The de-Bateman continues

The discussion that Lieutenant Colonel Robert Lake Bateman started the other day, when he said that he wanted to take our guns from our cold, dead hands in Esquire Magazine continues. There are some pictures and articles about another Col. Robert J. Bateman floating around the internet, but that’s not this guy. So be careful out there.

Folks who know Bateman have been telling us that Robert L. Bateman hasn’t commanded infantry troops since he was a Second Lieutenant. They tell me that his company command was a Headquarters Company – not there’s anything wrong with that – but he should have told us that to him “managing violence” means having a layout inspection in the motorpool. Or signing statements of charges for the equipment he can’t account for in the unit.

In other places on the internet, he makes a big deal about being a Ranger – which is a big deal – but he also admits that he doesn’t have a Combat Infantryman Badge. Which means that he’s never heard a shot fired in anger, except maybe on Victory Drive when he was running loose during Infantry Officers’ Basic Course. I can’t for the life of me think of an excuse big enough for an infantry LTC to not have a CIB after more than a decade of war. Even I tried to get back in the Army during the surge in Iraq. It was one thing during my time for an officer to miss out on Grenada, Panama or Desert Storm, quite another to miss the Global War on Terror, you know, what with it being global and everything.

Our buddy, and frequent commenter on TAH, Michael Z. Williamson, writes this morning about how even Mr. Williamson’s daughter thinks Bateman is a huge pansy.

In response to comments and outrage, he called a documented SF soldier a “faker,” a former AF Security Policeman who’s now a federal agent a “peacetime veteran,” and a gay, black 2nd Amendment supporter a “fake persona,” because no gay black man could POSSIBLY support gun ownership. (That person’s an acquaintance of mine. Gay, black, gun owning, conservative, union train engineer. How awesome is THAT combination?)

In short, he’s the textbook example of the small-dicked little limpwrist who joined the military to prove he’s not, and hates guns because he does have something to compensate for. Likely why he’s been cuckolded twice and divorced. He doesn’t measure up, literally and emotionally. Google “psychological projection.”

Bateman uses his rank and military experience, or rather the lack thereof as proof of his authority on the subject, then when people criticize the fact that he comes up short in the credentials thing, he says we’re “dick measuring”, well, he shouldn’t have brought that pathetic little thing out in the first place.

Category: Gun Grabbing Fascists, Shitbags