by JESSICA GRESKO | 12/16/10 08:22 PM | 
FORT MEADE, MD. — An Army doctor who disobeyed orders to deploy to Afghanistan using a birther argument was sentenced by a jury Thursday to six months in a military prison and dismissed from the Army.
Thursday morning, a military prosecutor asked the jury to sentence Lakin to at least two years in a military prison and to dismiss him from the service.
It was a sentence he "invited and he earned," lead prosecutor Capt. Philip J. O'Beirne told the jury.
The prosecutor said Lakin had other options such as resigning or asking not to be deployed . . .
"He knew exactly what he was doing and he did it anyway," O'Beirne told the jury.
The captain asked jury members to send a message with their sentence . . .
He (Lakin) 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.
Lakin was apologetic after his conviction and before his sentencing saying he didn't want to end his carer this way.
Lakin received the officer equivalent of a dishonourable discharge and he will be drummed out of the Army. He will be ineligible to retire and have no veterans benefits. With a court martial conviction, He is considered a felon and will lose his medical license.
It would be great if the Army would drum Lakin out of the service like they did to Jason McCord, played by Chuck Connors, in the TV series, "Branded."
"BRANDED" was a series set in the late 1800s and based on the story of Jason McCord, the only survivor of the Battle of Bitter Creek. Jason McCord, a West Point graduate, was knocked unconscious during the attack and left for dead by the Indians in the TV series.
McCord is accused of cowardice and drummed out of the Army. The opening scene in the series shows McCord being stripped of his rank, his sabre broken in half and being tossed from the fort. The Army band plays "The Rogue's March" as he leaves the fort.
He is then court-martialed and then spends the rest of his time trying to live down the reputation of being a coward.
Lakin will have to live down that same reputation. He refused to go into a war zone using the argument of an ideologue and a coward.
Rightardia likes the idea of the Army making spectacle of Lakin and drumming him out of the service.
It's time to get even with these stupid Birthers.
sources: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/16/terrence-lakin-sentence_n_797906.html and http://www.ourchuckconnors.com/Branded.html
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Thursday morning, a military prosecutor asked the jury to sentence Lakin to at least two years in a military prison and to dismiss him from the service.
It was a sentence he "invited and he earned," lead prosecutor Capt. Philip J. O'Beirne told the jury.
The prosecutor said Lakin had other options such as resigning or asking not to be deployed . . .
"He knew exactly what he was doing and he did it anyway," O'Beirne told the jury.
The captain asked jury members to send a message with their sentence . . .
He (Lakin) 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.
Lakin was apologetic after his conviction and before his sentencing saying he didn't want to end his carer this way.
Lakin received the officer equivalent of a dishonourable discharge and he will be drummed out of the Army. He will be ineligible to retire and have no veterans benefits. With a court martial conviction, He is considered a felon and will lose his medical license.
It would be great if the Army would drum Lakin out of the service like they did to Jason McCord, played by Chuck Connors, in the TV series, "Branded."
"BRANDED" was a series set in the late 1800s and based on the story of Jason McCord, the only survivor of the Battle of Bitter Creek. Jason McCord, a West Point graduate, was knocked unconscious during the attack and left for dead by the Indians in the TV series.
McCord is accused of cowardice and drummed out of the Army. The opening scene in the series shows McCord being stripped of his rank, his sabre broken in half and being tossed from the fort. The Army band plays "The Rogue's March" as he leaves the fort.
He is then court-martialed and then spends the rest of his time trying to live down the reputation of being a coward.
Lakin will have to live down that same reputation. He refused to go into a war zone using the argument of an ideologue and a coward.
Rightardia likes the idea of the Army making spectacle of Lakin and drumming him out of the service.
It's time to get even with these stupid Birthers.
sources: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/16/terrence-lakin-sentence_n_797906.html and http://www.ourchuckconnors.com/Branded.html
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