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The issue is Kaepernick"
It's not limited to Kaepernick, and I didn't mention Kaepernick in particular. Contrary to what you wrote, anti-American interests funded by many local government and corporate sponsors are also pushing to change our National Anthem.
Broncos LB Brandon Marshall challenges sanctity of national anthem citing third stanza By Cameron Wolfe | cwolfe@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
http://www.denverpost.com/2016/09/09/broncos-brandon-marshall-challenges-sanctity-national-anthem-third-stanza-need-for-more-police-training/ PUBLISHED: September 9, 2016
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Initially, Broncos linebacker Brandon Marshall had a different reason to kneel during the national anthem before Thursday night’s season opener. He found disdain in the words and meaning behind the national anthem, particularly the third stanza."
Who would be surprised, if anti-National-Anthem propaganda is taught to children in "black history" classes?
Star-Spangled Bigotry: The Hidden Racist History of the National Anthem [Black identity, anti-American site, dated 07-04-16]
http://www.theroot.com/star-spangled-bigotry-the-hidden-racist-history-of-the-1790855893
OpEd: Colin Kaepernick and the Racist History of Our National Anthemhttps://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/oped-colin-kaepernick-racist-history-our-national-anthem-n642636
Colin Kaepernick jersey leads NFL sales after national anthem protesthttp://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/colin-kaepernick-jersey-leads-nfl-sales-national-anthem-protest/
KING: Why I'll never stand again for 'The Star-Spangled Banner' New York Daily News - August 29, 2016
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/king-stand-star-spangled-banner-article-1.2770075
Colin Kaepernick controversy: Does National Anthem celebrate slavery? http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/08/30/colin-kaepernick-controversy-does-national-anthem-celebrate-slavery/
Is the National Anthem Racist? Beyond the Debate Over Colin Kaepernickhttps://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/03/arts/music/colin-kaepernick-national-anthem.html
High School Football Players Across the U.S. Join Kaepernick, Refuse to Stand for National Anthem By Sarah Lazare / AlterNet
September 12, 2016
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/high-school-football-players-across-us-join-kaepernick-refuse-stand-national-anthem
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“I am well aware of the third verse of the national anthem which is not usually sung, and I know that the words of the song were not originally meant to include people like me," Tigers coach Preston Brown told NBC 10 on Saturday."
The unexpected connection between slavery, NFL protests and the national anthemhttp://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/29/sport/colin-kaepernick-flag-protest-has-history-trnd/index.html
The National Anthem Questionhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-walsh/the-national-anthem-quest_b_11956034.html
There are many more articles on the issue. They are striving toward demanding that our National Anthem be changed, and that must not be allowed to happen.
I wrote "Kaepernick and company's." We can agree that Kaepernick and in fact the entire NFL crowd he's instigated to join him are nothing but "useful idiots" of a large 5th column of full-time anti-American and anti-cop manipulators in the media, academia and government.
But the kneeling during the national anthem did not start or begin to spread because of the contents of its 3rd stanza. It started with in the 2016 preseason with Kaepernick 1st sitting during the anthem because as he states in his post game interview:
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color. To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people {cops} getting paid leave and getting away with murder"
Kaepernick's actions and the origins of this assault on the anthem began before, with the anti-cop and anti-American feelings of Kaepernick and all his enablers in the NFL. In fact here's Kaepernick in the cops as pigs socks he wore more than once to the Niners 2016 training camp. Without any flack from his SF teamates or staff!
During subsequent preseason and the regular season games he knelt instead. As his "protest" spread to other players and teams, no doubt (as your links demonstrate) the 5th column of full-time anti-American and anti-cop manipulators fed the "useful idiots" additional justifications (as the 3rd stanza of anthem) but they were merely pulled from the endless list of the boilerplate leftwing grievance against America and all her traditions, values, heroes, etc..
As for Giant Brandon Marshall, I have no doubt he knew nothing of the 3rd stanza when he joined Kaepernicks ranks, but only parroted that grievance after talking points began circulating - quit probably by the members of the "sports" media covering his team. Marshal own mode of arguing is better reveal in the incident when he spit a fan.
On your final point we return to agreeing: They can't be allowed to succeed in their attack on the National Anthem. If they because of some words in an unused 3rd stanza that before Kaepernicks "protest" 1 in a million may have even known about - what hope will our National Constitution have with they'll only move on to attack the "protest" the unused 3/5 Clause of the Constitution for its word on "3/5s Clause" on slaves?