“IT IS A MORAL IMPERATIVE”
by Sharon Rondeau
(Apr. 17, 2017) — On Monday morning, New York State citizen Robert Laity wrote a letter addressed to President Donald Trump asking him to take action on an issue which Trump himself raised in early 2011 as he considered a run for the presidency the following year.
In January 2011, Trump, then a high-profile real estate mogul, began to demand that the White House release Obama’s detailed, or “long-form” birth certificate allegedly held by the Hawaii Department of Health (HDOH). Since entering political life in 1995, Obama claimed he was born in Honolulu on August 4, 1961, although earlier and later versions of his biography state that he was born in Kenya or Indonesia.
Trump questioned whether or not Obama was eligible to the office based on his claim, without verifiable proof, of a birth in the United States. At the same time, Trump released both his “short-form” and more detailed “long-form” birth certificates showing that he was born in Queens, NY on June 14, 1946.
On June 12, 2008, an image appeared at The Daily KOS and several other websites said to be Obama’s official birth certificate but lacking a registrar’s official seal and a signature. In May 2009, then-White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs insisted that the image represented Obama’s “birth certificate” as he laughed off a question from WND’s Les Kinsolving as to why Obama did not release his “long-form” birth record.
Article II, Section 1, clause 5 of the U.S. Constitution requires the president to be a “natural born Citizen,” a term the Framers did not precisely define. While some contend that a birth on U.S. soil is sufficient to be “natural born,” others say that the designation indicates a higher level of citizenship and allegiance than simply the term “citizen.” That view requires that the individual’s parents also have been U.S. citizens at the time of his birth in order to render him an eligible presidential candidate.
The relevant Article II clause reads:
No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
The phrase “or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution,” is often called the “grandfather clause,” meaning that while the Framers knew that they themselves were not “natural born Citizens,” they were making an exception in favor of their eligibility so that the new nation would not have to wait 35 years for a child to be born to newly-minted U.S. citizens resulting from the American Revolution.
The final statement in the Declaration of Independence reads, “And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.”
The first to sign was John Hancock of Massachusetts. All who signed knew that they could be arrested and hung for treason against the British Crown.
Trump was not the first to question Obama’s eligibility for the presidency. After Obama announced his candidacy on February 10, 2007, many Americans questioned whether or not he is a “natural born Citizen” given the variations in his life story put forth by credible sources such as the AP and NPR which said he was born in Kenya.
On December 19, 2007, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews told his audience that Obama was “born in Indonesia.”
Citizen letters to congressmen, presidential electors, governors, attorneys general, judges, and district attorneys fell on deaf ears, and Obama was swept to victory in 2008 amid his message of “hope and change.”
Included in his campaign rhetoric was the promise to “fundamentally transform the United States of America.”
After approximately three months of pressure from Trump, on April 27, 2011, the White House released what it said was a scan of a certified copy of Obama’s original birth record from Hawaii at whitehouse.gov. Within hours, however, the image was declared fraudulent by several experts who went on the record with their analyses. The White House made no response.
In early 2009, a citizen of Tennessee, LCDR Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III (Ret), attempted to approach his local grand jury and a federal grand jury about Obama’s questionable eligibility and alleged treason but was spurned and incarcerated on multiple occasions. His initial petition to the Monroe County grand jury alleging by criminal complaint that Obama had usurped the presidency by “force of contrivance, concealment, conceit, dissembling, and deceit” was used as a basis to convict him of “aggravated perjury” in June 2014.
Fitzpatrick nearly died from an infection while in Tennessee state prisons between August 2014 and October 2016.
Laity and Fitzpatrick both received visits from the U.S. Secret Service as a result of their claims made against Obama.
In his letter to Trump, Laity asserted that “Barack Obama is not an Article II, Sec. 1 (USConst) ‘Natural Born Citizen’…You were correct all along. Obama was NOT eligible to be President and never was the bona-fide President,” then referred Trump to his Constitution Day 2010 letter published at The Post & Email titled, “There is no President Obama.”
