Revealed: The Obama birth certificate protection act

WND ^ | May 24, 2009

[Joiseydude]

WASHINGTON – A bill approved by the House of Representatives and referred to the Senate would prohibit federal employees of executive branch from being compelled to release any document unless a court makes a specified determination by a preponderance of evidence – legislation at least one group suspects is designed to protect Barack Obama's elusive birth certificate from release.

The legislation, HR 985, resides in the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Sovereignty Alliance has issued a "red alert" about the bill it calls "stealth legislation ... to protect Obama from providing his birth certificate."

[BIGLOOK]

Point noted.

Thanks

[doug from upland]

Obama’s birth certificate sealed by Hawaii governor
Says Democratic senator must make request to obtain original document
Posted: October 26, 2008
9:54 pm Eastern

By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2009 WorldNetDaily

Gov. Linda Lingle, R-Hawaii

HONOLULU, Hawaii – Although the legitimacy of Sen. Barack Obama’s birth certificate has become a focus of intense speculation – and even several lawsuits – WND has learned that Hawaii’s Gov. Linda Lingle has placed the candidate’s birth certificate under seal and instructed the state’s Department of Health to make sure no one in the press obtains access to the original document under any circumstances.

The governor’s office officially declined a request made in writing by WND in Hawaii to obtain a copy of the hospital-generated original birth certificate of Barack Obama.

“It does not appear that Dr. Corsi is within any of these categories of persons with a direct and tangible interest in the birth certificate he seeks,” wrote Roz Makuala, manager of constituent services in the governor’s office, in an e-mailed response to a WND request seeking the information.

Those listed as entitled to obtain a copy of an original birth certificate include the person born, or “registrant” according to the legal description from the governor’s office, the spouse or parent of the registrant, a descendant of the registrant, a person having a common ancestor with the registrant, a legal guardian of the registrant, or a person or agency acting on behalf of the registrant.

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WND was told the official reason for denial of access to Obama’s birth certificate would be authority granted pursuant to Section 338-18 of the Hawaii Revised Statutes, a provision the anonymous source claimed was designed to prevent identity theft
.

Still, the source told WND confidentially the motivation for withholding the original birth certificate was political, although the source refused to disclose whether there was any information on the original birth certificate that would prove politically embarrassing to Obama.

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The source also refused to answer WND’s question whether the original document on file with the Department of Health was a hospital-generated birth certificate or a registration of birth that may have been filed subsequent to the birth.

The anonymous source made clear the Hawaii Department of Health would immediately release Obama’s original birth certificate, provided Obama requested the document be released, but the Department of Heath has received no such request from the senator or from anyone acting officially on his behalf.

WND also found on microfilm in the Honolulu downtown public library a notice published under the “Births, Marriages, Deaths” section of the Honolulu Sunday Advertiser for August 13, 1961, on page B-6, noting: “Mr. and Mrs. Barack II Obama. 6085 Kalanianaole-Hwy, son, Aug. 4.”

In searching through the birth notices of the Honolulu Advertiser for 1961, WND found many birth notices were published between one and two weeks after the date of birth listed.

The notice in the Honolulu Advertiser does not list the hospital where the Obama son was born or the doctor who delivered the baby.

In a startling development, Obama’s Kenyan grandmother has reportedly alleged she witnessed Obama’s birth at the Coast Provincial Hospital in Mombasa, Kenya.

Friday, U.S. Federal judge Richard Barclay Surrick, a Clinton appointee, dismissed a lawsuit brought by Pennsylvania attorney Phillip J. Berg who alleged Obama was not a U.S. “natural born” citizen and therefore ineligible for the presidency under the specifications of the U.S. Constitution, under Article II, Section 1.

Berg told WND last week he does not have a copy of a Kenyan birth certificate for Obama that he alleges exists.

In Kenya, WND was told by government authorities that all documents concerning Obama were under seal until after the U.S. presidential election on November 4.

The Obama campaign website entitled “Fight the Smears” posts a state of Hawaii “Certificate of Live Birth” which is obviously not the original birth certificate generated by the hospital where Obama reportedly was born.

“Fight the Smears” declares, “The truth is, Barack Obama was born in the state of Hawaii in 1961, a native citizen of the United States of America.”

Although the Obama campaign could immediately put an end to all the challenges by simply producing the candidate’s original birth certificate, it has not done so. And the “Fight the Smears” website offers no explanation as to why Obama has refused to request, and make public, an original hospital-generated birth certificate which the Hawaii Department of Health may possess.

