Children’s Choir Stopped Mid-Performance While Singing National Anthem at US Capitol, Capitol Police Claims it is a Prohibited Form of Protest

The Gateway Pundit ^ | June 2, 2023 | Jim Hoft

[JennysCool]

In a shocking turn of events, the Rushingbrook Children’s Choir was interrupted and stopped while singing the National Anthem in Statuary Hall at the United States Capitol.

The children, part of the esteemed Rushingbrook Children’s Choir, had traveled to Washington, D.C., for a scheduled Capitol tour and had received prior approval to sing a short set of patriotic songs inside the historic Statuary Hall.

However, as their angelic voices filled the grand hall while singing The Star-Spangled Banner with pride, Capitol Police rudely intervened, insisting that the children stop singing immediately. The abrupt interruption stunned the young performers, the choir director, and the assembled audience.

The Capitol Police did not allow the young children to finish the song and sought to explain to the choir director that singing the national anthem at the nation’s Capitol is considered a form of protest.

[Elsie]

But it’s not offensive to fly another country’s flag at the house of people?

Only if it is higher than our flag.

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c. No other flag or pennant should be placed above or, if on the same level, to the right of the flag of the United States of America, except during church services conducted by naval chaplains at sea, when the church pennant may be flown above the flag during church services for the personnel of the Navy. No person shall display the flag of the United Nations or any other national or international flag equal, above, or in a position of superior prominence or honor to, or in place of, the flag of the United States at any place within the United States or any Territory or possession thereof: Provided, That nothing in this section shall make unlawful the continuance of the practice heretofore followed of displaying the flag of the United Nations in a position of superior prominence or honor, and other national flags in positions of equal prominence or honor, with that of the flag of the United States at the headquarters of the United Nations.

 

U.S. Flag Code | Military.com

[KC Burke]

I enjoy some of the things Gateway Pundit brings to our attention but I despise that they always spin their stories to match their editorial stance headline writing.

They find the story, decide to write it up to match THIS headline and the truth, perhaps more subtle gets lost.

[mdmathis6]

They sang the first verse and weren’t stopped. When they started to sing the 4th verse with it’s much patriotic themes, I think that’s what caused the issue. Most folks don’t know that there are 4 verses, but the choir went to the last verse....

Oh, thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand

Between their loved home and the war’s desolation!

Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n-rescued land

Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!

Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,

And this be our motto: “In God is our trust”:

And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave

O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave>

That’s what got them into some trouble I think.

That said they didn’t do anything wrong and the cops that stopped them were idiots.

[mdmathis6]

Actually it was the 4th verse but other wise I agree completely...and if you look at the words of the 4th verse it doesn’t fit with woke-y DC politics.

[Elsie]

Neither does THIS:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,

 that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,

 that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--

 

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men,

 deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --

 

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends,

 it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,

 laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form,

 as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

 

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes;

 and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable,

 than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

 

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design

 to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government,

 and to provide new Guards for their future security.--

 

Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies;

 and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.

 

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations,

 all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.

 

To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

[Spacetrucker]

One of them looks like Goebbels.

[Jane Austen]

I had expected all kinds of crazyness, but didn’t expec this. It shocked and outraged me.

[GingisK]

Goebbels would have killed to have the media these new fanatics enjoy.

[missnry]

Let this sink in and WATCH THE VIDEO of where Gestapo cop goes ballistic on plain clothes individual (police officer?) who attempted to walk away. As he began to walk away he was grabbed by the Gestapo cop and she told him to do something. The body language of the Gestapo and her actions indicate that she was ordering him to put a stop to the choir NOW! She was lit up and there is no way around that. (Choir was singing this fourth verse.... here are the words and what was happening.)

Oh, thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand

Between their loved home and the war’s desolation!

Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n-rescued land

Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!
(Can you imagine a DC swamp rat's ears processing this verse?!)

Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,

And this be our motto: “In God is our trust”: (The choir director took liberty to have the choir repeat in the singing the words "In God is our trust" one more time!) This is where the Capitol Cop went spastic and can be seen grabbing the plain clothed person's shirt to get him to take action!)

And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
(The guy who was grabbed by the Gestapo officer can be seen turning around and walking to the choir director and speaking into his ear. The choir finished this line and the director stopped his choir by direction. The last word they sang was in the 7th line of the fourth verse "wave". This left 12 words that were not to be sung.)

The last 12 words of the Star Spangled Banner were all that remained. Those twelve words...

O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave

The complete fourth verse of the Star Spangled Banner:

O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand
Between their lov'd home and the war's desolation!
Blest with vict'ry and peace may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the power that hath made and preserv'd us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto - "In God is our trust,"
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

[Spacetrucker]

Agreed. I would have, at one time, said that in today’s world their bile would have got them shut down before they achieved even slight traction. Now, ....