You can't have patriotism if you're going to have a New World Order.
Oh, I shouldn't have mentioned that. It's just a tinfoil nutjob conspiracy! Shiny side out!
Posted on 02/09/2021 9:57:11 PM PST by conservative98
Good for Mark.
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“I went to a Rangers game with my brother and we’re standing there [for the anthem] and it felt stupid,” Thomas Wilson said. “It feels like a cult, everyone standing up. The freedom doesn’t stop if we don’t raise the flag. I know that sounds unpatriotic. We know we’re in America. We didn’t forget that. I served for 13 years.”
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I might add a few more verses - starting a little earlier:
(For lurkers, “that Wicked” refers to the man of sin; the beast; the lawless one; IOW “the Antichrist”.)
2 Thessalonians 2:8-12 King James Version
8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
I saluted the flag while the Anthem played many times in combat platoons in the Army National Guard.
Shades of Michelle and Barack Obama “all this hype for a stupid flag.”
The fat Vichy Chick said that patriotism was overrated
Communists and “Marxist” Communists pushed that agenda for a century
Recall the pro Islamist Marxist who wore a Che Guevara shirt and said communism will win.
Recall Manning who enlisted to spy and attack the US military from within because he opposed Bill Clinton’s don’t ask don’t tell policy.
The ingrates will enlist but only to monkeywrench and tear down from within.
Mark Cuban is an anti-Trump libtard. A billion dollar Marxist
I was in the USAF (1976 - 80). Before every movie on base they played the National Anthem and we all stood up for it.
He is clearly no officer and no gentleman.
Oh, I meant I didn’t know what the politics of the Mac Engel in the OP were.
Mark has always come across to me as the guy who wants to be liked, but pretends he doesn’t. Thus it is no real surprise to me that he’d do this. It’s what the cool kids want, so that’s what he is going to do. I honestly think that’s how deep his political thinking goes.
Can’t get the full text of this article but the Thomas Wilson quote about the national anthem was just stupid. Nice that he served in the military for 13 years. So did millions of others including my college teammate who was killed in action in Vietnam. He was buried under the cover of the American flag and Taps. Didn’t get to hear the national anthem ever again.
So FU Wilson. If you can’t respect the national anthem, you can’t respect the American flag that inspired it.
The greatest American flags I saw were on riverine patrol boats on the Mekong Delta as they passed underneath a bridge we were travelling over, flying full-bodied on a warm November day.
the right thing to do is to forbid your team members from kneeling during the anthem- fine them, suspend them if necessary- Don’t stop having the national anthem-
Done!
Cuban just flushed his franchises!
Will never resucitate them.
Please humor me Mr. Mark Cuban. Firstly, thank you for your service.
Secondly, what part of this do you find either too embarrassing or offensive that you would shy from showing the patriotism and/or pride that ALL should have as Americans (much less someone having been in uniform).
Our National Anthem’s Lyrics
The Star-Spangled Banner:
O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
‘Tis the star-spangled banner, O long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
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.
O thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war’s desolation.
Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the Heav’n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: ‘In God is our trust.’
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
Recently I was reminded of the sacrifice of those that have worn the uniform before I ever even thought of serving in uniform myself. It’s sad that I had to be reminded. That’s why I’m humbly urging you Mr. Cuban to remember those men and women that have served and still serve. Remember our National Anthem’s words and what they mean. Remember our Flag and those that have bled for our freedom beneath It’s colors. But please, please remember that sometimes silence can be a sin of omission.
-sent to Mark Cuban in care of Mack Engel at the Fort Worth Star Telegram
Nothing to defend and not worth supporting with tax dollars.
See Judge Learned Hand about arranging your affairs.
Always headed out to town when the workday was over. Lived off base, but I can see them playing it before football, basketball games and the movies but I never saw it.
“Are people in the stadium expected to stand when the “Black Nat’l Anthem” is played / sung?”
Yes. They should stand — just before they walk out.
The song is fine in church; it’s an old hymn. It never should replace “The Star Spangled Banner”.
That's what they did in Rome. Worked for them, didn't it? Wait a minute...
The one thing I recall hearing in the Army was reveille every morning......LOL!
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