A military doctor who was court-martialed and sent to prison after questioning Barack Obama's eligibility to be president and refusing to follow orders that descended from the commander-in-chief is more than halfway through his sentence.
And now he has asked the nation in his writings to ponder the question of whether it is bound by the Constitution.
He remains under the Uniform Code of Military Justice but has been allowed to post online a series of observations he's made while serving his time. Those private communications to the Terry Lakin Action Fund suggest that his focus remains on the foundations of the nation and the rights and responsibilities of its citizens...[Full Article]
FORT MEADE, Md. – An Army judge has made it "impossible" for a career medical officer to get a fair hearing on charges he refused to deploy to Afghanistan because of concern that obeying orders in the chain of command under an ineligible commander in chief would be illegal, his attorney says.
The rulings came today from Col. Denise Lind, who, in effect, told Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin to pound sand. Rocks actually. He faces up to four years at hard labor if convicted in his case.
"We got absolutely slammed today," said Paul R. Jensen, lead counsel for the defense. "It's impossible for us to have a fair trial under these rulings."
Jensen continued, "The judge did what she thought was right, but the result is to deprive us of any opportunity to have a defense."
Lakin believes any order issued under Obama's authority as commander in chief of the armed forces may not be valid because his eligibility to serve as president is unproven. After fruitlessly requesting the Army to verify Obama's eligibility to serve as president, Lakin wrote directly to Obama asking for proof of eligibility...
Disagreement arose today among supporters of Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin, the Army doctor facing military court-martial for refusing orders to deploy to Afghanistan after questioning Barack Obama's constitutionaleligibility to be president.
A group of retired military officers organized as the Veterans Council and the United States Patriot Union in Sheridan, Wyo., issued a white paper calling on Lakin's legal defense team to change strategy.
The so-called "White Paper No. 3" urged tea-party members and Congress members who signed the "Pledge to America" to support Lakin's right to discovery at his court-martial. The officers want Lakin to obtain Obama's long-form birth certificate and other relevant birth documents from Hawaii's Department of Health, as well as college and law-school records, to determine whether the president applied as a foreign-exchange student.
On Sept. 2, Army Col. Denise R. Lind ruled in a preliminary hearing to Lakin's scheduled October court-martial that Lakin could not pursue Obama's presidentialeligibility as part of his legal defense...
Posted: September 02, 2010 Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin
FT. MEADE, Md. – A career officer in the U.S. Army acting as a judge in the prosecution of Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin today ruled that the military is no place for Barack Obama's presidential eligibility to be evaluated.
Army Col. Denise R. Lind today ruled in a hearing regarding the evidence to be allowed in the scheduled October court-martial of Lakin that he will be denied access to any of Obama's records as well as any testimony from those who may have access to the records.
With her decision, Lind mirrored a number of federal judges who have ruled on civil lawsuits over Obama's eligibility. They have without exception denied the plaintiffs' access to any requested documentation regarding the president's eligibility.
Lind ruled that it was "not relevant" for the military to be considering such claims, that the laws allegedly violated by Lakin were legitimate on their face and that the chain of command led up to the Pentagon, and that should have been sufficient for Lakin.
Paul Rolf Jensen, Lakin's civilian attorney, said the case would continue. But he said the courts now have denied his client the opportunity to present his defense.
Jensen had argued that under U.S.C. Rule 46, a defendant put on court martial has the right to call any and all witnesses and obtain any evidence in his or her defense.
Lind, who took 40 minutes to read her decision to the court, disagreed.
She said opening up such evidence could be an "embarrassment" to the president, and it's up to Congress to call for impeachment of a sitting president...
[Webmaster - This is just another example showing that Barak Obama (real name "Barry Soetoro") does not have a certificate of live birth proving he was born in the United States of America. Do you remember the video from a few months ago that showed Michelle Obama calling Barack Obama "a Kenyan"? That video was removed (imagine that...what a surprise). Here is another version of it. Watch it before THIS one gets removed too...]
Michelle Obama Calls Barack Obama "a Kenyan" Back in 2007
Michelle says, "What it reminded me of was our trip to Africa, two years ago, and the level of excitement that we felt in that country the hope that people saw just in the sheer presence of somebody like Barack Obama a Kenyan, a black man, a man of great statesmanship who they believe could change the fate of the world."
