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

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Yeah.... good question, Diane.  I know I was thoroughly pissed at Cooper for doing what he did.  I do believe that Larkin's lawyer did the right thing but it backfired.  The lawyer probably felt the publicity would help Larkin by going to the people through CNN.  CNN probably felt that was the reasoning on the lawyers part and had Anderson Cooper cream him and Larkin.  (He should have picked FOX for the interview)  I'm afraid if something isn't done by the WH, he'll be reassigned by a Army Court Martial to Fort Leavenworth as a private.  I do think this will not look good on Obama if Larkin is convicted and sent to Leavenworth especially, if by some miracle, it finally comes out that Obama was born in Africa.  If I were Obama, I'd be sweating bullets over this court martial.  I have a feeling that the WH may step in.  Anyway, Larkin refused this week to report to Fort Campbell, KY for deployment to Afghanistan, but instead showed up at the Pentagon, where he was confronted by his brigade Commander Col. Gordon Roberts.  Lakin was informed by Roberts that he would face court martial, and his Pentagon building pass and government laptop computer were seized.  We'll see what happens.

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http://www.safeguardourconstitution.com/news/terry-lakins-letter-to-potus.html

Terry Lakin Letter to POTUS
March 30, 2010:

The Honorable Barack Obama
President of the United States of America
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, D.C. 20500

Dear Mr. President:
For more than seventeen years, I have had the privilege of serving my country as a member of the U.S. Armed Forces, including overseas assignments in imminent danger/combat areas in Bosnia and Afghanistan.

The United States is an example to the rest of the world of a stable, civilized democratic government where all men are created equal and the rule of law is cherished and obeyed. The U.S. military teaches and promotes the rule of law and civilian control of the military to many other nations and militaries around the world. Every soldier learns what constitutes a lawful order and is encouraged to stand up and object to unlawful orders. My officer's oath of office requires that I swear to support and defend the Constitution of the United States.

I recently received deployment orders for a second deployment to Afghanistan. My orders included a requirement to bring copies of my birth certificate. I will provide a certified copy of my original birth certificate with common, standard identifiers, including the name of an attending physician and a hospital. Every day in transactions across the country, American citizens are required to prove their identity, and standards for identification have become even stricter since the terrorist attacks on 9/11.

Since the fall of 2008, I have been troubled by reports that your original birth certificate remains concealed from public view along with many other records which, if released, would quickly end questions surrounding your place of birth and "natural born" status. Many people mistake the online Certification of Live Birth for an original birth certificate. Until the summer of 2009, the Hawaiian Department of Homelands would not accept this Certification of Live Birth to determine native Hawaiian identity--the Department insisted upon also reviewing an original birth certificate. Many do not understand that the online document was from 2007, generated by computer, laser-printed, and merely a certification that there is an original birth certificate on file which may or may not be sufficiently probative. An original birth certificate is the underlying document that presumably includes a hospital and attending physician's or midwife's name that should lay to rest the "natural born" dispute.

In 2008, after pressure from the news media, Senator McCain produced an original birth certificate from the Panama Canal Zone; a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing examined and affirmed his "natural born" status and Constitutional eligibility to serve as President. The U.S. Senate was silent about your eligibility, despite statements from Kenyan citizens that you were born in Mombasa, including your paternal grandmother and the Ambassador from Kenya to the U.S. during a radio interview. Hawaiian state officials claim they cannot release an original birth certificate without your consent.

I have attempted through my chain of command for many months to get answers to the questions surrounding your eligibility. I also sought answers, unsuccessfully, through my Congressional delegation. You serve as my Commander-in-Chief. Given the fact that the certification that your campaign posted online was not a document that the Hawaiian Department of Homelands regarded as a sufficient substitute for the original birth certificate and given that it has been your personal decision that has prevented the Hawaiian Department of Health from releasing your original birth certificate or any Hawaiian hospital from releasing your records, the burden of proof must rest with you.

Please assure the American people that you are indeed constitutionally eligible to serve as Commander-in-Chief and thereby may lawfully direct service members into harm's way. I will be proud to deploy to Afghanistan to further serve my country and my fellow soldiers, but I should only do so with the knowledge that this important provision of our Constitution is respected and obeyed. The people that continue to risk their lives and give the ultimate sacrifice to the service of our country deserve to know they do so upholding their vows to the oath of office and the Constitution.

