
U.S. Magistrate Judge Arthur Nakazato today threw out a document that was purportedly a copy of President Barack Obama’s registration of birth in Kenya. Nakazato’s action also dismissed a request that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have the Kenyan government verify the document.
But Nakazato said the document was improperly filed, leaving the door open for it to be filed again.
Last weekend, Mission Viejo lawyer Orly Taitz filed the document, which claimed to be a registration of Obama’s birth. The filing was part of a complaint Taitz has in Santa Ana federal court - filed on behalf of Alan Keyes, Buena Park Pastor Wiley Drake and others - alleging that Obama is not U.S. born and should be removed from office.
The document, which can be seen online, was immediately called a forgery by experts. Among other things, they pointed out that the document had bore the phrase “Republic of Kenya” but was dated eight months before Kenya was established as a republic.
Click here to see today’s ruling by Nakazato.
Click here if you’d like to produce a registration of Kenya birth that looks just like the one Taitz filed - except with your name on it.
Click here to read my piece where a Kenya history expert calls Taitz’s document a fake.
Click here to read about a poll reporting that 23% of Americans unsure Obama born here.
Click here to read about Irvine GOP Rep. John Campbell co-sponsorship of a bill that would make presidential candidates prove their citizenship.
Click here for documentation and investigations concluding that Obama was indeed born in Hawaii.
Click here to read the Hutchinson encyclopedia entry on Kenya becoming a republic in December 1964. Click here to read Wikipedia’s version. Here’s a version of the same information on one of Kenya’s embassy Websites.
Click here to see a scan of the Dec. 12, 1964 Washington Post story on Kenya becoming a Republic.
The court has better things to do than listen to these nut jobs.
Why Campbell is lending himself to this is beyond me. My guess is he is just playing to his base with this show of ultra-partisanship. You have to wonder about his constituents as well. Maybe they should stop reading Orange Coast Magazine for the cosmetic surgery ads and pick up a newspaper.
Orly will not like this article. But I do! And lest someone need more proof that Orly is not playing with a full deck:
“The filing was part of a complaint Taitz has in Santa Ana federal court - filed on behalf of Alan Keyes, Buena Park Pastor Wiley Drake and others.”
Obama’s citizenship is not an illegitimate question though the foreign born dimension of it maybe. It is his Indonesian parentage that concerns me.
Unlike the nascent Kenya, Indonesia was a going concern when Obama’s mother married an Indonesian national and moved her and her bi-racial, bi- national child to the Muslim nation. The citizenship laws of Indonesia at that time should be well documented and easily obtainable. Did they allow for dual nationality?
If Obama was a citizen of Indonesia during his residency there at what point did he renounce it? I do not believe we know the facts beyond a doubt because Obama has sealed the records of his adult
life in the United States.
Why does not Obama let the public see them?
Wake up dude Obama never renounced his citizenship! That is a very tough thing to do believe it or not!
**There are none so blind as those who will not see. Obama’s birth has been verified by the Secretary of State of Hawaii. He has no need to waste his time answering to morons who simply can’t stand having a black man in the White House. Your “concern” about his Indonesian parentage is specious, at best.
Since Obama is a racist, does that mean that his majority White DNA is discriminating against his minority Black DNA?
Could it possibly be that Obama has something to hide?
**No.
**Yes.
This is a really old and tired subject. Gotta search for something though, I guess.
This is all the dirt they can find about Obama.
Perhaps instead of questioning his eligibility to be POTUS, we should be questioning his sanity. Rather than spend $15 to release his original long-form birth certificate, he would rather spend nearly a $million on 11 different law firms to hide his: original long-form birth certificate, 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, files from his years as an Illinois state senator, Illinois State Bar Association records, any baptism records and adoption records.
Either he’s insane or he is deliberately doing whatever it takes to hide something damaging in his past.
“Rather than spend $15 to release his original long-form birth certificate, he would rather spend nearly a $million on 11 different law firms to hide his: original long-form birth certificate, kindergarten records, Punahou school records, Occidental College records, Columbia University records, Columbia thesis, Harvard Law School records, Harvard Law Review articles, scholarly articles from the University of Chicago, passport, medical records, files from his years as an Illinois state senator, Illinois State Bar Association records, any baptism records and adoption records.”
