Bateman switches targets
The last two times we read LTC Robert Bateman’s tripe in Esquire, he went after guns in the American culture. This time, he turns on American gun owners because he claims we’re all homicidal cretins;
A few months ago when I wrote my first article here about America’s cult of the gun, the cultists themselves took notice. What I got in response was, at last count, more than 3,000 hate mail letters, 2,300 just in the first two weeks, and so far 19 death threats.
Statistically, that’s pretty good, actually. 19 death threats out of 3000, if those numbers are accurate, is only .6%. Here’s a sample, and, knowing that Bateman is a huge drama queen, I have to think that this is the worst of the 19 he claims that he received;
“Your interview with Esquire was an act of treason. You should be tried and hung. If the rope fails a bayonet inserted at the base of the skull stirring up what little brains are there would suffice. Get fucked commie.”
Now, I wouldn’t send an email like that, but it’s pretty tame as death threats go, because the author says that Bateman should receive a trial before he’s hung. None of the death threats that I get are quite so charitable.
There are more examples of crazed gun owners…like Alex Jones who confronts a man who claims his daughter was killed by an assault rifle (not by a crazed gunman who slipped through the cracks of the mental health system, but by an inanimate object), and another woman who was squirted by a lone squirt gunner.
I’m not Alex Jones, nor am I lurking in someone’s bushes with a squirt gun. But somehow we all are in Bateman’s tiny, closed mind. I should probably add that the few times he came here to engage our readers, he got no death threats, nor did he mention the civil manner in which the readers of TAH wrote to him, but that would have ruined his plea for sympathy at Esquire.
I have an 11-month-old daughter. Her house will not have guns, and I will never, ever, allow her to go to a home where there are guns. That is my DIVESTMENT plan, and I suggest it to all of you. You should know the parents of the children your children play with. Ask them the simple question, “Is there a gun in the house?” If the answer is “yes” then your kid never goes there. Period.
Personally, I wouldn’t want any progeny of this Bateman scold in my house, so it’s no big loss. But it’s odd how he thinks that it’s some kind of punishment to deny us the presence of his child and his family in our own house.
Down in the comments, where the real ‘tards live, is this Thomas Cleaver fellow;
Oooh, pretty tough isn’t he? One of those crazies from the Vietnam War who saw so much blood that it doesn’t bother him anymore. Well, unless you look at his presence around the web, where he claims he was an enlisted aviation sailor during Vietnam. I wonder how many ‘Cong he had to kill close up aboard ship.
He also writes at that hippie-assed The Rag Blog with the rest of the pot smokers still looking for something worthwhile to do now that the Iraq War has ended for us. But, see, there I go – attacking the messenger and paying no attention to his message. but that side of the “discussion” have no real facts, so it’s perfectly acceptable for them to make shit up.
You know, like Bateman telling us that he’s an infantryman when that is barely true – an infantry lieutenant colonel without a CIB after nearly 13 years of war. A lieutenant colonel who hasn’t served in an infantry unit since he was a lieutenant.
Category: Gun Grabbing Fascists
Who did Bateman deploy with? Oh, that’s right, he didn’t.
Yup, the 1st Polestrokers…
I bet he led from behind
Bateman don’t need no stinking CIB, he’s got a Green Beans coffee VIP card and KBR gut!
Hey, if it were up to him, we’d still be loyal subjects of the British crown…
This peckerneck has been an embarrassment to the US Army for quite some time. He is too incompetent to be given the command of anything larger than a bath-toy, so he spends all of his time writing crap. I’m still waiting for him to come and pry my weapons from my cold, dead hands as promised in an earlier article, but alas he hasn’t showed.
I’m actually surprised that he hasn’t been canned from the Army for all of the negative reactions that he has stirred up – doesn’t make the Army look good ya know and that used to get you asked to shut up or leave. Guess the rules have changed.
Gotta respect the rank, but not the man, sooooo – Mr. Robert Bateman, bite me bitch.
Out.
Apparently the no politics rule only applies to certain service members because I quote directly from the website;
“About The Politics Blog
This blog is about politics”
Then this dickbutt claims at the bottom in true barracks lawyer fashion while pretty much doing nothing but constantly using his military position to advocate politics.
“The opinions here are those of the author and not the DoD, the Army, or any unit that he is assigned to at this time. I can be reached at R_Bateman_LTC@hotmail.com.”
I’d say that Psycho LTC Bateman meets, or exceeds, the qualifications of an officer in the Obummer/Hagel Army.
Weak sauce dude.
Bedwetter Bateman.
