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		<title>What A Joke: Historic EPA finding: Greenhouse gases harm humans</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON – The Obama administration took a major step Monday toward imposing the first federal limits on climate-changing pollution from cars, power plants and factories, declaring there was compelling scientific evidence that global warming from manmade greenhouse gases endangers Americans&#8217; health. The announcement by the Environmental Protection Agency was clearly timed to build momentum toward [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WASHINGTON – The Obama administration took a major step Monday toward imposing the first federal limits on climate-changing pollution from cars, <span id="lw_1260246581_0" class="yshortcuts">power plants</span> and factories, declaring there was compelling scientific evidence that <span id="lw_1260246581_1" class="yshortcuts" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed #0066cc; cursor: pointer;">global warming</span> from manmade <span id="lw_1260246581_2" class="yshortcuts">greenhouse gases</span> endangers Americans&#8217; health.</p>
<p>The announcement by the <span id="lw_1260246581_3" class="yshortcuts" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed #0066cc; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer;">Environmental Protection Agency</span> was clearly timed to build momentum toward an agreement at the international conference on <span id="lw_1260246581_4" class="yshortcuts" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed #0066cc; cursor: pointer;">climate change</span> that opened Monday in Copenhagen, Denmark. It signaled the administration was prepared to push ahead for significant controls in the U.S. if Congress doesn&#8217;t act first on its own.</p>
<p>The price could be steep for both industry and consumers. The EPA finding clears the way for rules that eventually could force the sale of more fuel-efficient vehicles and require plants to install costly new equipment — at a cost of billions or even many tens of billions of dollars — or shift to other forms of energy. &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. {enough said &#8230; garbage, garbage.}</p>
<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.</p>
<p>The current USA administration is really trying hard to socialize the USA. They have a big ass of themselves by announcing this &#8220;historic eap finding&#8221; which everyone in the world today&#8217;s know is a big joke.  Maybe next we will find out milk, vegetables, water and similar foods give out some poison and we need to quit eating &#8230;. says the Obama Administration.</p>
<p>What is the solution to this joke Administration &#8230; IMPEACHMENT !!!</p>
<p>We are getting what we deserve by allowing an illegible person to be president.  Kenya &#8230;. PLEASE take him back. You need his hope and change and we don&#8217;t want it.</p>
<p>Ray Holt</p>
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		<title>Historic Issue:  YOUR PAPERS, PLEASE?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[WorldNet Daily Whistleblower Single Issue &#8211; April 2009 – YOUR PAPERS, PLEASE? Why dozens of lawsuits and millions of Americans want Barack Obama to prove he&#8217;s constitutionally qualified to be president .  With Barack Obama in the White House, millions of Americans are watching the news night after night in sheer shock, wondering out loud [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>WorldNet Daily <a href="http://shop.wnd.com/store/item.asp?ITEM_ID=2767&amp;AD_ID=WBL002" target="_blank">Whistleblower Single Issue &#8211; April 2009</a> </strong> <strong> – YOUR PAPERS, PLEASE? Why dozens of lawsuits and millions of Americans want Barack Obama to prove he&#8217;s constitutionally qualified to be president</strong> .  With Barack Obama in the White House, millions of Americans are watching the news night after night in sheer shock, wondering out loud what the next unprecedented expansion of government power will be. Nationalizing entire industries with gigantic taxpayer bailouts; forcing taxpayers to fund abortion; releasing Gitmo prisoners onto U.S. streets; rapidly converting free-market, capitalist America into a government-run socialist state – every day seems to bring a new unconstitutional power-grab, critics say.</p>
<p>But arguably Obama’s most egregious, unconstitutional “power-grab” as president may have been his very first – being elected to the highest office in the land while steadfastly refusing to offer proof he is a “natural born citizen,” as required of all presidents by the U.S. Constitution.</p>
<p>That explosive story is the focus of the April 2009 edition of WND’s acclaimed Whistleblower magazine. It’s called “YOUR PAPERS, PLEASE? Why dozens of lawsuits and millions of Americans want Barack Obama to prove he&#8217;s constitutionally qualified to be president.”</p>
<p>This issue of Whistleblower “is not only the most complete and thorough exposé of the eligibility questions surrounding Barack Obama&#8217;s presidency,” says WND founder and CEO Joseph Farah, “it is an indictment of the process that put him in the White House Jan. 20 of this year.”</p>
<p>Although Article II section 1 of the Constitution clearly requires that all presidents be “natural born citizens,” the 2008 election proved, Farah points out, “that no controlling legal authority bothered to establish” that Obama was qualified for the Oval Office. “Everybody dropped the ball,” said Farah.</p>
<p>The biggest reason interest in the Obama eligibility issue continues to mount, with ever more legal actions being filed and more Americans demanding answers, says WND Managing Editor David Kupelian, is simple: “Barack Obama is hiding something. About that statement, there is no dispute. Despite dozens of lawsuits, with plaintiffs including a former presidential candidate, a former deputy attorney general, many legislators, active-duty U.S. military and other serious people, Obama simply refuses to release his original, long-form birth certificate. That&#8217;s the one that could actually prove he was born in Hawaii. What is posted on Obama&#8217;s ‘Stop the Smears’ website as well as the FactCheck.org website is the abbreviated short-form ‘certification of live birth’ that <em>could have been issued for a child born overseas,</em> and thus does not prove he was born in Hawaii. What is so difficult about this to understand?”</p>
<p>And while some of the many lawsuits challenging Obama on this issue have reached the eyes of U.S. Supreme Court justices, at least one former state Supreme Court chief justice – Alabama’s Roy Moore – now says the Obama eligibility issue should be adjudicated: “Why doesn&#8217;t the president have to show that he&#8217;s a natural born citizen? … We&#8217;ve had all kinds of suits filed, and the press doesn&#8217;t mention them and the courts continually reject them. … It&#8217;s troubling to me because we&#8217;ll suffer the consequences if we ignore our Constitution.&quot;</p>
<p>Highlights of “YOUR PAPERS, PLEASE?” include:</p>
<ul>
<li> &quot;The question of eligibility&quot; by Joseph Farah</li>
<li> &quot;Why I care about the Obama eligibility issue&quot; by David Kupelian</li>
<li> &quot;Why questions persist regarding Obama&#8217;s qualifications&quot; by Bob Unruh, on why the president&#8217;s defenders never actually address the merits of eligibility challenges</li>
<li> &quot;The 20th Amendment: What if the president-elect fails to qualify?&quot;</li>
