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.
Just effing try it you commie!
I believe that he is an Infantry Officer, but I’m not sure. He did serve in an infantry battalion at Ft. Hood, and served a one year tour in Iraq. I suspect that his Iraq tour was as a staff officer at battalion or brigade level, but I’m guessing. I do not believe that he has commanded a battalion.
Most of this is speculation, reading between the lines of things that he has written, but it’s informed speculation.
Treason gallops rampant and goes generally unchallenged in these obamacharged, evil times in today’s Amerika.
I’ll stand with you brother.
Do you mean, FSE, that this rat is on active duty now?
Master Bateman is hereby voted most likely to get shot in the face, when it all goes down.
Yes, he is a serving officer in the U.S. Army. You can see his picture and some information on him here:
http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2013/12/current-serving-army-ltc-and-small-wars.html
As I’ve mentioned on other threads, I believe that his article in Esquire is a part of his pre retirement planning. He is hoping to become a darling of the Left and score a position either in Left Wing Academia or in a Left Wing think tank.
Had the Obama adm been successful in it’s attempt to tie the TEA Party to the attempted car bombing in NYC, all the people associated with the TEA Party you know the people whose names the IRS had been gathering, would be on a terrorist watch list.
Just a thought for you.
Molon Labe!
Freedom is worth it.
/johnny
I hate me, too.
Er.... there is NOW.
OPSEC, people, OPSEC!
They would have to have troops that would agree to violate the Constitution. (In a worst case scenario.) And they'd still have to have the cooperation of local law enforcement.
Just saying.
That makes sense—going the route of Wesley Clark. I hope he’s not too lonely out there on the fringe left. What a clown.
Where’s the big massive number of people that support Tim McVeigh?
They don’t exist, and the same thing would have happened to anyone associated with the TEA Party had that bomb gone off in NYC and the Obama WH had successfully tied it to the TEA Party.
All it would take is one person associated with the TEA Party to strike back and the lie becomes the truth to the doubters.
WH could also get their muslim friends to touch off a few bombs here and a few bombs there and make the claim the TEA Party has allied with muslim terrorist to wage war against the US.
You would no longer be on a terrorist watch list you would be a WANTED terrorist.
These people play by Alinsky’s (SP?) rules and use the Weather Underground playbook.
I took the bait, too, at first. But, like you, I did some checking and figured it out. In fact your post (subsequently retracted) was what piqued my curiosity about who this guy was and why your information didn’t match the byline info.
The truth is that you smoked out the truth before anyone else and now, days later, we still see pictures and stories about the NY State Guard guy. BTW, it does appear that the NY State Guard guy was at one time a member of the NY National Guard. He’s either now retired or resigned from the National Guard.
further info on Esquire author LTC Robert Bateman; he did apparently serve in Iraq/Army Ranger: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3099236/posts #43 etal
http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2013/12/current-serving-army-ltc-and-small-wars.html
great link, thanks.
Besides, they can only kill me once, and I wasn't planning on living forever.
I will not live on my knees.
/johnny
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