Re: FW: Citizen Obama?

August 26, 2008

--- I received my new passport early this summer, it has water marks

and a hard cover. Now Bush wanted to implant chips in our heads to

keep track of us as part of Homeland Security. I feel stronly there

is a chip in my new out sourced passport..

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DonaIn no-forced-vaccination , Andee <siouxcro@...>

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> Barbara M. I would rather live believing/knowing there is a

God and be welcomedinto heaven than not believe and find out

differently when I die

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> From: info@...: siouxcro@...: Citizen Obama?Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008

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> Citizen Obama? Today's comment is by Bob Bauman JD, former U.S.

Congressman and now Senior Writer and Legal Counsel for The Sovereign

Society. Dear A-Letter Reader, Election year 2008 is officially the

18th U.S. presidential election during my lifetime. God willing, it

will also be the 13th (maybe an unlucky number?) election that I've

cast my vote for president. Of course, I've also been a candidate

elected to public office, so I know from experience that this is the

time when all sorts of weird stories about candidates crawl out of

the woodwork every election year.A few months back there was a minor

outcry claiming that Republican presidential candidate, Senator

McCain may not have been eligible to serve as president. The critics

claimed he was not 'a natural born citizen' as required by the U.S.

Constitution. Senator McCain was born in the U.S. Panama Canal Zone

in 1936, where his father was stationed in the U.S. Navy. This outcry

was more or less silenced when the U.S. Senate passed a bi-partisan

resolution endorsing their colleagues' 'natural born' status.

> Yet Another Unnatural Born Candidate?Now comes one Philip J. Berg.

He is a former member of Pennsylvania's Democratic State Committee

and former deputy attorney general of Pennsylvania. Berg also happens

to be a highly disgruntled Hillary Clinton fan, who was backing her

for president. Berg filed a lawsuit last week in U.S District Court.

He is asking the court to declare Obama ineligible for the presidency

because he is not a natural born American citizen. He has asked the

court to prevent him from running for the position. The Berg lawsuit

claims that Obama's eligibility is doubtful on several grounds,

including some Obama family members' allegations that he was born in

Kenya. Berg is also questioning Obama's parents' citizenship status

which he claims prevented them from automatically granting Obama U.S.

citizenship. He also questions the authenticity of Obama's Hawaii

birth certificate. Berg has also claimed Obama was a citizen of

Indonesia as a child and Obama retained that foreign citizenship into

adulthood without recording an oath of allegiance to the United

States. That's a requirement to retain your American citizenship.As

both an attorney and long-time citizenship expert, I know something

about the legal tangle that can befall an innocent infant born to

American parents in foreign lands. Yes, sometimes the odd

circumstances of a foreign birth can call into question a hapless

child's American citizenship. However, I'll let the federal court

decide whether Barack Obama fits into this category or not.

> This Is Just a Smaller Symptom of a Greater IssueWhether legitimate

or not, this lawsuit raises a greater issue that impacts all

Americans who have an official U.S. passport (which about 30% of us

do).In recent times, the U.S. government is using your U.S. passport

as a means of coercion in various ways. In the United States, the

government will deny you a U.S. passport simply for being in debt to

the Internal Revenue Service. You can also be denied a passport if

you owe more than US$2,500 in back payments for court ordered child

support.Since 1986, the U.S. State Department has told the IRS about

any American who renews their U.S. passports from a foreign address

(certainly not a crime in any way). Passport renewals require an

applicant's Social Security number, so the IRS uses this information

to see if applicants have filed income tax returns. An IRS official

speaking in Zurich said the IRS is making a special effort to track

down all U.S. citizens who renewed U.S. passports while living in

Switzerland (you can surely guess why).

> Your Passport Has Become a Tagging DeviceMore recently, the

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) used their all-

powerful 'fighting terrorism' excuse to track the movements of every

U.S. passport that comes or goes by air or sea. They even added land

border crossings to the list, so they essentially have a travel

profile of each and every American.As my colleague Mark Nestmann

pointed out,'Instead of known or suspected terrorists, the government

is tracking everyone who crosses a U.S. border. And since there are

no limits to how the government uses the data collected, the

information is almost certain to be used for politically motivated

surveillance.'I agree with Mark. The potential for abuse in this

system is obvious. 'Imagine that such a system existed now, and the

DHS were to release data 'in the public interest' that a leading

presidential candidate had made previously undisclosed visits to

Iran, North Korea, or Cuba.' The Berg lawsuit alleges Obama used his

alleged 'Indonesian passport' to visit Pakistan when he was 20 years

old. Obama is lucky the DHS surveillance system didn't exist back

then, or that trip could have damaged Citizen Obama quest for the

White House.

