A Case for the Birthers?

I avoided the argument over whether the lack of an official birth certificate for Barack Obama indicates he may ineligible to be President.   The explanations given — that Hawaii had converted to an all-electronic system and that the originals were destroyed — seemed perfectly plausible.  Better to dispute obvious issues regarding Obama’s leanings, policies, friends, and ties than to become embroiled in the “birther” controversy and perhaps to be discredited because of such involvement.

But today, Joan Swirsky wrote an interesting article for Chron Watch where she challenged not the MIA document but rather the media’s disinterest in investigating its whereabouts.   The answers are frightening and indicate a furtherance of the hard-hitting Chicago-style politics that have become an underlying theme in behind this Presidency and this administration.  They play hard and play dirty.  Wrote Swirsky:

In an explosive interview by Dr. Laurie Roth on her syndicated West Coast radio show on August 7, Douglas Hagmann–a respected journalist, director of the Northeast Intelligence Network, and longtime private investigator–and Judi McLeod, a prolific journalist and the managing editor of Canada Free Press, learned the reason for the media blackout about the birth-certificate issue was nothing less than organized Mafia-like dire threats to members of the media issued not only from the heads of major television and radio stations but also from Federal Communication Commission officials!

According to Hagmann and McLeod, who conducted a nine-month investigation and documented their findings scrupulously, after Obama was elected but before he was inaugurated:

· A major television talk-show host reported that he was ordered not to raise the birth certificate issue or risk losing his job.

· FCC officials threatened to yank broadcasting licenses, break up conglomerates, and make the enactment of the Fairness Doctrine “look mild” in comparison to other consequences.

· In at least one corporate TV headquarters, memos were circulated to all on-air employees not to mention the birth certificate issue, as well as other specific subjects like Obama’s Illinois lawyer’s license, his college records, etc., under both implied and explicit threats.

Swirsky and her sources conclude that there’s likely a large contingent behind Obama, quietly buying influence and pulling the strings needed to quash these and any other questions.  If the questions aren’t nipped in the bud there is a pile of money available to litigate against the questioners.

So determined are Obama’s handlers to keep the facts of his parentage and place of birth out of the public domain that, as writer Chelsea Schilling has scrupulously documented, “the Federal Election Commission shows Obama’s campaign has made regular payments to Perkins Coie since Jan. 1, 2007–the month he formed a presidential exploratory committee and only weeks before he formally announced his candidacy for president–[and up to the present]–has paid Perkins Coie, a single law firm, $2.3 million…to crush eligibility lawsuits.”

The usual suspects are in play, from George Soros to Saudi kings to the labor unions.  And they’re using the government itself — the FCC in some cases — to ensure compliance.

Read the article here.

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