Posted on 11/09/2012 3:19:36 PM PST by John S Mosby
If I recall, it was an army doctor (Col. Lakin) that upheld his sworn oath to defend the Constitution, not a navy seal. You’re all talk, Travis.
That still pisses me off; the case entirely deprived the Col of his right to question the legitimacy of his orders.
(Wrote a thought experiment on it.)
'So then, I believe that I have a fairly solid case in saying that the authority a commander has is indeed derived from their superior, all the way to the president who, as Commander-in-Chief, derives his authority from the Constitution.
Of course The Supreme Court of the United States has never applied the term natural born citizen to any other category than those born in the country of parents who are citizens thereof.
There is not a single member of the military serving today that is doing so lawfully. They serve the Usurper, not the United States of America.
Ah, the experiment part is in the questions asked. I wanted a very solid ground on which to base it, and further arguments, upon.
>Of course The Supreme Court of the United States has never applied the term natural born citizen to any other category than those born in the country of parents who are citizens thereof.
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>There is not a single member of the military serving today that is doing so lawfully. They serve the Usurper, not the United States of America.
That is actually very much the reason I got out: it became apparent to me that the service as-a-whole was not concerned with upholding their oaths to the Constitution. (The other major factor was that I was tired of being lied to, especially on the personal level: "you only need to pass your PT test and you'll get your promotion" -- and then they promote a guy to SGT who had been in as long as I'd been a SPC.)
How can you fight back when you don’t even have the luxury of dying while shooting it out with a SWAT in a raid. A little drone with a little missile is sufficient. Obama will use such. From now on we have to wonder if something like that house in Indianapolis is not the effect of a drone carrying out the kenyan’s determination that the occupant is an enemy of the State, a “Terrorist.” The government doesn’t have to announce or admit anything at all.
Wow, no kidding! I hadn’t been thinking about the drones when I posted on this thread, but that was the first thing I wrote my friend yesterday, after she sent me the Yahoo story on Indianapolis.... It’s horrible times, “V for Vendetta” style.
Simple: 0dinga simply picks up a pen, writes such an executive order, and signs it.
That little "Constitution" thing you're thinking of won't do you a bit of good at 0300 when the BATFags show up at your back door.
FYI:
2009 Nobel Peace Prize nominee Jim Garrow shockingly claims he was told by a top military veteran that the Obama administrations litmus test for new military leaders is whether or not they will obey an order to fire on U.S. citizens.
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