Thursday, January 7, 2016

Ted Cruz More of a Natural Born Citizen Than Obama




I contended back in the early stages of Barack Obama’s presidency that he was not a natural born citizen.  A natural born citizen has nothing to do with ones place of birth, but rather the condition of his father.  Obama’s father was a Kenyan nationalist and a Muslim.  This man held no allegiance to the United States, as a matter of fact; this man espoused an anti-colonialist viewpoint that was outright hostile to Western countries.  Some have made the case that Barack Obama is his father’s son.  Here is an excerpt from an article written by Dinesh D’Souza published at Forbes.com:

The climax of Obama’s narrative is when he goes to Kenya and weeps at his father’s grave. It is riveting: “When my tears were finally spent,” he writes, “I felt a calmness wash over me. I felt the circle finally close. I realized that who I was, what I cared about, was no longer just a matter of intellect or obligation, no longer a construct of words. I saw that my life in America–the black life, the white life, the sense of abandonment I’d felt as a boy, the frustration and hope I’d witnessed in Chicago–all of it was connected with this small piece of earth an ocean away, connected by more than the accident of a name or the color of my skin. The pain that I felt was my father’s pain.”

In an eerie conclusion, Obama writes that “I sat at my father’s grave and spoke to him through Africa’s red soil.” In a sense, through the earth itself, he communes with his father and receives his father’s spirit. Obama takes on his father’s struggle, not by recovering his body but by embracing his cause. He decides that where Obama Sr. failed, he will succeed. Obama Sr.’s hatred of the colonial system becomes Obama Jr.’s hatred; his botched attempt to set the world right defines his son’s objective. Through a kind of sacramental rite at the family tomb, the father’s struggle becomes the son’s birthright.

That explains a lot.  Barack Obama has a vision of transforming the United States.  He has done it by alienating our traditional allies and embracing our implacable foes.  This man has acted more like an African dictator than a president of the United States.  He has bypassed Congress by using the federal bureaucracy and with the use of executive actions.  Dreams from my father, indeed.  

Let’s contrast that with Senator Ted Cruz’s father.  In 1957, Rafael Cruz fled from Cuba to the United States where he was granted asylum.  He later moved to Canada in the late 1960’s where he owned a business along with his American wife.  They moved back to Texas in 1974.  Mr. Cruz became a naturalized American citizen in 2005.  Anyone who has listened to Rafael Cruz knows this man has embraced the American creed and has a profound love for the United States and its Constitution, as does his son, Ted Cruz.  Again, the son has followed the conditions of his father.  Here is an excerpt from Vattel’s, The Law of Nations:   

THE LAW OF NATIONS

212. Citizens and Nations

The citizens are the members of the civil society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives, or natural born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. As the society cannot exist and perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of citizens, THOSE CHILDREN NATURALLY FOLLOW THE CONDITIONS OF THEIR FATHERS, and served to all of their rights. The society is supposed to desire this, IN CONSEQUENCE OF WHAT IT OWES TO ITS OWN PRESERVATION; and it is presumed as matter, that each citizen, on entering into society; reserves to his children the right of becoming members of it. THE COUNTRY OF THE FATHER IS THEREFORE THAT OF THE CHILDREN; and these become true citizens merely by tacit consent. We shall soon see whether, on their coming of the years of discretion, they may renounce their right, and what they owe society in which they were born. I SAY IN THAT ORDER TO BE OF THE COUNTRY, IT IS NECESSARY THAT A PERSON BE BORN OF A FATHER WHO IS A CITIZEN, IF HE IS BORN THERE OF A FOREIGNER, IT WILL BE ONLY THE PLACE OF HIS BIRTH, AND NOT HIS COUNTRY.


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