blackstone Commentaries (1765): 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, and the mother had passed the seas by her husband’s consent, 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 ligeance, whose fathers were natural-born subjects, are now natural-born subjects themselves, to all intents and purposes, without any exception;…]
[F.E. Edwards, Natural Born British Subjects at Common Law, 14 Journal of the Society of Comparative Legislation 314 (1914): The pro- position that British Protectorates, and consequently any less interest of the Crown, should be excluded from our definition of the King’s protection, is supported by Sir William Anson, who declares that birth within such a region is not sufficient to found a claim for British natural-born status. The real test of whether a given territory is part of the British Dominions is that it must have passed openly, completely, and unequivocally into the possession of the Crown.]
[Solum: If the American conception of “natural born citizen” were equivalent to the English notion of a “natural born subject,” then it could be argued that only persons born on American soil to American parents would have qualified. This might lead to the conclusion that McCain would not be a constitutional natural-born citizen, because the Panama Canal Zone was not the sovereign territory of the United States, but was instead merely subject to its administrative control.
The language of the Constitution recognizes a distinction between the terms “citizen” and “subject.”For example, in Article III Section 2, which confers “judicial power” on the federal courts, “citizens” of the several states are differentiated from “citizens” or “subjects” of foreign states—corresponding to the distinction between diversity and alienage jurisdiction. In the framing era, these two terms reflected two distinct theories of the relationship between individual members of a political community and the state.
In feudal or monarchical constitutional theory, individuals were the subjects of a monarch or sovereign, but the republican constitutional theory of the revolutionary and post revolutionary period conceived of the individual as a citizen and assigned sovereignty to the people.
The distinction between citizens and subjects is reflected in Chief Justice John Jay’s opinion in Chisholm v. Georgia, the first great constitutional case decided after the ratification of the Constitution of 1789:
[T]he sovereignty of the nation is in the people of the nation, and the residuary sovereignty of each State in the people of each State…
[A]t the Revolution, the sovereignty devolved on the people; and they are truly the sovereigns of the country, but they are sovereigns without subjects…]
As you can see, in England there are two very distinct meanings of ‘natural born’ subject. In one hand there is the broader view & in the other there is the view of the laws of nations. What the liberal progressive constitutionalists use is the broader view and thus disregard the fact that at some point, even England used the law of nations. The Framers also knew of Englands use of the law of nations and were very aware of its importance when establishing a new nation. It has also been proven that the Law of Nations was in the hands of the Framers at the time of the drafting of the Declaration of Independence.
Thus, wrapping up on British Justice Blackstone, I refer you to another writing of his that pertains to what was on the minds of our founding fathers when they declared independence from the king:
“The king is not only incapable of doing wrong, but even of thinking wrong: in him there is no folly or weakness.”
To believe that the Framers held onto this logic and thus held onto the common law definition of subjects for the newly emancipated citizens, would be to believe there was never a bloody revolution to escape it. The truth is Blackstone was a Kings Knight. He loved his dear England and was faithful to the end and to the Monarchy who he adored just as much. Blackstone was also noted for contradicting himself, which I believe is the reason for such confusion in interpreting his commentaries.
Moving on to the real truth of which law guided the Framers, we turn to another early Supreme Court Justice, Joseph Story, who was also the main founder of Harvard law School. Story gives a very distinct conclusion to the Law of Nation & the law of nature as the guiding force behind the Framers definition of ‘natural born’ citizen when he wrote this of the qualifications for President in one of his early commentaries.
