Like it or not--HE'S A US CITIZEN!

One thing the birthers never come up with and that is a certificate that Barack Obama has renounced his citizenship, which is necessary for one to no longer be a US citizen. The process sounds simple:

To renounce U.S. citizenship, you must go in person to a U.S. embassy or consulate outside the U.S. and sign before a consular officer an oath or affirmation that you intend to renounce your citizenship.

At the end of a formal process one is issued with a Certificate of Loss of Nationality.

One can renounce US citizenship if they do not have another nationality. Although, the Foreign Affairs Manual instructs State Department employees to make it clear to Americans who will become stateless after renunciation that they may face extreme difficulties (including deportation back to the United States) following their renunciation, but instructs employees to afford such persons of their right to give up citizenship.

As for being a Kenyan Citizen: Kenya’s constitution prohibits dual citizenship in adulthood. Chapter VI, Section 87 of the Kenyan Constitution specifies that:

1. Every person who, having been born in Kenya, is on 11th December, 1963 a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies or a British protected person shall become a citizen of Kenya on 12th December, 1963…
2. Every person who, having been born outside Kenya, is on 11th December, 1963 a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies or a British protected person shall, if his father becomes, or would but for his death have become, a citizen of Kenya by virtue of subsection (1), become a citizen of Kenya on 12th December, 1963.

As a citizen of the UKC who was born in Kenya, Obama’s father automatically received Kenyan citizenship via subsection (1). In other words, Obama’s father was Kenyan, not British. Any citizenship which would have come from Obama’s father would have been Kenyan and not British.

The Kenyan Constitution prohibits dual citizenship for adults. Kenya recognizes dual citizenship for children, but Kenya’s Constitution specifies that at age 23, Kenyan citizens who possesses citizenship in more than one country automatically lose their Kenyan citizenship unless they formally renounce any non-Kenyan citizenship and swear an oath of allegiance to Kenya.

President Obama has neither renounced his U.S. citizenship nor sworn an oath of allegiance to Kenya. Thus any claim that Obama can have to being eligible for Kenyan citizenship automatically expired on Aug. 4,1984.

The same applies for Indonesia. The latest law regulating Indonesian nationality is Law No. 12/2006 (UU No. 12 Tahun 2006). This law revokes Law No. 62/1958 (UU No. 62 Tahun 1958).

Generally, Indonesian citizens are those natural Indonesian people and those of other nationalities that are endorsed by the law as Indonesian citizens. The Indonesian nationality law does not recognize dual citizenship except for persons under the age of 18. After reaching 18 years of age individuals are forced to choose one citizenship.

Again, like Kenya, Obama would have had to make the affirmative act of choosing Indonesian citizenship when he turned 18.

Even if Stanley Ann Dunham renounced her US citizenship, it wouldn’t have effected Barack Obama’s citizenship since he needs to make the affirmative act renouncing for himself (citizenship cannot be renounced by an agent). The 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act, Title III, Chapter 3, Section 355, says:

“A person having United States nationality, who is under the age of twenty-one and whose residence is in a foreign state with or under the legal custody of a parent who hereafter loses United States nationality under section 350 or 352 of this title, shall also lose his United States nationality if such person has or acquires the nationality of such foreign state: Provided, That, in such case, United States nationality shall not be lost as the result of loss of United States nationality by the parent unless and until the person attains the age of twenty-five years without having established his residence in the United States.

So, there is no way under US law that Barack Obama could have lost his US citizenship due to action of his own OR that of his mother before he was 21 years of age. Under US law, he maintained his birthright US citizenship with no loss or interruption, and no deed for “naturalization” or any “oaths of citizenship” because Natural-Born US citizens don’t require them.

Obama is not a dual national since neither nation he was alleged to have citizenship recognises dual nationality. Additionally, he has not taken the affirmative actions required to acquire either Kenyan or Indonesian nationality.

Like it or not, Barack Obama is a US citizen, and he’s YOUR president.

Sources:
Does Barack Obama have Kenyan citizenship?
Indonesian nationality law
The Indonesian Citizenship Myth

Orly Taitz, Go HOME; Take Allen West with You

I don't care what country she is from, or for that matter what planet she is from, Orly Taitz should go home.  She really doesn't belong here; she's lowering the national IQ and diminishing the level of political discourse in the nation, especially encouraging southern Republicans and Tea Partiers to be stupid and delusional by promoting ongoing birther-ism.

She is a joke, a laughingstock, a farce, and a conservative mainstay for bigotry and ideological insanity.  If it weren't for her ability unintentionally to highlight so very well what is wrong with the processes that pass for thinking on the right, processes which are emotional and fanciful rather than using reason and facts, she would have no value at all.  As it is, she manages to be entertaining, in so far as it is amusing to laugh at her.  She has incredible consistency in being spectacularly, publicly, batshit crazy.

She should take Congressman West with her; he disgraced himself and this country with his role in torture that got him stripped of his military command.   This vicious, unlawful ass is NOT someone who belongs in any legal government.  He is an embarrassment to the citizens of this country.

Her latest adventure in extremism and conservative insanity, from the HuffPo:

Orly Taitz Looks To Allen West For Help With Birther Crusade

California attorney Orly Taitz, matriarch of the birther movement, is hoping to bring aboard a congressional ally to her cause to prove the frequently rejected theory that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States and therefore not eligible to serve as president.
Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) attracted the attention of Taitz after telling a crowd over the weekend that Obama and Democrats should take their ideas and "get the hell out of the United States of America."
"We need to let President Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and my dear friend the chairman of the Democrat National Committee, we need to let them know that Florida ain't on the table," West said Saturday at a Lincoln Day Dinner in West Palm Beach. "Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else. You can take it to Europe, you can take it to the bottom of the sea, you can take it to the North Pole, but get the hell out of the United States of America."
On Monday, Taitz, who is fresh off an unproductive attempt to force Obama from the primary ballot in Georgia, wrote a post on her blog linking to an article on West's comments and asking him to be a congressional surrogate for the birther movement.
"CONTACT ALAN WEST [sic], ASK HIM TO JOIN AS A PLAINTIFF, BRING ELIGIBILITY BEFORE CONGRESS. TALK IS CHEAP, ACTIONS MATTER," she wrote in her signature all-caps style.
While West is certainly well-known for his bombastic rhetoric, he has weighed in on the birther issue before, telling a skeptical constituent at a town hall meeting last year that he should focus on Obama's policies, not his birthplace. Later asked about his own opinions on the matter, West said he wasn't subscribing to the conspiracy theories.
"He is a citizen. He's the president. I mean, that's all I know. I am concerned about his policies," West said.
Video of West's weekend remarks below: