Posted on 10/04/2010 11:30:46 AM PDT by Red Steel
The American Patriot Foundation is pleased to announce that LTC Lakin has repositioned his forces, has retained new legal counsel, and is extremely grateful that the Foundation will be dedicating the critical next few weeks before his planned court-martial on November 3-5, to focusing entirely on public affairs, strategic communications/messaging and coalition-building and that their support will continue seamlessly as the new attorney prepares for trial.
The website of the Foundation is being re-designed to reflect this new focus and emphasis. Contrary to the impression left by some blogs and internet commentary, LTC Lakin is consistent in continuing on the same path that he announced publicly six months ago when he released his first YouTube video-- and consistent with his military training, to continue to request assurance from Pentagon leadership that his military orders, including his deployment orders to Afghanistan, are legal-- authorized at the highest level by a Commander-in-Chief who is Constitutionally eligible, per Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution. As a medical officer and not a lawyer or Constitutional scholar, LTC Lakin is not laying claim to be the sole arbiter of the President's Constitutionality in attempting to determine, without any genuine evidence to make such a determination, the President's "natural born" citizen status. The burden of proof rests solely on Barack Obama to demonstrate to the American people and to the U.S. Armed Forces that he commands, that he is lawfully serving in his current capacity as head of the Executive Branch of the federal government.
The Army prosecutors have made this determination of the Commander-in-Chief's eligibility under the Constitution impossible-- by denying discovery- and essentially denying LTC Lakin the customary due process rights that defendants in American courts enjoy when facing criminal charges, and in LTC Lakin's case, a jail sentence of several years at Fort Leavenworth prison.
The Foundation is pleased to continue to support LTC Lakin, a decorated and outstanding officer with 18 years of service in the Army, as he persists in his pursuit of the truth, the rule of law, and in support of his sworn oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution. Terry is gratified by the many people who have stayed in constant touch with him through the website and deeply appreciates their support, their guidance and suggestions, and their prayers.
ME: Say, guys did you hear our current president is in violation of Article II?
FOUNDERS: Ah well, that's really just in there as a political issue. All we meant was that a President should meet those requirements unless a bunch of politicians and citizens don't really feel like paying attention. Don't think of your president as "violating" anything; just think of him and his cronies as merely representing a different political view than your own. Next election, maybe you could try to find politicians who feel like actually tying themselves down to the casually written views of the constitution and try to get them elected through the ballot box. Remember, the true law of the land is whatever the people who are popularly elected say about the constitution and whether it should be followed. That old parchment is not binding in any way; it only represents one political view from among a broad spectrum of other equally legitimate political views.
Thank you for re-posting this so important information, and please continue to do so to force back all the DOJ Holder’s “Benedict Arnolds” brigade here down into the RAT whole where they belong!!!
Of course not, since no court has asked to see it, just like no other court ever asked to see any other president's document.
Which isn't the same thing as saying he was born there.
From a legal prespective, yes it is.
I'm not sure we can rule out whether these people have met Obama or not. As far as members of his family, it's certainly possible they know his Kenyan family members. As for it being an account, it IS on record.
Sure it's a record, but it is only credible if you can show these MP's are in a position to know anything about his birth.
These stories were published prior to Obama running for president, so they can't be blamed on so-called birthers or malicious falsehoods.
No, but they can be very easily blamed on sloppy journalists who didn't do their research. Given that none of these journalists ever cited a source, these reports have no credibility.
They have as much credibility as any publicized birth claim, since there is no legal documentation to support Obama's nativity claims.
Sure there is. Pictures of the document have been posted online, and Hawaii's public health director confirms that the state's records show he was born in Hawaii.
Minor v. Happersett "... all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners."
LOL. There you go again, taking the Minor case out of context. Do I have to remind you, for the fiftieth time, of what the next sentence says?
Col. where does the command order stop upline when order soldiers to war. At Pentagon or below or the W.H. (C-i-C)???
Hawaii Officials Lie For Obama
And
According to “judge” Lind the chain-of-command starts at the Pentagon.