Volume 3, Section 73: § 1473. It is indispensable, too, that the president should be a natural born citizen of the United States; or a citizen at the adoption of the constitution, and for fourteen years before his election. This permission of a naturalized citizen to become president is an exception from the great fundamental policy of all governments, to exclude foreign influence from their executive councils and duties. It was doubtless introduced (for it has now become by lapse of time merely nominal, and will soon become wholly extinct) out of respect to those distinguished revolutionary patriots, who were born in a foreign land, and yet had entitled themselves to high honors in their adopted country. A positive exclusion of them from the office would have been unjust to their merits, and painful to their sensibilities. But the general propriety of the exclusion of foreigners, in common cases, will scarcely be doubted by any sound statesman. It cuts off all chances for ambitious foreigners, who might otherwise be intriguing for the office; and interposes a barrier against those corrupt interferences of foreign governments in executive elections, which have inflicted the most serious evils upon the elective monarchies of Europe. Germany, Poland, and even the pontificate of Rome, are sad, but instructive examples of the enduring mischiefs arising from this source. (emphasis mine)
Story specifically calls the founding fathers ‘naturalized’ citizens, and rightly so.
Tribe & Olson’s analysis is all over the place. They bring in the repealed Naturalization Act of 1790 and in light of Wilson’s 1st ‘Commentary on the Constitution’; we can put to rest the reason as to why that Act was repealed. Congress was not invested with the powers of declaring anyone a ‘natural born’ citizen. The only powers regarding citizenship they had were those of naturalizing alien immigrants. A ‘natural born’ citizen is clearly defined in the laws of nations as well as the Congressional records of 1866.
“Vattel in Bk 1 Sec 212, states the following: § 212. Citizens and natives: The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. As the society cannot exist and perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights. The society is supposed to desire this, in consequence of what it owes to its own preservation; and it is presumed, as matter of course, that each citizen, on entering into society, reserves to his children the right of becoming members of it. The country of the fathers is therefore that of the children; and these become true citizens merely by their tacit consent. We shall soon see whether, on their coming to the years of discretion, they may renounce their right, and what they owe to the society in which they were born. I say, that, in order to be of the country, it is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; for, if he is born there of a foreigner, it will be only the place of his birth, and not his country.”
“Rep. Bingham commenting on Section 1992 said it means “every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen.” (Cong. Globe, 39th, 1st Sess., 1291 (1866))”(emphasis added)
Tribe & Olson also refer to several statutes pertaining to citizenship, however, the Constitution trumps statutes, thus using them to define ‘natural born’ citizen is grossly incompetent in light of all the historical and legal references that date back to the revolution. Leo Donofrio gives an excellent run down of how McCain is a citizen by statute and according the most current version of the US Foreign Affairs Manual, it has yet to be determined whether children born abroad are eligible for President.
7 FAM 1131.6-2 Eligibility for Presidency
(TL:CON-68; 04-01-1998)
a. It has never been determined definitively by a court whether a person who acquired U.S. citizenship by birth abroad to U.S. citizens is a natural born citizen within the meaning of Article II of the Constitution and, therefore, eligible for the Presidency.
In one of Leo’s latest articles on McCain he wrote:
“According to the birth certificate and COLB of John McCain, McCain was born in Colon Hospital, city of Colon, Panama. While the BC states at the top that it is from the “Canal Zone”, the document also states that McCain was born in Colon Hospital, city of Colon. The city of Colon and the hospital were not in the Canal Zone.
The common story you hear is that McCain was born in the Canal Zone, but these documents posted online do not testify to that. Furthermore, there is no official document that has ever surfaced which states that McCain was born in the Canal Zone.
There is a birth announcement in the Panama American newspaper which states that McCain was born in the “submarine base hospital”. I don’t know what the submarine base hospital is.”
Permit me to dispel that Panama newspaper birth bit, Leo. It would seem that there is NO record of John McCain in the August 1936 birth registry of the Canal Zone.
Nope, no index record there, but I’ll bet you can find it in the August birth registry of the Republic of Panama since McCain was actually born off base in Colon Hospital, Colon, Panama. The media propaganda machine also covered for McCain by claiming that it was a clerical mistake that McCain is not listed in the August 1936 Canal Zone index registry. And as if that wasn’t enough, they tried to claim a different doctor than the one that signed the birth certificate, actually delivered McCain. Thanks to the lame stream propaganda media who stepped right up and said the visible, certified official records are wrong, the general public was kept in the dark as to the truth.
