The American Army is to court martial a lieutenant colonel who refuses to deploy to Afghanistan because he won't accept orders from President Obama, whom he considers unqualified to be commander in chief, military officials said Wednesday.
Army doctor Lt. Col. Terry Lakin believes Obama wasn't born in the United States, and therefore does not meet the constitutional requirements to be president, NBC News reported.
Lakin refused to report to Fort Campbell, Ky., for deployment to Afghanistan, and instead showed up at the Pentagon, where he was informed that he would face court martial. His Pentagon building pass and government laptop computer were seized.
The 18-year Army veteran is under investigation for failure to report for deployment and for conduct unbecoming an officer, The Associated Press reported.
I am away for the weekend and decide to leave the internet alone for a few days, but having seen a story in today’s newspapers I just had to let you know about it.
The picture is of hero Private Joe McDonald who last year left the army after nine years. During his service he completed a gruelling seven month tour of Southern Iraq. He laid his life on the line to fight insurgents while protecting Army convoys carrying food, ammunition and kit to troops in UK bases.
On his return, Private McDonald applied for housing for his family (himself, wife Rachel,21, and children Ellen-May,4, Harry-Joe, 19 months, and baby Maissy-Ann) in Bexley, South-east London, where he grew up.
He was turned down.
According to the council he ‘made himself homeless’ by leaving Army quarters and was placed at the back of the housing associations queue behind unemployed, single mothers, criminals freed from prison and asylum seekers.
So what happened to the Ministry of Defence’s pledge to give fairer treatment to forces’ families over accommodation?
Use your vote wisely when the General Election is called as it is Labour that is behind the problem; they are the ones that have allowed our country to become what it is today. A country rife with crime, flooded with criminals and international benefit seekers, spring-boarded above the people they should be helping...
On 26th January 2010, the Mercian Regiment was granted Freedom of the Borough and yesterday they marched through Ripley, Derbyshire.
The soldiers assembled in Ripley market place and marched down Church Street, along Nottingham Road, up Grosvenor Road and down Derby Road and ended at Ripley Leisure Centre, where a special reception was held for the Regiment.
The public showed our heroes huge support as can be seen in the video.
It's an inexcusable betrayal of Britains brave servicemen and women by our government.
As most of the country sits warm and dry in their cosy homes this morning, 5,000 veterans face another day out in the cold.
Five thousand proud and honourable soldiers who havent got a proper roof over their heads.
Abandoned and forgotten, these heroes were prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice for their country.
They include former Royal Marine Nixon Browne, 29, who came home from Afghanistan 11 months ago with nowhere to live and was merely handed a list of charity phone numbers and told to get on with it. He now lives in a charity-run hostel in London.
Five miles away, former paratrooper Thomas Jamieson ekes out a miserable existence in the doorway of a Central London shop. It is minus 5C and Thomas, 45, survives on the bitter-cold streets of the capital with the skills he learned in the army.
Thomas and Nixon are just two of the 1,100 ex-servicemen sleeping rough or in hostels, squats or dossing on friends floors in London alone.
A further 2,500 veterans are estimated to be in temporary accommodation in the capital at any one time, according to a University of York study.
Across Britain, another 1,500 are reckoned to be homeless, a group so forgotten that no-one has even bothered trying to count them, let alone offer them the assistance they have earned.
Worse still, military charities expect the numbers to rocket as troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, many maimed, return to civvy street only to find the economic slump means they cant get a job.
Most homeless veterans are single men meaning they languish at the bottom of housing waiting lists, despite laws that say they should get priority.
Even veterans left traumatised by conflict and with children to support are refused help by over-stretched councils and housing associations re-housing immigrants.
And we want a full UK-wide survey to properly pinpoint how many veterans are homeless and what they need to get back on their feet.
A RECORD-BREAKING amount of money has been collected in Derbyshire for the Royal British Legion's annual Poppy Appeal.
Generous people from across the county have helped to raise more than £562,218 with money still pouring in.
Organisers of the Poppy Appeal had hoped to improve on the 2008 total of £519,000 but feared that the credit crunch would hamper their efforts.
But thanks to the army of volunteers who were out in force selling poppies and collecting donations in the run up to Remembrance Sunday last year the appeal has raised a record-breaking amount with eight months still left to go.
Derbyshire co-ordinator Colin Picken said: "We are very happy, it's a marvellous total, especially from a year when people have been feeling hard- up. We didn't expect to do this well."
Money raised by the poppy appeal provides financial, social and emotional support to former and current servicemen and women, and their families.