Over the course of a 5+-year criminal investigation into the long-form birth certificate image, the media ridiculed and scorned the messengers consisting of Maricopa County, AZ Sheriff Joseph Arpaio and his Cold Case Posse lead investigator, Mike Zullo. The media continued its blackout when on December 15, 2016, Zullo revealed that two well-respected forensic analysts agreed that the long-form image could not possibly represent a real, paper document.
Zullo has said that the image was released to the public “with the intent to deceive” and that it constitutes “the foundational lie of this (Obama’s) presidency.”
Laity concluded his letter with “I trust that you will agree that this matter must be addressed. It is a moral imperative. I await your response.”
Laity’s letter can be read in its entirety here: Letter to President Donald J. Trump, Sr. regarding Barack Obama’s usurpation
The US Congress turned their back on US Constitutional Law Article 2 Section 1 Clause 5 in 2008 and 2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019,2020, and 2021.
nice artilce , thank you . keep it up
December 18 2019, the democrats in the US Congress impeaches President Donald J. Trump and not a single republican broke ranks and voted for impeachment . Three democrats voted against impeachment of President Donald J. Trump . For anyone who thought the treasonous pile of garbage in the US Congress weren’t serious about protecting the fraud and usurper Barack Hussein Obama you can look at this impeachment of a LEGAL sitting US President as part of their plan to protect the fraud and usurper barack hussein obama .The longer President Donald J.Trump stays in office the greater the chance the truth coming out about the fraud and usurper barrack husseion obama .
Charles,
Thank you for that post, and what you described has been obvious since immediately after Obama was allowed to be sworn-in back in 2009. The proof is in the words, actions and especially inaction of all in Congress and the many others complicit in effectively giving America’s government and her military to the enemy. The plan was to have Hillary as the after Obama cover president and when it instead became the “birther”, President Donald Trump big-time panic went into overdrive and has not let up. They are all protecting number one…….themselves.
Once the fraud and usurper barack hussien obama was allowed to take the oath of office January 2009 there was no turning back for the US Congress and US Supreme Court ! They had to protect the fraud and usurper barack hussein Obama at all cost because they knew the entire US Congress could be charged with TREASON for ignoring US Constitutional law .
President Donald J. Trump made one big mistake on entering the Oval Office , he did not fire the entire White House staff that worked for the fraud and usurper barack hussein obama . Politics is a dirty game and a blood sport ! It was naive of President Donald J. Trump to trust the staff who worked for the fraud and usurper barack hussien obama . Does anyone really believe the staff that work for the fraud and usurper barack hussein obama did not know he was a FRAUD ?
Heads Up and Updates.
Occasionally, I speak with Mike Volin of http://www.wheresobamasbirthcertificate.com and after the holidays he has stated to me that he intends to do some of his radio shows.
On another vein let me share that I have read Robert C. Laity’s book entitled: IMPOSTERS IN THE OVAL OFFICE. His book impressed me so much that I read it a couple of times and made written and personal notes. Here Laity shares his experiences in filings several court cases against usurper Obama. Here Laity also defines Natural Born Citizen, speaks of Chief Justice John Jay, “Law of Nations”, Minor v Happersett, Chester A. Arthur, Sheriff Arpaio’s
investigation, numerous code and article violations Obama committed, and etc…
After reading obtaining/reading Laity’s book, I ordered (5) more books to distribute to
media, elected officials, and etc…
From Laity’s book I did learn some new things and I will be contacting my local media and
elected officials of items from this book. And they’ll get this book too.
Therefore, as a Marine I am leading from the front and request others to support the effort.
Indeed, get this book, read it, and pass it on to the media and your elected officials. Laity
did a great effort and let’s thank him and support him too.
My twitter account was recently suspended because I stated that “If” Obama is “Convicted” he should be given the death penalty. That is the penalty for treason and espionage during time of war. Obama was never the bona-fide President. Neither was Chester Arthur. Chester Arthur was found out after he died. He was followed by usurper # 2 Barack Obama. Cruz,Rubio and Jindal attempted to usurp the presidency and become usurper #3. Now Kamala Harris wants to be President but cannot be. She is ineligible. There are two terms of art in the constitution “Citizen” and “Natural-Born Citizen” they do not mean the same thing. NY State continues to this day to misrepresent the requirement that a President be a “Natural-Born Citizen”. They cite on their website, erroneously, that a president must be “born a citizen”. The NY State Board of Elections has committed and continues to commit election fraud.
