Thread: Alaska Man Files Lawsuit Claiming Barack Isn't American

Birther's Reborn! Alaska Man Files Lawsuit Claiming Barack Isn't American

Posted 5 hours 23 min ago by The Decider for Global Grind Staff

It’s alive! The birther movement has been reborn.

An Alaska man filed a lawsuit aiming to remove President Barack Obama from the state's ballot, arguing that Obama is not a "natural born citizen" because he is African-American.

Juneau resident Gordon Warren Epperly filed the complaint last week and it reads:

As stated above, for an Individual to be a candidate for the office of president of the United States, the candidate must meet the qualifications set forth in the United States Constitution and one of those qualifications is that the Candidate shall be a "natural born citizen" of the United States.

As Barack Hussein Obama II is of the "mulatto" race, his status of citizenship is founded upon the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Before the [purported] ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, the race of "Negro" or "mulatto" had no standing to be citizens of the United States under the United States Constitution."

The "birther" movement and its followers believe that Obama was born in Kenya and is therefore ineligible for the presidency.

But this latest move by Epperly is one of the boldest by a member of the birther movement: an attempt to remove Obama from office based solely on his race.

As for Epperly’s 14th Amendment claim, it grants citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized" in the U.S., regardless of race, and made it illegal for states to deny citizens of their civil and political rights.

Furthermore, the 14th Amendment overturned the much-maligned Dred Scott ruling, which stated that slaves and their descendants were not eligible for citizenship.

Good try Epperly, but the “birther” movement is dead and gone after the President revealed his long form birth certificate last year.

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Attorney in ‘birther’ action jumps into state Senate race

1:11 pm February 29, 2012, by jgalloway

State Rep. Mark Hatfield, who raised eyebrows as the attorney in an effort have the name of President Barack Obama stripped from next Tuesday’s presidential primary ballot, became the first Republican to announce that he’ll seek the Senate seat now occupied by Greg Goggans, R-Douglas.

Goggans, citing economic pressures, has decided not to seek a fifth term in the Senate.

Hatfield, who has feuded with the leadership of House Speaker David Ralston, was drawn into the same district as state Rep. Jason Spence, R-Woodbine, in the last redistricting session.
From Hatfield’s press release:


“I will be running for the Senate to provide conservative, independent leadership for South Georgia,” said Hatfield.

Hatfield will be running in the newly-reconfigured Senate District 7, which includes all of Ware, Coffee, Bacon, Pierce, Atkinson, Ben Hill, Irwin, Atkinson, and Berrien counties, and a portion of both Charlton and Tift counties.

Hatfield has represented large portions of the new Senate District 7 during his time in the House, and he said that uniquely prepares him to represent those same people in the State Senate.

“I know the people of South Georgia want an independent person who stands up for everybody. They want a conservative, pro-life, pro-family senator who stands for his principles even when it is not popular. I have kept that commitment while serving in the House, and I will keep that commitment if elected to the State Senate,” said Hatfield.

Hatfield drew up the complaint filed by a parties who question Obama’s birth in the United States and challenged Secretary of State Brian Kemp’s placement of Obama as the sole name on Tuesday’s Democratic presidential primary ballot. (Hawaiian state officials have provided, time and again, documentation of Obama’s birth.)

An administrative judge recently dismissed the complaint, which Hatfield has appealed to a Fulton County Superior Court judge.

As soon as I posted the above, I went downstairs to the basement of the Legislative Office Building, only to find Hatfield in the snack bar — delighted at being able to escape the dilemma of whether to run against a House colleague. He pointed to this piece in the Waycross Journal-Herald.

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