Thread: Barack Obama's citizenship questioned

Originally Posted by [url=http://www.safeguardourconstitution.com/news/update20101214.html

Safeguard Our Constitution[/url]]Today at his Court-Martial, [on Tuesday, Dec. 14,] Army LTC Terry Lakin pled guilty to four specifications of refusing to obey lawful orders, one of which was then dismissed as duplicative. In so doing, he stood before Judge Lind and over and over told her that he was wrong to have disobeyed his orders, which were lawful.

He then pled not guilty to the most severe charge against him, missing the movement of US Air Flight 1123 on 12 April 2010. His sole defense to that charge will be that he was never ordered to board that flight, but instead that his orders required him to report to Ft. Campbell, KY and did not specify the means of transportation.

His new lawyer -- who has not been working with us -- convinced Terry that by changing his strategy and abandoning any argument about Obama's eligibility, he would be able to plead for mercy tomorrow when he is sentenced.

Terry was able today, and will be able tomorrow, to explain that he was motivated by his concerns about eligibility, but of course by pleading guilty he abandons any opportunity to appeal, and thus any chance that the appellate courts would reverse Judge Lind's rulings.

The Lakin case will now never provide an answer to the questions the nation has as to the eligibility of Barack Obama to be Commander-in-Chief. However, Terry cannot be blamed for doing what he believes is in his, and his family's, best interests, and of course Terry had the courage and fortitude to put himself in jeopardy in the first place. We wish him all the best tomorrow as the trial continues to its conclusion.
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Dear Lt Col Lakin, I have been pleased with your stand on the cornerstone of every military members "Oath" and the Constitution. So few civilians can understand that "Lawful Orders" is such a deeply rooted concept that it is in the Oath for Enlistment. This is the very concept that convicted German NCO's in Nuremburg for War Crimes after WWII, for obeying "Unlawful Orders" to execute Jews. It is also behind the concept of Specialist Mike New for refusing to report for deployment wearing the Not Legal UN beret and Flag. That resulted in court martial and discharge, plus many years of appeals that the Supreme Court has "Failed" to hear his case. I have been following your story and praying for the "Justice" to come, while I am supporting the troops by driving in their convoys in Iraq as civilian contractor. My time in service was 32 total, 13 for points and 10 years cumulative active. We can only do so much, thanks for your fighting for all of us. God Bless you and your family.

My very best wishes to Terry Lakin. Of the mass of spineless cowards that make up our American "military", Mr. Lakin rises above them all as he has demonstrated that he is NOT a mindless idiot and exhibits the courage of General Patton (who, let's remember, was murdered BY the "military" medical people in a "military" hospital. Patton knew that our govt was criminal. The rest of us wait... so we can clean up our country.

When Lt. Col. Terry Lakin, MD walks out of the chamber where has has faced a court-martial this week, he will emerge -- regardless of the verdict -- a towering American hero

December 15, 2010

Crucible of a Hero

By Richard Kantro
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When Lt. Col. Terry Lakin, MD walks out of the chamber where he has faced a court-martial this week, he will emerge -- regardless of the verdict -- a towering American hero.

Nothing like the stupendous display which he has mounted -- of principled, sustained self-sacrifice and fearless defiance -- has been seen in decades on the American political stage. Together with the peril of actual battlefield engagement, it ranks alongside the greatest courageous stances even of the American Revolution itself. Patrick Henry, Nathan Hale: those kinds of stances.

This case is of shatteringly great significance, and if you don't know about it, well, you can thank the cowards, commies, and crooks at your favorite mainstream media Bureau of Disinformation, National Desk. Lt. Col. Lakin has been abandoned by the establishment press, dastards and lackeys almost to a one. In a just post-Obama world, there is hope that, one day, there will come the destruction of a thousand shameful careers in what was once journalism -- via abdication by the press of its vital role as Fourth Estate; desertion of its watch as the protector of American liberty; and its own knife-wielding, unforced, alacritous auto-castration.

