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Martin cites an article from the Internet ezine www.WorldNetDaily.com that collects conflicting claims about the actual hospital where Barack Obama was born. "Where's the truth?" asks Martin? "Does anyone in Hawai'i care about the truth? Or don’t they care that Hawai'i is increasingly looking like Obama's own 'gangster republic?'" WND.com has carried new concerns about media "swapping" of Obama's birth location, see: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=103465 [Best document view is usually at www.ContrarianCommentary.com] ANDY MARTIN Petitioner Pro Se NATIONAL LITIGATION CENTER Post Office Box 1851 New York, NY 10150-1851 Toll-free tel. (866) 70-6-2639 Toll-free fax (866) 707-2639 E-mail: AndyMart20@aol.com (text only) Additional courtesy...

US authorities 'had been investigating Allen Stanford for 15 years' David Byers, Suzy Jagger in New York, and James Bone in Antigua American authorities have been suspicious of Allen Stanford's financial dealings for 15 years but only accelerated their investigation after the Bernard Madoff fraud was exposed, it was claimed today. As investigators continued to hunt Mr Stanford and the $50 billion (£35 billion) of assets connected to him, a financial expert said that the Texan had been on "everybody’s radar" for more than a decade. The claim, made by the journalist and author Jeffrey Robinson, came as a link...

Posted Today, 11:35 AM Michelle M New Member = 100 Posts Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 94 Poster Rank: #345 (August 7, 2008) Things you might not know about Barack (Rocky Mtn News)- ObamaMentions Obama's Kenyan Citizenship! Gasp!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Can't imagine how they let this slip out, but watch the scrambling by the bots!! Would love to know where they got this, even though they list their sources... http://www.rockymountainnews.com/new...ahoo_headlines Entered Harvard Law School in 1988, was elected the first African–American editor of the Harvard Law Review. He graduated magna cum laude in 1991. Won two Grammys for Best Spoken Word...

NOTE by TexasDarlin: This is the second article in a two-part series by Judah Benjamin challenging the Constitutionality of Barack Obama’s bid for President. This article was preceded by my Foreword, and by the author’s Part 1, which explores the legal history and definition of “natural born citizen” under Article II of the US Constitution. Those two posts should be read first, and in full. Part 2 explores the factual basis for Barack Obama’s dual citizenship, and concludes that he has been a citizen of at least two countries, and therefore is ineligible to be President.

While to some folks the idea of dual citizenship might seem benign, it can greatly effect a person’s emotional attachment and identification with this country. Emotional attachment and identification with a country contributes greatly to a person’s willingness to make sacrifices and stand in harms way to defend our home, values and ideals. Still, dual citizenship has become acceptable because instead of promoting assimilation, diversity has become the mantra of our public institutions, undermining what traditionally binds us together; the shared values and political beliefs that make us one people… This notion and the idea that there are no consequences...

For millions of Europeans who braved the Atlantic Ocean for a glimpse of the Statue of Liberty and dreams of a lavish life, there was little thought of ever emigrating back. Yet for a new generation of Americans of European descent, the Old Country is becoming a new country full of promise and opportunity. The creation of the European Union and its thriving economy is very appealing for Americans in a global economy. "With an EU passport, I can live and work in 27 countries," said Suzanne Mulvehill of Lake Worth. "With a U.S. passport, I can live and work...

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexican authorities said Thursday that the deportation of a U.S. citizen alleged to be a top member of a major drug cartel was in limbo after the man said he also has Mexican citizenship. Under Mexican law, Mexican citizens cannot be deported to another country. Gustavo Rivera Martinez, 46, reputed to be a top member of the Tijuana-based Arellano Felix cartel, was captured Tuesday night in the state of Baja California Sur. Authorities initially said he would be turned over immediately to agents of the U.S. government, which wants him on drug charges. But Rivera told...

There are now so many Mexicans living in California that a major political party, the National Action Party, known by the acronym PAN, recently held its convention in Los Angeles. In 2000, the party's successful presidential candidate, Vincente Fox, and his rival both campaigned in California to reach Mexican voters who, since 1996, have with dual citizenship legally voted in Mexican as well as U.S. elections. There are estimates of between 12 and 20 million in the U.S., a growing number with dual citizenship. Many of them exercise an assertive Mexican identity, resist assimilation and dream about reclaiming that part...

