Threats to Veteran Who Challenges Obama Birth

Obama Attorney Threatens Distinguished Veteran on Obama Birth Certificate 
Issue: Why?

Guest Column  |  By Margaret Calhoun Hemenway  |  April 15, 2009

[Editors note: Barack Obamas lawyer, Robert F. Bauer, is threatening a 
D.C. attorney with sanctions, because the attorney is simply requesting 
that Obama show proof of his birth. No legalize on our part. No 
exaggeration. No political manipulation. Just the facts in black and 
white. We have the shocking letter dated April 3. The president of the 
United States is threatening sanctions  and the word sanctions is used in 
the threat -- against attorney John Hemenway. Read on.]

After the flippant dismissal by U.S. Circuit Court Judge James Robertson 
of the lawsuit to attempt to determine whether Barack Obama is 
constitutionally eligible to serve as President, D.C. attorney John 
Hemenway received a letter from a lawyer representing Barack Obama and Joe 
Biden, his Vice President.  (Hemenway had joined the suit launched by 
Hillary Clinton's ally, Philip Berg, the former Deputy Attorney General of 
Pennsylvania and attorney Lawrence Joyce of Arizona, in an attempt to 
force President Obama to disclose his birth records, currently being 
protected against public scrutiny by the Obama legal team at a reported 
cost of as much as one million dollars.)  The entire letter, written by 
Obama attorney Robert F. Bauer, states the following (and we note that 
there is no reference in this letter to an existing valid Birth 
Certificate for Barack Obama, as opposed to a Certificate of Live Birth, 
and there is no claim that a valid Birth certificate exists which can be 
shown to the American people, an act that immediately would shut down this 
query):

I represent President Barack Obama and Vice President Joseph Biden. I 
write to request that, in light of the District Courts March 24, 2009 Rule 
11 order in Hollister v. Soetoro, No. 08-2254, you withdraw the appeal 
filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, No. 
09-5080. For the reasons stated in Judge Robertsons order, the suit is 
frivolous and should not be pursued.

Should you decline to withdraw this frivolous appeal, please be informed 
that we intend to pursue sanctions, including costs, expenses, and 
attorneys fees, pursuant to federal Rule Appellate Procedure 38 and D.C. 
Circuit Rule 38.

Mr. Hemenway's response to the letter was a promise to "write and protest 
and attack those against the demand that Obama show proof of his birth, 
and I will continue to do anything I can think of doing that might perhaps 
deter or injure those who are opposed to transparency and openness and 
honesty in governmental operationsall those good and vague promises that 
Obama threw out in speeches read from his teleprompter."

Mr. Hemenway added, "The lawyer for Obama, Robert Bauer, has abused his 
privileges as an attorney, because I can regard his premature (and totally 
inaccurate) threats to seek some sanction against me as a threat to keep 
me from performing my duty to my client.  It wont work and he will soon 
see that it has not worked to intimidate me."  In his opinion, "many 
judges and other officials are simply crassly violating their oaths of 
office.  Since I had been in the Department of State and served in Moscow 
for two years, I am mindful of an expression used by the Russians: Nada 
dakazat kulak!  (You must show them your fist!)"

Hemenway also pledged:

to appeal the slap taken at me (the so-called reprimand) by Judge James 
Robertson who tried unsuccessfully to label our efforts as frivolous but 
who did not have the guts to sanction me under Rule 11.  (This would have 
given meand others engaged in this important battle standing in the Court 
of Appeals.)  I will do my duty to Colonel Hollister, who technically is a 
client, even though I never agreed initially to follow the case in the 
Court of Appeals.  The military, as Colonel Hollister's interest 
demonstrates, is quite concerned with the basic issue of legal and illegal 
orders originating from a legitimate or illegitimate commander-in-chief. 
Recall that Judge Robertson never did admit attorneys Berg or Joyce to 
practice in his court, never had a hearing and never examined evidence 
because he didn't seek any.  The Judge gave the impression that his 
decision was predicated solely on blogging and twittering.

For the many others who have contacted him and expressed interest in this 
cause, Hemenway invoked Churchill's admonition:  If a matter of principle 
is involved in a course of action, then never give upnever  never  never. 
The most important part of that quote is the matter of principle.  It was 
not just a display of the stubborn nature of Churchill.  Following that 
advice, we can see that here, we have a grave matter of principle.

If Obama can break such a basic, fundamental rule of the Constitution, 
then what is to keep him from ignoring or suspending other basic rights, 
such as the Writ of Habeas Corpus?

Last, Hemenway points out: Mr. Bauer claims his father was an attorney in 
Vienna who opposed the union with Germany (the so-called Anschluss) and 
promoted anti-Nazi political movements while he was in Austria.   He says 
his father left Austria in 1940.  Very few people left greater Germany 
after 1939, when the war started.  In any event, if Bauer's background 
includes such a family history of opposition to anti-rule-of-law monsters, 
how does he explain his support for this Chicago-styled conspiracy to 
violate a basic requirement of the United States Constitution?

FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Margaret Calhoun Hemenway is 
a retired federal employee, having served fifteen years in the U.S. 
Congress and five years as a White House appointee at DoD and NASA.

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