[blueyon]

Unreal!

[FreeAtlanta]

This is insanity. This country is now upside down. damn the anti-constitutionalist.

[Eldon Tyrell]

The more often this happens, the more it looks like a conspiracy.

The government’s position is that no citizen has standing, under apparently any circumstances, to question the President.

This is not un-Constituional. It is anti-Constitutional. Against the whole concept.

[Genoa]

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[FreeAtlanta]

[vanilla swirl]

“Lind ruled that it was “not relevant” for the military to be considering such claims”

Wow
The military has no valid reason for questioning the authority of it’s commander?
So, if we elect an alien from Mars then the military has to obey without question.

We are truly living in “Alice in Wonderland”.

[SonOfDarkSkies]

She said opening up such evidence could be an "embarrassment" to the president, and it's up to Congress to call for impeachment of a sitting president.

"Embarrasment" shouldn't even be concern in court (and why would the president be embarrassed unless he's a liar)...and Lakin isn't calling for impeachment, he is simply calling for proof!

I'll bet the judge is a bigtime, Koolade-drinking Obama supporter!

[drypowder]

This judge wants to keep her job, by staying alive.

[Diogenesis]

[Padams]

The only defense to a court martial hearing on refusing to obey an order (other than whether the order is legitimate and whether Lakin received and understood the order- neither of which is an issue here, the military can order a soldier to get on a plane so the order is legit, and Lakin knew and understood the order) is Lakin’s LEGAL incapacity to obey the order. Incapacity is strictly defined by law. For example, if he was hospitalized or in jail, he could not get to the flight. In such case, he would not be legally capable of following the order.

The issues in this matter are narrowly defined and the outcome, while tragic for Lakin, is not a surprise.

[layman]

I think that the issue of Obama’s eligibility will never be settled through federal courts because the federal government is corrupt from top to bottom. I would be thrilled to see many of the states pass legislation before the 2012 elections requiring all candidates placing their names on the ballot to prove their eligibility. In the case of presidential candidates this would require a birth certificate ... NOT a ‘certificate of live birth’.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

the chain of command led up to the Pentagon, and that should have been sufficient

Did the court just provide 0bama with the Eichmann defense?

[paulycy]

[philman_36]

...that the chain of command led up to the Pentagon, and that should have been sufficient for Lakin.
And where does the Pentagon gets its orders from? Nowhere?

This next statement has got to be a joke!
She said opening up such evidence could be an "embarrassment" to the president, and it's up to Congress to call for impeachment of a sitting president.
I am completely aghast. One has nothing to do with the other. Either he qualifies as POTUS and his orders are legal or he doesn't which makes his orders illegal. Equating the two as the same thing isn't her responsibility.

Some day she may be embareassed for making such a stupid statement.

[djf]

Land, with all due respect, doesn’t know what the hell he’s talking about.

The whole “I was just doing my job” defense went out at Nuremburg.
Since that time, it is agreed and admitted that actions of soldiers must be lawful, IN EVERY RESPECT. And that includes having no doubts at all that his commander is exercising lawful authority.

If he follows the commands of his boss, but has doubts about whether or not his boss can/should do that, he is basically committing a crime.