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PARIS FRANCE TELEVISION – Channel 24 # PHILIP J. BERG, ESQ. will be on “Live” # Wednesday, November 4, 2009 – on “Focus” # Internationally Broadcast Update URGENT   Ch. 24 “Focus” show from Paris France cancelled for today, November 4, 2009. Did they get pressure to cancel? Text: from AEBERHARD Aurelien to: philjberg Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 6:50 AM subject France 24 "Sir Berg, I’m sorry but we’re going to cancel our invitation. We are changing the issue of our show. Anyway I keep your address for maybe an otherTime. Thank you for your understanding. Aurélien Aeberhard France 24 Focus”

For “Nightline Twittercast” Live on TV and InternetRe Obama’s lack of his Birth Certificate Obama “not” being Constitutionally eligible to be President

 

JUST THE FACTS

      Philip J. Berg, Esquire states “There has been a lot of attention regarding the birth certificate issues addressed in the media lately.  Unfortunately, there are many discrepancies in the reporting of the facts surrounding the questions into Barry Soetoro a/k/a Barack H. Obama’s birth and citizenship status.”

      The media, in addressing the citizenship issues regarding Barry Soetoro a/k/a Barack H. Obama; my background; and intentions have mis-stated the following facts:

1. People say I am a disgruntled Republican – WRONG:

   1. I am a lifelong Democrat;

   2. Served as a Democratic Committeeman for 31 years [I am 65 years “young”];

   3. Former Chair of the Democratic Party in Montgomery County, PA;

   4. Former Member of Pennsylvania Democratic State Committee for eight [8] years; and

   5. Former Candidate in Pennsylvania Democratic Statewide Primaries for Governor and United States Senator;

2. Then, I am accused of being “Racist;”

   1. I am “not” a racist; I am Caucasian and Jewish and also a Paid-Up Life Member of NAACP;

3. I am doing this because there is nothing more important than “our” U.S. Constitution, the foundation for our nation and I am fighting to enforce it and to defeat the greatest “HOAX” against the citizens of our country in 230+ years.  This is all because of Obama, an educated individual who after graduating Harvard, practiced law and “taught” Constitutional Law for ten [10] years!

   1. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been approached about running for President and he says, “Amend the Constitution.”  Obama basically says - I do not care about the U.S. Constitution as Obama is walking all over it !

      In the media and on some of the radio shows reporting on the birth certificate issues, statements have been made that question the President's place of birth, the media contends that these questions have been asked and answered many times since before the election, and the President's birth certificate says he was born in Hawaii. The state's Republican governor and other officials have backed that up. The controversy lives on, especially on the Internet.

      It is correct that questions have been asked regarding our now President Obama’s birth place and the fact the issues of Obama’s citizenship is all over the internet, however, the rest of the assertions are inaccurate.  The only document purporting to be Mr. Obama’s birth certificate was actually a Hawaiian Certification of Live Birth [COLB], an image of which was placed on Obama’s campaign website in June of 2008.  It is important to note, Hawaii also issues Certification of Live Births to children born abroad upon the registration by a family member of the birth.  A Hawaiian Certification of Live Birth is issued to children who are United States “natural born” citizens as well as “naturalized” citizens, who did not qualify for “natural born” status.  Take for instance, Maya Soetoro, Mr. Obama’s half-sister who was born in Jakarta, Indonesia in 1970, she too has a Certification of Live Birth, however, she is not a United States “natural born” citizen.  There are serious questions as to the Associated Press, Honolulu’s recent statements that Dr. Fukino, the Director of the Hawaii Department of Health stated she has verified Barry Soetoro a/k/a Barack H. Obama was in fact born in Hawaii.  If you recall October 31, 2008 and early November 2008, this same paper, AP, Honolulu ran an article stating Dr. Fukino and Hawaii Governmental Officials had in fact verified that Barack H. Obama was born in Hawaii.  This is completely false, if you look at Dr. Fukino’s Press Release dated October 31, 2008, no where is it stated Barack H. Obama was born in Hawaii or that any person verified that he was born in Hawaii.  Instead, what it stated was Dr. Fukino along with the Hawaiian Registrar had verified Barack H. Obama’s birth certificate was on file according to the laws of Hawaii.  At no time prior to AP Honolulu’s July 28, 2009 story, which is questionable, has any Hawaii Official, including Linda Lingle, backed up the claim that Barack Obama was born in Hawaii.

