[LTC Robert Bateman...notice the Iron Cross proudly displayed?]
oped: Sir (used loosley) You are no LTC Moore the Father of the reborne 7th Cavalry 1965 VietNam era [My Era]..LTC Moore garnered the lost honor of LTC Custer, he made it possible for all those who served and are serving in the US Army Cavalry to hold their heads high...You are a embarrassment to all who served and are serving. You also are no LTC AllenWest...!
You are the epitimy of Hitlers Pink Swastika...you are the new LGBT military and need to be fired in dishonor for seditious behavior bordering on Treason!
The Pink Swastika : http://sharlaslabyrinth.blogspot.com/2013/08/revisiting-pink-swastika.html
Lt. Col. Bateman:
I understand you’re upset because of a kerfluffle between intellectual pygmies during the aftermath of a football game:
A woman charged with killing a fellow Alabama fan after the end of last weekend’s Iron Bowl football game was angry that the victim and others didn’t seem upset over the Crimson Tide’s loss to archrival Auburn, said the sister of the slain woman.
Because of this, you say that the Department of Defense should do a forcible buy-back of every privately-owned gun in America.
However, in assigning blame, it seems to me that the tendency of
football fans to become overwrought and irrational – as evidenced by
their painting their faces in outlandish colors and designs – seems at
least equally to blame in this unfortunate homicide. People who are
crazed enough to murder those who root for opposing teams will find
other ways. Would it have made you feel better if the murderess in this
story had bashed her victim to death with a baseball bat?
Be that as it may, as I read your screed,
it became clear that you are confused about questions of violence, and
also freedom as set down in our Constitution which, you may recall, you
once took an oath to defend. Judging from your photograph, this
disorientation and forgetfulness is probably a function of your age,
rather than some character defect.
In the Esquire editorial you authored, you make the following boast:
My entire adult life has been dedicated to the deliberate management of violence. There are no two ways around that fact. My job, at the end of the day, is about killing. I orchestrate violence.
You use the word “orchestrate” in the
present tense. Is this a typo? Again, from your photo, “orchestrated”
would be a more correct word, as in, “I once orchestrated violence when,
as a “butterbar” lieutenant, I charged up San Juan Hill with Teddy
Roosevelt’s Rough Riders”. These days, I’m willing to bet the only
“violence” you orchestrate is your habit of running over other people’s
toes at the PX with your Hoveround cart.
You write:
I am not proud of that fact. Indeed, I am often torn-up by the realization that not only is this my job, but that I am really good at my job. But my profession is about directed violence on behalf of the nation. What is happening inside our country is random and disgusting, and living here in England I am at a complete loss as to how to explain this at all.
So you live in Great Britain? I believe I
am starting to understand your obvious hoplophobia. Let me offer some
advice: Renounce your citizenship, and retire to England, which does not
have troubling things like the Second Amendment in its founding
documents. As a British Citizen, you would no longer need to feel
“embarrassed” by the Supreme Court’s affirming of that document – as you
describe in your diatribe.
You make it clear that the intent of the
Founding Fathers in writing the Second Amendment was to empower
state-sanctioned militias only:
But just so we are all clear on this, let me spell it out for the rest of you. During the American Civil War, a topic about which I know a little bit, we had a system of state militias.
Yes, I am sure you know a great deal about
the American Civil War. But I must warn you that memories of personal
experiences can be tricky things.
Under a Batemanian America, you write that Americans will have only the following weapons:
a. Smoothbore or Rifled muzzle-loading blackpowder muskets. No 7-11 in history has ever been held up with one of these.Another typo: you neglected to place the letters “U” and “C” in “fking”. Really, you ought not try to write without your reading glasses, old-timer. Props, however, for at least trying to be a feisty old coot who is with-it enough to drop F-bombs.
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.
I understand, sir, how daunting these newfangled six-shooters and repeaters must be to persons of your age cohort. Probably when I’m 120 years old, as you appear to be, I will look at things like “Phased Plasma Rifles in the 40-watt range” with similar disdain. But there’s no stopping technology, which brings me the blessings of semiautomatic pistols and rifles – and you the blessings of Geritol Plus and Cialis. Don’t be such a fuddy-duddy; get with it, gramps!
Now to the crux of your editorial: Your demand for a “buyback” program which would force American citizens to sell all their newfangled guns to the Department of Defense for pennies on the dollar, or face prison time; the nationalization of the firearms industry; horrific taxation on ammunition; and other pipedreams you concocted while puffing your pipe and sitting in the rocker you are arguably off of.
Oh well. Senility eventually comes to those who somehow manage to avoid death while “deliberately managing violence” on the battlefield every day, as you claim to.
Sorry, Colonel Bateman. I don’t buy that you are a dealer in death, any more than I buy your claim of being a “military historian”.
Because, if you were a military historian, you would understand the import of one of the most famous quotes in military history:
Molon Labe.
Regards,
Uncle Dave
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