by Tom Arnold, ©2024
(Aug. 4, 2024) — Just so you, the reader, won’t accuse me of talking down to or patronizing you, please understand that this piece of writing has been researched (seemingly to the point of ad nauseam!) and written by someone who also calls himself a “dummy,” i.e., ME. Yes, it is true that I am not a constitutional scholar or a lawyer. However, I am a law-abiding, tax-paying, everyday patriotic U.S. Citizen, and no matter what John G. Roberts, Jr. and his colleagues on the high court or judges on other courts around the country think, I do have “STANDING,” and what I’m about to tell you definitely is not “FRIVOLOUS.” The judiciary must not evade or abandon its sworn responsibilities to protect and uphold the law and constitution.
This essay of sorts concerns one of the most crucial and hotly debated subjects in our country today, possibly forever, since nobody is doing much, if anything, to resolve it! Frankly, it is a unique matter which is extremely relevant and dangerous to our national security. So, I ask (rhetorically, I suppose) if the likes of Roberts would dare give anyone, including me, a fair hearing or even take some time to read and consider the following thoughts.
There appear to be FOUR (4) CATEGORIES OF U.S. CITIZENS: Birthright citizenship (Jus Soli); Family citizenship (Jus Sanguinis); Naturalization; and citizenship by Marriage. Each, of course, has its own definition and subtleties, which can be viewed on various websites. I have found that U.S. Government, Department of Homeland Security, Wikipedia.org, the U.S. Constitution, and Natural Born Citizen sites are the most helpful. However, because of the complexity of the material and the numerous sites involved, I will not be referring to or describing any of the wording in them unless there is a specific reason or need to do so. You will see where all of this is leading when you read and make an impartial and reasoned assessment of what follows.
BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA (44th U.S. President) IS NOT AND NEVER WAS A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN as required by Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 of the Constitution to hold the office of president and/or vice president. For one, it has never been proved that he was born in the United States. Actually, it is entirely possible, too, that we do not even know his true name. The alleged Hawaiian long-form birth certificate of Obama has been examined by multiple and independent forensic document experts including law enforcement and determined to be a FORGERY. Obama was found guilty by a Citizens Grand Jury in Ocala, Florida, in September 2013, of FORGERY of an official document (the birth certificate), which he finally had produced and made known to the public (the VOTING public), which in turn resulted in ELECTION FRAUD. Obama was sentenced in absentia to ten years imprisonment. It also should be noted that Obama was a citizen of, and had divided allegiance to, three separate countries (British Kenya, Indonesia, and the United States of America).
Obama had a background of repeat delinquency and serious criminal conduct which should have rendered him unsuitable for any government office. Forgery of the birth certificate alone disqualified him by law from becoming Commander-in-Chief. Additionally, I believe there is credible evidence he had been mentored and groomed by Communists and and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). When elected in 2008 and again in 2012, he promised to “FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGE” America. Look around you to see what he and his comrades accomplished. Do you like what you see? His objective was, and remains (the CIA also has the same objective), the establishment of a New World Order with a socioeconomic class system, woke Marxist beliefs and related behaviors (discriminatory and/or racist qualities?). The unconstitutional presidency of Obama set a PREDICTABLY LETHAL PRECEDENT for our republic and democracy. In my opinion, Obama “STOLE” the presidency and should be held accountable to the full extent of the law for violation of the high crimes of TREASON AND/OR SEDITION. Others who are complicit, even if only by their silence, should also have to answer for their traitorous criminal activities.
KAMALA D. HARRIS, vice president under 46th U.S. President Joe Biden and the Democrat Party nominee for the 2024 presidency, was born on American soil in Oakland, California on October 20, 1964. At age 12 in 1976, Kamala moved with a sister and their mother to Canada. After graduating from high school in Montreal, Quebec, Kamala returned to the United States (California) in 1981 and began traveling to and living in various locations throughout the Midwest and East. Eventually, she ended up in Washington, D.C. where she obtained both a BA degree and a law degree from Howard University. She then became a prosecutor and the attorney general in California, followed by U.S. senator from California, and as mentioned above President Biden’s vice president in 2021. It appears Kamala may fit the definition of “anchor baby” (her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, came to the United States in 1957 on a student visa). Whether Kamala is a natural born Citizen, native born citizen, and/or anchor baby is a subject of differing opinions.
