Army Sergeon Lt. Col. Lakin Refuses Orders Until Obama Proves He Is Natural Born

[Varmit]

Exclusive: Highly Decorated Army Surgeon Lt. Col. Terry Lakin Refuses All Military Orders Until Obama Proves He Is a Natural Born Citizen

Margaret Hemenway


A decorated active duty Army medical officer, Lieutenant Colonel Terry Lakin (selected for promotion to Colonel), is calling upon his chain of command and his Congressional delegation to force President Obama to release his original birth certificate.  He is the highest ranking officer to go public over this controversy and in late February, was notified that he is subject to near-term deployment to Afghanistan.

His military orders include a requirement that he provide "copies of his birth certificate." LTC Lakin is prepared to provide a certified copy of his certification of vital record that lists his birth hospital, physician's name and other key information.  He has provided this document for many other required processes, such as his commissioning into the military as an officer, and his marriage license.

Lakin has earned the distinction of taking care of many Admirals and Generals since working at the Pentagon, where he serves as Chief of Primary Care and Flight Surgeon for the DiLorenzo TRICARE Health Clinic and is the lead Flight Surgeon charged with caring for Army Chief of Staff General Casey's pilots and air crew.  LTC Lakin's numerous awards and decorations include the Army Flight Surgeon Badge, Combat Medical Badge, the Bronze Star Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal, the Army Commendation Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters, the Army Achievement Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters, the National Defense Service Medal with Bronze Service Star, the Armed Forces Expedition Medal, the Army Reserve Component Achievement Medal, the Army Service Ribbon, the Overseas Service Ribbon sixth award and the NATO service medal. He has served previously in Honduras, Bosnia, Korea, and Afghanistan.

LTC Lakin, a native of Colorado whose residency is Tennessee, has explained to his superiors that he cannot understand how his Oath of Office to protect and defend the Constitution does not allow military officers to pursue proof of eligibility from the Commander-in-Chief.  In fact, efforts on his part to seek affirmation of the President's constitutional eligibility have been met with legal evasions.  Yet in an open and free society, and especially given Obama's governmental "transparency" initiative, many American citizens are demanding to know the truth. So when the White House launched its transparency initiative online last year, and the website was instantly swamped with emails demanding release of Obama's original birth certificate, it was significant that the website's assurance to answer any question was quickly removed.

LTC Lakin's refusal to obey orders (including his deployment orders) puts him at risk of court-martial. A website, SafeguardourConstitution.com, outlines his efforts to seek the truth and prepare for his legal defense. It would be wrong for an officer to be punished for asking a straightforward question merely because no one in the military hierarchy or on Capitol Hill is willing to provide a substantive answer (members of Congress have the obligation of representing constituents and also are sworn to uphold the Constitution). At least one Tennessee Congressional office (Congressman Zach Wamp) forwarded LTC Lakin's inquiry to the Department of Defense; the Army responded by letter to Rep. Wamp indicating that LTC Lakin's Article 138 complaint (a legal avenue for redress allowed service members for grievances against commanding officers) was deficient and that "the President as Commander-in-Chief is not a commanding officer for the purposes of Article 138 and therefore, no complaint against him may be addressed through this procedure."   Yet another representative from the Volunteer State (Tennessee) Marsha Blackburn, co-sponsored legislation introduced by Congressman Bill Posey to require candidates to fix the problem of the lack of a formal process for vetting candidates for "natural born" eligibility.

The Western Journalism Center released an authoritative explanation of the Obama birth controversy that helps to explain the confusion on Capitol Hill which revolves mostly around Obama's online Certification of Live Birth (COLB):
"The Certification of Live Birth is not a copy of the original birth certificate. It is a computer-generated document that the state of Hawaii issues on request to indicate that a birth certificate of some type is 'on record in accordance with state policies and procedures.' And there is the problem. Given the statutes in force in 1961, the Certification of Live Birth proves nothing unless we know what is on the original birth certificate. There are several legal areas (involving ethnic quotas and subsidy) for which the state of Hawaii up until June 2009 did not accept its computer-generated Certification of Live Birth as sufficient proof of birth - or parentage - in Hawaii. Why should the citizens of the United States be content with lower standards for ascertaining the qualifications of their President?"
The Obama campaign is to a large degree responsible for the birthplace controversy by at first claiming that Obama was born at Queens Hospital and, at another time, claiming that he was born at Kapioliani Hospital.  These conflicting assertions, combined with reports of his paternal grandmother's insistence to an interviewer that he was born in Kenya; and the break-in to the Obama passport file at the State Department (at least one news report alleged the file was cauterized) by an employee of The Analysis Corp., a firm headed by one of Obama's top advisers (John Brennan) have all contributed to escalating demands for Obama to document his "natural born" citizenship status. 

