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Soldier who says Obama isn't president doesn't have to deploy, Army says
U.S. Army Maj. Stefan Frederick Cook, the reserve soldier who says he shouldn't have to go to Afghanistan because he believes Barack Obama was never eligible to be president, has had his deployment orders revoked, Army officials said.

Lt. Col. Maria Quon, U.S. Army Public Affairs Officer, U.S. Army Human Resources Command-St. Louis, said Tuesday evening, Cook was no longer expected to report Wednesday to MacDill Air Force Base in Florida for mobilization to active duty. Cook is an Individual Mobilization Augmentee (IMA), meaning he is a reserve soldier assigned to an active component unit for duty. He is assigned to the U.S. Army Element of U.S. Southern Command. Last week he filed a request in federal court seeking a temporary restraining order and status as a conscientious objector through his California-based attorney, Orly Taitz.

Taitz, who has also challenged the legitimacy of Obama's presidency in other courts, filed the 20-page document on July 8 with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia. In it Taitz asks the court to consider granting her client's request based upon Cook's belief that Obama is not a natural-born citizen of the United States and is therefore ineligible to serve as commander-in-chief of the U.S. Armed Forces. Cook further states he "would be acting in violation of international law by engaging in military actions outside the United States under this President's command. ... simultaneously subjecting himself to possible prosecution as a war criminal by the faithful execution of these duties."

A hearing to discuss Cook's requests is scheduled to take place in federal court here Thursday at 9:30 a.m.
Hmm. I generally agree with Dr. White on this one but this seems like a bad idea to me. Makes it look like there's something to hide and fuels the conspiracy fires. The guy volunteered. He should serve or do time.
I think most of us are running short on patience with the conspiracy nonsense that's at the center of this. No one -- starting with the Supreme Court -- is going to suddenly decide that B.O.'s not a citizen, not eligible to be president, and peremptorily kick him out. It isn't going to happen. Fifty or a hundred years from now perhaps somebody will produce the real birth certificate and it'll be generally agreed that it's a curious fact that all that damage was done to the nation by somebody who wasn't even technically qualified to be president. But the partisan atmosphere today means that the damage is going to be done whether Major Cook and all the other conspiracy theorists think B.O.'s legal or not.
There's a certain group of people who believe in conspiracy theories. JFK, the Lindbergh baby, Pearl Harbor, 9/11, and now Bambi's birth certificate. People who want to indulge those theories may do so -- somewhere else. We're focused on reality, and reality is that Bambi is the duly-elected president, and a poor one so far. The nirther conspiracists are invited to stay away.
Bottom line: this is the last story we are going to do on this subject unless a majority of the Supreme Court votes that Barack Hussein Obama, duly sworn in as president of the United States of America in January, 2009, took office under unconstitutional pretenses and must resign. John F. Kennedy won because of dead Democrats voting in Illinois, so he was not a legitimate president. No doubt other presidents did not take office with scrupulously clean hands, as well. Nonetheless, once the candidate has been sworn in he is the president until he either loses the next election or finishes his two terms and retires.

We're in the middle of two wars, people. Let's focus on winning the one against the jihadis, while preventing the worst that the Obama Democrats can do before we vote them out of office in 2010 and 2012, respectively. Piss away your energy on nirther stories and we'll lose on both real fronts.

Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2009-07-16
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