Consider the FAX: Is Obama a US Citizen?

How can a President of the United States pledge to uphold the U.S. Constitution if he is in violation of it?  If Barack Obama is elected President of the USA, this question may need to be addressed before his Inauguration. 

 

So why are major media outlets not talking about this?  As of 11:00 p.m. MST on October 26, 2008 a thorough search of websites for CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC & yes, even FOX news turned up nothing on the topic of a lawsuit filed in US District Court for the Eastern District of PA regarding Obama’s citizenship.

 

 A motion filed by Attorney Phillip J. Berg, a lifelong member of the Democrat Party, alleges that Barack Obama is not a “natural born citizen of the United States of America” and is therefore in violation of Article II, Section 1, Clause 4 of the US Constitution which requires a candidate running for President of the United States be a “natural born Citizen” of the United States.  It is worth noting that Phillip J. Berg is the former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania, former Chairman of the DNC in Montgomery County, PA.  He also ran for Governor and Senator of the State of PA as a Democrat. 

 

The motion for a Temporary Restraining Order prohibiting Obama from running for President of the United States was filed by Attorney Berg on August 21, 2008.  Berg is claiming that he has evidence to prove Obama is not a natural born citizen of the USA and therefore his nomination by the DNC and subsequent presidency, should he be elected is/would be null and void, requiring a second election in 2009.

 

Rather than produce a legitimate copy of Obama’s birth certificate, his attorneys chose instead to try to get Berg’s legal action thrown out on a technicality.  Obama’s attorneys & DNC lawyers filed a motion to dismiss on the basis of standing, citing lack of subject matter jurisdiction.  For those of us who are not legal beagles, “standing” simply means if you file for a TRO against someone you have to be able to prove that you stand to be harmed should that individual/ party be allowed to continue with their current actions. An individual fails to present an “injury in fact” when the harm is “abstract and widely shared” so Berg had to be able to prove that he stands to suffer PERSONAL harm if this restraining order is not granted.

 

On October 24, 2008 Judge R. Barclay Surrick faxed to Attorney Berg a ruling said to be issued by Surrick.  The order signed by Surrick states “Does the Natural Born Citizen Clause create a federal right the violation of which results in a cognizable claim?  We think not.”  Hence, the motion to dismiss the request for a Temporary Restraining Order was granted to Obama’s & DNC lawyers on the grounds that Berg did not stand to suffer harm.

 

Berg immediately issued a press release stating his intention to appeal to the US Supreme Court.

 

Berg’s response, “I am totally disappointed by Judge Surrick’s decision and, for all citizens of the United States, I am immediately appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court. This is a question of who has standing to uphold our Constitution. If I don’t have standing, if you don’t have standing, if your neighbor doesn’t have standing to question the eligibility of an individual to be President of the United States – the Commander-in-Chief, the most powerful person in the world – then who does?”

 

Obviously, this case is not over but here’s where it gets interesting…the fax header of the order to dismiss Berg’s motion came from a fax machine other than Judge Surrick’s.  It appears the document was first faxed to Judge Surrick who signed it and subsequently the signed copy was faxed to Berg.  A simple review of the order faxed to Berg shows several pages where there are 2 fax headers {p. 6, p. 19, p.27, p.33 & others}.  A close look would also reveal that the page numbers do not match up…for instance, what shows up at the top of one page as “p.34/36” has “32” AND “page 34” at the bottom of the page.

 

{click here to view the faxed copy of this order to dismiss  Obama, Judge Surrick Ruling 10 24 2008.pdf }

 

Furthermore, the order supposedly issued by Judge Surrick does not contain the required file/date stamp from the US District Court anywhere in the document.  It appears that the order did not originate with Judge Surrick but was merely faxed to him for his signature. 

 

Where did the original document come from?  Who owns the fax machine where the 36 page order originated?  Who wrote the order to dismiss, expecting Surrick to obediently sign it? 

 

Many questions remain unanswered in this case, not the least of which is why didn’t the Obama camp simply put an end to this and produce the legal vaulted birth certificate {not to be confused with the bogus Certification of Live Birth posted on Obama’s web site!} and other evidence requested by Attorney Berg in the discovery process?  The longer this drags on, the messier it seems to become.

 

To learn more about what precipitated the legal action to prohibit the DNC from nominating Barack Obama for President, listen to Phillip J. Berg, Esq. discuss his case.

 

http://www.americanpatrol.com/MISCNEWS/2006-UP/ELECTIONS/2008/OBAMA/OctSurpriseVideo081012.html?v=gA6_k3NtXZs

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Old What’s Her Name

Have you ever felt stuck? 

