US 'birther' disobeys deployment order

US Army officer, Lietenant Colonel Terrence Lakin, file photo

Source: Press TV
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/155510.html


A US Army officer refusing an order deploy to Afghanistan war has pleaded guilty to one of the two charges against him.

Lieutenant Colonel Terrence Lakin, a 17-year veteran serving as an Army surgeon, disobeyed orders because he raised doubts about whether President Obama was born in the United States.

“I will disobey my orders to deploy because I believe all servicemen and servicewomen and the American people deserve the truth about President Obama's constitutional eligibility to the office of the presidency and the commander in chief,” the ABC news agency quoted Lakin as saying.

“If he is ineligible, then my order and indeed all orders are illegal, because all orders have the origin with the commander in chief as handed down through the chain of command,” he added.

He hopes that his intentional disobedience will put pressure on Obama to present his original birth certificate.

Another charge pressed against Lakin is “not reporting for duty”.

He has been sentenced to 18 months in prison and dismissed from the Army.

Lakin belongs to the so-called “birthers” who question Obama's legitimacy to power, saying that his original birthplace is not in the US.