The reason the entire US government is trying to impeach a legal sitting US President Donald J. Trump is because they are still protecting the fraud and usurper barack hussein obama IE protecting themselves from the charge of Treason . Nutty Nancy Pelosi, Speaker Of The House in 2008 sent out two letters of Nomination for US President and VP . One letter of Nomination went to the state of Hawaii with constitutional wording in it . The other letter of Nomination went to the other 49 states without the constitutional wording in them ! Why? Answer: Hawaii election officials refused to state barack hussein obama was eligible to run for US President . Another words Speaker Of The House in 2008 Nancy Pelosi gave the Hawaii election officials an out or alibis.We did not say he was eligible, the DNC and Speaker Of The House Nancy Pelosi said he was eligible !
James Carter,
Good post. A crime “too big to prosecute” gave America 8 years of a putative president. “Obama” who was/is an enemy of our nation. The crime committed by all complicit in allowing and assisting this to happen was then to be covered-up by a “forever” cover-up of this huge crime of giving America’s government and her military to the enemy. That is where we are now……….had Hillary been elected the Deep State would not have needed to panic, and everything would have just faded into history as planned. Trump created a panic and plan B to get rid of Trump was implemented. The plan itself was hastily contrived, and is slowly revealing fear of the truth about Barry as being the major cause for the panic we are watching.
Charled,
From election day 2008 until today, not only has every member of Congress been involved in the cover-up of the usurper Barack Hussein Obama but also so has every member of the SCOTUS, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the mainstream-media (including Fox). Likely additions would be higher-ups in the DNC, RNC, FBI, CIA, DIA and DOJ.
Add to the above Barack Hussein Obama himself, Brian Schatz (former Chairman, Democrat Party of Hawaii), Unknown (2008 Chief Elections Officer, State of Hawaii), Chiyome Fukino (former Director, Hawaii Department of Health), Neil Ambercrombie (former Governor, State of Hawaii) and Joshua Wisch (former Attorney General, State of Hawaii).
In essence, what we’ve got here is a Cover-Up Too Big To Uncover.
The Constitutional Crisis We The People suffered through for eight long years must be addressed if We The People are to remain a free and Constitutional Republic . Pray that President Donald J. Trump has his DOJ enforce US Constitutional law as it concerns Article ll Section 1 Clause 5 of the US Constitution or our Constitutional Republic will no longer exist
Too many politicians in DC involved in the coverup of the usurper barack hussein obama . The US Congress of 2008 and 2012 turned their backs on the US Constitution and the rule of law Article ll Section 1 Clause 5 of the US Constitution all because of RACE !
Believe it or not this letter JUST GOT DELIVERED by registered US Mail today to Jeff Sessions. Trump JUST received it only a couple of days ago. The original was mailed IN APRIL and was re-mailed,by registered mail, because of claims of non-receipt.
Philo, As I said, I consulted a Marine Judge Advocate on this matter. The fact that the US has been engaged in war in Afghanistan and Iraq for over (15) years belies your assertion that we are not “in time of war”. Congress has been paying to engage in war and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have been called “Wars”. BTW, the Constitution does NOT require that a “Declaration of War” be in writing. I reviewed Averette with the JAG Officer. Obama IS covered by the UCMJ under S906A106 in that HE falls under the category of “ANY Person…”. ,that includes Civilians. Contractors are civilians also. They too are covered under federal statute.
Mr. Laity
The President of the United States is not a member of the military. Even as Commander in Chief he is comsidered a civilian. The U.S. Military Court of Appeals ruled in U.S. v. Averette, 19 USCMA 363 that military courts had jurisdiction to try civilians only “in times of war” means congressionally declared wars. Thus Averette a civilian could not ne tried ny a military court because the Vietnam War was not a war declared by Congress.
As to security clearances, both the president and vice-president are exempted from security clearance requirements under the 1995 Executive Order number 12968.
Reality Check, It looks like you need some remedial instruction regarding the U.C.M.J. with regard to espionage during war time. Spies are not normally in the Armed Services of the United States. Spies are in most cases, foreign agents and/or even domestic enemies.
