“Mr. Rogers, could you please answer the simple question, so that we then can have an intelligent conversation, is that too much ask???”
Hmmm...let you make demands that I have to jump to meet...no thanks. There are posters here that I respect, but you are not one of them.
If you understood the Constitution, you would understand how ridiculous it is for a Lt Col in the Army to decide he gets to disobey orders until the President PROVES to him personally that he is President.
It goes to that ‘standing’ thing - the birther idea that being one of 300 million gives them the ‘standing’ to challenge the election on an issue known to everyone before, during, and after the election.
You don’t. Lakin doesn’t. Under the Constitution, you as individuals don’t get to determine what NBC means, or how it applies. Protect and defend the Constitution - NOT Lakin’s opinions, and NOT danamco’s opinions! You two do not determine how the other 300 million have to live. You do not have standing to challenge the election of Obama based on information known to everyone before the election began.
Your lack of respect, will certainly not keep me awake or ruin my sleep, BTW, how is your meds, hopye/change doing for you???
OK Mr. Tap-dancer, you wouldn't answer that question, so I take that you never took that oath either, because your postings doesn't reflect that!
So I went and looked it up and it says the following: "I, (NAME), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God. "!!
My own Oath was a little different from the above, when I became a legal U.S. citizen: ""I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God."
I presume that Lt.Col. Lakin took the same oath to the "CONSTITUTION", NOT to the pRESIDENT. There is no doubt in my mind that he believe firmly (like I and many other Freepers do) that he does NOT have a legitimate C-i-C and he thereby, like the rest of us, has to defend the Constitution. The primary and very first thing mentioned in that Oath, is to DEFEND against all enemies, foreign and domestic, it's nothing more and nothing less. It's a real sad thing that we have or have had people in the military who are afraid to stand up and defend the Constitution. If you still don't believe that our Constitution is being attacked by foreign and domestic enemies, then not only have you knee-pads on but large horse-blinders. Very sad time in our nations future!!!