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Do not worry my good man. If Lakin is martyred, then he will have avchieved the ultimate in the cause of civil disobedience, and it will not stop there.

Martin Luthur King Jr, a great Republican, knew this well.

And where did he learn that? From the Satyagraha movement of Gandhi, ,who by the way, learned it from reading the works of Henry David Thoreau , in particular the Variorum on Civil Disobedience. Gandhi read these while a student at Harvard University.

This is the exercise in which Lakin has embarked.It does not stop with the just the court of military justice. It is merely the beginning.

I laud Lakin’s Civil Disobedience. He is a brave man, and so far the Obama administration has shown us all that they are deeply afraid of his efforts, meaning that what he asks simply in his disobedience is indeed proven. The president is NOT qualified according to Article II of the constitution, and everything is being done to obscure his contention both inside and outside of court.

Americans will not let that rest with a kangaroo court finding of guilt along the lines of “strict liability”, a specious argument if I have ever heard of it, worthy of the flacid ignorance about how fascism itself works inside of military hierarchy as it did in Germany and Italy a few generations ago.People have fogotten their history.

In short , this is just a beginning.What do you think Lt. Col Allen West will do about it after he takes his seat in Congress in January, for example.No, this is not over by a long shot.

Satyahgraha. Its here and we need to celebrate it.

http://www.quietspaces.com/satyagraha.html

Lakin knows exactly what he is about.

“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. The proper place to-day, the only place which Massachusetts has provided for her freer and less desponding spirits, is in her prisons, to be put out and locked out of the State by her own act, as they have already put themselves out by their principles. It is there that the fugitive slave, and the Mexican prisoner on parole, and the Indian come to plead the wrongs of his race, should find them; on that separate, but more free and honorable ground, where the State places those who are not with her, but against her — the only house in a slave State in which a free man can abide with honor. If any think that their influence would be lost there, and their voices no longer afflict the ear of the State, that they would not be as an enemy within its walls, they do not know by how much truth is stronger than error, nor how much more eloquently and effectively he can combat injustice who has experienced a little in his own person. Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight. If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose. If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible. If the tax-gatherer, or any other public officer, asks me, as one has done, “But what shall I do?” my answer is, “If you really wish to do anything, resign your office.” When the subject has refused allegiance, and the officer has resigned his office, then the revolution is accomplished. But even suppose blood should flow. Is there not a sort of blood shed when the conscience is wounded? Through this wound a man’s real manhood and immortality flow out, and he bleeds to an everlasting death. I see this blood flowing now. “

http://thoreau.eserver.org/civil2.html

So be of good heart. And gird yourself.This fight is just beginning