Posted on 12/07/2013 6:16:24 AM PST by IbJensen
Within the upper echelons of our military there still remain men and women who are committed to the fundamental laws of the land. But assuming that all members of our military will be there to support the Constitution of the United States when our nation needs them most would be a mistake.
Understand this: There are those within their ranks who would turn on their oaths and forcibly seize the very rights our Founders fought so hard to preserve without giving it a second thought.
The following opinion piece, penned by Lt. Col. Robert Bateman, shows in stark detail exactly what we’re dealing with and argues in no uncertain terms that the American public must be disarmed in order for the United States to survive.
The ideas proposed by Lt. Col. Bateman in It’s Time to Talk About Guns and the Supreme Court are nothing short of shocking.
This is coming from an active military commander, and though not officially sanctioned by the administration, his work is obviously a propaganda piece designed to give the gun grabber initiative direct support from military leadership.
Guns are tools. I use these tools in my job. But like all tools one must be trained and educated in their use. Weapons are there for the “well regulated militia.” Their use, therefore, must be in defense of the nation. Shooting and killing somebody because they were not “upset enough” over the loss of a college football team should not be possible in our great nation. Which is why I am adding the following “Gun Plank” to the Bateman-Pierce platform. Here are some suggestions:
1. The only guns permitted will be the following: ■a. Smoothbore or Rifled muzzle-loading blackpowder muskets. No 7-11 in history has ever been held up with one of these. ■b. Double-barrel breech-loading shotguns. Hunting with these is valid. ■c. Bolt-action rifles with a magazine capacity no greater than five rounds. Like I said, hunting is valid. But if you cannot bring down a defenseless deer in under five rounds, then you have no fking reason to be holding a killing tool in the first place.
2. We will pry your gun from your cold, dead, fingers. That is because I am willing to wait until you die, hopefully of natural causes. Guns, except for the three approved categories, cannot be inherited. When you die your weapons must be turned into the local police department, which will then destroy them. (Weapons of historical significance will be de-milled, but may be preserved.)
3. Police departments are no longer allowed to sell or auction weapons used in crimes after the cases have been closed. (That will piss off some cops, since they really need this money. But you know what they need more? Less violence and death. By continuing the process of weapon recirculation, they are only making their jobs — or the jobs of some other cops — harder.)
4. We will submit a new tax on ammunition. In the first two years it will be 400 percent of the current retail cost of that type of ammunition. (Exemptions for the ammo used by the approved weapons.) Thereafter it will increase by 20 percent per year.
5. We will initiate a nationwide “buy-back” program, effective immediately, with the payouts coming from the DoD budget. This buy-back program will start purchasing weapons at 200 percent of their face value the first year, 150 percent the second year, 100 percent the third year. Thereafter there will be a 10 year pause, at which point the guns can be sold to the government at 10 percent of their value for the next 50 years.
6. The major gun manufactures of the United States, less those who create weapons for the federal government and the armed forces, will be bought out by the United States of America, for our own damned good.
Excerpted from Esquire Magazine via Sipsey Street Irregulars
You won’t see the establishment media publishing arguments from top military leaders in support of the Second Amendment. Sadly, however, those who would take away our right to defend ourselves have been given a limitless platform to push their agenda to the masses.
Hundreds of thousands of services members, both active and retired, have put their lives on the line to uphold those rights which have made our nation great. There’s no doubt that they will do so again when the need arises.
But on the flip side of that coin are potentially hundreds of thousands of others who have no qualms about “just following orders.”
A report earlier this year from well connected philanthropist Dr. Jim Garrow claims that there is a new litmus test for military leadership:
I have just been informed by a former senior military leader that Obama is using a new “litmus test” in determining who will stay and who must go in his military leaders. Get ready to explode folks.
“The new litmus test of leadership in the military is if they will fire on US citizens or not”.
Those who will not are being removed.
Obviously, Lt. Col. Robert Bateman passed the test with flying colors.
I had a big thread about it. I thought I nailed the bast’d. Turns out there are actually THREE Robert Bateman’s at LTC grade or above. This one is legit.
/johnny
There are several branches of the military. Active, Reserve, National Guard, and State Guard. State Guard is the only branch not under control of the pRESIDENT.
Their largest and most effective platform for propagandizing future voters is?.......( drumroll) ....SCHOOLS!
Nearly every teacher in this nation was trained by godless Marxists in Marxist-run colleges and universities. This is true for both private and government schools.
Master Bateman.
That was pretty good.
This guy needs to be added to the List.
5.56mm
The Lieutenant Colonel Robert Bateman who wrote the Esquire article is who he purports to be, an active duty Army officer currently serving in the D.C. area. He is a prolific author, pundit, blog contributor, and general all around blowhard. He imagines himself a great intellectual. He is not a commander of anything and probably has not been since his days as a company commander many years ago. In other words, a staff weenie who served a tour in Iraq, probably on someone’s staff.
Colonel Robert Bateman, New York Guard, is a completely different person. He’s a wannabe who did not write the Esquire article and is not a commissioned officer in either the United States Army or the Army National Guard.
A simple Google search will turn up multiple mentions of both, including pictures. Anyone with half a brain can figure out that the two are not the same. But this simple step is apparently beyond the reach of the simpletons who keep making fools of themselves conflating the two on this forum. When one is busy proving himself to be an idiot, reading the articles, following the threads, and doing a few minutes of checking is not required.
Not normally, no. It’s officers are still commissioned Army officers, though.
/johnny
You got that right. Since the "folk" ("das amerikanische Volk," if you will) need - and have a RIGHT to - food and its means of production, farms will be seized outright with no real intention compensation. History has more than enough examples of the tender mercies of an einsatzgruppe (led or at least directed by men like the colonel here) "pacifying" rural areas for the common good.
He has stated up front what he intends, and we all need to understand that he looks forward to such tasks.
Mr. niteowl77
See #27. centurion316 is correct, there are two (or three) Batemans, and the one who wrote the Esquire article is a LTC in the US Army. The poseur in the NY Guard is a different person.
Should have pinged you to my previous.
Headed to #27, thanks.
Any efforts toward the anti-2nd Amendment desires excreted from the perverted bowels of Lt. Col. Robert Bateman would give aid and comfort to the enemy.
Lt. Col. Robert Bateman is a Tokyo Rose within the U.S. military. Bateman should be court-martialed along with his commanding officer for dereliction of duty in not already having Bateman court-martialed.
As for upper level officers, I’m sure many here in FR are aware that Obama has been purging the upper levels to replace with his preferred officers. Scary stuff.
Nossir, you are wrong about that. There was a big dustup at West Point that I was witness to, on just this issue.
I must apologize- I misunderstood. You are correct.
Gutless puke....come get them with the muzzle pointing to you...asshole...
If ever we get to this place, when I die, my children will get my guns...the federals will never find them...
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