A Natural Born Native

   A Natural Born Native

   There’s a widespread common misconception that is preventing the American people from grasping the truth about the nature of the citizenship of Barack Obama.  That misconception is that the principle of citizenship that applies under the 14th Amendment (birth within the United States and subjection to the laws, rules and orders of the federal government) is also the principle that applies in regard to presidential eligibility, but it is not.

Birth within the United States is not a required element of the first of three requirements that must be met in order to be eligible to be the President.  The first element is that one must be a “natural born Citizen”.  To be such does not involve place of birth except to the extent that it would almost universally be true that all Americans are born in America. [with the few exceptions such as John McCain]
But that does not necessarily make them Americans by birth because their parents might be foreign diplomats or tourists, or temporary visitors.  They are the exceptions to the 14th Amendment because they’re under the sovereignty of their own governments since they still owe allegiance to their homeland, and thus are not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States federal government over them.  The government must treat them as foreigners protected by international law and treaties.

To be a natural born citizen follows a different principle, one that is not based on American laws or judicial rulings.  It is instead based on natural law.  Natural Law involves a principle derived from nature and natural societies that aren’t governed by written laws and bureaucracies.  It is the principle of group membership.  Membership in any group is always the result of either being born into the group by birth to group parents, or membership by permission or acquiescence.  The principle is self-evident in nature, so let’s look at its application in human society.

A hypothetical situation provides a good illustration.   If a pregnant Englishwoman sailed on the first ship to reach North American and she delivered there, her child would not be a native American.  Only those born of the native indigenous people were natives of America.  Before that principle could be naturally applicable to children of Europeans and their descendants, it required many, many generations of births in the new world, to the point that they no longer had European attachments.  Certainly after over 100 years of a colony’s existence, its citizens, the descendants of earlier settlers, would fit the description of being native-born Americans.  By then they were clearly the new indigenous population.  They were the new natives and the new world was their one and only homeland.  Their children were native by birth in the homeland to parents who were indigenous members of the colony.  They were the new natural natives through natural inheritance by birth to native parents.

All of the descendants of the early settlers would be natives by birth, i.e; -natural-born natives, whereas those who joined the colony by immigration were not born as natives.  They would be allowed to join and would be members, but they would not be natives because their parents weren’t natives.  Their children would be members at birth but they would not be natives either because they also were not born to natives.  But the grandchildren would be natives because they would be born to native-born members.  They would be natural members by birth to native-born members who were members at birth, -not by immigration.  Thus it could be said that they would be natural natives -just like those with much longer ancestry in the colony.

If an immigrant with no connection to anyone in the colony sired a child with a native colonial woman, the child would not be a natural native, but would be a hybrid.  It’s membership would be contingent on the acquiescence of the others.  If the father was very foreign, such as American men in Vietnam, then the hybrid children might be rejected by society, as they were in Vietnam, requiring their transplantation to America.  Those Amer-Asian children were not natural members of Vietnam nor America because of the conflicting nature of their parents background, nationality, language, and race.  Children born in America to Amer-Asian parents would not be eligible to be President because they would not have been born to parents who were both natural citizens, but instead were granted citizenship by law, unless that law was considered to be a mass naturalization.  Naturalization makes one the same as natural citizens.

In a group or colony, if the natives wished to protect their group from hybrid members with questionable motives and loyalty, they would require that no one could be their leader except a natural-born native, not a hybrid-born native.   In the group that became the union of the sovereign states of America, they put such a stipulation into their foundational law.  It substituted the word “citizen” for native”.  So it reads “No one except a natural born Citizen…shall be eligible to the Office of the President,”.

The children of Barack Obama Jr. are natural born citizens of the United States because they were born to citizen parents, but their father was not.  His father, Obama Sr., was an outsider, a temporary visitor, not even an immigrant, and therefore it was not possible for him to sire a natural native of the United States.  Only an indigenous male citizen or a naturalized citizen of the U.S. could do that.  Obama Sr.’s off-spring was a hybrid citizen, accepted as a member only by law, not made so by nature.   Therefore his citizenship was not natural citizenship by descent from citizens, but was citizenship by law, -law written to accommodate non-natural situations involving outsiders producing off-spring with insiders.  Only insiders can produce natural members.  Only natives can produce natural natives, -half-native hybrids are not natural natives.  Only citizens can produce natural citizens, -hybrid off-spring are not natural citizens.  Barack Obama, by birth, was not a natural citizen, therefore he can’t be described as being a natural born citizen of the United States.

Ninety-nine Senators signed a resolution, aware or unaware of its implication) that John McCain, born in the Panama Canal Zone, was by U.S. history, principles, and law, a natural born citizen by birth to U.S. citizens, which is true.  What they failed to grasp is that the principle that; “children born to U.S. citizens abroad are natural born citizens”, although declared in the U.S. immigration law, is only included for purposes of clarification to avoid misunderstanding.
It was not added as an extra-constitutional principle applicable only to children born to citizens abroad, but rather, it was a statement of a fundamental principle that might be misunderstood if not openly stated in the law.  Clarity was the only reason for its inclusion.  Yet instead it has produced the opposite of clarity, it has produced confusion since people, including Senators, think that its inclusion in immigration law means that it is only applicable in a foreign-born situation.   That is incorrect.

The principle that citizenship is transmitted from parent to child is the principle of citizenship in the United States, and that principle is true outside of the United States as well.  The common delusion is that citizenship/ membership is magically conferred by being born on the land belonging to the group, rather than being born into the group via group parents.   That delusion is what is preventing the Congress, the Media, and much of the public from grasping the truth that Barack Obama was not born as a natural citizen by birth to citizen parents.

His citizenship ineligibility is in addition to the issue of the uncertainty of his birth within the United States.  There remains the fact that no hard-copy replication of an original certificate of live birth has been shown to anyone who is qualified to attest to its authenticity.  Only computer-crafted purely digital images of non-physical documents (images of unknown origin) have been made public.
Not being born in the U.S. would not make a natural born citizen ineligible, especially if his birth was within a location totally under U.S. control, but it would mean Obama would not have been born as a U.S. citizen since by the law in effect in 1961, his mother was too young to have been legally able to confer her citizenship to him.  So if he was born outside the U.S., in addition to not being a natural born citizen,  he would not have been a citizen at birth either.

By a.r. nash  Oct 2011  http://obama–nation.com

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