Posted on 12/16/2010 1:17:21 PM PST by Cardhu
Lakin Sentenced
1545: Sentence announced. Dismissal, confinement for 6 months, total forfeitures.
If you believe that POTUS is invalid then you resign. Period.
If you call the answers he got “fully informed” he isn’t the one who is nutty.
So what happens with this if it later comes out he really is ineligible?
“I don’t want [my career] to end this way,” a tearful Lakin said to military jurors during the sentencing phase of his trial Wednesday afternoon. “I want to continue to serve ... It crushed me not to be on deployment. I can be on a plane tomorrow. I’d truly do that.”
Lakin, a 17-year Army physician, was sentenced to six months in prison and dismissal from the service on Thursday after being found guilty of disobeying orders and ignoring his deployment orders. In April, Lakin posted an online video declaring he would not return to Afghanistan with his unit until questions regarding Obama’s birth certificate were answered to his satisfaction. The move made him an instant hero to the birther movement, which helped him raise money for his legal defense.
Obama was born in Hawaii, but questions about his parents and overseas upbringing were raised during his 2008 presidential campaign. Hawaiian officials that year verified the existence of his birth certificate, addressing those issues for all but a fringe group that insists that the president is not legally qualified to serve in the White House.
As part of their sentencing evidence, prosecutors played Lakin’s video for the jury. In it, he states that a president who is not a natural-born citizen “would subvert law and truth” and demands that Obama “release your original, signed birth certificate — if you have one.”
more at Stars and Stripes
Apparently that’s not the way it really is. Do the job, question the orders after.
Amen
Gnip
History will finally out the truth, as the current vermin in residence in DC have no stomach for the truth.
I don’t think civilisation is fragile. Look what has happened over history...we’re still here.
Standing to do what? To appeal his sentence, yes, but his sworn admission that he knowingly violated legal orders is binding against him on appeal, so the issues he can raise in that appeal are strictly limited. If you think this somehow now gives him standing to sue in a civilian court to have Obama's eligibility determined, no it doesn't.
LTC Larkin can then sue for millions of dollars because he was right.
I don’t think so. The reason is because he still went UA and refused a direct order from his chain of command. He pleaded guilty. Yes the reason he did this never even was part of the case so to sue seems unlikely. I guess he could try, but the monetary amount would come from the case.
Lighten up, Francis.
(Are you truly unable to follow a simple logical hypotheticial, based on Judge Lind’s interpretation that a President’s eligibility makes no difference on downstream orders? There you go with that sh*t again.)
Not as light as Ehren Watada did.
Lakin did the job for two years and didn’t get answers. He got fed up and took an extreme course of action that unfortunately fell on deaf ears, blind eyes and cowardly hearts.
Oh boy! ( Just ask the ooooh so civilized and sophisticated Germans.)
I hope and PRAY that you are right. Please Lord, deliver us from this evil.
He should go to a VA hospital or a military hospital and volunteer.
That figures. Assange is nothing more than a patsy and Wikileaks is a CIA false flag op.
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