I like how he’s adopted his current rank as part of his email handle. A subconscious acceptance that he’s topped out?
surprised he’s not an o-10 by now with this administration.
Are there stairs in your house? Are there any combustibles? Is there any chance that my child will be in a car? Is there food in your house? Do you have a swimming pool? Any sharp knives? Power tools? Trees or tree houses? Chemicals?
Those are the questions Bateman should be asking the parents of his child’s friends. Guns? Waaaaay down on the list. And if the guns are secure, they aren’t on the list.
Much like the Minutemen Missles that serve as a silent, yet effective deterent to unwanted commie aggression, it’s nice to know that by just having one little firearm in my house will keep unwanted assholes like Bateman and his spawn from entering my house. Not that he’d ever be invited….
Very good point, Air Cav. In roughly 15 years as a firefighter-EMT I’ve run lots and lots of calls on kids. I hate running calls on kids. Most of the incidents that have kept me awake at night over the years involved kids. All the more so now that I have a child of my own. I’ve run callson kids who have been burned in the kitchen, stuck their hand or foot under a lawnmower, got violently assaulted by the neighbor’s pit bull, ingested toxic and/or caustic chemicals, fell down the stairs, fell off a balcony, choked on foreign objects, cut themselves with kitchen knives, stabbed themselves with screwdrivers and other tools, etc. I’ve cut kids out of mangled vehicles, some alive, some…not so much. I’ve seen kids ejected from cars, which tends to be worse. I’ve seen kids run over by cars. In each of those examples, at least one of the children I’ve encountered in that predicament has survived. Care to guess which hazard to children has, in my experience, 100% mortality? Which hazard I will never, ever allow in my own home where my daughter resides? Swimming pools. On multiple occasions I have attempted to resuscitate a child found in their own swimming pool in the back yard of their own home, despite the parents’ insistence that the kid was a good swimmer, despite the fence with the child-safety lock on the gate. Every one of those kids died. EVERY SINGLE ONE. I will never have a swimming pool, period. I think it should be illegal to have the damned things on a property that a child lives on. Can anybody argue that? Can (Master)Bateman rationalize that one? One would think that if he really cares so much, he’d look at the numbers and be right up there on that anti-swimming pool bandwagon with me. Care to guess which incident I have never seen? A child with a bullet wound, accidental or intentional. Not a single one. Seen lots and lots of everything else, have worked in some densely-populated areas over the years where gun ownership is… Read more »
Right now I’m reading a book called “Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread From the Data” by Charles Wheelan. One of the examples used in the book is the relative risk to children of guns versus swimming pools. Swimming pools pose a far, far greater risk.
Flying is statistically safer than driving too, MrBill. Yet there remain those who are too afraid of dying in an airline crash to fly.
Hondo, that was actually another example used in the book. There was an estimate that the 9/11 attacks resulted in about 2000 additional traffic deaths, because more people drove who were afraid to fly. (This effect eventually faded away as time passed and airline usage returned to normal.)
Depends on the pilot, especially if they think planes without fuel doesn’t pose a problem.
^^^^+1^^^^
Zinger!
+20 COOL POINTS FOR NHSPARKY!!
LMAO’d at this one. Thank God I wasn’t drinking coffee. You win teh internetz today!
That was superb. Nothing like tripping up a liberal gunsnatcher with facts. The facts are much of gun violence is a known criminal shooting other criminals.
I was raised in a home with several guns in it. The only injuries I had as a child were as follows: brother pushed me out of a tree house, brother pushed me off porch of a house on stilts, brother hit me over the head with the claw part of a hammer, I hit brother with a cast iron skillet, brother burned the barn down with me in it.
My kids are being raised in a home with guns, so far only injuries are head wound from the boy pushing a dresser over the girl while learning to walk, the boy hitting the girl in the head with a stick while she was holding a pinata, the girl breaking her ankle while racing the boy.
So you see Mr . Bateman you shouldn’t worry if their are guns in the home your child visits, you should worry if there is a brother in the home!
+100 – I grew up the son of GMCM – my happiest memories when I was young was of us going shooting – some of the youngest were when I was 6.
These pantywaists piss me off.
Hmmm. Makes you wonder what might be on his list of things which are OK for his daughter.
He’s a graduate of the Army’s Basic Strategic Arts Program, so, like a lot of their graduates, I’m sure that he is used to telling people that he is the smartest person in the room.
One of the few positives in the current promotion climate is that he probably isn’t going to see colonel before he hits MRD.
He’s caught the academic “critical thinking” (whatever a Leftist professor says is automatically good) virus…
Hum,
So this guy freely says he will discriminate against anyone who exercises their 2A rights?