Where do you get this garbage?? Cite me one legitimate source where Obama did this?
Hey, just because Rush Limbaugh says it doesn’t make it true.
There have been several estimates as to how much it has cost Obama to defend himself against dozens of lawsuits over his eligibility. Most of them are in the hundreds of thousand$. Any amount over $15 proves that Obama either belongs under psychiatric care or is trying desperately to hide something very damaging.
I wouldn’t know what Rush says since I don’t listen to him.
If its so tired and old? Why do you take the time to respond. Are you afraid? At some level this must make you uncomfortable and the others like you are simply scared and unwilling to hear anything that might upset your routine.You’re the same type that will spend 8 hours a night watching mindless tv.
Because it’s amusing to annoy you tinfoil hat types
I might add that, during the 1960’s or, for that matter even today, it would surprise me greatly to learn that an Islamic nation, like Indonesia, would allow for the children, in the care and custody of a native born Islamic male, to have anything but the citizenship of the father.
Could anyone offer a shred of evidence that this would not be the case?
Why should we, when you haven’t even proven that it iISthe case? It’s your theory, therefore your responsibility to prove it, not ours to disprove.
Megan, old and tired questions remain if there are not new and definitive answers.
Then you must be surprised easily. You’re the one making the accusation. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
Just FYI, a parent cannot renounce the citizenship of their minor child.
Renunciation of U.S. Citizenship
Parents cannot renounce U.S. citizenship on behalf of their minor children. Before an oath of renunciation will be administered under Section 349(a)(5) of the INA, a person under the age of eighteen must convince a U.S. diplomatic or consular officer that he/she fully understands the nature and consequences of the oath of renunciation, is not subject to duress or undue influence, and is voluntarily seeking to renounce his/her U.S. citizenship.
Also a little piece of a gem that can be found in Section 349 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1481)
Whenever the loss of United States nationality is put in issue in any action or proceeding commenced on or after September 26, 1961 under, or by virtue of, the provisions of this chapter or any other Act, the burden shall be upon the person or party claiming that such loss occurred, to establish such claim by a preponderance of the evidence.
Since his parents took him out of the country in 1967, it is not up to anyone to prove that Obama didn’t renounce his citizenship. Its up to the anti-Obama crowd to prove that he did.
Read the article above and the links. You have definitive answers, you just simply refuse to accept them. If you don’t have enough answers and proof by now, you never will. You might as well take that job at the tinfoil hat or black helicopter factory.
While your at it, put a bird’s nest on your head, put on the wild “crazy eyes” glasses, put your birth certificate in a baggie and wave it on national television. It’s a free country and if you want to make an a$$ of yourself, go for it!
The KKK Republicans need to get off Obama’s back already.
He’s our president and they need to look past the color of his skin. America voted and he won. Plus, he’s a much better president than the war hungry Bush and speaks much better English than him as well. I’m surprised no one double checked if GWB was born in the US because judging from his speaking one would think he was an alien from another planet.
I think Texas is another planet!
Hey fruit cake , your great Democratic Party started the KKK … you fail on all levels…
The document is a hoax and probably a prank pulled on Orly and she was naive enough to fall for it. So many errors that even the serial number of the document was a dead giveaway. Obama was 47 at the time and was the 44th President of the United States. You have to wonder about the IQ level of these fanatics. They are proof of Joseph Goebbels theory that even the most audacious lie, if repeated enough times, the masses will believe it. (This is from Wikipedia)
Time to drop this subject. This is playing into the hands of the Obama camp. They hope this matter stays alive so they can try to associate all Republicans with the few nut cases that still exist (and they exist in both parties).
This will take the focus off of the ever-increasing deficit, unemployment, stimulus, beer summit, socialized health care and tax increases to pay for all his wonderful ideas.
I’m glad to see these ‘ morons ‘ are wasting their time and money. I hope they keep wasting more money. Keyes needs to re-key his brain !
support HR 1207
I hope this story last as long as it can. It is doing damage to the republicans at a time where Democrats are hurting a little.
