U.S. Army Maj. Stefan Frederick Cook, set to deploy to Afghanistan, says he shouldn’t have to go.
His reason?
Barack Obama was never eligible to be president because he wasn’t born in the United States.
Cook’s lawyer, Orly Taitz, who has also challenged the legitimacy of Obama’s presidency in other courts, filed a request last week in federal court seeking a temporary restraining order and status as a conscientious objector for his client.
In the 20-page document — filed July 8 with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia — the California-based Taitz asks the court to consider granting his client’s request based upon Cook’s belief that Obama is not a natural-born citizen of the United States and is therefore ineligible to serve as commander-in-chief of the U.S. Armed Forces.
Cook further states he “would be acting in violation of international law by engaging in military actions outside the United States under this President’s command. … simultaneously subjecting himself to possible prosecution as a war criminal by the faithful execution of these duties.”
Cook, a reservist, received the orders mobilizing him to active duty on June 9.
According to this document, which accompanies Cook’s July 8 application for a temporary restraining order, he has been ordered to report to MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., on Wednesday. From there, the Florida resident would go to Fort Benning before deploying overseas.
Documents show Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961, two years after it became a state.
A hearing to discuss Cook’s requests will take place in federal court Thursday at 9:30 a.m.
(Source: Ledger-Enquirer)
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Thank you for bringing this crackpot’s dementia to my attention.
this is hilarious. “the California-based Taitz asks the court to consider granting his client’s request based upon Cook’s belief that Obama is not a natural-born citizen of the United States”
“Documents show Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961, two years after it became a state.”
hmmm, on the one hand we have his beliefs….and on the other hand we have documentary proof. tough call.
most likely, this guy got conned in to joining the reserves like so many other naive people, thinking he’ll never really have to fight, and now he wants a way out.
Is his theory that Obama is a totally faked foundling from an unknown place(including his mother, since if she is a citizen he is a NATURAL born citizen regardless), or does he go with the theory that Hawaii was illegally occupied by the United States and is not part of the US (also requires him to be a foundling, but at least he can be a Hawaiian foundling). He also needs a few more conspiracy theories, since Joe Biden (whose son is serving overseas) would still be president.
Perhaps he challenges the legitimacy of the whole government (after all, it lets Jews, Blacks and women vote). He’s a nut case, pure and simple, and probably a coward to boot.
He reminds me of the character in the movie “Mash” who went around in a dress claiming he should be exampt and sent home.
YWN & BaalBoose,
Dead end story, check out snopes.com where it shows that these positions are false. Obama was born in the United States.
Who is the Ledger-Enquirer? Are they related to another enquirer and unfit to be quoted?
It’s irrelevant where the man was born. Even if he was born in the U.S., the law is that in order to be eligible to serve as the President of the U.S., both parents have to be U.S. citizens at the time of his/her birth. In this case, his father was born in Kenya, which belonged to Great Britain at the time, which makes his father a british subject, and his son a dual citizen, which is not a “natural born citizen” of the U.S.
Men nemt sich zu seine Beiner!
The Kennedy murder will be kid’s play against this!
there is NO documents showing that he was born in the united states he never made public his birth certif. the only thing he made public is his C.O.L.B thats not a birth certif. the obama compain has spent more then $ 1,000,000 to hide his so called birth cetif.
The law is that in the US, only one parent must be a citizen. Outside the US BOTH parents must be legal citizens of the United States for the child to be a citizen. If Obama was born in the US, then good, his mother was a citizen. If he was born in Kenya, then according to the Constitution, he may not be President.
Here is a direct link to Obama’s COLB:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/06/13/bobirthcertificate.jpg
Until the year of 1964, if a person was born outside the US and went to Honolulu to get his COLB, the law was that the document would say “City, Town or Location of birth: Honolulu”. This is NO proof that Obama was born in Honolulu.
Also, why is the Certificate No. blacked out? That number can not be used for any identification purposes. It is just used for the State’s filing system. Also, where is the ACTUAL birth certificate? And why spend over ONE BILLION DOLLARS hiding the bith certificate and fighting law suits if he was really born in the US? Explain it to me, becouse I don’t understand
WND reported in the April issue of Whistleblower that Obama’s step-grandmother in an interview transcript obtained by WND in Africa has claimed she was present at Obama’s birth in Mombasa, Kenya.
WND is in possession of an affidavit submitted by Rev. Kweli Shuhubia, an Anabaptist minister in Kenya, who is the official Swahili translator for the annual Anabaptist Conference in Kenya, and a second affidavit signed by Bishop Ron McRae, the presiding elder of the Anabaptists’ Continental Presbytery of Africa.
