Why I am boycotting the NFL and MLB and why you should consider doing it too (PC double standards)

For weeks we have been treated to "Its his right to free speech" as Colin Kaepernick and a few others have taken a knee for the National Anthem (or in the case of the Philadelphia Eagles, a black power salute by three players).

The NFL has backed these "protestors" even though the NFL has lost significant viewership, and hence, revenue, because of these antics. In addition, on a moral level, Kaepernick and company's "protest" has been on behalf of a hate group--black lives matter as well as other thugs who have called for murdering of policemen (several policemen have been killed because of it) groups who, on multiple occasions now, have engaged in rioting and looting in addition to hunting down whites in order to viciously assault them.

All through it I have been wondering-- what if someone in professional sports had protested in some way against black lives matter? What would happen to them?

Well wonder no more. Because now it has happened. MLB Mariner, Steve Clevenger, tweeted his dislike for black lives matter and the disgusting behavior of the rioters.So wnhat happened? Was there support for his free speech? No. Was there talk of his rights? Nope. Not even for second. He was fired almost immediately.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2016/09/23/steve-clevenger-suspended-racist-charlotte-tweets-seattle-mariners/90908618/

I have been a football and baseball fan for nearly all my life. But I’m done. Just like everything else liberalism gets a hold of they have destroyed them with politically correct double standards.

I no longer see a reason to give my time, attention, money or anything else to organziations that excercise PC double standards with regard to free speech. Goodbye NFL and MLB. And good riddance.
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Could have written this myself and not changed one word. I said my goodbyes 15 years ago and have never regretted it.

Really? The world is burning but we cannot even bring ourselves to boycott a sport?

And this is a conservative forum.

I have a professional background in watching the political life cycles of movements and nations.

I figure there is about a 95% chance that the right in the US is going to be rounded up, raped, shot and re-educated.

Maybe we, as a group, deserve it.

” Woodrow Wilson, father of .....– THE INCOME TAX!”

It’s hardly accurate to single out Woodrow Wilson for the income tax. Not surprising that people believe it because of the nonsense spouted by the likes of Glenn Beck.

In 1907 President Teddy Roosevelt proposed a progressive income tax:

“When our tax laws are revised the question of an income tax and an inheritance tax should receive the careful attention of our legislators. In my judgment both of these taxes should be part of our system of Federal taxation. I speak diffidently about the income tax because one scheme for an income tax was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court; while in addition it is a difficult tax to administer in its practical working, and great care would have to be exercised to see that it was not evaded by the very men whom it was most desirable to have taxed, for if so evaded it would, of course, be worse than no tax at all; as the least desirable of all taxes is the tax which bears heavily upon the honest as compared with the dishonest man. Nevertheless, a graduated income tax of the proper type would be a desirable feature of Federal taxation, and it is to be hoped that one may be devised which the Supreme Court will declare constitutional.”

His successor William Howard Taft supported the Constitutional Amendment that enabled it.

Wilson’s role was signing the bill that both TR and Taft had promoted.

http://www.taxhistory.org/www/website.nsf/Web/THM1901

Likewise the Federal Reserve was the result of the National Monetary Commission convened by Republican Senate leader Nelson Aldrich after the Panic of 1907. The report released by this Commission became the basis of the Federal Reserve Act some 6 years later, which Wilson signed into law.

Both the income tax and the Federal Reserve were bipartisan efforts.

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