Posted on 09/25/2017 12:07:42 PM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Actor Jesse Williams says the NFL's pregame national anthem is a 'scam' convincing Americans to join the military and 'fly overseas and kill people'
Actor Jesse Williams has claimed that the NFL's pregame national anthem ceremony is a government 'scam' designed to convince 'boys and girls to fly overseas and kill people'.
Williams made his comments while speaking to MSNBC about football players kneeling during the pregame Star Spangled Banner performance to protest race inequality in the United States.
Williams, best known for his role on Grey's Anatomy, said that NFL players started participating in the pregame national anthem in 2009 as a Defense Department military recruitment strategy.
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This is the same Jesse Williams that Tommy Sotomayor is always harping on.
Hey Jesse Hey Jesse.
Hey Jesse, methinks your whole career is a scam.
I’ve notice lately a lot of idiots getting airtime. The media has become a place on the list of not to go’s.
I guess it doesn’t take much to convince Jesse to do stuff.
What is a scam is the racist terrorist group Black Lives Matter who is supported by these insipid football players who shite where they eat!
Just quit singing the national anthem before each game, that will solve the problem, and keep the fans home for good.
Never heard of him
Never heard of the guy.
The summer box office was a miserable failure.
I guess Hollyweird wants more theaters to close...
I’m giving this guy the benefit of the doubt, he must know what he’s talking about because he’s an actor.
If the NFL thugs and owners don’t like the national law re respect to our flag and national anthem. They should get it changed, like those, who don’t like our immigration laws should do instead of breaking the laws.
Yes, there are laws/rules re how to behave when our National Anthem is being played.
36 U.S.C.
United States Code, 2011 Edition
Title 36 - PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, ANDORGANIZATIONS
Subtitle I - Patriotic and National Observances and Ceremonies
Part A - Observances and Ceremonies
CHAPTER 3 - NATIONAL ANTHEM, MOTTO, FLORAL EMBLEM1 MARCH, AND TREE
Sec. 301 - National anthem
From the U.S. Government Printing Office, www.gpo.gov
§301. National anthem
(a) Designation.—The composition consisting of the words and music known as the Star-Spangled Banner is the national anthem.
(b) Conduct During Playing.—During a rendition of the national anthem—
(1) when the flag is displayed—
(A) individuals in uniform should give the military salute at the first note of the anthem and maintain that position until the last note;
(B) members of the Armed Forces and veterans who are present but not in uniform may render the military salute in the manner provided for individuals in uniform; and
(C) all other persons present should face the flag and stand at attention with their right hand over the heart, and men not in uniform, if applicable, should remove their headdress with their right hand and hold it at the left shoulder, the hand being over the heart; and
(2) when the flag is not displayed, all present should face toward the music and act in the same manner they would if the flag were displayed.
(Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1263; Pub. L. 110–417, [div. A], title V, §595, Oct. 14, 2008, 122 Stat. 4475.)
Historical and Revision Notes
Revised
Section
Source (U.S. Code) Source (Statutes at Large)
301(a) 36:170. Mar. 3, 1931, ch. 436, 46 Stat. 1508.
301(b) 36:171. June 22, 1942, ch. 435, §6, 56 Stat. 380; Dec. 22, 1942, ch. 806, §6, 56 Stat. 1077; July 7, 1976, Pub. L. 94–344, §1(18), 90 Stat. 812.
Amendments
2008—Subsec. (b)(1)(A) to (C). Pub. L. 110–417 added subpars. (A) to (C) and struck out former subpars. (A) to (C) which read as follows:
“(A) all present except those in uniform should stand at attention facing the flag with the right hand over the heart;
“(B) men not in uniform should remove their headdress with their right hand and hold the headdress at the left shoulder, the hand being over the heart; and
“(C) individuals in uniform should give the military salute at the first note of the anthem and maintain that position until the last note.
Did he mention this started under Obama’s regime?
Who?
Had to go look up this clown’s picture and still don’t know who the heck he is.
These anti-USA-anthem people make stupider and stupider and even “more stupider” statements each day.
They’re almost like MadMaxine Waters and Nancy Pelousy.
They can’t all have been dropped on their heads at birth.
It must be something in the water (or McD’s?)
What a racist.
He is only about 180 degrees away from the truth. The playing of the anthem has been around since major sporting events have been around. Kneeling during the anthem is a new protest designed to scam people into thinking their own community police are the enemy. Who would run such an evil scam ? Globalist Progressives. Same ones destroying Western Europe. Just look who lines up with the kneelers.
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