<li> &quot;U.S. military officers demanding eligibility proof&quot; by Bob Unruh, regarding which one plaintiff said, &quot;In the worst case … it&#8217;s going to be revolution in the streets&quot;</li>
<li> &quot;What is &#8216;quo warranto&#8217;&quot;</li>
<li> &quot;Scalia: You need 4 votes for Obama eligibility case&quot;</li>
<li> &quot;Ex-chief justice: &#8216;If he&#8217;s not a natural born citizen, he&#8217;s not qualified&#8217;&quot; in which former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore weighs in on the issue</li>
<li> &quot;Was Obama born in Hawaii – or Kenya?&quot; by Jerome R. Corsi, who interviews the private detective who investigated Honolulu hospitals claimed as Obama birthplace; also a report on eyewitnesses to Obama&#8217;s grandmother saying she witnessed his birth in Mombasa, Kenya</li>
<li> &quot;Kenyan ambassador: &#8216;I don&#8217;t know&#8217; if Obama was born in U.S.&quot; by Chelsea Schilling – a revealing follow-up to the on-air &quot;gaffe&quot; by African official about president&#8217;s birth</li>
<li> &quot;What congressmen say about Obama&#8217;s eligibility,&quot; an extensive sampling of what lawmakers are telling constituents about where the president was born</li>
<li> &quot;Eligibility bill hits Congress&quot; by Drew Zahn, detailing U.S. Rep. Bill Posey&#8217;s proposed law requiring candidates to show birth certificate – which would apply to Obama&#8217;s re-election</li>
<li> &quot;Congressman scorned for suggesting eligibility proof,&quot; documenting media reaction to Rep. Bill Posey&#8217;s eligibility bill, including MSNBC&#8217;s Keith Olbermann who advises the congressman to &quot;take the Reynolds Wrap off your head&quot;</li>
<li> &quot;States reviewing &#8216;eligibility&#8217; challenges,&quot; detailing how Montana has tabled its plan while Oklahoma&#8217;s gets committee approval</li>
<li> &quot;California used to check presidential candidates&#8217; qualifications&quot;</li>
<li> &quot;Wikipedia scrubs Obama eligibility&quot; by Aaron Klein, who documents how the very mention of citizenship issues is deleted in minutes and &quot;offending&quot; users banned</li>
<li> &quot;Judge ripped for using blog hearsay&quot; by Bob Unruh, on the eligibility case lawyer who says he&#8217;s entitled to see Obama&#8217;s birth certificate during &quot;discovery&quot; process</li>
<li> &quot;Resolving Obama birth issue &#8216;once and for all&#8217;&quot; by Leo C. Donofrio, in which the attorney proposes a solution to what he calls the &quot;bottomless pit of pending litigation&quot;</li>
<li> &quot;Does dual citizenship disqualify a candidate from being president?&quot;</li>
<li> &quot;Chief justice accepts lawsuit docs, WND petition&quot; by Drew Zahn, in which John Roberts agrees to read Obama filings and consider WorldNetDaily&#8217;s 330,000 online petition signers</li>
<li> &quot;Obama team threatens plaintiffs&quot; by Alan Keyes, the former Reagan diplomat and presidential candidate who rallies all involved in the eligibility battle to stand firm</li>
</ul>
<p>“To me, this is a historic issue of Whistleblower magazine,” says Farah. “I do not pretend to know where the information you are about to read will lead. But I do know that it is explosive, profoundly important and represents much more than the future of the Barack Obama administration. No less than our Constitution – the foundation of our national liberties and the rule of law in America – is at stake.”</p>
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		<title>Obama Eligibility battle rages on 3 fronts</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted: January 18, 2009 12:05 am Eastern  By Bob Unruh © 2009 WorldNetDaily Officials at Occidental College in Los Angeles, Calif., have been served with a demand to produce records concerning Barack Obama&#8217;s attendance there during the 1980s because they could document whether he was attending as a foreign national – in one of three [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Posted: January 18, 2009 12:05 am Eastern  By Bob Unruh © 2009 WorldNetDaily</p>
<p>Officials at Occidental College in Los Angeles, Calif., have been served with a demand to produce records concerning Barack Obama&#8217;s attendance there during the 1980s because they could document whether he was attending as a foreign national – in one of three fronts now established by those contesting the president-elect&#8217;s constitutional eligibility for the Oval Office.</p>
<p>The Supreme Court and Congress also both are being challenged to address the worries that Obama doesn&#8217;t meet the requirements of the U.S. Constitution that the president be a &quot;natural born&quot; citizen.</p>
<p>WND has reported on a long list of legal cases raising questions over the issue, and several of those have reached the U.S. Supreme Court already. Justices have so far declined to give any of the cases full hearings on their merits, but another conference remains on the Supreme Court docket for Jan. 23 on the issue.</p>
<p>&quot;If Obama is sworn in as president, we will file a Petition for Writ of &#8216;Quo Warranto,&#8217; a case that will challenge Obama as being ineligible to serve as president because he is &#8216;not qualified,&#8217;&quot; said Philip J. Berg, a lawyer who has brought several cases to court. Berg, whose information is on his ObamaCrimes.com website, indicated the issue isn&#8217;t going away.</p>
<p>Orly Taitz, a California lawyer whose dispute remains pending before the high court, agreed, noting that one of the hearings already is scheduled for the days following Obama&#8217;s inaugural on Tuesday.</p>
<p>Taitz said her arguments rest on precedents from both the California Supreme Court, which years ago removed a candidate for president from the ballot because he was only 34, and the U.S. Supreme Court&#8217;s affirmation of that ruling. The Constitution requires a president to be 35.</p>
<p>In one of the latest developments, Gary Kreep of the United States Justice Foundation petitioned Occidental College with a demand for its records concerning Obama.</p>
<p>&quot;The gravamen of the petition is the question as to whether United States Senator Barack Hussein Obama, of Illinois, is eligible to serve as president of the United States pursuant to the requirements for that office in the Untied States Constitution,&quot; he wrote. &quot;The records sought may provide documentary evidence, and/or admissions by said defendant, as to said eligibility or lack thereof.&quot;</p>
<p>Where&#8217;s the proof Barack Obama was born in the U.S. or that he fulfills the &quot;natural-born American&quot; clause in the Constitution? If you still want to see it, join more than 200,000 others and sign the petition demanding proof of eligibility now!</p>
<p>College officials confirmed they had gotten the notice, but had not decided how to respond, a decision that may be removed from their hands because of the team of lawyers Obama has engaged to prevent such inquiries into his past.</p>
<p>&quot;Senator Obama has filed responsive pleadings in this matter and is represented by counsel, and has the opportunity to object to this production, should he so desire,&quot; the affidavit from Kreep said.</p>
<p>&quot;Good cause exists for this production under Subpoena Duces Tecum, in that testimony will be elicited from the original records obtained through the witness named herein, and there is no other process available to secure said testimony,&quot; he wrote.</p>
<p>The lawsuits allege in various ways Obama does not meet the &quot;natural born citizen&quot; clause of the U.S. Constitution, Article 2, Section 1, which reads, &quot;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.&quot;</p>
