Army Birther Terry Lakin Faces Court Martial

[sabra]

Source: CBS News

Lt. Col. Terry Lakin, an army doctor, is facing a court martial for refusing to go to Afghanistan because he has not seen a copy of the president's birth certificate.

Lakin is a "birther," a group that does not believe that President Obama was born in the United States despite extensive evidence to the contrary. He said he considers any orders from the president, who is the military's commander in chief, to be "illegal."

Lakin did not report to Fort Campbell, Ky., this week for deployment, opting instead to go to the Pentagon, where, as MSNBC reports, he was informed by his brigade commander, Col. Gordon Roberts, that he would face court martial. His was also stripped of a pass to enter the Pentagon and a government laptop computer.

In a video posted to YouTube last month, Lakin said, "I believe all servicemen and women, and the American people, deserve the truth about President Obama's constitutional eligibility to the office of the presidency and the commander in chief." He promised to "disobey" orders to deploy and acknowledge he was "inviting" court martial.

"The minimal invasion to any politician's privacy from having to show an original, signed birth certificate is far less than the harms to our country by someone not qualified whose election would thus subvert the law and the truth," he said.

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[rurallib]

1. Well, looks like Mr. Lakin will now learn the truth.

But watch how all his supporters help him out! NOT.

[tsuki]

2. Did he follow the orders of his superiors up to the time of his deployment?

[FSogol]

3. Subvert the law and the truff

:rofl:

[TacticalPeek]

4. I hear meals in the stockade are really for shit.

Think of it as a way to trim some fat, soldier, especially between your ears.

[krispos42]

5. And yet, he was mysteriously quiet after the selection of Bush by the Supremes.

Interesting.

[TheDebbieDee]

8. Exactly. Where was this yahoo in the run-up to the Iraqi invasion?

[Bette Noir]

6. Interesting, how those cowardly dickwads always call on the Constitution

to justify their cowardice and dickwad-iness.

He was perfectly happy to serve and draw a paycheck, until he was going to be at risk. Well, give him a dishonorable discharge, and make him pay back the cost of educating him.

[Catshrink]

7. Make that "selectively call on the Constitution"

only when it helps them otherwise they're content to stomp the crap out it.

[Bitwit1234]

9. Wonder what he will do in Leavenworth...

pray he isn't put in with a big old bad guy.

[caraher]

10. Stay strong Col. Lakin...

Even if they show you a birth certificate, how do you know it's not a forgery? No, the only principled stand involves going to jail for your beliefs, you proud patriot!

P.S. I'm sure you insisted Bush show you the birth certificate, too, right? Where does Obama get off demanding special treatment?

P.P.S. I'm sure you also don't follow orders just because someone else shows up bearing the insignia of higher rank, either... but demand documentation that they truly are the person their uniform represents.

[struggle4progress]

11. "... Hey soldier, a Hawaiian birth certificate is close enough for government work ..."

from the following very conservative Daily Scoreboard
http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/archives/12300