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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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Spinning Dr. Fukino

by Dr. Conspiracy on 08. Jul, 2010 in Birthers, Featured Articles, Hawaii Dept. of Health

Dr. Chiyome Fukino

Until a couple of years ago I daresay none of you, nor I, had ever heard of Dr. Chiyome Fukino, director of the Hawai’i Department of Health, serving in that position since 2002, appointed by newly elected Republican Governor Linda Lingle. While Dr. Fukino has been honored by her colleagues, she had not made a national name for herself until this Obama conspiracy business came along.

You see, the Department of Health in Hawaii is also the custodian of the State’s vital records and Dr. Fukino had the audacity to cross the birthers. Early on in the birther crusade to discredit Obama’s birth certificate (in October of 2008), Dr. Fukino, along with the head of vital statistics, Dr. Alvin Onaka, made a little expedition to look at the original documents of President Obama’s birth, after which she said:

“There have been numerous requests for Sen. Barack Hussein Obama’s official birth certificate. State law (Hawai‘i Revised Statutes §338-18) prohibits the release of a certified birth certificate to persons who do not have a tangible interest in the vital record. (more…)

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Kenyan web site names Obama birth hospital

by Dr. Conspiracy on 01. Jul, 2010 in Birth Location, Featured Articles

I didn’t find this on any newspaper web site, but on the web site of a tour guide company! I challenged Mario Apuzzo to find a Kenyan newspaper naming the “well known attraction,” the hospital where President Obama was born. I didn’t think there were any newspapers that disclosed this information, but Trendy Tours & Safaris of Nairobi has introduced a 7-day Obama Kenyan tour including “the original home of the worlds most powerful President”, the well-known attraction described by the Kenyan Ambassador to the US, Peter Ogego, in the now famous WRIF radio interview.

And they name the hospital where President Obama was born!

Unlike any other web site in Kenya, this one breaks the code of silence and defies top secret government gag orders to name the hospital where President Barack Obama was born, and it was not the Coast General Hospital in Mombasa. (more…)

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Birther math (part 1)

by Dr. Conspiracy on 26. Jun, 2010 in Birth Location, Citizenship, Featured Articles, Mario Apuzzo

One of my least favorite sayings is “where there’s smoke, there’s fire.” That about the same thing as saying “all allegations are at least partly true.” What I say is “where there’s smoke, there may be someone blowing smoke.” The smoke/fire fallacy is central to Birther math that says that if you add up enough allegations, regardless of their value, you get some level of proof. Put another way, they say that if you add zero enough times, you get something greater than zero.

In this article, I apply the mathematical definition of zero to a A Catalog of Evidence – Concerned Americans Have Good Reason to Doubt that Putative President Obama Was Born in Hawaii by attorney Mario Apuzzo. The Catalog (as of today, June  26, 2010) contains 35 items.When the original items are too long, I will not copy them here, but provide only a summary or indicate the omitted section with ellipses. The reader can (and is urged to) get the full text from link above. Quotes indicate text from the Catalog.

(1) “Obama’s step-grandmother, Sarah Obama, told Bishop McRae, who was in the United States, during a telephonic interview on October 12, 2008, while she was in her home located in Alego-Kogello, Kenya, that was full of security police and people and family who were celebrating then-Senator Obama’s success story, that she was present to witness Obama’s birth in Kenya, not the United States…” (more…)

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Natural born citizen: clarified!

by Dr. Conspiracy on 13. Aug, 2009 in Citizenship, Featured Articles

Understanding natural born citizen gets confusing when the definition of the term “natural born citizen” is conflated with the kinds of people who fit it (qualifications that change by country and over time). Some hugely long articles and comments have appeared, and they are long because they are wrestling with, or taking advantage of, the confusion. I must admit that I was confounded over this for quite a while myself (being self taught and not a trained lawyer). I finally got straightened out after reading some history books.