The key defenseattorney for an Army officer being put on trial for refusing orders he views as suspect because of the possibility Barack Obama is not eligible to be commander-in-chief is demanding documentation from the president.
On the G. Gordon Liddy radio show today, Paul Rolf Jensen said the request for "discovery" in the Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin case – the access by the defense to documentation in the government's possession that could help its case – is being submitted.
Jensen had been asked whether there is a legal basis for denying a defendant on trial on criminal charges legitimate access to documentation that would prove his case.
"We are today officially requesting that discovery," Jensen said. "If the government refuses to give it to us, then we will, a week from today, file a motion to compel discovery.
"I can't think of a single reason why the judge would take the government's position," he said...
Supporters of a decorated Army officer who faces charges for questioning the legitimacy of orders in the chain of command under Barack Obama as commander-in-chief are accusing the Army of threatening to "taser" the physician.
It was at that hearing, the foundation reports, that the threat was made.
The foundation reported, "The afternoon before the hearing, LTC Steven Brodsky told LTC Lakin's counsel that Lakin must report hours before the hearing to his duty post at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in order for him to be 'transported under escort' to make sure he showed up at the arraignment 'to avoid embarrassing his unit."...
TRANSCRIPT OF THE INTERVIEW (May 7, 2010): COOPER: He's a decorated Army doctor, and tonight Lieutenant Colonel Terrence Lakin has become the face of the so-called birthers movement, whose followers believe President Obama may not have been born in the U.S. and may not be eligible to be president of the United States.
Lieutenant Colonel Lakin, who's been an active-duty physician for the military for 18 years, has been ordered to deploy to Afghanistan for a second tour of duty. But Lakin is refusing that command, saying the order is coming from a commander in chief who he believes may not, in fact, be a natural-born citizen.
Lakin has also invited his own court-martial and says he wants proof the president was born in the U.S.
Lieutenant Colonel Terrence Lakin joins me now, along with his attorney, Paul Jensen. I appreciate both of you being with us.
Colonel, you say you're refusing your orders because, quote, "There is significant evidence or unanswered speculation that Mr. Obama is not eligible to be president." You said that in a note to General Casey.
Now, ignoring the idea that you actually cited speculation as a justification for your decision, but to say there's significant evidence that the president was not born in America is just false. I mean, you're an honorable guy. You've served your country incredibly well. You're a doctor. Do you honestly believe President Obama was not born in Hawaii?
PAUL JENSEN, LT. LAKIN'S LAWYER: Well, Anderson, let me answer as his lawyer --
COOPER: No, no, no. Excuse me. Wait, this is a doctor -- excuse me. This is a doctor. This is a man who served his country for 18 years. I think he can answer a question by himself.
JENSEN: I think that the lawyer should protect the client from incriminating himself. You say it's false. You're not prosecuting this case.
COOPER: Okay, Lieutenant Colonel, if you call up the state of Hawaii and you ask for a birth certificate, you're sent a certificate of live birth. That is the official document. And the president has --
JENSEN: That is not correct.
COOPER: And the president --
JENSEN: That is absolutely not correct.
COOPER: And the president has released -- and the president has released that certificate of live birth -- there it is -- to newspapers. In 1961, had birth announcements provided by the state of Hawaii Health Department. The Republican governor of Hawaii sent someone to personally view the birth certificate at the Department of Health and says it's there.
JENSEN: That's not --
COOPER: Again, can the colonel not talk for himself? The guy's an adult.
JENSEN: You said that that's a birth certificate, Mr. Cooper. Now you want to tell the truth to your viewers.
COOPER: According to the state of Hawaii --
JENSEN: That is not a birth certificate. Sir, that's an abstract, a computer-generated abstract --
COOPER: According to the state of Hawaii, the certificate of live birth, and I'm quoting from the state of Hawaii Health Department: "The certificate of live birth is the standard form acceptable by federal agencies."
So are you saying, Colonel -- but you're not actually saying anything. But I would appreciate it if you actually would, and not hide behind your attorney.
Are you actually saying that all soldiers who currently serve who are from Hawaii should be suspect because that's what they provide?
