You can kneel, but, damn you!, don't you kneel to pray.
Posted on 09/28/2017 8:14:27 AM PDT by Liberty7732
5. The NFL rule book clearly states that all will stand for the Anthem at every game or face punishment....
I will continue my protest long after these idiots realize it is costing them. These sorry ass thugs have expressed themselves, I know where they stand — on their knees.
I’ve followed the NFL for over 40 years. I am out for good.
Only one: protests align them with the anarchist communist movement aimed at destroying our country.
The NFL want to go full retard progressive political?
Ban ALL taxpayer funding for stadiums.
Pull their federal anti-trust exemption.
You can kneel, but, damn you!, don't you kneel to pray.
It’s a free country with a free market. Accordingly, the NFL is fully within its rights to begin its broadcasts with a middle finger to its audience.
And that audience is free to become a former audience. (and former customers of NFL sponsors)
The NFL is a private organization and it can impose whatever work rules it wishes just like a restaurant can require a certain dress code for it’s employees. The owners are putting their financial interests ahead of respect for the country out of their misguided thinking that their viewers and fans think like they do (e.g. urban, elite, liberal globalists). Not taking steps to end these protests right at the outset shows they are nothing but a bunch of hypocritical shickenchits.
Myth number one: pro football is indispensable.
Myth number two: The protests were over player unity and an their support of free speech (unity to what, support BLM’s ridicules posturing; freedom of personal expression carefully controlled heretofore by the NFL?)
Not in the rulebook. Ops manual only says “should”.
The whole “Unity” thing was meant as an “F You” to Trump voters.
“The NFL is a private organization and it can impose whatever work rules it wishes just like a restaurant can require a certain dress code for it’s employees. “
Only as agreed to by the players union ...
5. NFL players kneel disrespectfully for the national anthem as some sort of idiotic protest. Meanwhile, foreign-born Major League Baseball players who don’t even speak English have been standing respectfully for our national anthem for years. I can guarantee you that a Japanese player on an MLB team here in the U.S. would set himself on fire in center field before he would even dream of disrespecting the country where he plays.
“I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.”
Public law 105-225 signed into law August 12, 1998.
Title 36 US Code 301 states:
301. National anthem
(A) Designation.—The composition consisting of the words and music known as the Star-Spangled Banner is the national anthem.
(B) Conduct During Playing.—During a rendition of the national anthem—
(1) when the flag is displayed—
(a) individuals in uniform should give the military salute at the first note of the anthem
and maintain that position until the last note;
(b) members of the Armed Forces and veterans who are present but not in uniform may
render the military salute in the manner provided for individuals in uniform; and
(c) all other persons present should face the flag and stand at attention with their right
hand over the heart, and men not in uniform, if applicable, should remove their headdress
with their right hand and hold it at the left shoulder, the hand being over the heart; and
(2) when the flag is not displayed, all present should face toward the music and act in
the same manner they would if the flag were displayed.
Owners/organizations, Goodell, NFLPUnion, players......you can have em all.
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