Obama Citizenship: Steve Marquis Sues Washington State Re Enforcement of Election Law

Steve Marquis is not an attorney but he is a man of courage. He just contacted me regarding his pro se (without counsel) law suit against Washington State regarding the State's refusal to enforce its own laws and the Constitution regarding Barack Obama's candidacy.

Documents concerning his case are here. According to Marquis's summary of key points, "the government agencies that should be assuring the veracity of our electoral process have failed to do so in regards to an outstanding question of Mr. Obama’s Citizenship...The FEC has not responded to petitioners requests for an evaluation and certification of Mr. Obama’s claim to being a 'natural born citizen.'

"The WA State Secretary of States office has not responded to petitioners requests for an evaluation and certification of Mr. Obama’s claim to being a Native born Citizen. FOI requests to Hawaii Department of Health for a certified copy of his birth certificate or hospital birthing records have gone unheeded.

"Demands for access to or certified copies of those salient documents in a Federal court case were rejected in court arguments by Mr. Obama. Rather than diffuse the question by delivering the documents, he instead argued for dismissal based on “standing” or “right to know”. This stalling and obfuscation only adds weight to the speculation that he does not possess the documents that would prove status as a “natural born citizen” as the constitution demands of a presidential candidate.

"The Secretary of State is responsible for executing an election process that lends confidence to the veracity and fairness of the process and the ballot. While there are specific statutory responsibilities, this general responsibility is established by the constitution and is overarching.

"This involves verifying the status of voters through a proper verifiable registration process, certifying the candidates and the tally.
His office is responsible for the ballots themselves. Even though we have some federal candidates listed on the ballot, it is not a federal ballot, but a state ballot executed under the secretary of States prevue and sanction.

"The presidential office is unique in that we do not vote specifically for the president in a nation wide plebiscite, rather we vote to send state representatives called electors pledged for a particular presidential candidate. The WA State Secretary of State is clearly responsible for the state electors and by extension the name on the ballot they are pledged to represent.

"The electors, depending on a particular states constitution, may be “winner take all, proportionally represented or even uncommitted altogether - on the honor system. This underscores the point that we are voting for state electors in a state election so that these state representatives can project the state i.e. regional power to the electoral college.

"If we waited for “after the election” to challenge a candidate’s basic qualifications in court rather than ahead of time in an orderly manner through application which demands minimal documentation by the candidates or at least in the case of particular candidates that have been challenged by citizen complains, such an after the fact challenge would most certainly create a constitutional crisis an likely civil unrest. Which civil unrest would be due to wholesale loss of confidence in the veracity of the electoral process. In particular the FEC and the respective Offices of the States Secretaries of State would be impugned for their dereliction of their constitutional duties, which duties are commonly expected by the people to be carried out transparently.

Mr. Marquis's press release follows:

"FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

"Contact: Steve Marquis
Telephone Number: 425-698-7084
Email Address: peoplesvoice@peoplespassions.org
Web site address: http://peoplespassions.org/peoplesvoice/peoplesvoice.html

"Averting a Crisis in Confidence; Citizen files Lawsuit Against Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed demanding verification of Barack Obama’s citizenship status.

"Seattle WA. 10/9/2008 — Steven Marquis, a resident of Fall City WA today filed suit in Washington State Superior Court against Secretary of State Sam Reed demanding verification of Barack Obama’s citizenship status.

"The complaint seeks specifically that the office of the Washington Secretary of State verify and certify that Mr. Obama is or is not a "natural born" citizen by producing original or certified verifiable official documents. The lawsuit argues that this certification should take place before the election to preclude a constitutional crisis and likely civil unrest should such certification, after the election, prove that Mr. Obama was not qualified for office.

"The Complaint argues that the Secretary of State has the authority and duty to not only certify the voters but also and most importantly the candidates and in so doing prevent the wholesale disenfranchisement of voters who would had had an opportunity to choose from qualified candidates had the certification preceded the election process.

"At this point, Mr. Obama has not allowed independent or official access to his birth records nor supporting hospital records. The Hawaii Health Department has violated Federal law by ignoring formal Freedom of Information requests for the same. Due to the facts and numerous other allegations that would challenge Mr. Obama’s fundamental qualifications for office, a Federal lawsuit was filed and is currently being heard in District Court, Pennsylvania.

"Mr. Obama failed to respond to the District Court’s request to produce or allow access to the official documents (should they exist) and instead filed a motion to dismiss arguing the Plaintiff had no “standing” or right to know. This non-response as of 9/24/2008 in Federal court casts doubt on the veracity of the electoral system and is the principal reason for this lawsuit. The late entry of this suit is due in principal part to Mr. Obama’s delay and subsequent non response to reasonable request for valid certificates. Multiple requests for early certification to the Office of the Secretary of State has been rejected.

