John StGeorge's List: Birther Controversy

• Barnett told WND her challenge to Dunn is based on evidence he was registered as a Democrat in Florida shortly before staking his claim to the GOP nomination for secretary of state in California.

• Barnett's new case, filed in Superior Court of California in Sacramento, explains that to be eligible to run for secretary of state, the state's chief elections officer, "a declared and a nominated candidate shall under [Paragraph] 201 of the California Elections Code 'be a registered voter and otherwise qualified to vote for the office at the time nomination papers are issued.'" 

  But the lawsuit alleges Dunn filed a registration to vote in California and to affiliate with the California Republican Party March 13, 2009. It explains that state law requires that a candidate not have been "registered as affiliated with a qualified political party other than that political party the nomination of which he seeks within 12 months." 

  The complaint explains that Dunn on Nov. 5, 2009, "who had been registered and enrolled/affiliated with the Florida Democratic Party within 12 months, filed the declaration for his candidate for the California Republican Party nomination." 
• • It appears that Dunn was not qualified, under the law, to run for the office.
• "According to a letter written April 13, 2010, by Jean Marie Atkins Director of Voter Administration the Duval County Board of Election and obtained in person by Dr. Orly Taitz while in Florida … Defendant Dunn contacted the Florida Board of Elections to have any record of enrollment or affiliation with the Florida Democratic Party in the Duval County database expunged from the official record," the lawsuit claims.
• Besides Obama's actual birth documentation, the still-concealed documentation for him includes kindergarten records, Punahou school records, Occidental College records, Columbia University records, Columbia thesis, Harvard Law School records, Harvard Law Review articles, scholarly articles from the University of Chicago, passport, medical records, his files from his years as an Illinois state senator, his Illinois State Bar Association records, any baptism records and his adoption records.

  • A number of the"still-concealed" documents are meaningless in the determination of Presidental eligibility. Baptised or not, not germain. Adoption records, not determinatiave since he was a minor at the time. The university and passport records are substative. Did he attend university as a foreign student? Did he ever travel, as an adult, on a foreign passport? Those could indicate a renunciation of US citizenship, but would they be sufficient to prevail in a cause of action? I don't know, but it would be interesting to see it play out.

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• Is his legal name Barack Hussein Obama II, Barack Hussein Obama (without the designation "II" indicating Barack Obama Jr.), Barry Soetoro or Barack Hussein Obama Soebarkah?

  • Most of this is nonsense and meaningless when addressing the eligibility of Obama. Under US law, parents cannot change the birth status of their minor child. In my day, a long long time ago, the authorities running a background check for a high level security clearance would have a fit if the long form birth certificate said 'II" and the applicant put down "Jr." We had a fellow whose parents never put a first name on the birth certificate. It was registered with a simple "X" in that field. That presented a problem. Another had parents from Italy. Since he was the eldest son of the eldest son, he was the new "Don." The authorities had no sense of humor and insisted that his first name was "Don."
• The White House's display of Obama's passport Friday did not include documentation submitted to the State Department to obtain the passport or any previous U.S. passports the president may have been issued since childhood.

  • This is the question that needs to be answered. Generally, one uses a long form birth certificate to obtain the first passort and the old passport to get a new one. We know that Obama was first on his mother's passport which should have required the long form birth certificate and a simple request to move him from her passport to his own. My son was 2 months old when I applied for his first passport. Since I had not known him for 5 years, I could not sign for him. Since I had known him since birth, I could.

• Lind ruled that it was "not relevant" for the military to be considering such claims, that the laws allegedly violated by Lakin were legitimate on their face and that the chain of command led up to the Pentagon, and that should have been sufficient for Lakin.

  • The judge ruled that the accused had been accused and that should be sufficient for a guilty verdict?
• Lind found that since Congress allocates money for the war effort and the Pentagon was created, an order tracing back to the military hierarchy should have been sufficient for Lakin.

  • Not germain to the issue before the court.
• That President Obama is the commander in chief but that Congress also has significant and equal role in military matters under title 10 of the USC

  • Interesting but not relevant.
• That Congress has the authority to raise an army, fund it and over the years created a proper chain of command including the secretary of the army.

  • Not relevant.
• That the issue of eligibility is a constitutional issue and a political question, not matter for a military court to decide.

  • Not true. The establishment of eligibility requirements is a constitutional and political question, the adherence to those requirements is a legal question properly within the perview of the court.
• That a court-martial has no jurisdiction in any potential impeachment, and it could be embarrassing, although Lind did not specify whether she meant embarrassing for the president or for the court

  • Again, not relevant. The court is not being asked to pass judgment in a cause of action for impeachment and embarrassment is not relevant to the disposition of justice.

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• Uniform Information Practices Act

• TERRITORY OF HAWAII
   Office of the Secretary
   Certification of Hawaiian Birth
   This is to certify that Sun Yat Sen
    

   

    now residing at Kula, Haui, T. H., whose
   signature is attached, has made application No. 25 for a
   Certification of Birth.

•   338-17.8 Certificates for children born out of State
• 338-21 Children born to parents not married to each other

• According to a version of Obama's purported short-form certificate available from FactCheck.org, Obama was given a higher registration number than the Nordyke twins. The online image indicates the number is No. 151 – 1961 – 10641, even though he was born Aug. 4, 1961, the day before the twins, and his birth was registered with the Hawaii registrar three days earlier, Aug. 8, 1961.

• Vattel's The Law of Nations,