Unless it is established (by this sufficient proof that should be easily within your power to provide) that you are constitutionally eligible to serve as President and my Commander-in-Chief, I, and all other military officers may be following illegal orders. Therefore, sir, until an original birth certificate is brought forward that validates your eligibility and puts to rest the other reasonable questions surrounding your unproven eligibility; I cannot in good conscience obey ANY military orders.

Respectfully,

// Terry Lakin

Lieutenant Colonel Terrence Lakin, USA


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The Hard Facts

Since 2008, an ongoing controversy has raged as to whether President Barack Obama was actually born in Hawaii as claimed. Barack Obama has rejected all demands for the public release of his original Hawaiian birth certificate, which would presumably include the actual hospital that performed the delivery and the name of the attending physician at the birth.

The U.S. Constitution requires that no one can be sworn into office as President of the United States without being a "natural born" citizen.

Article. II. Section 1: "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; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States."

The Senate approved Senate Resolution 511 on 4/30/2008, recognizing that Presidential candidate John Sidney McCain, III, is a natural born citizen under Article II, Section 1, of the Constitution. The Senate was silent with regard to candidate Barack Obama's "natural born" status.

Since 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.

The Obama campaign posted an online, computer-generated document, a Certification of Live Birth (COLB), which it offered as a birth record. The truth is, this document could have been created recently by submission of sworn statements, even if no document from 1961 existed. This COLB is not a standard birth certificate. It lacks common, standard identifiers such as a hospital name and an attending physician signature.

Adding to the confusion, the Obama campaign provided two different hospital names at one time- Queen's and Kapiolani. NO ONE has ever vouched for the fact that Obama was born in Hawaii in August 1961. No doctor, nurse, hospital administrator, friends, or neighbors. However, since the beginning of 2009 there seems to have been a change from Queen's Hospital to Kapiolani as the place of birth. The Washingon Post and Wikipedia (presumably at the suggestion or with the approval of people associated with Barack Obama) now claim that he was born in Kapiolani Hospital, even though Kapiolani Hospital refuses to confirm or deny the truth of this statement or to provide a copy of a hospital birth certificate or record.

However, Obama's paternal grandmother, Sarah Obama, stated that Obama was born in Kenya. (affidavit) http://www.scribd.com/doc/18010847/Berg-v-Obama-Kweli-Shuhubia-Affidavit

A Kenyan, an Anabaptist Minister. testified that a civil registrar affirmed Obama's birth at Coast Province Hospital in Mombosa, Kenya. (affidavit) http://www.scribd.com/doc/18010847/Berg-v-Obama-Kweli-Shuhubia-Affidavit

A United Press International report from Nov. 4, 2008 states:
"Obama described his birth at Queen's Medical Center in Hawaii Aug. 4, 1961..."

Kenya's Ambassador to the U.S., Peter Ogego, affirmed Obama's birth in Kenya in a November 2008 radio interview.

A United Press International report from Nov. 4, 2008 states: "Obama described his birth at Queen's Medical Center in Hawaii Aug. 4, 1961..."

Update: Now UPI scrubbed the story (without explicit notice of update via the following screen capture (confirmed via Google's cache).
Update: The previous link for the Google cache of the below has similarly been changed. (copy of screen shot from WorldNetDaily):

The MyBarackObama.com campaign website cites his birthplace as Queen's Medical Center.
Extract: "Barack Hussein OBAMA was born on 4 August 1961 at the Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii..."

See the charges:
http://www.safeguardourconstitution.com/images/stories/documents/apf-14-chargesheet.pdf




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http://www.safeguardourconstitution.com/

Press Release DECORATED ARMY PHYSICIAN REFUSES ALL MILITARY ORDERS BECAUSE PRESIDENT REFUSES TO DOCUMENT HIS CONSTITUTIONAL ELIGIBILITY

Court Martial Likely, Legal Defense Fund Established

Washington, D.C., March 30, 2010. "I am today compelled to make the distasteful choice to invite my own court martial, in pursuit of the truth about the president's eligibility under the constitution to hold office", said active duty Army Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin. The American Patriot Foundation, a non-profit group incorporated in 2003 to foster appreciation and respect for the U.S. Constitution, immediately announced it has set up a legal defense fund and will provide Lt. Col. Lakin with a top-flight defense team. Details are available on the foundation's website, www.safeguardourconstitution.com.