Additionally, the Ambassador to the US from Kenya (Peter Ogego) asserted in a radio interview in November 2008 that the President was born in Kenya.  A Kenyan Anabaptist minister also provided an affidavit, attesting to a conversation with a civil employee of the Kenyan Government, a Principal Registrar, who confirmed Obama's birth in Kenya on August 4, 1961, but said his file was classified.

Obama should release his original birth certificate and put an end to relentless speculation over whether he meets the Constitutional fitness test for the nation's highest office.  Original documentation for 1961 from the hospital or Department of Health can resolve this point without in any way compromising Obama's privacy or subjecting him to the danger of identity theft. 

Patriotic citizens serving in uniform preparing to go into harm's way deserve to be treated with respect and forthrightness - and they need to know whether the Commander in Chief is lawfully entitled to serve in this capacity, or not

[Diane Amberg]

 The President's people already released what they had long ago and it was immediately deemed a fake by the political opposition. There is nothing else he can do, nor is he required to.

[Teresa]

I realize to some people that this is old .. but I keep asking. WHY?
The Presidents "people??"  WHY doesn't the President himself give up college documents.. birth certificate.. and other papers that all the other Presidents had no problem releasing on themselves...
Why... why why why why why.................?

Even the biggest fools have the common sense to know that..................
Children.. old people.. young people.. ANY person ANYWHERE ( if they have nothing to hide or haven't lied about) will give up simple things of this nature..Common knowledge stuff.. a birth certificate? ...and where you went to college and got your "supposedly" degree?? 
Only when you have lied or have something to hide do you keep things of this nature from the people of the United States.
.............everything about him reeks of falseness from his origins to everything he stands for.
He's a phony corrupt liar, who in my opinion is NOT legally able to hold this office.

He knows it too.. or those documents would have been turned over at the beginning.

[Teresa]

Just heard about this on the radio..so did a little research...
Its everywhere so it wasn't too hard to find.. but you know, conservatives.. Tea Party patriots and other average Americans get a hard time from the "mainstream" media and others on the Left because some have doubts about whether President Barack Obama is a natural-born American citizen.

WorldNetDaily reports this video was posted just a couple of days ago and has gone viral.  Michelle Obama said in a 2008 speech to the Gay & Lesbian Leadership Council of the Democratic National Committee:

    "When we took our trip to Africa and visited his home country in Kenya, we took a public HIV test."


Unfortunately this isn't the first time we've been told Barack Obama was born in Kenya. His grandmother said she was present for his birth in Kenya, and an AP story in the Sunday Standard in 2004 refers to him as "Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack Obama..."

Some people keep saying..."Does this really matter much at this point?"

My answer is I think it matters very much.  A LOT of folks need their noses rubbed in the stink of this usurpation of the Presidency. (if, indeed, he was not a natural born US citizen, which I think is a 95%+ possibility). And it would be nice if the media and other liberals would cut conservatives a little slack for having doubts about Obama's birthplace.  After all, it seems to be folks on the Left and folks close to Barack Obama who are the ones telling us he was born in Kenya.

http://www.dakotavoice.com/2010/04/michelle-obama-baracks-home-country-in-kenya/


*Notice also how she speaks of Barrack with the same reverence as a preacher would speak of the Lord while giving a sermon. 

41 second mark:

The media in particular need to have the spotlight of shame focused upon them and every fool who just believed he must be a natural born citizen with mounting proof that he was not.

For practical purposes, yes also.  His 'reign' needs to end.  The Armed Forces deserve better than a Phony In Chief as their leader.  They are willing to die at the orders of the POTUS regardless of whether or not they agree with his policies and they deserve... at leas...., a leader who is qualified by the Constitution that they have sworn an oath to defend... to hold that office.

The President's first act is to swear an oath to uphold the Constitution.  To do so while not legally eligible for that office by that very Constitution is the ultimate degradation of our Nation... the Constitution and the People.

In my opinion....Treason and Sedition are understatements of the crimes this would entail.[/color][/b]

[Diane Amberg]

I certainly don't have the absolute answer to this question, but I will always maintain if the Republican party as a whole, and the campaign players in particular, had real proof they would have used it over and over and over.  They didn't....doesn't that tell you something? Even John McCain stated that Obama is a citizen. It never came up in any of the debates. I never heard anyone just come right out and ask him directly. I never heard anybody with any real neutral credibility talk about it. The Constitution doesn't say "prove it." I'm not defending him, I just don't see any indisputable proof that he isn't.  If I said I went to my mother's home country, it would be Scotland, but that wouldn't mean I meant she was born there. Most people now seem to need to decide what any-  body says "really" means, in some cases picking it apart line by line.   Too many people are reading the National Enquire!   Some times what people say are just words, no hidden meanings, no other agenda.
I think a high ranking military person trying to blackmail his Commander In Chief is ridiculous and will lead to nothing except publicity for his next job.

