Hawaii considering a law to ignore any requests about Obama's birth cerificate

This is an issue that I have not forgotten about and I am sure many others are still wondering and want to know if the POTUS, Barack Hussein Obama has legal status to let him be POTUS. The state of Hawaii has refused to show us the 'real' birth certificate to put this issue to bed, once and for all. Now Hawaii is considering a law that the state House Judiciary Committee heard on Tuesday, a bill permitting government officials to ignore people who won’t give up. Hmm... Is this more 'transparency' like the mullah obamaham and his ilk practice in Washington D.C.? Hawaii is not a conservative state so this is really not a surprise. That said, this will not make this issue go away. It will have quite the opposite effect and add more fuel to this long simmering debate whether Barry meets the legal requirements as outlined in the Constitution to be POTUS.

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Hawaii considering law to ignore Obama 'birthers'

By MARK NIESSE

HONOLULU, My Way News - Birthers beware: Hawaii may start ignoring your repeated requests for proof that President Barack Obama was born here.

As the state continues to receive e-mails seeking Obama's birth certificate, the state House Judiciary Committee heard a bill Tuesday permitting government officials to ignore people who won't give up.

"Sometimes we may be dealing with a cohort of people who believe lack of evidence is evidence of a conspiracy," said Lorrin Kim, chief of the Hawaii Department of Health's Office of Planning, Policy and Program Development.

So-called "birthers" claim Obama is ineligible to be president because, they argue, he was actually born outside the United States, and therefore doesn't meet a constitutional requirement for being president.

Hawaii Health Director Dr. Chiyome Fukino issued statements last year and in October 2008 saying that she's seen vital records that prove Obama is a natural-born American citizen.

Are you satisfied with Dr. Fukino's answer?  Does it put your mind at ease? It Does not do anything for me.

But the state still gets between 10 and 20 e-mails seeking verification of Obama's birth each week, most of them from outside Hawaii, Kim said Tuesday.

A few of these requesters continue to pepper the Health Department with the same letters seeking the same information, even after they're told state law bars release of a certified birth certificate to anyone who does not have a tangible interest. Responding wastes time and money, Kim said.

Both Fukino and the state registrar of vital statistics have verified that the Health Department holds Obama's original birth certificate.

The issue coincides with Sunshine Week, when news organizations promote open government and freedom of information.

"Do we really want to be known internationally as the Legislature that blocked any inquiries into where President Obama was born?" asked Rep. Cynthia Thielen, R-Kaneohe-Kailua. "When people want to get more information, the way to fuel that fire is to say, 'We're now going to draw down a veil of secrecy.'"

Nobody at the hearing questioned the fact that the president was born in Hawaii.

Attorney Peter Fritz asked why the state would pass a law punishing repetitive requests for open records. Instead, the state could simply say it would only answer each person's question once.

If the measure passed, the state Office of Information Practices could declare an individual a "vexatious requester" and restrict rights to government records for two years.

The committee will schedule a vote on the measure, said Chairman Jon Riki Karamatsu, D-Waipahu-Waikele.

The measure is SB2937.

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Hawaii Legislature, http://capitol.hawaii.gov/

Hat tip: Texas Fred