<p>Some allege his birth took place in Kenya, and his mother was a minor at the time of his birth – too young to confer American citizenship. They argue Obama&#8217;s father, Barack Obama Sr., was a Kenyan citizen subject to the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom at the time and would have handed down British citizenship.</p>
<p>There also are questions raised about Obama&#8217;s move to Indonesia when he was a child and his attendance at school there when only Indonesian citizens were allowed and his travel to Pakistan in the &#8217;80s when such travel was forbidden to American citizens.</p>
<p>The lawsuit on which USJF is working was filed on behalf of presidential candidate Alan Keyes and others, and describes the potential damage an ineligible president could create.</p>
<p>&quot;Should Senator Obama be discovered, after he takes office, to be ineligible for the Office of President of the United States of America and, thereby, his election declared void,&quot; argues a case brought on behalf of Ambassador Alan Keyes, also a presidential candidate. &quot;Americans will suffer irreparable harm in that (a) usurper will be sitting as the President of the United States, and none of the treaties, laws, or executive orders signed by him will be valid or legal.&quot;</p>
<p>On his ObamaCrimes.com website, Berg sent his message directly to the U.S. Congress.</p>
<p>He&#8217;s asking in an open letter to members of Congress for congressional hearings &quot;to determine the truth regarding qualifications of Barry Soetoro, otherwise known as Barack Hussein Obama…&quot;</p>
<p>&quot;As you must be aware, there are many unresolved questions concerning Soetoro/Obama&#8217;s status or lack thereof, as a &#8216;natural born&#8217; American citizen, as required by &#8216;our&#8217; U.S. Constitution,&quot; he wrote.</p>
<p>He noted the failure by Congress to challenge Obama&#8217;s eligibility during the process through which the Electoral College vote was adopted.</p>
<p>&quot;Because of your failure to &#8216;question&#8217; the eligibility of Soetoro/Obama, we are headed for a &#8216;Constitutional Crisis.&#8217; Yes, a &#8216;Constitutional Crisis&#8217; because Soetoro/Obama who appears not to be a &#8216;natural born&#8217; U.S. citizen is &#8216;ineligible&#8217; under &#8216;our&#8217; U.S. Constitution to serve as president,&quot; he said.</p>
<p>He cited the document published on the Internet by Obama&#8217;s campaign, the &quot;Certification of Live Birth,&quot; as no more than an effort to &quot;quash&quot; questions. Other critics have noted the state of Hawaii granted such certifications to parents of children not born in the state at the time.</p>
<p>&quot;Without truthful information concerning Soetoro/Obama&#8217;s eligibility to serve as President, &#8216;We the People&#8217; have been injured,&quot; he wrote.</p>
<p>Taitz took a different route, submitting to the U.S. Supreme Court a motion &quot;to declare that by default, the president elect respondent Barack Obama has failed to qualify under [the] U.S. Constitution.&quot;</p>
<p>&quot;Does the burden of proof lie with the petitioner to prove standing and evidence lack of qualification by a candidate/president elect, where election officers rely on a candidate&#8217;s declaration? OR does the [Constitution] place the burden of proof on the president-elect to provide objective government certified witnessed proofs, with election officers under oath to challenge, examine and declare that the president elect has or has not qualified, enforceable by petition for redress of grievances?&quot;</p>
<p>Not only has the respondent, Obama, &quot;failed to submit proofs … for any of the qualifications,&quot; she wrote. &quot;Respondent has hindered discovery.&quot;</p>
<p>She argued that having Obama declared ineligible until he would provide documentation would &quot;cause far less political trauma&quot; than allowing his inauguration because it would uphold the constitution.</p>
<p>She also raised the issue of the concealment of Obama&#8217;s records.</p>
<p>&quot;Obama has refused to submit certified copies of any of his original long form &#8216;vault&#8217; birth certificates in Hawaii to any public officer or to any Petitioner. Relevant records in Kenya have also been officially restricted,&quot; she said. &quot;Obama has sealed all educational records which might reveal his stated citizenship. These include Punahou High School, Occidental College, Columbia University, and Harvard Law School.&quot;</p>
<p>Her letter included a warning, too.</p>
<p>&quot;Thirty-three democracies descended into tyranny during the 20th century by failing to uphold constitutional protections,&quot; she said. &quot;Petitioner humbly prays this Court evaluate the Petitioner&#8217;s case in context of how best to enforce restrictive qualifications for president to preserve the Constitution and Republic from tyranny.&quot;</p>
<p>WND twice has organized opportunities for readers to send FedEx letters to the Supreme Court, asking for consideration of the issue on its merits.</p>
<p>The most recent campaign generated 12,096 messages, following the earlier effort that resulted in 60,128 letters.</p>
<p>Obama has claimed in his autobiography and elsewhere that he was born in Hawaii in 1961 to parents Barack Hussein Obama Sr., a Kenyan national, and Stanley Ann Dunham, a minor. But details about which hospital handled the birth and other details provided on the complete birth certificate have been withheld by Obama despite lawsuits and public demands for release.</p>
<p>WND senior reporter Jerome Corsi went to both Kenya and Hawaii prior to the election to investigate issues surrounding Obama&#8217;s birth. But his research and discoveries only raised more questions.</p>
<p>The biggest question was why, if a Hawaii birth certificate exists as his campaign has stated, Obama hasn&#8217;t simply ordered it made available to settle the rumors.</p>
<p>The governor&#8217;s office in Hawaii said there is a valid certificate but rejected requests for access and left ambiguous its origin: Does the certificate on file with the Department of Health indicate a Hawaii birth or was it generated after the Obama family registered a Kenyan birth in Hawaii?</p>
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<p>After President-elect Barack Obama and the Democratic National Committee let a Dec. 1 deadline slip by without responding to Pennsylvania attorney Philip J. Berg&#8217;s petition for writ of certiorari demanding Obama produce a legitimate birth certificate, the attorney is now filing a motion to stop Obama from taking office in January.</p>
<p>Berg has filed an emergency motion for immediate injunction, <a href="http://www.americasright.com/2008/08/berg-v-obama-at-americas-right.html">America&#8217;s Right</a> blogger and legal writer Jeff Schreiber reports. Berg is asking the court to stop state certification of electors to keep the Electoral College from <a id="KonaLink1" class="kLink" style="text-decoration: underline ! important; position: static;" href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=82530#" target="undefined" class="kLink"><span style="color: blue ! important; font-weight: 400; font-size: 17px; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="color: blue ! important; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,Georgia,Serif; font-weight: 400; font-size: 17px; position: static;">meeting</span> </span> </a> Dec. 15 and casting votes for Obama. He is also seeking to postpone the official vote count Jan. 6 until the court reaches a decision on his appeal.</p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=81550">Where&#8217;s the  proof Barack Obama was born in the U.S. and thus a &quot;natural-born American&quot; as required by  Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution? If you still want to see it, sign  WND&#8217;s petition demanding the release of his birth certificate.</a> </em></p>
