Lt. Colonel Robert Bateman, the current serving member of the US Army, who previously wrote in advocating for nationwide gun confiscation about prying your guns fro your cold dead fingers, apparently has a lack of understanding why such a death threat would elicit death threats in return. Again, Bateman is trading on the military service and a friendly forum. I doubt he would last long elsewhere.
As an aside, Bateman has been publishing his anti gun views since at least 2005, and on liberal opinion outlets, such as Esquire. He has written books on military history and he says inasmuch as he is an active duty infantry officer, he is a military historian. Whenever he encounters argument on the facts he presents, he trades on his military career.
My guess is that most, if not 80 percent of the anonymous death and rape threats he has received, have been from leftists who believe, wrongly, that it will shame those who press the restoration of the right to keep and bear arms, who will back down. We know that the national administration and sympathetic state politicians would not hesitate to use sock puppets to paint their opponents for political gain, again wrongly assuming that support for their fascist laws would increase.
Via Western Rifle Shooters Association
A large percentage of these threats seem to have originated from the National Rifle Association, which posted an essay on their page about me.
So what do you think about the NRA's advocacy? Just curious, since their essay resulted in death threats to me, threats of rape to my wife, and threats of abduction and murder of my six-month-old daughter from the people who read the NRA's column. Personally, I think a little bit less of an organization like the NRA, which incites their members to threaten rape and murder and the abduction of babies. But perhaps, if you are an NRA member, you may approve of some of the messages above. That, of course, is your right. The essay Bateman refers to is here. Dunno if it has ever been posted at Rantburg.
#1
Well Colonel, I would start by referring those alleged threats to the SJA, MP's, local LE and the FBI. A good follow-up measure [since you are busy writing] would be buying a pistol for the wife and signing her up for some NRA approved firearms training.
Don't forget to add you anti-NRA advocacy and Esquire articles as OER bullets. You look like general officer material [in today's army] to me.
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As a point of order, Master Bateman, you first penned the article and in so said so much as agree or die.
Second, this is not NRA advocacy; they simply noted an article posted by someone of rank and self said expertise. This is disingenuous, like stating that because your article is posted in Esquire, then Esquire is pro-chicken humping.
#3
Bateman is entitled to his opinion as set forth in the 1st Amendment. However, as an active member of the military, he has sworn to uphold the Constitution which includes the 2nd Amendment.
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So Phil Robertson, who has one of the highest rated shows on cable, was asked a direct question concerning his personal religious beliefs and he gave an honest answer. Of course, honest religious opinions are not tolerated in America if they in any way hurt the feelings of statist control freaks, so the usual suspects had a come apart. A&E, being good at appeasement but bad at math, put Robertson on indefinite hiatus. Which means "we fired him, unless we wimp out at that too, and once we see which way the winds blow, we'll bring him back."
Here is the actual article that got the guy fired: http://www.gq.com/entertainment/television/201401/duck-dynasty-phil-robertson We'll go through the actual controversial statements in a bit, just to see how little it takes to make the lefty censors outrage spike. But you should read it, because as usual you will quickly discover that most of the outrage you're getting off the internet is mostly nonsense. I warn you now, the article sucks. It is your usual breathless hyperbolic overstatement written by a typical man-child of a journalist who has never lived anywhere that is not completely paved and who considers Connecticut wild country. (oh my gosh, the ATV has seatbelts, but they are not used! I shot a .22 and a hit a bottle! I am a warrior!).
This is all over the internet right now, which is good, because people need to realize just how rigged the system is. The left in America simply cannot tolerate disagreement, deviation from group think is heresy, and when you piss them off, if they can't dismiss you, they steamroll you. The actual topic is irrelevant. This particular one was homosexuality, but it just as easily could be guns, healthcare, or global warming.
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The left in America simply cannot tolerate disagreement, deviation from group think is heresy, and when you piss them off, if they can't dismiss you, they steamroll you.
How do you show the "single finger salute" on a blog?
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Read his post last night courtesy of a pointer from Instapundit.
Here's his answer to a moronic commenter:
"I missed the part where I said I expected anybody else to stand up for anything. This here is my opinion page. Go annoy somebody who gives a shit what some anonymous internet p*ssy, submoronic troglodyte thinks. Stormfront is that way. In other words, F*CK OFF."
(except he didn't use the "*"; apparently the 'Burg's naughty-word catcher didn't like one of those words and refused to accept the comment with them spelled out)
I think I'm in love. ;-p
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It was a heck of a well-written article unlike the whiny, shrill articles on the left that try to stifle discussion or debate by citing "PC violations. The left was all a-twitter and cried about hurt feelings and ruffled feathers. Alas, panties were all in a wad. Political correctness is the ultimate tyranny; debate or reasonable discussion gets shut down before it occurs by invoking PC. There were calls for the crucifixion of Phil Robertson to quiet him because some particular group(s) didn't like what he was saying. Next, there will be calls for re-education camps to straighten out the thinking of anyone who offends anyone. We're almost there now.
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They already have re-education camps. They're called "sensitivity training" or "diversity training". You can be ordred to go there by your employer or commanding officer.
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...imo, GLAAD, etal. are opportunistic and morally shark-like creatures which work to reveal where they can, and imply, where they can't, malice for its reflected outrage (payoff).
Mr. Robinson maybe should expend some resources in neutralizing the GQ (?!)-"revealed" and GLAAD-exploited perception of said malice, sans apology..? Or maybe discover he is a member of a Muslim sect that formally practices malice as a major tenant..?
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So Phil Robertson, who has one of the highest rated shows on cable, was asked a direct question concerning his personal religious beliefs and he gave an honest answer. Of course, honest religious opinions are not tolerated in America if they in any way hurt the feelings of statist control freaks, so the usual suspects had a come apart. A&E, being good at appeasement but bad at math, put Robertson on indefinite hiatus. Which means "we fired him, unless we wimp out at that too, and once we see which way the winds blow, we'll bring him back."