Judge Sotomayor called Arthur Nakazato yesterday and ordered him to throw the record out.
Orly Taitz lives in Mission Viejo? Great… I’m so glad to live in the same town as this crazy moron. The birther movement is built completely on racism. You just can’t handle the fact that an African-American is president. If McCain had won, nobody would be challenging his citizenship.
On the bright side, it’s fun watching the Republican Party continually collapse on itself.
You must have slept through the campaign. McCain’s birth certificate and citizenship were challenged, to the point that Congress got involved to declare him qualified as a Natural Born citizen.
You are right about this being a race issue, though, since it’s about Obama’s Constitutional eligibility and he’s a racist.
Hey — Congress DID get involved in quashing the stupid attempt to cast doubt on McCain’s citizenship. Senators Obama and Clinton were first among those pushing for that lunacy to end. So where is McCain to stick up for Obama in identical circumstances? Afraid to alienate the weirdos!
Nothing is permanent
Nothing is worth anger
Nothing is worthy of dispute
Nothing…
These people that keep this up just make the GOP look inept and grasping at straws.
It is a very valid concern to question President Obama’s birth. When John McCain was a candidate, his eligibility, based upon his birth was discussed by Congress. Why wasn’t Obama’s? The fact that he has gone to such lengths and expense to cover up all his records is bound to cause great suspicion. What is it that almost every comment, defending his birth and eligibility are filled with insults about people who are asking questions? Usually when people can only insult and demean those who disagree with them, it is because they are very insecure about their beliefs and position.
Why wasn’t Obama’s?
Because Obama was born in the United States and McCain was born in the Panama Canal zone.
Next ridiculous question
lengths and expenses? cite proof of that idiotic statement just for starters
I’m so sick and tired of hearing birthers called racist .It’s the left who is racist because you morons think because Obama has a darker skin tone than usual he is black , remember goofballs his mother is white , your the idiots who stereotype people.
Umm, it’s the white race that declared that if a person has even 1 drop of african blood, they are negroes. It’s been largely considered that way ever since. So yea, by all legal standards used today, Obama is black. Um, do you think he could put White on a job application and not have it questioned once they saw him? Nope.
And speaking of goofballs, Glen Beck said Obama has a deep seeded hatred of white people…..as you point out, his mother is white.
Theres a lot of messed stuff going on these days.
>But Nakazato said the document was improperly filed, leaving the door open for it to be filed again.
I think Nakazato knows what’s up. The reason he dismissed it for this reason is to dare Taitz to file it again. If she tries to file this ridiculous forgery again, he’ll find her in contempt and recommend disbarring her.
I wish she’d be disbarred.. but that will not happen. Stupidity is noy enough even for censure by the State Bar.
But she can still be a dentist… and she is…
And she’s a Realtor too…as if THAT profession didn’t have enough problems wither her being in their midst.
If Obama was indeed born on US soil it does not matter for that only makes him a “citizen” not a “natural born citizen”
Natural Born Citizens are born on US soil to citizen parents (plural). Minor vs. Happerset (a Supreme Court ruling decided 7 years after the Fourteenth Amendment, thus differentiating between the term “citizen” and “natural born citizen”.)
Obama admits at birth his father was a British citizen and that he himself was governed by that jurisdiction.
“nothing works better than an admission against interests… it even documents heresay” Leo Donofrio, Esq.
There are five, or is it six, Supreme Court cases where Natural Born Citizen in codified. Obama does not meet even one of these.
According to the law
TITLE 8, CHAPTER 12, SUBCHAPTER III, Part I, § 1401
That isn’t the case.
But do keep up with this nonsensical claim. It only ensures the GOP nutcases exceed the logic put forth by left wing nutcases.
Why do people keep blaming the GOP for this? Ha! The GOP didn’t have to balls to even allow for a challenge to Obama’s electoral college votes during the joint session of Congress. In fact, VP Chaney went so far as to break the law and defy US Code on how the votes were counted to make sure no one could challenge Obama’s votes.
Not one Senator, not one Representative had the guts to step forward. All of them abdicated their oaths to uphold the Constitution because they were too scared of being called racists.
