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Originally posted by Illusionsaregrander
reply to post by ericsnow
The guy in the video is a con artist.
For John McCain, there were two questions that had to be answered. BECAUSE HE WAS NOT BORN ON AMERICAN SOIL. If his parents were Mexican, and he was born on an overseas US military base, he would not be a natural born citizen.
Because he was not born on American soil, they had to look to the citizenship of his parents. Obama was born on US soil and is a citizen no matter what.
en.wikipedia.org...
Statute, by birth within U.S.
As of 2006, United States Federal law () defines ten categories of person who are United States citizens from birth. According to that law, the following acquire citizenship at birth:
* "a person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof"
* "a person born in the United States to a member of an Indian, Eskimo, Aleutian, or other aboriginal tribe" (see Indian Citizenship Act of 1924).
* "a person of unknown parentage found in the United States while under the age of five years, until shown, prior to his attaining the age of twenty-one years, not to have been born in the United States"
* "a person born in an outlying possession of the United States of parents one of whom is a citizen of the United States who has been physically present in the United States or one of its outlying possessions for a continuous period of one year at any time prior to the birth of such person"
edit on 29-4-2011 by Illusionsaregrander because: (no reason given)edit on 29-4-2011 by Illusionsaregrander because: (no reason given)
You consider “having ties to another country” being born with dual citizenship, something completely outside the control or will of a person?
Originally posted by beenupsince2007
Obviously we would never want to have someone in such a position of power that has ties to another country in which they could hold allegiance for at any point in time whether it's in the past, present or future.
You honestly believe a US citizen is rendered ineligible for office by automatic and involuntary operation of foreign law at birth? Really? Is that you are proposing? That foreign law trumps US citizenship law?
British and Colonial Law : In 1709, a statute declared that children born abroad of a natural-born' father and alien mother were natural-born subjects at the time of their birth. Meaning Barack Obama II had dual citizenship at the time of his birth.
No... they recognized McCain was born to two citizen parents and on a US military base, not that that’s the definition of natural born citizen.
Originally posted by clearmind
FACT NUMBER THREE....the writers agreed what a 'natraul born citizen' meant, which is 1) BOTH parents must be citizens of the u.s. AND 2) one must be born on u.s. soil.
As I previously mentioned, US military bases abroad are not considered US soil for 14th Amendment purposes. So if you believe that definition of natural born citizen then John McCain is not a natural born citizen.
FACT NUMBER FOUR...the u.s. governmant considers U.S. MILITARY BASES U.S. SOIL.
Originally posted by Illusionsaregrander
reply to post by ericsnow
The guy in the video is a con artist.
For John McCain, there were two questions that had to be answered. BECAUSE HE WAS NOT BORN ON AMERICAN SOIL. If his parents were Mexican, and he was born on an overseas US military base, he would not be a natural born citizen.
Because he was not born on American soil, they had to look to the citizenship of his parents. Obama was born on US soil and is a citizen no matter what.
en.wikipedia.org...
Statute, by birth within U.S.
As of 2006, United States Federal law () defines ten categories of person who are United States citizens from birth. According to that law, the following acquire citizenship at birth:
* "a person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof"
* "a person born in the United States to a member of an Indian, Eskimo, Aleutian, or other aboriginal tribe" (see Indian Citizenship Act of 1924).