In his affidavit, Shuhubia asserts “it is common knowledge throughout the Christian and Muslim communities in Kenya that Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., was born in Mombasa, Kenya.”
Shuhubia further states in his affidavit that he visited Obama’s grandmother at her home in the village of Alego-Kogello, on Oct. 16, 2008, in order to conduct a telephone conference interview that would connect with McRae in the United States.
During the telephone interview, McRae specifically asked Sarah Obama two times, “Were you present when your grandson was born in Kenya.”
“Both times she specifically replied, ‘Yes,’” Shuhubia affirmed in the affidavit.
“Ms. Sarah Hussein Obama was very adamant that her grandson, Senator Barack Hussein Obama, was born in Kenya, and that she was present and witnessed his birth in Kenya, not the United States,” Shuhubia continued in the affidavit.
“During the conversation, Ms. Sarah Hussein Obama never changed her reply that she was indeed present when Senator Barack Obama was born in Kenya,” Shuhubia insisted in the affidavit.
The affidavit documents that President Obama’s step-grandmother was asked the questions several times, both in her native language, Swahili, and in English, and that the Anabaptists conducting the interview were confident she understood clearly the questions that were asked.
“Ms. Sarah Hussein Obama never changed her reply that she was indeed present when Senator Barack Obama was born in Kenya,” McRae swore in his affidavit
McRae affirmed that Obama’s step-grandmother had been asked the question several times and a discussion over the conference call with those present with her in her home in Kogello made clear that she understood the question.
Charliehall,
If you know so much about the law, go lecture the California Federal judge that listened to the hearing yesterday and didn’t dismiss it based on your notion. Also, Obama’s lawyers keep pushing off Apuzo’s court in NJ for not being ready for the case. I would advise you to sit down with them as well and teach them the constitution so they don’t have to beg the judge for more and more time.
elicpa,
Snopes.com has proven to be an illegitimate source.
Just a few days ago they had to change their story of where he was born, when the letter of the president stating he was born in a different hospital became public. Do some research, pal.
So much incorrect information here.
FACT: Any person born in the US is a citizen, regardless of their parents citizenship (This part of the illegal immigration controversy, so called “anchor babies,” children of illegals born in the US and therefore citizens). If Obama was born in Hawaii, he is a citizen. Period.
FACT: In order to convey US citizenship to a child born outside the country, ONE parent must be a citizen AND have resided in US for a minimum of five years after the age of 16. Obama’s mother was 19 when he was born and therefore unable to convey citizenship to Obama if he was born outside the country.
FACT: While in college, Obama travelled to Pakistan (or so he claims in his book)where at the time it was illegal for US passport holders to travel. If true, it raises the question as to what countries passport (and, therefore, citizenship) he travelled under.
FACT: The “doumentary proof” is not proof at all. The famous “Certification of Live Birth” was issued by the state of Hawaii even to those born outside the state and therefore even Hawaii itself does not accept it as proof of birth there.
FACT: Obama has spent more than 11 million dollars in legal expenses to keep his birth records (if it exists , it would be the long form “Certificate of Live Birth”, passport records and college records (might they show him as a foreign student?) from public view. It begs the question: if there is nothing to hide, why spend all that money to hide it?
In order to qualify to become president of the United States, you have to be a US NATURAL BORN CITIZEN. This is different then being a citizen because one of your parents are a US citizen, thus rendering you a citizen. To be the president of the United States, you have to actually be born on US soil.
see interesting links
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthcertificate.asp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QdyLOUHz-A
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/06/obama-birth.html
btw, this brave soldiers orders mysteriously were now rescinded
Charlie Hall (@ #19): In your wife’s case you say that her father “had not lived in the US for many years.” This may be true. But the only relevant question is: did he live in the U.S. from the time he was 16 until he was 21 (and therefore met the 5 year residency requirement). If so, he would have been able to convey citizenship to his foreign born daughter even if he had NEVER returned to the U.S. after the age of 21.
To all commenters who have categorically stated what the law is…well, most of you don’t know what you’re talking about. And so, I refer you to the following document published by the U.S. State Department [citation included, in case you want to check it out for yourself]. You can’t get any more authoritative than this. Here is “the law,” and it contains a surprise:
7 FAM 1131.6-2 Eligibility for Presidency
a. It has never been determined definitively by a court whether a person who acquired U.S. citizenship by birth abroad to U.S. citizens is a “natural born citizen” within the meaning of Article II of the Constitution and, therefore, eligible for the Presidency.
b. [quotes Article II of the Constitution]
c. The Constitution does not define “natural born…”
There you have it folks. Until either the Constitution is amended to include a definition of “natural born,” or the Supreme Court issues an opinion defining “natural born,” the law as to whether a foreign born child of citizen parents is “natural born” is an open question.
