When zip codes were assigned, 06184 was reserved for military
To the editor,
I always get a twinkle in my eye when someone attempts a rebuttal but provides no evidence for their own claim. In regards to William Lolli's claim on the 19th that there was no zip code 06184 in 1977 he offers no evidence of that. There's no butt in his rebuttal! Like many conservative debators, he backs up nothing or just lies "for the good of the cause". Because he says its so, then it must be so. What evidence? No 1977 zip code lists or anything else. If I am wrong, Mr Lolli should present more than coffin air.
The fact of the matter is that when zip codes were first assigned in 1963, the zip 06184 was set aside as many were for the military mail service. Zip 06184 is an APO/FPO#. Danbury proper was 06180 and over the years more were added but the APO# zip code was not one.
It should also be noted that since 1972 it was the first 3 digits that were used as general area locators so the last two number really didn't matter at all. So when the error occurred, whether by Obama or a clerk in confusing 961 for 061, the young Obama got a Social Security number with a "general locator" number for CT. The SSA is adamant that the three numbers are just a reference point ; that there is nothing that makes it a mandatory rule. Birther pawns act otherwise.
With two of Honolulu's newspapers announcing the boy's birth, combined with an official birth certificate and the State of Hawaii's Certificate of Live Birth which many high officials have seen in person, the entire birther zip code conspiracy theory seems like a concoction from a special-ed Kinderegarten sandbox. It's all meaningless and leads nowhere. Even when Clinton was president the wingnuts threw eight years of tantrums. Its the right wing way.
Who is the one who is actually foreign born? Being that John McCain was born in Panama, how is he a natural born citizen as Article 2 demands? How does he qualify as a natural born citizen when he was not born here? According to the State Department Foreign Affairs Manual, U.S. government installations abroad are NOT part of the United States. So by that reasoning, McCain is not natural born.
But alas! According to the Congressional Research Service, the weight of scholarly legal and historical opinion indicates that the term means one who is entitled under the Constitution or laws of the United States to U.S. citizenship at birth or by birth, including any child born "in" the United States, the children of United States citizens born abroad, and those born abroad of one citizen parent who has met U.S. residency requirements.
There are laws supporting this opinion by scholars. The first law was passed in 1790 and sought to define natural born citizens. This is the same Congress that crafted the Bill of Rights. The Naturalisation Act of 1790 provided that "the children of citizens of the United States that may be born beyond the sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born citizens: Provided, That the right of citizenship shall not descend to persons whose fathers have never been resident in the United States". (Act of March 26th, 1790, 1 Stat. 103) Later on as in Title 8, Section 1401, natural born laws included children of citizen mothers or any one parent.
McCain saved! Laws have changed language over the years but the basic law of 1790 set the foundation to why John McCain could be considered naturally born. Strictly speaking in "birther", McCain (and George Romney in 1968) is not a natural born citizen and is not qualified to be president. But the law says otherwise. If our Hawaiian born President had been born overseas as John McCain was, he would have been afforded the same rights to natural born citizenship as McCain. The President could have been born on the Moon!
Title 8, Section 1401 defines who are "citizens of the United States at birth" One of the conditions besides being born on American soil which President Obama was, states,
"Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one year and the other parent is a U.S. national".President Obama twice meets the criteria. so even if you fall for the Birther nonsense about American soil, he meets the requirement of having a citizen mother and a national as a father. 1790, folks! No matter how you cut it, the birthers lose.
So you see, by birther "constitutionality", it should have been John McCain that was labeled foreign born.
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