[Red Steel]

My take on it is that the Fed employees aren't the ones who would be compelled. It says they can't compel journalists and such.

Then it makes me wonder if this has anything to do with the contempt of court violation by Judith Miller the New York Slimes journalist who was most likely protecting a Dem in the Plame/Libby/Fitzgerald fiasco.

[radu]

It could well be that the Judith Miller fiasco was in mind when they put this bill together.

Getting their ducks in a row before the Dims start really going after folks in the Bush administration?

[DoughtyOne]

How do you get a guy sworn in, who hasn’t supplied the full documentation to prove he’s qualified to be president?

We have become such a corrupt nation. It sickens me.

[Fred Nerks]

I thought it was an Executive Order:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/ExecutiveOrderPresidentialRecords/

[Smokin' Joe]

But in order to get a stinking drivers license, I had to produce a certified copy of my birth certificate...

My grandkids had to pony up their Birth Certificates to get into Kindergarden, but Duh-oh doesn't have to produce his to get into the White House?

[Smokin' Joe]

Allows a court, in making the last of those determinations, to consider the extent of any harm to national security.

Hmmmm. So the threat of Civil Unrest might outweigh the COnstituion in the eyes of the Court?

Or is it that reneging on the bailouts might collapse the fiat currency?

[lentulusgracchus]

[Article]

Defines “covered person” as a person who regularly gathers, photographs, records, writes, edits, reports, or publishes information concerning matters of public interest for dissemination to the public for a substantial portion of the person’s livelihood or substantial financial gain, including a supervisor, employer, parent, subsidiary, or affiliate of such a person.

Everybody, I think we've got a big misunderstanding here.

This is a press shield law, not a feds-sit-on-documents law.

[lentulusgracchus]

Exactly (didn't see your posts before I posted).

Somebody at WND got his traces tangled, or re-wrote the provisions to create a story about the native-citizen flap, when it was a press-shield/Judy Miller story all along.

I've occasionally wondered, was Judy Miller fired for her Valerie Plame story and how she handled her sources, or because New York Times editors decided she was a Bush tool because she rode a tank and didn't ice-pick Bush during the Iraq War?

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

Please tell me this is not true.

[RoadTest]

“Illegal. Conflicts with the Constitution”
- - - and the Freedom of Information Act.

[Chickensoup]

Lets see if I’ve got this straight... You don’t have to produce ID in order to vote. The people running for the office of POTUS don’t have to prove that they fulfill the Constitutional requirement of the position, and now they’re going to pass this law. But in order to get a stinking drivers license, I had to produce a certified copy of my birth certificate... OK, that certainly makes sense...

Looking more an more like a coup every day.

This would be a place to stand.

[LuxMaker]

It’s quite simple. Wear a burka and you will be a “covered person”. :)

[maxwellsmart_agent]

If they pass this, and there is only one reason they would, it will prove 100% complicity in hiding something that is wrong. The Democrats have already invested a lot of money and effort in court trying to hide something about Barack Obama. Passage of this bill would prove to me that this was a deliberate effort on the part of the Democratic Party to subdue and sidestep a portion of the Constitution just to win.

I don’t know why Barack Obama wants all his documents hidden, but I think he should be compelled to prove he was eligible just like anybody else would.

[real_patriotic_american]

Again, the Democrats in fear of the truth being exposed- Obama was born in Kenya and is not eligible to serve as President (per the Constitution).

[bert]

The bill is ex post facto. The crime occurred before the passage and the demands to produce likewise.

The law is not applicable to the Obama proof of birth.

[cripplecreek]

Lord Zero comments on the confirmation of Supreme court Justice John Roberts.

"Let me also say that I remain distressed that the White House during this confirmation process, which overall went smoothly, failed to provide critical documents as part of the record that could have provided us with a better basis to make our judgment with respect to the nomination. This White House continues to stymie efforts on the part of the Senate to do its job. I hope with the next nominee who comes up for the Supreme Court that the White House recognizes that in fact it is its duty not just to the Senate but to the American people to make sure we can thoroughly and adequately evaluate the record of every single nominee who comes before us."

[cripplecreek]

The more I think about this the more I realize how many ways this could be used against us.

Supreme court confirmation hearings, congressional investigations of groups like ACORN etc.

[xmission]

Absolutely not! If he needs an act of Congress to protect his BC then there obviously is something on it that he doesn’t want released

I think his real name might add up to 666