Posted on 04/13/2010 8:19:14 AM PDT by Man50D
Washington, D.C., April 13, 2010. Army doctor Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin yesterday met with his brigade commander, Col. Gordon R. Roberts, who proceeded to read LTC Lakin his Miranda rights, and who informed LTC Lakin he had the “right to remain silent” because LTC Lakin is about to be charged with serious crimes. Col. Roberts was at age 19 awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, the only recipient of the nation’s highest honor currently on active duty in the Army.
LTC Lakin had previously been ordered in writing to report yesterday to Ft. Campbell, KY and then on to deploy for his second tour of duty in Afghanistan. Lakin refused to obey these orders and instead came to work yesterday morning at the Pentagon. Late yesterday afternoon he was confronted by his brigade commander.
Before the meeting was over, LTC Lakin’s Pentagon Access Pass had been revoked, and his laptop computer was set to be confiscated.
The message to LTC Lakin is clear; through official channels, he was informed yesterday that he will shortly be court-martialled for crimes (specifically, missing movement and conduct unbecoming an officer) that for others has led to lengthy imprisonment at hard labor.
Lakin has announced in a YouTube video that has now been viewed more than 110,000 times that he considers it his duty to refuse to obey orders that would be illegal if President Obama is ineligible to hold office.
Meanwhile, cries mount for proof of that eligibility, but nothing has been forthcoming. The Obama campaign at one point released a copy of computer-generated abstract of information purportedly in Hawaii's records system, but the source of this information is unclear and need not have been a birth certificate issued contemporaneously and signed by the doctor who attended the birth. Even the document released was only a copy, and the version printed in the Los Angeles Times on June 16, 2008 is on a form only in use since late 2001. Even as it is, the document contains a warning that it is merely “prima facie”--threshold, rebuttable and thus inconclusive --evidence of birth, and the copy the Times printed mysteriously has the certificate number blacked out, thereby rendering the document unusable according to language on the bottom.
Given the seriousness of the offenses with which LTC Lakin is about to be charged, the American Patriot Foundation today renewed its plea for donations to its legal defense fund for LTC Lakin. Details are available at APF's website, www.safeguardourconstitution.com
You are entitled to hope.
Are you a JAG officer?
No, because They'd be strictly ruling on a constitutional issue. Obama being thrown out of office because of fraud perpetrated on the United States would be consequences of their ruling.
By the people? The US is a Constitutional Republic. The people can change the Constitution by amendment if they have that desire.
When an election was won through fraud, then absolutely we need a safeguard for ensuring honest elections. Whether that's the court system or Congress, we need enforcement of the Constitution. Why would you tolerate fraud??
“Hey! How about Obama be stand-up guy and prove to where he was from?”
He has, to everyone with authority to make a decision. And EVERY SINGLE ONE has decided he was eligible.
The military doesn’t get to overturn the decisions of elected officials, and the courts don’t get to decide Obama’s eligibility.
Read the Constitution before you claim you support it.
I served in the LBJ Army and the Carter Army and I completely agree with you.
Rogers, there’s no proof anyone decided Obama was eligible. They accepted a self-declaration via affadavits for candidacy. It’s an honor system that was abused. It just happens that now we have Americans who are trying to correct that abuse of the system. Just because people were successfully fooled doesn’t make the claims truthful, no offense to you.
gotta citation?
And in that case, the issue of his birth certificate would be irrelevant. No one says that Hitler's orders to wage an aggressive war and kill 6 million Jews were illegal because he wasn't the legitimate ruler of Germany.
“...folks supporting him should be concentrating on fighting Obama where it counts - in elections.”
Except that elections don’t produce change anymore. Time after time we are faced with voting for Tweedldumb or Tweedledumber and time after time we end up dumber than any of them. What is that “old saying” about doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results? Our elections are no longer decided by the people but by the media which is controlled by Big Business— the same Big Business that has benefitted so well from the Obama administration.
I don’t know if we can get rid of that SOB by making him show his birth certificate but I think it’s certainly worth a try. Come November we’ll surely elect a bunch of Republicans but we’ve done that before and the only difference between them and the Democrats is the speed at which we get led, pushed, shoved down that primrose path to socialism.
Aanother thread yesterday suggested that we need more statesmen and fewer politicians. Right now we’re so overrun with politicians that true statesmen can’t be seen in the crowd. November will just see a different group of politicians in power. They’ll carefully read their lines from the teleprompters (lines written by someone else,) gatiously accept the office they’ve been elected to and blithely ignore their constituents... just like the politicians in there right now!
Elections don’t work! Will the birth certificate issue work? I don’t know. Maybe not, but if we don’t try it we’ll never know and it certainly won’t work if we don’t try.
I believe you are incorrect in that. As much as Lakin would like to make it all about Obama, it's not. It is about his refusal to deploy with his unit or his refusal to obey the order of his commanding officer. Obama did not personally pick this officer for deployment, nor did he personally order the unit to deploy. There is no way to tie Obama with these charges other than some vague "but he's the commander-in-chief" nonsense, so there is no way to link Obama's actions with these charges. No judge will allow disclosure of anything relating to Obama based on that.
OOps! Sorry for the misspelled words. I was in a hurry.
What's likely to happen is that when a real birth certificate finally emerges, it will demonstrate that Obama has committed massive criminal fraud against the people of the United States of American. His eligibility may be a secondary issue at that point.
“To do what?”
To stand?
The first duty of a soldier is obedience, and without this there can be neither discipline nor efficiency in an army. If every subordinate officer and soldier were at liberty to question the legality of the orders of the commander, and obey them or not as they may consider them valid or invalid, the camp would be turned into a debating school, where the precious moment for action would be wasted in wordy conflicts between the advocates of conflicting opinions. McCall v. McDowell, 1 Abb. 212 (Cir. Ct. D. California 1867)
He has not. Only koolaid drinking Dems and the duped believe it. Here is another opportunity for Obama again [LoL] for him to prove it in court. He can show his genuine BC.
Read the Constitution before you claim you support it.
More than you do. I don't need a web link since I have my own hard copy and have read it ... many times over.
Your post was fair, well thought out and imo raised a good point.
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