How do you respect a symbol of freedom by denying freedom itself?
That is the basic question behind the entire NFL / National anthem idiocy.
We have people who are insisting others be stripped of their right as Citizens to decent and to protest the actions of government because it is disrespectful of a symbol of that right.
I have supported some of the positions of Trump, but this one shows he does not have the slightest understanding of the relationship between government and the Citizens, and brings into question his fitness to hold office.
The fact is that the propaganda that we are subjected to during sporting events has no place in that venue to begin with. It is only there to allow government to claim some sort of legitimacy in its actions despite the fact that much of the public vehemently opposes much of the governments policies.
The real fear is that the rest of the world will see that the American people do not support the policies of government and the government will no longer be able to claim the legitimacy they lost long ago.
The issue we are faced with at present though, is what is it in America that we truly value? Is it the symbols like the anthem, and the flag that are most important? Or is it the actual freedoms those symbols represent and that we suppress on a daily basis?
It seems like we have our priorities badly confused.
That's not what Constitutional Freedom of Speech in America means. "Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences," as the left parrot out so often when some one says something they don't like a petition boycotts of business or players being fired.
In fact that phrase is right. In terms of what Freedom of Speech means legally in the United States. Does any American know what that means? It means something pretty simple.
It means this: city, state, and federal authorities can not arrest you (in a few cases they can such as falsely screaming fire in a crowded theater) for expressing your self.
That does not mean people can not boycott you or call for you to get fired.
Trump intervened less in Freedom of Speech than President Obama and Hillary Clinton did when they applied Federal pressure and personally called on that small time Protestant Preacher to not burn the Koran. Stating "America is about
respecting all religions." I paraphrase.
Hillary said that as well but just years
prior to that she stood outdoors in New York City to cheering crowds celebrating her support that a publicly funded art museum in New York City ought continue forward exhibiting blasphemous art work of the Virgin Mary that millions of Christians found offensive. She did not evoke the "America is about respect for all religions." No, she evoke the "America is about freedom of speech!"
Now, you might talk most American Catholics into this liberal equivalent of you and your wife sit at a table, you slap the Catholic's wife across the face and tell him he can never do the same to yours and he obeys. And then you repeat it for years and all of you keep going out like best friends because
"We are Americans and must remain united," blah, blah. But you're not suckering me into that
jive. I'm not subscribing to this you limit the rule box I can operate in but you give yourself and your friends wide, wide, wide, enormous latitude, switching rules and evoking contradictory "values" as you see fit.