<p>&quot;It is my firm belief, my one thousand percent firm belief,&quot; Berg told Schreiber, &quot;that he does not meet the natural born qualifications, that he should not be voted for by the electors, and that he should not be sworn in this January unless he shows his credentials &#8230; which he of course cannot, simply because he does not have them.&quot;</p>
<p>Berg filed his petition Oct. 30, and according to procedure, a response from the defendants was due yesterday. While the Federal Election Commission waived its right to respond to the complaint Nov. 18, there has been no word from Obama or the DNC.</p>
<p>The parties are not legally required to respond, and Berg said he doesn&#8217;t expect them to do so. He believes the defendants will argue that he lacks standing.</p>
<p>&quot;If they were going to respond, I get the feeling that it would have been in there by now,&quot; Berg told Schreiber. &quot;The feeling may be that, if they respond, they could hold themselves out for perjury later on when we&#8217;re successful. That&#8217;s why, in the lower court, they just relied on a motion to dismiss based on standing. Here, they may not want to file an actual, specific response in the <a id="KonaLink2" class="kLink" style="text-decoration: underline ! important; position: static;" href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=82530#" target="undefined" class="kLink"><span style="color: blue ! important; font-weight: 400; font-size: 17px; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="border-bottom: 1px solid blue; color: blue ! important; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,Georgia,Serif; font-weight: 400; font-size: 17px; position: static; padding-bottom: 1px; background-color: transparent;">Supreme </span> <span class="kLink" style="border-bottom: 1px solid blue; color: blue ! important; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,Georgia,Serif; font-weight: 400; font-size: 17px; position: static; padding-bottom: 1px; background-color: transparent;">Court</span> </span> <span id="preLoadWrap2" style="position: relative;"></p>
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<p>Berg referenced nationwide efforts to demand Obama produce an original birth certificate.</p>
<p>&quot;We&#8217;re finding that there is a great interest across the United States,&quot; Berg said. &quot;I&#8217;ve been on talk show after talk show, and the more the case is discussed, the more people are made aware of it and are disgusted by the fact that Obama just won&#8217;t simply produce the credentials showing he&#8217;s qualified. Hopefully, some authority will demand it.&quot;</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama Fomenting A Constitutional Crisis: Constitutional Lawyer Discusses Ramifications Of Controversy By John P. Connolly, The Bulletin 12/01/2008 Controversy continues to surround President-elect Barack Obama&#8217;s eligibility to serve as president, and a case involving his birth certificate waits for its day before the U.S. Supreme Court. A constitutional lawyer said were it to be discovered [...]]]></description>
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<div class="story">Controversy continues to surround President-elect Barack Obama&#8217;s eligibility to serve as president, and a case involving his birth certificate waits for its day before the U.S. Supreme Court. A constitutional lawyer said were it to be discovered that Mr. Obama is not a natural-born U.S. citizen, it would have grave consequences for the nation.</p>
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<p>According to the Constitution, a president must be a natural born citizen of the U.S. Mr. Obama&#8217;s critics have failed to force him legally to produce his original birth certificate, and Mr. Obama has resisted any attempt to make him do so. Currently, only Hawaii Department of Health officials have access to Mr. Obama&#8217;s original records.</p>
<p>Some of Mr. Obama&#8217;s critics have said he was born in Kenya and have claimed he is a citizen of Kenya, Indonesia, or even a British subject.</p>
<p>Edwin Vieira, a constitutional lawyer who has practiced for 30 years and holds four degrees from Harvard, said if it were to be discovered Mr. Obama were not eligible for the presidency, it would cause many problems. They would be compounded if his ineligibility were discovered after he had been in office for a period of time.</p>
<p>&quot;Let&#8217;s assume he wasn&#8217;t born in the U.S.,&quot; Mr. Vieira told The Bulletin. &quot;What&#8217;s the consequence? He will not be eligible. That means he cannot be elected validly. The people and the Electoral College cannot overcome this and the House of Representatives can&#8217;t make him president. So what&#8217;s the next step? He takes the oath of office, and assuming he&#8217;s aware he&#8217;s not a citizen, then it&#8217;s a perjured oath.&quot;</p>
<p>Any appointments made by an ineligible president would have to be recalled, and their decisions would be invalidated.</p>
<p>&quot;He may have nominated people to different positions; he may have nominated people to the judicial branch, who may have been confirmed, they may have gone out on xecutive duty and done various things,&quot; said Mr. Vieira. &quot;The people that he&#8217;s put into the judicial branch may have decided cases, and all of that needs to be unzipped.&quot;</p>
<p>Mr. Vieira said Obama supporters should be the ones concerned about the case, because Mr. Obama&#8217;s platform would be discredited it he were forced to step down from the presidency later due to his ineligibility, were it to be discovered.</p>
<p>&quot;Let&#8217;s say we go a year into this process, and it all turns out to be a flim-flam,&quot; said Mr. Vieira. &quot;What&#8217;s the nation&#8217;s reaction to that? What&#8217;s going to be the reaction in the next U.S. election? God knows. It has almost revolutionary consequences, if you think about it.&quot;</p>
<p>Mr. Vieira said Mr. Obama&#8217;s continued silence and avoidance in the release of his birth certificate is an ethical issue because of the dire consequences that could be caused by a possible constitutional crisis.</p>
<p>&quot;If he were my client and this question came up in civil litigation, if there was some reason that his birth status was relevant and the other side wanted him to produce the thing and he said &#8216;no,&#8217; I would tell him, &#8216;you have about 15 minutes to produce it or sign the papers necessary to produce the document, or I&#8217;m resigning as your attorney,&quot; said Mr. Vieira. &quot;I don&#8217;t think any ethical attorney would go ahead on the basis that his client could produce an objective document in civil litigation [and refused to do so].&quot;</p>
<p>Further, Mr. Vieira cited a fraud ruling in a 1977 case called U.S. v. Prudden, which he feels applies in this case.</p>
<p>&quot;Silence can only be equated with fraud when there is a legal and moral duty to speak or when an inquiry left unanswered would be intentionally misleading,&quot; the ruling reads. &quot;We cannot condone this shocking conduct &#8230; If that is the case we hope our message is clear. This sort of deception will not be tolerated and if this is routine it should be corrected immediately.&quot;</p>
