Ermey Says He’ll 'Square Away' Birthers

Military.com ^ | 8-21-2009 | Military.com|by Bryant Jordan

[AZ .44 MAG]

Troops challenging the legitimacy of President Barack Obama as commander-in-chief -- including at least one who is fighting deployment -- should take heed: Gunnery Sgt. Hartman wants to know your "major malfunction."

R. Lee Ermey, the Marine-turned-actor whose role as drill instructor Gunny Hartman in the late Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket" has all but placed the Vietnam veteran in the pantheon of Marine heroes alongside "Chesty" Puller, Smedley Butler and Dan Daly, isn't buying anyone's political objector status.

"I haven't heard about those guys," Ermey told Military.com during an Aug. 21 interview. "If I do run across them though, trust me, I'll square them away."

[TigersEye]

I have my own hunch about the need to hide his BC. It’s not because he wasn’t born in Hawaii. It’s not because his father was a British subject. I think it’s because the BC specifically lists his citizenship as foreign. His father was Kenyan and a British subject so he probably could have requested that his son be listed that way. We already know you don’t have to be born in Hawaii or a citizen to get a BC there.

[Eagle Eye]

I guess we get to see if Arizona’s voters are as dumb as Californian’s.

[awake-n-angry]

You need the courage to face the truth.

[cripplecreek]

Then man up and ask for it boy.

[AZ .44 MAG]

I strongly suspect that the guy who wrote this article is not a Marine.

I like the Gunny and have seen some of his shows and the movie. However, no Marine is gonna put him in the same class as Chesty.

Amen, brother.

Good night, Chesty, wherever you are.

[paul51]

who were the other enigma presidents?

[AZ .44 MAG]

I guess we get to see if Arizona’s voters are as dumb as Californian’s.

A lot of them came from Kalifornica. I joke that the prevailing winds are blowing the scum east from L.A.

[Gee Wally]

Perhaps Ermey should review the oath he took:

I, (NAME), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.

Is it bearing true faith and allegiance to the Constitution to follow the orders of a person who may not meet the Constitutional requirements to be President? I think not.

[Perchant]

Something tells me that Ermey would have smacked this Bryant Jordan person if he knew his history. He seems to have a special hostility for Marines.

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51777

[BuffaloJack]

Gunny,
You’ve been rubbing elbows with the Hollywood types too long. It is affecting your thinking.

[Eagle Eye]

It takes more courage for the troops to take up this issue than it does for any of us.

I’m not sure you’re in any position to judge their or anyone’s courage.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

It’s not because his father was a British subject. I think it’s because the BC specifically lists his citizenship as foreign.

The long-form Hawaiian birth certificate doesn't list the child's citizenship.

[Eagle Eye]

I have no doubt about that and I’m sure you’ll agree that Kalifornian emigrants are worse than a virus.

[AZ .44 MAG]

It used to be a coward wore a dress to get out. Now they scream “Birth Certificate”.

So you think that an active duty officer that has questions about Obummer's eligibility is trying to get out?

If that's what you mean I'd like to hear the reasoniong behind your position.

[plain talk]

This so-called “article” doesn’t describe what Ermey would square them away over. It is too vague.

My ‘guess’ and it is only that is that Ermey was specifically responding to the idea that a soldier may not follow orders from a commander-in-chief the soldier believes was not eligible to be President. If that is what Ermey believes then I agree with him. Soldiers should follow orders.

If on the other hand Ermey is saying he would take Birthers to task for simply believing that Obama is ineligible to be President then Ermey is full of crap.

[paul51]

There's no rational reason to believe BHO was born anywhere but Hawaii.

Other than the lack of documentation proving it. Minor detail

[AZ .44 MAG]

Perhaps Ermey should review the oath he took:

I suspect he's unaware of the facts on Obummer's eligibility.

[El Sordo]

While BHO has chosen not to release his BC for public scrutiny, there are several pieces of evidence that support and affirm his Hawaiian birth.

Compared to the complete absence of any demonstrable evidence that he was born anywhere else.

[AZ .44 MAG]

Something tells me that Ermey would have smacked this Bryant Jordan person if he knew his history. He seems to have a special hostility for Marines.

He's a real Clymer. He doesn't just hate Marines.

[kimoajax]

R. Lee Ermey is a joke and should not be compared to a real Marine. Elections have consequences and given where things appear to be headed in this country where future administrations to satisfy the savage hatred of their constituents seek ways to prosecute those with whom they disagreed, as a soldier I would want to make darn sure my orders were legal orders from a legally constituted Commander in Chief. History shows that under new regimes and circumstances one merely citing they following direct orders does not always cut the mustard.