THE
FULLMOST MEASURE OF SOVEREIGNTY - By default, all candidates are ineligible, not
eligible, to hold the office of President until they are proven otherwise. Natural-born citizens are those citizens born
under what America’s founders commonly and mutually held as the natural laws of
God which, thereby, afford the individual with natal citizenry protected under both
the jurisdiction of the constitutional laws of the nation, and by birth to two citizen
parents, without relinquishment of that status by expatriation, renunciation or
foreign adoption.
By
Dan Crosby
of
THE DAILY PEN
NEW YORK, NY – A report
released today by TheBlaze.com further affirms that Barack Obama is not
eligible to serve as the U.S. president and, therefore, became an illegal
president in 2008, because he relinquished his natural-born citizenship status
when he became a citizen of Indonesia and that he, most likely, was adopted by
his step-father, Lolo Soetoro.
Upon completion of an investigation in Indonesia, the report by TheBlaze's Charles Johnson only clarifies public
perception that Obama’s Constitutional legitimacy to hold the office of U.S.
President will remain permanently damaged in the absence of confirmative evidence
proving otherwise. It was deemed so in
this manner so that a candidate’s eligibility could be upheld by the people’s
understanding that their welfare was securely held within inviolable
sovereignty.
By
the expressed Constitutional consent of the people, the office of the U.S.
President shall only be held by those individuals who meet the eligibility mandate
by a maximal fulfillment of the standards required, not a minimal fulfillment. This means that a candidate is not entitled
to be president based on a lack of evidence which might prove he is not eligible but
rather by his ability to demonstrate his full devotion to American sovereignty without
plural allegiances.
If
this can be accomplished with original documented evidence, the
evidence should be provided without contention. If it cannot be
provided, then it is reasonable for the American people to declare that
it does not exist and, therefore, the candidate is not eligible, by
default.
Candidates
who fail to meet the measureable standards of eligibility defined by age and
duration of residence as well as the full-most possible precepts of the
natural-born citizenship requirement, are inferior and deficient by varying
degrees up to and including disqualification, unless they are able to refute
their lack of legitimacy with irrefutable evidence.
In
order to be seen as legitimate, the candidate must prove he is eligible, not suffer
the people to show proof that he is not eligible. In serving the office illegitimately, Obama
has chosen the latter path of minimalism.
The path of inferiority. The path
of usurpation…the path of wrath and vengeance and destruction.
The long-held conclusion that Obama is not a natural-born citizen of the
United States and, therefore, not eligible to be President, is based on a lack of evidence
proving three primary metrics of his natal citizenship. Unlike
the majority of Obama’s bowing liberal
consensus who defend a minimalist fulfillment of the eligibility
standards to
hold this venerated, blood-ransomed office, in the absence of
understanding of the guidance provided by the Constitution, it is
imperative that we seek
to serve not only the letter of the eligibility law, but the intention
of the
spirit of the law as well.
There
remains no credible documented evidence confirming Obama’s parentage. We have been told by uncorroborated sources,
including the State of Hawaii, that Obama’s father was Barack Obama, Sr., a
British citizen from Kenya at the time of Obama’s birth. However, the only piece of information making
any allusion to this parentage is an uncertified .pdf image of an alleged 1961
birth record posted to a series of websites with a history of bias in support
of Obama’s claims of legitimacy.
The
image
of this so-called birth certificate has since been discredited by a
formal law enforcement investigation as a forged counterfeit and,
therefore, cannot be relied up on whatsoever to validate Obama's natal
identity or natural born citizenship.
Secondly,
there is also no evidence confirming with absolute assurance that Obama was
born in the U.S. Since the image of the
alleged birth certificate has been determined to be fraudulent, there is now no
other public record of Obama’s alleged birth in Hawaii, or anywhere else. This lack of evidence, by default,
disqualifies his candidacy for the office of President.
Finally,
there is documented evidence that Obama became a citizen of another country,
Indonesia. This means he lost his
natural born citizenship status prior to being elected which, therefore, means
he was never eligible for the office of President by on his lack of continuity
of natural born citizenship.
By
Charles C. Johnson
Of
TheBlaze
Editor’s
note (from TheBlaze): Writer Charles C. Johnson will join TheBlaze Editor-in-Chief Scott Baker
to talk about this story on today’s BlazeCast.
As part of our series on President Obama’s education and past, we
interviewed Barack Obama’s first ever principal, Father Bart Janssen. Our
freelance correspondent, Charles C. Johnson, went all the way to Indonesia to
find out more about Obama’s past.
