FEC rules naturalized citizens are same as ‘natural born’ in presidential votes

The Patriot Update

A Guyana-born naturalized American citizen fits the Federal Elections Commission’s requirements to run for president, the FEC announced in a ruling.

The case involves New York lawyer Abdul Hassan, who was born in the South American country in 1974. Hassan argues it is discriminatory to not allow him to run for office.

Responding to criticism of possible dual-loyalty issues, Hassan said in a radio interview that a person’s place of birth should not determine his patriotism or presidential eligibility.

Hassan, meanwhile, petitioned the FEC to allow him to run for president, arguing the Federal Election Campaign Act does not bar naturalized citizens from running.

In its official response earlier this month, the FEC agreed with Hassan’s logic.

The FEC’s ruling, which did not receive any news media attention, concluded that a naturalized citizen is not prohibited by the Federal Election Campaign Act from becoming a “candidate” as defined under the act.

While the FEC’s own rules now allow Hassan to run for high office, the attorney must still clear judicial hurdles before his eligibility could become official.

At issue is the constitutional stipulation that only a “natural born” citizen can be for president.

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Destined For Deadlock Or Worse

Government Gone Wild

In the next couple of months a committee of 12 people will get together in a room in our nation’s Capitol, put pen to paper, and look to cut our Federal budget. Let me put this as bluntly as I can: this “Super” Congressional Committee is a farce and nothing but a tax increase trap.

 

In my opinion, this “Super Committee” is un-Constitutional at best and the mere presence of it is a testament to our elected officials inability to lead. It is also designed not to solve the problem. If this group does not come to an agreement to cut, then an automatic minimum of $1.2 trillion of cuts occur which will be split equally between defense spending and “all other spending”. Don’t get me wrong. There is plenty of fat in our defense budget and I think nothing should be held immune to cuts but assigning half of the spending “blame” to defense spending? Anyone who pays attention know that the real culprit of our long term malaise is underfunded and over-promised entitlement spending.

To understand why the chances this committee will NOT do anything substantial let’s handicap its members:

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Trusted Traveler Program Lets Mexicans Skip Airport Security

Judicial Watch

As violent drug cartels take over Mexico and expand their criminal enterprises north, the United States has signed a “trusted traveler” agreement that allows pre-screened Mexican airline passengers to bypass lengthy airport security checkpoints.

The foreigners will get “trusted traveler cards” with fingerprints and other biometric data and they must answer customs declarations questions on touch-screen kiosks before leaving airport inspection areas. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano claims it’s a way to enhance information sharing and mutual security in the face of “ever-evolving, multinational threats.”

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GOP Lawmaker Blasts White House for $23M Spent on Kenya Constitution Vote

Fox News

A Republican lawmaker is accusing the White House of “unconscionable” and “illegal” acts for its role in Kenya’s referendum on a new constitution, which would legalize abortion in the country for the first time.

Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey cited a report by the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, which estimated that more than $23 million in U.S. taxpayer funds have been spent on the referendum, and Smith and other conservatives have complained that at least some of that money has been spent in sport of the proposed constitution, possibly violating U.S. law.

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A Slap in the Face

Socialism is not the Answer

1 Dragon

Since before the 2008 Presidential Election, numberous websites argued the fact that Mr. Obama was not eligible to be President because he was not a natural born citizen. Now we can argue about the fake birth certificate Mr. Obama posted on the web but the fact remains that NO hospital in Hawaii has ever stated that he was born there.

In the story “The Great Obama Swindle of 2008”, which first appeared in Family Security Matters and later re-posted on this site, it raised a lot of questions. The main question is, if Mr. Obama is who he says he is, then why would he spend millions of dollars to try and keep this matter out of the courts? Would it not be easier to prove to everyone who you are and be done with it?

Now we have Mr. Obama’s own grandmother saying that she was there in Kenya when he was born. We have members of the Kenyan government stating that he was born there. Michelle Obama has stated that Mr. Obama home country is Kenya, and Mr. Obama himself stated that you should not question where he was born.

Did anyone besides myself actually hear this? Because I see this as a slap in the face to every American. Every American who gave their life to defend and protect this great Nation. A slap in the face to the Founding Fathers who risked their lives to give us The Constitution, The Declaration of Independence, Liberty and Freedom.

Now Mr Obama, of course doesn’t care about the Constitution, because if he did, he wouldn’t be trying to destroy it.

Examples:

Example 1: Example 2: Example 3: Example 4 : Example 5: Example 6:

Example 7: Example 8: Example 9:

Everyone of these examples are just another slap in the face from a man who is Un-Constitutional and who thinks he is above the law. To top it off, these are only a few.