Article II, sec. 1 of the U. S. Constitution explicitly provides that only "natural born" citizens can serve as president and commander-in-chief. Mr. Obama's continuing refusal to release his original 1961 birth certificate has brought Lt. Col. Lakin to the point where he feels his orders are unlawful, and thus MUST be disobeyed.

Lakin has today informed his superiors that he cannot understand how his oath of office to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution" does not permit military officers to pursue proof of eligibility from his commander-in-chief. Lt. Col. Lakin's efforts to seek affirmation of the president's eligibility have been rebuffed with legal evasions. Given the Obama Administration's "transparency" initiative, many U.S. citizens are also demanding release of the original birth certificate.

Lakin serves as Chief of Primary Care and Flight Surgeon for the DiLorenzo TRICARE Health Clinic and is lead Flight Surgeon charged with caring for Army Chief of Staff General Casey's pilots and air crew. His numerous awards and decorations include the Army Flight Surgeon's 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 Forced Expedition Medal, the Army Reserve Component Achievement Medal, the Army Service Ribbon, the Overseas Service Ribbon and the NATO service medal.
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Press Release April 7, 2010
American Patriot Foundation, Inc.
1101 Thirtieth Street, NW, Suite 500
Washington, D.C. 20007
www.safeguardourconstitution.com

PRESS RELEASE

WRITTEN PLEA TO PRESIDENT OBAMA RELEASED FROM DECORATED ARMY PHYSICIAN THREATENED WITH COURT-MARTIAL FOR REFUSING TO OBEY ALL ORDERS...

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YouTube video has had over 100,000 hits in just one week...
Legal Defense Fund growing....

Washington, D.C., April 8, 2010. Army Lieutenant Colonel Terrence Lakin, who has officially received a written warning from his brigade commander threatening him with court-martial, has today released the text of his written plea to President Obama to make public documents proving his eligibility to serve as President and Commander-in-Chief. A copy of LTC Lakin's full letter to the President, dated March 30, 2010, can be viewed at: www.safeguardourconstitution.com.

The letter, which is LTC Lakin's plea that the President uphold the Constitution, stated, "My officer's oath of office requires that I swear to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. I recently received deployment orders for a second deployment to Afghanistan. My orders included a requirement to bring copies of my birth certificate." The letter states that LTC Lakin will provide his birth certificate and deploy as ordered, if the President will do the same.

Lakin's letter continues, "Please assure the American people that you are indeed Constitutionally eligible to serve as Commander-in-Chief and thereby may lawfully direct service members into harm's way. I will be proud to deploy to Afghanistan to further serve my country and my fellow soldiers, but I should only do so with the knowledge that this important provision of our Constitution is respected and obeyed."

Lakin concluded his letter as follows: "Unless it is established (by this sufficient proof that should be easily within your power to provide) that you are Constitutionally eligible to serve as President and my Commander-in-Chief, I, and all other military officers may be following illegal orders. Therefore, sir, until an original birth certificate is brought forward that validates your eligibility and puts to rest the other reasonable questions surrounding your unproven eligibility; I cannot in good conscience obey ANY military orders."

On March 30, 2010, the American Patriot Foundation posted on YouTube a video of LTC Lakin explaining his position: "I am today compelled to make the distasteful choice to invite my own court martial, in pursuit of the truth about the President's eligibility under the Constitution to hold office," he states in the video, which was viewed more than 100,000 times in the first week of its release.

The American Patriot Foundation, a non-profit group incorporated in 2003 to foster appreciation and respect for the U.S. Constitution, has received hundreds of donations to the legal defense fund established for LTC Lakin in less than one week.

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Press Release April 13 2010: You Have the Right to Remain Silent
American Patriot Foundation, Inc.
1101 Thirtieth Street, NW, Suite 500
Washington, D.C. 20007
www.safeguardourconstitution.com

PRESS RELEASE

CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL RECIPIENT TO LTC LAKIN:

"YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT"

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Obama Continues to Refuse to Release Birth Certificate;
Army Doctor's Pentagon Access Pass Revoked; Computer Seized

Washington, D.C., April 13, 2010. 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, www.safeguardourconstitution.com.

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