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Ignored: Does Sen. Cruz Misunderstand Natural Born Citizen Or Simply Not Care?
Birther Report
2/17/2014
Excerpt:
Does Sen. Ted Cruz Misunderstand “Natural Born Citizen,” or Simply Not Care?
CONSTITUTIONAL REQUIREMENT IGNORED
By Sharon Rondeau | The Post & Email
(Feb. 16, 2014) — In his Twitter feed on Sunday, Sen. Ted Cruz tweeted an image of a painting by Steve Penley commemorating Presidents’ Day on Monday and discussed on Fox News that morning.
The painting contains the faces of Presidents Ronald Reagan, Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, George Washington, and, most prominently in the center, Barack Hussein Obama.
Cruz reportedly may run for president in 2016 and currently is the junior U.S. Senator from Texas. He was born in 1971 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada to a U.S.-citizen mother and Cuban-citizen father and automatically given Canadian citizenship along with U.S. citizenship. After releasing his long-form birth certificate in August, discussion ensued on Fox News and at other outlets about Cruz’s eligibility for the presidency given that Article II, Section 1, clause 5 of the U.S. Constitution requires that the president and commander-in-chief be a “natural born Citizen” and not simply “a Citizen,” as is required of members of Congress.
Newsmax and other outlets reported on Saturday that Cruz is expected to be warmly welcomed later this year in New Hampshire and Iowa, which are considered “critical presidential primary states.” Newsmax is asking readers for their “opinion” about Cruz’s potential presidential run, but there is no area in which comments can be included.
Obama and Cruz appear to share the same eligibility challenge. While Obama reportedly “lost” his British, and then Kenyan, citizenship upon his 23rd birthday, Cruz pledged to begin the process of renouncing his Canadian citizenship last year. On January 4, Cruz said that his “lawyers are preparing the paperwork.”
Obama claims that he was born in Hawaii to a U.S.-citizen mother and father who was a citizen of Great Britain, therefore making him a dual citizen, which has been confirmed by the U.S. State Department.
Over the last several years, both Republicans and Democrats have attempted unsuccessfully to alter the “natural born Citizen” requirement. During the 2008 presidential election, anyone questioning Obama’s eligibility was ridiculed, silenced or threatened.
From more than two centuries ago, the Constitution is silent on whether or not a dual citizen can be considered a “natural born Citizen,” but historically, the citizenship of the parents determined that of the child, not the birthplace, as is commonly believed today. Sen. John McCain, who also ran twice for president, was born in Panama to two U.S.-citizen parents and awarded Panamanian citizenship, which he never claimed over his U.S. citizenship.
Many scholars believe that the term “natural born Citizen” means a person born in the United States to two U.S.-citizen parents based on the findings in the 1874 U.S. Supreme Court case, Minor v. Happersett. The Michigan Law Review states that “anyone born on American soil whose parents are citizens of the United States is a ‘natural born citizen.’ Anyone whose citizenship is acquired after birth as a result of naturalization is not a natural born citizen.”
Whether or not McCain or Obama qualifies as a “natural born Citizen” was the subject of two lawsuits filed by another presidential candidate, Cody Robert Judy, in Judy v. McCain and Judy v. Obama in 2008.
Doubts about Obama’s life story and birthplace persisted beyond 2008 and were heightened, not diminished, by the release of the long-form birth certificate image on the White House website in April 2011 which was determined to be “100% fraudulent” by a law enforcement investigation. Stemming from that probe is a second criminal investigation which has uncovered that a member of an apparent Obama disinformation cabal is employed by DARPA, a division of the Department of Defense which engages in psychological operations and cyber-intelligence.
An incident involving more than 100 law enforcement officers from the local, county, state and federal levels in Madisonville, TN which culminated in an innocent man being sent to federal prison for four years has long been identified by The Post & Email as “going right up to the White House” as a result of discussions carried out by known members of the cabal at The Fogbow.
A second man, Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III, who had a court hearing on April 20, 2010, the day of the massive officer deployment, has had his military pension cut by two-thirds for the past 27 months without an explanation. Both Fitzpatrick and the imprisoned man, Darren Wesley Huff, had spoken out about local corruption in Monroe County, TN.
In March 2009, Fitzpatrick filed a complaint of treason against Barack Hussein Obama which was never answered.
In December 2010, Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin was sentenced to six months in prison, loss of pension, pay and a dishonorable discharge for failing to follow orders which he claimed might be illegal because of Obama’s unresolved constitutional eligibility question. Lakin had first approached those in his chain of command and his congressional delegation with the question of Obama’s constitutional eligibility to no avail.
Almost two years after the Cold Case Posse announced its findings of forgery, Congress has failed to launch an investigation or empanel a special grand jury to examine the evidence compiled by the posse and other analysts.
An email received by The Post & Email in November stated that the punishments of Lakin, Huff, and Fitzpatrick were effected by design and threatened this writer with the specter of jail time for continuing to report on the Obama eligibility/identity issue. The names of investigators who have carried out the two respective criminal investigations, Mike Zullo and Maricopa County, AZ Sheriff Joe Arpaio, were also invoked.
The Post & Email responded to Cruz’s tweet that with a foreign-citizen father, Obama does not qualify under the U.S. Constitution as a “natural born Citizen” and therefore should not appear in Penley’s painting.
Another Twitter follower commented to Cruz, “He [the painter] should have replaced Obama with Jefferson.”