Enrollment
documents viewed by TheBlaze confirm that a young Barack Obama was listed as an
Indonesian citizen and a Muslim on school registration in the 1960s. And while
the document has been reported on before, albeit lightly, TheBlaze has compiled
the most complete view thus far of the document and the circumstances
surrounding it – including an interview with the president’s first-ever principal
while he was in Indonesia.
TheBlaze
repeatedly photographed the document in the office of the current headmaster of
Santo Fransiskus Assisis, a Catholic school that Obama attended from January
1968 to December 1970 in Jakarta. The
record shows that Obama (or his parents) – at least for the period of his life
– claimed to be an Indonesian citizen, that he took the last name Soetoro (the
last name of his step-father, Lolo), that his religion was listed as Islam, and
that he was born in Honolulu.
While
Obama’s time at Santo Fransiskus is important (and we’ll explore it in more
detail shortly), it’s just as crucial to fastforward to when Obama left the
school.
According
to records at Santo Fransiskus Assisis, Obama left after 1970 because his
family moved. That move was due to Lolo leaving Dinas Topografi, a mapmaking
survey company that contracted with the Indonesian army—which is listed in the
document we viewed—to join Union Oil where he became a well-connected government
liaison officer.
That
job came with perks, among them access to some of the best schools for young
Barry Soetoro. That’s evident by the young Obama attending Besuki School, one
of the three best public schools in Indonesia, after leaving St. Fransiskus.
Besuki School is the sort of place the connected send their children when they
are not already sending them to the pricy international school. (This is an important detail because once
Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham, got a job working for the Ford Foundation in 1980,
and after she had divorced Lolo Soetoro, she began sending her daughter, Maya,
to Jakarta International School.)
In
a taped interview in Indonesian and subsequent email with Akhmad Solikhin,
Besuki’s current principal, he told my Indonesian translator and me that, other
than Obama, there has only been one non-Indonesian at the school—a Dutch
student. That’s not surprising considering Besuki School, founded in 1934, was
formerly Carpentier Alting Stichting Nassau School — a school run and controlled
by the Dutch for the Dutch colonialists and the Indonesian elite. In 1962 — before Obama attended in 1970 — it
was taken over by the Indonesian government. Besuki was then and is now a
prestigious place where potential students sit on waitlists. In fact, in 2007
Besuki began using a mandatory admissions test to try and cut down on the
number of Indonesian children trying to get in.
Why
is this all important? Because given that history, it doesn’t seem likely that
the school would have wasted one of their prized seats on a student not
claiming to be Indonesian, especially when it was the sort of place that
educated the children of government officials and the well-to-do.
Could
Obama Have Gone to a Public Indonesian School Without Claiming to Be a Citizen?
Thanks
to the political instability in Indonesia that took place between 1965-1967,
public records for the 1960s are spotty, at best, for all levels of government.
Only the Catholic school Obama attended – St. Fransiskus — had any records to
speak of regarding claims of citizenship.
Nevertheless,
my Indonesian-born translator and I were able to speak with several government
officials about the policy governing adoptions and foreign nationals attending
public school. Was it possible that Obama could have gotten into Indonesian
public schools without claiming to be an Indonesian citizen?
“It
is extremely rare that non-Indonesians go to Indonesian public school,” Liperty
Marpaum told us. He is a staff member of the department of Law & Labor
(Hukum & Pegawaian), which handles education policies for the Indonesian
government. Foreigners must apply and ask permission for the department of
education before they may enroll and even must give a copy of their passport
and reasons for wanting to go to school in the country. Most of the foreigners,
he said, are Asians—Filipinos, Thai, and the like, not Europeans. And
Americans? “No. All of the Americans go to international school.”
We
searched for any such permission document Obama may have submitted to the
department of education by Lolo Soetoro or Ann Dunham, but came up empty. We
also could not find records at Besuki School, despite requests.
So
how did Obama get in?
It
has been a source of speculation for some time that Obama was adopted by Lolo
Soetoro. It is always a possibility, and it could explain at least the
citizenship claim on the school form. However, it’s important to not that even
if Obama was adopted and became an Indonesian citizen, he would not have lost
his American citizenship under existing constitutional law (see the Supreme
Court case Perkins v. Elg). Indonesia then and now does not allow dual
citizenship, but under American law he would not have lost his American
citizenship until he reached the age of majority and chose himself to give it
up.
(Think
of it this way: Your parents cannot decide you are no longer a U.S. citizen if
you are natural born. But if you make the decision yourself once old enough
—join a foreign army, for example — you could very well lose your citizenship.)