Gopalan was born in the British province of Madera, India, in 1938. She came to the United States at age 19 in 1957 (the elder of her two daughters, Kamala Harris, was born in 1964 in Oakland, California). Also that year (1964), Gopalan obtained a PhD at Berkeley. Her doctorate was in medical research, nutrition, and oncology. She and Kamala’s father were married from 1963 to 1971, after which it appears Shyamala remained a single woman, passing away in 2009. I can find nothing indicating she ever became a U.S. citizen.
Donald J. Harris, Kamala’s biological father, was born in Jamaica in August 1938 and raised there until he arrived in the United States in 1961 on a student visa and began attending the University of California in Berkeley on scholarship. He obtained a PhD in economics in 1966 and also studied social equity. He was known by some as a “Marxist scholar.” In the meantime, Donald met Kamala’s mother Gopalan, also a foreign student at Berkeley, and the two of them met in 1962 at a meeting where the establishment Kwanzaa as a holiday and the Black Panther Party were topics of discussion. They were married in 1963 and divorced in 1971. Donald J. Harris went on to work at Stanford University, where he became a Professor Emeritus and retired in 1998.
According to Wikipedia.org, “some time prior to May 2015, Harris became a naturalized U.S. citizen.”
In conclusion, Barack Hussein Obama was never qualified to be president of the United States. He was for all intents and purposes installed in the office by the unconstitutional and unlawful actions of a rogue government entity, the Central Intelligence Agency. They most likely could not have done this without the collusion of the U.S. Supreme Court (notably Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr.), the Democrat Party (notably Nancy Pelosi who fraudulently signed off on the constitutionality of Obama’s nomination), the Deep State, and the GOP, which “looked the other way” despite what they knew.
I am not able to conclude my comments about Barack Obama without emphasizing the unconstitutional, lawless, and evil “transformation” of our country he has led and which the world awaits. In my opinion, it arguably is one of, if not the greatest, destructive and treasonous act in our country’s history.
Kamala Harris does not, in my view, fit the strict definition of a natural born (American) Citizen. Not only is her candidacy a continuation of the unconstitutional precedent set in 2008 and 2012 by the election of a Manchurian Candidate (Barack Obama) who hates our country and way of life, but Kamala Harris is the epitome of incompetence and political corruption usually found only in third-world countries. She will not address questions concerning natural born citizenship because she does not want to have the matter publicly discussed or litigated. She is best portrayed as an anchor baby or not being a citizen at all.
For the sake of our constitutional republic and democracy, I respectfully ask those named above and others like them to PUT AN END TO THE PRECEDENT OF ALLOWING PERSONS WHO ARE NOT NATURAL BORN CITIZENS TO HOLD THE OFFICES OF PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT. May God Bless America and help We, the People, Make Her Great Again Before It Becomes Too Late.
Editor’s Note: Documents obtained by reader, legal researcher and P&E contributing writer Robert C. Laity indicate Donald J. Harris took the oath of allegiance to the United States on September 14, 1981.
The key difference between the status of the parents in the Wong Kim Ark (1898) U.S. Supreme Court holding and the status of the parents of Kamala Harris when she was born, is that the parents of Wong Kim Ark were not just here on a temporary VISA or illegally, but were legally domiciled in the USA and not just temporarily sojourning here on a student VISA as was the case for both of Kamala Harris’ parents when she was born. One’s legal domicile has a very specific meaning under U.S. law when it comes to laws relating to immigration, naturalization, and citizenship. It is not identically analogous to where one currently lives. One can be temporarily living somewhere but not have changed ones legal place of domicile.
What Kamala Harris’ Marxist/Socialist parents did years later, i.e., the father eventually became a U.S. Citizen, does not change his and his wife’s status when Kamala was born. Kamala Harris has no claim to U.S. Citizenship under the 14th Amendment or the Wong Kim Ark (1898) U.S. Supreme Court holding. Via her birth circumstances she is not even a U.S. Citizen under the strict reading of the 14th Amendment and Wong Kim Ark (1898) decision holding. Professor and Attorney John Eastman brought this point forward in a paper he wrote during the 2020 campaign cycle and was severely attacked and punished economically for it and is still being pursued via law-fare actions in some states such as Arizona. Kamala Harris is a classic example of a red-diaper “anchor baby”. Children of people here on student VISAs, tourist VISAs, and even worse here illegally have no rightful claim to U.S. Citizenship, and certainly are NOT a “natural born Citizen” of the United States.
