Posted on 12/03/2010 12:01:07 AM PST by rxsid
"Lakin's attorney: Conviction 'certain'
'He's very disappointed in military justice system'
"Based on the evidence available, his conviction is certain," Puckett told WND. "He has no affirmative defense for the offenses he committed."
"There is not much left to do" in defense of his client, Puckett said. Lakin's previous defense counsel, Paul Jensen, already "sought discovery of documents, and to introduce evidence and expert witnesses, but the judge shut down all those efforts."
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"LTC Lakin asked many people to answer his questions about his misgivings about the legitimacy of the president, even the White House. He had a question that a lot of Americans have, a question that hasn't been answered by the legislative branch or by the judicial branch..
"...What he has discovered is that the military justice system cannot produce the answers to those questions."
"We have to proceed without the documents, evidence and witnesses that have been denied to the defense. LTC Lakin is left to speak for himself and defend himself. It's up to him whether he wants to testify in his own defense, said Puckett.
Puckett would not reveal Lakin's decision, or any other details of his defense plans. He predicted that Lakin would end up, at worst, convicted of two violations of orders, be dismissed from the service, and spend a year in confinement.
Once guilt or innocence has been determined by his jurors, the trial will move to a presentencing hearing, when Lakin will have an unfettered opportunity to introduce mitigating evidence that might justify his disobedience in spite of Judge Lind's limitations on the scope of the trial.
"If he were to be convicted, he would have an open microphone to talk to the panel of jurors," said Puckett. "
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It is a shame to see our military denying the very principles they are supposed to defend.
>>That could happen today and it still would not change the fact that Lakin disobeyed the orders of his superior officers and he would still be guilty of that.<<
Are they Lawful Orders? That is the question that the military refuses to confront. They have chosen to deny that issue probably because of the international hellfire that would result.
I hate it when you are forced to go UA and have your troops hanging. Man that just sucks.
Yes. Why would they not be?
If the CinC isn’t lawfully seated then they cannot be lawful.
Culpable ignorance is your strong suit.
Thanks for your reply.
It is clear that things are just going to have to get much worse before they get better.
Why couldn’t she have chosen to allow Lakin to have witnesses and evidence? That seems insanely evil on her part.
Really, just incredibly, poor argument.
It’s good to see folks clarifying their ideas.
That is important.
So your contention is that every order given by every officer and enlisted in every branch of the service has been illegal since January 20, 2009?
Who is considered a “Natural Born Citizen” as required for POTUS eligibility is not a “political problem” as your tagline suggests...it’s a Constitutional issue that needs to be addressed before more candidates born with foreign citizenship run for and get elected into the position of Commander in Chief of the armed forces.
No. But what does it have to do with the charges Lakin is facing?
As commander-in-chief, the "buck" stops with Obama as the ultimate issuing authority of ALL military orders. If he is legally ineligible to be president, any and all orders that are and have been issued by the military since his swearing-in have been illegal.
Nonsense.
NOT really a poor argument. Obama has no loyalty the the country as a whole. He does have some loyalty to certain sections of America and is attempting to turn then against the rest.This is the trickster fascist community organizer at work.
That is why we have Article II of the constitution. Why is the argument poor then?
Obama will either satisfy Article II or he will not. It has never actually been applied to Obama.
It will be applied or Obama will be removed one way or they other. Thats the slow creep whether you like it or not. And Lakin is moving things along considerably.The Obama administration is scared to death of him, which us why he is being treated the way he is by the court. Clear violations of his due process rights and of his Civil Rights.
If he was a Muslim,a gay man, or some whacked out woman femino-nazi officer, the left would be all over the procedural abuses Lakin has suffered. So the level of these abuses is a measure of how correct Lakin is in his conduct.
The court has created the Martyr needed, and his sacrifice will hardly be in vain.You know little about Satyagraha it seems, or its signifiance to Martin Luther King Jr.
What will they do next to silence Lakin, kill him? Bring it on you bunch of fascists!You are of the same ilk as those who kindled the ovens of Dachau IMHO.(These judicial fascists are acting just as we hoped they would.It could not be any better.)
And Lakin will eventually be proved correct in every way possible. No question about that.
"..Obama gained citizenship via the 14th Amendment..this amendment gave no natural born citizenship to any one..
Obama’s posterity is Kenya..his blood is Kenyan..his forefathers are Kenyan."
Would deny the office to any black American - including great grandsons and great granddaughters of 14th Amendment citizens and children of all naturalized citizens.
By the second criteria, I could never be president and most likely neither could you be president.
Thanks for your reply.
Lakin in an incredibly brave and principled man.
The test of Article II of the comstitutuion is siple. One must be born on the soil of the USA to parents who are US citizens.
That’s not very complex.
Arnold Schwatrzeneggar does not qualify. He was born in Germany. Obama does not qualify. He was born in Kenya or maybe some other place, depending on who you ask, his grandmother or others in Indonesia.
So Norty old boy , what’s the problem. You would rather a usurper destroy our nation like is happening now?
Your logic is fudamentally flawed, extended and pretty much as usurpious as Obamas.
I think Obama is a fraud.And I also, along with millions of other Americans, believe his fraud constitutes a capital offence.
Norty old boy, you lie down with dogs, you get fleas. Its rather simple.
We have a criminal in the oval office. And whats more, he acts the part.
NOT really a poor argument. Obama has no loyalty the the country as a whole. He does have some loyalty to certain sections of America and is attempting to turn then against the rest.This is the trickster fascist community organizer at work.
That is why we have Article II of the constitution. Why is the argument poor then?
Obama will either satisfy Article II or he will not. It has never actually been applied to Obama.
It will be applied or Obama will be removed one way or they other. Thats the slow creep whether you like it or not. And Lakin is moving things along considerably.The Obama administration is scared to death of him, which us why he is being treated the way he is by the court. Clear violations of his due process rights and of his Civil Rights.
If he was a Muslim,a gay man, or some whacked out woman femino-nazi officer, the left would be all over the procedural abuses Lakin has suffered. So the level of these abuses is a measure of how correct Lakin is in his conduct.
The court has created the Martyr needed, and his sacrifice will hardly be in vain.You know little about Satyagraha it seems, or its signifiance to Martin Luther King Jr.
What will they do next to silence Lakin, kill him? Bring it on you bunch of fascists!You are of the same ilk as those who kindled the ovens of Dachau IMHO.(These judicial fascists are acting just as we hoped they would.It could not be any better.)
And Lakin will eventually be proved correct in every way possible. No question about that.
Well good for Indiana. Still the test has not been applied to Obama. Where is his COLB? Lets just see it, duly attested by those who attended is birth.
Rather simple. Its not a matter of law, its a simple matter of fact.A matter for a jury, not a judge.
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