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The TRUE definition of a "Natural Born Citizen."
12-16-2008 | unknown

Posted on 12/16/2008 4:19:57 PM PST by briarbey b

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To: STE=Q; little jeremiah

Did Non-Sequitur just admit to being a troll?
***Yes. I wonder if there should be a star next to his name on the CertifiGate Troll List.


221 posted on 12/17/2008 9:04:51 PM PST by Kevmo ( It's all over for this Country as a Constitutional Republic. ~Leo Donofrio, 12/14/08)
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To: Kevmo; little jeremiah

“I wonder if there should be a star next to his name on the CertifiGate Troll List.”

LOL!!!


222 posted on 12/17/2008 9:09:18 PM PST by STE=Q ("These are the times that try men's souls." -- Thomas Paine)
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To: MHGinTN

Thanks for the ping!


223 posted on 12/17/2008 9:12:37 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: Non-Sequitur

I was speaking of Congress’s role not the meeting of the Electoral Colleg. Congress must receive and count valid votes. Invalid ones can be ruled as such.


224 posted on 12/17/2008 10:47:17 PM PST by arrogantsob (Hero vs Zero)
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To: Citizen Blade

McCain produced proof as soon as challenged. Obama will never win our allegiance but there is more to this than that. Why would he not make us look like idiots by producing the proof? Why doesn’t the Treason media ridicule us for thinking these cases have some merit? They love to try and make us look foolish and have convinced a huge proportion of the nation that we are.

Why isn’t the uniqueness of this story worthy of exploration and presentation to the public? Why is there a eerie silence in the Treason media about this?

Oh, in an AOL poll almost half those polling last night believed this was not a waste of time or foolish.


225 posted on 12/17/2008 10:53:32 PM PST by arrogantsob (Hero vs Zero)
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To: FourtySeven

Excellent analysis and exposition of the fallacious logic of strictly applying Vattel to today. He was certainly a great influence on our thinkers and it is good discuss his ideas as they have been understood and adapted by our legal thought.

All of our former presidents had well established antecedents so this element of the Constitution has had no consideration and was just a curiosity.


226 posted on 12/17/2008 10:59:53 PM PST by arrogantsob (Hero vs Zero)
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To: so_real

Why doesn’t this Ahole just produce the document or ask the Governor of Hawaii to release it to the media. Then we can move on and hash out all the rest of the problems in the world.


227 posted on 12/17/2008 11:10:55 PM PST by arrogantsob (Hero vs Zero)
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To: Non-Sequitur

The uniqueness of Obama’s past and the constant covering it up should end. He has not released proof of his eligibility and refusing to do so it he can will not help him.

Now that the entire nation is getting a good idea of the corrupt political environment he comes from he is being weakened already and doesn’t need unnecessary opposition.

Most of us here will accept the Governor of Hawaii’s word if he would ask her to speak it.


228 posted on 12/17/2008 11:20:16 PM PST by arrogantsob (Hero vs Zero)
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To: Non-Sequitur

He has NOT released his “certificate of live birth”. What he has released is a “CERTIFICATION of live birth” which is a different thing entirely, could be produced for someone born outside the State of Hawaii (his sister has one and she was born in Indonesia), and even the State of Hawaii does not accept the thing as birth evidence in all cases.....besides, the one posted on various web sites may have been altered.......there’s enough there to raise a great deal of doubt.


229 posted on 12/18/2008 1:09:08 AM PST by Southbound ("A liar in public is worse than a full-paid-up Communist and I don't care who he is" - HST)
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To: so_real
So ... as long as the foreign dictators’s wife conceives the baby on American soil, you are okay with the child returning to the U.S. some day so daddy can buy him an American election ... all due to the “citizenship” ruling in Wong Kim Ark?

It would help if you would actually break down and read the court decision that you're disputing. Justice Gray clearly stated the natural born citizen rule, and that exception included the children of foreign dignitaries and heads of state.

That is the antithesis of the Framers’ intent as it relates to the natural-born requirement for the office of POTUS.

And you base that on what?

You are reading an awful lot into the Wong Kim Ark decision that is not there.

And how would you know?

230 posted on 12/18/2008 4:01:02 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: STE=Q
I havn't the time or inclination to address your non answers to my questions...

Just because you don't like the answers doesn't mean I didn't address them.

You know as well as we all know that a 'certificate of(live) birth' does not prove that he was born in Hawaii!

Then prove he wasn't. That's the key to all this, isn't it? Obama isn't going to indulge your demands and no court is going to order him to...unless you can present solid evidence that Obama is lying. If you want to see an end to this then I suggest you stop boo-hooing and start digging. Prove him wrong. Show him up. End the speculation once and for all by going out there and coming up with something, anything that shows Obama was born in Kenya. Let me know how you do.

231 posted on 12/18/2008 4:10:23 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: STE=Q
Did Non-Sequitur just admit to being a troll?

Nope. Unless tweaking wackjobs qualifies one as a troll.

232 posted on 12/18/2008 4:11:21 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: arrogantsob
I was speaking of Congress’s role not the meeting of the Electoral Colleg. Congress must receive and count valid votes. Invalid ones can be ruled as such.