The U.S. Congress should have addressed the “birthright Citizenship” misuse issue long ago, as should the U.S. Supreme Court. But they are both politically cowards and beholding the their respective major political parties who do not want the issue of “birthright Citizenship” lawfully addressed by new legislation to clarify things.
Maybe when Donald Trump gets elected, and if the House and Senate are both controlled by the Republican Party, and if Trump has enough control over Republican Party politics, legislation can be introduced, passed, and signed into law to clarify the true original intent meaning of “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” in the 14th Amendment, i.e., it means subject to the “complete political jurisdiction” and not just civil and criminal law jurisdiction, and/or then also, if there is a legal challenge to the Congress’s action, the U.S. Supreme Court can hopefully re-visit and clarify or correct the Wong Kim Ark (1898) decision/holding.
So, again in summary, whenever the issue of “birthright Citizenship” is being discussed regarding a person or political candidate, it is crucially important to determine the legal domicile status of both parents in any such discussion. Were the parents legally domiciled in the USA or were they just sojourning here on temporary student or tourist VISAs, or even a worse case scenario, here illegally.
CDR Charles Kerchner (Ret)
Author: Natural Born Citizen
http://www.kerchner.com/books/naturalborncitizen.htm
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I agree with everything you said except for using American to describe what We The People REALLY ARE and that is US Citizens ! America is a GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION as in North and South America ! The United States is a country that sit on the North American Continent with 22 other Countries . So We The People of the United States are US Citizen and not Americans . Man made borders and countries are political Locations ! Demand US Schools systems go back to teaching Civics and geography in grade school !
Irritant #1: You are technically correct, Charles. I feel the same way. We USofA citizens need to stop hogging or otherwise associating the word “American” only with the 50 states. Instead of just using the word “American” in a sentence, we should substitute the letters “USA” or “USofA”. People will get the message and they will understand.
Irritant #2: Likewise, we need to stop using the word “democracy” as associated with the USA and we need to stop tolerating anyone, including politicians, who spit out that word on a constant basis in order to make a point. If someone wants to use the word “democracy’ in a sentence, let them do so as it applies only to the voting process. The USA is a Constitutional Republic. Not one mention of democracy is found in the Declaration of Independence nor in the US Constitution. If I missed the entry, please correct me.
Democracy is a slippery slop to authoritarianism.
https://www.wkms.org/government-politics/2020-09-14/the-history-of-democracy-how-democracies-die
Hope that’s helpful. I had forgotten about Eastmans piece in Newsweek. Cheers and Godspeed USA
Newsweek article by John Eastman on KH and nbC from 2020:
Eugene Volokh offers the opposing argument here.
The fact that Senator Kamala Harris has just been named the vice presidential running mate for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has some questioning her eligibility for the position. The 12th Amendment provides that “no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.” And Article II of the Constitution specifies that “[n]o person except a natural born citizen…shall be eligible to the office of President.” Her father was (and is) a Jamaican national, her mother was from India, and neither was a naturalized U.S. citizen at the time of Harris’ birth in 1964. That, according to these commentators, makes her not a “natural born citizen”—and therefore ineligible for the office of the president and, hence, ineligible for the office of the vice president.
