I think one of the most absurd things I have heard in my day is when, in response to someone exercising their First Amendment freedom of speech, someone else always proclaims that if they do not like something they should just leave the country.
During the Viet Nam War there were a lot of people telling protesters to “love it or leave it” when it came to the United States, as if the war and the country were the same thing.
Hate the war, and you hated America.
Recently that sports ball action of not standing for the National Anthem has brought up that same stupid attitude.
If he can’t stand for the anthem he should leave the country, as if the Anthem is the county.
Most people are conveniently unaware, and they may be part of the crowd, that before the last line of the Anthem is finished at ball games, usually just before “and the home of the brave”, people are already yelling and cheering and lowering themselves into their seats.
If they can’t stand and sing the whole thing, should they also be required to move?
The football guy sat quietly and not conspicuously, while the people in stadium seats get loud and obvious.
I have great respect for veterans as their service is one way to protect the Constitution and make the country a better one, but there are also other ways that might be more peaceful and less expensive and life threatening.
Unlike the past, putting a uniform on is a choice that a person makes as their way of bettering the county, but it does not mean someone else’s non-military choice to make the country better by another means does not deserve respect.
And while people claim those who serve do so to protect and defend the Constitution, why are they angry when someone exercises what is in it?
I would assume that they are protecting and defending the Constitution, not just their interpretation of it.
One person’s way of doing what they can to better the country and choosing to do so does not make them less American if it doesn’t involve a uniform and gun.
The irony is that many who thank those in the military for their service are the first ones who disrespect them by staying home while determining who and how a person is to apply the Constitution.
Owning an anti-tank rocket is a right according to the Second Amendment while conducting a quiet protest is anti- American?
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And then you have Trump, who dodged military service while he now claims he is the strongest supporter of the troops and had more military training in military school than they have had in actual combat, telling that football guy,
“I think it’s personally not a good thing, I think it’s a terrible thing. And, you know, maybe he should find a country that works better for him. Let him try, it won’t happen.”
And if he does go to another country, perhaps he can make a living working at a Trump factory there.
But most Ironic to me are those who first state that they are veterans, and then tell people the exercise of the first Amendment is wrong if it is a way they do not agree with.
The internet exploded with tweets and comments from those claiming to be veterans and, so, had some authority to criticize the Anthem thing and guilt others into having to agree with them, and those who use the veterans as a tool to instill guilt and appear more righteous.
But, according to ESPN’s Mike & Mike,
“Of the tweets that we’re getting from military and former military people, definitely the majority are saying he has every right to do what he’s doing, and that’s exactly what we fought for. You may not like it, but he has every right to do that.”
“I’ve got sheets and sheets and sheets of tweets from people who say they are military members currently serving or formerly serving who support Kaepernick’s right to do what he did…you may feel that way, but don’t say it’s a fact that he’s disrespecting [the military], because I’ve got tons and tons of people who would disagree with you who have served [in the military], and that, I think, is an important distinction” said Mike Greenberg, one of the Mikes.
Colin Kaepernick has already said,
“I have great respect for the men and women that have fought for this country. I have family, I have friends that have gone and fought for this country. And they fight for freedom, they fight for the people, they fight for liberty and justice, for everyone. That’s not happening.”
“People are dying in vain because this country isn’t holding their end of the bargain up, as far as giving freedom and justice, liberty to everybody. That’s something that’s not happening. I’ve seen circumstances where men and women that have been in the military have come back and been treated unjustly by the country they fought have for, and have been murdered by the country they fought for, on our land. That’s not right.”
But that won’t stop the right wingers from invoking the military to out patriot everyone else like a past neighbor of mine who festooned his house, fence, and multiple flag poles throughout his small plot of land with American flags so he could find fault with the lack of patriotism of his neighbors.
If you support the troops, support what they have fought for, and stop claiming that the Constitution must be the way you like it.
One person has the right to protest, and others have the right to object.
But, if you do object, do so on your own principle, and stop putting your opinion on the troops.