[antidemoncrat]

More symptoms of Progressive cancer.

[massmike]

They should have brought prayer rugs..then they’d be left alone....

[beethovenfan]

Did anybody challenge this moron?

[steelyourfaith]

This is intolerable.

[DTogo]

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

[Mojave]

Some animals are more equal than others.

[ExTexasRedhead]

Someone should have taken his name or videotaped him and then filed on him with their Congressman and Senator. Better yet, send the video to Beck, Savage, Rush, Malkin, Drudge, Breitbart, et al.

Exposure is all these Liberal feces fear.

[DHSMostWanted]

This just makes me want to sing it till I am forcefully removed. You can’t silence the people. We only get louder.

[DManA]

We are being taunted, goaded, being dared to do something.

[Domandred]

Kids should have sang louder. Made a real issue. That’s something I would have risked arrest for.

[Tainan]

You could have avoided a lot of the questions asked in this thread by simply posting more information from the article:
Instead of doing as they were instructed, Gassman said the students resumed the song – an impromptu form of civil disobedience.
“If their idea of civil disobedience is singing the national anthem, then so be it,” Gassman said. “Let them disobey.”
YAF posted video reportedly shot just after the alleged encounter with the security officer. It shows students loudly singing the anthem.

Less provocative and more informative.

[william clark]

All I could think of after reading this was:

“Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!”

[rwilson99]

Reasonable people just need to challenge these guys and get arrested... and put it on YouTube.

[magslinger]

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

[The_Reader_David]

Had they perhaps moved on to the later verses?

[fuzzthatwuz]

“A couple steps and it would have been no problem whatsoever.”

How many steps are we expected to take before civil liberties become non-existant?

[Don Corleone]

FIRE HIM!

[Redbob]

If it’d been my singing, that would have justifiable...

[Husker24]

Those park police are Faciests power hungry nut-jobs. Back in 1995 I went on my Senior Trip to Washington D.C. One one of the days we were there we went to the Washington Monument there was a long line wrapping around the monument. There were a bunch of Pigeons there one of the students we were with tossed a pebble at one of the Pigeon's and the Park Policeman assigned to guard the monument came unglued and actually threatened that if he didn't stop throwing pebbles that “he could have seven helicopters there in five minutes,” I kid you not.

[PATRIOT1876]

This wouldn’t have happened in 1943.
No one then would’ve even had the nightmare that it would be possible!

[Marathoner]

Guess it would have been OK if they were singing the Internationale instead.