“Nonsense,” runs the counter-commentary. Indeed, PolitiFact rated the claim of ineligibility as “Pants on Fire” false, Snopesrated it simply “False,” and from the other side of the political spectrum, Conservative Daily News likewise rated it “False.” All three (and numerous others) simply assert that Harris is eligible because she was born in Oakland—and is therefore a natural-born citizen from location of birth. The 14th Amendment says so, they all claim, and the Supreme Court so
But those claims are erroneous, at least as the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment was originally understood—an error to which even my good friend, renowned UCLA School of Law professor Eugene Volokh, has fallen prey
The language of Article II is that one must be a natural-born citizen. The original Constitution did not define citizenship, but the 14th Amendment does—and it provides that “all persons born…in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens.” Those who claim that birth alone is sufficient overlook the second phrase. The person must also be “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States, and that meant subject to the complete jurisdiction, not merely a partial jurisdiction such as that which applies to anyone temporarily sojourning in the United States (whether lawfully or unlawfully). Such was the view of those who authored the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause; of the Supreme Court of the United States in the 1872 Slaughter-House Cases and the 1884 case of Elk v. Wilkins; of Thomas Cooley, the leading constitutional treatise writer of the day; and of the State Department, which, in the 1880s, issued directives to U.S. embassies to that effect
The Supreme Court’s subsequent decision in Wong Kim Ark is not to the contrary. At issue there was a child born to Chinese immigrants who had become lawful, permanent residents in the United States—”domiciled” was the legally significant word used by the Court. But that was the extent of the Court’s holding(as opposed to broader language that was dicta, and therefore not binding). Indeed, the Supreme Court has never held that anyone born on U.S. soil, no matter the circumstances of the parents, is automatically a U.S. citizen
Granted, our government’s view of the Constitution’s citizenship mandate has morphed over the decades to what is now an absolute “birth on the soil no matter the circumstances” view—but that morphing does not appear to have begun until the late 1960s, after Kamala Harris’ birth in 1964. The children born on U.S. soil to guest workers from Mexico during the Roaring 1920s were not viewed as citizens, for example, when, in the wake of the Great Depression, their families were repatriated to Mexico. Nor were the children born on U.S. soil to guest workers in the bracero program of the 1950s and early 1960s deemed citizens when that program ended, and their families emigrated back to their home countries
So before we so cavalierly accept Senator Harris’ eligibility for the office of vice president, we should ask her a few questions about the status of her parents at the time of her birth.
Were Harris’ parents lawful permanent residents at the time of her birth? If so, then under the actual holding of Wong Kim Ark, she should be deemed a citizen at birth—that is, a natural-born citizen—and hence eligible. Or were they instead, as seems to be the case, merely temporary visitors, perhaps on student visas issued pursuant to Section 101(15)(F) of Title I of the 1952 Immigration Act? If the latter were indeed the case, then derivatively from her parents, Harris was notsubject to the complete jurisdiction of the United States at birth, but instead owed her allegiance to a foreign power or powers—Jamaica, in the case of her father, and India, in the case of her mother—and was therefore not entitled to birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment as originally understood.
Interestingly, this recitation of the original meaning of the 14th Amendment Citizenship Clause might also call into question Harris’ eligibility for her current position as a United States senator. Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution specifies that to be eligible for the office of senator, one must have been “nine Years a Citizen of the United States.” If Harris was not a citizen at birth, we would need to know when (if ever) she became a citizen. Her father’s biographical page at Stanford University identifies his citizenship status as follows: “Jamaica (by birth); U.S. (by naturalization).” But there is some dispute over whether he was in fact ever naturalized, and it is also unclear whether Harris’ mother ever became a naturalized citizen. If neither was ever naturalized, or at least not naturalized before Harris’ 16th birthday (which would have allowed her to obtain citizenship derived from their naturalization under the immigration law, at the time), then she would have had to become naturalized herself in order to be a citizen. That does not appear to have ever happened, yet without it, she could not have been “nine Years a Citizen of the United States” before her election to the U.S. Senate.
I have no doubt that this significant challenge to Harris’ constitutional eligibility to the second-highest office in the land will be dismissed out of hand as so much antiquated constitutional tripe. But the concerns about divided allegiance that led our nation’s Founders to include the “natural-born citizen” requirement for the office of president and commander-in-chief remain important; indeed, with persistent threats from Russia, China and others to our sovereignty and electoral process, those concerns are perhaps even more important today. It would be an inauspicious start for any campaign for the highest offices in the land to ignore the Constitution’s eligibility requirements; how else could we possibly expect the candidates, if elected, to honor their oaths to “faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and…to the best of [their] Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States?”
