Posted by
Andy Zarowny on Sunday, October 26, 2008 12:30:16 AM
Former Deputy Attorney
General of the state of
Pennsylvania, Philip Berg,
has been handed a blow
by Judge R, Barclay
Surrick. Berg filed papers
in Philadelphia's Federal
Courts back on August 21
for a civil suit against the
DNC and Barack Obama.
It is Berg's opinion that
Barack Obama is not
qualified to serve as the
President of the United
States. You have probably
not heard of this story, as
the Main Stream Media
has suppressed it. But
it is real and in process
of being resolved.
Berg's arguments are two-
fold. First, he cites reports
that Obama's Kenyan grand-
mother has verbally claimed
to have been witness to his
being born in Kenya! Berg
claims to have recordings of
her saying as much. Berg's
second objection is focused
on whether or not Obama
was adopted by his mother's
second husband Lolo
Soetoro, and therefore was
for a time an Indonesian
citizen.
This second circumstance
would mean that either
Obama is a naturalized
citizen, if he was properly
processed through Immi-
gration, and still ineligible
to serve as president under
the Natural Born Citizen
Clause, or is in fact an
illegal alien, and therefore
ineligible to even serve as
a U.S. Senator! Berg cites
a school document from
when Obama lived in Indo-
nesia, showing him to be
using the name, Barry
Soetoro, as well as Obama's
trip to Pakistan which he
admits to making in his
autobiography, "Dreams
From My Father". In 1981,
Obama would not have been
allowed to enter Pakistan
with a U.S. passport, which
begs the question, did he
use an Indonesian passport
for his trip?
Judge Surrick has dismissed
Berg's case today, 10/25/08,
issuing a 34-page document
which can be read at Berg's
website, obamacrimes.com.
While the judge did not seem
all that impressed with the
evidence Berg presented, his
Hon. Surrick's reason for the
dismissal is based on the
premise of whether or not
Berg has the 'standing' to
sue Obama and the DNC.
He explains the question is
who would have a personal
stake in the matter? Is Berg
an injured party? Did those
being sued injure the plain-
tiff? And would adjudication
of the matter actually provide
any redress to the plaintiff?
Berg's basis for injury-in-fact
is that by allowing Obama to
run for president, Obama
and the DNC are risking
voter disenfranchisement
and that should Obama win,
risk a Constitutional crisis
for the nation. Surrick
writes that the harm cited
by Berg, "...is too vague
and it's effects too attenu-
ated to confer standing on
any and all voters." Surrick
goes on to say that in his
opinion, only Congress
can determine whether
citizens, voters or party
members can police the
Constitution's eligibilty
requirements for the office
of the Presidency.
Surrick compared Berg's
lawsuit to a similar one
filed earlier this year by
Fred Hollander against
John McCain. McCain was
born in the Panama Canal
Zone and Hollander con-
tested his eligibility as being
not a natural born citizen.
But in McCain's case, he
was born at a U.S. Navy
hospital and both of his
parents were natural born
citizens. Unlike Obama,
who's father was not born
in the United States and
was not naturalized.
There is also a more esoteric
legal issue, stemming from
a 1940 law defining natural
born, which was still in effect
in 1961 when Obama was
born. As Hawaii had been a
U.S. territory, some would
argue that Obama's mother
would only be considered
natural born after she had
resided in Hawaii for some
five years after it had be-
come a 'state'. But she,
and Barack, left before
meeting that requirement
when she married Soetoro.
Berg's lawsuit required that
Obama produce a birth cer-
tificate, proving his status.
Obama has yet to do so.
A copy of a certificate of
"live birth" was posted on
the Obama website and a
similar document that also
had a seal imprint at
Factcheck.org. However,
such a document is not
the same as a true birth
certificate. Also, Berg had
both analyzed and claims
that both are forgeries,
and were originally docu-
ments for Obama's step-
sister, Maya. Which raises
another issue as Maya was
born in Indonesia!
Berg is undaunted by today's
setback. He will be filing an
appeal to the U.S. Supreme
Court. "The question of who
has standing to stand up for
the Constitution", Berg said.
"If I don't have standing, if
you don't have standing, if
your neighbor doesn't have
standing to ask whether or
not the likely next president
of the United States -- the
most powerful man in the
entire world -- is eligible to
be in that office in the first
place, then who does."
Some speculate that the
recent trip Obama made
to Hawaii had more to do
with the Berg lawsuit than
with visiting his maternal
grandmother. She was
reported to be gravely ill
after breaking her hip.
But Obama did not imme-
diately fly to her bedside.
While he claimed that he
would "rush to her side".
he was rushing for some
FOUR DAYS before he
finally boarded a jet! Also,
if she was truly in such a
condition, one would think
that Obama would go to
her along with his wife and
children? But Michelle con-
tinued to make campaign
stump speeches instead.
Berg has been seeking for
Obama to release all rele-
vent documents on his
citizenship, including his
school records as well as
those involved in admis-
sion to the universities he
attended. Berg believes
that Obama may have used
his status as an Indonesian
to obtain funds and interna-
tional student privileges.
An attempt by Obama and
the DNC to have the case
dismissed was rejected by
Judge Surrick earlier, which
could explain why Obama
felt the need to return to
Hawaii to obtain a birth
certificate, or cover up the
lack of one.
Under Indonesian law at the
time, only way Obama would
have been able to attend the
school he went to was if he
was either adopted, or recog-
nized by Lolo Soetoro as his
son. A copy of his school
enrollment record is also at
Berg's website, showing
Obama to be Barry Soetoro
and his religion listed as
Muslim. Under Islamic law,
the son is automatically con-
sidered Muslim if the father
is such. In both cases, either
Lolo Soetoro and Barack
Hussein Obama Sr were
Muslim. I have stated that
my personal opinion is that
Barack Jr probably followed
his mother's inclinations and
was raised as an atheist. So
his religious convictions are
not the issue here. The is-
sue is his nationality!
Berg, a life-long Democrat,
also named the DNC in his
lawsuit as a co-defendant.
He believes that it was the
responsibility of the DNC to
determine Obama's eligibility
prior to the Democratic con-
vention in Denver. Berg
says that DNC Chairman
Howard Dean should have
confronted Obama and veri-
fied Obama's eligibility be-
fore being named the party's
nominee. Berg goes on to
say that he first began hear-
ing of the eligibility issue in
2007, before the primary sea-
son had begun. That the
Republicans had investiga-
tors in Kenya and Indone-
sia looking into Obama's
background.
Berg also said during an
interview on the Mike
Savage Show on 10/23/08
that he spoke with a baris-
ter from England who
claimed to have contacts
within the British govern-
ment and the FBI and CIA
in the United States, all of
whom believe that Obama
is ineligible to serve as
president due to these
citizenship issues. That
most of the European
nations believe likewise.
Berg speculates that the
Republicans will launch
an "October Surprise"
ad raising the citizenship
issue the final week of
the campaign. Berg also
points out that while the
election is on Nov. 4th,
should Obama win, he
must still be ratified by
the Electoral College in
late December, and does
take the oath till Jan. 20,
2009. Berg hopes that the
Supreme Court will hear
and rule on his lawsuit
before then.