(09-26-2017, 08:09 PM)jseymour Wrote:

(09-26-2017, 07:38 PM)Bullseye Wrote: (Emphasis added)

How exactly do the players who are protesting disrespect the flag or the national anthem?

Have they burned or otherwise desecrated it?  Have they flown it upside down as some did when Obama was president?
Did they somehow let the flag hit the ground?  Have they worn the flag as bikinis, bandanas, or underwear?  Did they have mattress sales on flag day?

Have they changed the words to the anthem, or somehow offered a "remix?"

Why does silent kneeling equate to disrespect?

If Tim Tebow took a knee during the anthem to pray, does that constitute disrespect towards the flag or the anthem?  It's the same bodily position, and it detracts from the purpose of that national anthem.

If anything disrespects the flag, the anthem, the military and the ideals for which they ostensibly stand, it's those who would wrongly deprive their fellow citizens  of the ability to exercise their rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, whether by gunshot and chokehold, or censorship of their ability to peaceably assemble and express grievances.

You learn protocol in grade school.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/36/301

Yet you cite a law school website?

So address the underlying premise of my closing paragraph.

Does the unjust deprivation of the fundamental rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and the first amendment right of freedom of speech and the right to peacable assembly betray the principles embodied by the American Flag and the National Anthem? 

Why or why not?

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