Defenders
of the president (and detractors of the adoption theory) point to a 1958
Indonesian law that says a child cannot be adopted if they are over five years
old and that Barry and his mother arrived in August 1967—after he had turned
six. But Lolo and Ann Dunham married on
March 15, 1965, when Obama was three and half and Lolo left for Indonesia in
June 1966 while Obama was still four, according to Washington Post editor David
Maraniss’s book, “Barack Obama: The Story.” Soetoro, then, could easily have
filled out adoption forms, possibly in advance of the Indonesian school year
that begins in July, in preparation of his wife and stepson’s arrival. We know
that Obama’s mother suddenly reversed her previous position that her husband’s
departure to Indonesia would cause undue mental hardship (Maraniss, p. 201) so
presumably she had settled on living in Indonesia with her husband and child.
Under Indonesian law, when a man married a woman with children, the woman’s
children become Indonesian nationals, as well.
Additionally,
the way Maraniss describes the relationship between Obama and his stepfather is
like it were an adoption. “Like his mother, Barry took the Soetoro name. He
called Ann mamah and Lolo papah and did not flinch when Lolo introduced him as
his son.” (Maraniss, p. 230) So complete was the view that Barack Obama was
Barry Soetoro that Israel Darmawan, Obama’s first grade teacher at Fransiskus
Assisis, did not recognize who he was, according to one account.
A History of Mistruths
While
the current headmaster of Fransiskus Assisis did not know whose handwriting was
on the form, she said it was safe to assume that the information on it was
provided by Obama’s mother — his stepfather visited only rarely during the
three years Obama attended school. That raises another theory: Could Ann
Soetoro, who was said to have been very interested in her son’s education so
much so that she tutored him in the morning, have lied or stretched the truth
regarding her son’s status to help him get into Besuki school, the best school
she could? If so, it wouldn’t be the last time that she did everything she
could to have her son get the best possible education.
Maraniss
describes Dunham as “tireless at working the system, even from afar” as one of
the reasons Obama got into the elite Punahou prep school in Hawaii. Nor would
it be the last time he and his family would lie about his origins. Indeed, Maraniss notes Obama came from a
family of liars who told tall tales about his origins:
“His
grandfather [Stanley] had told strangers that the boy was a descendant of ali
‘i, native Hawaiian royalty. In Obama’s later memoir, he recalled boasting at
Punahou that his father was an African prince. Some classmates remembered it
differently, that first he claimed his father was an Indonesian prince.” (p.
268).
Maraniss
is most likely referring to Kirsten B. Caldwell, who wrote in a 2008 collection
that Obama had told her and her sister that he was an Indonesian prince:
“My
sister and I remember Barry bragging about his father being an Indonesian
prince (in his book, Dreams From My Father, he recalls telling people his
father was an African prince, but we tennis court kids remember it the other
way). We didn’t know it, but at that point, he was a young boy who didn’t know
his real father, and had been living in Indonesia with his mother, stepfather,
and half-sister, and had recently moved to a small apartment in Honolulu to
live with his grandparents in order to attend a highly acclaimed private school
on scholarship. What a culture shock! I can certainly understand how a new kid
would want to seem more exotic when he was likely feeling a little insecure. I
just figured he was an Indonesian prince who would go back for his legacy after
graduation.” (“Our Friend Barry,” p. 69) [Emphasis added]
It
doesn’t end there. Obama’s Occidental College classmate Amiekohel “Kim” Kimbrew
of Los Angeles recalled rumors that Obama was a “Hawaiian prince” to the
Chicago Tribune. (“Activism blossomed in college,” Chicago Tribune, March 30,
2007).
We
also know from reports in the student newspaper that Occidental, which prides
itself on its diversity and international relations focus, was trying to bring
more minority students to campus at the time. Might Obama have tried to pass
himself off as still more diverse? Could he even have lied to “seem more
exotic” to an admissions officer at Occidental or Columbia?
Add
all that to the fact that Obama embellished in his book, Dreams from My Father,
as Maraniss has noted, and that TheBlaze has also revealed in the past he lied
about a “transfer program” he describes between Occidental and Columbia in the
same book (no such transfer program exists).
That
raises the question: Were Obama’s parents lying when they told Fransiskus
Assisis that he was an Indonesian citizen?
It’s
hard to say, but the answers to such questions matter.
