All F.S. Key did was write a poem about war. Somebody set it to the music of a British (ironic) folk song about getting drunk and fucking. And somebody else (Herbert Hoover) made it the national anthem, long after Key had turned in his fob. Can't blame him.
We can, however, blame whatever fuckwit thought it would be a good idea to trot out political bullshit into a sporting event just because they had a captive audience.
Interestingly the reason such an irrelevant exercise was trotted out into sports in the first place was to whip up the attending crowd, in the same way that the modern Jumbotron puts up a neon sign of hands clapping and says "MAKE SOME NOISE!", in the same way that the baseball game organist plays "Charge" or whatever, in the same way the morons at Atlanta Braves games start that moronic "tomahawk chop" bullshit (on cue from the organist of course, at his organ again). *ALL* of which, even the moronic Braves wank thing, are directly connected to the action in the actual GAME. Unlike a national anthem.
And yet --- if you went to a Braves game and flatly refused to engage in that prescribed body posture --- the silly "chop" motion ----- nobody's gonna snap your picture and milk a fake 'story' out of you complaining that you're "disrespecting" the home team, or the city, or any other specious bullshit. You'd be *ALLOWED* to not-participate.
And yet when Big Daddy The State dick-tates another body posture for another rah-rah exercise --- one that has absolute zero to do with the actual game ---- out come the sheep to baaa about "fire the sumbitches" and "deport them".
And if the rants of their Orange Shepherd had been simply laughed away as the mockable shit-stirring they are, he would have simply denied he ever said that. Because that's what he does when the shit-stir doesn't take.
FLAMING Hypocrisy.
The Kneelers did more than just not participate.
They actively did the OPPOSITE of what was expected as a sign of respect.
THus, they were actively showing disrespect.
They disrespect me. I disrespect them.
The difference is, that their disrespect is them being assholes, and mine is totally called for.
FUCK THEM ALL.
I have no desire for them to be forced to stand. As I have repeatedly stated.
But they are anti-American assholes who have insulted me and mine, and I have nothing but contempt for them.
FUCK THEM ALL.
Your strawman, that I want mandatory flag appreciation, that is all you. I am not responsible for the voices in your head, you bat shit crazy anti-American.
He has "no desire to force them to stand" but he has the strong desire to FUCK THEM ALL.
---which they can get out of if they do his bidding and stand.
Thanks for uh, clearing that up, Fasci.
Incorrect.
They have revealed themselves to be anti-American pieces of shit. I will not forget that, even if they bend to the League and start standing.
My answer to them is still, FUCK THEM ALL.
Your can shove your insult about fasci up your ass.
You've got quite the ass-fixation, huh. Not that there's anything wrong with that but I don't happen to swing that way.
Maybe you should team up with healthmyths He's all into that uh sort of thing.