One Obeyed An Unlawful Order - The Other Disobeyed A Questionably Unlawful One - Both Are Locked Up

Here's The Right Side Of It ^ | December 19, 2010 | John L. Work

[JLWORK]

Private First Class Corey Claggett, United States Army, has been sitting for the past four years in administrative segregation (read that: Solitary Confinement) at Leavenworth Prison, for obeying a direct and apparently unlawful order from his superior officer to kill two suspected al Quaeda terrorists in Iraq.

Lt. Colonel Terry Lakin sits in prison, doing six months and forfeiting his retirement benefits, for disobeying what he believed was an unlawful order vicariously issued by his Commander In Chief Barack Obama – who has yet to prove his Constitutional eligibility to hold office.

Diana West, who has written extensively about the Leavenworth Ten, military enlisted and commissioned personnel who are now locked up in prison for war-time killings that got them Court Martials when they returned home, presented a post today on the case of Private Claggett. West includes a video presentation by his lawyer that is well worth your time. But be prepared to feel more than deeply disturbed as you hear the attorney, Tim Parlatore, lay out the cold, hard facts of the Claggett case – and what has happened to his client at the hands of the United States Army:

http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1626/Free-PFC-Corey-Claggett.aspx

“…I’ve never highlighted the details of PFC Corey Claggett’s case only because I didn’t know them. I do now and they are harrowing. To date, Corey has served more than four years in solitary confinement for following an unlawful order to kill two al-Qaeda suspects (His superior who ordered the killings is free on parole, and the man who killed a third one is not only free but has been promoted. Details here.) That means that without clemency, Corey Clagget has 14 more more years to go on this diabolically harsh and unjust 18-year sentence…”

My father was in combat in the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations during World War II. He came home wearing an Asiatic campaign medal with two Bronze Stars attached. He would talk only very reluctantly about what he saw and did in Burma’s jungles between January of 1944 and August of 1945. My knowledge of his experience is sketchy at best. He wanted to forget about it and he sometimes became angry with me if I brought it up in our conversations. He’s been dead now for five and one-half years and he took most of the terrible secrets with him when he left us.

One thing of which I am certain is that Dad did not ever need to fear coming home to be Court Martialed and sent to prison for killing the wrong person in a combat zone during battle. His job was to facilitate the killing of as many Japanese soldiers as possible and come home to my mother. And a lot of civilians died during those battles. It’s an inevitability of war. From December 8, 1941 to August, 1945 it took the United States and our allies three and one-half years to completely destroy the Japanese and German war machines. World-wide, an estimated fifty-five million people died.

Now we send our best and bravest to fight this nearly ten-years long war in a Stone-Age country, against an enemy that has never been properly named, with no definable victory in sight, with rules of engagement that do not allow our troops to return hostile fire without permission from their superiors. And our Military Courts lock up the men who kill the enemy, while terrorists who have killed Americans are released to go home.

If you can make any sense of this mess, you’re smarter than I am. But those ten Leavenworth prisoners should be released to go home to their families. What in Hell are we doing?

[deport]

He is not the legal Commander -In- Chief.

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He is until he is removed or defeated at the polls.

[omegadawn]

A local doctor was found to not have a medical license. He never went to medical school. Was he a “Doctor” up until the time he was finally caught and punished? Was he allowed to continue his practice until he was taken to court,NO. Pretending to be someone you are not eligibile to be, does not make you that person. obama can pretend to be the President, but he can never actually be the President. And much like the Doctor,there is nothing legal about anything he did while “playing” President..