LTC Bateman is coming to get your guns
LTC Robert Bateman, the least infantry man in the world, says that the shooting in Las Vegas was the last straw – he’s coming back to the US and take your guns;
No. I am coming home. I need to be there and be part of the solution. Moms Demand Action is getting some traction, but they can use the lean-in of a few U.S. Army Airborne Infantry Rangers. I am only sorry that I did not stand up to this threat to our nation before. I am sorry. I was busy.
I have been overseas in Afghanistan and in NATO nations for half a decade while the insanity of the National Rifle Association expanded and exploded, and the NRA became, essentially, the tool of death in the United States. They made mass killings normal.
Well done, NRA. But this shit is too much.
Um, Mister Bateman, I don’t see any connection between the tragedy in Las Vegas and the National Rifle Association – you know, that association of millions of Americans who happen to be lawful gun owners. What’s Moms Demand Action got? Tens, Twenties? I’m sure you and your wetted panties will be welcomed. Especially because you think you’re an infantryman – an infantryman who hasn’t been infantry (as the rest of us understand the word) since you were a Second Lieutenant.
So I will come home, and perhaps some of those 3,000 nutjobs who sent me hatemail might want to meet up, because I am more than fricking willing, you whining, little boy-toys who need guns. So many of you have threatened me that I am literally booked, but any of you who feel you have been left out, go ahead. Book a date. You bring your gun to try and convince me that you are not a complete and total idiot, and if you bring a gun, let us see which tool works best.
Wimps need guns. Come and get me.
Another internet tough guy. No one here has threatened you, by the way. But, you know, being a tough guy on the internet attracts folks who are willing to cash the checks that your alligator mouth writes for your hummingbird ass. Wimps are internet tough guys.
The opinions here are only those of somebody that thinks a “Patriot Movement”—one which executes police officers—is not working in the service of the nation. They are only the opinions of someone who believes that “Tea Party members” who shoot policemen in the head— executing them at point blank range and then declaring that the “revolution” is starting before placing a Don’t Tread on Me flag atop the dead bodies of the police officers you just killed in cold blood—are not good.
If you can connect those two whack-a-doos to the “patriot” or “Tea Party” groups, you can have at ’em. But stop hiding behind the least infantry career in the world. I mean, the Moms Demand Action might be impressed with your creds, but the rest of us are convinced you’re blowing smoke. You and your twisted, wet panties better stay in Europe. By the way, did you get outraged at the shootings in gun-free Brussels or about the three mounties who were slaughtered in gun-free Canada?
But, you know, maybe a Ranger can straighten this whole thing out. Especially if you join the Moms. Don’t forget to take your parasol, princess.
Category: Gun Grabbing Fascists
Hell, I’m a WWII veteran and I’d love to see him try to take away my guns.
Come and take em.
What this Field Grade FOOL FAILS to take into account if he truly plans to take people’s firearms is neighborhoods like mine that are populated by Military Folks, current, former, and retired as well as the LEO’s that live there. Mess with one of us, you’re messing with all of us, we’re VERY Pro-Second Amendment, and we don’t take kindly to do-gooder fools like Bateman, he could have a Platoon of his fellow fools with him in our neck of the woods and they would FAIL like Daniel A. Bernath in a courtroom!
Hell, he try taking some gang bangin’ thugs’ guns… I’d love to see fat, pasty closet-libtard try that– homies will jack his azz up. Ask Ice-T about someone taking his guns. (Really, he’s a big fan of the 2nd Amendment for its intended purpose.)
Dear God, please send me an application to come live you guys!!!I’ll bring my own armory.
I wonder where this ass clown was when the following happened?
http://www.thenewstribune.com/lakewood-shooting/
I was reading some of the comments on that article…a bunch of sycophants raging against the NRA and the Tea Party….welcoming him into the ‘blue card’.
Why is the Army not handing him his ass for submitting such an article under his rank? Clearly the wording used in the article and in subsequent comments could be perceived as conduct unbecoming an officer.
Thing is he used his rank and his service to qualify any and all remarks he made in order to gain credibility with the reader.
I witnessed (online) a Marine Sgt. Major knock a cover off of a former Marine’s head in order to stop that person from shaming his beloved USMC. Yet, here we have a commissioned officer of the United States Army conducting himself and espousing beliefs in a public forum that is contrary to the very oath he took to the Constitution of the United States. The Sgt Major had to resign his position….this asshole is going to continue to shame the very uniform he wears by uttering political statements while wearing it.