      The Media, in recent statements, claimed there has been overwhelming evidence that proves that Barack H. Obama’s birth certificate is real and that he was born in Honolulu on August 4, 1961.  The Media further claimed that the Annenberg political Fact Check, which is a nonpartisan group, went to Chicago to view the birth certificate last year and they released photos and this statement, ‘FactCheck.org staffers have now seen, touched, examined and photographed the original birth certificate. We conclude that it meets all of the requirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship. Their conclusion: Obama was born in the USA, just as he has always said.’

      These assertions and statements are not completely accurate. The key word here is “Annenberg”, who owns Fact check.  Not only is Annenberg pro Obama; Barack Obama was heavily affiliated with Annenberg as he was on the Board of Annenberg Chicago and he was founding Chairman and President of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge from 1995 to 1999.  All throughout Mr. Obama’s Presidential campaign the questions arose as to where Mr. Obama was born; whether Mr. Obama is still an Indonesian citizen; what Mr. Obama’s legal name is, Barack H. Obama or Barry Soetoro, etc.  Yes, Fact Check did state they have touched, examined, viewed, and photographed the original birth certificate of Barack H. Obama; however, there have been serious questions into the authenticity of this document and the document is a Certification of Live Birth and not a Birth Certificate.  In addition, NO other reporter or news agencies have been allowed near this “supposed” original birth certificate.  Again, Mr. Obama was affiliated with Annenberg.  And, as stated above, children born abroad are issued Certifications of Live Birth, whether “natural born” or “naturalized”, thus this document does not answer the question of Mr. Obama’s birth place or citizenship status.  Further, this does not answer the question as to the legal name of our President and does not touch upon the Indonesian citizenship which we believe Mr. Obama still holds.

      There have never been any Hawaiian Government Officials that have verified the Certification of Live Birth as shown on Fact Check’s website matches the one on file with the Hawaiian Department of Health.  Again, all the Hawaiian Officials have stated is that Mr. Obama has a valid vital record on file in accordance with the Hawaiian laws.

      It should be noted, according to the Hawaii Department of Home Lands manual, this Agency will not accept a Certification of Live Birth (COLB) to even prove Hawaiian heritage for the purchase of Hawaiian lands much less citizenship status. If the Hawaiian Government will not accept a Certification of Live Birth (COLB) why should the American people accept an image of a Certification of Live Birth to prove Mr. Obama's citizenship status and constitutional eligibility to serve as President of the United States?

      Mr. Berg continues “I have even heard statements from the media that the Republican Governor of Hawaii, Linda Lingle, on record, has stated Obama was indeed born in her state. The’Honolulu Advertiser’ on, August 13, and the ‘Hawaii Star-Bulletin’ on August 14, 1961, both have birth announcements of Barack Obama's birth.”

      This is completely absurd and untrue. Anyone can publish a birth announcement and a Private Investigator went to the address printed in the birth announcements only to learn the Obama’s never resided there. Linda Lingle has never stated Mr. Obama was born in Hawaii.  Health Director Dr. Chiyome Fukino issued a Press Release on October 31, 2008 which was published in the AP, Honolulu newspaper and the Star Bulletin, in or about November 2008 stating “No state official, including Gov. Linda Lingle, has ever instructed that this vital record be handled in a manner different from any other vital record in the possession of the State of Hawaii.”

      The Hawaii Department of Health policies and procedure are very simple, if a foreign birth is “registered” with the Hawaii Department of Health, the Original Birth certificate from what ever Country the child was born must be presented and the Hawaii Department of Health, a Certification of Live Birth is then issued.  The Hawaii Department of Health maintains the foreign original birth certificate.  The same procedures apply if the child was born at home in Hawaii or in a hospital in Hawaii.

      Mr. Berg stated “I have even heard rumors regarding Politifact.com, claiming PolitiFact.com reissued their results from the investigation they conducted in June of last year and stating since they published Obama's birth certificate, questions about its authenticity have been frequent and fierce. And, after reviewing the evidence, they are confident of their rulings.