Perhaps the analogy with “naturalized citizen” will make things clear. One would never define naturalized citizen as someone who takes an oath after living in the United States for some number of years, or someone who marries, or someone…. Congress can make new naturalization qualifications any day it wants. A naturalized citizen is defined as someone who becomes a citizen through law after they are born. Once defined, then we can enumerate the various ways someone can become a naturalized citizen in the United States (or some other country). The definition of “naturalized citizen” hasn’t changed in 200 years, but the rules for becoming one certainly have.

The same error would be to define natural born citizen in terms of who qualifies to be one, someone who is born this and has parents that. That’s not a definition of what a natural born citizen is, but rather of  possible qualifications under a particular constitution or set of laws to be one.

So let’s get to the definition. (more…)

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A stake through its heart

by Dr. Conspiracy on 07. Aug, 2009 in Birth Certificate, Featured Articles

When the fake Kenyan birth certificate surfaced a week ago, it looked odd. Within hours, problems surfaced, the most humorous was the certificate number 47,044 (Obama was 47 years old and the 44th president). Then when the real birth certificate from South Australia from which the fake one was modeled came to light, the jig was officially up.

One is reminded of the 1924  movie “The Man that Would  not Die” as the birthers turned on the innocent Australian bystander, declaring that it was his certificate that was the fake.

Many problems with the Kenyan “certificate” have come to light; however, in the literal minded world of the birthers, one looks for that one image, that one memorable blow, that will finally drive a stake through the heart of this hoax. I hope I have found it.

7 shillings 6 pence

7 shillings 6 pence

The fake document was dated 1964. In the upper left corner of the certificate is the cost charged for the document, 7 shillings 6 pence. But what was the actual Kenyan currency in 1964, and if I were to tell you, what would be a memorable way to drive the point home? And the answer came to me, so obvious to an erstwhile stamp collector like myself!

1964 Kenyan Stamp

1964 Kenyan Stamp, Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalog Number 16

It is this Republic of Kenya postage stamp issued in 1964 valued at 30 CENTS! That’s right. Kenya has the decimal currency system. (Scott’s catalogs are available at most any public library for you to easily verify for yourself.)

Let me take another couple of hammer blows into the heart of the fake birth certificate. One might wonder if perhaps an old form was used or somehow the 1961 price was on the form. No joy in Birfistan. Since the 1920′s it was always pounds, shillings and cents, as shown by this stamp from the 1950′s and later shillings and cents.

Kenya Postage, 1950's

Kenya Postage, 1950's

There have been so many frustrating episodes where the Obama denialists have found some way to cover their eyes, and cover their ears, and uncover their mouths to say the most outrageous things. But what I have learned from long experience is that there are points where the belief system finally breaks. There are proofs that simply cannot be wriggled out of. This is one.

The fake Kenyan certificates says pence, and there warn’t no damned pence in Kenya, not ever. Now get mad at the people who lied to you.

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Response to Eligibility Primer (Part 1)

by Dr. Conspiracy on 20. Jun, 2009 in Citizenship, Featured Articles

I have come to realize that there are two debates on the question of presidential eligibility and the definition of “natural born citizenship”, and some of the more thoughtful people on each side are debating different things. One debate thesis may be summed up this way:

The Constitution does not define “natural born citizen”, nor is it defined in legislation. The U. S. Supreme Court has never decided the question of the relationship of parentage to natural born citizenship. The uncertainty should be resolved.

The second debate thesis might be summed up this way:

Based on common law principles, and supported by numerous authorities, one may conclude with a high degree of certainty that natural born citizens of the United States are those born within its borders except the children of ambassadors.

Folks like Ken Dunbar and Stephen Tonchen (the author of the piece to be discussed here) are debating the former, and this web site is largely geared towards investigating the latter. If debating the first question, then one might say that Barack Obama’s eligibility is “unproven”, but when debating second one will conclude that it is “proven”.

I have no strong objection to the first thesis, but because I affirm the second, I don’t find that there is any urgency towards a judicial resolution of a question that has already been decided by force of argument, the same argument that would be made to the Court and that would certainly prevail. Whichever the case, I find language like “usurper” to be totally irresponsible. (more…)

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