When Lt. Col. Terry Lakin, MD walks out of the chamber where he has faced a court-martial this week, he will emerge — regardless of the verdict — a towering American hero.

Nothing like the stupendous display which he has mounted — of principled, sustained self-sacrifice and fearless defiance — has been seen in decades on the American political stage. Together with the peril of actual battlefield engagement, it ranks alongside the greatest courageous stances even of the American Revolution itself. Patrick Henry, Nathan Hale: those kinds of stances.

This case is of shatteringly great significance, and if you don’t know about it, well, you can thank the cowards, commies, and crooks at your favorite mainstream media Bureau of Disinformation, National Desk. Lt. Col. Lakin has been abandoned by the establishment press, dastards and lackeys almost to a one. In a just post-Obama world, there is hope that, one day, there will come the destruction of a thousand shameful careers in what was once journalism — via abdication by the press of its vital role as Fourth Estate; desertion of its watch as the protector of American liberty; and its own knife-wielding, unforced, alacritous auto-castration.

For historical background and the underpinnings, foundations and history of this case, see Lt. Col. Lakin himself and Thomas Lifson, both in April, 2010; see also, www.safeguardourconstitution.com.

Briefly summarized, the issue is this: Earlier this year, Dr. Lakin refused an order — an agonizing and drastic step for a loyal military man — to deploy for a second time to Afghanistan, where, in addition to Bosnia, he has already served in dangerous combat areas. Indeed, he announced his refusal to obey any orders from his commanding officers, men he admires and respects, and the contravention of whose directives has caused him significant personal anguish. The reason is the overwhelming doubts and suspicions — national doubts and suspicions, not just personal ones — about the egregious likelihood of Barack Hussein Obama’s ineligibility to serve as commander-in-chief.

The genesis of these doubts: the failure and probable inability of said Barack Hussein Obama — he of the reclusive records, wagging forefinger, and sibilant esses — to release for public delectation a valid Hawaii birth certificate. Despite a lengthy series of gaslighting blandishments on the part of a cadre of partisan sycophants in government and media that such documentation had been shown and that it was time to move on, it is an inarguable fact that no such birth certificate has ever seen the public light of day. The wan attempts to substitute for such signal evidence of citizenship — a simple document, which millions of Americans routinely must produce — the so called “certification of live birth”, issued in 1961 by the State of Hawaii, is a smokescreen, and a wispy one.

This is all the more outrageous in view of the fact that John McCain, scion of a family of naval officers — if he were any more American he’d be a bald eagle — was made the subject of consideration by the august US Senate, which felt it had to take up and pass upon the satisfactoriness of his own natal bona fides.

Yet no reciprocal imprimatur was made of His Oneness — not by the marshmallow press; not by the Senate; not by the voters; not by the various boards of election; not by any statutes — which don’t exist to begin with — to enforce natural-bornness; and certainly not by the inscrutably reticent Mr. McCain himself, who threw that fight as surely as any over-the-hill boxer who knows his legs aren’t what they used to be and who needs cafeteria money and a hotel room for the week.

In fact, there is more than a certified, long-form birth certificate — a lot more — about Barack “Barry Soetoro” Hussein Obama that no one outside of the hermetic world of sworn-to-silence hospital personnel, state vital records workers, and college bursar-level functionaries has ever seen. A partial list would include, in addition, Neolani kindergarten records; the Obama-Dunham marriage license; the Obama-Dunham divorce records; the Soetoro-Dunham marriage license; Soetoro adoption records; the Punahou School application and records; Noelami Elementary School records; the Soetoro-Dunham divorce; consistent selective service registration info; SAT scores; LSAT scores; Occidental College records; financial aid records; passports; Columbia University records; putative Columbia thesis on “Soviet Nuclear Disarmament”; Harvard University records; Harvard Law Review records; any writings as President of the Harvard Law Review beyond one tough anti-fetus fragment; Illinois bar records; certificates of baptism or adoption; medical records; Illinois State Senate records, from 1997-2004, Illinois State Senate schedule; law practice client list while at Davis, Miner, Barnhill and Gallard; University of Chicago scholarly articles; and more. Oh, but we do have a document from the Fransiskus Assisi School in Jakarta, a Catholic institution, which shows him enrolled as Barry Soetoro: as a Muslim and an Indonesian.

I stated at the outset is that Lakin’s stature is assured despite the verdict. Here’s why. The charges are (i) that he missed his deployment flight; and (ii) conduct unbecoming an officer. He has, in the early stages of his trial, been denied discovery, and the presentation of witnesses, evidence, or argument in defense of his position. That position necessarily goes to the heart of whether Obama should hold the White House keys. Conviction on the charges seems inescapable. The military court is not likely to risk uncovering an inconvenient truth about the acting President, if there be one. Were Lakin to be exonerated — which seems all but impossible — then the tribunal would be staring in the face the propriety of all things Obama, a task far too sensitive for it. And the question of his provenance would fairly beg itself into being before Court could adjourn. And on the other hand, if Lakin is convicted, well, society will be no closer to probing the mystery of the guarded origins and persona of the Commander-in-Thief. Which will make doubly urgent Lakin’s reach for the grail of truth, and for others to take up his cause.

Among all the comfortable, set-for-life politicos, officials, appointees, careerists, officeholders, aides-de-camp, campaigners, supporters, friends and hangers-on in and during the Obama era, there has not been a single high-level, principled resignation. No stand in protest of what, if Obama’s position is the usurpation it could be, the most devious high crime ever perpetrated by and against American government. Lakin’s honorable course is a rebuke to today’s so-called leaders, who, cowering in suspense, would not all taken together approach the equal of this man.

Terry Lakin is putting at risk his own life; his own fortune; and his own sacred honor. He has invited his own court-martial, scorn, possible conviction, and disapprobation; loss of rank, position, and pension; loss of the future; danger to family and impoverishment; and possible hard jail time at Leavenworth. All this for the exalted goal of fealty to a Constitution his every step of the way towards protecting which is blocked by the government that administered the oath he took, and which oath he must contravene, only to be able to honor it in the extreme. The greatness of battlefield valor notwithstanding, this is bravery of another order.

This is the kind of courage — after the crawling, burrowing, light-averse invertebrates of the political landscape have long since slithered away and vanished — that gets statues of a man built in public squares. This kind of courage gets folk songs and laureate poems written for a man, and they will be written for him. This kind of courage guarantees — even a hundred years from now — that parents will still be proud to give their little boys names like Terrence Lakin Jones.