Try it sometime! Call one a racist to their face and see how fast they run away! Hahahahaha! What a sad day for the party that actually stopped slavery in the mid 1800’s
Can’t these guys be prosecuted for filing this sort of forgery as a legitimate document in a federal court? Hopefully someone in rosy Republican Orange county will have the balls to investigate and go after these nutjobs. I’m not a Republican, but if as a member of another party I had such folks helping me I’d use drastic measures to get rid of them. These guys don’t seem to see how similar they are to the “extremist” Muslims they claim to detest. There is freedom to say and think anything you like, but filing a forged false document such as this should be taken seriously as a criminal act.
Most probably didn’t even read the ruling. She can resubmit it again, the Judge won’t allow it “at this time,” over a technicality in the form requesting the document be entered into evidence.
Speaking of a waste of time?
Here’s question to ask yourself. If someone has nothing to hide, why would they spend over $800,000 to hide nothing.
Spare the name calling, just let that thought sink in REAL DEEP.
Some of us still care about the Constitution of the United States.
Unseal the documents… Nobody is above the Law…
Everyone take a close look at the ruling. I love the nationwide cover-up going on right now before everyone’s eyes and no one is noticing. What many are not paying attention to is the following:
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the documents will not be returned to the filing party: however, the Clerk shall note…
Since the document will NOT be returned (is that normal?), how is the attorney supposed to “properly” file the document next time?
Regardless of what you believe, now this document will never be authenticated by a reliable source (preferably the FBI, not FactCheck.Org) and will disappear forever!
America wake up, you are seeing The Great American Cover-Up at work here.
So now the Judge is involved in the great conspiracy…..Bitter, party of one, your table is ready!
Simply AMAZING to read the posts of the morons posting here who believe this nonsense.I really don’t believe they are serious,they are just ignorant and would love to find a way to invalidate the election of a man they find unacceptable.
They hope against hope to dream up some way to overturn the election of a black man to the presidency.
Someone left the “funny farm” door open. These “crazies” are wasting the system’s time when we have more important problems to deal with.
Do we all remember what a bunch of sore-loser, whiney nitwits the left-wing Democrats looked like as they kept playing the Conspiracy Card, claiming that the Bush campaign, Kathleen Harris and the US Supreme Court all got together to steal the 2000 Presidential election?
Do we all remember how their (left-wing Dems) inability to let go of that hallucination followed them right into 2004, when the second Bush campaign cleaned Kerry’s clock, and most of the Democratic Senate and House Reps’ clocks too?
Now … fast-forward to 2009. You are seeing an exact replay of what left-wing Democrats put their party through from 2000-2004, just to indulge their pique. And, chances are, you’re going to see much the same result in 2012 if the GOP can’t get the birther loonies to give it a rest: another BHO smackdown of the Republican candidate, and most of the GOP Senate and House candidates too.
I imagine that background hubbub, audible as Judge Nakazato issued his ruling, was the Usual Suspects of the Democratic Party — Carville, Emanual, Dean, etc. — wondering aloud, “How can we get the Republicans to keep feeding logs onto the fire at their feet?” The Democratic Party couldn’t be giddier at the prospect of this public spectacle playing out all the way to 2012, hung like an albatross around the GOP’s neck.
Someone prominent Republican with a lick of common sense needs to re-gain control of the party, from the Beck-Limbaugh-O’Reilly-Hannity Axis of Stupidity, and steer it back into the general direction of credibility. As long as it continues to be associated with peripheral issues like manufactured furor over bogus issues like BHO’s birth certificate, and to be associated with certifiable nutcases like Keyes, Drake and Taitz, the voters (independents, moderates, no-party-preference, etc.) it desperately needs to be competitive in Presidential elections will continue to regard the GOP as one big nuthouse.
Do we all remember how their (left-wing Dems) inability to let go of that hallucination followed them right into 2004, when the second Bush campaign cleaned Kerry’s clock, and most of the Democratic Senate and House Reps’ clocks too?
I guess a whopping 2.5% margin of victory is cleaning one’s clock. Given that standard, then Obama demolished the McCain campaign.
