Obama’s Birth Certificate and the Suppression of Free Speech
Phil Orenstein • August 3, 2008 • Uncategorized
Blogger and Brooklyn College Professor of Business Mitchell Langbert has been doing a yeoman’s job investigating the records of Senator Obama’s birth certificate. Despite the pleas from many quarters of the blogosphere, thus far his birth certificate has not been made public, except for a proven forgery on the Daily Kos site and his own campaign site Fight the Smears. At this time, there is no proof that Barack Obama is a natural born citizen of the United States, and therefore no proof of his eligibility to be president. What should be a simple matter of producing a paper document from the State of Hawaii Public Information Office under the Freedom of Information Act especially for a candidate who seeks to promote change, openness and transparency, has turned into a crisis of stonewalling and fraud, offering up only blurred jpegs and photoshopped forgeries of the alleged original – a story that the media will hardly touch. But now the scandal has exploded into a rampage of intimidation, censorship and veiled threats by Obama’s supporters against bloggers and investigators who continue to pursue this issue. Now Professor Langbert’s blog has been shut down, just as traffic was increasing to his blog in support of a petition for the release of Obama’s true birth certificate. In place of the media’s dereliction of duty to inform the public, it falls on the shoulders of such blogs as the Democracy Project, on which Langbert was a former blogger, to expose the full story.
As the recent firestorm was brewing over the absence of Obama’s actual birth certificate, Daily Kos published a jpeg image to quell the swirling rumors that Obama’s country of birth was not United States of America and questions about his religion, his original name, his mother’s country of birth, and his father’s origins. Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs has a reader named Techdude, a certified forensic computer examiner, who began an investigation into the authenticity of the document. Techdude lists as his credentials, membership in the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, American College of Forensic Examiners, The International Society of Forensic Computer Examiners, and other similar organizations. As his rigorous analysis proceeded, someone tracked down his name and address and vandalized his car and hung a mutilated rabbit from his front door in order to frighten him to cease publication of the results of his investigation, which was the evidence that the birth certificate proved to be a fraud.
Political blogger Raquel Okyay sumed up the feelings of many fellow Americans who are sick and tired of being spoon fed political propaganda by the media. If people continue to be content to put certain media stars up on pedestals, neither questioning the facts nor holding these political leaders to account, they will then be ruled by the leaders they deserve.
Recovering a true copy of Obama’s birth certificate IS important to the general public, because he is being interviewed by us for the most important job in the world, the President of the United States. Unfortunately major networks or newspapers are not covering this story, because if they can keep you from learning new information about Obama, the better chance their candidate will win. This type of media, elitist attitude assumes that the average American fed their propaganda, spoon by spoon, are more or less too dumb to see the clear bias in their reporting. Ha! Welcome to the internet, where the voices of average Americans are heard.
Regardless of the candidate, trust is a big issue with the public, and if it is true that Obama’s campaign doctored his birth certificate, it is important that we know it. It doesn’t matter where the “rumor” started, what matters is that as American citizens we have the right by law to learn the truth, it’s called the “Freedom of Information Act”, and it’s at our disposal. So, don’t be scared off by a group of people not interested in truth finding, instead dig, dig and dig.
Under the Freedom of Information Act, Langbert acted on his right to obtain access to the authentic document and requested the same from the State of Hawaii. However, his request was denied in a letter from Janice Okubo, Public Information Officer of the Communications Office of the State of Hawaii who justified the denial by citing state law under a section of the Hawaii Revised Statutes which she claims overrides the federal provisions of FOIA. After exhaustive research Langbert found that the Hawaiian statutes do not contradict federal laws for free public access to information. Rather, “the statute specifically permits divulging birth certificate information to anyone who has a vital interest in the information” and public requests for the birth certificate of a presidential candidate constitutes a vital interest. However, he was further stonewalled after repeated inquiries.
Recognizing this was a dead end, Langbert soon discovered a petition circulating in the State of Illinois demanding that “Barack Hussein Obama produce documentation of American citizenship in the form of a legal birth certificate.” He focused on supporting this approach encouraging the residents of the State of Illinois to sign the petition, although as he noted, a previous petitioner who put the petition up on the website Birth Certificate Now was tracked down and threatened by Obama supporters to close his website. According to blogger Rorschach, the site operator reported:
Petition Closed
A veiled threat was made against myself and my family which included our home address, so I have decided to close the petition for good. It is truly sad that political discourse in our country has come to this.
