Army Doctor Questions Obama's Citizenship, Takes His Campaign to YouTube

Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin refused to show up to work at Fort Campbell, Kentucky on Monday, because he still has questions about Obama's citizenship. Lakin, a doctor in the Army, instead reported to his old job at a Pentagon clinic before being immediately reassigned to Walter Reed Hospital, where he'll await a military investigation to unfurl. In a video he posted to YouTube, the 18-year Army veteran defiantly spoke of his plans to disobey orders, which he considers to be illegal, including a recent one to go to Afghanistan for a second tour of duty.
Although he acknowledges in the video (after the jump) that his disobedience would put his career in "great peril," and that he was "inviting [his] own court martial," Lakin insists that he won't move an inch until he actually sees Obama's birth certificate (which, conveniently enough, is available for his viewing pleasure here. [Ed. note: But, Amar, that's his SHORT form certificate. Where's his LONG form? That one, certified by Hawaii, is FAKE.] Fox News is all over the story, and points out that a court martial is one of several potential punishments that Lakin faces, and that most other known "birthers" in the military have only received "administrative reprimands." The military is currently investigating him for failure to report for deployment, and for conduct unbecoming of an officer.
It's one thing if someone like Sarah Palin calls Obama's citizenship into question. It's quite another if someone presumably well-educated and actually important does so on YouTube. Perhaps it's just an elaborate attempt to weasel his way out of another trip to Kabul, or maybe he really is unwilling to accept objective fact. Either way, we certainly don't need an ideological wild card on the front lines, and we definitely don't need a nutjob conspiracy theorist healing wounded soldiers. If he wants to leave the Army kicking and screaming (and unlawfully), so be it. We'll be better off without him, anyway. [From: Fox News]





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Subscribe to commentsjy22077Apr 16th 2010 8:55PM
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jy22077Apr 16th 2010 8:58PM
"Lakin insists that he won't move an inch until he actually sees Obama's birth certificate (which, conveniently enough, is available for his viewing pleasure here."
Sorry, the Birth Certificate is completely invalid. No seal, No signature, and No certficate number.
ANY ALTERATIONS INVALIDATE THIS CERTIFICATE.
hello ascaApr 17th 2010 5:37PM
I do not get the birthers, do they honestly think that Obama wasn't throughly checked to ensure he was a natural born US citizen before being allowed to run for president and that it wasn't double checked when he was elected?
FaystarrApr 19th 2010 2:52PM
Your reference to Sarah Palin makes you look like the conspiracy theorist yourself. Her statement was only "It's a fair question" which is reasonable to her since the left certainly questioned John McCain's citizenship status since he was born in Panama...not to mention how the left has used the Freedom of Information Act to relentlessly pursue any shred of dirt they could dig up on her, even demanding public viewing of her personal emails.
If you yourself were not so blindly following Obama you too would at least wonder what Obama had to hide that he would go to such lengths to offer such lame evidence online rather than just producing his long form birth certificate....no more questions.
A reasonably intelligent person would pay attention to the fact that prior to 2004 that Obama was known as Kenyan born and even the Associated Press in papers all over the world stated in an article referring to him that he was born in Kenya. If this was not true then he should have had AP print a correction soon after the article came out. When Alan Keyes in a senatorial debate accused him of not even being born in America ...Obama stated "Well, I'm not running for President". ...and in papers in that part of the world after he won the election there are publications stating he was born in Kenya....as this article: http://www.indonesiamatters.com/2952/barry-soetoro/
It is a simple fact that if his mother was a student over in Kenya listing her permanent address as Hawaii that someone like her grandmother could apply for a US birth certificate ..send it into the state office, wait for the return of the COLB to return, call it into the newspapers, (it was published 13 days later) then send it to her daughter so that she could return back to the US with her now "U S citizen" baby in tow .. (She entered college in the US 3 weeks after Obama was born)
....and btw "if" this happened it is indeed plausible (not nutjob conspiracy) that a COLB from Hawaii would exist, newspaper announcements could exist, and a DOH administrator could say I have seen the original birth certificate on record and Obama is a US citizen according to the law........but...if that long form birth certificate shows that he was born not on US soil ...then by golly he does not qualify for the eligibility requirement for the POTUS as it's definition of "Natural born citizen". Any politician or other authoritative person can deem even so that he is a natural born citizen...unless it is challenged and the Supreme Court rules on what constitutes a Natural born citizen accordingly as the framers of the Constitution deem that clause.
It is a reasonable question no matter what mockery you make of those who do.
