India Supreme Court orders all movie theaters to play national anthem

news4jax ^ | 11/30/2016 | JAMES GRIFFITHS , CNN

[BenLurkin]

Jana Gana Mana, honey.
Doncha know that I love you?
Jana Gana Mana, baby.
Doncha know that I'll always be true?

[Gaffer]

An example of fascism.

[Last Dakotan]

Nice to see that we don’t have the world’s only activist courts.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Dry Your Hair (alert: some offensive words)

[flaglady47]

Boy, I haven’t listened to that album in a thousand years (shows how old I am, lol). Always loved it. Will have to listen now, as you have triggered me to do so. Thanks,... I think.

[HiTech RedNeck]

I think it takes an old-fashioned liberal democratic republic like the USA to do nationalism without going overboard.

[SandRat]

That used to be done in American Theaters and Play - Houses. Sadly not anymore,...

[ExGeeEye]

I grew up doing this.

Of course, I grew up in an Air Force family, and went to the base theaters.

Mandating it by law is a little off-putting, but merely expanding the custom at sporting events into other venues does not strike me as particularly problematic.

Of course, that makes me a fascist...in some quarters. Didn’t think those quarters could possibly include FR.

[chajin]

OK, here it is...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmhLIqFnH6M

[HiTech RedNeck]

As a voluntary thing... great. Don’t even need to be enforcing respect for it... the moviegoers can keep on getting their popcorn, etc. But it would become like a prelude to the show.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I don’t recall hearing the Star Spangled Banner at the old Bill Chickering...

[Ray'sBeth]

This is a common custom for me. We lived in two other countries that started the public gatherings with the national anthem.

[tumblindice]

Stand up boys. Yes yes, that's the ticket.

[ZULU]

GOOD FOR THEM and NO, its NOT Fascism, its SELF-RESPECT and HONOR, something we apparently lost during the nutty hippy days of the 1960s forward.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Now control yourselves. She ain’t your wife... yet.

[Buckeye McFrog]

“love your country” = “rise of jingoism”

God, I HATE CNN!!!!

[HiTech RedNeck]

I don’t agree... I believe honor has to be voluntary in order to really mean anything. If it gets to be even like, oh what would my neighbors think about me... forget about it. What honorability and honor there is in the world is invested in it by God.

[Vic S]

In Thailand you have to stand up and watch a short on the King.

[HiTech RedNeck]

If there’s anything that would deserve jingoism, the Muslim assaults and insurrections on India would.

Otherwise India is about as peaceful in the world as Gandhi.

[BenLurkin]

"...and goo thing too because their king really is short.."