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Have you ever had a plan to do something that you thought would be so great, but as you implemented that plan, you realized you hadn't quite thought everything through?
Like wearing sexy heels to Six Flags. It starts off fine, and you think you're looking real hot, but after an hour, when your feet are killing you and you have six more hours to be there, you realize what a horribly bad idea it was.
Well, apparently that is the fix that Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin finds himself in today. Lakin took a stand against President Barack Obama and refused to deploy to Afghanistan on the grounds that Obama is not a legitimate president of the United States. He claims Obama is not a citizen, and thus, ineligible to serve.
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The Army rewarded his stand and his political views with a court martial, jail time and the loss of millions in pension benefits.
Once realizing his "stand" wasn't turning out too well, he said, SIKE!
Much like wearing heels to Six Flags, it seems that the colonel's plan wasn't very well thought through. Throwing his career and a bunch of money down the toilet was not quite the result Lakin had in mind.
Lakin, looking like a big dummy, now says that despite his questions about Obama's eligibility for office, he was wrong not to follow Army orders:
"I don't want it to end this way," Lakin told the jury Wednesday under questioning from his lawyer. "I want to continue to serve."
Prosecutors aren't buying it, though.
The prosecutor, Philip J. O'Beirne, said Lakin had other options, such as resigning or asking not to be deployed, if he had issues with his orders.
Instead, he used his deployment earlier this year as a political ploy, O'Beirne said, going to great lengths to create a "spectacle" by informing people of what he was doing.
Under questioning by his lawyer, he admitted that he used his deployment as a way to raise the issue and that he knew when he disobeyed orders that his "career was over."
Friday morning, a military prosecutor asked the jury to sentence Lakin to at least two years in a military prison and to dismiss him from service.
The jury returned with a sentence of six months in jail and dismissal from the armed services.
He'll have a lot of time in jail to study maps.
Maybe during that time, he will finally realize that Hawaii is a part of the United States. Good riddance!
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By: Da Truth Will Set You Free! on 12/17/2010 10:51AM
ROTFLMBlackBO! Good for him. Slavery, Jim Crow and all the hateful racist antics are over. You now have to follow the orders of a BLACK man! I am sure in jail there will be a few more black men that will give you orders on what you need to do to please them in the sack! Don't drop your soap! LMBO!!!!!!!!!!! Question about Pre. Obama's citizenship is nothing but racism in sheeps clothing.
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By: The Truth on 12/20/2010 8:42AM
Just plain stupid...
What he should have sais was
“I ain't got nothing against no VEIT-CONG
They ain't done nothing to me”...
He could have worked a smarter angle like when Muhammed Ali refused to go for religious reasons.
Maybe if he knew a little about Black history it may have panned out for him.
Calling an "ELECTED" official an “illegitimate" president" was a stupid card to play.
He had to have known where refusing an order from the COMMANDER IN CHIEF would get him. There’s a new sheriff in town!
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By: HP on 12/20/2010 10:18AM
TRULY AMAZING THAT THIS MAN WOULD GAMBLE HIS CAREER, HIS LIFE ON DECIDING ALL BY HIS LONESOME, THAT OUR PRESIDENT ISN'T THERE LAWFULLY...BECAUSE OF HIS PROFOUND, INHERENT RACISM HE'S LOST EVERYTHING... AND ON TOP OF THAT HE'LL BE A TOTAL DISGRACE ALONG WITH A FELONY ON HIS RECORD FOR THE REMAINDER OF HIS LIFE...YOU WOULD THINK A COLONEL HAD MORE SENSE THAN TO GIVE HIS LIFE AWAY OVER SOMETHING SO OBVIOUSLY RACIST AND STUPID... I'M SURE HIS FAMILY WILL BE A CONSTANT REMINDER OF JUST HOW MUCH OF A LOSER HE IS...
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By: frank on 12/20/2010 1:28PM
IF THIS PRICK WAS A LT. COL. DOCTOR AND WOULD OPENLY DISRESPECT THE ORDERS OF A BLACK PRESIDENT...IMAGINE HOW RACIST THIS GUTTER MAGGOT WAS, WHEN DEALING WITH REGULAR BLACK SOLDIERS!!!
JUST TO MAKE SURE THIS FOOL LEARNS HIS LESSON
WHEN IN JAIL, "BUBBA" SHOULD HAVE EM REPEAT "WHO'S THE PRESIDENT" & "WHICH STATE IS HE FROM", IN MILITARY STYLE" WHILE BANGING SOMETHING UP LAKIN'S ASS...
THEN TO HELP RID LAKIN OF HIS RACISM, HE SHOULD BE FORCED TO HIS KNEES DAILY AND SEVERAL BLACKS 'TAKE A LEAK' IN HIS FACE...
WITH ALL THIS, BELIEVE ME, LAKIN WILL BE CURED WHEN HE LEAVES THE MILITARY
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By: KW on 12/20/2010 2:14PM
Here yea, hear yea, hear yea . . . Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin after all has been said about our President you chose be dismissed from the military, go to jail, loose substantial retirement benefits, and disgrace yourself, family, friends, and peers.
H O W S T U P I D A R E Y O U?
Even if President Barack Hussein Obama, US Commander-In-Chief, has heard of your claims I am quite sure neither he, his family, advisors, attorneys, or the American people never lost any sleep over it!
But you, Buddy, are still going to jail! Don't drop your soap you arrogant racist pig!!!
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By: ARNEADER on 12/21/2010 12:21PM
Everybody plays the fool sometimes.
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By: jamarcus on 12/17/2010 11:45AM
Terrence Lakin is licensed to practice medicine in Maryland and Colorado. Jam Donaldson as the author of this article, you should contact the medical licensing boards of Colorado and Maryland where this convicted doctor is licensed to have them take away his medical license.
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By: Wallace W Smith on 12/19/2010 10:16PM
This man sentence is to light. He should have got the death sentence. Being Black the military gave me me an unjust sentence for a crime that was less then his. I seem many Black get sentences that was not right, but the White man had the authority to give out the sentences.
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By: bob on 12/20/2010 10:19AM
@ wallace w smith. Don't even try it! I was in the military 30 years ago. When I was in the navy the black man was treated like royalty! If there was ever a racial incident (thats what they called it when a black was involved in a conflict with any other race) The black man was always given the benefit of the doubt. Unless of course it was in a foreign country where if you commit a crime you do the time black or not. I was there I saw black given jobs just because they were black not because the deserved it. So like i posted DONT EVEN TRY IT!
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By: stonedog23 on 12/20/2010 10:31AM
Bob, are you kidding me? The military has a past that is not too kind to soldiers of color. But I agree with the sentence, especially the taking of benefits. But on topic, this guy played the Republican/Tea Party card and got trumped, big time. There have been thousands upon thousands of soldiers who have not voted for the current presidents in which they serve, yet they don't disobey military orders.
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