Posted on 12/09/2010 8:42:45 PM PST by wintertime
“What does it have to do with the charges Lakin is facing? “
You learned very well from another “Navy” fellow. I can easily picture you standing in line behind John sKerry, and helping him by throwing your “brazz” medals (if you ever got any)-? over the fence at the W.H.!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p4PWvH_g70&feature=player_embedded#!
And on what grounds did you determine that Colonel Roberts and Lieutenant Colonel Judd lacked the authority to order Lakin to report to his brigade commander's office, or that Colonel McHugh lacked the authority to order Lakin to report for duty with a unit in Kentucky?
The orders that Lakin disobeyed were all contained within his order to deploy - a Temporary Change of Station that was to begin by him reporting to KY.
False. Read the charge sheet.
If Joe Biden is the only one who can “act as President” and he didn’t order the 30,000 additional troops, then the brigade commanders were not authorized to issue those deployment orders.
Still on your 'Joe Biden is President' nonsense I see.
And how will I ever be able to live with your disapproval?
You learned very well from another “Navy” fellow.
I didn't catch what branch of the military you served in. What was it again?
All the orders Lakin disobeyed were included as part of his Temporary Change of Station - a deployment order for combat in Afghanistan, which a brigade commander is not authorized to order without the decision of “the President”, according to SJ Res 23.
As per Article 92 - again, the CORRECT and ONLY Article under which Lakin can be charged in this instance - the orders Lakin received from those superior commissioned officers are not lawful if they were not authorized by “the President” as required by SJ Res 23.
Whether Obama is permitted by the Constitution to “act as President” or whether Joe Biden is required to “act as President” is absolutely critical, because Obama supported the surge and Biden opposed it.
Really, since you spend so much time to defend your dear leader (Fuehrer), the illegal alien and usurper in the W.H., you should have been able to catch it, it has been posted a few times, so just go and look for it!!!
BTW, when was the last time you consulted with your "hero" and mentor John sKerry???
Non-Squat = John Kerry = Bradley Manning = all like the smell from a Limburger cheese!!!
No they were not. Read the charge sheet.
As per Article 92 - again, the CORRECT and ONLY Article under which Lakin can be charged in this instance - the orders Lakin received from those superior commissioned officers are not lawful if they were not authorized by “the President” as required by SJ Res 23.
So the president has to specifically authorize an order to report to one's brigade commander's office? He must be a busy, busy man then. It's a wonder President Bush ever got anything else done, what with all the order authorizing he had to do every day.
Whether Obama is permitted by the Constitution to “act as President” or whether Joe Biden is required to “act as President” is absolutely critical, because Obama supported the surge and Biden opposed it.
But irrelevant to the charges Lakin is facing.
Show me the orders he disobeyed that were not part of the Temporary Change of Station.
Reporting to KY was in the TCS. Show me the copies of the other orders he’s accused of disobeying.
As long as one of the charges against him was for disobeying something on the TCS, he has the right to defend himself of that charge - and that includes any evidence regarding whether that order was lawful, which includes whether it is Obama or Biden who can authorize the “surge”, because if it’s Biden who alone can authorize it, then the orders on the TCS are not lawful and he is not guilty of violating Article 90 on that charge.
The only way Article 92 even applies is if the order is a general order or regulation, since 92(2) is outside the scope for a lawful order from a superior commissioned officer. Are you claiming that an order to report to a brigade commander’s office is a general order or regulation?
I imagine those would be the ones he just pleaded guilty on.
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