The cash is used to help fund a range of services from counselling and job retraining to nursing care and war grave visits.
As part of the appeal in Derbyshire a series of poppy walks were held across the county which helped boost the appeal by £1,670.
Christine Selden, community fund-raiser for Derbyshire, said: "I am delighted that the walks have raised so much. The efforts of all the walk leaders in organising these events, the walkers and their sponsors are truly appreciated."
Former Army engineer Ivan Warwick was helped by the Royal British Legion after he was made redundant from his job as a lorry driver. The charity came up with the cash to pay his gas and electricity bills, council tax arrears and bankruptcy fees.
The 46-year-old, of Mackworth, welcomed the news that the appeal had been so successful and said he intended to sell poppies this year.
Call 07973 750816 or email cselden@britishlegion.org.uk.
The Remembrance Day service at St. Alkmund’s Church in Duffield will not be easily forgotten.
Among the 200 strong gathering were several marines and soldiers who, if not for the fact they were in full uniform, would have walked out of the service.
And rightly so!
Preacher, Mr Lindop, chose to portray our brave boys as ‘inhuman’.
“I was outraged! Spin and deceit are things we expect from Labour politicians and not the Defence Ministry and this is most unprofessional.” This was the reaction of a high-ranking officer in the British army who today contacted a leading figure in the British National Party after hearing the interview between Nick Griffin and Martha Kearney on Radio 4´s World at One today.
According to Martha Kearney, Radio 4 contacted the MOD to ask about Mr Griffin´s claim on TV news earlier in the morning that the army chiefs themselves had called for a limit on the percentage of foreign soldiers, who are not British citizens, serving in military units. She said that the MOD had stated that this was the case only in three specialised units for technical reasons and that they had no concern over potentially high proportions of foreign soldiers in the army in general.
Quote: “This is a downright lie,” our source informed us. “Last year the MOD published a memorandum discussing the issue. In addition to the question of specialised units, I clearly recall my delight when I saw that the paper spoke of maintaining armed forces which are ´predominantly British´ and which reflect the ´cultures and values´ of our nation.”
In other words, like so many people in Britain today, the military top brass say in private what the British National Party says in public: “out of control, mass immigration is a threat to British culture, identity and the cohesion of key institutions including the British army.”
Tory Front Group
As well as deceit by the MOD, the story of the supposedly ´independent´ generals attacking the BNP has also exposed the cynically deceitful face of Tory spin doctors.
Despite claims that the ´Stolen Valour´ campaign is non political, the reality is that it is an integral part of the ´Nothing British´ internet operation which is run by a clique of ´Notting Hill/Bullingdon Club Tory toffs´. Clearly their motivation is the fact that the armed forces vote, which the Tory Party used to dominate, is increasingly switching to the BNP.
The campaign is headed by:
*The 5th Lord Bethel
*Tim Montgomerie, editor of ConservativeHome, ex chief of staff for Ian Duncan Smith.
* James Howarth, founding editor of PoliticsHome.
* Maurice Cousins — Tory researcher and blogger.
Several members of the military who have lent their weight to this campaign are close associates of the Conservative Party. In particular, General Sir Richard Dannatt works as a Tory Defence advisor and Simon Weston sits on a Conservative military policy forum.
These men are, of course, entitled to be active in any political party they wish but with such close affiliations to the Conservative Party, they are not entitled to portray themselves as politically neutral and disinterested.
So close are the links between the Nothing British operation and the Conservative Party that the BNP will tomorrow morning be submitting a formal request to the Electoral Commission to investigate the group over the possibility that its requests for donations involve a breach of party political funding law.
The following was forwarded to me from an ex-army friend of mine. Please read the comments after the initial report.
Iraq sends back UK asylum flight
Iraqi asylum seekers sent back to Baghdad by the UK government have been refused re-entry to their homeland, and flown back to Britain. The flight, carrying about 40 asylum seekers, landed in Baghdad on Thursday.
Human rights group Refugee and Migrant Justice said this was "unprecedented".
The Home Office said it was working with the Iraqi government to iron out issues that caused some to be returned.
The reason for their return, it said, was a matter for the Iraqi authorities.
It is understood that about 80 escorts were also aboard the government-chartered flight.
The asylum seekers are now at Brook House detention centre near Gatwick airport where they are being given legal advice, according to a Refugee and Migrant Justice spokeswoman.
She said: "One would have expected with such a high profile remove, the Home Office would have sorted this out with the Iraqi authorities.
