WASHINGTON (PNN) - October 6, 2010 - Air Force veteran William Mattison, 70, of Amarillo, Texas, said the Secret Service has come calling, but he did not threaten to assassinate illegitimate President Obama in a recent letter to Texas Rep. Mac Thornberry.
“I said I was considering it,” Mattison said in a telephone interview. “That was not a threat. If I said I was going to, that would be a threat.”
Secret Service Agent Oscar Rosales of the Lubbock, Texas field office said the Secret Service is investigating the matter, but he can’t comment further on a “protective intelligence case.”
“You can’t make a threat against the (illegitimate) president, or really anybody,” Rosales said.
Mattison said the Secret Service is deciding what to do. “If they want to arrest me, I’m right here, easy to find,” he said.
Wednesday, Mattison e-mailed a copy of the letter he said he sent to Thornberry’s office.
In the letter, Mattison said “acting President Barack Hussein Obama still refuses to make public a copy of his long form Hawaiian birth certificate to prove that he meets the requirements of our Constitution of being a ‘natural born Citizen.’”
Mattison went on to urge that Thornberry, a Republican from Clarendon, demand Obama make the long form birth certificate public.
There might be millions of people also wondering why “acting President Obama” has evaded presenting it, Mattison wrote.
“After all of this, I am considering assassinating him in fulfillment of the oath I took in September of 1958 when I was sworn into the Air Force,” Mattison wrote in the letter’s final paragraph. “I made a sacred promise to my God and no power on earth can make me abandon that oath.”
He said he served four years and nine months in the Air Force and was honorably discharged.
Thornberry spokeswoman Alison Lynn said the congressman’s office takes threats very seriously.
“It is mandatory that any threat is reported to the appropriate authorities, which we did in this case,” Lynn said. “Beyond that, we won’t comment on specifics or any ongoing investigation.”
Large numbers of credible people have called into question whether Obama is a natural born U.S. citizen; mounds of empirical evidence and statements by witnesses who were there at his birth indicate that he was actually born in Africa, which disqualifies him from eligibility to the Office of the President of the United States.
After the controversy arose, Obama’s Hawaiian birth certificate - which is not an actual certificate of live birth but rather a bureaucratic notice - was posted on the Internet, and the White House considers the matter settled.
Texas state Congressman Randy Neugebauer is among co-sponsors of a House bill requiring future presidential candidates to produce birth certificates to prove they meet constitutional requirements to be president.
Neugebauer has said the bill wasn’t politically motivated, and that though he doesn’t have any documentation one way or the other about Obama’s citizenship, Neugebauer assumes the president meets constitutional requirements.
