Anti-Obama GI's Afghan Orders Revoked

[sabra]

Source: military.com

The attorney representing an Army major fighting deployment to Afghanistan because he believes Barack Obama is not legally his commander-in-chief is declaring victory after the Soldier's orders were revoked yesterday.

California lawyer Orly Taitz says any service member may now refuse any order by questioning Obama's legitimacy.

"Do you know what this means?" Taitz asked in a telephone interview with Military.com Tuesday, about an hour after hearing from Maj. Stefan Cook, the officer fighting his deployment to Afghanistan. "It means the Obama administration has blinked. They have no cards to play with. The moment I filed a lawsuit, they didn't even fight!"

"Can you imagine what are the consequences? This is disastrous" for the administration, she said. "We'll have no military. Because anytime any Soldier, any Sailor, any Airman does not want to follow any orders, all he has to do is call an attorney and say 'I don't want to follow this order because I question the legitimacy of the commander in chief.' "

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.

Read more: http://www.military.com/news/article/anti-obama-gis-afghan-orders-revoked.html?col=1186032310810

[TheWraith]

1. That woman reads like a bad novel. nt

[imdjh]

2. Olbermann still annoys me, but he's good now and then.

Recalling his own determination in the 1960s that, if drafted, he would oppose it because he didn't want to get shot and killed, he said: "too bad Maj. Cook doesn't have the guts to say that. Then he might be deserving of his rank rather than an embarrassment to all those who served without cowardice."

[Turbineguy]

3. Not quite.

Given that an officer the rank of Major has the ability to get lots of people killed, he has proven himself unfit to serve.

Should an officer who comes to the same conclusion be allowed to serve? I think not. What other fucked up ideas is he going to come up with?

[Ian David]

6. When is this traitor's court martial? n/t

[sinkingfeeling]

4. What does this really mean? I would suspect that the Army has discovered that Maj. Cook isn't

really the type of person that want in charge of anybody else.

" The paper said Cook, as an Individual Mobilization Augmentee, had volunteered for a year's deployment to Afghanistan on May 8 and his orders were issued June 9. Quon told the paper that IMAs who volunteer may ask for a revocation up until their reporting date, but that Cook had not asked for this. Quon also told the paper she could not say why the Army had revoked his orders, citing the Privacy Act."

[Old and In the Way]

8. So he volunteers in May, but now has an issue with Obama's legitimacy?

yeah, right. What a dickhead.

[PatGund]

15. Oh, it's more than that.

http://badfiction.typepad.com/badfiction/2009/07/smell-of-rat-laced-with-skunk.html

In a nutshell,

1 Feb - Cook signed on as a plaintiff for Dr. Orly
25 March - Cook comments on Free Republic that he's a plaintiff
9 May - Cook volunteers to be deployed. As a volunteer, he can change his mind up to 24 hours before deployment
9 June - Cook gets orders to be deployed on 15 July
10 July - Dr. Orly files a lawsuit to get a TRO, trial date is 16 July
14 July - Cook's orders to deploy are revoked.

This is such a setup by Dr. Orly and Cook.

[alsame]

5. I don't understand - isn't this woman openly encouraging

insurrection? Or treason?

[Ian David]

7. I would say yes. Yes, she is. n/t

[bushmeister0]

10. Can you say "mutiny"?

"Taitz claims she has 170 service members who have joined her legal battle against Obama."

It walks likes mutiny, it talks like mutiny . . .

I wonder what would have happened if a service member had said he didn't want to fight in Iraq because George Bush was never really elected? How do you think that would have gone?

[alsame]

11. That's why I don't understand why these "Army officials" aren't

making it clear that this is an isolated case. I realize they can't divulge why his orders were revoked, but this article gives the impression that any service member can refuse deployment.

[24601]

19. Filing an action in the courts is not mutiny. For mutiny, you need

to take illegal actions. According to Article 94 of the UCMJ, you have to commit the following:

"...with intent to usurp or override lawful military authority, refuse, in concert with any other person, to obey orders or otherwise do his duty or creates any violence or disturbance is guilty of mutiny;"

[RaleighNCDUer]

9. Is this the end of the story? Or does it end with Maj Cook being

summarily dismissed from the service?

As he should be.

Edit: for spelling the name right - I've had fumble fingers all day.

[47of74]

18. Well, it got him canned from his civilian job

Keith mentioned it tonight and I just found it on Daily Kos that this idiot managed to get himself canned from his civilian job as a systems engineer at the Department of Defense.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/15/753824/-My!-That-was-fast!-(Maj.-Birther-fired-from-civvy-job)

Simtech, Inc - who Cook worked for - was informed shortly after the DoD vacated Cook's orders that they didn't want him on DoD property anymore.

[Robb]

12. Deployment halted so charges can be brought.

That's my guess. We'll see.

[Abq_Sarah]

22. Once they cancel deployment

They kind of lose the issue of refusing to deploy.

I imagine their will be a courts martial but it does seem odd they canceled his orders.

[TheDebbieDee]

13. I agree with the poster who speculated that deployment has been

deferred as a Court Martial is being prepped!

Army JAG is burning the midnight oil to put together a case to fry this Cook.

[auburngrad82]

14. I think he should be deployed to Leavenworth. nt

[David__77]

16. Right-wingers think this is a "victory."

They will see that it is no such thing. I'm surprised they don't realize it already.

[jasi2006]

21. They love cowards like Rush, Hannity, and Cheney nt

[classysassy]

17. Orly,Orly

please produce your birth certificate,your law degree,your dental degree,or shutup,Oh by the way I agree with one of the female posters,that stated that you look"like you had been ridden hard and left wet".You aRE TRULY A SKANK in the Colter mode.

[orleans]

20. olbermann said cook is a systems engineer for a Pentagon contractor

the army, being sued by this guy, said he wasn't welcome at department of defense facilities--which is where cook was working. "not anymore."

what a moran!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehBxUhPvNtI

[DeSwiss]

23. How do we KNOW.....

...that this Orly Taitz person is a legit American??? ORLY? sounds French! :rofl: Hey!!! But for realz, where's her birth certificate???

- Someone should checked into that. Maybe if the FBI isn't doing anything.....

K&R