Posted on 05/20/2010 11:35:49 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
On May 12, the American Patriot Foundation announced that there will be an Article 32 military hearing that may reveal whether President Barack Obama is a native-born citizen of the United States. The hearing is set for June 11, after Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin refused to deploy to Afghanistan “because the president refuses — even in the face of mounting evidence to the contrary — to prove his eligibility under the Constitution to hold office.”
The American Patriot foundation operates the Safeguard Our Constitution website, which generated a great deal of support for the movement for Obama to provide documentation proving his eligibility to serve as President. Those involved in the movement have been dubbed “birthers”, a term that has generally been met with contempt by the mainstream media and Obama supporters.
However, Lakin’s staunch insistence that Obama is responsible for proving his eligibility has gained some notoriety, even prompting CNN to provide media attention to the movement on Anderson Cooper’s program. On the show, both Lakin and his attorney, Paul Rolf Jensen, presented a series of facts to legitimatize their concerns.
The “certification of live birth” found on the Internet, which purports to prove that Obama was born in Hawaii, has been dismissed as valid proof, as it is a “short-form” document, as opposed to the “long-form” document that lists the hospital and attending physician. “Short-form” documents are easily obtainable. In addition to Obama’s missing birth certificate, other documentation that has been concealed includes kindergarten, elementary, and secondary school records; college records; Harvard Law Review articles; passport; medical records; Illinois State Bar Association records; baptism records; and adoption records.
The constitutional language in question is tricky, as it states that the president of the United States must be a “natural born citizen,” though the term has been undefined. Some argue the term means that the president must be born in the United States to two parents that were also born in the United States. If that proves to be the case, Obama would be disqualified, since he has openly admitted that his father never was a U. S. citizen. However, much of the legal challenge of Obama’s eligibility rests upon the presumption that Obama was not even born in Hawaii, as he claims.
As a result of Lakin’s oppositional failure to report to duty, charges have been filed against him. According to Safeguard Our Constitution, the charges against Lakin are serious and can result in “years of hard labor in a penitentiary,” but Lakin refuses to rescind his demands, as he asserts that serving in a military operation under an ineligible president is illegal. It is Lakin’s hope that the charges against him will lead to the discovery of information to prove or disprove Obama’s legitimacy, which is his ultimate objective.
In the past, however, this has not proven to be the case. Attorney John Hemenway was threatened with sanctions by a federal judge when he attempted to challenge Obama’s presidency. Hemenway welcomed the threat, however, as he believed it would lead to a “discovery hearing,” which would necessitate the search for documentation proving Obama’s eligibility. At that point, the court rescinded its sanction threats.
Any deployment orders filed under Obama that were met by questions of his eligibility have been rescinded. World Net Daily columnist Vox Day writes that this behavior suggests “that the Pentagon generals are not entirely confident that they can demonstrate the legitimacy of their purported commander-in-chief.”
According to World Net Daily, “Obama’s actual response to those who question his eligibility to be president under the Constitution’s requirement that the U.S. president to be a ‘natural born citizen’ has been to dispatch both private and tax-funded attorneys to prevent anyone from gaining access to his documentation.”
Lakin joins the ranks of Army doctor Capt. Connie Rhodes and Army reservist Maj. Stefan Cook, both who have also questioned Obama’s legitimacy, but Lakin remains the first-active duty officer to raise issue.
Additionally, recent ABC polls reveal that tens of millions of Americans question Obama’s eligibility, including many who are in favor of Obama.
In addition to the controversy over Obama’s birth certificate, World Net Daily’s Jerome Corsi reports that “two independent investigations by two different investigators in two different states (using two different data sources) discovered that the Social Security number used by Barack Obama mysteriously coincides with Social Security numbers verified to have been issued by the state of Connecticut between 1977 and 1979, a full two years after Obama’s first, publicly-documented record of employment at a Hawaii Baskin-Robbins back in 1975.” If this is true, not only is President Obama guilty of illegally accepting the presidency, but of identity theft as well.
Joseph Farah, founder of the World Net Daily, has launched a full-fledged campaign questioning Obama’s presidential legitimacy. A petition has been circulated, generating 500,000 signatures from those demanding proof of Obama’s eligibility, while yard signs, bumper stickers, and billboards are popping up asking “Where’s the birth certificate?”
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Can’t fish with dynamite, it’s dis-legal. LOL
Support for the cause? What "cause" is that, exactly.
The military is no place to make political statements. This is especially true of our commissioned officers.
I suppose you were all for those uniformed service members who sued George Bush and Don Rumsfeld for conducting an illegal war, right?