The mainstream media is silent on this for fear the FCC will come down on them. Talk radio has been all but silent for the same reason. The only place for the truth has been on the web, which is why Mr. Obama wants to control it also and that my friends and Patriots would just be another slap in the face.

Once Upon a Crime

The Post & E-Mail

AN OPEN LETTER TO AMERICA
by Robert Quinn

Tale of a “flawed” birth certificate now threatening our Constitution and Country

This image was originally posted at The Daily KOS and represented  as Barack Obama's "birth certificate"(Jun. 2, 2010) — A long time ago, about one and one half years or so, I received an e-mail questioning the authenticity of a Hawaiian birth certificate which Barack Obama had posted on the “Daily Kos” website to silence claims that he might not be eligible to seek the Presidency of the United States. Was this the “transparency” he promised America? It seemed so until questioners pointed out that his posted document (which I’ve seen and copied), titled “Certification of Live Birth” (COLB) had the birth certificate number blacked out, contained no birth hospital name, attending physician’s name, birth witnesses’ names, etc.  All required information….and all missing! This was “transparency”?

Article II, Section 1 of The Constitution states: “no person except a natural born Citizen of the United States, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President…” The only Hawaiian document conferring natural-born status was a Certificate of Live Birth, which would have all the above missing information on it. A “Certification of Live Birth” (COLB) only confers, at best, a naturalized citizenship status. Obama, a Constitutional scholar, was obviously aware of this and knew that he could not allow the Hawaii Department of Health’s original birth certificate to be seen for if it agreed (which he so claimed) with the COLB he had posted on Daily Kos, he was thereby ineligible to seek the Presidency; hence, a reason for his spending (to date) an estimated $2,000,000 in legal fees to prevent disclosure! Imagine – if it was a true “Certificate of Live Birth,” he would have posted it immediately, not substitute a false or limited document in its place, unless he was hiding something incriminating.

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Obama’s Natural-Born Useful Idiots

Canada Free Press

For people who don’t like and don’t care what the US Constitution says, it doesn’t matter whether or not Barack Obama meets eligibility requirements for the office he currently holds. Obots, who regard the Constitution as an outdated useless piece of paper that should be burned, and our republic as nothing more than a democracy of mob rule by iron fist, see Obama’s eligibility as a laughing matter.

New York Times blogger (and deconstructionist professor of law) Stanley Fish writes – Why Bother With the Constitution? In it, he quotes from a book titled The Living Constitution,” by David A. Strauss which states—“the Constitution does not play a central role in constitutional interpretation.”

A deeper understanding of the useful idiot’s interpretation of the Constitution is found in Strauss’ book;

“In the majority of instances, Strauss argues, “the text of the Constitution will play, at most, a ceremonial role.” Even “when a case involves the Constitution, the text routinely gets no attention,” for “on a day-to-day basis, American constitutional law is about precedents, and when precedents leave off, it is about commonsense notions of fairness and good policy.”

In other words, the Constitution has no specific meaning or purpose at all. Case law, precedent setting or bench legislation is now the supreme law of our land, according to those who hate freedom, liberty and self-governance.

But for American citizens who hold the US Constitution dear, as the supreme law of this land and the foundation upon which all else rests, a government that subverts Article II—Section I for the purpose of upholding an unconstitutional and anti-American resident of the White House, is not to be trusted with anything else.

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Natural-Born Citizen per Justice Ginsberg?

Canada Free Press

In the Supreme Court Case—Tuan Anh Nguyen v. INS—Justice Ginsberg made the following statements… affirming that the world recognizes “birthrights” of the Father (not the mother), and bloodline rather than birth place as the foundation for inherited citizenship by birthright… aka, “natural-born citizenship.”

  • “Mr. Kneedler, I have a problem with it [Kneedler’s argument]. You would surely have a huge statelessness problem if you didn’t recognize that the child born abroad to U.S. citizens is a U.S. citizen because, as you point out, in most countries in the world, they go by blood, not by land of birth.”—“You call the child born abroad an alien, but in most places in the world that child would NOT be a citizen of the place in which that person is born; isn’t that so?”
  • “Well, I thought you said in your brief that in most places, and I think it’s right, they do not go on just solely, they go on parentage.”
  • “Mr. Kneedler, If Congress went back to the way it was when everything was determined by the father’s citizenship, go back to before 1934, suppose congress accepts your argument or we accept your argument and say plenary power, they can do whatever they damn please, so they say children born abroad of fathers who are U.S. citizens can become U.S. citizens, but not children who are born abroad of U.S. mothers where the father in an alien. That’s the way it used to be in the bad old days.”
  • “Suppose Congress wants to restore the way it was, the way it was for most of our nation’s history, that the father’s citizenship gets transferred to the child, not the mother’s?”
  • “You are talking to children not born to a marriage…”

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