As the volume of traffic was increasing to over 250 hits on Langbert’s blog in support of the Illinois petition, Blogger the blogspot engine owned by Google put a block on his account denying access to further blogging. Yesterday, I received the following in an email from him:
Dear Friends: I have been using blogspot for about a year and enjoy it very much. I am a professor of business at Brooklyn College and include notes from my academic reading as well as political blogs that are somewhat controversial on my blog, www.mitchell-langbert.com. I have had over 7,100 individual views since March 23, 08. I happen to be a Republican and favor John McCain for president. I have blogged some anti-Obama blogs, nothing that ought to be problematic from offensive content or similar kind of concern. However, somehow, right after I got an increase in traffic from some blogs I did on the Obama campaign, my access to the blog was blocked due to an allegation, which was of course false, that my blog is a “spam” blog.
Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs reported the news that at the same time seven other Blogger accounts critical of Obama were likewise closed down and added Langbert’s blog to the growing list. They each received email notices from the Blogger team indicating that their blogs were identified as potential spam blogs and that “you will not be able to publish posts to your blog until we review your site and confirm that it is not a spam blog.”
All indications are that this goes far beyond the level of the accidental and that Google and the Blogger team has abused its power by effectively censoring free speech in America. In a draft of a letter to Google’s Vice President, Vinton G. Cerf, Langbert warns the management of the danger of the Blogger platform being hijacked as a partisan tool by Obama’s supporters:
I raise this question with Google’s management because your policy against Spam has been turned into a policy that facilitates a malicious form Spam-the kind that suppresses free discourse and exploits your firm into becoming a malicious tool of the Obama campaign. The individuals who are reporting something like 10 anti-Obama sites as Spam are as culpable as those who would use your company’s blog site for unethical purposes. Hence, there needs to be better balance in your policy, and Google needs to improve its PR by coming out and publicly stating that you support free speech and that you will block further complaints from those who complained about my and the other blogs.
Langbert’s blog has just now become accessible, and he has posted a rejoinder excoriating the Obama campaign and their minions of likeminded thugs who would resort to violence and coercive measures to shut down free speech and censor contrary viewpoints rather than engage in civic minded debate. These “left-wing hooligans” will use any means of power at their disposal to silence and quash civil discourse and when positions of authority are not at hand, they will resort to raw violence, threats and intimidation to trample opposing views in order to achieve their socialist dreams. In his own words:
This incident sheds a bit more light on Mr. Obama. It is fair to judge a candidate by the nature of his supporters. Nor is this kind of behavior unrelated to a long history of left-wing hooliganism and violence. The ideology of socialism is the most macabre in the history of the world. Obama does not claim to be a socialist, but rather a “progressive”, a social democrat, who utilizes socialistic rhetoric but avoids being pinned down to appeal to his real clientele: investment bankers, Morgan Stanley, George Soros and Warren Buffett….
The naked lust for power cloaked in the garb of “change”, “justice”, “reform” or “revolution” is nothing new. There was enough blood let in the last century to drown all of Obama’s supporters. The willingness to defraud, lie, and manipulate is characteristic of a social democratic or socialist demagogue like Mr. Obama. The deceit that Mr. Obama’s followers exhibit characterizes his campaign’s values.
Professor Langbert’s vigorous activities to question, seek answers, and hold public officials accountable, should be held up as an exemplary model of the American citizen who is not content to be seduced by the force of ignorance or the status quo. His actions demonstrate one more reason why the repressive bastions of the media and academia are dying and the free blogosphere is alive and well, and any attempt by radical thugs to commandeer the tools of this venue as Google has allowed, must be vigorously fought.
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Thank you for addressing this injustice! It appears that Obama’s supporters are so dead set against an open and honest discourse, that they care not that they further blacken-the-eye of their candidate with their outrageous tactics. When they attempt to shut down the right to free speech, they make our case for us! They couldn’t possibly be stupid enough to think they will keep forums of open discussion shut down for long, and when it comes to light what they have done, they only add to others anger and frustration, and INCREASE the numbers who will stand up to their tactics and take on the fight! Those who may have been “sitting on the edge” will often be forced to action upon learning of their attempts to “lock” their opposition. They almost make the injustice tolerable!
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Very interesting!! Why does the drive by media not investigate this!!!
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THE SMOKING GUN IS NOW ON FIRE!!! Obama is now toast!!!
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Bless you Mairi for your petitioning efforts in the state of Illinois! Don’t despair. As we keep digging for the truth, they will expose what they are really all about: ending discourse. Rather than engage in civil discourse they seek to silence and subdue. Simply put, they don’t believe in opposing viewpoints in their small monolithic universe. Let the truth come out!
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Sadly, the Obama thuggery and cover up on this issue continues all over the net. Scary. Imagine what this guy would do if he had some real power?