This also goes to show that it doesn’t matter how decorated you are and how many years your family has served honorably, eventually those who spend too much time in politics will fall to the intrigue and corruption of power.
So what does this all have to do with Obama?
Olson & Tribe conclude their analysis by reiterating their delusional rhetoric and false reporting of Kansas & Arizona as just territories. Kansas & Arizona were Sovereign Territories that had been operating under the complete law of the U. S. Constitution and jurisdiction of the United States and thus their citizens were under complete jurisdiction of the Constitution of the United States and were considered for all legal and political purposes to be the same as that of statehood citizens.
“Historical practice confirms that birth on soil that is under the sovereignty of the United States, but not within a State, satisfies the Natural Born Citizen Clause. For example, Vice President Charles Curtis was born in the territory of Kansas on January 25, 1860–one year before Kansas became a State. Because the Twelfth Amendment requires that Vice Presidents possess the same qualifications as Presidents, the service of Vice President Curtis verifies that the phrase “natural born Citizen” includes birth outside of any State but within U.S. territory. Similarly, Senator Barry Goldwater was born in Arizona before its statehood, yet attained the Republican Party’s presidential nomination in 1964. And Senator Barack Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961–not long after its admission to the Union on August 21, 1959. We find it inconceivable that Senator Obama would have been ineligible for the Presidency had he been born two years earlier.”
Olson & Tribe consistently refer back to the 14th Amendment & its interpretation that a citizen born to an immigrant is none the less a citizen and therefore under English common law, the founders considered them to be same as a ‘natural born’ citizen in all sense of the words. They did this purposely to confuse the issue knowing that Congress never really reads anything, anyways. However, I think I can confidently claim that I, along with the help of some great patriots out there, have blown that smoke filled theory right back where it came from…right up the ‘you know what’ of the liberal progressive ideologues who believe we are Subjects to some all powerful central government.
We are NOT Subjects, Nothing could be further from the TRUTH and the TRUTH ALWAYS PREVAILS!
Thus it was not surprising to find this recent review of Laurence Tribe’s most current thesis ’The Invisible Constitution’
“Tribe’s legal philosophy is antithecal to the original intent of the Constitution’s Framers and is insufficient as a legitimate theory of Constitutional Law. At its foundation, Tribe’s ideology is secular, Marxist, socialist legal philosophy.”
Then put Theodore Olson next to Tribe in a Senate Judiciary hearing and what you have is the ultimate ‘white-wash’ of political corruption.
Therefore, with all the above evidence, I conclusively report that:
‘Whereas there is no evidence of the intention of the Framers or ANY Congress to limit the constitutional rights of children born to Americans serving in the military nor to prevent those children from serving their country’s President; (emphasis added)
Sorry, busted.
Whereas previous presidential candidates were born outside the United States of America and were understood to be eligible to be President;
Again, busted.
Whereas John Sidney McCain, III, was born to American citizens on an American military base in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936:
Also BUSTED by McCain’s own original vital records and the index birth records kept by the Canal Zone.
Was it a coincidence that Obama quickly signed onto S. 2678? I think NOT!
Was it also a coincidence that Tribe gave that political persuasive talk on Jan. 31, 2008? I think NOT!
And it certainly was no coincidence that Tribe was selected to co-write the analysis that would sanitize McCain & Obama’s ineligibility. After all, persuasive speeches seem to be his forte’. You had just better make sure you are wearing pretty high boots if you ever attend one.
And as if all this is not enough to prove that our government and our election process is totally corrupt to the core, Roger Calero, a green card holding alien from Nicaragua and member of the Socialist Workers Party (communist party) was on the Presidential ballots in 5 states where he received 7,209 votes. He originally was on the ballot in 12, however was removed from 7 and replaced by another SWP member James Harris who received 2,424 votes. The states that allowed Calero, a Nicaraguan National, to remain on the ballot despite complaints to the Secretary of State in those states prior to the election were: CT, DE, MN, NJ, NY & VT.
