LTC Terry Lakin is laying it all on the line -- freedom, family, pension, career -- in refusing all military orders including deployment orders for his second tour of duty to Afghanistan pending release of the president's original 1961 birth certificate attesting to his constitutional legitimacy as a natural born citizen and thus commander-in-chief. On Monday, the 18-year veteran and decorated medical officer had his Pentagon access pass and laptop revoked, was read his Miranda Rights by his commanding officer, and informed that he would face a court martial.

The American Thinker's Thomas Lifson put the case into succint if horrifying perspective: "A devoted physician and military officer may go to military prison, to protect the secrecy of the President's original birth documentation held by the state government of Hawaii. The secrecy of the President's paper trail may be about to gain a martyr."