Good for Pence!
These kneelers are anti-American. They hate America. They deserve to experience the negative feedback from the millions they've offended by their behavior. If their income streams from endorsements all dry up, I wouldn't shed a tear.
Where was all this conservative outrage against political statements on the job when the NYPD turned their backs on de Blasio?
Can't wait until these anti-freedom couch goblins are irrelevant.
The American flag is not the same thing as the mayor of New York City. One is a man, the other is the designated symbol of national unity. Not that I think Fuzzy has any ground to stand on, as I've made clear in the past. He supported a guy who knowingly invited foreign intelligence to attack American citizens, and enjoyed it, on national TV.
The American flag is a symbol of this nation, and kneeling to protest injustice is one of the most American things you can do.
I tend to think that police officers shooting African-Americans in the back is a lot more disrespectful than an abstract act of protest, but expecting the orangutan in the White House (or Fuzzy Bear) to care about the former is clearly futile.
If I knelt in Court when the Bailiff said, 'All Rise!", a Judge could hold me in contempt. That's because my act would be considered active defiance of the authority of the Court.
While not mandatory, the gesture of NFL football players kneeling is the display of contempt for the United States. If you don't believe it, ask the kneelers about what they think of America as a nation.
Police officers involved in a shooting go through a legal nightmare. If they avoid criminal liability, they still face civil liability that threatens the retirement benefits that are the primary reason these guys hang in at a tough job. The idea that there is an epidemic of police shootings of blacks that are totally unjustified is nonsense. Nonsense. That a black person is killed in a police shooting does not make it murder on its face. The real threat to black lives are the violent acts of remorseless criminals living in predominantly minority neighborhoods. Why are these kneelers not addressing any aspect of that?
This isn't North Korea where not pledging the allegiance or standing up for the flag should be considered a display of contempt, and even worse, punishable by extreme measures unless the NFL is acting in the interest of their business. I do not need to stand up during the anthem to show love for the country. Most advanced world do not play the anthem before every sporting event. Other countries use other measures for unity.
What have you or critics done to show patriotism for America? Instead of rebuking them, a true patriot would reach out to them to help their cause with civility, instead of resorting to boycott or insults or threats.
Rebuking them does not make you a patriot, just a partisan disguised as a nationalist proudly barking as a patriot. If anything, it makes you or other critics look less patriotic than the athletes.
