{"id":20352,"date":"2010-09-02T19:55:15","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T23:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20352"},"modified":"2010-09-02T19:55:15","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T23:55:15","slug":"army-judge-removes-birther-aspect-from-court-martial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20352","title":{"rendered":"Army judge removes &#8220;birther&#8221; aspect from court martial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/CRIME\/09\/02\/birther.court.martial\/index.html\">According to CNN<\/a>, Army judge Colonel Denise Lind removed &#8220;birther&#8221; aspects of the trial of Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin, the Army flight surgeon who has refused to deploy to Afghanistan until the President proves to Lakin that the president is a US citizen.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A judge on Thursday denied a request for President Barack Obama to testify at a court martial for a U.S. Army flight surgeon who refused to deploy to Afghanistan until he saw proof that Obama was born in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The judge, Army Col. Denise Lind, said any evidence or witnesses related to Obama&#8217;s citizenship is irrelevant to the charges against Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin, who has 17 years of service in the U.S. military.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Finally she ruled that a military court martial is not the forum in which to determine a president&#8217;s eligibility, because the Constitution says only Congress has the power to impeach and remove the president.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, this is getting a little too messy. Lakin needs to grow up and 1) go to jail, or 2) deploy. It&#8217;s making a mockery of military justice. I&#8217;m no lawyer but the judge seems to be stretching the law a bit to accommodate common sense.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this could all be settled if the President would have <a href=\"http:\/\/in.news.yahoo.com\/43\/20100830\/890\/twl-i-can-t-have-birth-certificate-plast.html\">his birth certificate plastered to his forehead<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to CNN, Army judge Colonel Denise Lind removed &#8220;birther&#8221; aspects of the trial of Lt. &hellip; <a title=\"Army judge removes &#8220;birther&#8221; aspect from court martial\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20352\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Army judge removes &#8220;birther&#8221; aspect from court martial<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}