Why has the President spent millions to suppress his ID and who is he really?WASHINGTON, DC. (
Dispatch International)
As President Barack Obama completes four years in office and runs for
re-election in November, a majority of Americans – 55% – believe he was
born in the United States. However, 20% of Americans do not believe
Obama was born in the US, while another 25% aren’t sure where he was
born. Never before have so many Americans doubted the fundamental basis
of their president’s identity. Why is this so?
On
one level, the answer is easy given the absence of verifiable bona
fides attesting to Obama’s life story, from every college record to
every travel document, from every medical record to every legal writing
to every law practice billing record to every record of his tenure as an
Illinois state senator – and more. But the story has had to penetrate
the American psyche in spite of a deep freeze on the topic in
conventional channels. The Obama identity story, burning at the
grass-roots-level for more than four years now, is consistently snuffed
out and ignored by American journalists and the political class, from
elected leaders to party officials. This silence is strictly
non-partisan, and spans the political spectrum.
An investigation, undertaken by a
so-called cold case posse working for Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Maricopa
County, Arizona, has now concluded that not one but two Obama basic
identity documents are, without a doubt, forgeries: 1) the computer file
(pdf) of the 1961 birth certificate that appears on the White House
website; and 2) the president’s 1980 military draft registration card
released by the U.S. Selective Service Administration shortly before the
2008 election. These investigators maintain they can prove this in
court.
The story of how they might do so is
verboten, too. But somehow the saga doesn’t end up in George Orwell’s
“memory hole”. This is due mainly to the irrepressible nature of the
Internet.
It is here, for example, and not in the
mainstream media, where, following the White House online release of
Obama’s 1961 ”long-form” birth certificate on April 27, 2011, a small
army of private individuals with varying degrees of technology expertise
downloaded the document file and delved into the unexpectedly
“unflattened” graphic composition “layers”. They submitted a series of
computer forensics analyses to this online public square, arguing that
the White House pdf had been fraudulently manipulated. Since that time,
similar evidence has been methodically amassed and repeatedly tested
under the auspices of Sheriff Arpaio’s cold case team.
Sheriff Arpaio formed this cold case
posse after 250 local citizens asked him to determine whether Obama was
eligible to appear on the Arizona presidential ballot in 2012.
On two occasions in 2012, the posse
presented findings to the public. They concluded that the birth
certificate on the White House website didn’t originate on a piece of
paper but rather was created, or, more precisely, forged as an
electronic file on a computer. As one Adobe expert and posse consultant
put it: “The only time Obama’s long-form birth certificate image exists
as a paper document is when a computer user selects Print from the File
menu.”
At this point, the posse would like to
turn over all of its evidence to Congress for a formal investigation.
Like a hand grenade that could go off at any moment, however, such an
investigation has no takers. And so the fuse burns on not one, but two
potential constitutional crises.
One involves the biggest unsolved
mystery in American history: If Arpaio’s findings are correct, who did
it? The other potential crisis, while linked to the first, is much more
transparent. The U.S. Constitution lays out three criteria for president
and vice president. Article II, Section 1, requires that the president
be at least 35 years of age, have lived 14 years in the United States,
and be a “natural-born” citizen.
“Natural born” citizens are distinct
from citizens who are native-born (born in the country) or naturalized.
While native-born or naturalized citizen may hold any other office, only
“natural born” citizens are eligible for the presidency, the idea being
that America’s founders wanted to ensure that the chief executive had
allegiance only to the American republic.
The Constitution doesn’t define “natural
born”, but according to common law at the time and, later, the 1875
U.S. Supreme Court case “Minor v. Happersett”, a “natural born” citizen
is understood to be someone born in the U.S. to citizen parents
(plural). “Minor” spelled out this definition and is thus the signal
case. It is remarkable that in mid-2008, as Barack Obama was clinching
the presidential nomination, references to the “Minor” case inexplicably
disappeared from 25 related U.S. Supreme Court decisions archived at
Justia.com, a leading legal search engine popular with journalists and
legal bloggers. Coincidence? When attorney and blogger Leo Donofrio,
whose Obama eligibility challenge went all the way to the U.S. Supreme
Court in December 2008 (dismissed), discovered this apparent tampering
in 2011, Justia called it a “programming error”. The blogosphere called
it “Justiagate”. The media, of course, said nothing at all.
So where does this leave the president,
the son of a white American teen mother and a black British subject from
Kenya? (Kenya became independent in 1963.)
According to his own story, Baby Obama
came into the world with dual American-British citizenship. At the same
time, however, there is, to date, zero verifiable evidence to be found
of his Hawaiian birth; meanwhile there is circumstantial evidence of
alternative nativities. For example, the personal biography Obama’s
former literary agent used to promote Obama described him as “born in
Kenya”. This biography, written in 1991, remained on the agency website
until April 2007 – two months after then-Senator Obama announced his
presidential run.
Other oddities include a missing week of
immigration cards tracking American arrivals into Hawaii from abroad
that should be in the national archives. Obama’s birthday in August 1961
falls in this missing week. In light of unexplained facts such as
these, in light of the Obama documents that remain sealed, it’s really
not so hard to see where a foreign nativity story comes from – or at
least why a number of Americans are confused.
Many have heard about the two 1961
newspapers that published announcements of Obama’s birth. Posse
investigators discovered that foreign-born children were similarly
announced as Hawaiian births in these same papers, while they also found
a set of adopted twins who were several years old before their “birth”
announcements appeared.
Further complicating Obama’s citizenship
story is an undisputed school record from Jakarta which identifies
young Obama as a citizen of Indonesia. With all of this in mind, it’s
hard to stamp Obama “natural-born”. Still, no challenger to date has
managed to convince an American court of this. Of course, almost every
single case has been dismissed before trial.
Also worth noting is that almost every
single case sought the same thing: the release of the Obama birth
“long-form” birth certificate. This is the very document the White House
website put on display in April 2011. Obama spent an estimated one to
three million dollars to fight previous attempts to compel him to
release this same document. What happened to make the president change
his mind?
Two senior White House officials
presided over the birth certificate’s unveiling at a pen-and-paper,
off-camera, no audio-recording, press conference. One journalist in the
pack pointed out, “some people are going to remain unconvinced”. He
continued: “They’re going to say that this is just a photocopy of a
piece of paper. You could have typed anything in there. Will the actual
birth certificate be on display or viewable at any …”
The White House transcript breaks off with the word: “(laughter)”.
Who will get the last laugh? Barack Obama? Sheriff Arpaio? The
politicians who keep their heads down, or the citizens who take their
Constitution seriously? Whoever laughs last, it seems safe to say that
the Obama birth certificate is a very funny document.