I’m thinking his “coming home” may have something to do with his recent verbal defecations.
One can hope…..
I see a Golden opportunity, Given the current administration likes to give up 5 pieces of utter shit for a disloyal cocksmoker that hides out for 5 years lets trade Hillary Clinton, Micheal Moore, Harry Ried, John Kerry and Michelle Obama for him.
Couldn’t inflicting shitwads like that on any Country be considered an Act of War?
Regardless, I’m all for adding Joe Biteme and Nanny Lugosi to that list, I say we inflict them on Mexico in trade for the incarcerated USMC Vet still languishing there!
Oh man. I really, really, really hope that he fights with Staff Sergeant Tim Kennedy. Maybe I’ll give Bateman my gun, he’ll need it.
Is he bringing his own rock to hide under?
I have e-mailed Obama to make Bateman a general right now this is the kind of man we need in the military not kripto nazi gun nuts! Also I e-mailed our next president MRS. Clinton.
You do realize those aren’t their personal email addresses, right? They’re not gonna read it.
But hey, if that’s what gets you going, more power to you. I recommend Viagra, though; you get less delusions of grandeur and sociopathic tendencies.
Dear Mister Bateman,
NO BALLS!!!
Sincerely,
Every American Gun Owner
Can we give Bateman to the Taliban as a bonus?
They don’t want him. He is a valueless hunk of carbon and water.
Well, so was what’s-his-fuck and they got a pretty good trade for that deserter.
Can we pay for his trip home? On Malaysian Airlines?
My philosophy on gun control is this.
Gun Control Laws and the politicians that pass them do little more than aid, abet, and embolden violent criminals by assuring them via said laws that all law-abiding people will ce conveniently unarmed VICTIMS. I offer Chicago, DC, LA, and Camden, NJ as fine examples of how GUN CONTROL LAWS AID CRIMINALS. And didn’t the mass shootings like VA Tech, Sandy Hook, Columbine, etc, happen in “Gun-Free Zones”, something guaranteeing a criminal a cornucopia of unarmed victims? Here I go again using facts and logic, something that FOOLS like Bateman ignore!
heh. They’re so cute when they think they are people.
The dude is one of those nimrods who get high on the socialism-at-its-finest aspect of the military that normal people dislike… being over in jolly old neutered progressive Enland is giving him a daily woody.
Yes, actually, please come back from the UK. We haven’t had a decent punching bag since Tears Morgan. Bowe Bergdahl has better chances of successfully leveraging his service to push his disgusting personal agenda than you, and that includes if he gets James Branum for his attorney.
Some of us have mentioned that Bateman, while a United States Army officer, has written that he is ashamed of our country. And I want to be clear that what he wrote in the moronic Esquire article is not the source. In that articles, he watered down his comment a tad. But that’s not the source, anyway. No, it’s this statement that he wrote for MediaMatters in 2007: “I am ashamed of my country.” He has been properly lambasted for his gun-grabbing plan and his ignorance of our Constitution and its history. He has written that he would like to confiscate nearly all guns and to do so from our cold dead hands. He’s a joke and an ignoramus and were he not an officer in the United States Army, he would be ignored as most nincompoops are. But he is an Army officer and all the disclaimers in the world cannot work to eliminate or render inconsequential that fact. He knows it. He banks on it. And that is why every piece he writes makes clear his rank and usually, if not always, his military status and experience.
The phrase “useful idiot” springs to mind.
Emphasis on “idiot”…
2/17 Air Cav – Also, in the comment section of an earlier Esquire article of his, he wrote a partial justification of confiscating legally owned firearms thus:
“369,000 guns are stolen each year and used in the commission of crimes. You gun owners are leaving your guns lying around and criminals are stealing them and using them to kill people.” (I paraphrase)
Someone responded to his illogic, “Gee, I guess if we own a car we are responsible for all the auto theft.”
At that point, Bateman pulled one of his disappearing acts. The guy is a fucking idiot.
Obviously, according to asstard’s logic, we need to ban cars too… why doesn’t he argue how cars need to be only in the hands of fat, selfish gov’t goobers like himself?
If we apply (Master)Bateman’s “logic,” then every parent is responsible for all the kidnapping and child molestation in the world. Ya know, since our kids are “laying around.”
The last sentence he writes in the article is this: “You may believe otherwise. If you do, screw you.”
