Army ‘Birther’ Pleads Guilty at Trial
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“I wrongly chose to disobey all orders,” Lakin told Judge Col. Denise R. Lind, who questioned him at length before accepting his guilty plea. Lakin drew a distinction between the charge he pleaded guilty to — failing to report for duty — and the charge of missing movement by skipping the flight to Fort Campbell.
Though the court-martial is not going to weigh Lakin's arguments about Obama, the colonel's brother said Lakin "is looking forward to making a statement at the end of the trial."
"He has always had strong convictions," Greg Lakin said. "I'm not saying we all [in the family] support the decision he chose, but we support him."
"Lakin refused to deploy to Afghanistan this summer because he maintains that if Obama is not legally eligible to be commander-in-chief and therefore any orders he issues would be unlawful.
Lakin admitted he disobeyed orders to report to superior officers.
"But my orders to Fort Campbell were for the purposes of deployment," he said, arguing since those deployment orders were illegitimate, he was justified in not following them."