WRONG!
As one of the retired geenerals is saying that Ltc. Lakin was trained to defend and uphold the CONSTITUTION!!
That what he is doing, and he brought this questions up to his superior long before receiving marching orders with NO response, so he is following his personal conscious to the letter, nothing to do with political!!!
Is the Constitution to be followed or NOT???
Yes, but that’s very easy, we know who you all are!!!
WOW, that post really need to receive a FReeper "Cod-fish-reward"!!!
Nice dodge. It was your argument that a hard copy of Obama's alleged COLB would be legal evidence in court. Now you're trying to brag that it doesn't have to be shown, which undermines your previous argument. If he has legal evidence, let's see it. He doesn't have to fight showing it to a court.
From a legal prespective, yes it is.
Dude, you're arguing with yourself now. You just copied your own reply to me and argued against it.
Sure it's a record, but it is only credible if you can show these MP's are in a position to know anything about his birth.
Well, no, that's not the only thing that makes them credible.
No, but they can be very easily blamed on sloppy journalists who didn't do their research. Given that none of these journalists ever cited a source, these reports have no credibility.
If you throw them out, then you also need to throw out the journalists who claim Obama was born in Hawaii who didn't have a credible source. The difference is that most of the latter claims came AFTER Obama was in a position to benefit from the claim.
Sure there is. Pictures of the document have been posted online, and Hawaii's public health director confirms that the state's records show he was born in Hawaii.
The pictures have not been confirmed as representing a valid or legal COLB by the issuing agency. Chiyome Fukino has refused to say so despite having statutory authority ... and she did NOT confirm that any state records show that Obama was born in Hawaii. She referred to unspecified records; not any specific STATE record.
LOL. There you go again, taking the Minor case out of context. Do I have to remind you, for the fiftieth time, of what the next sentence says?
It's not out of context, mister argues-with-himself. The next sentence doesn't change anything, other than the court REJECTING any other definition as applying to NBC. Further, the court used that definition to make its plaintiff a natural born citizen, which was affirmed by the WKA decision.
Interesting, so General McCrystal “actually” asked Pentagon for 40,000 more troops, NOT when he met Baracka Hussein Abu Amama on board AF1 at Kastrup Air Port. And Pentagon the ONLY to approve that request, but they settled for 30,000 and this without asking the usurper???
This a good one. Allowing/proving that neither public birth records or public SS cards/numbers are invalid there is no public record to show the guy has any proper credentials. A lot of smart people were certainly bamboozled by a talker. Only thing is that many more have seen their dream of the USA go up in smoke with mirrors.
The Obots would like everyone to "believe" that fairy tale.
A snippet from the Writ of Mandamus that was filed to the Army Court of Criminal Appeals.
You'll notice in the excerpt above that Obama in quotes is stating that it was he who approved the additional 30,000 troops for Afghanistan shorting General McCrystal's request by about 10 grand.
Dude, you're arguing with yourself now. You just copied your own reply to me and argued against it.
Hahahaaaahaaha.....Now that's funny.
This is what you would like it to be about. But, on its face, this is about disobeying direct orders of immediate superior officers. That's the issue before the court and the court seems to be making it quite clear that it will limit its proceedings to that issue alone.
Your view would be a distinct minority one among Regular Army Officers. Reserve component officers, on the other hand, adhere to a slightly different standard. As citizen soldiers, they can and often do have both a political life and a military life. Many politicians have also held military commissions. However, even in these cases, care must be taken to separate the two. Lakin has taken the step of trying to make his military service the issue that will force the nation to deal with with Presidential eligibility. The military legal system is not going to get dragged into this.
He REFUSED the commission. That was a political refusal.
LTC Lakin is upholding his sworn oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America. To do anything less would be dishonorable.
Since not a single Constitutional Officer of the United States has challenged the legitimacy of the President, I think that your argument doesn’t hold water. The order that he received were legal and he was bound by oath to follow them. That’s what the court will find, I predict.
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