Forget birthers, these wingnuts want to take the President’s citizenship away. Why? Because he won the Nobel Peace Prize. Republican Sen. Philip Reed of Maryland has introduced an amendment meant to strengthen the existing “emoluments clause” in Article I, Section 9, of the Constitution:

“If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive or retain any title of nobility or honour, or shall, without the consent of Congress accept and retain any present, pension, office or emolument of any kind whatever, from any emperor, king, prince or foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under them, or either of them.”

So, if he gets his way any Nobel Prize winner, Gulf War Vet (who likely has an OBE) and even lawyers are under the gun.

In the world of the Thirteenthers, though, it’s all a conspiracy, and the leading suspects are those shady characters who put “esquire” after their names. To quote the Web site Constitutional Concepts, “This Amendment was for the specific purpose of banning participation in government operations by attorneys and bankers who claimed the Title of Nobility of ‘Esquire.’ These people had joined the International Bar Association or the International Bankers Association and owed their allegiance to the King of England.”

Source:
newsweek.com