Let me preface this post by saying that I find the quibbling about President Barack Hussein Obama’s birth certificate to be quite useless at this point… If anything was going to come of that particular question, it would have and should have before the election. At this point in time, so many people no longer care (if they ever did), so much time has passed for a fabrication/forgery to be created (if one needed to be), and I so doubt that our Glorious President would actually stand down if the facts indicated he was not from around here (and I have no proof that he is not). Even though I do find it quite telling that our Glorious President has been unwilling to produce a $15 piece of paper (which would certainly satisfy the “transparency” promises he made during his campaign), I also know that the argument is completely meaningless at this point. Our efforts would undoubtedly be better spent opposing his record-setting, disaster-inducing spending, or his aspirations for a totalitarian state, with him at its head…
However, all that said, this is still interesting:
A U.S. Army Reserve major from Florida scheduled to report for deployment to Afghanistan within days has had his military orders revoked after arguing he should not be required to serve under a president who has not proven his eligibility for office.
His attorney, Orly Taitz, confirmed to WND the military has rescinded his impending deployment orders.
“We won! We won before we even arrived,” she said with excitement. “It means that the military has nothing to show for Obama. It means that the military has directly responded by saying Obama is illegitimate – and they cannot fight it. Therefore, they are revoking the order!”
She continued, “They just said, ‘Order revoked.’ No explanation. No reasons – just revoked.”
A hearing on the questions raised by Maj. Stefan Frederick Cook, an engineer who told WND he wants to serve his country in Afghanistan, was scheduled for July 16 at 9:30 a.m.
“As an officer in the armed forces of the United States, it is [my] duty to gain clarification on any order we may believe illegal. With that said, if President Obama is found not to be a ‘natural-born citizen,’ he is not eligible to be commander-in-chief,” he told WND only hours after the case was filed.
“[Then] any order coming out of the presidency or his chain of command is illegal. Should I deploy, I would essentially be following an illegal [order]. If I happened to be captured by the enemy in a foreign land, I would not be privy to the Geneva Convention protections,” he said.
Major Cook received orders to deploy to Afghanistan. He objected to the orders on the basis that he considered them unlawful orders, given that the Commander in Chief has not, in his opinion, adequately met the “natural-born citizen” requirement spelled out in the United States Constitution. Disobeying lawful orders can result in courts-martial for military officers, so, just in case, he took his case to a civilian court in order to get a temporary restraining order taken out against his CO, the Secretary of Defense, and President Barack Hussein Obama. The Army’s response was to revoke the orders deploying Major Cook. Dr. Taitz plans on attending the civilian court hearing tomorrow, and amending the temporary restraining order into a general injunction:
Taitz said she will attend the hearing to amend the temporary restraining order to an injunction because more members of the military have joined the cause.
“We are going to be asking for release of Obama’s records because now this completely undermines the military. It revoked this order, but it can come up with another order tomorrow. It can come up with orders for other people,” she said. “Am I going to be flying around the country 1,000 times and paying the fees every time they issue an order?”
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Asked what this decision means for every other serviceman who objects to deployment under a president who has not proven he is eligible for office, Taitz responded:
“Now, we can have each and every member of the military – each and every enlistee and officer – file something similar saying ‘I will not take orders until Obama is legitimately vetted.’”
Curmudgeonly & Skeptical goes on to say:
It goes further than that. It appears that folks, as Obama is wont to say, folks can ignore any legislation signed into law by Obama using the same argument. The head of every US agency, including the IRS, is now illegitimate, and without standing to enforce squat. This could be delicious. And if congress doesn’t act quickly to remove him, lead to anarchy.
As a brief aside before I offer my few comments on the situation, I do appreciate the class and impartiality shown by Keith Olbermann and MSNBC:
Before news of the orders being revoked were reported, MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann tonight called Cook a “jackass” and Taitz a “conwoman,” as he labeled both of them the “worst persons in the world.” He flayed the soldier as “an embarrassment to all those who have served without cowardice.”
So, my thoughts on the matter…
1. As I said before, this is pretty much a moot argument.
2. Regardless of the outcome of this case, Major Cook’s career is effectively over.
3. Major Cook volunteered to go to Afghanistan back in May, and then filed this suit this month. Reservists who volunteer for active duty have the ability to request order revocations up to the day before their scheduled deployment date. I am purely speculating, but I would guess that is where the “following order is revoked” message came from.
4. Encouraging current military members, federal agents, and other government employees to break their oaths is Not A Good Idea (TM). First, it is very important to see how the fallout of this situation will develop, before we start seeing the apparently-desired mass desertions and such. Second, this matter only deals with President Barack Hussein Obama, and his legitimacy – however, given the way the government is structured and defined by the Constitution, the President being illegitimate does not necessarily make the government, or any individual governmental entity, illegitimate. Potential illegitimacy does call into question any laws he signed, or any actions he officially performed, but the job and powers of the President are quite narrow, and have little to no impact on the day-to-day operations of most federal agencies. Third, there are appropriate channels for this kind of legal challenge, and they are being used. Desertion, breaking an oath, and non-fulfillment of contractual duties are not examples of those “appropriate channels”.
5. Finally, so what? Assume the best/worst case scenario: it somehow comes to light that President Barack Hussein Obama was not born in the United States, and is not otherwise qualified as a “natural-born citizen”. Do you honestly think that it will make a darned bit of difference? Do you think the United States Government is going to roll back over six months of law-making, boot the de-facto President, and promote Biden (on a less-serious note, do you really want that?)? Yeah, sorry folks… we have as much chance of that happening as we do of the sun going nova tomorrow. We may not like the schmuck, but he is almost definitely here to stay.
(Disclaimer: As usual, I am not a lawyer, and these opinions are mine, and mine alone.)
(Courtesy of Free in Idaho.)
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