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By Alyse Knorr

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A reserve soldier who said he should not have to go to Afghanistan because Barack Obama was never legally eligible to be the president has had his deployment orders revoked, the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer reported Wednesday.

U.S. Army Maj. Stefan Frederick Cook will not report to MacDill Air Force Base in Florida for mobilization today as he was ordered, public affairs officer Lt. Col. Maria Quon told the Ledger-Enquirer. She said she could not say why Cook’s deportment orders were revoked.

Cook filed a request with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia on July 8 seeking a temporary restraining order and status as a conscientious objector, the paper reported.

Cook believes that Obama was ineligible to become president and commander-in-chief because he was is not a natural-born U.S. citizen, the paper reported. Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961.

Cook’s 20-page court request states that he “would be acting in violation of international law by engaging in military actions outside the United States under this President’s command. ...simultaneously subjecting himself to possible prosecution as a war criminal by the faithful execution of these duties,” the paper reported.

Cook is an Individual Mobilization Augmentee, or a reserve soldier assigned to an active component unit for duty, the paper reported. He submitted a formal written request to Human Resources Command-St. Louis on May 8 volunteering to serve one year in Afghanistan.

A hearing on Cook’s requests will take place Thursday in Columbus federal court.

Something’s odd here.  All of the other cases were dismissed for lack of standing.  Now that his orders have changed, this case will be dismissed for lack of standing. Hmmmmmm. 

[nutter] Could it be that Barrack Obama doesn’t have a valid U.S. Birth Certificate? [/nutter] 

daveprime - 10 December 2009 07:19 AM

[nutter] Could it be that Barrack Obama doesn’t have a valid U.S. Birth Certificate? [/nutter] 

Personally, I can imagine the brass involved just not wanting to *deal* with crap involved, as well as deciding to keep him on US soil in case there’s an issue. I mean, if the guy doesn’t want to go, they can tell him to go or be jailed, and that just makes a martyr for the Birthers. So they say ‘fine, stay here and muck out the toilets. You’re a reservist, what do we care.’.

This guy made a commitment to go to war if ordered. Also the military has to be strict. I agree that there is something fishy here

It could be that they just decided that they didn’t want a major who was that much of a potential problem in the middle of a war zone.  They have enough problems at the moment to deal with over there without the worry of one of their officers suddenly deciding to refuse orders or something.

So now he’ll probably be posted to the Aleutian Islands instead. . .

You know, in this age of media and scrutiny of public figures, if Obama really wasn’t a natural born citizen and somehow got it all past McCain, Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Hilary, and every other rival politician or news person who didn’t like him for this long, he’s at least hardworking and clever enough to run a country (and no, I’m not serious about that, I’m just saying it’s ridiculous).

ZeldaQueen is part of the conspiracy!  Get her!!!!

Accipiter - 10 December 2009 05:45 PM

It could be that they just decided that they didn’t want a major who was that much of a potential problem in the middle of a war zone.

Or that they didn’t want a major who was that much of a complete idiot in a war zone.

Tah - 10 December 2009 08:08 PM

Accipiter - 10 December 2009 05:45 PM

It could be that they just decided that they didn’t want a major who was that much of a potential problem in the middle of a war zone.

Or that they didn’t want a major who was that much of a complete idiot in a war zone.

In light of the recent shootings at the US army base, I presume what Tah says is in part correct and also they didn’t want another Major flipping out.

I would think it would be a bad precedent to set to just let him decide to refuse orders.  Then everyone and their lawyer would assume they could do the same thing.

N E O - 11 December 2009 07:06 AM

I would think it would be a bad precedent to set to just let him decide to refuse orders.  Then everyone and their lawyer would assume they could do the same thing.

So they change his orders and give him what he wants in the first place?  Odd.

It just struck me as odd that the only case that would have had the standing to force the issue was quietly disarmed and the major sent on his merry way….

daveprime - 11 December 2009 08:03 AM

It just struck me as odd that the only case that would have had the standing to force the issue was quietly disarmed and the major sent on his merry way….

So if you find that odd how would you have handled it? Being on the upper-brass side, not the major’s side?