For historical background and the underpinnings, foundations and history of this case, see Lt. Col. Lakin himself http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/04/ ... ove_1.html and Thomas Lifson, http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/201 ... t_mar.html both in April, 2010; see also, www.safeguardourconstitution.com

Briefly summarized, the issue is this: Earlier this year, Dr. Lakin refused an order -- an agonizing and drastic step for a loyal military man -- to deploy for a second time to Afghanistan, where, in addition to Bosnia, he has already served in dangerous combat areas. Indeed, he announced his refusal to obey any orders from his commanding officers, men he admires and respects, and the contravention of whose directives has caused him significant personal anguish. The reason is the overwhelming doubts and suspicions -- national doubts and suspicions, not just personal ones -- about the egregious likelihood of Barack Hussein Obama's ineligibility to serve as commander-in-chief.

The genesis of these doubts: the failure and probable inability of said Barack Hussein Obama -- he of the reclusive records, wagging forefinger, and sibilant esses -- to release for public delectation a valid Hawaii birth certificate. Despite a lengthy series of gaslighting blandishments on the part of a cadre of partisan sycophants in government and media that such documentation had been shown and that it was time to move on, it is an inarguable fact that no such birth certificate has ever seen the public light of day. The wan attempts to substitute for such signal evidence of citizenship -- a simple document, which millions of Americans routinely must produce -- the so called "certification of live birth", issued in 1961 by the State of Hawaii, is a smokescreen, and a wispy one.

This is all the more outrageous in view of the fact that John McCain, scion of a family of naval officers -- if he were any more American he'd be a bald eagle -- was made the subject of consideration by the august US Senate, which felt it had to take up and pass upon the satisfactoriness of his own natal bona fides.

Yet no reciprocal imprimatur was made of His Oneness -- not by the marshmallow press; not by the Senate; not by the voters; not by the various boards of election; not by any statutes -- which don't exist to begin with -- to enforce natural-bornness; and certainly not by the inscrutably reticent Mr. McCain himself, who threw that fight as surely as any over-the-hill boxer who knows his legs aren't what they used to be and who needs cafeteria money and a hotel room for the week.

In fact, there is more than a certified, long-form birth certificate -- a lot more -- about Barack "Barry Soetoro" Hussein Obama that no one outside of the hermetic world of sworn-to-silence hospital personnel, state vital records workers, and college bursar-level functionaries has ever seen. A partial list would include, in addition, Neolani kindergarten records; the Obama-Dunham marriage license; the Obama-Dunham divorce records; the Soetoro-Dunham marriage license; Soetoro adoption records; the Punahou School application and records; Noelami Elementary School records; the Soetoro-Dunham divorce; consistent selective service registration info; SAT scores; LSAT scores; Occidental College records; financial aid records; passports; Columbia University records; putative Columbia thesis on "Soviet Nuclear Disarmament"; Harvard University records; Harvard Law Review records; any writings as President of the Harvard Law Review beyond one tough anti-fetus fragment; Illinois bar records; certificates of baptism or adoption; medical records; Illinois State Senate records, from 1997-2004, Illinois State Senate schedule; law practice client list while at Davis, Miner, Barnhill and Gallard; University of Chicago scholarly articles; and more. Oh, but we do have a document from the Fransiskus Assisi School in Jakarta, a Catholic institution, which shows him enrolled as Barry Soetoro: as a Muslim and an Indonesian.

I stated at the outset is that Lakin's stature is assured despite the verdict. Here's why. The charges are (i) that he missed his deployment flight; and (ii) conduct unbecoming an officer. He has, in the early stages of his trial, been denied discovery, and the presentation of witnesses, evidence, or argument in defense of his position. That position necessarily goes to the heart of whether Obama should hold the White House keys. Conviction on the charges seems inescapable. The military court is not likely to risk uncovering an inconvenient truth about the acting President, if there be one. Were Lakin to be exonerated -- which seems all but impossible -- then the tribunal would be staring in the face the propriety of all things Obama, a task far too sensitive for it. And the question of his provenance would fairly beg itself into being before Court could adjourn. And on the other hand, if Lakin is convicted, well, society will be no closer to probing the mystery of the guarded origins and persona of the Commander-in-Thief. Which will make doubly urgent Lakin's reach for the grail of truth, and for others to take up his cause.

Among all the comfortable, set-for-life politicos, officials, appointees, careerists, officeholders, aides-de-camp, campaigners, supporters, friends and hangers-on in and during the Obama era, there has not been a single high-level, principled resignation. No stand in protest of what, if Obama's position is the usurpation it could be, the most devious high crime ever perpetrated by and against American government. Lakin's honorable course is a rebuke to today's so-called leaders, who, cowering in suspense, would not all taken together approach the equal of this man.

