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Obama runs away from a lawsuit
Olavo de Carvalho
September 24 was the deadline for Barack Obama to file a response to the lawsuit, filed by Democratic lawyer Philip Berg, which charges Obama of not fulfilling the constitutional requirements to be elected president, as he is not a natural born citizen of the United States. Barack Obama did not actually respond: he introduced a motion for dismissal, a typical delaying maneuver that makes the defendant look even more suspect.
A motion for dismissal consists in alleging that the plaintiff did not provide enough evidence to justify the continuation of the suit. That Obama's lawyers would use this maneuver is a curious sample of the revolutionary inversion of judicial logic. Berg's central argument is that Obama has not presented a birth certificate on paper. It is the duty of the candidate to prove that he is a natural born American citizen, not the duty of the plaintiff to prove that he is not.
The hard fact that the document has never showed up is enough for the suit to go forward, as there is not a single piece of evidence attesting that Obama has legal citizenship. But to this undeniable assertion, Berg has added some strong evidence that:
1. The electronic copy of the birth certificate exhibited by Obama's campaign is false.
2. Obama was born in Kenya. By challenging the insufficiency of these supplemental arguments, Obama's lawyers are trying to dodge responding the central point: where is the paper version of the certificate? If Obama had one, it would be enough to present it and he would be acquitted on the spot. What his lawyers have done suggests that he has no American birth certificate whatsoever.
In return, they have gained time, but at the expense of sowing the seed of a constitutional crisis that will fatally blow up sooner or later. If the suit is resolved only after the election —and if Obama is elected — instead of simply nullifying a candidacy the U.S. will find itself in the contingency of having to topple a president, automatically raising the ire of his devotees.
Or, else, the U.S. will have to sacrifice its Constitution and laws on the altar of a grotesque pseudo-religion, artificial to the utmost, in which millions of idiots kneel down before an improvised arriviste without even bothering to ask where he came from. Both hypotheses are frightening, and the motion for dismissal, if accepted by the court, will cut down the choices to one of them.
More and more I convince myself that all this, form the beginning, was in the calculations of the creators of the Obama myth. More that just electing a president, they wished to implode a nation.
The documents in the lawsuit are in Phillip Berg's site www.obamacrimes.com. If you have difficulties accessing it, do not be surprised: there were over 15 million visits in the last few days and there is a bit of a traffic jam.
Olavo de Carvalho is a correspondent for various Brazilian newspapers. He has spoken before the Hudson Institute, the Atlas Foundation and the America’s Future Foundation. To comment or schedule an appearance, contact the author at: olavo@olavodecarvalho.org
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Monday 29 September 2008