There are 535 members of Congress who know the truth. Will they step up to the Constitution and hold themselves accountable by returning the election to the people so that we may have a legitimate presidential election in which we have eligible candidates to vote for?
I’m not holding my breath for that to happen because I do not think there is a true Patriotic spine in the lot.
What I will do is make a guarantee to keep researching and expose every speck of corruption I dig up.
God Bless America and God Bless Our Brave Service men & women who serve honorably and are NOT afraid to uphold their oath of office and defend this great nation from enemies foreign & DOMESTIC.
Linda A. Melin, Citizen Researcher
http://www.constitutionallyspeaking.wordpress.com
Copyright 2009
Constitutionally Speaking 
This is one of the best articles on the “Natural Born Citizen” clause Ive ever come across.
Very nice job, Linda. Im proud to be associated with it.
Leo
[patlin: You inspired me man. I’ll be watching for more tips from your site. I really enjoy how curiously knowledgeable you readers are.]
Good post Linda. I hope we can find that one persone Leo needs to head for the DC Court.
http://www.dixhistory.com/
Olson is a serial monogamist. He’s on his fourth wife. To try hang liberal bonafides on him using his current wife is bogus. Why not use his third one, the right wing nut Barbara Kay Bracher(911 victim). Or would it not fit your fairy tale?
[patlin: I did not use his wife, I relied on his history of cases while he was out of public office. I suggest you do the same. He is NO true conservative. GO CJCK HIS CASE HISTORY for yourself]
Linda,
This is one of the most throughtful and well researched articles on this subject matter. Thank you for your perseverance and dedication to the truth. What a fabulous piece.
Great research job: excellent!
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I’ve read the entire series … let me say I’m heart sick. What has happened with Obama’s election is even worse than I thought. More later … you have done an amazing job.
Linda,
Keep up the good research and work. Did you listen to the Andrea Shea King Show yesterday, Oct 8th, 2009, and her interview of Atty Mario Apuzzo and CDR Kerchner, Lead Plaintiff, in the Kerchner v Obama & Congress lawsuit. McCain’s candidacy and his and the RNC’s complicity in the cover up and cone of silence about Obama’s legal identity and citizenship status by McCain and his media supporters was discussed in the interview.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ASKShow/2009/10/09/The-Andrea-Shea-King-Show
For more information about the Kerchner et al vs. Obama and Congress et al lawsuit, visit these two sites. There is a link to a copy of the lawsuit filed on Jan 20th, 2009, as well a a table of contents for it, and links to all the subsequent court filings by the Plaintiffs and Defendants. This lawsuit is after both parties and their dictatorial control of the Congress to the detriment of the Constitution and our Republic. Dick Cheney is a named defendant in the case too:
http://puzo1.blogspot.com/
http://www.protectourliberty.com/
M Publius Goat
[patlin: I was only able to catch part of Andrea’s show & I will for sure be downloading it so that I may pause it when interrupted, which happens a lot. Charles & Mario are a great inspiration & the knowledge they hold is incredible.]
You have very interesting points and ? that should be answered, We as American citizens deserve to know more about our prez , not less , it just seems odd why a prez would not want to make transparent all of his history to the American people?
Makes one wonder why there seems to be no accountability where the TARP money went, How many Trillions The Fed or Treasury has or has not loaned out or created ?
FOLLOW THE MONEY TRAIL
Shadow government?
There appears to be growing belief that we are actually trying to deal with a shadow government, not a legitimate U.S. government and that is why we are all so frustrated and unsuccessful. I recently came across this article from The Constitutional Society in Texas. You might give it a read and think about the issues of lawlessness and non-responsiveness from our government once again.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/20917411/Constitutional-Society-T he-Shadow-Government
If the article is to be believed, then it would seem that we must try to uncover and expose the shadow government, because exposure destroys its effectiveness….
