Soldier balks at deploying; says Obama isn’t president

U.S. Army Maj. Stefan Frederick Cook, set to deploy to Afghanistan, says he shouldn’t have to go. His reason? Barack Obama was never eligible to be president because he wasn’t born in the United States. Actually, Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961, two years after it became a state. Cook’s lawyer, Orly Taitz, who has also challenged the legitimacy of Obama’s presidency in other courts, filed a request last week in federal court seeking a temporary restraining order and status as a conscientious objector for his client. In the 20-page document — filed July 8 with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia — the California-based Taitz asks the court to consider granting his client’s request based upon Cook’s belief that Obama is not a natural-born citizen of the United States and is therefore ineligible to serve as commander-in-chief of the U.S. Armed Forces. Cook further states he “would be acting in violation of international law by engaging in military actions outside the United States under this President’s command. ... simultaneously subjecting himself to possible prosecution as a war criminal by the faithful execution of these duties.” Cook, a reservist, received the orders mobilizing him to active duty on June 9. According to this document, which accompanies Cook’s July 8 application for a temporary restraining order, he has been ordered to report to MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., on Wednesday. From there, the Florida resident would go to Fort Benning before deploying overseas. A hearing to discuss Cook’s requests will take place in federal court here Thursday at 9:30 a.m.

No, I just find it interesting how you can cheer someone on in the destruction of their military career when you've never worn the uniform and you still didn't answer my question.

Sir, I am a Viet Nam vet. Yes Viet Nam is usually Spelled Vietnam but it is two words not one. I received two combat medals in addition to being offered the Purple Heart but refused as I survived with relative minor injuries while others died and received major life changing injuries.

I also served in the 6 day war (for one day) before our UN site (In Jordan)was bombed (totally destroyed) and we were withdrawn. I was cited by the POTUS for an initiative I took to reestablish a communications link with Israel after Egypt cut the link from Cairo to Israel.

I did not agree with that President either but he was a certified American Citizen - therefor CIC

heh..

Nice try...

But argument tactics aside, it is plainly obvious to even the most dense observer that the folks at the controls are marxists revolutionaries, and they are busy doing what marxists do when they sink their teeth into their victim. They are rapidly consolidating power and building their own infrastructure while dismantling the previous one.

Go ahead and deny it. Really. Do it... DENY it. I need a good laugh this morning.

Just about everyone on this website be they “conservatives” or collectivist lurkers knows that the marxists that now own the fedgov do not take the constitution seriously or even consider it all. Everyone knows they are voiding the constitution and relegating it to insignificance. Well... Maybe not everyone sees it, but thats not even such a new problem is it?

“Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it. “ — P. Henry

You can choose to ignore the obvious if you want, but hiding your head in the sand and yelling (not there! not there! not there!) is not going to alter the fundamental truth that the constitution, which every member of the military swore an oath to protect and defend against all enemies INCLUDING THE DOMESTIC ones, is being or has been wiped away as the limiting factor on the fedgov.

Its their duty to fulfill that oath, they don’t have the option of “not feeling like it” or “protecting their careers and retirements”... not if they have even an ounce of honor left in them.

Its no fun for me to come down on the military this way but someone has got to start beating some sense into these knuckleheads. The military has always been an honorable organization but, in the end, its only as honorable as the people who populate its ranks, and those people are only as honorable as the word and oaths they stay faithful to. I remain confident that a majority of the fine folks in the military will eventually be prepared to do what is right, but I think WE need to lead the way for them.

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