The “Birther” Issue

Lynn M. Stuter

8/25/2012

Many probably saw the news clip last night concerning Romney’s quip about no one asking to see his birth certificate as everyone knows where he was born.  Or they heard about it.

NBC news went on to expound on the quip, claiming that Romney was pandering to a “fringe element” in the Republican party who believes Obama was not born in Hawaii.

The mainstream media has consistently misrepresented the truth, regarding the origins of Obama and his eligibility to the office of president of the United States.

The issue has never been about whether Obama was born in Hawaii, even though we don’t really know for sure that he was, given the fact that the documents he has produced to prove he was born in Hawaii have now been proven to be forgeries.

The issue is the fact that Obama, whether born in Hawaii or not, is not “natural born” as required by Article II, Section 1, Clause 5, United States Constitution, which reads —

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; …

In defining “natural born” we need to heed the words of Thomas Jefferson, one of the framers of the U.S. Constitution, written in 1823 —

On every question of construction, carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.

Carrying ourselves back to the time of the framing of the United States Constitution, studying the history that has been written about the framing, the words of the framers themselves, what did they mean by “natural born”?

What we find is that the framers, in writing the United States Constitution, in using the term “natural born”, relied on Vattel’s Law of Nations, Section 212, which defines the term as having two parents who are citizens of the nation and born on the soil of the nation.  This particular book was made available to the framers by Benjamin Franklin.

We all know that Obama claims Barack Hussein Obama, Sr, as his father.  We also know that Obama, Sr, was a British subject on August 4, 1961, the day Obama II claims he was born.  No matter where Obama was born, he is not “natural born”; he does not meet the requirements of Article II, Section 1, Clause 5, United States Constitution.  His father, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr, was not an American citizen.

Some will undoubtedly point to the laws at the time and claim that Obama became a citizen of the United States via his mother.  That is also erroneous, even if he was born in Hawaii.  Under the laws, in force at the time, Ann Dunham had to be at least 19 the day Obama was born, to automatically confer her citizenship to him.  She was not old enough.  Beyond that, the fact that the father was a British subject on the day of his supposed birth, still precludes Obama from being “natural born.”

That the mainstream media continues to claim that Obama’s birth in Hawaii (even though not proven) makes him eligible, shows their ignorance of the history of our nation, and of our U.S. Constitution.

That they continue to hold fast to this lie, in the face of the growing understanding of the populace, sends a clear message that the mainstream media is not to be trusted.

And, of course, the other lie they hold fast to is the claim that the courts have settled the issue.

Not so.

To settle the issue, the courts would have to address the merits of the various lawsuits that have been brought.  That has not happened.  Instead, the courts have steadfastly claimed that the plaintiffs did not have standing to bring the suit in the first place, thereby refusing to address the facts of the case.

In truth, every American has standing as this is our nation, our Constitution.  And when an man who is not eligible to the office of president is allowed to sit in the Oval Office, we are all adversely affected, as we have been adversely affected by the Marxist ideology to which Barack Hussein Obama holds fast and that is counter to the freedom, liberty and justice afforded us by our U.S. Constitution.

For the mainstream media to claim this, instead of exposing the fraud that is being perpetrated, brings to light the fact that the mainstream media is not the defenders of “freedom, liberty, and justice” but rather are advocating the enslaving of the American people under the totalitarianism that is always the hallmark of Marxist ideology.

Only mentally deranged people advocate for their own enslavement!