"For such a high profile group to be returned is unprecedented."
She added that the reason for the Iraqi authorities turning away some of the group was unclear, but suggested it may have been that certain documents were not in order.
The government's plan to send the group back to Baghdad, where just this week at least eight were killed in attacks on a market in north-west Baghdad, met with criticism from human rights group.
There have been no returns to Iraq since 2008 and this would have been the first return to the capital city since the start of the Iraq war in 2003.
Political and sectarian violence has diminished in Iraq since 2005-07 levels, but lawlessness remains a problem, and there has been a recent spike in violent incidents.
Enforced route
Lin Homer, chief executive of the UK Border Agency, said: "We are establishing a new route to southern IraqBaghdad area. This is an important first step for us.
"We are working closely with the Iraq government to iron out the issues which lead to some of the returnees being sent back, and expect to carry out another flight in the future.
"Having an enforced route for returns is an important part of our overall approach; however the government prefers the majority of returnees to leave voluntarily."
She said more than 2,500 people have chosen to return to Iraq under the Assisted Voluntary Return Programme in the past three years and that was expected to continue.
The Home Office said it has no estimates of the current number of failed Iraqi asylum seekers in the UK, but about 1,000 had returned to northern Iraq last year, either through enforced deportation or voluntarily.
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"We are establishing a new route to southern Iraq and have successfully returned 10 Iraqis to the Baghdad area"
Wow! Really???? 10.....?????
Fuck me............ its totally worth the £3 Billion pound budget, £8 million pounds of which is for "Advertising" (WTF are they advertising????) and the £10.5 million pounds worth of expenses (which includes: £4.6 million on hotels, £3.2 million on train tickets, £730K on taxis, £300K on hospitality)
The chief inspector of the "border agency" takes £3 million of that budget for her office and her 25 staff members alone. Worth it? Oh, totally...........
And did anybody else notice there were twice as many "escorts" on the flight as there were asylum seekers???? I suppose they had to fill the empty seats somehow. I mean, you wouldn't expect them to simply send back three times a many asylum seekers for the same money, would you???? Where's the sense in that????
Anyone else thinking the whole Border Agency is just an expensive fart in a hurricane?
And remember folks............this is the same bunch of cunts we laughingly refer to as a government, who have just suspended ALL training of the TA to save money, and are about to get rid of the BFPO system cos it costs too much money, and closed all the military hospitals, for the same reason, which puts a wounded soldier just back from Afghanistan in the same ward at Selly Oak as a dozen immigrants who are indistinguishable from the twats who blew off his legs or blinded him.
The same bunch of tossers who put two Portacabins with second hand gym equipment outside Edinburgh General and call it a Regional Rehabilitation Centre for all the Scottish soldiers who have lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan.
That puts wounded TA soldiers back into the NHS system, to queue up alongside every other fucker. And takes incapacitated soldiers from the Iraq war to the High Court to try and get their compensation reduced.
God, but I'm proud to be British...................... this country is SO worth fighting for.
On August 18th 2009, Mrs Davis attempted to send her 21 year old son, who is serving in Afghanistan, a parcel from a Post Office run by a Mr Khan in Ely, South Glamorgan, Wales.
Mrs Davis' son left for Afghanistan at the end of July for a six to eight month tour of duty. He has only been able to call his mother once in the weeks since he left.
When Mrs Davis went to her local Post Ofiice to send her son a parcel she was told she was banned because her son is fighting with the British Army.
What right has this 'man' got to stop a woman sending parcels or letters to her son. He is fighting in a dirty war and may never return.
We must BOYCOTT muslim businesses. DON'T use their shops or taxis.
DO NOT put money into the pockets of the likes of Mr Khan.
In today’s multi-cultural, politically correct society, Mrs. Davies didn’t know where to turn. The post office and the shop at the end of the road is a vitally important service to the local community and she was bewildered at being made to feel an outcast in her own country by an immigrant who was in a position of having the power to do so.
It was suggested to her ‘off the record’ to contact the BNP as being the only people to offer her support. We won’t tell you just who suggested this as you’d be surprised and it would cause quite a problem where he works, but Mrs. Davies subsequently contacted South Wales BNP with the story of her situation and the film-clip of the interview with Mrs. Davies is shown below.
We tried to contact Mr. Khan to ask for a statement by telephoning him at his post office premises on 029 -20591511, but apparently he is away in India at the moment. We spoke with his manageress though, a June Thomas who is carrying out his instructions in the meantime, but she just said, ‘No comment’.