Not to mention they had to “clean his clock” by tarnishing the reputation of a war veteran. Oh yea, they luv the troops, and long as the troop is a Republican.
“The court has better things to do than listen to these nut jobs.”
Every US citizen (even nut jobs) has the Right and Duty to protect our Constitution. Anyone, I mean ANYONE not taking every measure possible to uncover the truth is suspect as a traitor.
Our nation has gone from “We The People” to “We The Government.” Regardless of what you believe, our Declaration of Independence and Constitution are constantly under attack to restrict our rights and freedom. Never rely on the government to perform these functions as its in their best interest to undo them because these documents specifically limit their power. And for a GOOD reason.
Call me a nut job, but I will fight for my freedom.
OC Dem:
OK, I’ll concede that “clock-cleaning” might be inaccurate.
However, remember that in Presidential elections, it’s not the popular vote that matters (as 2000 vividly showed!) — it’s the Electoral College vote. And there, in 2004 GWB carried 30 states worth 286 Electoral College votes (270 needed to win), while Kerry carried 19 states and the DC, totalling 251 E.C. votes. (for the sake of simplicity, we’ll ignore that boneheaded faithless elector from Minnesota who voted for John Edwards … twice.)
And, to the extent that coat-tails are an element of timepiece-burnishing … in 2002, GWB helped the GOP increase its Senate seats by +2 (House was unchanged), while in 2004 the GOP gained 4 Senate seats and 4 House seats — thus increasing its majorities in both houses of Congress.
Why? And why did Kerry lose, when he seemingly had so much going for him? I’d argue that one must at least consider the extent to which elements of the Democratic Party “took their eyes off the ball,” in the form of continuing to harp on the “stolen-election-of-2000″ conspiracy theory. That whole issue just dissipated much-needed energy, time, focus and attention … plus, it made those Dems look to an important slice of the electorate (the middle) like a bunch of whiney, sore-headed losers. Never mind how great it made the base feel; that’s not where elections are won or lost.
NOW … to the point of my post … we’re seeing exactly the same lesson be re-learned (or not) by the current GOP. The fixation by certain elements of the party on the “birther” issue is making the entire party, by association, look like a football player arguing with a ref about a non-call while the other team’s running back is speeding toward the goal line.
To wit: the GOP, and especially its leadership (whomever that is these days) needs to get its collective head out of its rear-end, look around for pressing issues of everyday relevance to the voters it needs to win in 2012 (and no, that’s not the hard-core base; who else are they going to vote for? George Wallace?) … and then come up with fresh thinking, credible answers and solutions that wise governance can implement to help fix national problems.
Every other peripheral distraction — like BHO’s birth certificate — that draws the party’s attention away from doing that, decreases its relevance, its appeal to voters, and its chances of regaining the White House and Congressional majorities. And no amount of on-air sputtering by Rush, Lou, Glenn, Bill or anyone else is gonna change that fact!
WeDaGov:
OK, since you explicitly asked us to … “you’re a nut job.”
And — lucky for you! — we all live here in the greatest, freest county on earth. Where anyone is free to believe that, say, the earth really is flat, man never set foot on the moon, that shooter on the Grassy Knoll killed JFK, Jimmy Hoffa is tending bar incognito in South Beach, Bush stole the 2000 election … and Barack Hussein Obama was born in, I dunno, South Waziristan.
Enjoy that freedom!
OC Dem:
And yes, you are 100% right: in 2008, BHO-Biden did indeed demolish McCain-Palin.
Think about it: a black (actually half-black, but never mind) man, with the middle of name of HUSSEIN (!!!), with virtually no legislative experience at the national (Congressional) level, and with a career hack as a running mate, beat — convincingly, in both popular and Electoral College vote — a ticket headed by an authentic War Hero, with decades of US Senate legislative experience, with a highly-photogenic spouse, AND with the most newsworthy VP running mate (an attractive woman from an exotic state) conceivable.
Given all that, to call Obama’s win a “victory” is ridiculous. It was a pasting. A wipeout. An absolute and total demolition.
