Posted on 04/04/2010 4:43:30 PM PDT by RobinMasters
A U.S. Army flight surgeon who posted a video indicating his complete rejection of all orders from the military unless Barack Obama documents his eligibility to occupy the Oval Office is now refusing an "unofficial" suggestion from the Army for a medical evaluation.
Lt. Col. Terry Lakin is the highest-ranking and first active-duty officer to refuse to obey orders based on President Obama's eligibility. WND reported this week the Army was hinting that Lt. Col Terry Lakin should undergo a brain scan and medical review.
A spokeswoman involved with the developing case said the recommendation was delivered to Lakin by an unnamed officer who implied those higher up the chain of command thought it was a good idea.
The suggestion was described to WND by spokeswoman Margaret Calhoun Hemenway, a veteran Washington appointee and now volunteer spokeswoman, as being presented in a "solicitous" manner.
Officially, the U.S. Army says it has no plans for formal action at this point against the officer. But Calhoun Hemenway told WND that Lakin's "no" meant "no."
"He is not taking any suggested medical evaluation or brain scan. He is refusing to obey all orders including deployment orders," she confirmed.
"It is interesting this suggestion of a medical exam should arise now given he was only a couple of weeks from deployment and obviously judged to be fit for deployment with his bags packed," she said.
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The Soviets used psychiatry as a tool.
The Soviet Union used to put dissenters in psychiatric hospitals, since “obviously” they had some sort of mental issue if they disagreed with the government...
CATCH-22
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one’s safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn’t, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn’t have to; but if he didn’t want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.
“The Soviet Union used to put dissenters in psychiatric hospitals, since “obviously” they had some sort of mental issue if they disagreed with the government...”
Learned something new today. Thanks Freepers!
More history repeating itself.
In you Eye, Mr. Zero.....
In you F’n Eye.....
What now, Bitches??????????
What now?
LOL
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The list, ping
Shades of the CCCP. If they speak out and question the glorious leader they must be mental cases. Drug them and confine them to a Mental Hospital.
I, (NAME), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.
Army OFFICER oath of Service:
I (insert name), having been appointed a (insert rank) in the U.S. Army under the conditions indicated in this document, do accept such appointment and do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter, so help me God.
The Difference being in the Word/entity “president”.......
“President Obama, I ask you to respect and uphold the Constitution. Be transparent and show your honesty and integrity.
Release your original, signed birth certificate, if you have one, thus proving your birth on American soil,
and thus assure the American people that you are lawfully eligible to hold the office of the presidency and serve as commander in chief of the Armed Forces.”
It is unconscionable that a CINC sends men and women off to fight and die in two wars,
knowing that just one of them might have doubts about his eligibility.
He could have put this question to bed years ago.
Instead , Barry stonewalls and ridicules anyone who wonders why he has his original long form birth certificate
and other “ vital records “ under seal by the state of Hawaii.
There's the problem. Obama is only the Resident, not the President.
see my post 12........
;-)
I admire his courage to follow his convictions, but methinks his military career is virtually over and he is about to be in a world of woe.
He know what he’s doing.
The moral equivalent of jumping on a grenade.
This reminds me of the way the military treated white women who complained of rape or molestation by black servicemen during the 1970s...
They sent them to the mental health clinic to get them “evaluated” in a kangaroo fashion and illegally processed them and kicked them out of the military as being “unfit”..no mention of the complaint..
There was no way for the women to fight a bad psychological evaluation..
Thus now they can boast of low numbers of complaints of sex crimes against women in that decade...
and no black on white crime,..
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The US Army still has a chain of command and Lieutenant Colonels don’t get orders from the Commander-in-Chief.
Now if Secretary of Defense Bob Gates, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen or Commander of US Central Command, General David Petraeus refused to take orders from Obama, then we’d be talking about something.
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