Lt. Col. Lakin
Lt. Col. Lakin
—is a true American hero.
The Lieutenant Colonel is facing a court martial to determine whether Obama is a legitimate Commander-in-Chief under the dictates of our Constitution, and therefore eligible to issue legitimate orders to and through him. Article II, Section 1 of the U. S. Constitution clearly states: “No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President.”
Any U.S. military officer has a sworn obligation to uphold and defend what the Constitution plainly states, and is obligated to disobey any suspected unlawful orders from any Commander-in-Chief that won't prove his legitimacy by providing a certified copy of his birth certificate.
This is the oath that all commissioned officers take:
I, _____ , having been appointed an officer in the (Service) of the United States, as indicated above in the grade of _____ do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservations or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which I am about to enter; So help me God. (DA Form 71, 1 August 1959, for officers.)
Nevertheless, Lt. Col. Lakin's letter to Obama above explains the reasons generating his court martial.
With regards to the “online Certification of Live Birth” of which Lakin speaks of in his letter above to Obama, it is merely an amateur forgery, as the picture of it above easily demonstrates.
Compare this actual Hawaiian Certificate of Live Birth provided recently by Oklahoma Congressional candidate Miki Booth at the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tennessee. The lack of signatures and name of the delivery physician alone prove this is a blatant forgery!
In a May 26, 2010 letter to General George Casey, legal scholar and Obama author/film director Andy Martin presented the U. S. Army with a simple and direct explanation of why Barack Obama is ineligible to serve as President, and why Lt. Col. Terry Lakin lacks criminal intent in challenging Obama's authority as Commander in Chief.
We don't know where General Casey stands in this case or if he has volunteered to question Obama's credentials also. But with reference in civilian courts to prior litigation in challenging Obama to produce his birth certificate and other credentials needed to qualify him to occupy the Oval Office, Andy wrote:
“There have been many lawsuits exploring the NBC [Natural Born Citizen] issue. I predicted they would fail, and I was correct. I have over forty years of successful federal court litigation experience. But none of the cases involved a determination on the merits of the definition of NBC. Instead, judges dismissed lawsuits because the plaintiffs lacked ‘standing.’ Standing is an artificial concept created by the judiciary to ensure that people litigate real claims instead of hypothetical disputes. Judges held that ordinary citizens could not challenge presidential election issues due to a lack of particularized injury, or standing.
“However, Col. Lakin's challenge to his commander in chief falls in an entirely different legal category, a fact hitherto ignored by both the media and the military. I think this is why you should proceed cautiously with Col. Lakin's claims.
“What makes Lakin's claim unique and substantial—unlike a civilian court where an individual plaintiff may lack standing to challenge a government official's eligibility to hold office—a military court martial is not a civilian court. Historically, a court martial is part of the military chain of command. Military discipline culminating in a court-martial flows through the military system, not through an independent system of civil justice. Courts martial are the military.
“Thus, while ordinary civilians may lack standing to challenge a commander's qualifications, that is not true in the case of a military officer.
“Col. Lakin is challenging the constitutional qualifications of his commanding officer. (Military law also allows an officer to challenge what may be invalid orders under the ‘Nuremberg’ doctrine and similar modern concepts of military restraint and responsibility.) In my legal opinion, Lakin's case lacks any indicia of criminal intent. In my legal opinion, Lakin clearly has standing to raise and proffer his concerns because unlike an ordinary civilian in a civil court, Lakin is an officer by Act of Congress. Lakin is in the direct chain of command with the president/commander.
“Thus, while civilian judges could bar ordinary litigants, I don't think that the military chain of command which culminates in President Obama can make a claim that an officer lacks standing to "stand up" to his commander.
“In my legal opinion, the fact that Lakin is in the chain of command and is raising issues related to the legitimacy of the chain of command takes this case out of the prior legal cases that were unsuccessfully raised in the civil courts.”
In the civil courts, Obama has assigned banks of confident tax-paid attorneys to quash demands for documentation that he is constitutionally eligible to occupy the Oval Office. They argue that American citizens have no "standing" to demand that information.