Techdude, Polarik, and fellow by the name of Judah Benjamin have done some great forensic, and legal research work, of which can be found posted on: http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/
Credit has to go to TexasDarlin for using her blog to post all of the info. She’s been getting her share of hate mail too.
Also for the interested. The high resolution image that was posted on the “Dailykos” and low resolution image found on Obama’s “Fight the Smears” are definitely forgeries. How so, besides Techdude and Polarik’s in depth studies, simply open the images with MS “WordPad” or a Hexadecimal editor. You’ll easily find “Photo shop” embedded within the image headers.
Somehow this info has to get out to the MSM, who in all appearances, are intentionally paralyzed.
Why does the FBI not investigate both the certificate issue and the media cover-up? With Presidential Directive 51, our administration should be taking control of this issue, since it will soon affect our government as a whole! (that would mean George W. Bush’s third term.)
Since the veiled threats, etc, are over the internet and interstate, the FBI should use computer forensics to identify the criminals and bring them to justice, as well.
Uhh, where is the “diligent forensic work” that I was told was here when I clicked on the link?
Good job mr. langberth keep it up my full support
Obama could not pass a background check to be a secret service agent. He is going to be our Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces of this country. This is a travesty of justice. The communists will finally succeed in defearing US from within. The press is no different than Pravda in the former Soviet Union. Democratic Congress, Democratic president equals liberal Supreme Court equals loss of constitutional rights. If you believe in an antichrist, it is about ready to come to pass. God help US.
AN OPEN LETTER TO BARACK OBAMA: PLEASE PRODUCE YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATE!
I know you are busy running for President of the greatest country in the world, but there are a couple of things about your background and qualifications for the office that concern me and many of my fellow Americans. Never before has a Presidential candidate failed to fully disclose routine information about their background that might help the voters make an informed choice in an election.
It seems that many records concerning your background have either be been sealed or are temporarily unavailable for review. I know that any honest person like yourself, who is running for the highest office in the land, would never overtly want to keep such information from public review.
Here’s a partial list:
1. College records from Occidental College, Columbia University and Harvard — Not available and locked down by college administrators.
2. Columbia Thesis paper — not available, locked down by college administrators
3. Certified Copy of original Birth certificate – - Not released (sealed?)
4. Certified Copy of Certification of Live Birth — Not released (sealed?)
5. Birth records from Kenya (sealed by the government of Kenya until after Election Day)
I believe items #3,4 and 5 are the most critical and they concern two issues that are very important to the American people:
1. Are Are you a Natural Born Citizen of the U.S.? and
2. Are you legally qualified to hold the Office of President?
In a recent federal court case in Pennsylvania, an American citizen, Philip Berg, filed a lawsuit claiming you were not a natural born citizen of the United States and therefore not qualified to be President. During that case, you never denied Mr. Berg’s claims, but neither did you provide a valid birth certificate or other proof that you are a natural born citizen of the United States and therefore qualified under the Constitution to be President. Rather, you hid behind technicalities in the law to avoid the issue and the federal judge hearing the case dismissed Mr. Berg’s lawsuit stating that Mr. Berg, acting as a “citizen,” did not have legal standing to make such a challenge. This is a prime example of another outrageous decision by a federal judge to deny the American people their rights clearly outlined in the constitution.
There have been several lawsuits filed, or currently being filed, in 7 or 8 states with various state Boards of Elections, claiming you are ineligible to be on their ballots because you have not produced proof that you are a natural born citizen of the United States.
Mr. Obama, if you are truly and honorable man and a “Natural Born Citizen of the United States” you can clear up this issue very quickly. Just produce a certified copy of your birth certificate in any one of the names you have been know by (Barack Obama, Barry Soetoro, Barry Obama, Barack Dunham and Barry Dunham).
Your avoidance of the issue and your subsequent failure to provide proof that you are a “Natural Born Citizen of the United States” is very suspicious and raises a very important constitutional issue that must be addressed before the November 4th election. I am asking you to stop using legal technicalities, record sealing and courtroom maneuvers to avoid the issue. The American people have every constitutional right to know whether or not you are a “Natural Born Citizen” and they will eventually find out.
Try using honesty and truthfulness for a change and put this issue to rest once and for all. Either prove that you are a “Natural Born Citizen of the U.S.” and are legally qualified to hold the Office of President, or withdraw the race.
If you do not provide the necessary proof, or withdraw from the race, rest assured that the American people, regardless of party affiliation, will stand up for the constitution and kick you out.
John Wallace
New York Campaign for Liberty
http://www.nycampaignforliberty.com/
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