"[clarification: The district court process itself demands a response from Mr. Obama. When a complaint is filed, the defendant has an opportunity to respond to the judge regarding the plaintiffs request for a preliminary injunction. Obama did respond, but not with the requested documentation, not even minimally so. He responded with a motion for dismissal based on “standing” rather than the merits of the case]

"The Washington Secretary of State Office is specifically charged with certifying and guaranteeing the veracity of official documents and overseeing the elections to wit the people’s confidence in the fundamental aspect of democracy is maintained. To date, in this regard, Secretary of State Sam Reed has not carried out that fundamental duty.

"This lawsuit demands injunctive relief directing Sam Reed, Secretary of State, carry out the duty of his office in this regard answering the formal complaints for verification of Mr. Obama and any other candidate appearing on the ballots issues through his office for which formal complaints have been received.

"Interested Parties may contact Plaintive as follows:
Contact: Steve Marquis
Telephone Number: 425-698-7084
Email Address: peoplesvoice@peoplespassions.org
Web site address: http://peoplespassions.org/peoplesvoice/peoplesvoice

Andy Martin Sues Hawaii For BOCOLB

BOCOLB: Barack Obama's Certificate of Life Birth. I just received a message from Andy Martin that analyses from my blog are to be exhibits on his legal brief regarding the Obama birth certificate. See:

http://mitchell-langbert.blogspot.com/2008/07/is-hawaii-manipulating-obama-related.html

http://mitchell-langbert.blogspot.com/2008/08/letter-to-governor-linda-lingle-r-hi-re.html

http://mitchell-langbert.blogspot.com/2008/07/additional-correspondence-re-obama.html

http://mitchell-langbert.blogspot.com/2008/07/searching-for-descendants-of-mary.html

Andy Martin has just issued this press release:

Honolulu lawsuit filed to open Obama's secret birth records
Obama steadfastly refuses to allow access to official sources
Andy Martin in Hawaii takes legal action to seek the truth and ferret out the facts about Barack Obama's family history

ANDY MARTIN
Executive Editor
ContrarianCommentary.com

"Factually Correct, Not
Politically Correct"

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

OBAMA NEMESIS ANDY MARTIN SUES IN HAWAIISTATE COURTS TO OPEN BARACK OBAMA'S SECRET BIRTH RECORDS

"WHY IS BARACK OBAMA OBSTRUCTING ACCESS TO HIS BIRTH RECORDS," ANDY MARTIN ASKS, "ALONG WITH OBSTRUCTING ACCESS TO COLLEGE RECORDS AND OTHER ESSENTIAL INFORMATION ABOUT HIS PAST? IS THIS THE KIND OF PRESIDENT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT? SOMEONE AFRAID TO TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT HIMSELF? HE'S SCARY."

(HONOLULU, HI)(October 17, 2008) Obama nemesis and author Andy Martin filed suit in the First Circuit Court in Honolulu today seeking a court order to open Barack Obama's secret birth records.

"One of Obama's most controversial and contentious issues that he has allowed to fester for years is the question of his birth certificate," says Martin. "Obama has posted at least two versions, maybe more, of a 'certificate' on the Internet.

"I want to see a certified copy issued by the State of Hawaii, not one issued by the State of Obama. Why Obama won't allow direct access to his birth records is beyond me. But the closer we get to discovering the truth about Obama the more we understand why he is terrified of that truth.

"What is Obama hiding? Frankly, after being in Hawaii and conducting our first round of interviews, we think we have a clearer picture of what Obama is concealing, and why. We have more research and interviews to conduct before we can announce our opinions.

"In the meantime, I filed a lawsuit against the State of Hawaii to require the state to open Obama's birth records. The Governor and Director of the Department of Health are named as defendants.

"The case has been docketed as number 08-1-2147-10 and assigned to Circuit Judge Bert Ayabe.

"We will distribute copies of the lawsuit at a Saturday morning news conference, as well as making them available on a limited basis Friday evening upon written request. We will hold the Saturday morning news conference in front of the courthouse to provide additional information.

"Friday evening I will be available by cell phone from AlaMoanaBeachPark.

"We will issue a news release later Friday with details of Saturday's news conference.

"The basic question remains: why is Obama trying to hide his life from birth to adulthood from the American people? Interestingly, we think we also know now why he has virtually imprisoned his white grandmother and refuses to allow her to appear in public. Who is the man behind Obama's mask? I think my book 'Obama: The Man Behind The Mask' is aptly titled.

