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To: usmcobra
Why the illegal ones of course.

Just that easy, huh? Well Lakin thought he knew an illegal order when he saw it. But just yesterday he got up in court and said that ooops, it was a legal order after all. So if he can't tell then how do you determine legal orders from illegal ones?

725 posted on 12/15/2010 12:02:22 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur

What you fail to understand is that his case was getting no where after Judge Lind denied him the right to discovery as well as the right to call witnesses in his defense.

The only option left to him was to have the case reviewed in appeal as required by article 66 of the UCMJ.

There were two ways to do that, one would be go through the complete court martial process which could take several years (By The way the Haditha Marines still have not completed their court Martials)and the other was to plead guilty and speed up automatic appeal process

The military justice system is quite different from criminal or civil courts in that it does have an automatic appeals process built into it to protect totally innocent individuals from over zealous commanders who can sometimes bend the rules and regulations to achieve their desired results.

Judge Lind’s actions in preventing the eligibility argument from being heard denied Lakin the very core of his argument and the sum of his defense.

It was not her job to do so.

In all these eligibility cases there is a commonality.

No One can legally question Obama’s eligibility or access his original birth certificate even if as in this case the questioning Obama’s eligibility means a prison sentence.

If that doesn’t bother you in the least then your American soul is dead.


735 posted on 12/15/2010 12:24:54 PM PST by usmcobra (.Islam: providing Live Targets for United States Marines since 1786!)
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