You have a sense that God is calling you to move forward…physically, vocationally, emotionally, relationally, spiritually…yet something is holding you back.  You know there is a life ahead of you requiring you to embrace change…do something different, go somewhere new…but you are reluctant.  Maybe you’re more than reluctant; maybe you’re flat out defiant.  Your life as it exists now is less than ideal but at least it’s predictable.  There’s something comfortable in predictability.  To have to give up something, maybe everything that is familiar makes you uneasy.

Do you have faith to trust God for change?  Or do you drag your feet?  Maybe it’s fear that’s holding you back, or perhaps a lack of clarity about where you are headed.  You tell yourself there’s no harm in waiting a little longer…when God makes it obvious to me WHY He wants me to move or WHERE He’s taking me, then I’ll go.

But what if tarrying comes with a price tag?  What if it disobedience to God’s call to move forward…even to a place unknown…costs you everything?

Do you remember Lot’s wife’s name?  NO?  Neither does anybody else. She was so insignificant that the Bible writer doesn’t bother to call her by name.  In Genesis 19:16 & 26 she is referred to simply as ”Lot’s wife”. I’ve dubbed her “Old what’s-her-name”.  Not only do we not know her name, we don’t know much about her at all. She was a wife, a mother.  And when God asked something difficult of her, when she faced His call to move on with her life, her longing for the security of sameness destroyed her.

God said, It’s time to move. Your family depends on it. Your life depends on it. DO NOT LOOK BACK. Just MOVE!   Old-what’s-her-name was not a woman given to immediate obedience.  Can you imagine the fit she threw before she finally got on the road with her family… WHY ME?  WHY NOW?   I don’t want to move.  Where are you taking me?  What if I don’t like it there? Why is this happening to me?  Can’t this WAIT? I’m not ready to let go!!  By the time she set out, begrudgingly following her husband I would imagine that she had worked herself into quite a tizzy.

Picture it: they’re finally fleeing Sodom as God had commanded. With no time to pack, Old-what’s-her-name has left everything behind.  We know how women are. Our home is our sanctuary. Our stuff defines us. Our friends affirm our value.  We yearn for that house and neighborhood where we hang our hearts. We desire our old friends.  We crave our creature comforts. We languish for the security of familiarity.  “Old what’s-her-name” was no different. She longed for her home, the things she was leaving behind. She hated the thought of starting over!!  Having previously been an Army wife through multiple moves, I can certainly relate.

But in her pain &/or rebellion, Old-what’s-her-name made two major blunders: first, she tarried behind her husband.  She refused to walk beside him on the journey.  She hung back, probably whining, dragging her feet, and slowing down everyone else in the family as they were sent racing out of Sodom. Second, she turned around. I read a Biblical scholar who described her turning not as a glance over her shoulder but as a physical stop and turn around. She not only stopped moving forward, she turned to go back the other direction!  The result was that she was left standing there dead in her tracks-literally! 

It’s no secret God created women with a high need for security and sameness.  But men can be equally guilty when it comes to a reluctance to relinquish the things of the past and move forward.  Our Creator understands our longings and desires–He’s the one who gave them to us in the first place! He knows YOUR longings just as He knew Old-what’s-her-name’s.  Still, He gave her a journey and her journey had a purpose {to save her life}. Likewise, He has given you a journey and your journey also serves a purpose. Though it may remain unclear to you exactly what that purpose is you can be sure that God has only your GOOD in mind. God doesn’t want you to be destroyed in this process of change & uncertainty. He wants to stretch you, to grow you and ultimately to bless you & bless others through you.  In order for that to be accomplished, you cannot make the mistakes of Old-what’s-her-name.  You must not tarry and you must not look back.

In Luke 17: 32 Jesus warned about such self absorption when He said, “Remember Lot’s wife.”  {Gees, even Jesus didn’t give us her name!} I believe He wants us to remember Old-what’s-her-name not because she was anything special but because she is a classic example of how devastating it can be to live life with one foot in the future and one foot in the past.  We must trust the Lord’s plan & purpose for the future rather than trying to hold on the things of our past, including our very life as we have come to know it. Jesus was clear… “Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.”  {Luke 17:33}

Contrast Old-what’s-her-name with Abraham in Genesis 12:1.  God told Abraham “Leave your country, your kinsmen, and your father’s house, and go to a country that I will show you.”  Did you get that?  Abraham had no idea where God was taking Him!  Yet in Genesis 12:4 we read,  “And so Abraham set out as the Lord had bid him…”  With no clue where he was going Abraham put one foot in front of the other and moved in faith. Only through obedience to what God had already instructed Abraham to do was he able to learn where God was taking him.

The choice is ours…either move in faith as Abraham did or tarry like Old-what’s-her-name. It’s the choice between experiencing freedom or being rendered permanently stuck.  We needn’t worry that we don’t have all the answers…God is not going to reveal more of His will until there is obedience to what He has already commanded.  But every child of His can be assured He will give just enough light for the step you are on and He will be the Wind that propels you forward when you are feeling stuck.