As to the legitimacy of Obama’s birth certificate:
Hawaii officials confirmed the authenticity of Obama’s Certificate of Live Birth and stated unequivocally that he was born in Honolulu. As well, there were two published announcements of Obama’s birth in local Honolulu newspapers, both confirmed as authentic.
Finally, a number of legal challenges were initiated last year in federal courts and all failed. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear any of these claims, as the petitioners could not convince the justices that their cases had any merit whatsoever.
But the nut-case conspiracy theorists rant on and on about it…making up stories about forged birth certificates and African step-grandmothers. Calling them “FACTS” over and over again does not make it so. The only “fact” is that truth doesn’t matter to these people since they are driven by an unrelenting anti-Obama ideology. The truth is inconvenient; it just gets in the way of their agenda. So, even though they haven’t got a leg to stand on they will never let it go. Sane people do as the Supreme Court did: we just ignore them.
As Jews we have enough to deal with in combating Obama’s anti-Israel policies without wasting time tilting at phantom windmills.
“23.As to the legitimacy of Obama’s birth certificate:
Hawaii officials confirmed the authenticity of Obama’s Certificate of Live Birth and stated unequivocally that he was born in Honolulu. As well, there were two published announcements of Obama’s birth in local Honolulu newspapers, both confirmed as authentic.
Finally, a number of legal challenges were initiated last year in federal courts and all failed. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear any of these claims, as the petitioners could not convince the justices that their cases had any merit whatsoever.”
The state of Hawaii has confirmed the authenticity of the published “CERTIFICATION” of Live Birth, not the CERTIFICATE. These are NOT the same document as at the time Hawaii allowed registration of births OUTSIDE the state. As such, even Hawaii does not accept the CERTIFICATION as proof of birth in Hawaii. If even Hawaii doesn’t, why should we? As to the CERTIFICATE, it remains a mystery.
As to the court cases, you are wrong. Not one case has been dismissed on its merits. Each case has been dismissed on the basis of jurisdiction or on whether or not the party has standing before the court to sue in the first place. There has NEVER yet been a hearing on the actual merits (though that appears to be forthcoming in a seperate case)
I do have an unrelenting anti-Obama agenda because Obama is a socialist and believe deeply that his policies and agenda will be disasterous for this great country that has been so kind to Jews.
That aside, facts are facts no matter how hard the bleeding heart leftist liberal socialist radical types deny it. The simple fact is that EVERYTHING about obamas past has been hidden from public scrutiny. We don’t KNOW where he was born. We can’t see his college records. We cant see his passport records. We aren’t allowed to know exactly what he did all those tears working for Acorn. We aren’t allowed to see his record as a state senator.
The man is a complete mystery despite the fact we have a RIGHT as the people to know and Obama has spent MILLIONS keeping the truth of his past hidden from view. We got to learn everything there was to know about GW Bush but we have to just accept Obama at his word? What a bunch of Barbra Streisand
By the way. The African grnadmother story isn’t made up. SHE HERSELF claims to have been present at his birth — in Kenya! This has been reported over and over by reliable news outlets. Now maybe SHE is a nut-case but, again, WE THE PEOPLE have a right to know.
to #22:
You are right and you are wrong.
You are correct in stating that the constitution does not define “natural born citizen” nor have the courts ever ruled on the definition relative to a case involving eligibility for the Presidency. The court HAS however provided a definition.
In 1874, in the Minor v. Happersett, the court wrote: “The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners. Some authorities go further and include as citizens children born within the jurisdiction without reference to the citizenship of their parents. As to this class there have been doubts, but never as to the first.”
This case however does address the issue of children born abroad to citizens. The fact that the Supreme Court has not ruled on this matter does not mean there is no law. The governing law in this matter is The US State Dept Foreign Affairs Manual. FAM 1131.2 states:
“Since 1790, there have been two prerequisites for transmitting U.S. citizenship to children born abroad:
(1) At least one natural parent must have been a U.S. citizen when the child was born. The only exception is for a posthumous child.
