Posted on 09/30/2008 4:50:00 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
Berg Filed an Answer Sept. 29th, 2008
(Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania – 09/29/08) - Philip J. Berg, Esquire, the Attorney who filed suit against Barack H. Obama challenging Senator Obama’s lack of “qualifications” to serve as President of the United States, announced today that he filed his Opposition and Brief to Obama and Democratic National Committee [DNC] Joint Motion to Dismiss in the case of Berg v. Obama, No. 08-cv-04083.
Berg feels confident that he has “Standing” and the Court will allow the case to go forward. Our response was due in 14 days, but the Court requested our answer by Monday, September 29, 2008 and we complied. In our response we set forth sufficient reasons that I have “Standing” to bring this lawsuit. Furthermore, I set forth additional reasons that indicate Obama does not meet the qualifications for President of the United States and Obama should be removed from the ballot and held accountable.
Our website obamacrimes.com has received 17.1 + million hits. We are urging all to spread the word of our website – and forward to your local newspapers and radio and TV stations. Berg again stressed his position regarding the urgency of this case as, “we” the people, are heading to a “Constitutional Crisis” if this case is not resolved forthwith.
For copies of all court pleadings, go to obamacrimes.com.
What happened to Andy Martin’s book that was to cover this stuff..........?
Mitchell Langbert's Blog
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Benjamin then goes on to quote Supreme Court Justice Noah Haynes in United States v. Rhodes:
In United States v. Rhodes, Supreme Court Justice Noah Haynes Swayne (December 7, 1804 – June 8, 1884) addressed the issue as follows:
“All persons born in the Allegiance of the King are Natural- Born subjects, and all persons born in the Allegiance of the United States are Natural-Born Citizens. Birth and Allegiance go together. Such is the Rule of the Common Law, and it is the Common Law of this country…since as before the Revolution.”
Benjamin concludes:
"To be a Natural Born Citizen one has to be born in a State, or Condition of, Allegiance to the USA. A person with Dual Nationality due to having parents of differing Nationality, who both acknowledged the Birth, is not so born. Their Allegiance is, by definition, divided. Subsequent acquisition of Nationality produces the same problem."
Benjamin goes on to quote Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England:
"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.... 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."
Benjamin also quote the US State Department:
"dual nationals owe allegiance to both the United States and the foreign country"
He argues that:
"The whole point of Article II is that the President must have absolute and total Allegiance to the United States of America and no Foreign Ruler or Government, Church, or Political Entity...The purpose behind the exclusion of Naturalized Citizens is that the President must never even have had such an Allegiance in the past"
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Have no fear, the professional journalists at ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and the New York Times are working hard on getting to the bottom of all of that.... just as soon as they are through investigating whether Sarah Palin ever wore provocative clothes when she was 18.
I don’t know whether the allegation that Obama isn’t a natural born citizen has any merit or not, but can someone tell me, is there any system in place or any body that examines a presidential candidate to ensure that they meet all the constitutional requirements for office?
If not, why the hell not? And if the case is dismissed as not havig standing, then who exactly has standing if an American citizen doesn’t?
Here is an interview with one of BHO’s ‘friends’ from Haaavaad...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR14k1Sna8M&feature=related
And might this be the October Surprise!? [and yes, I do see and smell the Clintons behind every tree, stump, bush...er, rock, and out-cropping and I don't do ambushes well].
Thanks LucyT. Whoops, one more.
Perhaps some Freeper has a contact with a small-town newspaper that has not yet gone over to the dark-side. Any additional play, even from a small paper would help.
And you believe this why?
Berg gets my nomination for this year’s Don Quixote Windmill Jousting Award.
excellent post! I wonder if I might ask you to place this same comment to the loooong ‘birth-certificate’ thread, please? Almost 6,000 comments - this information needs to be seen there!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040486/posts
One tiny correction...we do know one friend’s name from Harvard...Hill Harper -actor from CSI - saw him on tv the other night for obama......no one from Columbia
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004991/bio
Might as well get Obama outed right now. We went through this with the Clintons hiding everything. Before Hillary pulls something in Oct so she can be the nominee.
“One person who will stand up and say I am a personal friend of 20 years standing”
William Ayres, Jeremiah Wright, Father Phlager...
Do we really need more?
All 0bama had to do was produce his original COLB, issued by the State of Hawaii and ALL of this would have gone away, and there would have been egg on the faces of each and every person who ever questioned his Constitutional eligibility.
0bama failed to produce the one [’The ONE’ lol] document that would have nailed the coffin on any and all legal questions on this matter.
The punk has something to hide, only a fool thinks otherwise.
Stringing out what a party considers a nuisance lawsuit is common practice. The complaint is filed. Shortly before the deadline, the defending party asks for, and generally receives, an extension to answer. The “answer” usually is a motion to dismiss based on some perceived defect such as standing, forum non conveniens, statute of limitations, inadequate pleading. The motion is answered and a hearing is scheduled a month or two down the line. If the motion is dismissed, the defendant is given another 30 days or so to answer.
So it is very easy to string this out until past the election. If Obama wins the election, the lawsuit might be able to proceed but if it is successful, it just results in a Biden presidency. If Obama loses, the lawsuit is rendered moot and any challenge to his bona fides as a U.S. citizen would probably have to be brought in Illinois. The Obama campaign gains nothing by taking this lawsuit seriously beyond procedural challenges.
( sarc off.)
If the law suit proceeds after the election, the electoral college may take notice of it, and refuse to vote Obama on constitutional grounds of his not being "natural born."
Obama could end all this by producing a COLB.
Has the election commission seen one?
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