The Senate must receive and count the votes received from the states. Period. Nothing in the Constitution, either in Article I or the 12th Amendment, say that the Senate decides which are valid and which are not. Objections can be filed, but it takes at least one senator and one congressman to file it and both Houses must approve the objection. That's the only way the proceedings can be halted, and the chance of that happening in a Democrat-controlled Congress hovers between zilch and none.

233 posted on 12/18/2008 4:14:21 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: arrogantsob
Why doesn’t this Ahole just produce the document or ask the Governor of Hawaii to release it to the media. Then we can move on and hash out all the rest of the problems in the world.

"Never do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it" - Napoleon, Maxims of War.

234 posted on 12/18/2008 4:14:50 AM PST by Jim Noble (Long May Our Land Be Bright With Freedom's Holy Light)
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To: arrogantsob
The uniqueness of Obama’s past and the constant covering it up should end. He has not released proof of his eligibility and refusing to do so it he can will not help him.

It's not hurting him among his supporters, and I suggest that the mighty hand of God could descend from the clouds with a copy of Obama's birth certificate and most of those now opposed to him would still say, "Yeah, but...".

235 posted on 12/18/2008 4:16:24 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: arrogantsob

I do agree with you 100% on that one, arrogantsob. All legal issues aside, purely from a “leadership” point of view, it is unconscionable that Obama would fight to hide from the public the proof of his job eligibility — all the more so as he ran on a platform of “transparency in government”. It’s a shame the first black president in U.S. history will likely also be the “most corrupt in history”. For the sake of the history books, I wish the DNC had picked a cleaner candidate.


236 posted on 12/18/2008 7:15:40 AM PST by so_real
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To: Non-Sequitur
It would help if you would actually break down and read the court decision that you're disputing.

Don't put your fallacious words in my mouth. I don't dispute the ruling. I do happen to agree with the opinion of the dissent, which clearly showed legal precedent in Hausding and Greisser for *not* nationally adopting what we know today as "anchor babies" without some form of naturalization. That does not mean I dispute what the ruling states. Unlike you, however, I am not adding into the ruling a bridge from "alien" to POTUS that does not exist. As I've stated before, in 1898 going from "alien" to "citizen" was a tremendous leap, and not without justifiable dissent. Going from "alien" to POTUS was inconceivable, and certainly *was not* the question presented by record to the Court.
237 posted on 12/18/2008 7:34:02 AM PST by so_real
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To: Non-Sequitur; STE=Q
Then prove he wasn't. That's the key to all this, isn't it? Obama isn't going to indulge your demands and no court is going to order him to

What? Again with the liberal loony left speak! Running for the Executive Office is applying for a job, and "We The People" are the boss. The boss doesn't have to prove to you that you are eligible for the job for which you are applying. That is completely DU backwards! You have to prove to the boss that you are eligible for the job for which you are applying. Otherwise ... guess what ... you don't get the job. "Then prove he wasn't." huh !?!
238 posted on 12/18/2008 7:58:35 AM PST by so_real
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To: john mirse
Again, could you please explain what legal responsibilities does a hospital have if it was not the hospital where Obama's mother was a NOT a patient, especially now that she is dead?

They probably have no legal obligation to her. But, as I mentioned above, properly trained health care professionals will simply refuse to comment on issues like this. Otherwise, you could do an end-run around the privacy rules through a process of elimination (if ten hospitals tell you someone was not a patient but the 11th refuses to comment, you can deduce that the person might have been a patient).

Do you really think that hospital personnel will say nothing, or do you think that the hospital personnel will cooperate with the reporter and at least check hospital records to see if a John Mirse was ever a patient at that Hawaii hospital?

If they have received proper training by legal counsel, they will tell you that the hospital does not reveal anything about their patient list, period.

I say that the Hawaii hospital would have no legal restraints to at least tell the reporter whether or not a John Mirse was ever a patient at the hospital, the main reason being that I was dead.

Your legal privacy rights do not go away when you die. They simply come under the control of your estate

With the passage of HIPAA, hospitals have gotten very careful about what they reveal. For example, when a co-worker of mine called the hospital where my wife gave birth to our son to confirm they were still there so he could send flowers, the hospital would not even confirm that fact.

239 posted on 12/18/2008 9:47:14 AM PST by Citizen Blade (What would Ronald Reagan do?)
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To: so_real
Unlike you, however, I am not adding into the ruling a bridge from "alien" to POTUS that does not exist.

No, you're adding a third class of citizen which doesn't exist. As Justice Gray pointed out in his decision the law recognizes two classes of citizenship - citizen at birt or naturalized citizen. If Obama was born in Hawaii then he's a citizen at birth, AKA natural born citizen, and then is eligible to be president. It's all there in the decision itself.

As I've stated before, in 1898 going from "alien" to "citizen" was a tremendous leap, and not without justifiable dissent.

Dissent all you want but that doesn't change the decision of the court as expressed in the majority opinion.

Going from "alien" to POTUS was inconceivable, and certainly *was not* the question presented by record to the Court.

The question was what constitutes a natural born citizen, AKA citizen at birth. And the court answered that.

240 posted on 12/18/2008 9:51:47 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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