Here's a statistic guaranteed to set your teeth on edge: Of the 15,000 Lebanese citizens evacuated from Beirut by Canadian Forces during last month's war -- the largest such operation this country has mounted since the Second World War, at a cost of $85-million -- some 7,000 are reported to have returned home. Home, as in Lebanon. Why were Canadian ships sent thousands of miles across the sea to pluck another country's citizens out of harm's way? Because, as you well know, they are also Canadian citizens. That is, they are dual citizens, beneficiaries of a 1977 change in immigration...

THE latest Middle East conflagration has flushed out a new class of dual nationality super-snivellers who believe mere possession of an Australian passport guarantees them security in their “other” homeland. A number of Lebanese-Australians are berating the Australian Government for not doing enough to get them out of Lebanon. According to the Department of Foreign Affairs, up to 25,000 Australians - who also hold Lebanese passports - live permanently or semi-permanently in Lebanon. Of these, some 6000 are registered with the Australian Embassy, presumably because they expected they might need assistance that Lebanon was unable to provide. Preposterously, they have...

October 2005 Comments to US House Judiciary Committee on immigration: TITLE Integrating Immigrants into the American National Community; Reforming Dual Citizenship in the United States EXCERPT In Vicente Fox's 2000 presidential campaign, his National Action Party and Cardenas's Party of the Democratic Revolution organized caravans to take Mexican immigrants to polling places in Mexico from cities as far-flung as New York and Yakima, Wash. 19 With the new absentee voting law, this will no longer be necessary and energy and attention can be better paid to getting out the Mexican vote -- in the United States. Because the election process...

Men with Two Countries Points that American negotiators should keep in mind while they consider how best to help Mexico. By John Fonte, senior fellow, Hudson Institute March 21, 2002 8:35 a.m. The specter of massive dual citizenship is haunting the upcoming Bush-Fox meeting. Mexico wants "regularization." This means "green cards" or legal work status for approximately three million illegal immigrants from Mexico leading to eventual American citizenship. However, under a 1998 Mexican law these new American citizens could retain "Mexican nationality" and even their children, who are born in the U.S., could claim Mexican dual citizenship.(snip) first time millions...

...to many immigrants today, U.S. citizenship is not an object of patriotism. To these people, U.S. citizenship means the convenience of having a U.S. passport that enables them to come and go without worrying about immigration problems. Though on paper they are U.S. citizens, in practice they are foreigners. They refuse to assimilate, following customs that are clearly incompatible with Western traditions. In other words, they may be U.S. citizens, but they are not Americans...

The following are excerpts from an AP story from Jenn Coleman today. SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday told officials in his hometown in Austria to remove his name from a sports stadium and stop using his identity to promote the city. SNIP He asked that the lettering be removed by year's end. SNIP (Description of how Graz gave Arnold a ring) ``Since, however, the official Graz appears to no longer accept me as one of their own, this ring has lost its meaning and value to me. It is already in the mail,'' the governor wrote.

VIENNA (Reuters) - California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a citizen of both the United States and Austria, should be stripped of Austrian citizenship for allowing a convicted murderer to be executed, an Austrian politician says. Schwarzenegger rejected a clemency appeal by triple-murderer Donald Beardslee, which gave San Quentin prison the green light for California's first execution in three years on Wednesday. "The death penalty is unacceptable in Austria and Europe. No Austrian citizen is allowed to take part in or order executions," Peter Pilz, the security spokesman for Austria's Green Party, told the Austrian Press Agency (APA) on Saturday. Pilz, whose...

I have been searching the net for days and can't find anything to help me. I am posting here hopeing to get an answer. My husband was born in the philippines while his father was stationed there. He has dual citizenship. We are looking to adopt. My question is with him having the dual what would we have to do to adopt from there, like cost mainly, and anything else. please if you can help me getting the answer I need I would be truly thankful.

Nov. 28, 2003, 3:14PM Houston activist's court date draws attention By EDWARD HEGSTROM Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle Well-known immigrant-rights activist Maria Jimenez goes to court Monday, accused of assaulting the executive director of the Harris County Republican Party. Jimenez, the head of the mayor's office of immigrant affairs, seems to be taking the matter in stride. When a police officer informed her of the misdemeanor assault charge during a protest at Harris County Republican Party headquarters Oct. 27, she responded: "Great! We couldn't have planned it better than this." Jimenez is accused of shoving a box of protest letters into...

