Youth Football protest

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(09-16-2016, 11:36 AM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: https://gma.yahoo.com/texas-youth-football-team-continue-protesting-anthem-despite-024900841--abc-news-topstories.html

When kids are receiving threats for exercising their First Amendment right, maybe there is a legitimate reason for the protest in the first place.

BINGO.

My brain hurts when I hear people say that American soldiers died so that you could be forced to stand when the anthem is played. That is completely wrong. Soldiers in Nazi Germany died so that Germans could be forced to stand when the German anthem was played. They died so you could be forced to salute and say, "Heil Hitler!" If you failed to do either, you were subject to being put on a truck or a train and taken to a camp, or just shot in the street. American soldiers died for our rights, including our First Amendment rights. Protest is a completely patriotic and completely American act. Suppressing protest is completely unpatriotic and anti-American and it betrays a fascist tendency in those who would suppress protest. And the irony, of course, is they take their fascist tack, up to and including death threats, in the name of patriotism. It is appalling.