Birther Convicted For Refusing Deployment

Wait, wait, wait just one minute, Lakin now would not refuse deployment! Okay he refused deployment before he could be sentenced to up to 3+ years at the cost of $90K, but now facing such punishment has no problems doing what hundreds of thousands of other military personal has done, being deployed. As to you question, yeah Lakin should serve prison time, just as any other military personal would if they disobeyed an order from their superior. President Obama is the Commander and Chief, get over it. If you have a problem if it, November 2012 is less than two years away and you can vote for someone else.

If they truely had questions about his citizenship statis why didn't they bring it up when he was first elected? Why wait until they are going to be deployed? Simple..they are looking for an excuse NOT to be deployed. Nothing more. He is getting what he deserves.

Yes, I think he should spend time in prison (Hopefully Military Prison) for him refusing to follow orders. I believe it is called being AWOL. I also think he should lose his pay and job after this as well he should be forced to go to a military prison then get kicked out of the Military. He shouldn't of signed up if he wasn't going to follow the chain of command which in this case is Obama you don't have to like him but if you are serving in the Military or anywhere under the Executive Branch he is your boss until either he is kicked out or voted out.

I don't know about cowardice. Could have been. Might not have been. The birthers that I've "chatted" with don't seem to be very logical people, and this could have been a bad case of misplaced illogic. Granted Obama's the commander in chief now, but he isn't even the President who sent our troops to Afghanistan. Not to mention that the one thing really doesn't have anything to do with the other (Obama's legitimacy as a citizen, vs the deployment of an officer who swore to serve his country)...

..Hi annie, My thinking is that he has been in the military for a number of years to get to his rank. So my first thought would be, did he have any problem what so ever with W when he was Commander-in-Chief? If not why not? W was alleged to have dodged military service, and disappeared for a year or so, was that not a problem for the patriotic Lt. Col.? Then he gets a new chief whom he has a question about his birthplace or whatever? At that point in time when he had these convictions, why not leave the service and find a private sector job? Would have solved the problem it would seem. Cheers.

Annie, according to Yahoo news the coward was sentenced to 6 months in a military prison and dismissal from the military. I was hoping for a stiffer penalty but this will do.

Cowardice, I don't think so. Actually he showed more courage than most people can even dream about. Apparently he is a principled man, that can think, and he knows that if the man in the oval office is not a legitimate citizen, he cannot be commander in chief. There is plenty of reason to doubt obama's status, and as long as obama insists on hiding the truth, there have to be questions. There would be absolutely no reason to 'just trust' obama. So he decided to cave in under the obama-centric justice system. Unless I had the guts to take the stand he did, I'm not sure I would call him a coward.

Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin has deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan under other United States Presidents. I see it as a far stretch to call Lt.Col Larkin a coward. He is a honorable decorated medical surgeon. He has faithfully served his country for seventeen years.Lt.Col.Larkin was denied discovery at his trial.He was blocked from presenting his case. His sentence has been reduced according to the evening news.If he repeals it is my understanding he can not again be denied discovery.Have to wait to see the rest of the story.

I can't say he's a coward, but he should have done his duty whether or not he agreed with the whereabouts of Obama's birth. It shouldn't be about the president, but about duty to the constitution.

You guys are speaking tough language but when you guys would be deployed in times of war you'd refuse too. Not because you disagree with the president but because you'd be afraid to die there. Same for me, no chance in hell I'd accept deployment to a country where the only goal there is to shoot Taliban people to smithereens resulting in more terrorism. If people in a country want to kill each other let them do that, who gives a dang. Would be much more beneficial to the peace of the western world if we'd fight against extremist Islam. Check my country, Mosques are build as though it's a lego building and our typical Dutch culture is decaying as per the simmering frog principal. Same is currently evolving in USA. Before you know it all churches are turned into mosques with immense megaphones to call to prayer, six times a day while all Non-Muslims are slowly but surely killed. Is that the future you want your children to grow up in? Tell your political representative to put this on the agenda. Because before you know it you have to deploy soldiers in your own country to prevent it from sinking like the titanic...