      Politifact.com and factcheck.org are two [2] separate entities.  Politifact.com only obtained a copy of a Certification of Live birth image which was originally found on factcheck.org and fightthesmears.com.  Mr. Berg continued “I do give them credibility in performing the required investigations into the authenticity of the imaged document, as they would not have any access, as we have not, to obtain any verifications from the Department of Health in Hawaii.  In addition, there is no way the Department of Health in Hawaii can look at an image online and state with certainty that the document actually came from their offices.”

      There have also been major misstatements to the effect that for a “baby” to be “natural born” both parents must be U.S. citizens.  The law is very clear:

1. If a baby is born in the United States or its territories, the baby is “natural born” regardless of the citizenship status of the parents.  [That is why so many pregnant women sneak across the borders  from Mexico]

2. If both parents are U.S. citizens then the baby that is born any place in the world and returns to the U.S. through Immigration, that baby is considered “natural born.”

3. However, when a baby is born abroad and only one parent is a U.S. citizen, then you look at the law in effect as of the date of birth of the baby. We contend Mr. Obama was born in Mombasa, Kenya.  In the case of Barack Obama, that was August 4, 1961.  The law stated that the U.S. citizen must have lived in the U.S. for ten [10] years [obama’s Mom did] but five [5] of those years had to be after the age of fourteen [14].  Fourteen [14] and five [5] = nineteen [19] – Obama’s Mom was “only” eighteen [18] when she delivered Obama – therefore, she was “not” old enough to convey U.S. “natural born” staus to Obama.   

Critical Facts:

1. Obama has spent over $1 million dollars defending all the lawsuits that have been filed since my lawsuit of August 21, 2008;

1. Why spend that amount of money if you were really born in Hawaii and for up to Twenty-Five [$25.00] Dollars one can secure a certified duplicate copy of the “vault” birth certificate [“vault” = certificate that has hospital name, doctor’s name & signature, weight and length of baby, etc.];

2. All, yes ALL of Obama’s records are “SEALED” – why ?

   1. Birth records;

   2. School records – “SEALED” because they will probably show that Obama applied for and recived “foreign aid” indicating he was from Kenya or Indonesia where he was “adopted”;

      1. Occidental College;

      2. Columbia University;

      3. Harvard Law School;

   3. State Senate Records from Illinois;

   4. Passport records;

   5. Hospital records from Kenya and two [2] hospitals in Hawaii;

3. COLB [Certification of Live Birth] that was placed on Obama’s website had Father’s Race as “AFRICAN” – a term not used in 1961;

4. On obamacrimes.com website:

1. Tape of Sara Obama, Obama’s step-paternal grandmother who states in Swahilli that she was in hospital in Mombasa, Kenya when Obama was born with Obama’s half-brother and half-sister; 

   Telephone Interview with Sarah Hussein Obama_

    

2. Affidavits from two [2] ministers who taped Sara Obama;

   Affidavit of Bishop Ron McRae

   Affidavit of Reverend Kweli Shuhubia

5. On November 6, 2008, a Detroit Talk Show “Mike in the Morning” Host Mike Clark, Trudi Daniels and Marc Fellhauer from WRIF Radio, Detroit, Michigan called and spoke with the Kenyan Ambassador to the United States, Peter N.R.O. Ogego in Washington, DC who confirmed that Obama’s birth place was a well known attraction and his paternal grandmother was still alive in Kenya; when asked by Fellhauer if they were going to put up a marker at Obama’s Kenyan birth place, Ambassador Ogego stated, “It would depend on the government.  It’s already well known.”

6. Several days after the November 4, 2008 election, Kenya declared a “National Holiday” –that did not occur because Obama as a grandson was elected; it was declared because Obama was born in Kenya;

7. No evidence that Obama ever “legally” changed his name to Barack Hussein Obama from his “adopted” name of Barry Soetoro from Indonesia;

1. A copy of his school record indicating his name as “Barry Soetoro;” his Nationality “Indonesia;” and his Religion as “Islam;”

   Barry Soetoro Indonesia School Record

8. Obama traveled at age twenty [20] to Pakistan – what Passport did he travel with ?

1. United States citizens prohibited in 1981 of going to Pakistan;

2. So Obama traveled on an Indonesia or Kenyan passport;