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Dr. (Maj.) Terry Lakin, the flight surgeon for 3rd Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment, examines the partially amputated finger of an Afghan man who assists in collecting unexploded ordnance at Kandahar Airfield. Lakin was selected as the Army Medical Department’s Flight Surgeon of the Year for 2004.
Tonight — the results of the court-martial at Fort Meade, MD. from someone who was there — Dr. Kate Vandermoer joins us on
The Andrea Shea King Show with a full report.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/askshow/2010/12/15/the-andrea-shea-king-show
Today is the day Army Ltc. Terry Lakin (M.D.) has his day in court, such that it is. There is little faith that the Army surgeon will receive the justice merited him and every other United States citizen.
Here’s the background from the PostEMail:
On March 30, 2010, Lakin announced in a video that he could no longer comply with any orders issued from his military superiors, as his question regarding the eligibilityof the putative commander-in-chief had gone unanswered for more than a year.
Lakin’s decision was based on the fact that no conclusive proof that Obama was born in Hawaii, as he claims, has ever been presented. Rather, evidence exists which points to a birth in Kenya as claimed by Atty. Philip Berg in a lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania which eventually reached the U.S. Supreme Court but was dismissed.
There have been several reports in African newspapers that Obama was born in Kenya or Tanzania, and his wife Michelle has also described Kenya as Obama’s “home country.” How, then, can he be considered a “natural born Citizen” in keeping with the U.S. Constitution’s requirement for President and Commander-in-Chief?
Some arguments state that since Obama’s father was never a U.S. citizen, that alone disqualifies him from “natural born” status. Others have asked if Obama, having been born of a British citizen father and presumably an American mother, can be eligible based on his dual citizenship, which Obama has freely admitted to having.
There is also the issue of his possible Indonesian citizenship and whether or not that expired or was forfeited by Obama when he reached the age of majority.
The American Patriot Foundation, which has lent its support to Lt. Col. Lakin’s case, states that “only citizens who are “natural born” Americans are eligible for election to the presidency…if Barack Obama was born outside of the United States, he cannot constitutionally hold the office to which he was elected in 2008. This status is only established at birth, and can never be won or gained.”
Our prayers are with this brave American patriot.
This came to me by email this morning. I think you’ll agree that the writer puts it all in perspective. Thank God we have such men as these.
12-13-10
Lt.Colonel Terrence LakinDear Colonel Lakin,
May many prayers rise to Heaven on your behalf tomorrow in Court.
Below is a citation taken from a book which I bought many years ago and have just re-read it about two weeks ago. Entitled “But Not In Shame” by author John Toland (copyright 1961) it covers the first six months of WW II in the Pacific, from Pearl Harbor to Midway. A particular paragraph (page 290) caught my attention. It concerns General MacArthur’s instructions from President Roosevelt to leave The Philippines (with Japanese occupation imminent) and to go to Australia.
General MacArthur said he was leaving The Philippines “only because of insistent, repeated orders from President Roosevelt. At first he had told his staff he would refuse, but they convinced him that defying The President’s direct order would bring disciplinary action.”
Colonel, no one told General MacArthur that he should only concern himself about obeying orders from his immediate superior, which is what the Army told you about your challenging Barack Obama’s presidential eligibility. If the President (Roosevelt) spoke they felt that General MacArthur was obligated to obey his order. All of this, however, was under the belief that President Roosevelt was properly vetted and had been eligible to the Office of President.
In Obama’s case, however, millions of Americans do not believe that he was lawfully elected President yet he refuses to provide any legitimate proof of eligibility to anyone and has not even extended the courtesy of responding to your multiple letters to him; letters which simply asked him to prove his eligibility.
Nothing Obama does will tarnish your bronze star which gleams thanks to your standing up for the United States Constitution and Country.
God willing, may America stand up and thank you for your service by preventing the injustice looming before you.
With kindest regards and admiration,
Robert Quinn
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I have contacted you before and brought forth the U Tube video where Obama said OUT OF HIS OWN MOUTH….I was born in Kenya and my family has been Muslim for generations. This is impossible for me to believe that American citizens by the Millions also say the U Tube Video. Obama has fooled us all and his Muslim backers are trying to figure out what to do with all this new found power. Our brave Dr. who is challenging this needs the U Tube Video to present at his trail. End of Issue. Then we will find out just how far this conspiracy has taken over our constitutional Democracy
Hahahahahahaha! What a loser! Got what he deserved! Lets have as many as possible of these types come forth and proclaim their beliefs re our lawfully elected POTUS so that we can clean house.
What a disgrace to the uniform and to the memories of ALL who have served honorably since the Republic was founded.
Do you have ANY IDEA of the effort that it takes to become qualified as a military flight surgeon, and then to take those skills into a combat zone??!
Do you realize that Lt. Col. Lakin had originally VOLUNTEERED to perform a SECOND combat tour in Afghanistan? (And, that’s on top of one in Bosnia.)
Unless you just happen to be Ben Casey, George Washington, and Johnny Rambo, all rolled into one, then you are not qualified to refer to LTC Lakin as “a disgrace to the uniform”. That is a term that is not bandied around much by REAL soldiers.
What have you done to earn the right to talk that way about him?? Hmmmmmm?
I happen to know a little something about the application of military law. (I enforced it for 12 of my 16 years in uniform.) The real secret to proving that Lakin’s court-martial was a complete sham lies in what they did NOT charge him with. I’ll be sitting on that secret for awhile — until his appeal is filed.
Hint: Obama knows that HE has not earned the right to confront Lakin. That’s why he kept his mouth shut.
