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Navy Sailor Refuses to Stand During National Anthem
Fox News ^ | September 26, 2016

Posted on 09/26/2016 10:00:17 AM PDT by detective

U.S. Navy sailor is under investigation for refusing to stand during the national anthem.

Intelligence Specialist 2nd Class Janaye Ervin, a reservist stationed at Pearl Harbor, posted on Facebook about why she's following in the footsteps of Colin Kaepernick and others who have demonstrated against police brutality during the anthem.

"I feel like a hypocrite singing about the 'land of the free' when I know that only applies to some Americans," she wrote. "I will gladly stand again, when ALL AMERICANS are afforded the same freedom."

Ervin says she lost her security clearance and was threatened with jail by the Navy in response to her actions.

(Excerpt) Read more at insider.foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: nationalanthem; navy
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To: detective

Throw her in the brig... no discharge, just brig time.


81 posted on 09/26/2016 10:30:38 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: detective

Dishonorable discharge...ASAP.


82 posted on 09/26/2016 10:31:05 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Semper Fidelis - Molon Labe - Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: demkicker

NOPE!

Trump insist on National Anthem being played when told it’s to late.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfe1s4HpJQ0


83 posted on 09/26/2016 10:31:36 AM PDT by GailA (If politicians won't keep their promises to the Military, they won't keep them to you!)
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To: exnavy

Troops who don’t stand for the national anthem could face prosecution under the Uniform Code of Military Justice for violating Article 92, which states that troops can be punished for failing to obey a lawful general order.

Ret. SCPO’s wife court marshal and dishonorable discharge this idiot, set an example.


84 posted on 09/26/2016 10:32:54 AM PDT by GailA (If politicians won't keep their promises to the Military, they won't keep them to you!)
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To: detective

Jail time!


85 posted on 09/26/2016 10:34:17 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: smalltownslick

“Why did these people join the service if they feel that way?”

They can’t find anywhere else to hire them.

Walking the plank may be in order.


86 posted on 09/26/2016 10:38:05 AM PDT by howlinhound (Live your life so that, when you get up in the morning, Satan says, "Oh Crap!..He's awake" - Unknown)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

>disciplinary barracks ... Edmonton

oxymoron.


87 posted on 09/26/2016 10:47:57 AM PDT by RitchieAprile
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To: detective

General discharge, let her explain for the rest of her life, “I was serving my country but my conscience wouldn’t allow me to stand for our national anthem.
Fuggedaboutit. The WH has already put in a good word for her, like the West Point cadets.


88 posted on 09/26/2016 10:48:54 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: hal ogen

Bill is on his way ?


89 posted on 09/26/2016 10:49:10 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: justlurking

Is it possible she is seeking a way out of service?


90 posted on 09/26/2016 10:53:58 AM PDT by JayGalt
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To: detective

The fruit of liberal (new meaning) education, and the murder of meaningful history and science. The communist virus....formerly only taxing our vigor...is metastasizing in our tissues. The ‘200-year’ window closes on yet another free republic.


91 posted on 09/26/2016 10:56:29 AM PDT by dasboot (  Deplorable Crude Populist)
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To: detective

Muster her right to the brig!


92 posted on 09/26/2016 10:56:34 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic ( “Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.”)
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To: detective

Looks like the Navy PAX should be retrained in weather and sent to Shemya Island, Thule, Wake, or Midway Atoll. Let her finish out her active and IRR time in those places ;)


93 posted on 09/26/2016 10:57:21 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!)
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To: detective

African scum have no business in the US Navy. Let this Hotentot swab the decks and give her a dishonorable discharge.


94 posted on 09/26/2016 11:00:18 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed)
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To: JayGalt
Is it possible she is seeking a way out of service?

If so, she will get her wish.

An intelligence specialist position is hard -- mental, not physical. I know someone that started there, but couldn't sustain it and was reassigned.

If that's what she wanted, she should have asked for it. At this point, she's unlikely to get an honorable discharge and it will dog her for the rest of her life.

95 posted on 09/26/2016 11:01:00 AM PDT by justlurking
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To: detective

You First Amendment rights pretty much end the second you take the oath. Until you are discharged it doesn’t matter what you think about the flag or the pledge. You’ll do it or suffer the consequences. At least that’s how it used to be about 8 years ago.


96 posted on 09/26/2016 11:01:16 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: Ray76

yep, DD her a$$ out the door. Do your social justice crap on your own time and out of uniform. If the navy lets this go it will only get worse.


97 posted on 09/26/2016 11:07:49 AM PDT by sarge83
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To: detective

A double protected class person believes she isnt free like white folks.

Sick. Libs are very sick and warped people.


98 posted on 09/26/2016 11:09:07 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin; All

Maybe she wants affirmative action and title 9 to end.

Oh yeah, /s


99 posted on 09/26/2016 11:10:33 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: detective

Only threatened with jail.

The military has become so very weak.


100 posted on 09/26/2016 11:11:34 AM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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