LT. COL. TERRENCE LAKIN, CHALLENGES OBAMA'S BIRTH CERTIFICATE: This is a constitutional matter. And the truth matters, and --
COOPER: Well, and the answers matter. Can you answer my question? Should all soldiers who are from Hawaii and who have given certificate of live birth as their proof of citizenship, should they all be suspect now?
LAKIN: This isn't a matter about all soldiers. This is a matter about --
COOPER: Well, you're saying the president --
LAKIN: -- the two positions that are -- require -- that require a natural-born citizen.
COOPER: You've taken countless orders in your -- in your laudable service over the years. Have you ever asked for any superior's birth certificate?
JENSEN: You know, that really is -- begs the question --
COOPER: No, no, no, sir, please let your client answer. You served under General Casey. Where was he born?
JENSEN: I'm the lawyer, and I'm going to tell you, Mr. Cooper, the issue isn't about where General Casey was born, where Mr. --
COOPER: He doesn't know. Because you've never asked the question, because you just assume that they're Americans.
JENSEN: He doesn't have to be a natural-born citizen to be the chief of staff of the Army.
COOPER: Actually, to serve in the United States Army, according to your own documents, citizenship papers have to be brought to bear. In fact --
JENSEN: That's not the issue. To serve as president of the United State --
COOPER: In your own letter --
JENSEN: Mr. -- Mr. Cooper, please --
COOPER: In your own letter --
JENSEN: -- to be president of the United States --
COOPER: -- to General Casey you have said that you had to provide your birth certificate. All soldiers have to do this.
JENSEN: You're afraid of letting me answer. Are you afraid of letting me answer?
COOPER: No, I'd like your client to answer.
JENSEN: The issue under the United States Constitution is whether the president is eligible to hold the office. That determine -- is determined by whether he's 35 years old and a natural-born citizen. Those are not requirements for the chief of staff of the Army, sir.
And what Colonel Lakin has said is that there's mounting evidence that he is not and the original birth certificate has not been released.
COOPER: Right, okay. There's not mounting evidence. And he has --
JENSEN: That's what you said.
COOPER: Excuse me. Let me respond. He has taken orders for years from people, probably thousands of orders. Countless orders. He has never questioned the legitimacy of the people he is taking orders from.
General Casey. But he doesn't know where General Casey is born. For all he knows, General Casey could be a foreign-born, not an American citizen.
JENSEN: Mr. Cooper, if you've done your research, you know that in the state of Hawaii, there's a statute that allows anyone born outside the state of Hawaii, including in a foreign country, to obtain a Hawaiian birth certificate at any age by going back and filling out a form --
COOPER: Right. And if you'd done your research, you'd know that, on the certificate of live birth, it would indicate if the person was born in another country. It would say they were born in another country --
JENSEN: That's not correct.
COOPER: That is correct. That is the fact.
JENSEN: I beg your pardon. Under Hawaiian statute 338-17.8, there's nothing that says that in the statute.
COOPER: Okay.
JENSEN: You point it out to me if I'm wrong.
COOPER: In your complaint to General Casey, Colonel, you say, quote, that you're "not seeking any grandstanding or publicity for this action." How can you seriously say that? I mean, you put out a YouTube video with your -- talking, frankly, more than you've talked here tonight.
You have this group paying all your legal fees, The American Patriot Foundation Legal Defense Fund. They've provided the attorney who's sitting next to you. And they're fundraising based on you. They're raising money using you.
LAKIN: I attempted all avenues I could over a year ago. I submitted a Article 138, which is the only way that I could research how to -- how to address this issue, asking and begging my leadership for guidance in how to -- how to address this issue. And the answers that I got were not --
JENSEN: Mr. Cooper, you -- the standard is not satisfying you -- the standard is to satisfy --
(CROSSTALK)
COOPER: Lieutenant Colonel, you sound like an honorable man -- excuse me. I'm addressing your client. Lieutenant Colonel, you seem like an incredibly honorable man who's obviously served his country. You're a doctor; you're an educated man.
Why is it this issue? I mean, of all the orders you've taken, of all the people you've served under, why this, why now? What is it that has got you so, you know, sticking on this issue?
LAKIN: It's a fundamental of the Constitution, and my oath of office is to the Constitution. And I believe we need truth on this matter.
