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There is a
growing body of evidence establishing
that President Elect Barack Obama is not a “natural
born” U.S. citizen, meaning he is not eligible to
hold the office of President.
On October 31st we announced our
intention to publish an
Open Letter to President-Elect Obama. In
effect, the letter would be a Petition for Redress
of a violation of the natural born citizen clause of
the Constitution (Article II, Section 1), which
reads:
“No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a
Citizen of the United States, at the time of the
Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to
the Office of President; neither shall any person be
eligible to that Office who shall not have attained
to the age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen
Years a Resident within the United States.”
The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
guarantees the free People of America the Right to
Petition the Government, including a U.S. Senator or
a President-Elect, for Redress of a violation of the
Constitution:
“Congress shall make no law …abridging…the Right of
the People …to Petition the Government for a Redress
of Grievances.”
Inherent in the Right to Redress (i.e., remedy) is
the free People’s Right to a response, and their
Right to withdraw their allegiance and support from
the Government should there be no responsive
response.
“If money is wanted by Rulers who have in any
manner oppressed the People, they may retain it
until their grievances are redressed, and thus
peaceably attain relief, without trusting to
despised petitions or disturbing the public
tranquility.”
Act of the Continental Congress, passed unanimously
in 1774, titled, “Continental Congress To The
Inhabitants of Quebec.” Journals of the
Continental Congress. Journals 1:105-113.
“In every stage of these Oppressions we have
Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms. Our
repeated Petitions have been answered only by
repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus
marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is
unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
United States Declaration of Independence,1776.
“Silence can only be equated with fraud where there is a legal or moral
duty to speak or where an inquiry left unanswered
would be intentionally misleading.”
United States v. Prudden, 424 F.2d
1021 (5th Cir. 1970), cert. denied, 400 U.S. 831
(1970).
We stated our intention to raise $90,000 to pay for
the publication of the Open Letter in USA TODAY and
a room at the National Press Club to publicly
discuss any response by Mr. Obama. We explained that
all donations received by the Foundation after
October 31 would be used to cover our expenses, and
the general treasury of the Foundation would not
be used.
Should we receive less than $90,000 we would either
publish the Open Letter in a half-page or regional
edition of USA TODAY, or publish the full-page Open
Letter in an appropriate city or regional newspaper.
To be effective, we would need to publish the Open
Letter two weeks or more in advance of the date
(December 15, 2008) when the Electoral College’s
state electors are certified and cast their votes.
If Mr. Obama is not able to prove his eligibility by
then, the electors would have to cast their votes
for someone else for it would be treason to the
Constitution to do otherwise.
The purpose of this Update is threefold: (1)
to
provide the updated total of the funds received to
date; (2), to inform you of our tentative decision
and schedule regarding the publication of the Open
Letter; and (3), to comment on a few related
developments.
FUNDS
As of noon today, we have raised $27,131.04, which
is sufficient for a full-page in the Chicago
Sun-Times and the event at the National Press Club,
but not enough to cover the cost of a team of
forensic scientists to travel to Hawaii to examine
the vault copy of the birth certificate or the cost
of mailing a package to each of the state electors
in the event Mr. Obama chooses not to respond to the
open letter (see latest draft of our Open Letter for
details). We are willing to commit now to publish in
the Chicago Sun-Times as soon as its legal
department approves the content. However, we will
need additional funding, so please continue
spreading the word about the project. Become a WTP
“fund raiser.”
NOTE: If there is anyone in the range of this Update
that has the means to donate thousand(s)
dollars toward this project, we would ask them to
contact us immediately. While it would be adequate
to publish the Open Letter in one of the two
newspapers in Mr. Obama’s home town, it would be
much more desirable to publish the Open Letter in
the national edition of the USA TODAY if we could
afford the cost. The circulation for the Chicago
Sun-Times is about 140,000, compared to 2.2
million for USA TODAY. In addition, the physical
size of a full-page in USA TODAY is about twice the
size of the Sun-Times, which would allow us to add a
short Open Letter to the state Electors below the
Open Letter to Mr. Obama, encouraging them to urge
Mr. Obama to respond appropriately, and warning them
of their liability should they cast their vote for
someone for whom they know is not eligible to assume
the office of President of the United States.
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DECISION AND SCHEDULE
On Monday, December 1, we will publish the Open
Letter that will ask Mr. Obama to immediately direct
the appropriate Hawaiian officials to allow access
to the vault copy of his birth certificate by our
forensic scientists on Friday, Saturday and Sunday,
December 5, 6 and 7, and to arrange to have certain
other evidence delivered to the National Press Club
by noon on December 8, 2008.
On December 8th, we will sponsor a Press Conference
at the National Press Club. We will invite C-SPAN to
broadcast the event live. Invited speakers will
include constitutional scholar and attorney Edwin
Vieira, who would speak about the natural born
citizen clause and the seriousness of the adverse
consequences of having a usurper in the position of
President of the United States of America. Other
invited speakers include the licensed attorneys from
each of the cases that have been filed (Phil Berg
from PA, Leo Donofrio from NJ, and Orly Taitz from
CA), a Plaintiff from the CA case (Alan Keyes), and
the Plaintiff from the HI case (Andy Martin).