> Avoid the U.S. Government-Issued Digital StalkersEven if this

surveillance system is up and running, you can still avoid these

digital stalkers when you travel. You can simply opt to travel with

another passport when you travel between countries outside of the

United States. If you're a U.S. citizen, you must use your U.S.

passport when you enter or leave the United States. But you're under

no such obligation when you enter or leave other countries. I have no

way of knowing the merits of the Berg lawsuit, but the U.S. Supreme

Court has repeatedly ruled that American citizens retain their

citizenship when there is no clear intent to end that status. The

Court has also supported American citizens' right to hold dual

citizenship. Those rulings would seem to protect Senator Obama's

American status, although he might qualify as a 'dual national.'

> What Is Dual Nationality and Why Does it Matter?Dual nationality

simply means that you are legally a citizen of two countries at the

same time, qualified as such under each nation's law. You could

automatically receive this status if you're born in a foreign country

and one of your parents is a U.S. citizen. In that case, you would

become both a U.S. citizen and a citizen of the country where you're

born. Or you could become a dual national from an operation of law.

For example, as a U.S. citizen, you could marry a foreigner and

become a citizen of your spouse's nation. Or if you were a foreigner

who was naturalized as a U.S. citizen, you can still retain your

citizenship from the country of your birth. You get the idea. The

point is acquiring and using a foreign passport does not endanger

your U.S. citizenship in any way. In fact, it's pretty common to

retain two passports depending on your circumstances. Some countries

won't permit their citizens to hold a passport from another nation.

This was the case in the U.S. until 1967, when the U.S. Supreme Court

upheld the right of U.S. citizens to hold a second, foreign passport.

Before that time, the official rule was that a person acquiring

second nationality automatically lost U.S. citizenship. Since 1967,

the government generally presumes a U.S. citizen does not intend to

surrender citizenship. You have to produce proof of that intention

before the U.S. government will officially let you give up your U.S.

citizenship (i.e. 'expatriate'). The burden of proof then falls to

the government to prove U.S. citizenship. This presumption is set

forth in a U.S. Department of State publication, Advice About

Possible Loss of U.S. Citizenship and Dual Nationality, (1990). As a

matter of policy, the U.S. Government recognizes dual nationality,

but does not necessarily encourage it. (Once again, you can guess

why - they would rather be able to track your every move.)

> Just Say 'NO' To the Stalking Big BrotherBig Brother Homeland

Security is now mindlessly tracking our every move, so I think it

wise for Americans to acquire a second passport. You need a second

passport to guard against the inevitable restrictions that take away

your freedom to travel and associate with foreigners. I often hear

concerns expressed about currency controls. But a far greater and

very real threat is people control.Now you can begin to see why a

second passport may be highly useful. Your qualification for a second

nation's passport, one that comes without restrictive strings

attached, can serve as your additional passport to greater freedom.

That official document can be your key to a whole new world of free

movement, expanded international investment, greater flexibility, and

adventure. In addition, it can mean safe passage without delay. BOB

BAUMAN, Legal Counsel EDITOR'S NOTE: Bob is the author of the long-

time Sovereign Society best-seller, The Passport Book (now in a 6th

edition). This all-inclusive guide gives you facts, figures and

helpful how-tos about living in dozens of countries abroad. You can

pick up your own copy here.

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> Bank Failures: Number 9 - and Counting According to the Federal

Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) a total of nine banks have

failed this year. Five folded in July alone! At this rate, you know

that more banks will fail in the U.S. - especially as the real estate

and credit crisis continues to strain bank coffers to the point of

financial exhaustion.Later today, the FDIC will update its list

of 'problem' financial institutions. The list already included a

total of 90 'problem' banks as of March 31. Since then, however,

credit strains have accelerated worldwide, especially for interbank

lending rates, non-government debt securities and the leveraged loan

market. Credit spreads are now trading at multi-decade or multi-year

highs this morning. Indeed, the credit world has deteriorated

markedly since March. So imagine how many more banks will join the

FDIC's 'problem' list later today. Bank stocks, of course, remain

mired in a secular bear market. Banks are struggling with their worst

crisis in a generation. Both credit and real estate assets are still

in a freefall. You've got to believe many more banks will fail before

this bear market is over.Banks might be cheap but nobody really knows

what their true net asset values are or what securities have honestly

been booked as mark-to-market. By the way: Dividends mean nothing in

this market. The majority of banks still have toxic paper on their

books with only a few attempting to really unclog their balance

sheets. Merrill Lynch (NYSE-MER) is the only institution to come

clean this summer following the huge disposition of distressed assets

last month at fire sale prices. If the United States really wants to

stabilize the financial system now, the first place to start is by

bailing out Freddie Mac (NYSE-FRE) and Fannie Mae (NYSE-FNM). A

government rescue would protect bondholders and go a long way to

instill market confidence and possibly put a floor to this crisis.

The systemic risk of letting these huge lenders fail is not even

debatable. We're at the point of no-return here. Freddie and Fannie

must be rescued and quickly. I'm buying Fannie and Freddie short-term

and intermediate-term debt up to a maximum of five years. Yield

spreads are the highest in history and the government won't let them

fail. Shareholders in company stock, however, will probably get wiped-

out eventually. ERIC ROSEMAN, Investment DirectorP.S. In a market

like this, you really can't put all your faith in dividends -

especially when the largest, favored blue-chips keep slashing their

dividend checks. In fact, this year, Fannie Mae already cut the

company's dividends from US$1.40 to a paltry 20 cents. You might

expect that from bleeding financial institutions, but honestly, it's

not just banks. This year, Whole Foods, Sprint Nextel, La-Z-Boy Inc

have all followed suit and wiped out millions worth of dividend

shareholder revenue. Isn't about time you did something to fight

back? Tomorrow at noon EST, my colleagues Ford and

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> Click Here to Sue! Part IIDid you know that with a simple click of

a mouse, any one of your nosy neighbors, scheming colleagues,

agitated relatives, or even complete strangers can sue you? Websites

like WhoCanISue.com, SueEasy (http://www.SueEasy.com) and LegalMatch

(http://www.LegalMatch.com) are all the rage right now for any

potential plaintiff who's looking for a quick buck...at your expense!

To me, this means you need to protect your wealth now more than ever.

Here are a few of my best suggestions for shielding your wealth from

any future lawsuit:Keep your mouth shut. Not disclosing personal

information is the first line of defense against lawsuits. You have

no way of knowing what a friend, lover, a casual acquaintance, or

someone on the street who offers you a small reward will do with the

information you disclose.Keep a low profile. People who openly

display their wealth get sued much more often than those that don't.

So take strides to keep your wealth as private as possible. For

instance, instead of buying a mansion, rent a smaller home that is

modest on the outside, but impeccably furnished on the inside. Send

your children to a local private school, rather than a nationally

recognized academy. All these tactics will keep any sue-happy

individual from knowing your real worth. Deal with petty grievances

from neighbors, friends, co-workers, etc. If your neighbor asks you

more than once to quiet your barking dog, take the complaint

seriously. If you don't, one day you just might find a process server

at your door giving you notice of a lawsuit filed against you by your

neighbor. Don't make promises you can't keep, and keep the promises

you make. These rules are easy to repeat, but difficult to apply in

real life. A practical example is when a friend or family member asks

you to co-sign for a loan. The question you need to ask isn't, 'Can I

trust this person?' but, 'Do I have the financial means to make good

on this obligation?' It's unlikely you can force your friend or

family member to pay off the loan, at least not without losing the

friendship or straining family ties. You also have little or no

control over what extraneous events might occur that would prevent

the loan recipient from paying off the obligation. Get insurance to

protect your assets. The most important precaution is to purchase

liability insurance for your home, your business, and your vehicles.

Don't stop at the minimum limits, either. If you can purchase

an 'umbrella' policy with limits of US$1 million or more, do so. For

additional suggestions, click here.Even with these precautions,

websites like WhoCanISue and SueEasy virtually guarantee an explosion

in frivolous lawsuits. No one is immune from attacks by American

trial lawyers. But by taking these precautions, you will have come a

long way in the right direction!MARK NESTMANN, Privacy Expert &

President of The Nestmann Group www.nestmann.com

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