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
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.