Posted May 8, 2010
Watch the Interview HERE
Army Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin has refused most orders, until it can be proven that Obama is legitimately eligible to be President and Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces.
The interview on CNN’s 360 program Friday night, May 7, 2010 ended leaving Cooper looking like an idiot to anyone knowledgeable about the case, talking over Lt. Col. Lakin and his lawyer, not allowing them to complete their statements, while he desperately tried to make the following weak case (why is he taking sides?):
Obama has submitted his birth certificate, which can be used to establish citizenship. An official from Hawaii records claims there is a birth certificate and that he was born there. Two newspaper birth announcements have been retrieved. Other officers serve without proving natural born citizenship. Other soldiers can get in the service with only a certification of live birth.
A few small problems there, Mr. Original Teabagger Cooper:
1. Obama never submitted a “birth certificate.” Instead, several digital images of something resembling a “Certification of Live Birth,” a very different animal, magically appeared on a Liberal web site, owned by Annenberg, a former Obama employer. The first two were proven frauds. No actual sample was submitted or vetted by objective experts.
2. A “Certification of Live Birth,” even if it turned out to be real, only says that there is another document on file, that could be an actual hospital birth certificate, or it could be something else, such as an affidavit by a relative claiming that he was born in Hawaii, or even somewhere else. Obama’s half-sister, born in Indonesia, has one. His mother was an expert in getting these.
3. “Citizenship”: even if Obama had it by one means or another, and there is no conclusive proof so far, that does not necessarily meet the higher standard of “natural born citizen.” There are legal precedents that say a natural born citizen is born in the USA of two USA citizen parents. Obama’s father was an alien. Obama may or may not have been born in the USA. In addition, it appears that Obama’s mother did not meet the contiguous residency and age requirements in place at the alleged time of his birth. It is also possible that his citizenship was renounced. Finally, it is possible that he applied for foreign student status scholarships, which either proves he is not natural born, or proves that he is a felon. He has refused to testify or produce birth records, hospital records, scholarship records, travel and passport records, school records, work records, professional records including state Bar, publications, Social Security, Selective Service, etc.
4. Lt Col Lakin’s lawyer said that the controversy could end tonight, if Obama would merely produce his typewritten Hawaiian hospital birth certificate, if it exists, which would end doubts about his birth circumstances. (But then there would still be the small matter of his foreign father and centuries of case law.)
5. The newspaper birth announcements could have been generated from family information supplied, or from the Hawaiian Certification, which does NOT prove natural born citizenship. The standard argument here is that his family could not have known that he would attempt to become president. Well, duh, even his Marxist mother might have wanted him to have the advantages of citizenship in the best country on the planet, right?
6. His multiple Social Security numbers and probable fraudulent draft card weren’t even discussed.
7. Lakin’s lawyer pointed out that other officers and soldiers don’t have to be natural born citizens, but the president does. He also pointed out that the image Cooper flaunted repeatedly is inadmissible.
8. The Hawaiian official broke the law in saying anything and never conclusively stated that there was an actual Hawaiian birth certificate. In any case, the elusive quality of the statement, also not made under oath or deposition, is inadmissible,
Cooper terminated the interview hurriedly, as Lakin and his lawyer tried to further state their case.
Here’s a much more balanced and informative interview, by the infamous Gordon Liddy of Watergate:
We’ll see what happens with the Court-Martial, if there IS a Court-Martial.
Please donate to Lt. Col. Lakin’s defense fund. He is a fine officer, sacrificing much for his country and is deserving of your support. I did. http://www.safeguardourconstitution.com/
Dear Anderson Cooper:
(written by tte author of “The Obama Timeline,” most authoritative and comprenhensive book ever on Obama
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Obama has already proved that he was born in Hawaii by showing the official birth certificate of Hawaii. Hawaii does not and did not in 1961 allow a birth certificate to be issued that says on it “born in Hawaii” unless there was proof that the child was born in Hawaii. Obama’s official birth certificate, the Certification of Live Birth, says on it “born in Hawaii” and the the two top officials of the Department of Health of Hawaii and the governor of Hawaii have repeatedly confirmed that the facts on the document–that he was born in Hawaii in 1961–are accurate.
