Re: The Star Spangled Banner Protection Act?
Bill Flett <[email protected]> Fri, 28 May 2021 08:08:27 -0700
| Newsgroups | alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.comedy |
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 5/28/2021 7:51 AM, *CONSTANTLY* triggered Kurtsie Nicklas, the Shame of Burlington NC, and *well known* to the Burlington police because of her numerous complaints about domestic violence by her boyfriend, and the most notorious male whore of Burlington, just released after 40 days in jail, lied: > On Fri, 28 May 2021 07:13:24 -0700, Bill Flett, the intellectual, moral and physical superior to *CONSTANTLY* triggered Kurtsie Nickel-ass, helpfully wrote: > >> On 5/28/2021 2:29 AM, David Hartung wrote: >>> On 5/27/21 1:37 PM, Bill Flett, the intellectual, moral and physical superior to white supremacist David Hartung, helpfully wrote: >>>> On 5/27/2021 11:22 AM, Mitchell Holman wrote: >>>>> Bill Flett <[email protected]> wrote in >>>>> news:[email protected]: >>>>> >>>>>> On 5/27/2021 8:01 AM, David Hartung wrote: >>>>>>> On 5/25/21 10:55 AM, Lee wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Texas House votes to yank state >>>>>>>> funding from sports teams that >>>>>>>> don't play national anthem at >>>>>>>> games >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Why is this a problem? >>>>>> >>>>>> It's censorship. Censorship is bad, irrespective of whether it's >>>>>> telling someone he may not say something, or commanding him that he >>>>>> must say something. >>>>>> It's bad and wrong, and the state government has no business doing >>>>>> it. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> For most of American history there >>>>> WAS no "national anthem" and yet we >>>>> now consider it so vital that no sports >>>>> event can start without it. >>>>> >>>>> Funny that these GOP legislatures >>>>> wanting to mandate it for others do >>>>> not open their own sessions with it.... >>>>> >>>> >>>> All of the mandatory pseudo-patriotic and religious bullshit came about due to >>>> the irrational "red scare," when right-wingnuts were literally afraid of >>>> commies under every bed. Many sports leagues began playing the national >>>> so-called "anthem" before games during the war, but it didn't become mandatory >>>> until the 1950s. The 1950s also were when "under god" was added to the pledge >>>> of allegiance, and our currency and coin were defaced with "in god we trust." >>>> It was all done during a shameful period of national hysteria over nothing. >>>> The same hysteria resulted in the ruination of countless careers, again over >>>> nothing. >>>> >>>> I doubt any legislature or other state/local governing body opens its sessions >>>> with the national so-called "anthem," but I would not be surprised to learn >>>> that they recite the stupid pledge. I refuse to pledge any allegiance to a >>>> piece of colored cloth. That's just stupid. >>> >>> You might be surprised to find that in large part, I agree with you. The playing >>> of the national anthem at sporting events is not necessary, and I would much >>> rather see that practice ended, than to give the ignorant a forum in which to >>> make fools of themselves. >> >> They're making fools of phony patriots — chauvinists — like you who don't >> understand freedom. > > Marxist loons No.