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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nThat fellow Robert Bateman<\/a>, the least infantry man in the world, recently retired from the Army, and he made the mistake of leaving the United Kingdom and returning to the country whose Constitution he was sworn to defend. It took no time at all for him to have the bejesus scared out of him by an American carrying a gun in public in the State of Virginia where that is legal;<\/p>\n Really? A gun, at Sunday Brunch? Are you seriously that afraid of the 75-year-old farming couple, the only other people in the restaurant, who probably raised the daughter who babysat you 30 years ago? Or is it the middle-class transient family of three, with the baby, us, who frighten you? I mean, really, there were eight people in that restaurant at the time.<\/p>\n Then, over the next hour, as the 30 or-so retirees and perhaps 20 more obviously in for a post-Church-service special Sunday Brunch folks came in, I came to realize how absolutely delusional the fellow must be. What kind of idiot carries a gun in a family restaurant for family brunch? Well, that would be one of the folks influenced by the NRA-approved \u201cMolon Labe\u201d movement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I’m pretty sure that Bateman was one of the brainiacs who recommended that our troops in Afghanistan shouldn’t be armed around our allies so as not cause those allies to think the US troops didn’t trust them – you know the same troops who ended up being casualties of those green-on-blue attacks in recent years.<\/p>\n Then on top of that, the man who was carrying the firearm in public, was also tattooed with the words “Molon Labe”, which I’m sure sent Bateman into another frenzy, because you know, from Bateman’s perspective, words are more powerful than actions; <\/p>\n \u201cMolon Labe\u201d what? “What the heck is that?\u201d you might rightly ask. I mean, that is not even English. Is it some kind of foreign terrorist organization?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Basically, the Greek phrase is supposed to mean something like “come and take our weapons” and it was supposed to be the message that Spartan King Leonidas sent to the Persian king Xerxes before the Spartans were wiped out at Thermopylae. It’s supposed to be a defiant phrase from the pro-gun movement to the panty-waists – like Bateman. I have a cap and my Sig Sauer Spartan has the phrase engraved on the slide, because mostly I own scads of firearms just to piss off the Batemans of the world and every time someone tries to take my guns, I buy three more. Bateman had to make a real stretch to find some hypocrisy in the phrase;<\/p>\n See, in choosing this quote and this situation, the \u201cfreedom lovers\u201d are quoting the absolute ruler of the most rigidly controlled military state in the ancient world. Leonidas was the co-king of Sparta, a state in which the individual had almost no rights, which held a massive population (the \u201cHelots\u201d) in subjugation and slavery, and where all able-bodied men were completely subject to the will of the leaders. In other words, the exact opposite of freedom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Bateman makes a rookie historian mistake by judging an ancient culture with our current values, rather than judging it in the context of it’s own time. Stank-ass hippies are well-known for that.<\/p>\n The Greeks had the best thing going in the world at the time – it wasn’t perfect but they were happy with it – more happy than they would have been with their necks under the Persian sandals. You know, just like we’re happy with the Constitution the way it is now, more happy than we would be if the Batemans of the world had an opportunity to rewrite it. <\/p>\n Since we get to read Master Bateman’s sage words once again, we can safely assume that he made it out of the Sunday Brunch without being shot by the American exercising his Constitutional right to protect himself and his family – I’m pretty sure that Master Bateman, the pudgy bulletheaded nosy creep hasn’t been shot by a lot of law abiding gun-owning Americans since he decided of his own free will to return to this country, despite our gun laws. So Molon Labe, MFer.<\/p>\n![\"Bateman1\"](\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Bateman1-300x266.jpg\")
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