In the case of espionage during time of war the U.C.M.J. covers “ANY person…” military OR civilian who:
“during time of war is found lurking as a spy or acting as a spy in or about ANY place, vessel, or aircraft within the control or jurisdiction of ANY of the armed forces,or in and about ANY shipyard, ANY manufacturing or industrial plant, or in and about ANY other institution engaged in work and aid in the prosecution of the war by the United States, or elsewhere, SHALL BE TRIED BY A GENERAL COURT-MARTIAL or by a MILITARY COMMISSION and on conviction SHALL BE PUNISHED BY DEATH” http://www.ucmj.us/sub-chapter-10-punitve-articles/906-article-106-spies I don’t make “stupid statements”. I thoroughly research what I say before I say it. Obama usurped the Presidency during time of war. That alone makes Obama a spy under 10USC, UCMJ Section 906, Article 106. Just to be absolutely sure, I personally consulted an active duty Marine Judge Advocate. ANY person, regardless of status in the military or civilian can be court-martialed in time of war for espionage. Hillary Clinton beware also.
MINOR v. HAPPERSETT REVISITED.
…the only time the US Supreme Court ever did define the class of persons who were POTUS eligible under Article 2 Section 1 was in Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162 (1874), wherein it was held:
“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.” Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162, 168.
https://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/minor-v-happersett-revisited-2/
@ RealityCheck,
You are a non-serious bald-faced liar. Aka obama (whatever his real name is) is an undeniable narcissist. There is no way he was unaware of his bio as presented for over 15 years and through several revisions by his publicist. Bios are typically written by the author, not the publicist. Your excuse making is so lame that it is clear that you are a kool-aid drowned obot.
Your best defense (if you had any sense at all) would be to claim that aka obama is a proven, pathological liar and that he just lied about his nativity story in order to appear more exotic to sell more books. Note that even though I believe aka obama should be put to death per the rule of law for his crimes and treason, I believe his claims of a Kenyan birth could, in fact, be total lies, but I do not believe for a moment that he did not knowingly make such claims.
@Mr. Check,
While I believe that the RC referred to in Mark Gillar’s comment is you, the blog was not yours but the other guy – August, 2013.
Second, I would like to point out that it was Pamela Geller’s site Atlas Shrugged that first identfied that the short form birth certigicate image posted on Fight the Smears had a seal. One of her readers adjusted the image contrast and was snle to see it.
BTW, it was Pixel Patriot who first showed that the April 27th, 2012 pdf also has a seal. He applied a color filter to the pdf and the seal necame visible.
Credit where credit is due.
Philo, your hunches and insights are understandable to lead you to your conclusions. Both
Zullo and Arpaio have many years in Law Enforcement and Criminal Investigation. We only
see things from our view.
I as a basic level volunteer with Mike Volin, have perhaps a slight insight of the investigation.
I can’t expand on that, but I can say that I trust Zullo and Arpaio did what they could with
the resources and the time they had at hand. And who knows what additional info and
evidence they may reveal in the future.
They have timed things as best as they could have. Arpaio and Zullo weren’t looking to investigate Obama, this issue found them. Both paid a price in time, talent, treasure and being mocked…
All that they revealed would have put “average joe citizen” in jail. Neither the media or government officials took a look at Arpaio’s evidence and investigation.
It wouldn’t surprise me that perhaps Arpaio still has info and evidence yet to be revealed,
although I have no proof. In the mean time, I will still support Arpaio to the end.
officials defended the law or Constitution…
I would like to address a few comments here.
First Brian Reilly is correct. Mike Zullo presented nothing of value at the 12/15/2016 so called “press conference”. I put press conference in quotes because if you take no questions it isn’t a press conference. If Zullo wants to be taken seriously by the mainstream media confining his interviews to Carl Gallups show on a peanut whistle station in Florida and nut job Alex Jones show doesn’t really help his credibility with the media.
I also should point out that Zullo has been wrong on almost every point so why should we believe any of this “new” but not really new “evidence”? Everything he pushed at the first to pressers has been debunked. Zullo has admitted that Forlabs agreed with me that the LFBC PDF file was originally scanned on a Xerox WorkCentre. He was wrong on the race codes. He was wrong on how the birth certificate numbers were sequenced.
