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WND Exclusive
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*CHANGING OF THE GUARD*
'Constitutional crisis' looming over Obama's birth location
Alan Keyes lawsuit warns America may see 'usurper' in Oval Office
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Posted: November 14, 2008
8:40 pm Eastern

By Bob Unruh
© 2008 WorldNetDaily

Alan Keyes
Alan Keyes

The California secretary of state
<http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=80931#> should refuse
to allow the state's 55 Electoral College votes to be cast in the 2008
presidential election until President-elect Barack Obama
<http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=80931#> verifies his
eligibility to hold the office, alleges a California court petition
filed on behalf of former presidential candidate Alan Keyes
<http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=80931#> and others.

The legal action today is just the latest is a series of challenges,
some of which have gone as high as the U.S. Supreme Court, over the
issue of Obama's status as a "natural-born citizen," a requirement set
by the U.S. Constitution.

WND senior reporter Jerome Corsi even traveled to Kenya and Hawaii prior
to the election to investigate issues surrounding Obama's birth.
<http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=79900> But his
research and discoveries only raised more questions.

The biggest question is why Obama, if a Hawaii birth certificate exists,
simply hasn't ordered it made available to settle the rumors.

The governor's office in Hawaii said there is a valid certificate but
rejected requests for access and left ambiguous its origin: Does the
certificate on file with the Department of Health indicate a Hawaii
birth or was it generated after the Obama family registered a Kenyan
birth in Hawaii?

Obama's half-sister, Maya Soetoro, has named two different Hawaii
hospitals where Obama could have been born, while a video posted on
youTube features Obama's Kenyan grandmother, Sarah claiming to have
witnessed Obama's birth in Kenya. See it at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4FqVRWgrNw&eurl=http://blog.barofintegrity.us/2008/11/01/barack-nate-dhalani.aspx?ref=rss

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4FqVRWgrNw&eurl=http://blog.barofintegrity.us/2008/11/01/barack-nate-dhalani.aspx?ref=rss>

The California action was filed by Gary Kreep of the United States
Justice Foundation <http://www.usjf.net/> on behalf of Alan Keyes, the
presidential candidate of the American Independent Party, along with
Wiley S. Drake and Markham Robinson, both California electors.

"Should Senator Obama be discovered, after he takes office, to be
ineligible for the Office of President of the United States
<http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=80931#> of America
and, thereby, his election declared void, Petitioners, as well as other
Americans, will suffer irreparable harm in that (a) usurper will be
sitting as the President of the United States, and none of the treaties,
laws, or executive orders signed by him will be valid or legal," the
action challenges.

California Secretary of State Debra Bowen

The petition is a request for the Superior Court of California in
Sacramento County to issue a peremptory writ barring Secretary of State
Debra Bowen "from both certifying to the governor the names of the
California Electors, and from transmitting to each presidential Elector
a Certificate of Election, until such documentary proof is produced and
verified showing that Senator Obama is a 'natural born' citizen of the
United States and does not hold citizenship of Indonesia, Kenya or Great
Britain."

It continues with a request for a writ barring California's electors
from signing the Certificate of Vote until documentary proof is produced.

An Obama spokesperson interviewed by WEN described such lawsuits as
"garbage".

The popular vote Nov. 4 favored Obama over Sen. John McCain by several
percentage points. But because of the distribution of the votes, Obama
is projected to take the Electoral College vote, when it is held in
December, by a 2-to-1 margin.

Named as defendants in the action are Bowen, Obama, vice president elect
Joe Biden and the long list of California party electors.

Citing the constitutional requirement that a president be a "natural
born" citizen, the case discusses other state and federal court cases
regarding "aspects of lost or dual citizenship concerning Senator Obama.
Those challenges, in and of themselves, demonstrate Petitioners'
argument that reasonable doubt exists as to the eligibility of the
Democratic Party’s nominee for President," the case said.

"There is a reasonable and common expectation by the voters that to
qualify for the ballot, the individuals running for office must meet
minimum qualifications as outlined in the federal and state
Constitutions and statutes, and that compliance with those minimum
qualifications has been confirmed by the officials overseeing the
election process," the complaint said, when in fact the only
documentation currently required is a signed statement from the
candidate attesting to those qualifications.

"Since [the Secretary of State] has, as its core, the mission of
certifying and establishing the validity of the election process, this
writ seeks a Court Order barring SOS from certifying the California
Electors until documentary proof that Senator Obama is a 'natural born'
citizen of the United States of America is received by her," the
document said.

"This proof could include items such as his original birth certificate,
showing the name of the hospital and the name and the signature of the
doctor, all of his passports with immigration
<http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=80931#> stamps, and
verification from the governments where the candidate has resided,
verifying that he did not, and does not, hold citizenship of these
countries, and any other documents that certify an individual’s
citizenship and/or qualification for office.

"To this date, in this regard, SOS has not carried out that fundamental
duty."

The case said a simple attestation from the candidate or his party isn't
sufficient.

"Historically, California Secretaries of State have exercised their due
diligence by reviewing necessary background documents, verifying that
the candidates that were submitted by the respective political parties
as eligible for the ballot were indeed eligible. In 1968, the Peace and
Freedom Party submitted the name of Eldridge Cleaver as a qualified
candidate for President of the United States. The then SOS, Mr. Frank
Jordan, found that, according to Mr. Cleaver's birth certificate, he was
only 34 years old, one year shy of the 35 years of age needed to be on
the ballot as a candidate for President. Using his administrative
powers, Mr. Jordan removed Mr. Cleaver from the ballot. Mr. Cleaver
unsuccessfully challenged this decision to the Supreme Court of the
State of California, and, later, to the Supreme Court of the United
States."

Similarly, in 1984, the Peace and Freedom Party candidate Larry Holmes
was removed from the ballot.

The "certificate of live birth" posted by the Obama campaign cannot be
viewed as authoritative, the case alleges.

"Hawaii Revised Statute 338-178 allows registration of birth in Hawaii
for a child that was born outside of Hawaii to parents who, for a year
preceding the child’s birth, claimed Hawaii as their place of
residence," the document said. "The only way to know where Senator Obama
was actually born is to view Senator Obama's original birth certificate
from 1961 that shows the name of the hospital and the name and signature
of the doctor that delivered him."

The case also raises the circumstances of Obama's time during his youth
in Indonesia, where he was listed as having Indonesian citizenship.
Indonesia does not allow dual citizenship, raising the possibility of
Obama's mother having given up his U.S. citizenship.

Any subsequent U.S. citizenship then, the case claims, would be
"naturalized," not "natural-born."

"Based on all of the above, it is the duty of the SOS to obtain proper
documentation of Senator Obama's citizenship to confirm his eligibility
for the office or the President of the United States," the case said.

Just this week, WND has reported on more than half a dozen other legal
challenges have been filed in federal and state courts
<http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=80928>demanding
Obama's decertification from ballots or seeking to halt elector
meetings, claiming he has failed to prove his U.S. citizenship status.

Among the states where cases are being tracked are Ohio, Connecticut,
Washington, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Hawaii, and there were
reports of other cases being developed in Utah, Wyoming, Florida, New
York, North Carolina, Texas, California and Virginia.

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