"Next week, we believe we will be in a position to remove Obama's mask and confront him with the truth about who he is and what he is.

"One TV news network has already tentatively scheduled a conference in New York on our return."

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Are Banks' Problems a Mortgage Meltdown? Or a Derivatives Meltdown? Two, Two, Two Excuses in One!

One thing I have learned after nine years in the corporate world, a few years consulting and 18 years teaching business in college is that it is difficult to understand someone else's business. In the recent discussion about a number of banks' financial problems I have heard that this was a "sub-prime crisis". The banks lent exhuberantly and to low income borrowers to whom they were pressured to lend, and the result was widespread defaults.

Today, the Belmont Club writes that the Washington Post now blames the banks' problems on derivatives trading. Which is it? Mortgages? Derivatives trading? I guess the banks, like the old Certs candy commercials, have two, two, two crises in one.

The Washington Post's familiar solution is of course regulation. But would regulators do a competent job? For regulation to work, the regulator must be smarter than the profit-maximizing investment banker. The question is whether reasonable, ethical, and profit maximizing bankers would have lost the money they have lost. If the answer is yes, then I'm not sure that regulators would have done much better. If the answer is no, then the problem is not regulation. Criminal, enforcement rather than better regulation is needed. Moreover, bankers already have a legal fiduciary duty to ensure the ongoing viability of their banks and to maximize profits. They obviously violated that "regulation". Why would a more esoteric form of regulation fare better? And why would government, which cannot even manage an election competently, be good at overseeing the esoteric world of credit swaps?

The pathology of Progressivism is that even where they do not understand the implications of their proposals, Progressives aggressively argue for them. The proposals inevitably involve expanding the state's powers, and the state then becomes the source of more severe problems than it solves. It is likely that the banks' current problems (and they are the banks' problems, not America's problems) are due to pressure from government, e.g., a form of regulation, to extend loans to low income borrowers who could not afford to repay the loans. Alternatively, and probably even more true, the problems are due to bad ethics on the bankers' part.

The article states:

"Derivatives did not trigger what has erupted into the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression. But their proliferation, and the uncertainty about their real values, accelerated the recent collapses of the nation's venerable investment houses and magnified the panic that has since crippled the global financial system."

The authors note that AIG suffered a loss due to derivatives, but they do not seem to know how much of a loss, just that it was attributable to $440 billion in mortgage swaps. Was three percent in default? Twenty percent? If AIG does not know, then why was AIG in the business? And if the reporters don't know, why do they claim to know what the solution is to a problem that they do not understand? I would not trust a physician who does not know whether I had a stomach virus or a heart attack and prescribes me medication anyway.

Markets are capable of evaluating and punishing banks that engage in excessively risky behavior better than regulators are at assessing what risks banks ought to take. Markets are attempting to do that, but President Bush and Congress have decided not to let the markets work and to let AIG and other financial institutions fail. If banks fail, the government ought to protect depositors, but they ought not to support incompetent investment decisions and bad ethics.

The media is discussing this issue without providing facts, and then offering specific solutions that are not based on evidence. Perhaps the Washington Post should provide their reporters with packs of Certs, and leave it at that.

New Mexican ACORN Voter Fraud

Ace of Spades HQ (h/t Larwyn)quotes a GOP Press Release that alleges that ACORN committed massive voter fraud in New Mexico:

Obama’s ACORN Must Be Shut Down Before Election, All Activities Investigated

(Albuquerque, NM) – Public records released in New Mexico today confirm that fraudulent voter registrations are in fact turning into fraudulent votes. ACORN, currently under investigation by the FBI, is now confirmed to be responsible for producing fraudulent voter registrations and illegal votes in New Mexico. An inspection of public records has revealed that illegal votes were cast in New Mexico’s 2008 primary election.

“This is a bombshell. We now have undeniable proof that a significant number of fraudulent voters were cast in Democrat primary races for the New Mexico state legislature as a result of ACORN’s voter registration fraud,” remarked State Representative Justine Fox Young (R-Albuquerque). “No longer can ACORN argue that their phony voter registration forms don’t translate into fraudulent votes. They do and today we can prove it.”

"It is safe to say that the number of illegal votes being cast dwarfs the 366 votes that decided the 2000 Presidential election in New Mexico,” said Nina Martinez, Secretary for the Republican Party of New Mexico. “Barack Obama contributed $832,000 to ACORN, organized an ACORN subsidiary, represented them as their attorney, trained some of their members and received ACORN’s endorsement. Obama should withdraw his financial support from ACORN and come clean about what he knows of their activities. Every fraudulent vote cancels out an honest vote. We must ensure the integrity of this year’s election.”