Now taking a knee a big polo all deal

[creaker]

UNITED STATES CODE

TITLE 36

CHAPTER 10

§171. Conduct during playing

During rendition of the national anthem when the flag is displayed, all present except those in uniform should stand at attention facing the flag with the right hand over the heart. Men not in uniform should remove their headdress with their right hand and hold it at the left shoulder, the hand being over the heart. Persons in uniform should render the military salute at the first note of the anthem and retain this position until the last note. When the flag is not displayed, those present should face toward the music and act in the same manner they would if the flag were displayed there.

§172. Pledge of allegiance to the flag; manner of delivery

The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag, 'I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.', should be rendered by standing at attention facing the flag with the right hand over the heart. When not in uniform men should remove their headdress with their right hand and hold it at the left shoulder, the hand being over the heart. Persons in uniform should remain silent, face the flag, and render the military salute.

Nice how all this is prefaced with "should" instead of "must".

[ToomuchStuff]

Nice how all this is prefaced with "should" instead of "must".

Should allows for first amendment issues, as well as allowing for people in wheelchairs/handicapped, etc.
Must, would be rule of law, by force and handicapped people would be arrested every game.

[Yppej]

Now Russian trolls are trying to make this more of a wedge issue. Good for the players and owners of all races linking arms and pledging unity despite criticism of the NFL by the Trump-Putin administration.

[Williamsmith]

Now Russian trolls are trying to make this more of a wedge issue. Good for the players and owners of all races linking arms and pledging unity despite criticism of the NFL by the Trump-Putin administration.

You really think the owners have a social justice conscience? Or more likely they've chosen to placate their human possessions which generate enormous amounts of money to support their business model? The players are being used as tools to destroy the NFL. The NFL is just one brick in the wall that has to come down to destroy the United States. Hmmm.

[Williamsmith]

I read that last nights pregame anthem was attended by all the players and nobody took a knee. Now, help me understand here. Did all the racial injustice toward blacks including police brutality magically stop before last nights game? Is there no reason to take a knee now? Shouldn't those protesters now be upset that nobody took a knee? Now some will explain, they wanted to show unity with each other. Okay, but wouldn't it make more sense if everybody on the team took a knee? What could be more unifying than that? That would get people's attention and after all, that's what this is all about.

It is fascinating to me how this is evolving.

John Browns body lies a mouldering in the grave. Performed and sung for the first time in Boston just one month into the civil war.......at ......a flag raising:

Old John Brown’s body lies moldering in the grave,While weep the sons of bondage whom he ventured all to save;But tho he lost his life while struggling for the slave,His soul is marching on.(Chorus)

John Brown was a hero, undaunted, true and brave,And Kansas knows his valor when he fought her rights to save;Now, tho the grass grows green above his grave,His soul is marching on.(Chorus)

He captured Harper’s Ferry, with his nineteen men so few,And frightened "Old Virginny" till she trembled thru and thru;They hung him for a traitor, they themselves the traitor crew,But his soul is marching on.(Chorus)

John Brown was John the Baptist of the Christ we are to see,Christ who of the bondmen shall the Liberator be,And soon thruout the Sunny South the slaves shall all be free,For his soul is marching on.(Chorus)

The conflict that he heralded he looks from heaven to view,On the army of the Union with its flag red, white and blue.And heaven shall ring with anthems o’er the deed they mean to do,For his soul is marching on.(Chorus)

Ye soldiers of Freedom, then strike, while strike ye may,The death blow of oppression in a better time and way,For the dawn of old John Brown has brightened into day,And his soul is marching on.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown%27s_Body

[creaker]

Should allows for first amendment issues, as well as allowing for people in wheelchairs/handicapped, etc.
Must, would be rule of law, by force and handicapped people would be arrested every game.

Also gives an out to a President who had to be poked by his wife to do it right.