Simple to say, maybe difficult to do.
[patlin: You are correct. There is a reason for all the czars. They are the ‘shadows’. I did a lot more extensive reading this weekend and Tribe is connected very closely with Cass Sunstein. He supports all of Sunsteins Orwellian views on population control, etc. They have written several theories/thesis together. Tribe is still Obama’s closest legal advisor. He has the so-called ‘key to the backdoor of the oval office’. Also, great read there at scribd, however I would conclude a bit differently. Fascism took hold well before WWII, look to WWI and the decade before it. The initial step was put in place in 1913. Amendments to the Constitution that Wilson publically apologized for and went to his grave with a boat load of guilt.]
I, too, offer my compliments and thanks for your meticulous and indisputable research into the “Obama Deception.”
But don’t put Donofrio & Apuzzo on pedestals. While their contributions in words are admirable, their actions fall short.
I want to shine the spotlight on Dr. Orly Taitz, Esq. Seeing no “attorney-knights in shining armor” riding in to save the day, we should put more support behind the only attorney I see doing anything besides moving their lips. Maybe she doesn’t cross and dot every t and i, but we have to throw everything INCLUDING the kitchen sink at everyone in the District of Criminals.
[patlin: I do not put anyone on a pedestal, but I do give credit where credit is due after researching their research for myself. All my articles are my personal conclusions. My final Part III was dedicated to Leo for the simple fact that he inspired/encouraged me to further the research I had already done. He answered questions I had so that I was properly citing case law and he never passed judgment on me.
Also, if you search my site, you will see that I do support Orly, however misguided some of her efforts have been. I have commented at her site, I have e-mailed her and she is not interested in any of my work. That became even more obvious on the Andrea Shea King show, when, directly after Andrea mentioned my website Orly went off and basically called me a couch potato that only surfs the internet and does nothing else. Well, Orly would have only needed to pass my name to my reps in DC to know that I am no couch potato. She is making claims about people she knows nothing about. As of right now, I agree with her on one point, Gary Kreep is misguided. He is not properly advising his clients, BUT neither is Orly. Why is she ignoring the proper avenue for Quo Warranto? This is the newest $64,000 question.]
Linda,
What I admire about Orly is her admittedly frenetic and seemingly haphazard attempt to go for the jugular with any weapon at hand. She does not limit her attack to the natural born issue or the birth certificate issue. If she’s a prima donna, more power to her if it gets the job done. (snip) Think before writing next time.
Unconventional times call for unconventional measures. Obama and his O-bots do not play by the rules, so I’m afraid they can’t be brought down with conventional legal maneuvering.
(snip) Again, think..no personal attacks, stick to the legalities of the issue please. All is fair in war I guess, but action, not words, count.
[patlin: quoting from Supreme Court Justice Story:
http://www.belcherfoundation.org/joseph_story_on_rules_of_constitutional_interpretation.htm
RULES OF INTERPRETATION.
§ 178. In our future commentaries upon the constitution we shall treat it, then, as it is denominated in the instrument itself, as a CONSTITUTION of government, ordained and established by the people of the United States for themselves and their posterity. They have declared it the supreme law of the land. They have made it a limited government. They have defined its authority. They have restrained it to the exercise of certain powers, and reserved all others to the states or to the people. It is a popular government. Those, who administer it, are responsible to the people. It is as popular, and just as much emanating from the people, as the state governments. It is created for one purpose; the state governments for another. It may be altered, and amended, and abolished at the will of the people. In short, it was made by the people, made for the people, and is responsible to the people.
