Liberty Minute December 11 2013

Many years ago, Lt. Col. Robert Bateman took an oath of enlistment in which he swore to ?support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic?..? Bateman has also taught at West Point, where cadets embrace an honor code dictating that ?A cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.?

In a recent essay in Esquire, Bateman proposed a comprehensive program of civilian disarmament in which the military would confiscate privately owned guns, and the government would nationalize all gun manufacturing. He outlines a studiously dishonest constitutional theory in which the Second Amendment supposedly has nothing to do with protecting an individual right to firearms ownership. And while posing as a defender of the Framers? original intent, he describes the nationalization of the militia in 1903 as necessary to correct what he regarded as a ?problem? ? that is, decentralization of the military and rejection of a standing army.

Mr. Bateman refers to his profession as ?the deliberate management of violence.? Whatever title he claims, he is no patriot. He is a traitor to the Constitution, a liar, and someone who seeks to steal the rights of Americans he seeks to rule, rather than to serve.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.