Posted on 12/14/2010 5:17:22 AM PST by JLWORK
The trial of Lt. Colonel Terry Lakin begins today at Fort Meade, Maryland. Lakin, a Flight Surgeon with a Bronze Star, is accused of failing to obey orders to deploy to Afghanistan – until Barack Obama proves his Constitutional eligibility to hold his office. You can watch an interview with Lakin’s attorney, Neal Puckett, that was posted on December 10, 2010 at Western Journalism’s website here:
http://www.westernjournalism.com/video-of-the-day-lt-col-lakin%E2%80%99s-lawyer-on-obama%E2%80%99s-eligibility/
WorldNetDaily, led by Joseph Farah, has followed this story closely. Today WND reports that the defense strategy is now to minimize the punishment that will be meted out to the accused, as Mr. Puckett has stated that the chances for an acquittal of Lt. Colonel Lakin are very remote. From WND’s report comes this:
“…”What we’re aiming for, for Lt. Col. Lakin, is … to convince the jury on Tuesday or Wednesday of next week to let him go home and spend the holidays with his family and not send him to jail. And I think that’s a possible outcome,” said Puckett.
Puckett called on Lakin’s supporters to start thinking about what will happen to the decorated flight surgeon after the court martial. “If he loses his career in the Army, and if by losing his career in the Army his career as a doctor is put into jeopardy, he still has to support his family financially.”
“If he is viewed as a hero by some for taking a stand, and he has to suffer because of that, people need to think ‘Because he did that for me, what can I do for him?’”…”
For readers who wish to receive updates as the trial proceeds, Safeguard Our Constitution will post them as they become available:
http://www.safeguardourconstitution.com/
The question is, if one is a believer as I am in what the Framers gave us when they wrote the Constitution, – should the Commander In Chief be required to unlock all of his heretofore sealed life’s records – the same documents that I had to release in order to become a career American police officer? He has spent a couple of million dollars in legal fees to conceal a fifteen dollar birth certificate. Why?
Don’t look for this story to be covered in the big media. They’re ignoring it. Terry Lakin is standing tall today.
Hopefully his affairs are in order. Failure to deploy to Afghanistan is not going to look good to the jury regardless of the reason. He probably will have military members on the jury that have been to Afghanistan numerous times and perhaps even had to go because someone went UA. Yes I know it is about the Birth Certificate but you have to be realistic and see it from the military members point of view. This guy caused someone else to have to deploy on a last minute order.
Agreed. He disobeyed his orders and is probably going to prison for it. Whether or not the CIC Constitutionally eligible is a question that still needs an answer, if Lakin is in or out of prison.
Best,
JW
And all the men killing Afghan/Paks and others - and themselves dying in Afghanistan - are being ordered there by an illegitimate CinC and under invalid orders. An imposter.
“This guy” has already pulled a tour to SWA, I believe. He is no coward or slacker. He swore an oath to obey the orders of authorities lawfully appointed over him. No one has ever proved that obama is that authority. A $10 certified long form birth certificate would suffice to end all this.
Proving his dual citizenship is our best shot at undoing the damage. Relying on Congress to “fix” healthcare, defang the IRS, EPA, FDA, etc. is the same as wishing it away. There is nothing wrong with electing another CFR-approved elitist to the WH, as we’ve had plenty, but they need to be over 35 years old and a natural born citizen, meaning a citizen of this country and this country only, from birth.
I’m no constitutional scholar, but even I can surmise that the Founders wanted the office of POTUS to be held only by citizens who were loyal to the US only, for obvious reasons. Our usurper-in-chief doesn’t even *like* the US. Loyalty? C’mon.
God Bless those who are risking so much to prove his ineligibility.
Obama needs to be arrested, tried for treason and brought to justice by a jury of military families who lost loved ones due to Obama’s insane rules of engagement.
The man is being denied a defense.
How Constitutional is that?
Pray for Obama. Psalm 109:8-9
Every day I pray that God would strike down the evil that afflicts America in the persons of Obama and his minions and replace them with Godly men and women so that we would once again be a nation under God.
Lt Col Lakin is a brave man.
Libs, this is what speaking ‘Truth to Power’ looks like: an honorable man risking his career and livelihood for The People.
I bet Hollywood won’t be making a movie about Lakin, unlike that hysterical Plame nonsense.
You are exactly correct. There is a reason the requirement says NBC is required for both President and VP, notice that it is NOT required for other offices. Only common sense would tell you that NBC and Citizen are not one and the same.
Obama is NOT a NBC, I don’t care if he was born in the Oval Office! Dad was NOT a citizen.....he is a dual citizen!!
How many lawyers are involved in Government, from the local levels through DC? Not one thought to question his duel citizenship and why he was even on the ballot! The only reason I can think of was because he was part black. They threw aside a stated requirement to be PC. Cowards all of them!!!
I’m a retired 05 and my son is a serving career soldier(E9 Command Sergeant Major). I am confident LTC Lakin is doing something many on active duty would like to do. They do not have the courage and/or ability (they have to feed and house their families) to do it.
But that is not the issue. The issue here is a legal one: Is the man occupying the WH a legitimate Commander-in-Chief. The Army must prove he is to convict Lakin on anything. If it is unable to do so, the case is finally made that Onada is not a legitimate CinC let alone president.
Don’t know your military background. But in my experience Court Martial panels take seriously their responsibilities as defined by the UCMJ. The issue you raise is emotional not legal. Whatever bias a person on the panel may have for or against Lakin will play little or no part in the final verdict. That must be based facts.
Despite the public perception of Court Martails being being “lets get the trial over and hang the SOB” events, on balance they are exponentially fairer to the accused than civilian trials.
For one thing panel selection is not the circus it is in civilian courts. Challenges by both the prosecution and defense are pretty much limited to questions for cause—i.e. conflict of interest or whatever. Also, officers being court martialed will be judged by a panel of their peers. This virtually guarantees a panel of educated officers deciding the accused’s fate. You simply don’t get the dumbed down juries produced by civilian courts.
You might ask yourself why the Army is even pushing this trial. If the Army wanted to, for example, it could have quietly Chaptered him out of the Army.
That is indeed an issue, but not one relevant to the charges Lakin is facing. He is not charged with disobeying Obama's orders or orders to deploy to Afghanistan. He is charged with disobeying the orders of two of his superior officers and with disobeying orders to report for duty with a unit it Kentucky. Lakin's intent may be noble and his goal of getting Obama to prove his eligibility may be something we can all agree with. But the manner he chose to accomplish it was inept at best. As a retired O-5, as I am myself, you are aware of the definition of lawful orders. Lakin chose to disobey the lawful orders of three of his superior officers. He has to pay the penalty for that decision.
I guess the key to this trial is what the charges are and how they are spelled out.
The key to the trial is that Colonel Lind, the presiding JAG, for whatever legal reasons at her disposal, has ruled that Lakin cannot present any witnesses or evidence to support his decision to disobey the orders - nor can he present any evidence by virtue of subpoenas for documentary or eye-witness testimonial evidence, that might answer the eligibility question.
According to my best source, her decision is legally sound, if not satifactory to Lakin and to us who would like to know the truth about this man, Obama. Personally, I do not see how Lakin’s chain of command ends at the Pentagon. But that is Lind’s ruling and she is the presiding JAG.
Best wishes,
JW
They are right here
Re: Failure to deploy to Afghanistan is not going to look good to the jury regardless of the reason.
You do know that Lakin has already served a tour in Afghanistan?
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