<p>Mr. Vieira said such an ethical question of representing a client who refused to produce such a basic document is important, even in a small civil case. The current question is concerning the man who potentially could have his finger next to the nuclear button.</p>
<p>&quot;[The birth certificate], in theory, should be there,&quot; said Mr. Vieira. &quot;What if it isn&#8217;t? Who knows, aside from Mr. Obama? Does Russian intelligence know it isn&#8217;t there? Does Chinese intelligence know it isn&#8217;t there? Does the CIA know that it isn&#8217;t there? Who is in a position to blackmail this fellow?&quot;</p>
<p>Mr. Vieira explained all laws have to be submitted to the president. In the event that there is no valid president, then no laws passed by Congress in that administration would be legally null and void. Because of that, this case will probably not go away, even after Mr. Obama takes the oath of office.</p>
<p>&quot;If you don&#8217;t produce it, you think it&#8217;s going to go away,&quot; he said. &quot;There are all these cases challenging Mr. Obama, and some challenging secretaries of state, and they run into this doctrine called standing.&quot;</p>
<p>Mr. Vieira explained although legal standing is difficult to get around in Federal courts, the document could be produced in any criminal cases stemming from legislation passed in the Obama administration.</p>
<p>&quot;Let&#8217;s assume that an Obama administration passes some of these controversial pieces of legislation he has been promising to go for, like the FOCA (Freedom of Choice) Act,&quot; said Mr. Vieira. &quot;I would assume that some of those surely will have some severe civil or criminal penalties attached to them for violation. You are now the criminal defendant under this statute, which was passed by an Obama Congress and signed by President Obama. Your defense is that is not a statute because Mr. Obama is not the president. You now have a right and I have never heard this challenged, to subpoena in a criminal case, anyone who has relevant evidence relating to your defenses. And you can subpoena them duces tecum, meaning &#8216;you shall bring with you the documents.&#8217; &quot;</p>
<p>Such a criminal defense would enable the defendant to subpoena any person to testify in court and any person to bring evidence in their possession to the court.</p>
<p>Further, records could be subpoenaed directly, in the case of a birth certificate. Once the record could be subpoenaed, the birth certificate could be examined by forensic experts, who would then be able to testify to the document&#8217;s veracity as expert witnesses. Any movement by the judges to make a special exception to the president in a criminal case would hurt the legitimacy of that presidential administration.</p>
<p>&quot;I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m the only lawyer who would think of this,&quot; said Mr. Vieira. &quot;I think any criminal lawyer defending against one of these politically charged statutes is going to come up with this. That means it will never go away until that document is laid down on the table and people say, &#8216;yes, there it is.&#8217; And therefore they&#8217;re caught. If people keep challenging this and the judges out of fear keep saying &#8216;no, go to jail, go to jail, go to jail&#8217; then that&#8217;s the end of the Obama administration&#8217;s legitimacy. On the other hand if they open the file and it&#8217;s not there, then that&#8217;s really the end of the administration&#8217;s legitimacy.&quot;</p>
<p>Several court cases in the birth certificate controversy are waiting admission to the Supreme Court.</p>
<p>A gathering of judges will meet on Dec. 5 to decide whether or not to hear a case from New Jersey, and a decision is still pending on a case from a lawyer in Pennsylvania. Should four of the judges vote to hear the case in the Dec. 5 meeting, then it will be scheduled for hearings. Court cases from Connecticut and New York have also applied for hearings at the U.S. Supreme Court.</p>
<p>John P. Connolly can be reached at jconnolly@thebulletin.us<a href="http://www.thebulletin.us" target="_blank">Full Story &#8230;</a></div>
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		<description><![CDATA[November 25, 2008 9:18 pm Eastern By Bob Unruh © 2008 WorldNetDaily Lawyer lining up plaintiff groups until citizenship dispute addressed. A lawyer who is playing a key role in a California lawsuit urging officials to prevent the state&#8217;s 55 Electoral College votes from being recorded for Barack Obama until questions about his citizenship are [...]]]></description>
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<p>A lawyer who is playing a key role in a California lawsuit urging officials to prevent the state&#8217;s 55 Electoral College votes from being recorded for Barack Obama until questions about his citizenship are resolved says he&#8217;s organizing plans to challenge, even after the inauguration, every order, every proposal, every piece of paperwork generated by Obama.</p>
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<p>&quot;We will file lawsuits on his actions, every time. As long as we have money , we will keep filing lawsuits until we get a decision as to his citizenship status,&quot; Gary Kreep, chief of the United States Justice Foundation, told WND today.</p>
<p>&quot;We&#8217;re already talking to groups who are willing to be plaintiffs,&quot; he said.</p>
<p>As WND reported, Kreep filed the California challenge with presidential candidate Alan Keyes as a plaintiff.</p>
<p>The complaint urges the California secretary of state to refuse to allow the state&#8217;s 55 Electoral College votes to be cast until Obama&#8217;s citizenship and related eligibility to hold office is resolved.</p>
<p>It is just one of more than a dozen legal challenges brought forward so far over Obama&#8217;s citizenship. The cases all cite Obama&#8217;s clouded history and the U.S. Constitution&#8217;s requirement that a president be a &quot;natural-born&quot; citizen.</p>
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<p>There have been allegations he was born in Kenya, not Hawaii as his campaign has reported, that he could be considered a British subject because of his father&#8217;s residency in what then was a British protectorate that later became Kenya, and that the &quot;Certificate of Live Birth&quot; posted on his website simply shows his mother registered his birth in Hawaii after he was born but does not document a location.</p>
<p>There also have been questions raised about his travels as a youth, including the years he spent registered as a Muslim in an Indonesian school, and his later travels to Pakistan at a time when U.S. passports weren&#8217;t welcome in that nation.</p>
<p>WND senior reporter Jerome Corsi traveled to Kenya and Hawaii prior to the election to investigate issues surrounding Obama&#8217;s birth. But his research and discoveries only raised more questions.</p>
<p>The biggest question is why Obama, if a Hawaii birth certificate exists, simply hasn&#8217;t ordered it made available to settle the rumors.</p>
<p>The governor&#8217;s office in Hawaii said there is a valid certificate but rejected requests for access and left ambiguous its origin: Does the certificate on file with the Department of Health indicate a Hawaii birth or was it generated after the Obama family registered a Kenyan birth in Hawaii?</p>
<p>Obama&#8217;s half-sister, Maya Soetoro, has named two different Hawaii hospitals where Obama could have been born, while a video posted on YouTube features Obama&#8217;s Kenyan grandmother Sarah claiming to have witnessed Obama&#8217;s birth in Kenya.</p>
