Posted on 05/20/2010 11:35:49 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
On May 12, the American Patriot Foundation announced that there will be an Article 32 military hearing that may reveal whether President Barack Obama is a native-born citizen of the United States. The hearing is set for June 11, after Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin refused to deploy to Afghanistan “because the president refuses — even in the face of mounting evidence to the contrary — to prove his eligibility under the Constitution to hold office.”
The American Patriot foundation operates the Safeguard Our Constitution website, which generated a great deal of support for the movement for Obama to provide documentation proving his eligibility to serve as President. Those involved in the movement have been dubbed “birthers”, a term that has generally been met with contempt by the mainstream media and Obama supporters.
However, Lakin’s staunch insistence that Obama is responsible for proving his eligibility has gained some notoriety, even prompting CNN to provide media attention to the movement on Anderson Cooper’s program. On the show, both Lakin and his attorney, Paul Rolf Jensen, presented a series of facts to legitimatize their concerns.
The “certification of live birth” found on the Internet, which purports to prove that Obama was born in Hawaii, has been dismissed as valid proof, as it is a “short-form” document, as opposed to the “long-form” document that lists the hospital and attending physician. “Short-form” documents are easily obtainable. In addition to Obama’s missing birth certificate, other documentation that has been concealed includes kindergarten, elementary, and secondary school records; college records; Harvard Law Review articles; passport; medical records; Illinois State Bar Association records; baptism records; and adoption records.
The constitutional language in question is tricky, as it states that the president of the United States must be a “natural born citizen,” though the term has been undefined. Some argue the term means that the president must be born in the United States to two parents that were also born in the United States. If that proves to be the case, Obama would be disqualified, since he has openly admitted that his father never was a U. S. citizen. However, much of the legal challenge of Obama’s eligibility rests upon the presumption that Obama was not even born in Hawaii, as he claims.
As a result of Lakin’s oppositional failure to report to duty, charges have been filed against him. According to Safeguard Our Constitution, the charges against Lakin are serious and can result in “years of hard labor in a penitentiary,” but Lakin refuses to rescind his demands, as he asserts that serving in a military operation under an ineligible president is illegal. It is Lakin’s hope that the charges against him will lead to the discovery of information to prove or disprove Obama’s legitimacy, which is his ultimate objective.
In the past, however, this has not proven to be the case. Attorney John Hemenway was threatened with sanctions by a federal judge when he attempted to challenge Obama’s presidency. Hemenway welcomed the threat, however, as he believed it would lead to a “discovery hearing,” which would necessitate the search for documentation proving Obama’s eligibility. At that point, the court rescinded its sanction threats.
Any deployment orders filed under Obama that were met by questions of his eligibility have been rescinded. World Net Daily columnist Vox Day writes that this behavior suggests “that the Pentagon generals are not entirely confident that they can demonstrate the legitimacy of their purported commander-in-chief.”
According to World Net Daily, “Obama’s actual response to those who question his eligibility to be president under the Constitution’s requirement that the U.S. president to be a ‘natural born citizen’ has been to dispatch both private and tax-funded attorneys to prevent anyone from gaining access to his documentation.”
Lakin joins the ranks of Army doctor Capt. Connie Rhodes and Army reservist Maj. Stefan Cook, both who have also questioned Obama’s legitimacy, but Lakin remains the first-active duty officer to raise issue.
Additionally, recent ABC polls reveal that tens of millions of Americans question Obama’s eligibility, including many who are in favor of Obama.
In addition to the controversy over Obama’s birth certificate, World Net Daily’s Jerome Corsi reports that “two independent investigations by two different investigators in two different states (using two different data sources) discovered that the Social Security number used by Barack Obama mysteriously coincides with Social Security numbers verified to have been issued by the state of Connecticut between 1977 and 1979, a full two years after Obama’s first, publicly-documented record of employment at a Hawaii Baskin-Robbins back in 1975.” If this is true, not only is President Obama guilty of illegally accepting the presidency, but of identity theft as well.
Joseph Farah, founder of the World Net Daily, has launched a full-fledged campaign questioning Obama’s presidential legitimacy. A petition has been circulated, generating 500,000 signatures from those demanding proof of Obama’s eligibility, while yard signs, bumper stickers, and billboards are popping up asking “Where’s the birth certificate?”
Thanks. I read that before, it’s a good one to keep in mind.
I will not be easy prey to any man.
What about the recent revelations that he was working for the CIA as a covert OP from 1981-1985 when he was supposed to be attending Columbia University?
Supposedly, that is why his past has been sanitized.
Supposedly, that is why everyone in our government is ignoring us...
Ditto Amen.
That is a most likely scenario. Just call off the courts-martial.
It will be tough to get zeros ineligibility into the picture. Even worse I think we are all naive to think that zero would leave anything at all incriminating in Hawaii at the vital stats bureau. He or whomever is doing the cleanup,and they have done anexcellentjob,must be pros, has probably bought and paid for those guys long ago.
It's gonna take eye witnesses to swear where this guy actually comes from and once we discover them they will disappear real quick.
We are dealing with some real pros here on the cover up and we need to take that into consideration.
You are right but it doesn’t matter. No one, no elected officials, no judges, nobody will do anything about it.
Perfect example of culpable ignorance.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2516509/posts
EX-KGB officer to testify about Obama/CIA connection.
Here we go again.
GNIP
I feel the same way. I can’t even say on here what I really think/wish. He is systematically destroying America and no one will stop him. I can’t even stand to hear him on TV. I have never hated a president, not even Clinton, until now.
Correct, but I can’t see how Americans are ignoring the Constitution?
how many ss#’s does this presidente have
Where is this hearing being held and by whom?
Sure.
The issue of Obama's eligiblity will have no bearing whatsoever on Lakin's court martial and anyone who hopes that this hearing will shed some light on the issue will soon see themselves disappointed.
Welcome to the greatest one ring circus on earth!
Where lies and deception circumvent the truth. See common sense paraded as a parody of life! See fraud of a magnitude never seen before.... uninterrupted by allegedly responsible people! etc etc
Where’s Mr. Rogers? Didn’t one of you ping him?
If Lakin’s lawyer is smart, he’s going to do a media blitz. Obama has more holes in his backstory than a Swiss cheese factory and the court-martial will provide a good backdrop for exposing his duplicity.
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