(2) The U.S. citizen parent(s) must have resided or been physically present in the United States for the time required by the law in effect when the child was born.” (At the time of Obama’s birth, it was five years)
While this rule conveys citizenship, it again does not meet the definition of “natural born” as determine in Minor v. Happersett.
The 2008 resolution declaring John McCain a natural born citizen is telling. He was born in the Panama Canal Zone which was not considered a US territory and, therefore, birth there could not convey status as “natural born.” Both of McCain’s parents were able to convey citizenship under FAM 1131.2 but rather than stating that that alone was sufficient to convey natural status, S.R 511 used his father’s status of serving in the Military to justify conveying natural status. One of the Senate sponsors: Obama.
This is important. IF (and I do say “if” which is why it so critical to determine)Obama was born in Kenya, not only is he not a natural born citizen, he may not even be a citizen AT ALL.
America is supposed to be a nation of laws; laws that apply to EVERYONE, including it’s rulers. This is a HUGE part of the reason that America has been so kind to Jews. If we ignore those laws just because we like someone then we have taken a dramatic step toward tyranny. This should be a concern for all Jews: conservative and liberal alike, regardless of our individual feelings for Obama and his policies. Need I remind you of how we have faired in the past under tyranny?
> comment #24 said” By the way. The African grandmother story isn’t made up. SHE HERSELF claims to have been present at his birth — in Kenya! This has been reported over and over by reliable news outlets.”
>> Sorry, but the lunatic conspiracy fanatics pulled a fast one again. Just google “Sara Obama” + “transcript” and you’ll be able to both listen to the taped interview and/or read the accurate transcript.
Mrs. Obama’s statement was that she was present [in Kenya] when Obama was born. There was some confusion — due to the language barrier — as to her response, which elicited further questioning. The conversation which followed was deliberately surpressed by the conspiracy nuts. Here is the relevant part:
Ron McRae: Was she present when he was born in Kenya?
Translator Ogombe: Yes, they say that yes she was present when Obama was born.
Ron McRae: Uh, could you tell me where he was
born? Was he born in Mombasa?
Translator: No! Obama was not born in Mombasa! He was born in America!
McRae: Whereabouts was he born? I thought he was born in Kenya.
Translator: No he was born in America, not in Mombasa.
McRae: OK. Do you know whereabouts he was born?
Translator: (Pause) Huh?
(two male voices in background in foreign language speaking at the same time with Mrs. Obama and another woman)
Voice (background): It was Hawaii.
Voice of Mrs. Obama or the other woman: Hawaii.
Brother Tom: Hawaii, yeah?
Voice of Mrs. Obama or other woman: Yeah.
Translator: Yes. Sir, she says he was born in Hawaii.
McRae: OK.
Okay *then.* But afterward, as a result of this entire part of the conversation being deliberately squelched, Americans were defrauded by the conspiracy nuts. THEY HAVE ZERO CREDIBILITY.
> comment #24 says: “at the time Hawaii allowed registration of births OUTSIDE the state.”
>> Absolutely NOT TRUE. Once again the fraudmeisters are concealing information. Here is the applicable statute from the Hawaii.gov website. Note the citation in brackets at the end:
[§338-17.8] Certificates for children born out of State. (a) Upon application of an adult or the legal parents of a minor child, the director of health shall issue a birth certificate for such adult or minor, provided that proof has been submitted to the director of health that the legal parents of such individual while living without the Territory or State of Hawaii had declared the Territory or State of Hawaii as their legal residence for at least one year immediately preceding the birth or adoption of such child…[L 1982, c 182, §1]
THIS PROVISION WAS ENACTED IN 1982,a FACT which the conspiracy frauds always fail to mention. In 1961 no such provision existed. The original Obama birth certificate on file with the Hawaii Dept. of Health could only have been issued if he was born there! Once again, TorasMoshe”Emess,” you bought into sheker.
> comment #26 states that the courts HAVE provided a definition of “natural born citizen, referring to the case of Minor v. Happersett.
>> Your quote of the court’s opinion is accurate: it recognized that a person born in the U.S. whose parents are citizens is considered to be “natural born.” No one debates that.
Then the court recognized a doubt as to whether a person born in the U.S. of foreign parents is
considered natural born, but gives no opinion.
As to whether a child born to U.S. citizens outside of the country is considered natural born, it made NO reference at all. This question remains unresolved to this day.
In any event, it is irrelevant to Barack Obama since he was, WITHOUT ANY DOUBT, born in Hawaii (if one accepts the factual evidence and not the fraudulent stuff put out by the conspiracy nuts).