'Obama is a direct threat to the safety and security of the United States'
A
lawsuit challenging Barack Obama’s presence on the 2012 presidential
election ballot because of questions over his constitutional eligibility
that was thrown out by a judge who earlier determined it wasn’t timely
has returned to haunt election officials in the state with a request
that the Obama victory results be quashed.
“Defendant Barack Hussein Obama is a direct threat to the safety and
security of the United States, and its Constitution, which plaintiff
must protect and defend by oath,” according to the complaint, which was
delivered to Secretary of State Ken Detzner today.
The case earlier this year was dismissed by Circuit Judge Terry
Lewis, who said Obama’s eligibility could not be challenged at that time
because under Florida election law, technically, Obama hadn’t been
nominated to the position.
As WND reported, Michael
Voeltz, who identifies himself as “a registered member of the Democratic
Party, voter and taxpayer in Broward County,” had challenged Obama’s
eligibility, arguing that the “natural born citizen” clause was rightly
understood in historical context to mean a child not only born in the
U.S., but born to two American-citizen parents, so as not to have
divided loyalties.
Obama, however, readily admits to being born a dual
citizen because of his father’s British citizenship.
In his decision then, Lewis noted that the United States Supreme
Court has concluded that “every person born in the United States, and
subject to the jurisdiction thereof, becomes at once a citizen of the
United States.”
However, attorney Larry Klayman, who is representing Voeltz, said,
“The judge equated being a ‘citizen’ with a ‘natural born citizen’ and
cited no authority to conclude the two terms are the same.
He quotes
other state’s cases, where judges reached that conclusion, but that’s
not precedent for him.
What other courts said in lower cases means
nothing to him.”
Klayman also had been concerned that the judge determined the burden
of proof that Obama is ineligible fell on Voeltz – but then refused to
authorize discovery in the case which could have confirmed that
eligibility status.
“How can you say we have the burden of proof, then not allow
discovery?” Klayman asked. “He says we have burden, but doesn’t allow us
to meet it.”
And he said Voeltz has standing to bring the case, under Florida law.
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The original case sought to exclude Obama from the 2012 ballot.
Klayman and Voeltz claimed that Obama is not a natural born citizen as
required by Article 2, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution, because he
was born a British subject.
The case cited the evidence produced by Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s
special investigative unit, which has asserted that the birth
documentation from Hawaii that Obama claimed was “proof positive” of his
Hawaiian birth is not real.
And Florida law provides that anyone qualified to vote in an election
may challenge a candidate based on ‘ineligibility of the successful
candidate for the nomination or office in dispute.”
Now the new complaint explains the challenge to Obama’s eligibility
is “within the proper time frame and venue established by the ‘contest
of election’ statutes of Florida.”
“Plaintiff asserts that Defendant Barack Hussein Obama is not a
natural born citizen of the United States because he was born a British
subject of a British subject father, Barack Obama Sr., who was married
to the mother of Barack H. Obama at the time…,” it explains.
“Barack Obama Sr., a citizen of the British colony of Kenya, and his
children, were subject to the operation of the British Nationality Act
of 1948. By the operation of Part 1 Section 1 of that Act, Barack
Hussein Obama became a British subject, upon birth to a British subject
father. It is not known whether he has lost that birth allegiance to the
British crown.”
And, according to the complaint, the natural born citizen clause
specifically was inserted to address the possibility of foreign
influence at the highest levels of the U.S. government, in the White
House.
“Law of Nations defines the term of art ‘natural born citizen’ as one
born in the country [to] parents who are that country’s citizens.
“Plaintiff Michael C. Voeltz has standing, as a Florida voter, and
taxpayer, to challenge the ‘nomination or election of any person to
office’ based on the winning candidates’ eligibility for the office
sought. … The state of Florida has chosen, by popular election, the
electors for Defendant Barack Hussein Obama to be president … Plaintiff
has fulfilled all aspects of the Florida election statutes for this
challenge of eligibility, as to timing, venue, and indispensable
parties.”
The case notes that the complaint is being filed before the Florida
electors meet to cast their vote in the Electoral College, a procedure
that affirms the popular vote choice made Nov. 6.
The case asks the Florida Elections Canvassing Commission to
decertify the Florida General Election upon a “judicial determination of
the ineligibility of Barack Hussein Obama to serve as president … and
to certify the electors for Mitt Romney as the winner.”
Klayman has argued that since Obama, by his own admission, was not
born to two citizen parents, he is not a “natural born citizen” and,
therefore, is ineligible to be a candidate on the state’s election
ballot.
Florida’s election statutes provide broad protections for voters to
ensure that the integrity of the election system is beyond reproach. One
of the laws allows voters to challenge the nomination of a candidate
who is not eligible for the office he is seeking.