He is an active member of the Officer Corps of the US Army? Isnt Part of the Oath of that office “Support and defend the constitution?”
E4U No he has forgotten about the “support” part of his oath. I guarantee this guy has politics in his mind’s future plans. I’ve said before, he would be a both sides darling. The Republicans will like him because he will have been ex-military and he will smooth talk them past his 2ND Amendment rhetoric. The Democrats will LOVE him because he wants to shred the Constitution. As far as hate the man but respect the rank goes. If I were still in I would always call him Colonel and avoid at all costs the term Sir. Now that I am out there are former Officers I still refer to as Sir and even some senior enlisted men out of respect for their service and my personal respect for them. But him…never. When pigs fly out of my ass I might call him something better than a piece of shit.
Ah, a suck up… a great many of his kind joined the SS for advancement (and y’all know how that ended, of course).
Regarding that “defend” part, I’ll bet that Mister Bateman has the fastest hashtag in his entire office.
I once corresponded with him about one of his articles. He was fascinated by the bulldog tanks in my facebook picture. Wow.
If Bateman was an Enlisted Troop, I am certain he’d be one of those perpetually assigned to a gym or library. When I was AD, that’s what units did to get rid of the most incompetent and the “shammers”! Since he’s an Officer, I see that the Army has kept him out of the way via obscure shaft (*OOPS*, Staff) ASSignments, he sounds like a slug that should have been RIF’ed years ago, but somehow slipped through the cracks because of someone he knew, blew, or both!
Proud…So you’ve been to the post library, gym and personnel aid offices too! Yea they have some great “parking places” built in for numbnuts. At least they did when I was in, instead of making them toe the line. He’s the type of Officer that would get assigned as liaison to the Officer’s Wives’ Club or the Wives’ Club committee for post beautification or some such bull shit. I saw a few of those officers. Some deserved to be where they were. I will admit, some were good young 2ND and 1ST LTs that just fucked up on something and that was their punishment. They actually “had to attend” the Wives’ Club meetings as, you know, the resource of all things “military” on post for them. Talk about having to have brain bleach after listening to the wives, headed by the post commander’s old lady, talk about more flowers and shrubs in the officer quarters area, more and better flowers, shrubs and trees around the post main gate, and on and on it went. During my time as a low ranked enlisted guy, I would be “volunteered”, as one from every unit to go “implement” the whims and desires of these committees and clubs. I always wondered, “what the hell did I do to draw this detail”. I asked the Top once and he said, “son I know it’s a shit detail so I rotate everyone through it fairly and always save a spot or two for the usual fuck ups. So just grit your fuckin’ teeth, get out there and do us proud. I don’t give a damn what the detail is, you represent our unit out there…you got me!”. What could I say? I planted my share of flowers in my day.
Ya mean “volunTOLD”, don’tcha?
Proud…every time, EVERY TIME!
YEAH, BTDT!!
If Bateman happens to lurk here again, I have a message for him. Dear Bateman, I am sorry that you have received death threats. There is no excuse to threaten someone with death, and on behalf of all gun owners I apologize. That being said, you are still a dipshit. I have known many LTC’s in my time, and none of them have ever had the time to write ridiculous anti gun blogs on the Internet all day long. The fact that you have that kind of time should be an indication of just how useless you are to the US Army. You’re going to ask me if I have any guns in my house before you let your kids come over to play? I would respond with, does your wife enjoy anal sex? Because that is just as appropriate to ask you as the question you would ask me about guns. It’s none of your damn business. I have PFC’s in my current Army reserve unit who have more combat experience than you. No one cares about your opinion, and frankly we are sick of hearing from you. Respectfully, go away.
Bateman,
With cannoncocker’s permission, I would like to add my name to his comment post. I will add though, GFY and then GFY again.
Sparks
Why certainly, Sparks.
As an afterthought, I will add that while there is no excuse for making death threats, there is also no excuse for doing your level best to destroy the same precious document that you swore an oath to defend and uphold. Just deal with what comes as a result of your treasonous actions or stop being a traitor.
cannoncocker…Once again brother, you nailed it. But Bateman and his ilk will never get it. Far too into themselves to remember the greater good of our precious Constitution.
I have plenty of guns in my house, but you could ask me until you’re blue in the face and the answer would still be “no”. Even my young kids know that if asked they are to say no.
If some stranger is stupid enough to ask me if I own any guns, my favorite answer is either “Nunnayer”, as in “Nunnayer damn business!”, or if I’m in a smartass mood I’ll tell them “Definitely maybe!” and walk away!