View the complete Birther Report presentation at:
http://www.birtherreport.com/2014/02...nderstand.html
Birther Report
2/17/2014
Excerpt:
Does Sen. Ted Cruz Misunderstand “Natural Born Citizen,” or Simply Not Care?
CONSTITUTIONAL REQUIREMENT IGNORED
By Sharon Rondeau | The Post & Email
(Feb. 16, 2014) — In his Twitter feed on Sunday, Sen. Ted Cruz tweeted an image of a painting by Steve Penley commemorating Presidents’ Day on Monday and discussed on Fox News that morning.
The painting contains the faces of Presidents Ronald Reagan, Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, George Washington, and, most prominently in the center, Barack Hussein Obama.
Cruz reportedly may run for president in 2016 and currently is the junior U.S. Senator from Texas. He was born in 1971 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada to a U.S.-citizen mother and Cuban-citizen father and automatically given Canadian citizenship along with U.S. citizenship. After releasing his long-form birth certificate in August, discussion ensued on Fox News and at other outlets about Cruz’s eligibility for the presidency given that Article II, Section 1, clause 5 of the U.S. Constitution requires that the president and commander-in-chief be a “natural born Citizen” and not simply “a Citizen,” as is required of members of Congress.
Newsmax and other outlets reported on Saturday that Cruz is expected to be warmly welcomed later this year in New Hampshire and Iowa, which are considered “critical presidential primary states.” Newsmax is asking readers for their “opinion” about Cruz’s potential presidential run, but there is no area in which comments can be included.
Obama and Cruz appear to share the same eligibility challenge. While Obama reportedly “lost” his British, and then Kenyan, citizenship upon his 23rd birthday, Cruz pledged to begin the process of renouncing his Canadian citizenship last year. On January 4, Cruz said that his “lawyers are preparing the paperwork.”
Obama claims that he was born in Hawaii to a U.S.-citizen mother and father who was a citizen of Great Britain, therefore making him a dual citizen, which has been confirmed by the U.S. State Department.
Over the last several years, both Republicans and Democrats have attempted unsuccessfully to alter the “natural born Citizen” requirement. During the 2008 presidential election, anyone questioning Obama’s eligibility was ridiculed, silenced or threatened.
From more than two centuries ago, the Constitution is silent on whether or not a dual citizen can be considered a “natural born Citizen,” but historically, the citizenship of the parents determined that of the child, not the birthplace, as is commonly believed today. Sen. John McCain, who also ran twice for president, was born in Panama to two U.S.-citizen parents and awarded Panamanian citizenship, which he never claimed over his U.S. citizenship.
Many scholars believe that the term “natural born Citizen” means a person born in the United States to two U.S.-citizen parents based on the findings in the 1874 U.S. Supreme Court case, Minor v. Happersett. The Michigan Law Review states that “anyone born on American soil whose parents are citizens of the United States is a ‘natural born citizen.’ Anyone whose citizenship is acquired after birth as a result of naturalization is not a natural born citizen.”
Whether or not McCain or Obama qualifies as a “natural born Citizen” was the subject of two lawsuits filed by another presidential candidate, Cody Robert Judy, in Judy v. McCain and Judy v. Obama in 2008.
Doubts about Obama’s life story and birthplace persisted beyond 2008 and were heightened, not diminished, by the release of the long-form birth certificate image on the White House website in April 2011 which was determined to be “100% fraudulent” by a law enforcement investigation. Stemming from that probe is a second criminal investigation which has uncovered that a member of an apparent Obama disinformation cabal is employed by DARPA, a division of the Department of Defense which engages in psychological operations and cyber-intelligence.
An incident involving more than 100 law enforcement officers from the local, county, state and federal levels in Madisonville, TN which culminated in an innocent man being sent to federal prison for four years has long been identified by The Post & Email as “going right up to the White House” as a result of discussions carried out by known members of the cabal at The Fogbow.
A second man, Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III, who had a court hearing on April 20, 2010, the day of the massive officer deployment, has had his military pension cut by two-thirds for the past 27 months without an explanation. Both Fitzpatrick and the imprisoned man, Darren Wesley Huff, had spoken out about local corruption in Monroe County, TN.
In March 2009, Fitzpatrick filed a complaint of treason against Barack Hussein Obama which was never answered.
In December 2010, Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin was sentenced to six months in prison, loss of pension, pay and a dishonorable discharge for failing to follow orders which he claimed might be illegal because of Obama’s unresolved constitutional eligibility question. Lakin had first approached those in his chain of command and his congressional delegation with the question of Obama’s constitutional eligibility to no avail.
Almost two years after the Cold Case Posse announced its findings of forgery, Congress has failed to launch an investigation or empanel a special grand jury to examine the evidence compiled by the posse and other analysts.
An email received by The Post & Email in November stated that the punishments of Lakin, Huff, and Fitzpatrick were effected by design and threatened this writer with the specter of jail time for continuing to report on the Obama eligibility/identity issue. The names of investigators who have carried out the two respective criminal investigations, Mike Zullo and Maricopa County, AZ Sheriff Joe Arpaio, were also invoked.
The Post & Email responded to Cruz’s tweet that with a foreign-citizen father, Obama does not qualify under the U.S. Constitution as a “natural born Citizen” and therefore should not appear in Penley’s painting.
Another Twitter follower commented to Cruz, “He [the painter] should have replaced Obama with Jefferson.”
View the complete Birther Report presentation at:
http://www.birtherreport.com/2014/02...nderstand.html