§ 179. In this view of the matter, let us now proceed to consider the rules, by which it ought to be interpreted; for if these rules are correctly laid down, it will save us from many embarrassments in examining and defining its powers. Much of the difficulty, which has arisen in all the public discussions on this subject, has had its origin in the want of some uniform rules of interpretation, expressly or tacitly agreed on by the disputants. Very different doctrines on this point have been adopted by different commentators; and not unfrequently very different language held by the same parties at different periods. In short, the rules of interpretation have often been shifted to suit the emergency; and the passions and prejudices of the day, or the favor and odium of a particular measure, have not unfrequently furnished a mode of argument, which would, on the one hand, leave the constitution crippled and inanimate, or, on the other hand, give it an extent and elasticity, subversive of all rational boundaries.
These are not unconventional times, unless you would call the revolution unconventional. The Framers broke from an oppresive Monarchy’s laws & adopted a Constitution which is our Rule of Law.
And also, if I understand you right, because Obama & his minions are not following the law, then those who wish to protect it don’t have to either? That is the biggest load of crap I have heard thus far.
The Framers were wise men & they gave us tools to use. Ignoring them is ignorance at its finest. I understand Orly has personal experience living under a dictatorship & thus the reason for her over exhuberant passion. However, that is not where we are at right now and we MUST follow the law as presented to us. If we do not, we are only helping the opposition in destroying the Constitution.]
You misconstrued what I said. When I say “unconventional” legal tactics must be used to defeat the Obamination (as opposed to “conventional” or strait-laced, demure, professional, discreet) by no stretch of the imagination did I mean illegal or unconstitutional. You are correct – only the Rule of Law per the Constitution – can save our Republic, and we must respect it.
But what do you do if all three branches of our government violate their oaths of office and ignore the Constitution? I like Orly’s approach because she is throwing everything she can think of at these thugs – the whole lot of them, not just our false POTUS. Yes, she makes mistakes and doesn’t jump through the proper legal hoops at times.
I made that snide remark about Leo out of frustration. I’m sure Leo and Mario are working furiously behind the scenes, so they don’t draw media attention, whereas Orly, dubbed the Queen of the Birthers, is constantly attacked, but this is part of her M.O. to expose the Usurper. I certainly respect Leo’s legal acumen and dedication to our cause, in fact his blog is where I first learned of the Obama fiasco, in the summer of ’08, and what prompted me to write to Justices Roberts and Thomas, Congress, Sec. of State, and become a plaintiff, as a Maryland Elector of Dr. Keyes, in an early lawsuit against Obama. He also motivated me to start my own blog.
I think Orly uses the “couch potato” remark out of frustration. She feels like a one woman army and would like constructive assistance, not denigration and backstabbing, especially not from those “on her side.”
So how do we, who honor the Constitution and its framers, deal with the corrupt, unscrupulous thugs who are in power? They must be dethroned, but if they ignore the law, or worse yet, intend to declare martial law and confiscate firearms as a result of a national disaster/emergency/pandemic, then how can they be stopped? Mutiny by the military and peace officers? (not really mutiny if an illegal POTUS is CinC).
In some ways the evil we face today is worse than what the American colonists faced under British rule. (Yeah, I know, easy for me to say).
[BTW, I was pleased to see Balint Vazsonyi mentioned in your post. The late Dr. Vazsonyi was a close friend of my father, and I found his book and columns inspirational]
[patlin: Believe me, everyone is working overtime to remove the usurper. Orly chooses to be in the public eye but she needs to remember that the founding fathers worked very silently to achieve great things. When we have our ducks in a row, we publish what we have. I had been working on the McCain/S Res 511 for months and after reading Orly’s surreply, I saw something that I had never connected before, so in reality, reading blogs is NOT a bad thing.
I also was very inspired by Dr Vazsonyi’s testimony. Every American citizen & every immigrant waiting citizenship should be required to read that testimony. He spoke from the heart with such truth, passion & conviction of what true American patriotism is.
With that said, I am still researching more on Tribe and there will be follow-up. Glenn Beck has been hitting the czars hard, however, he is leaving a key player unnoticed. This will all come spilling out very soon. Keep focused & keep the faith]
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