[In my best SoCal-native rendition of a South Boston accent]
“Maybe. Maybe nawt. Maybe fuck yuhself.”
And if asked who I am by (Master)Bateman or his ilk: “I’m the goy who does his jawb. You must be the othah goy!”
And my final answer to (Master)Bateman: “Blow me! Nawt literally, though. Unfortunately theh’s no promotion in it for ya!”
Not bad, but it’s FUN to look at the expression on their faces when you tell them “Definitely maybe”!
P.S. that or you tell them “NDBBM!” (Nobody’s Damn Business But Mine!)
i read that as Batman switches targets, need more iced tea i guess.
i really need to buy a rifle before the idiots in Chicago/Springfield do something stupid.
“I live in England and I do not even own a cell phone; I am a man who expressly notes, in public, that he defends his house with a machete and a kukri; and I am a soldier.”
Both edged weapons and self defense are verboten in England, numbnuts.
Yeah, testicles are outlawed there…
Yeah, that little tidbit tells you how full of shit he is.
First person who asks me if there are guns in my house will get either a shoulder shrug or, “None of your business,” as a reply, depending on my mood that day.
And I guarantee neither they nor their progeny will be invited back.
I can tell you from experience that it’s FUN to see the expression on their faces when you tell them “Definitely maybe!”!
I’d suggest a variant on that, NHSparky.
Idiot: “Are there any guns in your house?”
Reply: “I’ll answer that question just as soon as you tell me your SSN, DOB, POB, and bank account number.”
If they’re stupid enough to actually give you that info, the next reply is, “That’s none of your business. Have a nice day.”
Hey, you didn’t promise a “yes” or “no” answer – just an answer. (smile)
Full disclosure: I have a cousin who is the same way as Bateman, when it comes to her kid playing at soemone’s house. She asks that very question. Her brother and I laugh about it, because we both have firearms in our houses and we say “it would be a shame if they never came to our house for family get togethers, because of the presence of firearms”. Funny; her self righteousness never comes out around us and she has never asked us if we have firearms in our houses, but I suspect that’s because she already knows we do.
I’ll note that any Lt Col who “doesn’t own a cell phone” is most certainly in a non-essential job and should consider retirement for the good of the service.
Hell, I’m only a bottom-rung SNCO and have my personal phone and a duty-phone I have to carry 24/365. And all I do is basically admin these days.
If the good LTC asked me about firearms in my house, I would probably tell him to do something anatomically impossible and walk away. That being said, I saw this type of idiot plenty in my 26 years, 4 months and 5 days in the army. They tend to be professional staff pukes and advance by kissing the right fourth point of contact. As the British would say, his troops would follow him anywhere, but only out of curiosity.
I keep a parang in the bottom drawer of my bedside table. Of course, I keep a Glock in the top drawer and a shotgun under the bed so….
LTC Bootlicker is back…
The decree of Lord Bateman in regards to how the insufferable peasant class should exist. His Lordship demands when quartering your residence via his lineage that you obey his commands and gentlemanly abide or else.
God save the King!
Bateman is a helluva man, invoking his (presumably) 11-month-old child to make a political point.
anyone have a location for him in England? I would think the bobbies should be alerted to some foreign cretin possessing illegal edged weapons there. Oughta be worth a deportment, one could hope.
Do you REALLY want that milquetoast asswipe back on US soil?
The Piers Morgan gun-hatin’ crowd over there can keep him…
Not particularly, no.
Point made – you’re right. I was really thinking more like prison first but failed to state it.
The only reason he is employed by Esquire and loved by the left is because he took down NRO’s Victor David Hanson over some history.
http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/11/04/dueling_historians_lt_col_bob_batemans_takedown_of_victor_davis_hanson
I mean of Tom Ricks likes Bateman then Bateman is good for the left. Even if he is one of those yucky racist, rapist women hating, Imperialist American soldiers.
Well, Bateman tried anyway… Hanson’s brighter than he his.
This was VDHs reply back 2007 to the last round of ad hom attacks. Note that Bateman has to profess love of that Communist lover Howard Zinn and that all his attacks on the US were gospel to keep publishing at Media Matters.
http://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson/iranand_the_final_bateman_repl/
Also note that VDH shows that ad homs are per the normal argument of Bateman.
Bateman’s “takedown” was about as effective as the guy in this video trying to take down the pro boxer he’d been trolling online for several years.
