Posted on 12/16/2010 1:17:21 PM PST by Cardhu
Lakin Sentenced
1545: Sentence announced. Dismissal, confinement for 6 months, total forfeitures.
Yes, exactly. Unless and until Congress discovers Obama's infirmity and he is legally dismissed from office, he's the sitting President of the United States.
That's true. Here's a summary, from the CAAFlog, about some other victims of Lakin's stupidity:
"MAJ Dobson was the government’s second sentencing witness. While the government elicited testimony from him about how he and his unit were harmed by LTC Lakin’s failure to deploy, his testimony didn’t seem at all whiney or self-pitying. Rather, he came across as a professional military officer willing to do his duty. His testimony would prove quite aggravating.
"He testified that he recently returned from a six-month deployment with the 1-32 Cavalry Squadron. He received a call on 6 April saying he might have to deploy on short notice. He was then put on hold for a week, told that the doctor who was originally scheduled to deploy might do so after all. He was then told he was definitely going and left two weeks later.
"MAJ Dobson’s wife had returned six months before from a deployment in Afghanistan. The Army tried to give them some time together and he hadn’t expected to deploy until the end of the year. He had been scheduled to attend the captains’ career course, which he had to cancel.
"When he arrived at Fort Campbell on 26 April, most of his squadron had already gone to Afghanistan. He wasn’t able to attend the predeployment course required for deploying doctors.
"When he arrived in Afghanistan, his unit was on the Pakistani border in Kunar Province, just north of Jalalabad. The previous unit had left a physician’s assistant behind to fill the gap when the 1-32 arrived without a doctor. MAJ Dobson testified, “She was very happy to see me.”
"Then came the most powerful testimony of the court-martial. On MAJ Dobson’s second day in country, his unit “had mass casualties” — a total of 16. He testified that he felt he didn’t treat them as well as he could have had he had more time to prepare for his deployment.
"He named the lieutenant colonel who replaced him after six months — the lieutenant colonel who is now in Afghanistan filling the second half of what would have been LTC Lakin’s deployment.
"On cross-examination, Mr. Puckett established that MAJ Dobson considered his deployment to be professionally rewarding. He testified that it was “a good experience for me,” but distinguished that from its effect on his family. "Speaking of MAJ Dobson’s family, the next government witness was his wife. She testified that she returned from deployment in November 2009. She testified that “we were hoping to expand our family,” a plan that was shelved when her husband received short-notice deployment orders. The two were both signed up to attend the captain’s career course in May 2009 together. Her husband couldn’t go because he had to deploy. She decided not to go either, because her husband’s short-notice deployment was already difficult on their two-year-old son. She didn’t want to exacerbate that impact by leaving for the career course. She also testified that she was awarded a bronze star at a ceremony she scheduled for May so both her and her husband’s family could attend. Her husband had to miss that ceremony due to his unexpected deployment. The defense didn’t cross-examine her."
She seems to have regarded that interaction as his calling her names rather than his telling her to stop what she’s doing.
Hmmmm. Isn't there something in Title 18 about acts "under color of law"?
>He is the sitting President until the Judiciary and Congress say otherwise.
You’re forgetting one other key group: the people.
“The United States Code Annotated includes the Declaration of Independence under the heading ‘The Organic Laws of the United States of America’ along with the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution, and the Northwest Ordinance. Enabling acts frequently require states to adhere to the principles of the Declaration; in the Enabling Act of June 16, 1906, Congress authorized Oklahoma Territory to take steps to become a state. Section 3 provides that the Oklahoma Constitution ‘shall not be repugnant to the Constitution of the United States and the principles of the Declaration of Independence.’”
—[ http://www.nccs.net/newsletter/jun98nl.html ]
If the Declaration of Independence is law, and it WAS codified by Congress 04 Jul 1776, then the following IS law:
“That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.”
If a judge allows only a yes or no answer to “Have you stopped beating your wife”, and then the person, in saying “no”, is found guilty of still beating his wife... that is entrapment.
To deny a person the ability to make the only defense they have is to say that they are either going to admit they are guilty, or be found in contempt of court because they don’t accept the ruling of the judge.
There is no question in my mind at all that Lakin’s due process and Sixth Amendment rights were violated, big-time.
If somebody pleads guilty after not being read their Miranda rights, does their guilty pleading mean that they can’t do anything about the fact that their Miranda rights were violated?
Every communist leader has to make his bones takeing a political prisoner. If he didn’t do this Fidel would be laughing at him.
What a snarky response for An American Hero - who, not thinking of himself, but his country. Perhaps, a person of true character is repellent to you.
I’m not forgetting that. I think about it often. We the People haven’t abolished the current government. Unless and until we do, the current government retains our consent ... and Obama remains the sitting POTUS.
Oh, I’m disobeying orders from Jim because I didn’t lay down and die on this issue?
I’m sorry, but if that’s what is expected here then I’m in the wrong place.
“What should the military do in such a case?”
OMG! I didn't realize that Lakin was ordered to murder Jews!
It was code. You need the special decoder ring. LOL.
Of course. Any criminal lawyer will tell you that. A guilty plea is a waiver of every legal and factual defense, unless it is a conditional plea which expressly reserves the Miranda issue for appeal.
Why did they have Dobson’s wife testify, if the orders were never about Lakin’s deployment?
Ha! So did LtC Lakin until there came a time that no one in his chain of command, or the political channels, could assure him that his orders were, ultimately, legal.
It is a deep conspiracy. Shhh.
She didn't testify at the guilt phase of the trial. her testimony was only at the sentencing phase. A lot more is relevant at that stage than at the guilt phase; that's why Lakin was allowed to testify about Obama's eligibility at the sentencing phase.
That issue DOES, however, have the interesting property of being [generally] democratic in nature: how many people are required to ‘not-consent’ in order to invalidate a government’s existence?
Certainly 90%, but what about 80%?
70%?
60%?
50%?
40%?
30%?
20%?
10%?
05%?
03%?
01%?
How about ten righteous men, God? Will you spare them for ten righteous men?
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