Posted on 09/15/2014 5:50:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In Politico Magazine, but discussed at the National Review.
Our anthem is too militaristic? Um, we're not even in the top fifteen.
Here are the first few stanzas of the French national anthem. I've bolded my favorite parts.
Let's go children of the fatherland,
The day of glory has arrived!
Against us tyranny's
Bloody flag is raised! (repeat)
In the countryside, do you hear
The roaring of these fierce soldiers?
They come right to our arms
To slit the throats of our sons, our friends!
(Refrain)
Grab your weapons, citizens!
Form your battalions!
Let us march! Let us march!
Let their impure blood
water the furrows (of our fields).
...
Tremble, tyrants! and you, traitors,
The disgrace of all groups,
Tremble! Your parricidal plans
Will finally pay the price! (repeat)
Everyone is a soldier to fight you,
If they fall, our young heroes,
France will make more,
Ready to battle you!
Frenchmen, as magnanimous warriors,
Bear or hold back your blows!
Spare these sad victims,
Regretfully arming against us. (repeat)
But not these bloodthirsty despots,
But not these accomplices of Bouille,
All of these animals who, without pity, Tear their mother's breast to pieces!
Gotta love a single lyric that mixes racism ("impure blood") with psychopathic imagery ("Hey I've got a sexy little notion -- let's water our squashes with their impure blood").
It goes on a bit. Bear in mind that part about "watering our furrows with the invaders' impure blood" is repeated about seventy-three thousand times. *(continued)
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Maybe a nice slow Bob Marley song,,
Or a rap.. By JayZ and Kanye
(Ducks)
If these people think the first verse of the National Anthem is too strong, they should try the fourth.
Not the way I’ve heard it screeched at some public performances. And the last the very end lasts for about 20 minutes of wailing.
Look at all of the great stuff related to the Star Spangled Banner at the Library of Congress. The national anthem is 200 years old this year.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.200000017/default.html
Author F. Scott Fitzgerald, who wrote The Great Gatsby, is a descendant of Francis Scott Key.
Anyone who has a problem with it should review the Battle of North Point and Battle of Baltimore to understand just how important they were to preserving our young nation.
Dear sissy - please leave our country. We don’t want people like you.
This critic of our national anthem was interviewed on the Chris Plante show.
He was such a whiny sniveling wuss that he made Pajama Boy & cocoa look like Charles Bronson sipping fine whiskey.
He had “gonnections.”
love the third and fourth a copy of the original is on my wall
A nation that cruelly suppressed the LGBT community, that enslaved women with motherhood. Yes, blacks were slaves. But honestly, isn't that really minor in comparison to the lack of job opportunities open to women and other more important minorities?
Many years ago,30 or so, a Los Angeles TV Station wussy guy
complained about the Star Spangled Banner because “It had things about bombs and stuff in it”. OMG!
This gives me an idea: Why not make *new* verses to the Star Spangled Banner that reflect the good parts of our history since it was written (1814)?
And the best part about this is that the Democrats and leftists get little or no mention at all.
Instead it focuses on things like the Civil War (being polite to both sides), World War I, World War II, the Pax Americana, winning the Cold War, landing on the Moon.
It should include something about America “spreading the democratic revolution around the world”, helping to free people from kings, dictators and tyrants.
Unabashedly patriotic, praising American industry, and it definitely needs an entire verse praising religious faith and moral character, individual accomplishment and the frontier spirit.
Hopefully it would make the left throw such a tantrum that they poop in their pants.
Japan has some touchy feely ones too:
If I go away to the sea,I shall be a corpse washed up.
If I go away to the mountain,I shall be a corpse in the grass.
But if I die for the Emperor,It will not be a regret.
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