What the Founder of Obama’s Indonesian
School Told Us
To
find out more about Obama’s time in Indonesia, TheBlaze tracked down Father
Bart Janssen. He’s the elderly founder of Santo Fransiskus Assisis who we found
in a monastery in Den Bosch, The Netherlands. We asked him, through a Dutch
translator, what he remembers of the young Barack Obama.
In
the late 1960s, Janssen was sent by the Bishop of Jakarta to set up a church in
the region, which at the time was a small village well beyond the city limits
of Jakarta (though now sits practically in the middle of Jakarta due to the
amazing growth of the city). And while his goal was a church, the school was a
way to assimilate into the community.
“There
were not Catholic churches or schools in that area at the time – it was quite
remote, a little village, if you will. Offering a good education was a typical
way to get the local people involved with the church and become part of the
community,” Janssen told us.
The
school started in February 1967 and attracted about 50 students in the first
years: “It was quite a challenge in the beginning, especially to attract
children and grow the school and the church in such a remote area, but it
became a success after a few years.”
Obama
was signed up for the school in 1968 as part of the second class of students
entering the school. He was six years old at the time and attended first,
second, and third grade there. Janssen doesn’t remember who registered Obama,
but he recalls that Obama’s mother didn’t speak Indonesian at the time, so he
thinks that both the stepfather and the mother would have been there together
to register their son. He also doesn’t think the details in Obama’s
registration document should be considered official declarations of his faith
or citizenship because it wasn’t a government form and people played loose with
such facts at the time. For example, it was typical to register as Indonesian
and Islamic just because you were living there, so the religion indicated may
just be what his father put down because it was the normal thing to do.
“That
was just the norm,” Janssen explained.
It
was, Janssen added however, well known that Obama was American and came to the
school from Hawaii. And Janssen said he also had an understanding that Obama
was raised Christian, though not Catholic, because his mother and natural
father were known to be so. Janssen also said he knew that Obama’s birth father
was from Kenya and that his mother was American.
And
it wasn’t a requirement to be Indonesian or Catholic to attend the school.
Things were loose in terms of citizenship requirements in Indonesia, Janssen
recalled. He himself had Dutch citizenship when he first set up the school in
1967 and it wasn’t until 1982 that he changed his citizenship to Indonesian. He
switched citizenship back to Dutch in 2005 when he returned to the Netherlands.
Obama at Age Six: I Want to Be
President
Though
Indonesian citizenship wasn’t required, courses were taught in Indonesian and
Obama learned the language in three months. Father Janssen recalled that when
Obama took his Indonesian speaking test for the school, the young student told
the class that he wanted to be president some day.
“He
said he would like to be president, but he didn’t say president of which
country,” Janssen said. “It ‘s quite remarkable that he had that idea back then
and now, in fact, he is president of the United States.”
While
Father Janssen didn’t teach classes and has no direct recollection about
Obama’s performance as a student, he said Obama’s teacher told him that Obama
was a good student and received good grades.
“He
learned Indonesian in 3 months, after all,” he said.
He
added that Obama’s parents rented a house nearby so that their son could attend
the school, and also remembers that Obama was quite a bit bigger than most
other students there.
Obama
wasn’t the only foreign student in the school, but Janssen doesn’t recall how
many were Indonesian students and how many came from other countries. He said
about half the students were Catholic and the rest were other religions,
including many of Islamic faith.
“It
wasn’t a requirement to be Catholic, but they would be taught Catholic
principles and values.”
Where
does all this leave us, then? Here’s what we know:
1.The document for the first-ever school Obama
attended in Indonesia lists him as an Indonesian citizen (born in Hawaii) and a
Muslim.
2.Those claims would have benefited a young
Obama as he continued his schooling.
3.The Catholic priest who started the school,
however, says it was not odd to lie about such things.
4.We know that Obama and his family have a
history of mistruths.
5.But it’s also not far-fetched to consider
that Obama’s step-father, Lolo, could have adopted him – thus making him an
Indonesian citizen as a young boy.
6.Even if he was adopted and was an Indonesian
citizen at one time, though, it would not have affected his status as a U.S.
citizen per the Supreme Court.
Still,
that leaves many questions. And the truth lies somewhere in those facts.
Ultimately, only Obama knows for sure what that truth is. And depending on what
happens on Tuesday we may or may not know anytime soon.
An
exit after one term from the White House could act as a catalyst for more
information more quickly. An Obama win, on the other hand, would likely keep
any information – at least from the president himself — sealed for at least
four more years.
Voters
on Tuesday, then, may be deciding more than just who the next president is –
they could help decide how much more we know about the one we have now.