Oh and it isn’t illegal to own a sword, knife, machete, or such in England. It is just illegal to carry it out in the open or in a concealed manner unless in part of official duties for the crown.
http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/l_to_o/offensive_weapons_knives_bladed_and_pointed_articles/
Mr. Bateman,
Sucks to be irrelevant, doesn’t it?
Sincerely,
The World
Bateman leave the cork on the fork.
Nice “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” reference.
Damn good blog post here: http://www.captainsjournal.com/2013/12/06/response-to-robert-bateman-concerning-guns/
Good comments too. Bateman shows up, and promptly gets bitch slapped…LOL. And apparently the picture of the LTC. that Esquire used was not a picture of Bateman (?).
That was a picture of Justice Scalia, whom Bateman insists has less legal knowledge than his awesome self.
Mr. Bateman —
No, I won’t address you as LTC Bateman, because you’re a joke, a pseudo-intellecutal, self-important shelf fungus who got lucky with your deal with Esquire, a slick-paper rag that panders to horny middle-aged men of all sexes.
Despite your insistence that people in the UK don’t have guns in their possession, many of them do. They own hunting rifles, among other things. You should take a trip into the countryside down in Devonshire in the fall, when shooting season starts up. It’s a hoot. It will scare the crap out of you.
You, as a parent, should know that you teach your kids safety about something, not fear of something. Your approach to parenting is ass-backwards. I’m quite sure that, with you fearfilled attitude, you won’t allow your little beribboned princess to join Pony Club, because Pony Clubbers not only par ticipate in things like know-downs on Pony Club weekends, they also ride to hounds when invited. Having followed the packs many times myself, I can vouch for the utter thrill of being in at the kill.
I think you’re a lousy parent, and as much as I’d like to give you advice on things, if you come anywhere near my house, I’ll set the dogs on you.
Tah!
RELEASE THE HOUNDS!!!!!!
Bateman’s daughter can’t join the Pony Club because he’s hogging all her My Little Pony gear for his Bronies Club meetings.
Wow, a LTC of Infantry that doesn’t have a CIB after 12 plus years of war! I believe it’s already been stated in the prior posts. “A hundred ways to kiss ass while protecting your butt.” Or should we call him a “Chicken Shit LTC?”
Maybe we can have him transferred to the Nigerian Army and he can teach them how to sing Kumbya and convince AQ to become brotherly.
I grew up in a logging camp in far Northern California, received my Winchester Single Shot .22 at four or five years of age. After being trained in firearms safety I was allowed to walk around a half mile to the old dump site (1950’s era) and shoot cans, etc. Rounds in my pocket, empty chamber. Never shot anybody, never had an accident.
My two boys were raised the same way. Never shot anybody, and no accidents.
So, to you mr. bateman (will never address you as an LTC) did someone steal your Nerf Gun when you were young? How did you get through all that scary AIT and OCS training? Did they allow you to use a Nerf Gun instead of a “Big Black Scary Gun”?
Wow, (again) and you’re an Infantry LTC? (with no CIB) after twelve plus years of war? You’re trying to tell us how we should live?
Like I said above, no respect and you suck ass. Can’t wait to hear about some meth freak visiting you at 3:00AM. Might be a happy home breaker walking off with a smile and a contented feeling.
Looks someone in the Army concurred he’d be a better help to the war effort if he homesteaded in England rather than did even a kiss-butt staff job in Iraq or Afghanistan… that’s like being kept away from Soap on a Roap because it’d be too dangerous for everyone else.
“My job, at the end of the day, is about killing. I orchestrate violence.”
“I am often torn-up by the realization that not only is this my job, but that I am really good at my job.”
Wow – trying to sound important here isn’t he. He is so good at his job that during 13 years of war he has yet to lead troops in combat. The only violence he seems to be able to orchestrate is when people who read his crap get pissed off and throw something at their computer monitor.
I suggest that you, Mr. Bateman, go back to your little self-serving scribbles. Sometimes reading stuff from clueless folks like you cause me to chuckle.
He sprains his wrist watching Faces of Death…
In his specific case, it’s like me saying that because I work for TSA at a big airport, “my life is in danger every single day as I fight on the bleeding front line of the home front in the War on Terror.” It’s technically accurate, but hardly reality. The chances of my being taken out on the way home from work by a drunk who had one too many at happy hour are 1,000,000% greater than my being killed by a terrorist during my shift. It’s there, and my sworn duty is to be vigilant for that one-in-a-million or -billion chance, but it’s slim. As slim as Bateman’s chance of orchestrating death as a terminal staffer.
I wonder if his bush quivers.
Careful now. Bernath might offer to represent him for emotional distress and make more pro boner work for poor TSO!