We don’t know why Mr. Khan should feel he has any authority at all to dictate to British Mothers in this country that they are not allowed to post parcels to British soldiers serving in Afghanistan. Maybe you should ask him for yourself.
Whatever is said about Blair’s illegal warmongering in Iraq and Afghanistan, one thing is for sure, these conflicts involving our British soldiers are different from anything before.
In previous wars, wherever they may have been, at least when our boys returned past the ‘White Cliffs of Dover’ they knew they were home and safe amongst their own people. They could depend on the support of their own people and that the home fires would be kept burning in their absence.
Now of course, in nuLabour’s Britain, in 2009, things are different.
It’s one thing that in Afghanistan the enemy include Taliban fighters with Yorkshire and Midlands accents, even perhaps with the odd Aston Villa tattoo. It’s another thing too, when wounded British casualties arrive back at Selly Oak NHS Hospital (because the military hospitals have been closed down) to be verbally abused by similar people to those that wounded them in the first place. Or when the same type of people blowing our troops to bits with roadside bombs in Afghanistan, can be found at home fast-tracked into positions of authority and power, such as magistrates, politicians, police, teachers and even sub-postmasters. Large tracts of inner-city suburbs and elsewhere have become foreign, alien communities demanding ever more political influence and power within British society.
What on earth have we allowed our country and ourselves to become ?
Footnote by Green Arrow
Please can I urge all readers to pass this article on to every single person in your address book, every single forum you visit, every chat room you enter and leave links in every online comments section of the press. Thank you kinsmen.
Wales BNP's Roger Phillips speaks out about the waste of public money in funding a police helicopter to monitor the BNP's Red, White & Blue annual family festival. The helicopter buzzed above the RWB site for the whole weekend.
As Roger rightly points out, the money would have been better spent helping our boys over in Afghanistan.
BNP activist Dianne Leech has for some time been collecting and sending the equivalent of Red Cross Parcels to our troops in Afghanistan. Proud of you Dianne. Now what can you do to help Dianne?
Well Dianne is going to be at this years Red, White and Blue and is asking all those who plan on attending to remember Our Boys and take along something from the list below for Dianne and her team to send out to the illegal war zone. No Aerosols please for obvious reasons.
toiletries toothbrush toothpate shampoo conditioner shampoo shower gel roll on deodrant razors shaving gel talcum powder medicated foot powder cotton buds wet or moist wipes eye lens claenser tissues travel wash sanitary protection face cleanser moisturizer for face and body savoury snacks include pringles various crisps nuts pork scratchings beef jerky savoury rice pot noodles noodles oat cakes crackers marmite stock cubes pkt soups sweet snacks include fruit or cerial bars friut flakes dried fruits shortbread also various biscuits eg digestive fruit custard creams ect various cakes include fruit cakes jam sponge cakes ect small tins fruit in natural juice with pull lid on jellies condensed and evapaporated milk packets made custard confectionery travel sweets toffee fudge energy sweets love hearts frit pastels starburst sweets lollipops mints chewing gum ect but no chocolate apart from mars bars or snickers clothing include socks t shirts underwear paperback books magazines for male and female puzzle books sport programes playing cards jigsawa notebooks black pens only sketch books batteries cd to watch or listen to pharmacy imodium rennies paracetomals plasters lip salve insect repellent ant powder sun cream drinks to include energy drinks friut juices high vitamin.
These donations may be left at the British Patriot Products stand which will be in the BNP Wales Marquee, where hopefully you may also find me.
Dianne will also be on hand:
"I can advise how to send parcels, please do not send aerosols or alcohol, we need items until soldiers finally leave Afghanistan so we need thousands of items to come through every day to keep parcels on the go also donations accepted to buy items. Please support our soldiers and let them know we care. Thank you. Dianne"
Now, I can tell you this. During my time overseas in the forces, there was nothing better we liked to receive from home than a surprise parcel full of goodies, nutty bars and useful items. Now being ex Royal Navy, I never ever thought I would say this but lets help make some Squaddies happy and sent them some goodies.
"Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea."
It's been six years since Sadam Hussein was toppled from his tyranical rule. One hundred and seventy nine of our soldiers lives lost.
For what?
To be sent home with their tails between their legs.
The radical cleric Moqtadr al Sadr ordered his followers out of a debate in protest at the ongoing presence of foreign troops; troops that have been working round the clock to get his country back on it's feet.
When is our government going to wake up and realise that we are not wanted in their countries?
When is our government going to bring our troops home and defend OUR country from the growing threat of invasion from the very same people? .