The attorneys argued in a brief submitted to the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals that any injury to someone whose president is not eligible is the same injury for all people, so the individual has no legal standing to complain.
With reference to Obama and his birth credentials, Rush Limbaugh announced to his audience on July 20, 2009. “All he has to do is show a birth certificate. He has yet to have to prove he's a citizen.” Statements like this and “God does not have a birth certificate, neither does Obama—not that we’ve seen,” announced on his show on June 10, 2009, may have gotten this top-rated talk show host into deep trouble.
Statements like these may have inspired the CIA or Chicago mobsters to send him death threats, which would explain the words quoted on the picture above. WorldNetDaily reported that “in an email sent to Zev Chafets, author of the new book Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One, Limbaugh admitted, ‘I know I am a target and I know I will be destroyed eventually.’”
The mainstream media outlets—like Congress and some talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh who were apparently threatened by the CIA—remain silent on the issue of Obama's eligibility to sit in the Oval Office, and falsely give the impression that the Philip J. Berg’s lawsuit pertaining to that issue was somehow proven wrong while in reality the judge ruled that Philip J. Berg had “no standing” to file a lawsuit questioning Obama’s citizenship.
Mr. Berg—a former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania and longtime Democrat Party official—is in the process of filing an appeal to the United States Supreme Court—for what good that might so?
Justice Thomas claimed the U. S. Court is “evading” eligibility, which is at the core of the Obama presidential-eligibility question.
An article on Berg's website notes, “Philip J. Berg, Esquire, the Attorney who filed suit against Barack H. Obama challenging Senator Obama’s lack of ‘qualifications’ to serve as President of the United States, announced that he is immediately appealing the dismissal of his case to the United States Supreme Court. The case is Berg v. Obama, No. 08-cv-04083. Berg said, “I am totally disappointed by Judge Surrick’s decision and, for all citizens of the United States, I am immediately appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court. This is a question of who has standing to uphold our Constitution. If I don’t have standing, if you don’t have standing, if your neighbor doesn’t have standing to question the eligibility of an individual to be President of the United States—the Commander-in-Chief, the most powerful person in the world—then who does?”
Let's hope Congressional candidates like those above and below as well as Lt. Col. Lakin will receive some “standing.”
UPDATES ON LT. COL. LAKIN'S COURT-MARTIAL
June 03, 2010: WND reported that in the Lt. Col. Lakin court-martial hearing: “Items pertaining to president's credentials are not relevant.” “In my view our constitutional jurisprudence allows Congress alone, and not a military judicial body, to put the president's credentials on trial,” wrote Daniel J. Driscoll in a memorandum determining what evidence the defense for Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin will be allowed to explore at next week's hearing. “It is my opinion the discovery items pertaining to the president's credentials are not relevant to the proof of any element of the charges and specifications set forth in the charge sheet," he continued. “Consequently I will not examine the documents or witnesses pertinent to the president or his credentials to hold office.” Below is a list of the documents and witnesses:
Safeguard Our Constitution—The Truth Matters provides the complete PDF document from the Army on the “Investigating Officer's Ruling on Defense Request for Witnesses and Evidence.”
June 04, 2010: With reference to the list of denials above, in a letter to LTC Driscoll—posted by The Post & Email—Kathleen Gotto began with: “I understand you are the investigating officer in the upcoming trial of LTC Terry Lakin. First of all, you have made a huge strategic error by refusing to allow discovery that would exonerate Lakin in his refusal to take orders from an ineligible commander-in-chief. The whole world now knows that Barack Obama has usurped the presidency and the commander-in-chief position. . . .” In my opinion, LTC Driscoll is the worst kind of coward and a revolting shame to the American Constitution, Flag, and all the brave men and women who have served in the United States military—past and present!
June 04, 2010: Michael Savage suggested Obama “is an unknown man of unknown origin who is probably not even an American citizen.” On his popular radio talk show drawing around 10 million listeners per week, he went on to ask: “How could the entire military establishment not being asking the same question that millions of Americans are asking? Do you think it’s plausible that the entire United States military complex does not understand the extreme dangers of having a Commander-in-Chief with dual allegiances in the White House is? Do they not understand that the presidency has been usurped by a foreign power?”