If this guy want to score political points, then he should resign his commission and start a blog or run for office. Otherwise, he should take a big drink of STFU, and start obeying lawful orders.
BTW, my opinion is reflective of virtually every career officer I have ever served with, many serving under Presidents that didn't vote for or particularly like or even respect as men. This is why, should Lakin not not seek an alternative disposition, he's going to get hammered at sentencing. Most of the officers on Lakin panel probably don't like Obama, and probably didn't vote for him, but they're not making political statements. Why is that?
Yeah, Yeah, and supposedly Steven Segal was a CIA man too..Anyone can claim that.
I’m in the camp that believes the mere production of a birth certificate doesn’t mean a thing, even if Obama was born in HI. The question of what constitutes a ‘natural born citizen’ should be taken up by the SCOTUS, whether now or down the line.
True, and I think you could have 100 eye witnesses stand up and testify, but I don't think the court - any court - including the SCOTUS, has the balls to rule that he is ineligible.
“Godspeed, Lakin.”
Agreed.
He seems like a man of extraordinary convictions. He took the risk of accepting dire consequences for his actions in order to have the opportunity to to argue for what he believes is right.
...my opinion is...
Your opinion is nothing more than blubbering if you can't prove the previous.
Why is that?
I can't speak for another and wouldn't presume to.
...reflective of virtually every career officer I have ever served with...
Most of the officers on Lakin panel probably don't like Obama, and probably didn't vote for him...
You, on the other hand, seem to take some pride in stating or assuming what other people think or do.
Orders are presumptively legal. If you had ever served, you might know that.
There is nothing illegal about an order to deploy. Again, this isn't complicated. Any officer, to especially include any line or legal officer could have told Lakin that. Unfortunately, he's a medical officer who has been given some incompetent legal advice, or he has refused competent legal advice all to make an political point. Either way, he's not the kind of officer the military wants or needs - one that compromises mission integrity for his own personal whims.
My perfect solution would be for Obama and Lakin to be in adjoining cells.
I can’t aruge with you that’s probably true.
"I suppose you were all for those uniformed service members who sued George Bush and Don Rumsfeld for conducting an illegal war, right?"
So what is it? Where they all as "patriotic" as Lakin? After all, the circumstances are EXACTLY the same. They alleged George Bush didn't have the legal authority to conduct the Iraq war, and ergo, he didn't have the legal authority to order their deployment.
I think about all the brave men and women who are fighting right now against oppression, and then I think about all the brave men who fought against communism in the past, and here we are in 2010 and it’s on our very shores - in entertainment, in Congress, and in the presidency.
We should have never shut down HUAC. It’s given our domestic enemies courage to act openly against our national interests.
There is nothing illegal about an order to deploy.
If the orders weren't issued under the proper authority there is.
You've sure got a lot of supposition and assumptions in your argument.
1 Certified copy of original birth certificate
2 Columbia University transcripts
3 Columbia thesis paper
4 Campaign donor analysis requested by 7 major watchdog groups
5 Harvard University transcripts
6 Illinois State Senate records
7 Illinois State Senate schedule
8 Law practice client list and billing records/summary
9 Locations and names of all half-siblings and step-mother
10 Medical records (only the one page summary released so far)
11 Occidental College Transcripts
12 Parent’s marriage Certificate
13 Record of baptism
14 Selective Service registration records
(Did Obama Actually Register for Selective Service?
This supposed revelation of 0's SS records has been debunked here and here.)
15 Schedules for trips outside of the United States before 2007
16 Passport records for all passports
17 Scholarly articles
18 SAT and LSAT test scores
19 Access to his grandmother in Kenya
20 List of all campaign workers that are lobbyists
21 Punahou grade school records
22 Noelani Kindergarten records are oddly missing from the the State of Hawaii Department of Education.
23 Page 11 of Stanley Ann Dunham's divorce decree.
24 Why isn't Barack Obama still a member of the Illinois bar and where are all of the relevant documents?
25 Why isn't Michelle Obama still a member of the Illinois bar, after only about four years of practice, and where are all of the relevant documents?
Anyone who cares about their country would be very concerned that a POTUS had hidden every scrap of information of his life that he possibly could.
I completely agree with ODH.
You both sound like you're convicting him for 'presumptuousness of questioning'.
Orders are presumptively legal. If you had ever served, you might know that.
There is nothing illegal about an order to deploy. Again, this isn’t complicated. Any officer, to especially include any line or legal officer could have told Lakin that. Unfortunately, he’s a medical officer who has been given some incompetent legal advice, or he has refused competent legal advice all to make an political point. Either way, he’s not the kind of officer the military wants or needs - one that compromises mission integrity for his own personal whims.
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