You might want of view Dr Herb Titus video on Natural Born US Citizen ! Both the mother and the Father of a Natural Born citizen of Any Country have to be Legal Citizens of that country at the time of their Child’s Birth ! Also Law Of Nations by Emer de Vettel 1758 the Founding Fathers used to guide them in creating the US Constitutional Republic !
Summarized: People in the world only have ONE chance to be a natural born Citizen of ANY country – It is the moment of their birth on the soil of the country to the newborn’s two (2) parents who are both citizens of THAT country. If those conditions do not happen, the person in-question can never ever be a natural born Citizen in the future.
The main concern of all complicit in The Obama fraud is that Donald Trump never be president again. They fear this time as president and after the horrible treatment of Trump and his associates that Trump as president again will reveal and act on the truth about Barry, Allowing the installation of Obama as America’s putative president and commander-in-chief is big time treason which effectively gave America’s government and her military to her enemies when Obama was installed without objection by either party. The planned and promised after Obama cover president Hillary Clinton, was defeated by the one person both parties fear may reveal and act on The Obama Fraud, Donald Trump. The penalty for this treason can be hanging, and there is no statute of limitation. This is reason number one, by-far, why the panicked efforts to insure Trump is never president again are happening. All complicit in The Obama Fraud can see the possibility of a noose in their future, and will do anything to insure that does not happen………Of course this will not be mentioned by the Obama media, or anyone complicit in The Obama Fraud. Instead, we see their protection of Obama and desperate efforts to try to insure Trump does not win in 2024. It is not difficult to see and understand why the many complicit in Obama’s usurpation, both parties must defeat or eliminate Trump as a candidate in order to protect themselves and much of America’s government which is also complicit in The Obama Fraud……
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Something easy to see and understand is ignored to protect the HUGE number of people who are complicit in TREASON……..…..
Vote and pray for Donald Trump 2024……he is America’s last, last chance….
This is probably the year the court will be forced to define it because if Trump loses, he’ll surely contest her eligibility. The big question is whether Robert’s will engage in judicial gymnastics as he did with Obamacare. Harris would face a significant legal hurdle which would be far more than the significance of time she always babbles about. She would have to overcome The Constitution’s Naturalization Act, Congressional Resolution 511, an 1875 Supreme Court Majority opinion all of which portends that Natural Born Citizens are the children of US citizens.
The question that really needs to be asked and hopefully Sharon as a journalist can pose it does Harris holds foreign citizenship? If true that would mean that she would owe allegiance to and would be subject to the jurisdiction of a foreign country, which certainly is that exactly opposite of what the founders intended.
One suspects that Roberts and the court majority rule in her favor if she won because they wouldn’t want to overturn an election result.
In my opinion, Senate Resolution 511 is null and void due to the authors citing the Naturalization Law of 1790 that was fully repealed and superseded.
don’t have time to write again on this but here is an outline.
Schneider v Rust 377 US 163, 1964
children of ambassadors not gaining citizen status analogy is worthy at least as side note-
wong kim ark – 1890- case where US Supremes found his parents’ legal residency and gave him 14th Amendment birthright citizenship (arguably, obviously not natural born citizen status). Is this Kamala’s status?
[i assume Kamala moving to Canada as a child was not comparable to the drastic move of Barry Satoro to Indonesia, where he was adopted and lost any putative nbC status, that he theoretically could have had.]
Heres my note from yesterday:
and See Sup. Ct case of Schneider v Rust quote below: (most recent nbC dicta:
[….]We start from the premise that the rights of citizenship of the native born and of the naturalized person are of the same dignity, and are coextensive. The only difference drawn by the Constitution is that only the “natural born” citizen is eligible to be President. Art. II, § 1.
There is no prof Kamala Harris’s parents ever became US Citizen through Naturalization or ever had Legal residency ! I might also if it weren’t for a US Supreme Court Justice in 1983 illegally adding an Addendum to the 14th Amendment there would NOT BE ANCHOR BABIES ! As we all know the US Legislature make law and not US Supreme Court Justices . The US Supreme Court interprets US Constitutional law ! USSC CANNOT MAKE LAW !
There is evidence Donald J. Harris became a U.S. citizen in 1981: https://www.thepostemail.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Donald-J.-Harris-Naturalization-Documents-Pg.6.pdf