Terry Lakin is putting at risk his own life; his own fortune; and his own sacred honor. He has invited his own court-martial, scorn, possible conviction, and disapprobation; loss of rank, position, and pension; loss of the future; danger to family and impoverishment; and possible hard jail time at Leavenworth. All this for the exalted goal of fealty to a Constitution his every step of the way towards protecting which is blocked by the government that administered the oath he took, and which oath he must contravene, only to be able to honor it in the extreme. The greatness of battlefield valor notwithstanding, this is bravery of another order.

This is the kind of courage -- after the crawling, burrowing, light-averse invertebrates of the political landscape have long since slithered away and vanished -- that gets statues of a man built in public squares. This kind of courage gets folk songs and laureate poems written for a man, and they will be written for him. This kind of courage guarantees -- even a hundred years from now -- that parents will still be proud to give their little boys names like Terrence Lakin Jones.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/12/ ... _hero.html

Army ‘Birther’ Pleads Guilty at Trial

December 14, 2010
Military.com|by Bryant Jordan
http://www.military.com/news/article/ar ... ESRC=eb.nl

FORT MEADE, Md. -- Lieutenant Col. Terry Lakin, the Army surgeon who has morphed into the poster child for the so-called "birther" movement, pleaded guilty at a court-martial this morning to violating military law by failing to report for pre-deployment processing at Fort Campbell, Ky.

But in a courtroom at this sprawling base just outside Washington, D.C., Lakin fought a single charge of missing movement by deliberately skipping his April flight to Fort Campbell from Baltimore-Washington Airport in Maryland. Lakin was to report at the Kentucky post of the 32nd Cavalry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, in preparation for deployment to Afghanistan.

"I wrongly chose to disobey all orders," Lakin told Judge Col. Denise R. Lind, who questioned him at length before accepting his guilty plea. Lakin drew a distinction between the charge he pleaded guilty to -- failing to report for duty -- and the charge of missing movement by skipping the flight to Fort Campbell.

Lakin refused to deploy to Afghanistan this summer because he maintains that if Obama is not legally eligible to be commander-in-chief and therefore any orders he issues would be unlawful.

Whether or not Lakin is convicted on the one remaining charge, he still faces a maximum of 18 months in jail, separation from the Army, and loss of all pay and allowances. One of the four counts of disobeying orders was subsequently dismissed by the court because the same charge is incorporated into one of the other counts. Had the conviction remained he would be looking at an additional six months confinement.

Lakin admitted he disobeyed orders to report to superior officers.

"But my orders to Fort Campbell were for the purposes of deployment," he said, arguing since those deployment orders were illegitimate, he was justified in not following them.

The Army has argued that Lakin's trial is about his disobeying orders, including his failing to report for deployment, and nothing to do with the president.

So-called "birthers" maintain that Obama has not satisfactorily proven he is a "natural born" citizen, and that the birth certificate his campaign presented to the public more than two years ago is bogus. Many claim he was born in Kenya, his father's homeland.

The birther cause did make it into discussion, however, as Lakin spent more than an hour answering Lind's questions about his decision to plead guilty to failing to report for duty.

Lakin spoke in low tones throughout the morning session, sometimes with long pauses before answering a question or pausing mid-sentence. Around the time he refused orders to meet with several superiors, he said, he was dealing with advice from legal counsel and was wrestling with his own conscience and personal beliefs.

Lakin's parents and two brothers were among those seated in the courtroom, as was Orly Taitz, the Russian-born Israeli émigré to the U.S. who has filed numerous lawsuits in an attempt to force Obama to release documents related to his birth in Hawaii.

During a break in the proceedings this morning, Taitz told reporters that trials in the old Soviet Union were more just than what was happening in Lakin's case. She accused the judge of trying to "put words in [Lakin's] mouth" and get him to acknowledge that his deployment orders were lawful. She also claimed Lind's previous rulings in the case excluded witnesses Lakin wanted to call and discovery of documents related to Obama's birth.

Though the court-martial is not going to weigh Lakin's arguments about Obama, the colonel's brother said Lakin "is looking forward to making a statement at the end of the trial."

"He has always had strong convictions," Greg Lakin said. "I'm not saying we all [in the family] support the decision he chose, but we support him."