Andrea,
Before the current occupier (NOT occupant) of the White House went through the inauguration ceremony (notice that I did not say that he was “inaugurated”, but only that he went through the ceremony — and forgot the words to a short oath), I predicted that this would happen.
“The Obama Oxymoron”
http://tomkovach.us/blog/2009/01/the_obama_oxymoron.html
There are two surprises that it happened this way:
1. It was an officer.
2. It was a doctor.
I fully expected that the military member that puts Obama’s legitimacy to the test would more likely have been either:
1. One of the enlisted Blue Berets that guards Air Force One.
2. One of the enlisted Marine sentries that guards Marine One.
Regardless of the “who” (and LTC Lakin is certainly a sterling example of “the right person”), the problem now is in the “how”. The court-martial judge is openly violating the Manual for Courts-Martial, which specifies that a military member is OBLIGATED TO REFUSE any order that is beleived to be unlawful, and that such refusal is an affirmative defense to a charge of disobeying a lawful order. (This is fully referenced in the above-linked column.)
I once enforced an inverse case of this while OFF-duty in Korea, and against two visiting Naval officers, no less. In that case, the officers had an affirmative duty to take action in a particular situation (about 40 drunken sailors destroying an Air Force shuttle bus), but the two officers sat silently and did nothing. Military law relies heavily upon the state of mind of the accused, and upon the “affirmative duty” concept. So, the fact that the judge has barred LTC Lakin from using his clearly-stated affirmative duty as an affirmative defense is almost unbelievable. (The only reason it is believable is because so many dupes have already fallen on their swords in so many areas of life to prop up this illegal-alien usurper.)
Lesser men (or women) might have crumbled by now. It is a testimony to LTC Terry Lakin’s character that he is soldiering on in the face of this unethical, illegal, and clearly un-American onslaught of misused authority.
If the Lord ever allows me to become president (or to serve a good president, such as Alan Keyes), then putting Terry Lakin into a Pentagon job with the word “secretary” in the title (along with Allen West and Michael Behenna) would be high on my to-do list. There, they could work to undo the damage done by “the other Bozo from Chicago”.
I can’t believe you birthers are still spouting this crap. go get a job, and the LTC is a disgrace to the uniform. As a retire vet, I find this knucklehead a spoiled little brat who has something against our President. Maybe we should try building this country before some other entity takes control. Keep screwing the pooch and the party will be over.
There’s no evidence that Obama is a natural born citizen of the United States. There is a lot of evidence that he was born in Mombassa, Kenya. You are spouting crap because you’re so in love with this unqualified, smooth talking failed community organizer who was not vetted because he’s black, can usually speak well only on a teleprompter, rarely without one, & he’s a Marxist. If he were a Republican he would never have been allowed to run.
Emotional epithets: proof that a liberal is out of logical ammunition.
For one so full of advice, you should’ve known that the correct grammar would be “as a retired vet”, given that the verb is in the past tense.
Thank you for your service — even though you apparently did not progress high enough to have developed a good understanding of the Constitution that all troops swear to support and defend. Lakin was doing his DUTY by resisting an UNLAWFUL order from an ILLEGAL occupier of a Restricted Area. Look up the regulations on that: “use of deadly force is authorized”.
You probably didn’t even bother to read the above-linked column, which quotes directly from the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the Manual for Courts-Martial.
And, as you apparently have not noticed, “some other entity” HAS taken over: a Muslim Communist illegal alien that is backed by big-money globalists that hate America.
We “birthers” are simply trying to take our country BACK, and to compel those in government to OBEY the Constitution.
How can any American argue with that???
Secret power with secret agenda always leads to the destruction of those who practice such behavior. Obama is so full of secrets that there is know doubt that there is deceit at the heart of his presidency. Secret powers lead to abuse of power. Our democratic form of gov. is suppose to protect us from such abuse power,its failed. Obamas backers have hidden agendas and that is reason enough to get rid of Obama before Obama get rid of us. There is no one who has the power to confront this except the Governors of the states or the Military. It has come down to that. I want my peoples democracy back and I want all this secret stuff exposed and laid bare for all to see. Then I want all those who have participated in this fraud needs to run for the borders.!!!!
We have been betrayed.
Lakin has betrayed us. He has broken his solemn word to us, and now is groveling before the feet of his accusers. He should have been willing to go to jail for 15 years if necessary, in order to deny the unlawful commands of the Great Usurper.
Was he false in the first place? Is he false now? He has betrayed the movement for Proof of Eligibility. If he had courage, he would have stood tall in the dock. Instead, he has crept small in the mock.
The movement has been seriously damaged. We must — must — find another military patriot willing to risk jail in order to deny the Usurper! If only Orly Taitz were a man… SHE would be willing to go to jail, at any cost. She is so brave. She is not all talk. She is all action.
We need more patriots, and less compatriots.
Hark! Do I hear a voice from a Fifth Column??
I once spent a day in jail for a cause that I fought for.
And, I lost my military career for standing up to a corrupt commander.
But, unless you have stood in that very small and remote spot, you cannot imagine what it’s like to watch your entire world come crashing down upon you and your friends abandon you day by day.
I’m disappointed by the past two days’ turns of events during the court-martial proceedings, but Lakin is still an American hero. He was already one long before his public stance on eligibility, and he will remain one long after semi-anonymous online stone throwers have shriveled into total obscurity.
For those that agree, please click here to support the Lakin family.
http://tomkovach.us/Causes/Lakin/Lakin–HELP.html
For those that disagree, I leave these Teddy Roosevelt quotes — in hope that reading them will innoculate you into an elevated level of testosterone.
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“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
“Citizenship in a Republic,”
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
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“…the man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic-the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done.” (1891)