Posted on 01/03/2011 11:20:18 AM PST by rxsid
"Via Terry Lakin Action Fund and Some; - Prison Diaries: Jan 2, 2011: Terry's First Letter from Prison: Dec 21, 2010 -
Hope all is well. Don't know how to start a letter or what to say. I hope I made a difference in a very important matter. It cost me a lot. But I now have to believe it turned out okay. There certainly are no do-overs. The important thing is for the work to carry-on so we never have this situation again.
Today is my fourth day at Leavenworth and my first day with supplies to write and send letters and hoping for a phone call today. Another soldier and I arrived Saturday AM shortly after midnight. We are considered in 'reception' status until we complete about a week of briefings and assessments. But they have a holiday schedule until after New Year's Day. Although they are making some efforts we likely will remain in 'reception' status until into January.
Reception status is mostly lock down in my cell. We now get two hours of 'rec time' in the morning and afternoon. Rec time is cell door open to a common pod area with a four-seat table, an exercise bike that does not work, a flat-screen TV that we cannot watch, and two showers. Activity is playing cards or a few board games, working out in my cell between meals, reading the rulebook, Bible, and now writing letters. Looks like the routine for the next several weeks. We have limited stamps, envelopes, and I am writing with a small, soft plastic (almost rubber pen) that is not to comfortable.
After getting more integrated in January (hopefully minimum security) we may have more privileges. There will not be much use of a computer, limited phone, news, or TV. We have to order our own health and comfort supplies from a small provided list. We are allowed one order request per month and not more than $35 per month. I'm hoping they will honor my first order on credit- we have not been able to get money into our account yet - not having any communication with Pili yet. I'm hoping to get a small radio with ear buds so I can get some news radio. Had to work hard to decide about how many batteries I could get by with vs how many rolls of toilet paper to buy.
The trial seems long ago now. What a feeling of helplessness going through the process. I likely got the best outcome I could have- but it was painful.
After the trial I overhead someone say, "Well, he's no hero now!" Sorry, I was not in it to be a hero. Just thought I was doing the right thing. I spent enough of myself and my family's future for now. Others are going to have to continue.
Got to go now. Moving cells quickly. Phones don't look good today. They brought a phone in but no one knows how we can call out collect. Sigh...
Terry "
http://www.terrylakinactionfund.com/prisondiaries/13-diaries20101221.html
You are just another despicable “concern TROLL”! I am sick to death of all of you and your kind on FR.
LOL
I hope he thinks it was worth it to throw a hard-won career away for a crackpot conspiracy theory.
Huh? That's how grossly insubordinate officers are usually treated.
Oh, puh-leeze. Are you suggesting that FDR had to personally order every single soldier and sailor sent to fight WWII?
Reply to post #34, please find a way, any way to keep as many people tuned into this brave “American” soldier.
He is truly an Obama regime political prisoner.
But WILL become a national hero.
We must not forget our soldiers, and leave no man behind.
If you prefer to believe culpably ignorant contentions such as rxid's, have at it.
(1) And the evidence for such a position is?
(2) And what in the Colonel's military career suggests such a position?
You also are invited to respond to 108.
Do you get paid for posting here? Your interest and posts in this matter go beyond ordinary for someone defending the status quo. That is your side has already won. Why bother?
Do you get paid for posting here? Your interest and posts in this matter go beyond ordinary for someone defending the status quo. That is your side has already won. Why bother?
You have a decided position on the issue already. Is that considered scholarly in these days?
Purely a hunch on my part, hence the preface “I’m of the mind...”. It wasn’t presented as fact supported by evidence, so your request for said evidence is somewhat puzzling.
You have a decided position on the issue already. Is that considered scholarly in these days?
My personal position isn’t in what I am researching but I’m not going to pretend that I don’t have an opinion when I do.
(1) Mr. Lakin made the rank of Lt. Colonel. Such AWOL behavior or proclivity is exceedingly rare in such a rank, from what I understand of human nature and anecdotal personal experience. It's like a major league pitcher refusing to take the mound for stage fright.
(2) Doctor Lakin was Chief of Primary Care and Flight Surgeon charged with caring for Army Chief of Staff General Casey’s pilots and air crew. Would General Casey have allowed a slacker or coward such an important high-level duty?
(3) Colonel Lakin served 18 consecutive years in the military. A person doesn't throw away a lifetime career for silly fears.
(4) Colonel Lakin has served overseas many times: Honduras, Bosnia, El Salvador, Korea and Afghanistan. The Bosnia and Afghanistan service would be, I think, war zone service. Not a man unable to travel, and with war-zone experience.
(5) Colonel Lakin won many decorations including, among many others, the Army Flight Surgeon Badge, and the Combat Medical Badge. Not a slacker.
So I ask you -- on what basis do you make such a slanderous claim?
Yes there should be a criminal investigation, one with the powers to compel testimony and evidence. But on the matter of Obama NOT being a natural-born citizen per the Constitution’s requirements to hold Presidential office, you seem to have a decided position. Am I correct?
Yes there should be a criminal investigation, one with the powers to compel testimony and evidence. But on the matter of Obama NOT being a natural-born citizen per the Constitution’s requirements to hold Presidential office, you seem to have a decided position. Am I correct?
I have tried to read the opinion of every judge and every panel of appeals court justices that have ruled on this issue and whose opinions are posted on the internet.
Currently, that’s 89 rulings. Some of them are very brief and say next to nothing, but some of them are very detailed. Thus far, not one state or federal judge out of well over 100, counting the multi-judge panels, has come anywhere near to saying that Obama might be ineligible. I have to take those facts into account in forming my own personal opinions on the issue.
Bottom line for me: Obama is probably eligible but new information could change my opinion on that in a flash.
This wasn't to be his first time round. He had been deployed overseas and to war zones in the past, including once already to Afghanistan.
If, as you suggest, he simply wanted "out" that time around...he could have chosen a "better" route.
Instead, he know from the beginning that he was "inviting" his own court martial (in his own words)...yet stood on his principles and oath to the Constitution and put his sacred honor and wealth all on the line.
The theory that he wanted out doesn't fit with the decorated veteran of multiple tours on record who knew what was at stake.
"Brother of Lt. Col. Terry Lakin, Dr. Greg Lakin, speaks out on the Peter Boyles radio show about his brother being imprisoned over Obama's constitutional eligibility to be president and commander-in-chief. This segment aired on 1/4/2011"
The first few minutes, they discuss his first letter from prison. Around mark 5:40, Dr. Greg Lakin (Terry's brother), states that he knows that at least one of his letter's that he sent to the "President" regarding his brothers situation were delivered because the letters were subsequently forwarded to the Army. The Army told Dr. Greg Lakin they were in receipt of his letter(s) to the "President."
I repeat. I never posited my assertion as fact. As a matter of fact, I prefaced it in such a way that it should have been easily understood that I was not presenting a finding based on evidence. However, even when I pointed that out to you in you my last post, you continue on as though I made a declarative statement as opposed to proffering an opinion. I repeat, it’s puzzling indeed.
For what it’s worth, I still believe that he did indeed use the nascent (at the time) legitimacy issue as his pretext. However, I’m in no way pretending that I can prove such, so please quit asking for proof.
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