COOPER: But I mean, what's wrong with the certificate of live birth, in your opinion? What's wrong -- I mean, how do you explain a newspaper -- two newspapers in 1961 announcing the birth of Barack Obama in Hawaii? Which is not something his parents did or his grandparents did. Those are based on health records sent by the Health Department, as it does for every person born in Hawaii. And everyone gets a newspaper now.
JENSEN: Mr. Cooper, that's simply not correct. And the issue is instead why hasn't the president released the original birth certificate, if one exists?
This could be over tonight. Tonight. Release the birth certificate, if it exists, signed by the doctor in 1961. It's in the state of Hawaii's records. If --
COOPER: I'm just going to read you a quote from Janice Okubu from the Department of Health: "Our certificate of live birth is the standard form which was modeled after national standards that are acceptable by federal agencies and organizations."
JENSEN: But it is not the only form --
COOPER: The governor of Hawaii, a Republican, has said, and I quote, "I had my health doctor, who is a physician by background, go personally view the birth certificate in the birth records of the Department of Health, and we issued a news release."
JENSEN: And she is not going to be testifying at the court-martial. This is a criminal case. The president should release the original birth certificate, and this would be over tonight. These other documents and testimony are not admissible and will not be admitted in court.
COOPER: Paul Jensen, I appreciate you being on the program tonight. Lieutenant Colonel Terrence Lakin, I appreciate it, as well. Thank you, sir.
JENSEN: Thank you.
[Webmaster - Of course this is the same reporter that sometimes likes to do his broadcasts while intoxicated...]
Lt. Col. Terry Lakin, MD is to face a court martial for his refusal to obey deployment orders, pending proof that it is a lawful order, issued by a commander in chief who meets the constitutional requirements of office. Dr. Lakin explained his refusal in an article published April 8th on American Thinker. The American Patriot Foundation writes:
Army doctor Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin yesterday met with his brigade commander, Col. Gordon R. Roberts, who proceeded to read LTC Lakin his Miranda rights, and who informed LTC Lakin he had the "right to remain silent" because LTC Lakin is about to be charged with serious crimes. Col. Roberts was at age 19 awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, the only recipient of the nation's highest honor currently on active duty in the Army.
LTC Lakin had previously been ordered in writing to report yesterday to Ft. Campbell, KY and then on to deploy for his second tour of duty in Afghanistan. Lakin refused to obey these orders and instead came to work yesterday morning at the Pentagon. Late yesterday afternoon he was confronted by his brigade commander.
Before the meeting was over, LTC Lakin's Pentagon Access Pass had been revoked, and his laptop computer was set to be confiscated.
The message to LTC Lakin is clear; through official channels, he was informed yesterday that he will shortly be court-martialled for crimes (specifically, missing movement and conduct unbecoming an officer) that for others has led to lengthy imprisonment at hard labor.
Lakin has announced in a YouTube video that has now been viewed more than 110,000 times that he considers it his duty to refuse to obey orders that would be illegal if President Obama is ineligible to hold office.
Meanwhile, cries mount for proof of that eligibility, but nothing has been forthcoming. The Obama campaign at one point released a copy of computer-generated abstract of information purportedly in Hawaii's records system, but the source of this information is unclear and need not have been a birth certificate issued contemporaneously and signed by the doctor who attended the birth. Even the document released was only a copy, and the version printed in the Los Angeles Times on June 16, 2008 is on a form only in use since late 2001. Even as it is, the document contains a warning that it is merely "prima facie"--threshold, rebuttable and thus inconclusive --evidence of birth, and the copy the Times printed mysteriously has the certificate number blacked out, thereby rendering the document unusable according to language on the bottom.
Given the seriousness of the offenses with which LTC Lakin is about to be charged, the American Patriot Foundation today renewed its plea for donations to its legal defense fund for LTC Lakin. Details are available at APF's website, http://www.safeguardourconstitution.com/...
apfinc—March 30, 2010 — LTC Terry Lakin has tried in vain to get the same verification from our President that he has been asked to provide countless times in his career, for many jobs, and to obtain a security clearance for the trusted positions he has held within the U.S. Armed Forces. LTC Terry Lakin has tried in vain to get the same verification from our President that he has been asked to provide countless times in his career, for many jobs, and to obtain a security clearance for the trusted positions he has held within the U.S. Armed Forces.