<p>The California action was filed on behalf of Keyes, as well as Wiley S. Drake and Markham Robinson, both California electors.</p>
<p>&quot;Should Senator Obama be discovered, after he takes office, to be ineligible for the Office of President of the United States of America and, thereby, his election declared void, Petitioners, as well as other Americans, will suffer irreparable harm in that (a) usurper will be sitting as the President of the United States, and none of the treaties, laws, or executive orders signed by him will be valid or legal,&quot; the action challenges.</p>
<p>Kreep told WND today he&#8217;s now working with several groups that could serve as plaintiffs to challenge Obama&#8217;s actions, even from the Oval Office, should the issue remain in dispute.</p>
<p>&quot;There is a reasonable and common expectation by the voters that to qualify for the ballot, the individuals running for office must meet minimum qualifications as outlined in the federal and state Constitutions and statutes, and that compliance with those minimum qualifications has been confirmed by the officials overseeing the election process,&quot; the complaint said, when in fact the only documentation currently required is a signed statement from the candidate attesting to those qualifications.</p>
<p>The issue is much more important than a single candidate, said Judge Roy Moore, the former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court and a WND columnist. He now runs the Foundation for Moral Law.</p>
<p>Moore had his own constitutional confrontation when he was removed from his position Alabama Supreme Court chief justice after he refused to remove from state grounds a monument recognizing the Ten Commandments as the foundation for U.S. law.</p>
<p>&quot;We can survive four years of any president; we cannot survive without a Constitution,&quot; he told WND. &quot;This calls for a major investigation. Our Constitution is at stake.&quot;</p>
<p>Moore said the requirement for a president to be a natural-born citizen is clear in the Constitution. The document, he added, provides procedures to amend the requirement, but that hasn&#8217;t been done.</p>
<p>&quot;We live under the rule of law,&quot; he warned, &quot;If we start ignoring that. &#8230;&quot;</p>
<p>A WND reader agreed in a letter to the editor.</p>
<p>&quot;If Obama is allowed to take office without proving his citizenship, then we have no Constitution. America as it&#8217;s been will be dead. If an easy to understand rule is ignored, then the others harder to understand will be easy to ignore,&quot; wrote Tony Costello.</p>
<p>Moore said, &quot;If a person is not qualified, he&#8217;s not qualified. It doesn&#8217;t matter who it is, Republican, Democrat, black or white, rich or poor.&quot;</p>
<p>He added the members of the Electoral College have an obligation to verify Obama&#8217;s qualifications before voting for him.</p>
<p>But he said the dispute may end up with court action, too.</p>
<p>&quot;The courts are there to uphold the law. People have a right to change the Constitution. But until then it&#8217;s the rule of law,&quot; he said.</p>
<p>&quot;I don&#8217;t see any reason a candidate who has such a serious question would not come forward with the truth about where he was born,&quot; Moore said.</p>
<p>&quot;The Supreme Court has to answer this. They have to do it by law and not by the popularity of a person. If we do that, we might as well throw the Constitution out the window,&quot; Moore said.</p>
<p>&quot;[Obama] has the answer. He knows where he was born. If he tells something that&#8217;s untrue that&#8217;s another matter. It&#8217;s not an Obama issue, it&#8217;s an American issue. It&#8217;s about the Constitution of the United States.&quot;</p>
<p>U.S. State Department officials declined to respond to WND inquiries about the process for keeping a U.S. citizenship while attending schools in Indonesia, or the possibility of a U.S. citizen keeping that status while traveling on another nation&#8217;s passport.</p>
<p>But several online &quot;fact&quot; sites have reported that the concerns over Obama&#8217;s citizenship are much ado about nothing.</p>
<p>Factcheck.org, for example, has posted an image described as Obama&#8217;s &quot;birth certificate.&quot; But within the image can be seen the words &quot;Certificate of Live Birth,&quot; which is not the same document. In Hawaii at the time Obama was born the state would issue a &quot;Certificate of Live Birth&quot; to a parent registering a birth, but it does not indicate the location of the birth.</p>
<p>&quot;FactCheck.org staffers have now seen, touched, examined and photographed the original birth certificate,&quot; the group said in a statement accompanying the image of the &quot;Certificate of Live Birth.&quot;</p>
<p>Snopes, also, attested to Obama&#8217;s U.S. citizenship, citing information from the campaign itself.</p>
<p>However, WND columnist Janet Porter, who has investigated the dispute, wrote in her column today that there are too many questions to ignore.</p>
<p>&quot;In Hawaii, a Certification of Live Birth is issued within a year of a child&#8217;s birth to those who register a birth abroad or one that takes place outside a hospital,&quot; she said.</p>
<p>She cited the work of Ron Polarik, who holds a Ph.D. in instructional media and specializes in computer graphics with over 20 years experience with computers, printers and typewriters.</p>
<p>&quot;Polarik has submitted a signed affidavit and has now released his findings on video at www.ObamaForgery.com with his identity masked and voice altered to guard against the carrying out of threats, which he has already received,&quot; Porter wrote.</p>
<p>&quot;The Summary: The Certificate of Live Birth documents posted on Mr. Obama&#8217;s website www.fightthesmears.com , Daily Kos (a pro-Obama blog) and factcheck.org, (a pro-Obama political research group), were found to be altered and forged,&quot; she said.</p>
<p>The researcher cited problems with pixels in the image and a fold line and a blurry border. He asserts the border is a 2007 version while the seal and signature are from 2008.</p>
<p>She also cited issues beyond the birth certificate.</p>
<p>&quot;There&#8217;s the matter that Obama traveled to Indonesia, Pakistan, Southern India and Kenya in 1981. He said he went to Indonesia to see his mother. This seemed plausible, except for the fact that his mother returned to Hawaii in August of 1980 to file for a divorce from her second husband, Lolo Soetoro. Unless she went back to pal around with the man she divorced, she wasn&#8217;t there at the time of Obama&#8217;s visit,&quot; Porter wrote.</p>
<p>&quot;There&#8217;s another problem. No record of Obama holding an American passport prior to the one he received once becoming a U.S. senator has been found. If he traveled to Pakistan with an American passport, he wouldn&#8217;t have been allowed in – since Pakistan was in turmoil in 1981 and under martial law. It was also on the State Department&#8217;s travel ban list for U.S. citizens,&quot; she wrote.</p>
<p>&quot;If he couldn&#8217;t get into Pakistan with a U.S. passport, perhaps he went there with an Indonesian passport. But the only way you can get one of those is if you are an Indonesian citizen ,&quot; she wrote.</p>
<p>Porter encouraged residents to contact the members of the House Judiciary Committee with a request to hold congressional hearings and write to the U.S. Supreme Court to request a ruling.</p>