Beginning December 9th, should Mr. Obama
fail to respond to the repeated judicial Petitions
for Redress of the Grievance, packages will be
mailed to each member of the Electoral College. The
package will contain: (a) a copy of each of the
lawsuits with their facts and legal arguments; (b)
notification that Mr. Obama had a duty to respond to
the court challenges by proving his eligibility but
chose not to do so; (c) notification that the chief
election officials of their states had a duty to
determine Mr. Obama’s eligibility before deciding to
place him on their primary and general election
ballots but failed to do so; (d) notification that
Mr. Obama had a duty to respond to the Open Letter
published in the newspaper (yet another Petition for
Redress) but failed to do so; and (e) notification
that in light of the evidence that Mr. Obama is not
a natural born citizen of the United States and Mr.
Obama’s deliberate decision not to answer the
repeated Petitions for Redress of the Grievance, it
would be treason to the Constitution should they
cast their vote for Mr. Obama to be President of the
United States of America.
Any President-elect and member of the Electoral College
should be withdrawn from office whose fraud and
misrepresentations are leading us to dissolution. It
may, indeed, injure them in fame or fortune; but it
saves the Republic.
THOUGHTS TO PONDER
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But
it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at
the gates is less formidable, for he is known and
carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves
amongst those within the gate freely, his sly
whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in
the very halls of government itself. For the traitor
appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar
to his victims, and he wears their face and their
arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep
in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a
nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night
to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the
body politic so that it can no longer resist. A
murderer is less to fear." ---Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The people themselves have it in their power
effectually to resist usurpation,
without being driven to an appeal in arms.
An act of usurpation
is not obligatory: It is not law; and any man may be
justified in his resistance. Let him be considered
as a criminal by the general government; yet only
his fellow citizens can convict him. They are his
jury, and if they pronounce him innocent, not all
powers of congress can hurt him; and innocent they
certainly will pronounce him, if the supposed law he
resisted was an act of usurpation”. See: 2
Elliot's Debates, 94; 2 Bancroft, History of the
Constitution, 267.
“There have been powerful hydraulic pressures
throughout our history that bear heavily on the
court to water down constitutional guarantees and
give the police the upper hand.
That hydraulic pressure has probably never been
greater than it is today.
Yet if the individual
is no longer to be sovereign … we enter a new
regime. The decision to enter it should be made only
after a full debate by the people of this country.”
See:
Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 39 (1967).
RELATED DEVELOPMENTS
As of Monday, November 17, 2008, licensed attorneys
had filed three separate lawsuits in PA, NJ and CA
to prevent Mr. Obama from assuming the Office of the
President of the United States unless he provided
documentary evidence proving he is a natural born
citizen of the United States.
Attorney Phil Berg filed
his suit in federal court in
Pennsylvania on behalf of himself. He sued Mr. Obama
and the Democrat National Committee. His primary
arguments are: a) if Mr. Obama was born in Kenya as
the facts indicate, he is ineligible because his
father was a Kenyan citizen and his mother had not
been a US citizen for five years following the age
of 14; and b) whether he was born in Kenya or
Hawaii, his mother relinquished her (and therefore
his) American citizenship when he was 4 years of age
and she married an Indonesian citizen, moved to
Indonesia and became a naturalized Indonesian
citizen. His case was dismissed for “lack of
standing.” He has appealed to the Supreme Court of
the United States by filing a Petition for Writ of
Certiorari (a plea to SCOTUS to hear an appeal from
the lower Court’s decision). Defendants have
notified SCOTUS they will not be filing a memorandum
in opposition to Berg’s plea. Within a few weeks
after December 1st, the nine justices of
the SCOTUS will decide if they will hear Berg’s
case.
Attorney Leo Donofrio filed
his suit in federal court in New
Jersey on behalf of himself. He sued the New Jersey
Secretary of State, Nina Mitchell Wells. His
argument is based on the historical context and
purpose (the “original intent”) of the natural born
citizen clause of the Constitution. He argues that
to be a natural born citizen within the meaning of
Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution, Mr.
Obama’s father and mother both had to be US citizens
and Mr.Obama had to be born on US soil. In
fact, Mr. Obama’s father was a Kenyan citizen and Mr.Obama
may have been born in Kenya.
Attorneys Orly Taitz and Gary Kreep from the United
Justice Foundation filed
their suit in State Court in
California on behalf of a presidential candidate and
his running mate who were on the ballot in
California on the American Independent Party line –
i.e., Alan Keyes and Willey Drake. They sued the CA
Secretary of State and each of the 55 state electors
(CA members of the Electoral College scheduled to
cast their votes for Mr. Obama on December 15).
Their principle argument is that they not only have
standing to sue, the 55 state electors cannot cast
their votes for Mr. Obama until the Secretary of
State completes her ministerial task of determining
if Mr. Obama is eligible to hold the office of
President of the United States, a task she failed to
undertake prior to the Primary and General
Elections.
There is a rumor that four licensed attorneys are
representing twenty-three electors from four states
in one federal lawsuit that has been filed, also
challenging Mr. Obama’s eligibility.
In addition, a series of other lawsuits have been
filed by citizens who are not attorneys.
Most notable, Andy Martin filed
his suit in
Hawaii. He is seeking an order directing the
Hawaiian officials to produce Mr. Obama’s original,
1961, typewritten Certificate of Live Birth. Martin
had a court hearing on November 18th. The
judge reserved decision.
In addition, on October 17th New York
citizen Christopher Strunk filed a Freedom of
Information Request with the US Department of State
seeking the foreign travel records of Mr. Obama’s
mother. Thus far, the Dept. of State has not
responded to the request. On November 10th,
Strunk filed a Writ of Mandamus in the US Court of
Appeals for the Second Circuit seeking an order
directing the State Department to release the travel
records. On November 14th the Writ was
denied, without comment.
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