Lt. Scott Easterling has entered a novel fight while serving in Iraq: he is suing President Barack Obama. Easterling is calling the President an “impostor” and challenging his right to issue commands while his birth status is in question. It is one of a series of lawsuit challenging the right of the President to serve on the basis of his birth status. It appears that he could be joined by Senator Richard Shelby in the litigation. Shelby has refused to accept Obama citizenship until he sees a birth certificate.
Easterling is supporting challenges filed by California attorney Orly Taitz and her Defend Our Freedom Foundation. He issued a statement: “As an active-duty officer in the United States Army, I have grave concerns about the constitutional eligibility of Barack Hussein Obama to hold the office of president of the United States,” wrote Scott Easterling in a “to-whom-it-may-concern” letter.
The statement will raise an interesting question for an active soldier. It appears that Lt. Easterling is still following orders and he does have a right to file a lawsuit. However, calling the Commander-in-Chief an “impostor” in an out-of-court statement could be the grounds for discipline under the military code. Here is the statement that he released to the public:
To Any and All Interested Parties,
As an active-duty Officer in the United States Army, I have grave concerns about the constitutional eligibility of Barack Hussein Obama to hold the Office of President of The United States. He has absolutely refused to provide to the American public his original birth certificate, as well as other documents which may prove or disprove his eligibility. In fact, he has fought every attempt made by concerned citizens in their effort to force him to do so.
Until Mr. Obama releases a “vault copy” of his original birth certificate for public review, I will consider him neither my Commander in Chief nor my President, but rather, a usurper to the Office – an impostor.
My conviction is such that I am compelled to join Dr. Orly Taitz’s lawsuit, as a plaintiff, against Mr. Obama. As a citizen, it pains me to do this, but as an Offficer, my sworn oath to support and defend our Constitution requires this action.
I joined the Army at age 40, after working in Iraq as a contractor with KBR in ‘05/’06. I chose to work with KBR to support my troops and then left that lucrative position when the Army raised it’s maximum enlistment age to 40. Upon completion of Basic Training, I entered Officer Candidate School and commissioned as a 2LT in August 2007. After completing the subsequent Basic Officer Leadership courses, I was assigned to Ft. Knox and shortly therafter deployed to Balad, Iraq. I was promoted to 1LT on Feb. 2, 2009 and I have approximately five months remaining of our fifteen month deployment.
I implore all Service-members and citizens to contact their Senators and Representatives and demand that they require Mr. Obama prove his eligibility. Our Constitution and our great nation must not be allowed to be disgraced.
Very Respectfull,
Scott R. Easterling
1LT OD/LG
United States Army
[Update: Now a second soldier has reportedly joined Easterling in his challenge to the President’s legitimacy.
The case may follow the same course as the court martial of Lt. Ehren Watada for his public comments against the Iraq war. His case led to some novel appeals and a mistrial. 
People,
The Supreme Court refused the case so it it dead. Secondly, Hawaii did what they are supposed to do. Finally, if you want to look for a conspiracy, take a look at who pays the trolls on this site to bring up nonsense issues.
Professor,
I read that Article 88 can be applied to retired military. In that it involves “Contemptuous Speech Against the President”, do you think it may be applied against Major General Childers who wrote such words as:
“he lies he tells about a range of subjects including perhaps who his biological father really is”
“all of these says he is a person of mystery, of no integrity, and in fact paints him with the same narcissist paint of Hitler, Stalin, Saddam, Mao, and Kim Jong Ill.”
“He is an interloper, a usurper, a fake, a scam artist, a Chicago crook, a recipient of bribes and gratuitous income for which he paid no tax, a socialist (perhaps only a communist or Marxist), and a grave danger”
“Other than this, my key short-term complaint is that he has not had a heart attack in office.”
“then we would be stuck with Joe Biden whose only redeeming attribute is that he is probably not a communist.”
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Do you think the military will just ignore, or will they take any action?
Hawaii cannot confirm. And, if they did, it would be viewed as a conspiracy. They already say Lingle is complicit. If the results are not what are desired, it is part of the conspiracy.
Trouble is, Hawaii would not confirm they issued the COLB. If they did that, a lot of folks would be satisfied.
‘Cause you’re deranged. – Ad homeniem
‘Cause you know BO is a faker. – Ad homeniem and false attribution of knowledge.
‘Cause you don’t know where BO was born or who could possibly certify that it actually happened at any particular place, at any particular time. – Simply wrong. The State of Hawaii and the Courts have proven the question to the accepted legal standards. To do more would require a time machine. Unless you have one, you better just get over it.
‘Cause you drank the kool-aid and he sukkered you. – That’s simple projection and wishful thinking.
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That’s not proof, Tommy. That’s pitiful.
Time to fold your hand, pick up your 37 and half cards, and go home.
