LTC Lakin Physically Threatened by Prosecutor

American Patriot Foundation, Inc ^ | August 12, 2010 | American Patriot Foundation, Inc

[Louis Foxwell]

...the best chance he has of retiring with some kind of pension.

I do not believe he is concerned about his pension. As difficult as this may be to understand, the man is acting, if his words are to be believed, out of a commitment to do what is morally correct, and in the process placing his personal interests at risk. A reversal would not satisfy his concerns.

[longtermmemmory]

Nifong II?

[FreeStateYank]

...the best chance he has of retiring with some kind of pension. I agree with you that Lakin is not doing this for the purpose of salvaging a pension. However, from what I understand, military courts are a different animal than civilian courts. If the judge is sympathetic, but feels the case cannot be won on the merits, maybe this is a way of seeing Lakin isn't permanently hosed?

[bjorn14]

LTC Lakin just wants the chance to be proven right or wrong. If he’s wrong then so be it, but if he’s right. HALLELUIA!!

[Non-Sequitur]

LTC Lakin just wants the chance to be proven right or wrong. If he’s wrong then so be it, but if he’s right. HALLELUIA!!

He picked the wrong forum to do it in. He'll be convicted and the question of Obama's eligibility will never enter into it.

[Celtic Conservative]

That LTC Brodsky is a real JAGOFF-icer.

CC

[Uncle Chip]

This entire case has never been anything but a stunt.

So is everything your post here on this forum.

[FreeAtlanta]

They would if he was black and he was protesting George Dubya Bush or Sarah Palin.

I am sick of the JournOlist co-conspirators.

[El Sordo]

“He will become a John Brown...”

A religious fanatic who murders in the name of his cause and is captured and hanged after seizing a military armory?

[El Sordo]

“I do not believe he is concerned about his pension.”

He will be if the book deal doesn’t come through.

[Louis Foxwell]

Cynicism is the handmaiden of Progressivism.

[El Sordo]

I’d argue exactly the opposite.

[Pilsner]

if his words are to be believed, out of a commitment to do what is morally correct, and in the process placing his personal interests at risk.

I had a good friend in college whose older brother vowed to trim neither his beard, nor the hair on his head, until Apartheid ended in South Africa. He kept that vow for several years. I don't doubt that he felt what he was doing was morally correct. And believe me, walking around looking like Rip Van Winkle, he darn sure put his personal interests at risk. But eventually he "figgered out" that not only was he not ending Apartheid, by walking around with hair that looked like and explosion in a string factory, and a beard that would appall ZZ Top, but by associating the attempt to do so with himself, and his appearance, he was making his cause look ridiculous.

I don't doubt LTC Lakin's good faith, or willingness to suffer for his beliefs, I just know that he isn't going to advance the stated goals of Birtherism, by getting court martialed. My friend's brother eventually visited a barbershop, and came out looking no shaggier than a lot of guys on a college campus. LTC Lakin is going to have a lot harder time getting his pension back.

[Louis Foxwell]

I’d argue exactly the opposite.

I have no doubt you would. Cynicism is not, however, born of higher principles. It grows out of a denial that principles have sufficient power to overcome corruption. Progressives are overtly supportive of corruption, reflecting a rejection of principle. Some self proclaimed conservatives are cynical about the ability of good to overcome evil. If you fall into the latter group I encourage you to risk taking a positive attitude toward the power of the American Spirit to rise up and motivate a sufficient number of people to bring about a national recomitment to genuine Constitutional government.