Natural Born - Whats the big deal?

October 18, 11:57 AMPortland Civil Rights ExaminerDianna Cotter

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Shadow of Obama on the Constitution (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

In the days since I first started publishing on the issues surrounding Natural Born Citizenship and why it matters with regards to Barack Obama, I have been asked a great many questions regarding why it matters at all. Why the Founding Fathers would bother with a distinction that only ever matters for one governmental position in the world, the President of the United States?

I hate to say this because I supported McCain - granted not with a great amount of enthusiasm, and had honestly thought he was NBC. It didn’t occur to me that he wasn’t. But hindsight is 20/20 and two things really stick out now.

1) If McCain were a NBC born on a Military Base inside the Panama Canal Territory (legally US Territory), why would he need the congress to reaffirm his status? It should be obvious, and completely unneeded. But apparently it was needed, because he did just that, had congress affirm his status.

2) The Natural Born Citizen issue is a thermonuclear weapon as far as tossing a strong rival right out of the race, and this isn’t a friendly game of golf or something. There is no defense against a nuclear weapon, and that one would have been coming from orbit. This is the Presidency of the United States. These people play Hardball. Why didn’t McCain USE that weapon against Obama? He knew about it as much as the DNC did.

 The answer is simple. He couldn’t.

He isn’t a Natural Born Citizen either. McCain was born in a Hospital in Colon Panama, far outside the Panama Canal zone and inside Panama proper. McCain has citizenship ties to Panama because of Jus Soli, Right of Soil, he was born on the soil of Panama. Does he have Jus Sanguinis - Right of blood to American Citizenship, you bet, and he is a citizen.

You see, the GOP let this happen because its candidate had the same problem that Obama did.

It explains so much that made no sense at the time. But the puzzle pieces fit.

The reason it matters is this. Take for example a fine American Woman, she meets a dashing and charismatic man from Russia, they have an affair, get married briefly but he can’t stay and eventually leaves the family, abandoning this fine woman and their son.

Fast forward 20 years or so.

Our Russian decides he must do right by the son he abandoned, and brings him to Russia and gets him a fabulous education great ties in Russian government and society, all the best Russia can offer, but alas, America calls and after 4 years of college and the high life, our young son of America returns home.

Fast forward 15 years or so.

That Son of America, remembering the lessons he learned in Russia and building on them and the ties he built there starts running for Political offices here, Becomes a state Senator, then a Federal level Senator, his rise is charismatic and startlingly fast because of all he learned and all the connections he has made in his life, the very things taught him by his mentors. Against all odds, he becomes President of the United States, despite not being a Natural Born Citizen because of his father’s simple status as that of a Russian Citizen. And in truth, no one wanted to look at that or any other dark fact because this son of America was just so darned good looking, well spoken, and so very charismatic.

Now, who is the father of this charismatic young man? Was he conceived to be some deliberate Manchurian Candidate? Not at all, he was born of a passionate love affair in the early 1960’s.

But still who is his father in this hypothetical example?

Vladimir Putin.

And now you see why the Natural Born Status with regard to the Presidency matters and why the founders deliberately put it in there. No one knows their destiny at birth. And yet the conditions that caused that birth do open up the possibility of ties to other Nations that may or may not wish us well, and strange things do happen which destroy Nations.

The Founders were very well aware of this; issues of Citizenship were pretty high on everyone’s list at that time because of the turmoil that was afoot in the world. There were wars on a number of continents, soldiers of differing countries all over the place. And men and women are well men and women, kids happen. It mattered a lot what ties those kids had and where to.

It still does, the only difference is the fact that most people are unaware of it, and frankly don’t give a darn. They just want to live their lives and trust that Government is a fundamentally good thing and out to protect them and their families and futures. Well what happens when that Non-NBC American becomes President? He isn’t bound by the constitution because he is already breaking it.

Obama isn’t bound by the constitution, because he is already breaking it.

This means he can hand out our sovereignty in a Global Climate Treaty in Copenhagen, he can force through unconstitutional measures like Cap and Trade, and Health Care. He doesn’t give a rip because he isn’t bound by the very document which prevents those things. Because of his birth status, on a legal and philosophical standpoint, Obama can turn America into a Socialist State and there is nothing we can do to stop it.

Other than to throw him out of office which is our constitutional right as Americans.

In order to preserve our Constitution, we have to fight for it, and that means insisting - no, demanding - that it be followed. This is why Obama must resign.
 

For more info: Hawaiian Law Demands Obama records be made public, Barack Obama and State of Hawaii on the ropes, Obama's Achilles heel - Natural Born Citizenship, Citizenship – what America forgot, American Sovereignty - Obama's gift to the world