I think Chris Rock said it about right (during the 2008 campaign):
“George W. Bush has f****d up big-time! How bad has he f*****d up? He’s making it really hard for a white man to win the Presidency!”
JodieSanClem,
Yes, I would even fight for yours and anyone else’s freedom not just my own, that is my duty as a free citizen. Without an opinion, you’re just a slave to the government. All government officials, top to bottom, want to take your freedoms from you. It’s inherent in them to do so to gain unlimited power.
I just hope you’re willing to stand by me if the time ever comes, if not, I’m sure all the crazy-nut-jobs will join together and go it alone.
Please keep the opinions coming!
wedagov—Yep, you’re a nut job.
Gee if Mr. Obama would just unseal all the documents that could put an end to all the questions about his birth we wouldn’t be wasting our time. In the mean time…How did he travel to Pakistan in 1981? It was not legal for a U.S. citizen to enter Pakistan at that time. Why did he go to Pakistan? Did any of you out there go to Pakistan? I would think the CIA should wonder why he went? Interesting. Why does Obama find it necessary to hide his records from the people? He promised to be transparent. Transparent as say black lava from the islands…
Sometimes I read these blogs from the bottom up. (To read the latest, I guess.) However, this time I didn’t get far.
It seems that some folks believe, incorrectly, that this past election was a landslide in favor of Obama. This was not so.
In fact, the race between Hillary and Barack was decided about a month before the nomination in favor of Hillary. Then, without much explanation, a small committee of Democrats cut votes in half for two states and then realizing it still wasn’t enough, they blatantly stole a couple of votes form Hillary to give to Obama and guaranteed his nomination.
How do I know this? I am an Independent and a small business owner. I am usually too busy to pay attention to politics. But, perhaps by coincidence or perhaps not, as soon as the Democrats took over Congress (Two years before GWB left office.) my business began to slow down to a crawl. I found myself watching C-SPAN and both conventions.
Now to keep this short and interesting, let me just say that I was already suspicious about Obama because of the Raila Odinga thing in Kenya. I had not yet dug up the entire story on that, while I was watching the conventions.
The Natural Born Citizen thing was already resolved in my mind, after I read up on the Constitution and expert opinions on its original meaning and intent. The fact that this part of the Constitution evolved out of the Rule of Law and a book called “The Law of Nations” by Vattel, were all I needed to recognize that Obama did not meet this qualification if his father was British. Ironically, a real birth certificate proving that his father was someone else and an American Citizen at the time of Obama’s birth would actually help him. But by then, I had already read two (2) of Obama’s own books and one of those books was dedicated to his Kenya father.
Finally, my work involves high-end computers and I am quite familiar with Photoshop, as even other video and animation programs that can help you falsify just about anything. I am not prone to having faith in hearsay, or images posted on the web by biased individuals.
There was quite an education I received from reading the transcripts to O.J. Simpson’s trials. They were both available on line (Including side-bar discussions.) way back then. I have taken the time to read many of the legal documents and affidavits that have come up about Obama.
Suffice it to say that there is enough evidence by now (End of August 2009.) to show that the American people as a whole have been had.
In our zeal to debate the dozens of birth certificates that keep popping up, we are forgetting to seek the answer to a much, much important question:
Are Obama’s demonstrated lack of loyalty for America, his clear bias toward all things Islam, and his corrupt “Chicago Way” support for the biggest heist by the Federal Reserve Banks and Wall Street, not reasons enough to begin questioning where we are heading under his command?
Are bowing down to a Saudi King and getting a gold medal of achievement from his worth investigating?
Are the disarming of America’s military, combined with releasing terrorists to go back home, while putting our CIA covert ops guys on trial, related - and should we be alarmed by this?
It goes on and on! You do not need to listen to Conservative radio and television alone. There are plenty of Republicans and Democrats that have woken up. The liberals, whom I did not understand very well until reading the book “United in Hate” by Glazov, are still hopeful that he will come through for them - but, unfortunately they do not understand what a cult of personality of millions, around a psychopath, egomaniac that believes he IS the Messiah means.
These folks apparently have never read the history, life and times of the ’so-called’ prophet of Islam. The parallels are stunning.
Anyway, there’s my 2-cents worth.