Graz, Austria -- Should Arnold Schwarzenegger be elected governor of California, he may well be facing a conflict of interest of sorts. He owes allegiance not only to the United States but also to his native Austria. Shortly before gaining U.S. citizenship in 1983, the bodybuilder-turned- actor made sure to retain his Austrian citizenship as well -- a status rarely granted in Austria, which in principle does not allow dual nationality.

COMING TO AMERICA 'Cult of multiculturalism' vs. U.S. sovereignty Congressman blames liberals, Bush's open-door policy for immigration crisis Posted: August 3, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern Editor's note: WorldNetDaily is pleased to have a content-sharing agreement with Insight magazine, the bold Washington publication not afraid to ruffle establishment feathers. Subscribe to Insight at WorldNetDaily's online store and save 71 percent off the cover price. By Paula R. Kaufman © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Thomas Tancredo is a third-term Republican congressman from Colorado. As chairman of the 65-member Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus he deals regularly with such facts as these: More than 33.1 million...

The Mexican government is planning to change its constitution to establish a permanent right for those born in Mexico and living in other nations to obtain dual citizenship, a move criticized by some U.S. immigration experts as counterproductive to American interests. The changes, reports the Santa Barbara News Press, would allow Mexicans naturalized abroad to participate in their native country's election process, as well as own land. In 1998, Mexican lawmakers passed a constitutional amendment allowing Mexicans who had become citizens of another country to apply for dual citizenship. The window closed March 20, however. Now, however, Mexico's senate has...

<p>MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico's Senate has passed a measure aimed at eliminating deadlines for Mexicans who live abroad to regain their Mexican citizenship, and allow them to continue to apply indefinitely for dual nationality.</p> <p>A 1998 constitutional amendment allowed five years for Mexicans who had adopted another country's citizenship to apply to regain their Mexican passports, as dual nationals. That five-year deadline expired March 20, and only 67,000 people had applied.</p>

"These people feel Mexican. For them this represents an act of respect, and love, for their home." -Martha Lara, the Mexican consul general in Los Angeles. By daybreak their ranks stretched along 6th Street across from MacArthur Park, most everyone braving the dawn chill to reclaim a piece of a homeland they had abandoned more than a decade ago -- or knew only through the memories of parents and elders. Wednesday was the final day for many Mexican immigrants in the United States and elsewhere to "recuperate" their Mexican nationality. The step allows the millions who have sworn allegiance...

The Un-Americanizing of the Citizenship Process(Note: A shorter version of this article appeared in World magazine. Reprinted with permission.) A hodgepodge of humanity, 260 strong—red and yellow, black and white—stand before a judge on a rainy day in Baltimore, reciting a pledge of single-minded allegiance: "I hereby declare on oath that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince or potentate, state or sovereignty . . ." Onlookers watch, spines tingling, as the oath grows ever more serious: " . . . That I will support and defend the Constitution and the laws...

Who Is Joe Lieberman? “The Lieberman persona is so inventive, has been so creative, has been so gymnastic in its many shapes and forms, that only he can even begin to explain it. . . . Many politicians look a bit oily, a bit uncomfortable moving across and around the political spectrum, but our Joe looks as comfortable as if he’s merely changing clothes.” (Laurence D. Cohen, Op-Ed, “The Chameleon Who Came To Dinner,” The Hartford Courant, November 3, 2002) The Facts About Joe Lieberman (D-CT) On School Vouchers, Lieberman Betrayed His Beliefs To BECOME GORE’S RUNNING MATE In The...

DUAL CITIZENS FIGHT DOUBTS OVER LOYALTY Americans are expected to ride the wave of post-Sept. 11 patriotism when they mark the Fourth of July. But even as the commemoration crests Thursday, a little-noticed statistic is sparking debate over national identity and the obligations of citizenship. As many as 40 million Americans -- one in seven of the population -- could be dual citizens. They include those born in the United States as well as immigrants who have become naturalized. "We do not know what the consequences of dual citizenship are. We have never been in this circumstance before," said Stanley...

I’m a man with two countries. The story so far. Fleeing from the poverty, oppression, political correctness, and poor oral hygiene of his native Blairistan, after many adventures Derb has finally been washed ashore on the east coast of the United States with a waterproof bag containing his only possessions: a Margaret Thatcher commemorative mug, a copy of John Betjeman's "Collected Poems," and a few days' supply of Marmite. Desperate for paid employment even at starvation wages, he signs on as a "commentator" with National Review Online, a "web magazine" serving as cover for a clerico-fascist conspiracy dedicated to the...