[srkruzich]

It is lt col's duty to stand up and ask. He swore to uphold the constitution and defend it.  IF he has doubts that the CIC is
not qualified to hold the office and has usurped the presidency through fraud and deceit, then it is his duty to bring it into the light.  

If we can ever get the truth, and it finds that obama is not a natural born citizen, treason and sedition are just two of the crimes he has committed along with fraud and violation of untold federal laws across the united states.  It will invalidate his election entirely and all changes made during his administration will have to be undone entirely.  

It is sad that he managed to get office without having to prove citizenship.  I have to prove citizenship every time i go apply for a job, why doesn't he??  Sorry but he has to abide by the same laws i do.

[Diane Amberg]

So then every other officer is negligant by keeping quiet?

[Varmit]

So then every other officer is negligant by keeping quiet?

If they believe obama is a fraud...absolutely!

I certainly don't have the absolute answer to this question, but I will always maintain if the Republican party as a whole, and the campaign players in particular, had real proof they would have used it over and over and over.  They didn't....doesn't that tell you something?I think a high ranking military person trying to blackmail his Commander In Chief is ridiculous and will lead to nothing except publicity for his next job.

Look at the time and money spent on covering and sealing obamas past...speaks volumes.  As for the high ranking military person...If that person believes that an order he is given is unlawful or immoral he/she has a right and a duty to question those orders, and in fact flatly refuse them.  That is why the "I was just following orders" defense doesn't work.  The Uniform Code of Military Justice is specific about this. 

[srkruzich]

So then every other officer is negligant by keeping quiet?

Pretty much.  do you know what dokimos means?  Dokimos means
   1.  accepted, particularly of coins and money.
   2. accepted, pleasing, acceptable

In the ancient world there was no banking system as we knowtoday, and no paper money. All money was made from metal, heated until liquid, poured into moulds and allowed to cool.  The coins were comparatively soft and of course many people shaved them closely. In one century, more than eighty laws were passed in Athens, to stop the practice of shaving down the coins then in circulation. But some money changers were men of integrity, who would accept no counterfeit money. They were men of honour who put only genuine full weighted money into circulation. Such men were called "dokimos" or "approved".

You then have the word adokimos which means...
   1.  not standing the test, not approved
         1. properly used of metals and coins
   2. that which does not prove itself such as it ought
         1. unfit for, unproved, spurious, reprobate

You see, there is a test that one must meed to be dokimos.  If you do not pass that test, your not the real deal, the genuine article, a fraud, a phony, a reprobate.

The test for the office of the president is that he be a natural born citizen among other things.  A Natural born, not naturalized.  IF he cannot prove that he is not qualified, not Good enough to be president.  The fact that he refuses to produce  the documents to prove this, he cannot be considered to be the genuine thing.   He is a fraud a imposter, a reprobate if he takes the office in which he is not entitled to take. 
You cannot get the title of Dokimos if you cannot pass the test.

There is no gray area in this.  THe Constitution is clear.  If he is as at least half of America suspects not a natural born citizen, then he has usurped the office of the presidency and is in fact a traitor and has committed sedition.

Any officer that does not investigate and try to verify that he is genuine, is not doing his job to defend and protect the constituion as obama has already successfully launced an attack against it and the people it defends.

Guilt by association is a chargeable crime.  If you ignore a crime,  you are implicit in its execution....

[Diane Amberg]

    Is spelling surgeon wrong a crime?   Am I a criminal too by letting someone get away with it and not speaking up?  Yes, I know it's not the same thing, but I know it will drive at least two people on here crazy, so I'm having a little fun. (Once a teacher always a teacher. If I hadn't just recently been given a load of crap I would never have said anything.) As far as shaving coins, I do know about that. We have marks on our coin edges just for that reason.
Nobody will answer my original question. I know all about the requirements for president, learned them in Jr. High and got tested on 'em. Why did the Republican Party let it go? If they were so hot to trot to capture the Presidency, they should have used that at every opportunity and they didn't.  I want to know why.  Why wasn't it illegal to put Obama's name on the ballot? Why weren't the printers who printed the ballots arrested? Why weren't the people who distributed the ballots arrested?    There is your guilt by association. Why is Lakin bringing this up now, more than a year after the election? Why didn't the Republican party start impeachment proceedings right after the election? I'm not trying to defend Obama, I just don't get it.