How about if you obeyed the KP duty order but put in a request for a year or so in different places all over the military to find out whether or not the CINC could give lawful orders - because you recognized that your brothers in arms are carrying out much more significant orders and could be guilty of war crimes if not properly authorized?
This isn’t KP duty we’re talking about. And this isn’t a glib WTH kind of a ploy. He gave the military a year to get their answers - to questions that should have been even more deeply disturbing to the head of the command chain than to Lakin himself, if they had cared about their oath to protect and defend the Constitution and had given two moments’ thought about the well-being of the hundreds of thousands of men and women depending on them for protection.
We can talk evidence, and there is plenty of that too. But at the heart of the matter is that the entire chain of command blew off the US Constitution and the well-being of those under their charge for a year. And now they’re punishing Lakin for caring and for exposing their utter apathy.
“But at the heart of the matter is that the entire chain of command blew off the US Constitution and the well-being of those under their charge for a year. “
No.
The entire chain recognizes that Obama was elected by a majority of Americans, by the Electoral College, and accepted as President by the Congress and US Supreme Court - AND the American People.
The entire chain recognizes that their role is NOT in deciding who the President is, but accepting the decision of the voters, the states, Congress & the Supreme Court.
You and a handful of birthers want the US military to use force to overthrow what every court, every state, the Electoral College & the Congress - and the people - accept, and to do so based on Internet rumors and weirdo legal theories.
Lakin was NEVER the right venue. Any state could rule that a NBC requires two citizen parents, or rule that Obama won’t be allowed on the ballot in 2012 unless he shows a long form birth certificate - but you cannot convince 1 state out of 50 to do so. Nor will you ever convince the US military to overthrow the government.
“And this isn’t a glib WTH kind of a ploy.”
You are the glib one, not me.
You never responded directly as to HOW my example was different than this misguided officer’s.
Unlike you, I actually served in the military during an unpopular war, when people were rioting in the streets of America. When people were conscripted.
Don’t lecture me about conscience, or legal proceedings, or patriotism.
People tell you folks things that don’t support your position, and you call them names.