Funny; that’s what we all say to you, Bateman. Oh, and I like how you talk really big about begging someone to come after you so you can beat them up. Why don’t you just drop the fake self defense bullshit and just go after those that you are begging to come after you? I mean, you’re the most infantry man in the world, so lesser men would just shudder and collapse in your presence; right?
I usually don’t deride officers from my own branch of service, and I usually show them some respect, whether they are active or retired and call them by their rank, but you, Bateman, aren’t worthy of that. I will say what I think you are; a walking, talking, dick with ears.
Come at me, bro.
Aw, you know (master)Bateman is only Internet brave… he’s been cranking it to Faces of Death while he wouldn’t be caught dead going to Iraq of Azzcrackistan for the last decade.
I’m curious as to whether he’ll come back here and pull his usual dick-measuring bullshit.
Yoo-hoo! Bateman! Right here, dipshit!
Do you think it would attract him or scare him away if we bring up LTC Kratman’s name? He does have a really weird love/hate man-crush hardon for LTC Kratman, after all.
That’s funny NHSparky. He does have an unhealthy obsession with that particular phrase, dick measuring contest, doesn’t he. It probably stems from the fact that his first wife was banging some other dude behind his back combined with the realization that for all his blather about Airborne Ranger Infantry kick ass talk he has spent his entire “Infantry” career as a fucking pog who doesn’t rate a CIB after our country has been continuously at war for the past 13 years.
I know a highly skilled pilot/disbarred lawyer that can fly him around. Two turds in one flush. Lord please give us a strong headwind.
Hey, everyone – I think I found a song written about and/or dedicated to Bate-boi:
Everybody knows, that the world is full of . . . .”
Forgive me if this has been mentioned before, but I’ve been doing my damnest to find out what the good LtCol decorations include. Every picture I can find of this overcompensating jerk in uniform has him hiding his ribbons. Seriously, check it out. Ever damn picture he is either turning his left side away or hiding behind someone someone else. For a man who brags about being an “Airbore Ranger in Afganistan” he sure is shy about his medals and awards.
Anyone have an answer to if this cat has a CIB? CAB? Or what unit he was in in Afganistan.
Also, did anyone see the pic of him in Esquire? He’s putting his helmet on a little girl holding his M4. I guess Bateman, its ok for you to have weapon in your hands but not me.
Per Bateman himself, he was assigned to the ISAF HQ Staff as Deputy for Future Plans in Afghanistan. In Iraq, he was assigned to MNSTC-I HQ as a Strategist.
He would be ineligible to receive a CIB in either of those assignments under the CIB criteria contained in AR-600-8-22. Neither is an assignment as an Infantryman at a Brigade or lower HQ.
He appears to have been commissioned in mid-1989. It’s thus at least theoretically possible he served in an infantry unit during the Gulf War and earned a CIB there. I don’t know what unit(s) he was assigned to between Aug 1990 and Feb 1991, so I can’t say for sure if he had the opportunity to earn a CIB during 1991 or not.
Hondo, I believe he was in the 25th ID (4/87) as an LT so DS/DS is highly unlikely. His TOE CPT time was with the 2/7 CAV at Ft. Hood. I don’t think he ever had a BQ/KD IN job as a field grade. In fact, I don’t know if he’s even held an 11A or 02A position since 1997 or so when he left troop command at Ft. Hood. From what I can piece together, he went from troop (company) command to graduate school at Ohio State. This was followed by a utilization tour as a rotational faculty member (history) at USMA. From there, Bateman went to DC as a fellow with CSIS. After his time with MNSTC-I in OIF, he spent a while with the Office of Net Assessment at the Pentagon. From there, he probably went to ISAF supporting OEF and then ended up at his terminal position with NATO. I may be a missing an assignment or two in his timeline (probably whatever he did between USMA and the CSIS fellowship and between CSIS and MNSTC-I). Whatever it was, it wouldn’t change my opinion that his whole Infantry/Airborne/Ranger shtick is a bit much. What a joke. His Infantry credibility is wrapped up in a bunch of DA 1059’s from “cool guy” courses over 20 years and 80 pounds ago. His IN TOE experience is at least 17 years behind him as well. The tone of his comments following his own Esquire piece are stunning and border on self-parody. His criticism of the service of other Veterans is truly reprehensible. He actually “went there” and criticized the service of a 19D who served four years and probably saw two deployments to OIF (700+ days of cumulative combat exposure BTW). To Bateman, this wasn’t enough. I could care less about his opinions on guns, but I damn sure care about the way he pisses on combat veterans who disagree with him. Bateman demonstrates a pathological incapacity for self-reflection. Here’s a guy who cumulatively spent at least 14 years of his RA career in Columbus, OH/West Point/DC/England and has… Read more »
IRR,
I couldn’t agree more with your comments on HIS comments on the Esquire page. He actually threatened a junior officer who dissagreed with him with the UMCJ.
