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Obama racks up another citizenship?

by Dr. Conspiracy on 18. Aug, 2010 in Birth Location, Citizenship, Inspector Smith, Lounge, Videos

Luke (fake Kenyan birth certificate) Smith claims yet another entry in the list of citizenships for Barack Obama. In addition the three citizenships Obama actually had at one time or another in his life, and the Indonesian citizenship that he never had (so the State Department says), Smith now says Obama is a subject of the Sultan of Zanzibar!

Zanzibar, how exotic!

I’ve always found the name Zanzibar terribly fascinating; it rhythmically rolls off the tongue with those lovely “z” sounds and you can hold out that final “a” as long as you will. Zanzibaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

The whole “citizen of Zanzibar” claim, of course, rests on Barack Obama  being born in Mombasa, something which flies in the face of all credible evidence and is supported only by frauds like Smith and their fake birth certificates. Still, no matter how ridiculous, it is an Obama conspiracy theory, and is hereby acknowledged as such by the Obama conspiracy blog of record (not to gainsay the other fine Obama conspiracy blogs of record).

Smith says:

Yes, President Barack Obama was born at Coast Province General Hospital in 1961 in Mombasa, British Protectorate of Kenya.

The 1957-1958 Zanzibar colonial report states that those individuals born in either of the Zanzibar Protectorate and Protectorate of Kenya are, by law, subjects of His Highness the Sultan of Zanzibar and that those same individuals have the RIGHT TO CLAIM Zanzibar nationality.

Last time I checked (and I don’t think this has changed) Honolulu is not in Africa.

Watch the video: (more…)

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Government investigation into Barack Obama’s citizenship (Updated)

by Dr. Conspiracy on 01. Aug, 2010 in Birth Location, Citizenship, Evidence, FOIA, Featured Articles

Shocking documents obtained under Freedom of Information Act disclose that questions were raised about Barack Obama’s citizenship status, and that an official government investigation was carried out. Here is the text of the FOIA document (see page 38):

Memo to file
A 14 128 294
Sept. 14, 1967

Pursuant to inquiry from Central office regarding the status of the applicants’ [Lolo Soetoro] spouses’ child by a former marriage.

The person in question is a united states citizen by virtue of his birth in Honolulu, Hawaii Aug. 4, 1961. He is living with the applicants’ spouse in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is considered the applicants step-child, within the meaning of Sec. 101(b)(1)(B), of the act, by virtue of the marriage of the applicant to the childs’ mother on March 15, 1965.

W. L. Mix

This also confirms the date of the Soetoro marriage.

Update:

The cover letter with Allen’s FOIA response indicates that there were some responsive documents that could not be released. One of the documents that was released was a copy of Stanley Ann Dunham’s birth certificate. There is little question in my mind that one of the documents that was found but not released is Barack Obama’s birth certificate.

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Strunk FOIA results for Obama’s mother

by Dr. Conspiracy on 31. Jul, 2010 in Citizenship, Evidence, FOIA, Stanley Ann Dunham

Stanley Ann Dunham

The FOIA results of Christopher Strunk’s Freedom of Information Act request for passport applications of Stanley Ann Dunham, President Obama’s mother, were released July 29. A copy of the results appear at the end of this article.

Strunk asked for the “passport applications” of Dunham along with other information specifically about Barack Obama. That latter information is not available under FOIA according to regulation. Strunk sued the Department of State and the Department of Homeland Security. (See my article: “What does Strunk know and when did he know it?”)

Now we have a series of documents that are not as helpful as one might hope. The earliest application in the file is a passport renewal from 1968 that references a passport issued in 1965 (prior to Obama’s trip to Indonesia to live with her new husband). However, the Department of State does not have the 1965 document (presumably destroyed in the 1970s when old records were cleared out). So from this material we cannot definitively say that Stanley Ann Dunham’s first passport was in 1965.

There are two things of interest in the 1970 application. First, there is a signed statement by Dunham that she had not naturalized in any other country (addressing the myth that she became an Indonesian citizen) and second she listed her child named “Barack Hussein Obama”, not “Soetoro”.

