09-29-2017, 12:59 PM
I choose to stand quietly for the anthem, but my thoughts on this are pretty solidified....
- I think that as a form of protest, the kneeling has been brilliant, frankly, as it won't die and is in front of everyone every week. A protest is SUPPOSED to make people notice and perhaps uncomfortable. If it isn't either of those then it's going to be swept away and unnoticed.
- There is NOTHING more American than these protests. The country was founded on things like this and our constitution specifically allows it. Period. IF you want to live where people are forced to salute, sing.... march, kneel, or kiss the asses of those in government power perhaps you should consider the lovely paradise known as North Korea. I'm pretty sure they have laws and rules like that over there.
- ^ That being said... They are kneeling and protesting in front of the NATIONAL anthem and flag. These issues are NOT Federal Government related. The flag and anthem are, without question, a federal thing. The US FEDERAL GOVERNMENT has ZERO to do with the issue.
That would be like me marching around the white house in protest because I didn't like a residential zoning issue in my city. Police violence is a LOCAL issue to an individual county, state, city, etc. There's LITTLE to NOTHING regulating the police on a federal level when it comes to these issues. So, while the protest is an amazing idea, they are protesting at & to the wrong thing.
- People are allowed and are free to protest our flag or anthem for whatever reasons they wish. The fact that veterans fought for these freedoms is NOT an insult to them. Telling someone what to do with their FREEDOM after you've fought for it negates the concept of that very freedom. That's wildly hypocritical. It's really simple.
- Many people sit, talk, yell, or BS for the anthem before games. They always have. Why is this such a national issue blows me away. Hell, I was at a Reds opening day game about 7 years or so ago and had seat on the party deck from WLW. Mr. "Great American" himself, Bill Cunningham, was two feet away from me sitting down during the singing of the anthem and yelling... screaming at the top of his lungs wondering where Seg Dennison was so he come look at something he thought was funny.
People go to the bathroom and take a leak and are talking, ordering food, walking into the stadium, etc. etc. during the anthem EVERY GAME.
^ To pretend like this is some outrageous thing of a few people all of a sudden disrespecting our country is absolute bullshit.
- I think that as a form of protest, the kneeling has been brilliant, frankly, as it won't die and is in front of everyone every week. A protest is SUPPOSED to make people notice and perhaps uncomfortable. If it isn't either of those then it's going to be swept away and unnoticed.
- There is NOTHING more American than these protests. The country was founded on things like this and our constitution specifically allows it. Period. IF you want to live where people are forced to salute, sing.... march, kneel, or kiss the asses of those in government power perhaps you should consider the lovely paradise known as North Korea. I'm pretty sure they have laws and rules like that over there.
- ^ That being said... They are kneeling and protesting in front of the NATIONAL anthem and flag. These issues are NOT Federal Government related. The flag and anthem are, without question, a federal thing. The US FEDERAL GOVERNMENT has ZERO to do with the issue.
That would be like me marching around the white house in protest because I didn't like a residential zoning issue in my city. Police violence is a LOCAL issue to an individual county, state, city, etc. There's LITTLE to NOTHING regulating the police on a federal level when it comes to these issues. So, while the protest is an amazing idea, they are protesting at & to the wrong thing.
- People are allowed and are free to protest our flag or anthem for whatever reasons they wish. The fact that veterans fought for these freedoms is NOT an insult to them. Telling someone what to do with their FREEDOM after you've fought for it negates the concept of that very freedom. That's wildly hypocritical. It's really simple.
- Many people sit, talk, yell, or BS for the anthem before games. They always have. Why is this such a national issue blows me away. Hell, I was at a Reds opening day game about 7 years or so ago and had seat on the party deck from WLW. Mr. "Great American" himself, Bill Cunningham, was two feet away from me sitting down during the singing of the anthem and yelling... screaming at the top of his lungs wondering where Seg Dennison was so he come look at something he thought was funny.
People go to the bathroom and take a leak and are talking, ordering food, walking into the stadium, etc. etc. during the anthem EVERY GAME.
^ To pretend like this is some outrageous thing of a few people all of a sudden disrespecting our country is absolute bullshit.