Aggg an I hate to break it down to this level, but looking at his smug fucking pictures, I can say he has a face in deperate need of a fist.
Errr UCMJ. I may or may not have started drinking early this morning.
Excellent analysis. He pulls the same tired shit every time someone questions him. Then when they destroy his delusional visions of himself as a “combat veteran” he just doesn’t answer. This guy has probably never pulled the trigger in combat, has never been in an actual firefight, and somewhere in his warped mind he equates deploying to the combat zone as some sort of pog extraordinaire gives him carte blanche to impugn the service of any and all that disagree with his totalitarian world view. I believe another poster put it more succinctly when he said he has a face that is in desperate need of a fist.
He’s a perfect left/libtard…
Naw, he’s just a conceited, pseudo-intellectual ass with a brain the size of a pea and an inflated ego. He hasn’t ever worked in the private sector. He’s in for a shock. It ain’t like the Army and only he will think he’s as wonderful as he thinks he is.
On the other hand, he could be just the guy to replace Psul the (Eternally) Uncool over at APL. Wildly overinflated ego? Check. Arrogance out every orifice? Check. Diarrhea of the keyboard? Check. Ad hom attacks on people who don’t care for him? Check, check, check. DINGDINGDING! APL just found its new EVP for Government Solutions! He and Psulio will love each other, although I suspect even Bateman will have a hard time stomaching Psulio unbathed and crammed into pee-stained Spandex.
Thanks hondo. I appreciate the time.
Guy just makes my skin crawl.
It just goes to show,
An idiot with birds on his shoulders;
Is still just an idiot.
No birds, Storyteller. LTCs wear oak leaves.
I’ve heard of lieutenant colonels, and full bird colonels, but Bateman may be the first full birdbrain colonel I’ve ever seen.
😉
Oops, I just saw and emailed this to you today. I should have known you’d be a day ahead of me….
At this rate, Bateman will be throwing his own feces and shouting “The Army Infantry Airborne Rangers Cometh!” like someone else we’re all familiar with…
I wonder how soon he’ll team up with the likes of Bernath, Blobfish, DallASS, Psul, Phildo,…
OH, and Giduck for Ninja Shovel Combat Readiness!
I am wondering if this guy really is in the Army. Has anyone found him on AKO/FOI request? All the pictures that I have seen look a little off. Things like Lt. Col. instead of LTC, some of the background items in his pictures (out of place for the environment he is supposedly in), epaulets not tucked in, no SSI, 5 years overseas (possible but very rare for enlisted, don’t think I have ever heard/seen officers doing that many COTs…..Not to mention all the shit he is talking/posting. Something about violation of AR’s, UCMJ and his commission oath. I cant quite point out any one thing, just a bunch of little weird things that keep bothering me.
Yep, I checked AKO before I wrote one word about him. He’s there.
I sure that someone has already done this, but has anyone contacted his CO about this? Something about using your rank/uniform for political/personal gain. I really don”t get into an uproar about all the posers I bump into. I usually just tell them that they are full of shit and let everyone around know it. Sometimes I even “return to supply services” awards/decorations that they don’t merit. But this guy is just really getting in my craw.
I’m guessing of it is OBE. The assumption here is that the sudden prolific writing, his 25 years TIS, and his pending return to CONUS means that he is here to initiate his retirement out processing. My friends who are YG 92 are staring to pin on their eagles, and, since his YG is far earlier and he’s still an LTC, I’m thinking that he was passed over for COL twice and the Army decided that they didn’t need him filling the important EUCOM and NATO billets until he hit MRD in three years.
I still find it a travesty that he wasn’t RIF’ed in some of the pre-9/11 drawdowns, I assume he slipped through the cracks because of who he knew or blew or he’s related to the right pols or bureaucrats!
I served in the gulf war too, you maggots aren’t fit to lick dogshit off his boots, go fuck your mothers.
“…you maggots aren’t fit to lick dogshit off his boots….”
That’s correct. We aren’t. However, you sound eminently fit for that purpose, Jacob. So, have some more and enjoy! And no using an ice cream stick! Tongue only.