Even what was presented at the 12/15/2016 presentation in the fuzzy video can be seen to be nonsense. Things that were supposedly copied from the Ahnee certificate are not identical.
I don’t think Gillar made those comments on my blog. I cannot find them. However, trying to measure angles of a stamp on a marginal resolution image is folly. Irey tried to do that with the text near the binder of the LFBC PDF and just arbitrarily drew lines to try to represent the angle of the letters. He forgot that with a typewriter there is a variation in the vertical spacing of the letters especially in capital letters where the key can strike the ribbon while the platen is still in motion.
If Zullo’s theory is that the date stamps were copied over from the Ahnee certificate then the forger had to change the date but didn’t do the trivial step of rotating the angle of the copied image. And Zullo wonders why no one will take him seriously?
As far as Birthers working for Obama that’s a hoot. However, I need to point out that Mr. Reilly was a Birther for over 4 years himself.
I am not surprised that Laity got a visit from the Secret Service. He has written that Barack Obama should be executed because he is a traitor and should be tried for treason under the UCMJ. TO begin with the president isn’t subject to the UCMJ. Making that kind of stupid statement on the the Internet will usually earn you a visit from the guys in suits.
Sharon, you said in the article “Since entering political life in 1995, Obama claimed he was born in Honolulu on August 4, 1961, although earlier and later versions of his biography state that he was born in Kenya or Indonesia.”. That is a complete falsehood. No version of Obama’s biography ever said that. A publisher’s assistant made an error on a brochure. She has admitted the error.
You said “On June 12, 2008, an image appeared at The Daily KOS and several other websites said to be Obama’s official birth certificate but lacking a registrar’s official seal and a signature.” Of course you failed to state that subsequent high resolution images of the birth certificate were published by Factcheck.org and other sites that showed the seal and signature quite plainly.
And my favorite: “After approximately three months of pressure from Trump, on April 27, 2011, the White House released what it said was a scan of a certified copy of Obama’s original birth record from Hawaii at whitehouse.gov. Within hours, however, the image was declared fraudulent by several experts who went on the record with their analyses. The White House made no response.”
So just who were these experts? Had they ever examined a single document before? What were their credentials? Or were they just a bunch of amateurs who downloaded (a probably pirated) copy of Adobe CS2 and saw the PDF had layers? The actual experts hired by WND did not conclude it was a forgery. One of those amateurs, Albert Renshaw who was a mere 16 years old at the time now has recanted his analysis and said he was fooled by a compression algorithm.
Even Zullo doesn’t stand by those analyses and admits the evidence he presented at the first two press conferences was wrong.
I am sure you will not approve this comment so I made a copy to publish at my blog. Unlike you I allow open discussion unless someone gets goes completely off the rails and is an obvious troll. You are welcome to comment at my blog at any time and I would even consider publishing a rebuttal article if you would car to send it to me. I have nothing to fear from open discussion because I know I have the truth on my side.
That’s what he told Gallups on one of the recent shows. It’s wait for the right time, we only have one shot at this.
They’ve known this “new” evidence since 2013. Why wasn’t any of it included in the Sheriff’s kits? Wouldn’t it have been helpful if Mike Volin had this evidence when he went to Washington?
Mr. Reilly,
I don’t completely buy your stated readons for lraving the CCP, but I do agree with you on this point – the December prrsd conference presented no new evidence. The comparison between the two birth certificates was done several years ago. It was only announced in December to make it appear that they had something new.
Here is what Mark Gillar wrote in August, 2013 on the website that found the Xerox scanning evidence.
“The two August date stamps were lifted directly off another birth certificate. Yes, the day was changed, but everything else is identical including the angles of both stamps. Tell me RC, what are the odds of two hand-placed stamps on two separate birth certificates having the exact same exact angles? Did the forger get lazy or is it just that all capturing tools would have preserved the original angles”
They knew about it in 2013 but announced it on 2016 like they had only just discovered it.
Zullo has not given Congress the Hayes report or the Forlab report. Will he ever show it to anyone?
How do you know?
In Minor v Happersett, USSCt. (1875) the court unanimously agreed that a “Natural Born Citizen” is one born IN the U.S. to parents who are both citizens themselves.