From his apologies for America and other such outrageous policies as he is attempting to implement he obviously is not a lover of this country he claims to be a citizen of ....just saying!
terrenceApr 19th 2010 3:18PM
@Faystarr,
Nothing in this article makes anyone here sound like a conspiracy theorist.
Two points:
A- I remember at no point during the election cycle anyone seriously questioning McCain's citizenship status.
B- That article isn't an article but a blog post with no substantiated links or references. It's passing mention of being born in Kenya is completely without merit.
How do you believe the unsourced passing mention on a no-name Web site if you don't believe the doctor who delivered him and the state records?
Regardless of Obama's status, to refuse orders, especially as an enlisted medic, is selfish and endangers the lives of others. A good moral compass should guide Dr. Lakin to perform his duties as opposed to playing (pointless) politics with the lives of our soldiers serving in harm's way.
FaystarrApr 21st 2010 10:59AM
A nutjob conspiracy theorist mounts his theories based upon little to no evidence or in the face of bona fide proven facts and yet still believes in a spurious story. So including Sarah Palin as "believing or not believing Obama was born other than on American soil" is far reaching and builds a conspired story and an allegation as such...when all she said was that it was "a fair question" which is a fair response based upon her own experience of all the nitpicking delving into her personal life in an attempt to drum up any and all dirt on her.
A...Duh! There is a plethora of evidence that his own eligibility to run for Presidency was brought into question...just an example:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23415028
B- That link on IndonesiaMatters.com
may just be a blog website but it is a blog by an Indonesian citizen about Indonesian matters and shows that this particular Indonesian believed and reported on the day of Obama's election that Obama was born in Kenya ...not America.
I am not aware of the doctor that delivered him having made a statement. Could you post a link to what it is you are referring to?
Why did Michelle refer to his home country as Kenya in 2004?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLDHDfPNBME&feature=related
As for state records...like I said ...DOH official can say the words that Obama is a "natural born citizen" ...because many people believe a citizen is a citizen is a citizen and legally is a natural born citizen according to their "belief" of what that means. Yet without a long form birth certificate that states he was born on US soil that is "debateable"....not a nutjob conspiracy theory...all remains a debateable issue without bona fide proof otherwise...because Obama's mother's permanent residence was Hawaii and law at that time would have issued a US birth certificate to the mother for her child regardless of where he was born....so without bona fide proof ..it remains debateable.
Besides there is far more evidence and questions about his being born elsewhere than him being born in America. The "belief" that he is American born is a matter of "belief" .
But these links are far more convincing that he was not born in America:
ttp://web.archive.org/web/20040627142700/eastandard.net/headlines/news26060403.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH4GX3Otf14&feature=related
As for this surgeon I believe he is putting his career on the line because he obviously so objects to serving under Obama as did several soldiers who also risked court martial in refusing to deploy declaring that Bush was illegally elected President.
As for me I think there is something that is being hidden and I am just more or less curious to find out what. I had rather he be deposed because of an eligibility factor and blamed on the Republicans than for him to be impeached for some other law breaking issue that may come into play when the Republicans take power in Congress. ...or his losing favor as he is doing right now. He could have been a real MLK and hope to so many had he not bowed to our enemies all over the world and tried so hard to change our Constitution ruling so far to the left. ....but make no mistake about it I want him out of office because of the apparent agenda he has is in my view very anti-American and may well launch this nation into a banana republic. His policies scare the heck out of me.
kudosApr 22nd 2010 8:00AM
I believe he is a US citizen. I believe most people on the right don't even know what Obama really wants, and for that matter even on the left. I read so many hack jobs of journalism on the right that personally, if it wasn't for the first amendment should probably be shot for treason to the American people, just like many politicians on both the right and left.
Back to the 2nd point of what people have been making in the articles. It used to be the states right to decide who is a US citizen and who is not. It has only been in the last 100 years this has changed. So if you are for states rights, than Obama is a citizen. Otherwise, he may or may not be. From what I heard, his mother was not married at the time of his birth, which means normally the baby belongs to her and adopts her status. I don' t not know if that is true or not.
But about all the stuff that is probably false. It is difficult to prove that something is a false positive when something already happened. When you argue with your significant other sometimes facts could be mistaken and not remembered correctly. Do you go back and correct every single one of them or say it once and move on? Personally I would just say that just isn't show and move on. I wouldn't keep fighting it every single day that what they are saying is false. Take that example and blow it up nationally. It's a simple explanation I could understand and probably the most correct. Occam's razor. Besides, if there really is a huge conspiracy, you can make a fake long form, or any other type of fake information and it would be difficult to prove one way or the other.
Take my advice, just vote, unless if you believe that doesn't work either.