Army birther pleads guilty to 1 of 2 charges

AP ^ | December 14, 2010 | AP

[Hoosier-Daddy]

Obama’s first political prisoner. Disgusting...

[Joe 6-pack]

I'm sure Amnesty International will be on the case posthaste.

< /sarcasm>

[kbennkc]

Those who advised him on to this foolish course should share his punishment.

[pnh102]

So what happens to the second charge? Does he still go to trial on that one or is it dropped?

I hate saying this but I am going to guess that he pleaded guilty because the government has overwhelming evidence which backs up its case, and he is looking for a lenient punishment.

[spectre]

You are exactly right.

[STARWISE]

*snip*

At a court-martial proceeding Tuesday in Maryland, Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin of Greeley, Colo., pleaded guilty to a charge that included not meeting with a superior when ordered to do so and not reporting to duty at Fort Campbell.

Defense lawyer Army Maj. Matthew J. Kemkes Defense lawyer Army Maj. Matthew J. Kemkes, left, prosecutor Army Capt. Jonathan Kobrinski, center, and defense lawyer Neal Puckett, right, walk outside a military court during the court martial for Army Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin, not pictured, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010 at Fort Meade, Md. Lakin is being tried for allegedly refusing to deploy to Afghanistan because he does not believe that President Barack Obama was born in the United States and therefore questions his eligibility to be commander in chief.

Defense lawyer Army Maj. Matthew J. Kemkes walks outside a military court during the court martial for Army Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin, not pictured, Tuesday,Dec. 14, 2010 at Fort Meade,

[butterdezillion]

No. He is pleading guilty because there is no expectation of justice from the United States military. The best he can hope for is to just get this over with as quickly as possible so he can appeal in the civilian courts the fact that his due process and 6th Amendment rights were grossly violated.

[joe fonebone]

He got off easy.... as a deserter, he endangered his entire unit, and those that he was supposed to serve...he should have been put up against a wall and shot ( that is what is usually done to deserters )

[wac3rd]

Look at AP’s “Saul Alinsky-type” of journalism. Never about fact, always about steering attention away from the Obamanation and his Kenyan birth.

Always demonization, never about the actual happenings in the story.

F AP.

[I am Richard Brandon]

"Obama’s first political prisoner. Disgusting..."

Won't happen. We are a Nation of Laws. /sarc

[verity]

"He is pleading guilty because there is no expectation of justice from the United States military."

Of course.

[Seizethecarp]

Per AP:

“Hawaiian officials say they have records proving Obama was born there and is therefore eligible to be president. But so-called birthers challenge that.”

Wow! This is the first time that I can recall an MSM report on the BC that did not frame the legitimacy of the HI COLB as factual and “birther” claims as “debunked by non-partisan Factcheck”.

I regard this as very significant. This AP report follows the usually MSM-abandoned journalistic principle of reporting the facts. AP reports that Hawaiian officials only “say” but AP does not affirm as a fact that HI have proved they have the records. AP reports that “birthers” “challenge” that without framing them as nuts.

Perhaps LTC Lakin got the AP reporter to read his brief and maybe pull back on knee-jerk affirmation of Obama’s eligibility. Perhaps this is further sign that Obama's protection is coming down and with the GOP taking over the House subpoena power, AP may be distancing themselves from the HI claims as a precautionary measure, lest they be proved to be unsupported by the "original vital records."

[Fractal Trader]

ping

[charlie72]

If Hawaii has that evidence of a doctor-signed, witnessed bc why don’t they send it to the court????? Obama and Holder are obstructing justice. May all those involved in hiding his eligibility go to prison for life.
If you support Obama, where would you go to see his birthplace and donate to the hospital?????
You can’t. Why? No proof or something on the bc Obama doesn’t want you to see. Obama is a fraud. He is anti-America, anti-capitalism, etc.
Nothing passed by Congress will help our economy until Obama is gone!!!!!!! He hates coal, oil, himself,etc.

[Seizethecarp]

ping...

AP backs off pro-Obama/birther-bashing framing?

[butterdezillion]

The military deserted him. He went through the proper channels to find out the lawfulness of the orders being given by Obama, and every person in the military who had the responsibility of following up is guilty of DERELICTION OF DUTY at the least because they refused to even check into it.

I just got done watching “Valkyrie” for the first time yesterday. I know which character fits you perfectly. The one who showed unswerving allegiance to “Der Fuhrer”.

[pnh102]

He is pleading guilty because there is no expectation of justice from the United States military.

But why let them win like that? Why not make the government prove its case? At the very least, we'd be allowed to see what information the government haves that proves that it is in the right. I still think my original claim stands, this guy has no case, and he is just hoping for leniency in sentencing.

The best he can hope for is to just get this over with as quickly as possible so he can appeal in the civilian courts the fact that his due process and 6th Amendment rights were grossly violated.

That won't go anywhere either. No civilian court has ever accepted any sort of challenge to 0bama's eligibility. It is highly unlikely they would for this situation either.

[verity]

Buttercup thinks you are a NAZI.lol

[butterdezillion]

AP is dead wrong on this though. Hawaii officials CANNOT say they have records proving where Obama was born, because the BC that Hawaii has is not legally valid. The State itself is forbidden to say what the facts of Obama’s birth are, because they have no records that they trust to be accurate - according to HRS 338-17.

The word that Fukino used was “verifying”. She has seen the vital records VERIFYING that Obama was born in HI. The word “verify” means to swear. There is a record in Hawaii swearing that Obama was born in Hawaii. To PROVE is something totally different, though it’s understandable that the AP would make this mistake. They should correct it though.