All US citizens who were born in the USA are Natural Born Citizens, the citizenship of the parents or the dual nationality of the child have no effect on Natural Born status.
“Natural born citizen. Persons who are born within the jurisdiction of a national government, i.e. in its territorial limits, or those born of citizens temporarily residing abroad.” — Black’s Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition
The Wall Street Journal put it this way: “Some birthers imagine that there is a difference between being a “citizen by birth” or a “native citizen” on the one hand and a “natural born” citizen on the other. “Eccentric” is too kind a word for this notion, which is either daft or dishonest. All three terms are identical in meaning.”
Hi Franklin: I thought that at one time until I did some research. You made multiple inaccurate statements.
I suggest that you read the eligibility postings on this site and consult some of the references as well. The results will surprise you.
It is you who are wrong.
You are wrong. There have been many federal lawsuits in which the US-born children of foreign parents have been declared to be Natural Born Citizens.
For example:
Mustata v. US Dept. of Justice, 179 F.3d 1017 (6th Cir. 1999) (children born in US to two Romanian citizens described as “natural born citizens” of the US):
Petitioners Marian and Lenuta Mustata are citizens of Romania. At the time of their petition, they resided in Michigan with their two minor children, who are natural born citizens of the United States.
Diaz-Salazar v. INS, 700 F.2d 1156 (7th Cir. 1983) (child born in US to Mexican citizen is “natural born citizen” of US):
Petitioner, Sebastian Diaz-Salazar, entered the United States illegally [from Mexico] in 1974 and has been living and working in Chicago since that time. *** The relevant facts which have been placed before the INS, BIA, and this court can be summarized as follows: The petitioner has a wife and two children under the age of three in Chicago; the children are natural-born citizens of the United States.
Nwankpa v. Kissinger, 376 F. Supp. 122 (M.D. Ala. 1974) (child born in US to two Biafra citizens described as “natural born citizen” of the US):
The Plaintiff was a native of Biafra, now a part of the Republic of Nigeria. His wife and two older children are also natives of that country, but his third child, a daughter, is a natural-born citizen of the United States.
So we have, at the very least, the law dictionary, the two conservative senators, and these cases.
Moreover, the original meaning of Natural Born was from the British and American common law and from the laws in the colonies and the early states, and it meant at the time of the writing of the Constitution: “Born in the country with the exception of the children of foreign diplomats.”
I also doubted at one time. No one would dare breach the rules to be President. Then I looked further. Oh my. For the best complete report/investigation, a Portland reporter prints all the facts for all to see. Go to http://www.examiner.com/x-7715-Portland-Civil-Rights-Examiner~y2009m7d29-Barak-Obama-must-release-Original-1961-Hawaii-Certificate-of-Live-Birth. In case you made a typo, google Dianna Cotter July 19 2009 Portland and the link will come up. If you’re actually interested in the truth, then this will help. This is the best documentation I have found in understandable terms, other than the actual Hawaii law which is really a clincher!
BTW, why does no one explain why he doesn’t just show us all his documents – like every other President in history? After all, we elected him. We want to know. We need to know.
Franklin:
Four legacy U.S. Supreme Court rulings were based in part on “natural born U.S. citizen” meaning born in the U.S. to U.S. citizen parents.
The above notwithstanding, there’s still the little irksome fact that the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands does not accept a Hawaii “Certification of Live Birth” as prima facie evidence of having been born in Hawaii.
Even Beck is an anti-birther.
This is the biggest cover up and conspiracy in the history of America, just so a half-breed, which is what Obama is, can stay in the WH and relieve the guilt that many White Americans have internalized from the 19th century.