* "a person of unknown parentage found in the United States while under the age of five years, until shown, prior to his attaining the age of twenty-one years, not to have been born in the United States"
* "a person born in an outlying possession of the United States of parents one of whom is a citizen of the United States who has been physically present in the United States or one of its outlying possessions for a continuous period of one year at any time prior to the birth of such person"
edit on 29-4-2011 by Illusionsaregrander because: (no reason given)edit on 29-4-2011 by Illusionsaregrander because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by CODEPREZ
Obama will be the destructor of our futures. Open you eyes to the old phrophecie of Nostradamus....it states something along the lines of how the twin brothers will fall (9/11..which happened), and how the great leader will come to the third big war (which we are on the virge of) and infultrate from the inside out (being the anti christ)...all the signs are showing, global trekking with uprise of the people in Africa and the middle east, Korea and their nuclear threats, Obama's term happens to at the end of 2012, is it a coincidence? that the mayan calander ends also about the same time Obamas term ends , thats if he dont get re-elected, the phrophecies of 9/11 came tru and the next portion is playing out as we speak. Look at the crazy political mess over this guy...his father being a known Jihad activist, fake birth certificates, projecting everything seem so simply fixable, and easy, and simple....( guys like this i never trust...seems shady actually) let me not forget fema camps popping up left and right ( for marshall law when its in effect),why though? what are we not being told?.. Colored labels on your mail box's to label the kind of threat you are to the govt, the dollar being watered down to nothing, gold being regulated to where the average person cant purchase (silver is cheaper but projected to be worth more?? sounds like another skeme)...water supplies being stock piled and sold off to minimize our nations debt, (they call it blue gold) while the people here suffer the effects..ect ect ...it goes on and on....this guy Obama has serpent written all over him, reminds me of the snake from the beginning of time, from the story of Adam and Eve...FRONTING LIKE HES DOWN WITH US, BUT IS ACTUALLY WORKING AGAINST US, FRONT RUNNING OUT FOR SELF GRAND SKEMER! He was only elected because the people looked at him to be such a drastic change for the country, and ohhhhhh has he been!
Originally posted by CODEPREZ
Obama will be the destructor of our futures. Open you eyes to the old phrophecie of Nostradamus....it states something along the lines of how the twin brothers will fall (9/11..which happened), and how the great leader will come to the third big war (which we are on the virge of) and infultrate from the inside out (being the anti christ)...all the signs are showing, global trekking with uprise of the people in Africa and the middle east, Korea and their nuclear threats, Obama's term happens to at the end of 2012, is it a coincidence? that the mayan calander ends also about the same time Obamas term ends , thats if he dont get re-elected, the phrophecies of 9/11 came tru and the next portion is playing out as we speak. Look at the crazy political mess over this guy...his father being a known Jihad activist, fake birth certificates, projecting everything seem so simply fixable, and easy, and simple....( guys like this i never trust...seems shady actually) let me not forget fema camps popping up left and right ( for marshall law when its in effect),why though? what are we not being told?.. Colored labels on your mail box's to label the kind of threat you are to the govt, the dollar being watered down to nothing, gold being regulated to where the average person cant purchase (silver is cheaper but projected to be worth more?? sounds like another skeme)...water supplies being stock piled and sold off to minimize our nations debt, (they call it blue gold) while the people here suffer the effects..ect ect ...it goes on and on....this guy Obama has serpent written all over him, reminds me of the snake from the beginning of time, from the story of Adam and Eve...FRONTING LIKE HES DOWN WITH US, BUT IS ACTUALLY WORKING AGAINST US, FRONT RUNNING OUT FOR SELF GRAND SKEMER! He was only elected because the people looked at him to be such a drastic change for the country, and ohhhhhh has he been!
Originally posted by CODEPREZ
Obama will be the destructor of our futures. Open you eyes to the old phrophecie of Nostradamus....it states something along the lines of how the twin brothers will fall (9/11..which happened), and how the great leader will come to the third big war (which we are on the virge of) and infultrate from the inside out (being the anti christ)...all the signs are showing, global trekking with uprise of the people in Africa and the middle east, Korea and their nuclear threats, Obama's term happens to at the end of 2012, is it a coincidence? that the mayan calander ends also about the same time Obamas term ends , thats if he dont get re-elected, the phrophecies of 9/11 came tru and the next portion is playing out as we speak. Look at the crazy political mess over this guy...his father being a known Jihad activist, fake birth certificates, projecting everything seem so simply fixable, and easy, and simple....( guys like this i never trust...seems shady actually) let me not forget fema camps popping up left and right ( for marshall law when its in effect),why though? what are we not being told?.. Colored labels on your mail box's to label the kind of threat you are to the govt, the dollar being watered down to nothing, gold being regulated to where the average person cant purchase (silver is cheaper but projected to be worth more?? sounds like another skeme)...water supplies being stock piled and sold off to minimize our nations debt, (they call it blue gold) while the people here suffer the effects..ect ect ...it goes on and on....this guy Obama has serpent written all over him, reminds me of the snake from the beginning of time, from the story of Adam and Eve...FRONTING LIKE HES DOWN WITH US, BUT IS ACTUALLY WORKING AGAINST US, FRONT RUNNING OUT FOR SELF GRAND SKEMER! He was only elected because the people looked at him to be such a drastic change for the country, and ohhhhhh has he been!