TJeff,
You need to stop watching Fox News and listening to Rush. Obama already proved his birth satisfies the Constitution. As was proved earlier, not all birth certificates give the information that you are imagining is required by the Constitution. President Obama is a U.S. Citizen who was born in the U.S. Case closed.
‘Cause you’re deranged.
‘Cause you know BO is a faker.
‘Cause you don’t know where BO was born or who could possibly certify that it actually happened at any particular place, at any particular time.
‘Cause you drank the kool-aid and he sukkered you.
TJ:
You made the assertion President Obama’s a faker. Now how about proving it, or just slink back to the obscurity you so richly deserve. The State of Hawaii has already made it’s judgment as have the American people. Where’s your proof? Obama need prove nothing.
“Why do you dummies think anyone cares about Bush?”
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‘Cause he’s a war criminal.
Why do you dummies think anyone cares about Bush?
In fact, why do keep reverting to Bush, Rush, or any one else?
It’s like a derangement.
This board is about Lt. Scott Easterling, his oath to defend The United States Constitution, and the faker sitting in the Oval Office who won’t tell us any meaningful fact about his birth–a constitutional requirement.
“Yea,” BO says, “honalualu, or, hawaii somewhere or something, here take this piece of paper and shut up . . . transparency, yea, um, tranparency.”
Can you focus on anything but BUSHHHHHH?
TJeff,
What don’t you get? The original birth certificate was approved by the State of Hawaii and the Supremes have already dismissed this poor excuse for a lawsuit. That is the George Bush filled Supreme Court. There is no fake evidence here. The courts have already reviewed the documents and your guys got dismissed. Man up and get over it.
TJ:
“Yea, I remeber my first year of law school.”
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Now that is really funny!
“Fakers hide hard evidence as long as they can (bernie madeoff), but the truth always prevails.”
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I bet Bush-Cheney-Rumsfield hope you’re wrong about that Mr. Barrister.
Hey 1L: “reliable probative evidence . . . the atmospherics of the situation . . . every court in the land.”
Yea, I remeber my first year of law school. You should be writing outlines.
Fakers hide hard evidence as long as they can (bernie madeoff), but the truth always prevails.
If BO has the “reliable probative evidence” i.e. a REAL birth “CERTIFICATE” (that is, “certified” by an attending), he is sure not acting like it.
“tansparency”?!?! HA HA HA HA HA. You kool-aid drinkers believed in him and he short-changed you, bigtime.
This issue is not going away; and, in the meantime, you look so stupid: “probative evidence . . ..” I love it, thanks for the laugh.
I do so love a good conversation. 😀
Mike Appleton:
“There is no requirement in the law, nor could there be, that legal determinations must satisfy those with serious mental deficiencies, paranoid delusions or other conditions manifesting themselves in the sort of neurotic fastidiousness of intellect which does not admit of rational deliberation”
While I may agree with your skepticism of any doubts regarding Obama’s pedigree, your reasoning couldn’t be any more fallacious. For, if you adopted your maxim as quoted above as being as universal as you hold it to be, then you’d end up within the same mindset as the Catholic Church that locked up Galileo for expressing the ‘irrational’ idea Psalm 104:5, “the LORD set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved,” IS WRONG.
A pinch of intellectual honesty is a good cure for outcome determinism.
MikeA:
“There is no requirement in the law, nor could there be, that legal determinations must satisfy those with serious mental deficiencies, paranoid delusions or other conditions manifesting themselves in the sort of neurotic fastidiousness of intellect which does not admit of rational deliberation.”
may I have permission to use this? Did you conceive this? If so it is very elegant and most certainly a foot to the throat of any sparring partner.
Yes, let’s put an end to it.
“Mr Obama, your papers please”
T. Jefferson:
Which clause of the Constitution requires the hospital in which the President is born?
Which clause requires that a doctor sign for his birth?
The answer is none. The Constitution says only that the President be a natural born Citizen. Nothing else.
There is reliable, probative evidence, sufficient to every court of law in the land, that he was born in the State of Hawaii. The birth certificate has been certified by Hawaii. Hawaii state registrar Alvin T. Onaka signed the certificate. You don’t have to be born in a hospital to be a natural born citizen.
It is a valid birth certificate and legal public record. Every court case challenging it has either been dismissed or will be dismissed.
You have nothing. Go back to your slaves. Have them read the Constitution to you.
I think God needs to be removed from the currency. The subliminal mental damage to the easily suggestible by having In God We Trust on money has to significant. There is nothing less divine than money and nothing quite as corrupting as worshiping greed.
Jill,
If I were rich, I would simply spend all of the money I could to ensure the separation of church and state.
Mike Appleton,
I appreciate your bits of informative legalese and the wit that accompanies them.
A question: do you consider that the “may god continue to bless America” and other such religious/god exclamations by our governmental officials during their official duties and while on government property as simply their freedom of speech rights under the 1st Amendment and therefore do not violate the separation of church and state provisions?
Thanks.