“I have told you before that if Obama had applied to become an FBI agent or his own secret service agent, he would have been rejected immediately. He would have not met the criteria to become a secret service agent, and yet he is president!”
Apparently, Obama’s CIA agents or Chicago mobsters have not threatened Savage or his family yet, or else he might have remained silent on this issue—like the coward Rush Limbaugh and the other big talk show hosts.
June 05, 2010: “Lt. Col. Driscoll, the Investigating Officer who issued a decision on June 1, 2010 not to allow certain evidence and testimony for the upcoming hearing for Lakin, must be asked before the hearing even begins if he knows for a fact that he holds proper authority to convene it,” wrote Catherine Whitfield in her article in The Post & Email. “That means that he must have evidence that Obama is a “natural born Citizen” and meets the other constitutional requirements to serve as President and Commander-in-Chief of the United States Armed Forces. If he does not, then he does not have authority to conduct the hearing.” All these links are quite informative.
June 08, 2010: “Does the Military care about the Constitution? is the question posted in The Post & Email. “OR IS IT ALL ABOUT RANK, PRESTIGE AND PROMOTION?” Joe E. Sheldon's letter addressed to Lt. Co. Driscoll and sent on June 05, 2010 is well worth reading. I wonder if Driscoll sleeps well at night with his baseless and unpatriotic decision to deny Lt. Col. Lakin so much needed “discovery.”
June 08, 2010: “A retired U.S. military leader who now is a presence on the Internet with his Stand Up For America and Veterans Defenders websites has issued a call for President Obama’s resignation and a new election to replace him,” reported WorldNetDaily. “The call comes from Maj. Gen. Paul E. Vallely, who served in Vietnam and retired in 1991 from the U.S. Army as deputy commanding general for the Pacific,” wrote Bob Unruh. ‘We now must call for the immediate resignation of Barry Soetero (AKA President Barack Hussein Obama) … based on incompetence, deceit, fraud, corruption, dishonesty and violation of the U.S. oath of office and the Constitution,’ he said in remarks delivered to a Lincoln Reagan dinner in Virginia City, Mont., last week and published today on the Stand Up America website.”
June 08, 2010: According to BirtherReportDotCom, “Tim Adams, Former Chief Elections Clerk in Honolulu Says Obama Not Born in Hawaii and no long-form exists for Obama. (Video Aired 6/05/10) Cautionary Warning: the validity of the statements by Tim Adams have not been independently verified, yet!”
June 09, 2010: Be sure to read The Post & Email’s exclusive interview with Eligibility Attorney Mario Apuzzo for a long lucid analysis of and history behind the Obama eligibility issue.
June 09, 2010: This is the heading for the PRESS RELEASE posted by the American Patriot Foundation: DECORATED ARMY DOCTOR LTC TERRY LAKIN WAIVES PRELIMINARY HEARING AND ANNOUNCES NEW YOUTUBE VIDEO—CASE TO NOW PROCEED DIRECTLY TO GENERAL COURT MARTIAL—HEARING WILL NOT PROCEED ON JUNE 11, 2010. Below is an excerpt from that Press Release:
Lt. Col. Lakin released another video dealing with the latest Press Release.
June 10, 2010: “The criminals in command are aligned with the criminals in government. By allowing a usurper to ascend to the office of president, there is no control over the armies and navies,” wrote Tim Harrington. “We are in a constitutional crisis and national security crisis at the same time.” Read the interview in The Post & Email.
June 10, 2010: Joe Kovacs of WorldNetDaily confirmed that the BirtherReportDotCom story above is apparently true. “There is no birth certificate,” said Tim Adams, a graduate assistant who teaches English at in Bowling Green, Ky. “It's like an open secret. There isn't one. Everyone in the government there knows this.”
June 13, 2010: “The former Honolulu elections clerk who says President Obama was ‘definitely’ not born in Hawaii and has no birth certificate from any hospital in the Aloha State says he's willing to testify in court to those facts,” reported WorldNetDaily. Adams stressed: “In my professional opinion, he definitely was not born in Hawaii. I can say without a shadow of a doubt that he was not born in Hawaii because there is no legal record of him being born there.”
