Posted on 12/18/2010 9:43:02 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin didn't rush onto a battleground this week; he walked into a military courtroom. He didn't fire a weapon; he pleaded guilty to disobeying orders related to deployment, and not guilty to the more serious charge of "missing movement."
But Lakin put his life, in the sense of his distinguished 17-year career as an Army surgeon, his income, his pension, and his personal freedom, on the line because of his sworn duty to the U.S. Constitution.
All members of the US military take the following oath:
"I, (NAME), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. ..."
To Lakin, the words "true faith and allegiance" were a call to action. And so, because the current president of the United States has never released the paperwork necessary to establish his legitimacy as a "natural-born citizen," Lakin took action.
For a year, he sought assurances of the president's eligibility from the military and his congressional delegation. Receiving none, Lakin questioned his 2010 redeployment orders, believing that as a senior officer ordered back into a war zone -- and, not incidentally, ordered to bring along copies of his own birth certificate -- he had every right to ask his commander in chief to prove his bona fides.
Hoping to force the issue into the open, if necessary in a military court, the Bronze Star recipient stopped following his redeployment order.
Here's the rub, as I understand it: The military justice system isn't empowered to consider whether a president, duly elected, certified and inaugurated, is anything other than what the civilian leadership says he is.
What this means is that Lakin's beau geste may originate within the military order but it falls into the category of civil disobedience, breaking the law to uphold higher principle.
It is a higher principle no one else is upholding. Indeed, Lakin's disobedience highlights the existence of a vacuum of "true faith and allegiance" in the land -- a gross abdication of civilian responsibility to ensure the lawful transfer of presidential powers took place long before Lakin received orders to return to Afghanistan.
Indeed, through peaceful disobedience, Lakin has directed our attention to the moral corruption of our most trusted public servants who, rather than expose themselves to political inconvenience, permitted the secrecy of President Obama to fester in the first place.
As a presidential candidate born in the Panama Canal Zone, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., was himself challenged in 2008 to prove his bona fides. He, of course, complied. Who wouldn't?
But then he shirked his political duty. As GOP party leader, as scion of a military family, as a U.S. senator, McCain failed at this crucial point to invite his opponent, then-Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., to do exactly the same.
Like a house of cards that was never built, the rest of the Senate, the House of Representatives, the White House, the judiciary, the nation's political parties, the Electoral College, and, of course, the Obama-enthralled media all followed suit. And the rest is history.
Or would be, if it weren't for the heroic Lakin. This week's guilty verdict settles nothing.
On the contrary, it leaves the question in boldface: What could possibly prevent the president from showing the American people his original, 1961 birth certificate?
What remains to be seen is whether there exists any authority, any leader in this whole country with the courage of a Terry Lakin to ask.
The only thing that keeps me going is the TRUTH in Lincoln’s words....You can fool some of the people all of the time and
all of the people some of the time...but you can’t fool all the people all the time. TRUTH will win, I just don’t know when.
Powerful article!
I wonder if someone will be allowed to open the secret vault fifty years from now, and find out whether Zer0 was a poseur??
1 Certified copy of original birth certificate
2 Columbia University transcripts
3 Columbia thesis paper
4 Campaign donor analysis requested by 7 major watchdog groups
5 Harvard University transcripts
6 Illinois State Senate records
7 Illinois State Senate schedule
8 Law practice client list and billing records/summary
9 Locations and names of all half-siblings and step-mother
10 Medical records (only the one page summary released so far)
11 Occidental College Transcripts
12 Parent’s marriage Certificate
13 Record of baptism
14 Selective Service registration records
(Did Obama Actually Register for Selective Service?
This supposed revelation of 0's SS records has been debunked here and here.)
15 Schedules for trips outside of the United States before 2007
16 Passport records for all passports
17 Scholarly articles
18 SAT and LSAT test scores
19 Access to his grandmother in Kenya
20 List of all campaign workers that are lobbyists
21 Punahou grade school records
22 Noelani Kindergarten records are oddly missing from the the State of Hawaii Department of Education.
23 Obama 1964 Divorce Papers - 13 Pages - Missing Pg 11
24 Why isn't Barack Obama still a member of the Illinois bar and where are all of the relevant documents?
25 Why isn't Michelle Obama still a member of the Illinois bar, after only about four years of practice, and where are all of the relevant documents?
Anyone who cares about their country would be very concerned that a POTUS had hidden every scrap of information of his life that he possibly could.
Doubt What?
Look at the last sentence in the article.
His career and livelihood are over.
His medical license was taken away?
ping
It was astoundingly arrogant of Obama to assume that he could get away with this scam, but he has done it.
That’s a great list of obfuscations by Zero. There are many others - like his associations while at the various colleges he attended (e.g. Ayers lived “in the neighborhood” while he attended Columbia, then they both worked for the same foundation in Chicago).
The bottom line is that your list barely scratched the surface of this impostor.
2dv, Thanks for this post.
A Hero. Motivated more kahunas & the unseen hand of destiny than by reason. This isn’t the end of it. You betcha. God bless Terry Lakin.
Rabin
LT. Col Lakin is the Hero!!
The members of Congress & most of the Military high ranking Officers are “Cowards”!!!
Mr Obama Does Not Meet the eligibility to be POTUS ... His “Legal” father was a Kenyan & a British Citizen... This fact disqualifies Mr. Obama from holding the Higest Office of our Land.... Mr Obama stated in his book “Dreams of My Father” that Obama Sr was a Kenyan & a British Citizen.
Is there any Active Duty Military Member who will also stand with Col. Lakin??
Is There any Member of Congress who has the “guts” to state that Mr Obama does Not Qualify to be POTUS??
Nancy Pelosi KNOWS that Mr Obama is “NOT” elligible to be POTUS . She signed & had notarized 2 different documents stating that Mr. Obama met the Constitutional qualifications... That is a “LIE” & she knows this!!
Mr Obama has spent upwards of $1 million dollars keeping his records Sealed.
If he had nothing to hide, he would not be paying these exorbitant fees to keep his records Sealed.
Mr. Obama is a DISGRACE to America for trying to keep his past secret!!
Mr. Obama is a “COWARD” for allowing this Honorable Officer Lt. Col. Terry Lakin to go to prison because he (Mr Obama) would not come forward with the Truth about his past.
Mr Obama knows that he is not eligible to be POTUS ..... This is commiting “TREASON” against the United States of America.
The Courts would not allow anyone to bring this question about Mr Obama’s eligibility to the courts because they did not have Standing!
Col. Lakin now has “Standing” because Mr. Obama has now caused him personal damage by not releasing his Sealed Records!
May “GOD” Save Our Country!!
Just the highlights that’s for sure.
Placemark.
Seeing a man destroyed because he rather keep his bc hidden is definitely not even close to being a Christian.
In fact, there is probably a special place in Hell for these types of malicious persecutors.
Does anyone know if the White House Press Corps has asked Obama or Barry’s Gibbs about the Lakin court-martial and why Obama didn’t reach out to help?? Perhaps President Boehner will pardon Lakin after Obama is impeached.
I agree.
919,
” White House Press Corps has asked” about the Lakin court-martial????
Good question rab thinks. How say you all?
Rabin
bump. I will be back to read.
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