He's a big-time American patriot. You know that, because he appears in a video for the American Patriot Foundation. Of course, since Timothy McVeigh and the "Super Patriot" movement, the word has lost a lot of its value. As a general rule of thumb, people who take the label "patriot" and slap it on themselves tend to be the least patriotic of Americans. They owe their fealty to an America that doesn't exist and want to "return it" to values it never had. This America, the one we live in and the one that reflects historical accuracy, they don't have a lot of use for. They don't love this country, they love a country that exists only in their imaginations.So Army doctor Lt. Col. Terry Lakin is a patriot in his own mind and the minds of those fellow wingnuts who only worry about the Constitution when a Democrat's in the White House. And for standing by what, for lack of a better word, we're going to have to call "principles," Lakin has been accused of a crime against the nation he claims to love just so damned much.
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U.S. military officials tell NBC News that the U.S. Army will court martial a lieutenant colonel who refuses to deploy to Afghanistan because he considers orders from President Obama to be "illegal."... [CLICK TO READ FULL POST]
