Standing or kneeing is an emotional issue and there are no lack of opinions about what players should do.
If I was a football player, I would not stand for the national anthem for the following reasons:
The First Amendment forbids government from passing a law to compel devotion to the military-wartime flag or to sing the national anthem. Compelled devotion is an anathema . . . an act of tyranny . . . and all Americans would do well to resist statist’s schemes.
Until 1940, the Stars and Stripes only flew over Federal military bases. States flew their own flag. Only after the Buck Act and the federal scheme to enslave the states and its citizens did the Stars and Stripes begin to appear on non-federal territory; that is, the Stars and Stripes is a military flag, a war flag, a sign of U.S. imperial military power.
The rest of the country had an affectionate attachment to the civil flag– the flag of peacetime and freedom. See the U.S. Civil Flag flown in 1919.
Before 2009, all NFL teams remained in the locker room until the pre-game festivities were over . . . . then . . . bam . . . boom . . . with smoke and fury . . . the players ran on to the field through paper banners to jumping cheerleaders and screaming fans. What happened in 2009?
Starting in 2009 the Department of Defense (DOD) started paying the more popular teams to invest in pre-game flag ceremonies, military salutes, and color guards combined with jet fly-overs – – – a marketing plan by the DOD to bolster new recruits, to promote their war agenda, and to secure patriotic payment of taxes, taxes, and more taxes to fund the foreign wars.
= a total of 53 million has been paid to sports teams by the DOD.
_ 5.4 mil between 2011-2014 to fourteen teams for the right to conduct flag ceremonies before games.
— The National Guard paid 6.7 mil to the NFL between 2013-2015 with taxpayers money, of course.
The idea behind this DOD gimmick was an advertising strategy . . . and advertising works to the tune of 5 million dollars for a 30 second commercial at the Superbowl.
If the fans saw their tattooed tackles, tight ends, and tailbacks standing to honor the flag, then maybe more Americans would emulate the puppet-players and support the U.S. military that’s killing thousands in foreign lands . . . and . . . pay their fair share of taxes to insure funding for the elites’ political agenda.
It was an ingenious scheme to increase $$ in the coffers and to gain more power by the elite.
Private teams can require anything they want of player-employees, but the government cannot.
The government knows that they can not gain the people’s allegiance to their political programs and tax levies, but to the flag . . . to the national anthem?
The feds knows they can count on Americans to be emotionally attached to patriotic symbols–symbols which represent different values to different folks. . . and they are hoping some of this emotional allegiance will transfer over to the United States, Inc. a foreign, for-profit city state in Washington D.C. which is owned and operated by Jacob Rothschild.
These military ceremonies is nothing but propaganda by those with a statist mentality. Paid patriotism is particularly egregious.
Voluntary devotion is another matter.
In light of this clever, indoctrination, propaganda gimmick by the government to use football players as pawns in their psych-operations, this ploy ought to be resisted by all players, teams, and coaches. All should take a knee and then kick the government the heck out of the stadium.
When things become voluntary and authentic, I might reconsider standing for the national anthem.
Enough of the charade. . . paid patriotism . . . mandatory allegiance to a foreign government corporation.
Rick Lynch expressed the remedy, “We’d be much better off if more Americans got down on both knees and turned to God in prayer.”
Taking two knees.
Storm Brooks
Posted 9/28/2017
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