A curiosity is that after Barack’s name is the word “(Soebarkah)”. Because it is under the name in parenthesis, I am guessing that it is a nickname. “Soebarkah” is an Indonesian surname.

Readers here may know that I submitted my own passport FOIA for Dunham in January of 2009, two months after Strunk. My request differs from that of Strunk in that he asked for “passport applications” and I asked for “passports issued.” While the application records from 1965 (and earlier) were presumably destroyed, the Department of State says that they have passport records since 1925. I still hope, therefore, that my FOIA will conclusively show that Stanley Ann Dunham either had or did not have a passport before 1965.

The Strunk FOIA documents were first reported to be on the Orly Taitz web site, and subsequently  found on Scribd uploaded by Mario Apuzzo. Read the documents following: (more…)

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Obots in history: Charles Gordon

by Dr. Conspiracy on 17. Jul, 2010 in Citizenship, Obots in HISTORY!

Charles Gordon was General Counsel of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, and adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center in 1968, when he wrote a very influential paper titled: Who Can Be President Of The United States: The Unresolved Enigma,  28 MD L. Rev. 1,1 (1968). I say influential because one journal repository noted it’s citing 23 times in other law journals, including the recent article by Gabriel Chin in the Michigan Law Review.

The paper is available on the Internet, but it is a large file and a slow download (you might want to right click that link and select “Save as” rather than trying to view it in browser).  First, let me give the brief citation that qualifies Professor Gordon as an Obot:

Under the presidential qualification clause of the Constitution, only “natural-born” citizens are qualified for this highest office. It is clear enough that native-born citizens are eligible and that naturalized citizens are not.

Gordon does not waste his  32-pags in what is “clear enough” but rather discusses the question of whether those born citizens outside the United States are natural born citizens in the wake of George Romney’s (born in Mexico) candidacy for president. This is a well-researched article (244 footnotes!) and well worth reading. I’m not going to attempt to summarize it except to mention a few things that struck me among much material that is familiar. (more…)

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May the people decide?

by Dr. Conspiracy on 17. Jul, 2010 in Citizenship, Research Notes

The question erupts from time to time in comments here whether a citizen of the United States, born abroad to American parents, is eligible to be president of the United States. I think that there is an affirmative majority view on this issue, but the Supreme Court has never ruled on it, and it remains a subject of debate among constitutional  scholars (most recently prompted by the candidacy of Senator John McCain who was born in the Panama Canal Zone).

they believe that the courts are the only place to resolve constitutional ambiguity

Recently, some extreme writers on citizenship, who espouse crank views about the eligibility of President Obama, think that the voice of the people is rising up to demand that the courts decide any ambiguity in the question of who is and who is not eligible to be president of the United States. While certain that their views must prevail, they also believe that the courts are the only place to resolve constitutional ambiguity. (more…)

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Changing Subject to Citizen

by Dr. Conspiracy on 15. Jul, 2010 in Citizenship, Evidence

In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote “our fellow subjects” (apparently using language from the newly-written Virginia constitution) but then erased it and wrote “citizens” according to a recent issue of Science News. Fascinating.

Ron Polarik, eat your heart out.

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An important essay on “natural born citizen”

by Dr. Conspiracy on 13. Jul, 2010 in Citizenship, Research Notes

In 1967, an essay entitled “Natural Born Citizen,” by the Hon. Pinckney G. McElwee of the Bar of the District of Columbia, was entered into the Congressional Record by Mr. Dowdy. This is an extensive and scholarly treatment of the history and the cases related to the term “natural born citizen”. It was written in the context of a possible candidacy of Governor George Romney (born in Mexico) for president.

The material may be well-known to readers here, but I found some things I did not know. I learned the history of the changes between the Naturalization Acts of 1790 and 1795, and I may have been proven wrong in my thought that the change that “natural born” was only incidentally dropped.

This text certainly has profound application to the eligibility of John McCain, but  it assumes throughout that those born citizens in the United States are natural born citizens.

Thanks to the reader who sent me this.  Text follows: (more…)

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