Originally posted by Section31
reply to post by Hendrix92TheUniverse
Okay... I think this has gone on for a little too long. Birth Certificate Theorists and 9/11 Theorists are the same. You guys are way-way-way-way too obsessed with these issues. As a matter of observation and analysis, I do not think both groups show any characteristics associated with Conservatives, Republicans, Independents, and Democrats. If I had to categorize these two movements, I would associate them with some sort of anarchy and activist group.
Its time to let these issues drop folks. Obsessing over these issues is not healthy.
We need to move onto other more important issues.
edit on 30-4-2011 by Section31 because: (no reason given)
You left out the detail that Vattel’s treatise was written in French and the words he used were ‘naturels’ (naturals) and ‘indigenes’ (natives). And that the first English translation that contained the term ‘natural born citizens’ showed up 10 years after the Constitution’s adoption.
Originally posted by Hendrix92TheUniverse
Before the Constitution the closest reference we have to Natural Born Citizen is from the legal treatise “the Law of Nations,” written by Emerich de Vattel in 1758. In book one chapter 19,
The original United States Naturalization Law of March 26, 1790 (1 Stat. 103) provided the first rules to be followed by the United States in the granting of national citizenship. This law limited naturalization to immigrants who were "free white persons" of "good moral character". It thus left out indentured servants, slaves, free blacks, and later Asians. While women were included in the act, the right of citizenship did "not descend to persons whose fathers have never been resident in the United States...." Citizenship was inherited exclusively through the father. This was the only statute that ever purported to grant the status of natural born citizen.[1] [2]
The fourteenth amendment in 1868 granted citizenship to people born within the United States (excluding non-taxed Indians who were granted citizenship in the 1920s) regardless of their parents' race, citizenship, or place of birth. The 1898 Supreme Court court decision in United States v. Wong Kim Ark grants citizenship to a U.S. American born child of Chinese parents, extending citizenship to Asians born in the U.S.
The Act of 1790 was superseded by the Naturalization Act of 1795, which extended the residence requirement to five years. The Naturalization Act of 1870 extended citizenship to people of African descent who were born in the United States. The 1952 naturalization act prohibits racial and gender discrimination in naturalization.[3]
Originally posted by Blarneystoner
I completely agree... Obama was born on US soil. Children born on US soil whose parents are BOTH from other countries are citizens of the US. Children born on U.S. soil automatically acquire American citizenship for life. The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees USA citizenship at birth to almost all individuals born in the U.S. or in U.S. jurisdictions.
Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas any more.
Originally posted by Hemisphere
That's nice and we can continue to ignore that Hawaii was an independent constitutional monarchy up until the US "annexation" in 1898.
Originally posted by Hemisphere
Originally posted by Blarneystoner
I completely agree... Obama was born on US soil. Children born on US soil whose parents are BOTH from other countries are citizens of the US. Children born on U.S. soil automatically acquire American citizenship for life. The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees USA citizenship at birth to almost all individuals born in the U.S. or in U.S. jurisdictions.
That's nice and we can continue to ignore that Hawaii was an independent constitutional monarchy up until the US "annexation" in 1898. I'm not a law scholar but I believe that highly profitable business deal went against international laws.
Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas any more.
Originally posted by Hendrix92TheUniverse
Originally posted by jam321
Correct me if I am wrong.
But wasn't senate resolution 511 NONBINDING?
That means Congress never passed a law defining what a natural born American is.
Looks like 100% is headed toward 0% proof.
en.wikipedia.org...
The resolution means nothing, the Constitution states that both parents must be U.S. citizens, and Obama's father was a Kenyan, a british protectorate at the time, there Obama's father was British, and not a U.S. citizen.
Do your damn homework!
Originally posted by Hendrix92TheUniverse
Originally posted by civilchallenger
reply to post by Hendrix92TheUniverse
The video very obviously proves nothing, since it offers no reason for me to believe the citizenship of Obama's parents at the time of his birth were anything but US citizenship. So, when did Obama's dad become a citizen?
Thank you, you nailed it !
Obama's dad was a kenyan, and at the time a British Protectorate, therefore, Obama's dad was british, therefore, Obama is ineligible to be the president of the U.S.
Thanks for posting.