Former Army Officer, 'Birther,' Terry Lakin Freed from Prison, Arrives BWI
Former Lt. Col. Terry Lakin arrived in Maryland Saturday after serving five months in prison for disobeying orders to deploy to Afghanistan. He claimed President Obama had no legal standing to be president.
Family and several dozen supporters greeted former Army doctor and “birther” movement leader Terry Lakin as he arrived at Baltimore Washington International Airport Saturday after his release from federal prison for refusing to deploy to Afghanistan. “I’m so happy to be with my family,” Lakin said after embracing his wife, Pili, and three children. “They’ve been through a lot.” A military physician who served in the Army as a lieutenant colonel, Lakin publicly questioned whether President Obama was born in the United States and therefore qualified to be commander in chief. He made his case in YouTube videos that got thousands of views, admitting he was disobeying orders to go to war “because I believe all servicemen and servicewomen and …
lati
2:42 pm on Monday, May 23, 2011
why is he being celebrated. My husband has been deployed several times..what is he teaching his kids, his soldiers, that if you disagree then it's ok to leave your responsibilities to someone else?? Wth..i agree with standing your ground. But there's more than one way to do that without abandoning everyone else..people are so ignorant..they don't even know what there congratulating this guy for. … more ›