Wednesday, April 27, 2011

The ministry of truth says no

Well, it looks like the ministry of truth and information in Hawaii, has closed the door on any further inquiries into the president's birth records.

Hawaii slams the door
With billionaire and possible GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump ratcheting interest in Barack Obama's Hawaiian birth documentation to its highest level ever, the State of Hawaii is suddenly enforcing a policy that no one – not even the president of the United States – can obtain a copy of his own birth certificate from the state's Department of Health. 


Although the policy of denying the public access to copies of long-form original hospital birth certificates was announced in 2001, it wasn't enforced for years. But with Trump's recent pointed questioning of the circumstances of Obama's birth – and whether he was even born in America – Hawaii officials have apparently determined that the long-overlooked state procedure now requires enforcement.
A simple questions seems to beg the asking. Since when can a state deny access to official birth records on any individual born in that state? And since when can laws be passed by states that assert that an individual is only entitled to information on their own birth,  as the state deems proper?

The fact that Hawaii or any other state can somehow deny any person access to their own birth records, screams of impropriety and a violation of individual rights. But this is a case that won't be pursued any time in the near future. Especially not by this president. 

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