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"His new lawyer -- who has not been working with us -- convinced Terry that by changing his strategy and abandoning any argument about Obama's eligibility, he would be able to plead for mercy tomorrow when he is sentenced."
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I can't remember EVER hearing legal advice MORE STUPID than what LTCOL Lakin's 'new' lawyer has given him. Just when did get out of law school, LAST NIGHT?!

Lakin, having taken his first step, and then going all the way to this Moment of Truth, and then getting told to toss it all in and 'hope for the best'.

They should have evidence up the kazoo about how the Green HI certification has/is/and will be issued to non-HI births. Along with MORE about real BC's that have been issued by HI for births from the 1960's.

Talk about incompetence! I'm going off somewhere and scream. DAMNITT

Originally Posted by MMCDC007

"His new lawyer -- who has not been working with us -- convinced Terry that by changing his strategy and abandoning any argument about Obama's eligibility, he would be able to plead for mercy tomorrow when he is sentenced."
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I can't remember EVER hearing legal advice MORE STUPID than what LTCOL Lakin's 'new' lawyer has given him. Just when did get out of law school, LAST NIGHT?!

Lakin, having taken his first step, and then going all the way to this Moment of Truth, and then getting told to toss it all in and 'hope for the best'.

They should have evidence up the kazoo about how the Green HI certification has/is/and will be issued to non-HI births. Along with MORE about real BC's that have been issued by HI for births from the 1960's.

Talk about incompetence! I'm going off somewhere and scream. DAMNITT

The odds were against Lakin from the beginning. It could be he was set up with this new attorney, who, like a civilian public defense attorney, only knows how to plead out - they don't teach them how to win cases.

This case is meant (by DoD) to be a lesson to other military personnel who would consider the subject of Obama's eligibility important.

Welcome to ALIPAC MMCDC007

There is an article on military.com discussing Lakin's situation - boy is there a mixed bunch over there.

http://www.military.com/news/article/ar ... trial.html

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Might as well BURN the Constitution Now!!!!
We have NO MORE JUSTICE in this ONCE GREAT NATION!
Please tell me, when did THE TRUTH become a Losing Strategy?
For Gods sake... They would NOT even let him hold Discovery, Call Witnesses.
This is OUR MILLITARY?

Please Heavenly Father, Save Us...Give Us Wisdom...Give Us Strength to
Be Victorious in This, Our Greatest Battle...

This case is meant (by DoD) to be a lesson to other military personnel who would consider the subject of Obama's eligibility important.

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The feedback that I have from the VERY SMALL SAMPLE of folks I hear from on active duty is that there ARE INDEED others who have at least 'considered' action.

Will they go anywhere with it, who knows? And like I say, very small sample.

This issue WILL see the light of day, and everything about it says we're all gonna be amazed to learn what Bozo's big secret is. It's foretold by the the 14th century reasoning in Occam's Razor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor

When it's proven that he wasn't born in HI, we're gonna witness the damnedest series of events this illiterate unwashed heathen has ever seen. All the laws he signed: VOID? USSC appointments? Ditto. On and on. And what about prosecution of those who put him into the office, KNOWING that he didn't meet the criteria? Trial(s) of the MILLENNIUM, here we come.

Originally Posted by PatriotofPast

Might as well BURN the Constitution Now!!!!
We have NO MORE JUSTICE in this ONCE GREAT NATION!
Please tell me, when did THE TRUTH become a Losing Strategy?
For Gods sake... They would NOT even let him hold Discovery, Call Witnesses.
This is OUR MILLITARY?

Please Heavenly Father, Save Us...Give Us Wisdom...Give Us Strength to
Be Victorious in This, Our Greatest Battle...

I am talking in general terms here, not just specifically to this case. I have noticed when it comes to our legal system, two words have been erased. These words are truth and accident.

Truth no longer matters, winning does. I have watched prosecutors who KNOW someone is innocent, but have enough circumstantial evidence that if they omit some and twist the rest they can get a conviction and they go for it. Whether or not someone is actually guilty is a mute point.

Accident is also no longer in our language. If something goes wrong, even if unintended, someone must criminally pay. A child climbs a tree and falls out and breaks a leg. When we were kids it would be put in a cast and life would go on.....now parents are charged with child endangerment for allowing him to climb the tree to begin with. In my town, a woman left her child with a sitter and went to work. The three year old wandered off and was found by a neighbor in the middle of the street. The mother is being charged for neglect because of bad judgment in sitters! Our legal system has gone insane.