Birthers beware: Hawaii may start ignoring your repeated requests for proof that President Barack Obama was born here.
As the state continues to receive e-mails seeking Obama’s birth certificate, the state House Judiciary Committee heard a bill Tuesday permitting government officials to ignore people who won’t give up.
“Sometimes we may be dealing with a cohort of people who believe lack of evidence is evidence of a conspiracy,” said Lorrin Kim, chief of the Hawaii Department of Health’s Office of Planning, Policy and Program Development.
So-called “birthers” claim Obama is ineligible to be president because, they argue, he was actually born outside the United States, and therefore doesn’t meet a constitutional requirement for being president.
Hawaii Health Director Dr. Chiyome Fukino issued statements last year and in October 2008 saying that she’s seen vital records that prove Obama is a natural-born American citizen.
But the state still gets between 10 and 20 e-mails seeking verification of Obama’s birth each week, most of them from outside Hawaii, Kim said Tuesday.
A few of these requesters continue to pepper the Health Department with the same letters seeking the same information, even after they’re told state law bars release of a certified birth certificate to anyone who does not have a tangible interest. Responding wastes time and money, Kim said.
Both Fukino and the state registrar of vital statistics have verified that the Health Department holds Obama’s original birth certificate.
The issue coincides with Sunshine Week, when news organizations promote open government and freedom of information.
“Do we really want to be known internationally as the Legislature that blocked any inquiries into where President Obama was born?” asked Rep. Cynthia Thielen, R-Kaneohe-Kailua. “When people want to get more information, the way to fuel that fire is to say, ‘We’re now going to draw down a veil of secrecy.'”
Nobody at the hearing questioned the fact that the president was born in Hawaii.
Attorney Peter Fritz asked why the state would pass a law punishing repetitive requests for open records. Instead, the state could simply say it would only answer each person’s question once.
If the measure passed, the state Office of Information Practices could declare an individual a “vexatious requester” and restrict rights to government records for two years.
The committee will schedule a vote on the measure, said Chairman Jon Riki Karamatsu, D-Waipahu-Waikele.
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It is my understanding that the bill failed.At least for now.
I plead with the governments of the world to help us. The United States of America is on a pth to destruction and I am afraid it is going to bring the rest of the world along for the ride. Step up to the plate and call Obama on what he is doing. We the people are losing all say, this country will be the end of the world if you do not help.
It is dangerous for the whole world that there is a usurper in the white house. Obama is a fraud. Obama’s birth status is not the only encumbrance to Obama being President of the United States. If you recall, the BBC reported Obama’s campaign for Raila Odinga, a known enemy of the USA and genocidal felon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUaGe63Aqv4 US law ay 18USC,Part 1,Chapter 115,Sec.2381 calls this Treason.
It also precludes anyone guilty of treason from holding “any” office in the United States government.
Obama is the subject of many formal “presentments”:
http://americangrandjury.org/public/
Under British law,Obama was a Brit at birth. His father was a brit and Obama became a brit at birth. Obama is encumbered from being POTUS. He is an not authorized to act in that capacity. The congress and the senate are looking the other way,to the detriment of the free world. Obama has the nuclear codes. He can destroy the world in short order. It is incumbent on all nations of the earth to call him on it.Make him prove he is not encumbered from being POTUS. I say he is encumbered,as do millions of others. Obama is the next world despot. He is a radical islamic supremacist,anti-christian,anti-semite and a criminal deviant. There have been formal charges lodged against Obama in the US and at the Hague. Let us do something honorable and moral. Let us save the world from our current Hitler and his cabal of “New World Order” gangsters.
How about this. How about they SHOW the birth certificate?
…don’t you think that if there was NO PROOF we would have seen it by now?
If there is “No proof” WHAT would we “see”?
If they want to stop the pestering, they should just show the proof and be done with it. How hard is that? =P