<p>On the FederalistBlog the writers concluded:</p>
<p>&quot;A child born to an American mother and alien father could be said to be a citizen of the United States by some affirmative act of law but never entitled to be a natural-born citizen because through laws of nature the child inherits the condition of their father.&quot;</p>
<p>Obama&#8217;s mother held U.S. citizenship, but his father never did.</p>
<p>WND also reported that Herb Titus, the Constitution Party&#8217;s running mate to Howard Phillips in 1996 and recognized authority on the U.S. Constitution, said it is up the electors from the 50 states to make certain Obama is a natural-born U.S. citizen before they cast votes for him in the Electoral College Dec. 15.</p>
<p>&quot;If they do their duty, they would make sure that if they cast a vote for Mr. Obama, that Mr. Obama is a natural-born citizen,&quot; he told WND.</p>
<p>&quot;I think it should be resolved. The duty is in the Electoral College. Every Obama elector that is committed to casting a vote on the 15th of December, they have a constitutional duty to make certain whether Mr. Obama is a natural-born citizen,&quot; he said.</p>
<p>If the electors fail their duty and Obama proves ultimately to fail the eligibility requirement of the U.S. Constitution, there would be only the laborious, contentious and cumbersome process of impeachment available to those who would wish to follow the Constitution, he suggested.</p>
<p>On WND&#8217;s new forum page, the level of frustration was rising. Dozens contributed their thoughts immediately after the forum was posted:</p>
<p>&quot;What makes Obama non-respon[sive] to the simplest of requests?&quot; asked one reader. &quot;Does he think that it is politically incorrect to ask for authentication of the myriad of facts about himself … Is he testing the grounds to see how far he can play with this charade?&quot;</p>
<p>Other comments included:</p>
<p>* &quot;Obama won his first election ever by getting three Democratic opponents thrown off the ballot? He&#8217;s all for using the law to help himself win. Wouldn&#8217;t it be ironic if he is not allowed to serve as president due to the law? … Turn around is fair play!<br />
* &quot;Even the left-wing liberal news media is beginning to ask the question: &#8216;Who is this man we have elected? We really do not know much about him.&#8217;&quot;<br />
* &quot;Obama&#8217;s refusal to produce the ORIGINAL given birth certificate gives us all pause. His silence on these allegations is deafening. The anointed one believes that if he can hold us all back until he&#8217;s in the Oval Office he&#8217;s hit a home run and he&#8217;s &#8216;safe.&#8217; Ah, not so! Check your law, Obama, and you will see that even if were to make it to the White House you will no longer be able to hide behind those red velvet ropes.&quot;<br />
* &quot;There must be something that would have caused him great harm prior to the election, and would have stopped him from becoming elected. What could that little piece of information be?&quot;</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do You Support Our US Constitution ?<br />
Do You Want The Truth ?<br />
You Can Make A Difference!!!</p>
<p>Please, Follow these 7 Steps Below:<br />
_____________________________</p>
<p>1.  Mail Letters to All 9 Supreme Court Justices<br />
(See Letter Below + Addresses)</p>
<p>2. CC Your Letter Via Web-Mail Using the Federal Government Website to President George W. Bush<br />
<a href="http://www.usa.gov" target="_blank"> http://www.usa.gov</a><br />
LOOK FOR ” CONTACT US ”</p>
<p>3. Sign This On-Line Petition &amp; Send Your On-Line Letter to Your Area Congress Members:<br />
<a href="http://www.rallycongress.com/constitutional-qualification/1244/stop-obama-constitutional-crisis" target="_blank"> http://www.rallycongress.com/constitutional-qualification/1244/stop-obama-constitutional-crisis</a></p>
<p>4. Send Your On-Line Letter to Your Area Senators:<br />
Link To List Of Senators by State<br />
~ Use Webform Link under each Senators Name<br />
Paste in Letter Below:<br />
<a href="http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm" target="_blank"> http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm</a></p>
<p>5. Mail Letters to the Members of the Electoral College<br />
(See Link Below For Names &amp; Addresses:<a href="http://americamustknow.com/electoralcollegecase.aspx" target="_blank"></a> <a href="ttp://americamustknow.com/electoralcollegecase.aspx" target="_blank"><br />
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<p>6. Web Mail Your Letter(s) to Governors:<br />
Republican Governors Association:<br />
<a href="http://www.rga.org" target="_blank"> http://www.rga.org</a><br />
______________________________</p>
<p>7.) Copy &amp; Forward This To All Your Friends &amp; Family<br />
______________________________</p>
<p>* Letter Below<br />
______________________________</p>
<p>These 5 Websites below are designed to work in tandem on this very issue and contain additional information.</p>
<p><strong>PETITION FOR PUBLIC RELEASE OF BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA&#8217;S BIRTH CERTIFICATE<br />
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<a href="http://americamustknow.com/default.aspx" target="_blank"> http://americamustknow.com/default.aspx</a></p>
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<a href="http://www.democratic-disaster.com" target="_blank"> http://www.democratic-disaster.com</a></p>
<p>We the People USA:<br />
<a href="http://wethepeopleusa.ning.com" target="_blank"> http://wethepeopleusa.ning.com</a><br />
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<p>United States Supreme Court<br />
1 First Street NE<br />
Washington DC 20543</p>
<p>The Supreme Court Justices are as follows:</p>
<p>Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts<br />
Supreme Court Justice John Stevens<br />
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia<br />
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy<br />
Supreme Court Justice David Souter<br />
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas<br />
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsburg<br />
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer<br />
Supreme Court Justice Samual Alito<br />
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<p>FEEL FREE TO EDIT THIS LETTER TO USE RE ANY OF THE CASES:</p>
<p>Your Full Name<br />
Your Full Address</p>
<p>Date</p>
<p>Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts<br />
United States Supreme Court<br />
1 First Street NE<br />
Washington DC 20543</p>
<p>Re: Case Nos.: (08-4340)/Docket for 08-570/Case Nos(08-4340)Rule 11/Docket for 08A391/Case Nos(08-4340.</p>
<p>Dear Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts,</p>
<p>We are deeply concerned with respect to Mr. Obama’s fulfillment of the requirements to serve as the President of the United States laid out in Article II, Section I of The United States Constitution.</p>
<p>We ask you to understand, many of us feel Mr. Obama is being less than transparent with regards to his citizenship. If he has nothing to hide, he should certainly be more than willing to serve the needs of the people whom he hopes to lead by providing the reassurances we do need and that indeed prudence dictates we demand.</p>
<p>You certainly uphold employers verifying USA Citizenship or USA Permanent Residency Status, et.al., prior to employing employees in the USA. This is law.</p>
<p>We are asking no less.</p>
<p>We are asking Mr. Obama to show his willingness to defend and uphold the US Constitution by showing proof of his ability to comply with and fulfill the requirements of its laws. We feel this is certainly reasonable.</p>
<p>We ask that you give full consideration and grant a full hearing of this case before the Supreme Court of the United States of America.</p>
<p>We further ask that you grant an injunction to include but not limited to stopping the Electoral College from voting on December 15th, 2008 pending the outcome of this matter.</p>
<p>We ask, that if upon weighing the evidence the Supreme Court of the United States of America finds that Mr. Barack Obama fails to meet the qualifications for President of the United States of America, that the Supreme Court uphold Berg vs. Obama, et.al., and rule that Mr. Obama is, thereby, De-certified to hold the Office of President of the United States of America.</p>
<p>Out Of Prudence &amp; With Respect,<br />
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<p>Please, Follow the 7 Steps Above &amp; Forward This To Your Friends!!!</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Those that lived and died before us saw the value of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in being a patriot and protecting what God has given us.   Let&#8217;s read and realize that these are not mear quotes from past citizens but quotes made to tell us to protect with all we have what we have. Many have died just for this day, that we might stand up and be counted for there actions to save what we have.  Do not minimize or forget, what you have starts with you and end with you.</p>
<p><em>When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross. ~ Sinclair Lewis:</em></p>
<p class="style3" style="text-align: left;"><em>Promote then as an object of primary importance, Institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened. ~George Washington,          Farewell Address,          September 19, 1796</em></p>
<p><em>My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one&#8217;s country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.  ~Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur&#8217;s Court, 1889</em></p>
<p><em>I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her. ~ Zora Neale Hurston</em></p>
<p><em>A politician will do anything to keep his job &#8212; even become a patriot. ~William Randolph Hearst</em></p>
<p><em>Patriotism&#8230; is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.  ~Adlai Stevenson</em></p>
<p><em>The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men. &#8212; Samuel Adams</em></p>
<p><em>If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag.  ~Author Unknown</em></p>
<p><em>Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.  ~Bertrand Russell</em></p>
<p><em>Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.  ~Seneca</em></p>
<p><em>Do not&#8230; regard the critics as questionable patriots.  What were Washington and Jefferson and Adams but profound critics of the colonial status quo?  ~Adlai Stevenson</em></p>
<p><em>Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn&#8217;t.  You cannot shirk this and be a man.  To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.  ~Mark Twain</em></p>
<p><em>Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.  ~George Bernard Shaw</em></p>
<p><em>A man&#8217;s country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.  ~George William Curtis</em></p>
<p><em>We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it. ~Edward R. Murrow</em></p>
<p><em>I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.  ~ James Baldwin</em></p>
<p><em>The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which. ~Mark Twain:</em></p>
<p><em>The government is merely a servant &#8212; merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn&#8217;t. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them. ~Mark Twain</em></p>
<p><em>To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. (1918) ~ Theodore Roosevelt:</em></p>
<p><em>God bless America, land that I love,<br />
Stand beside her, and guide her,<br />
Through the night, with the light from above,<br />
From the mountains, to the prairies<br />
To the oceans, white with foam<br />
God bless America, my home sweet home,<br />
God bless America! My Home Sweet Home! &#8211;Irving Berlin, God Bless America</em></p>
<p><em>We can&#8217;t all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots. &#8212; Charles F. Browne</em></p>
<p><em>A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation&#8217;s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth. ~Henry Ward Beecher</em></p>
<p><em>Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.<br />
~Walter Scott</em></p>
<p><em>Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country. ~ Calvin Coolidge</em></p>
<p><em>Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty. &#8211; John F. Kennedy</em></p>
<p><em>(W)e here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. &#8212; Abe Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address</em></p>
<p><em>America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. &#8211; Abraham Lincoln</em></p>
<p><em>We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another. &#8211; Richard Nixon</em></p>
<p><em>Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS… &#8211; Thomas Paine</em></p>
<p><em>These are the times that try men&#8217;s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. &#8211; Thomas Paine</em></p>
<p><em>Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return. &#8212; Colin Powell</em></p>
<p><em>I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. &#8212; The Pledge Of Allegiance</em></p>
<p><em>You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children (America), the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children&#8217;s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done. &#8211; Ronald Reagan</em></p>
<p><em>And how stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure, and happier than it was 8 years ago. But more than that: After 200 years, two centuries, she still stands strong and true on the granite ridge, and her glow has held steady no matter what storm. And she&#8217;s still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness, toward home. &#8211; Ronald Reagan</em></p>
<p><em>In closing, let me thank you, the American people, for giving me the great honor of allowing me to serve as your president. When the Lord calls me home, whenever that day may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this country of ours and eternal optimism for its future. I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead &#8211; Ronald Reagan</em></p>
<p><em>Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood &#8212; the virtues that made America. &#8211; Teddy Roosevelt</em></p>
<p><em>I shall know but one country. The ends I aim at shall be my country’s, my God’s and Truth’s. I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American. &#8211; Daniel Webster</em></p>
<p><em>Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I&#8217;m not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be. &#8211; John Wayne</em></p>
<p><em>The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history. &#8211; Woodrow Wilson</em></p>
<p><em>And I&#8217;m proud to be an American,<br />
Where at least I know I&#8217;m free,<br />
And I won&#8217;t forget the men who died,<br />
Who gave that right to me<br />
And I&#8217;ll proudly stand up next to him to defend her still today,<br />
Cuz there aint no doubt I love this land,<br />
God bless the USA &#8211; Lee Greenwood, Proud To Be An American</em></p>
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