Post by Bret Walker on Feb 27, 2003 14:31:41 GMT -5
I heard this story yesterday about a female basketball player from some college, I think in New Hampshire. I wish I had more information, but I don't, and I can't find anything about it on the internet. I suck.
But anyway, this girl, in protest to the pending war in Iraq, has taken to turning her back on the US Flag during the national anthem.
To which I say, you go girl!
That kind of shit takes guts. Real guts, not the kind of guts it takes to lay down and automatically agree with everything our Administration feeds us. Not the kind of guts it takes to say "yes, we should go to war" while sitting at home on our couches and watching reruns of "The Real World." Not even the kind of guts it takes to wear the uniform of the Armed Forces and to go to war knowing that you may die never having seen your family again.
No, this takes the guts that this girl posesses, because her position is not a popular one. I happen to agree with her stand, and I also think that her public display of protest is admirable in this society where no one gives a shit about anything but what's in their immediate sphere of existence. I applaud her tenacity and her courage. She's been booed, she's had vets standing in her face with an american flag, screaming at her. And yesterday on the Radio, I heard all kinds of people calling up calling her everything from Traitor to Hanoi Jane. One caller said she needs to respect her flag and remember the vets who died to keep her freedom - "in Viet nam."
I'm sorry, at what point during the Viet Nam conflict was our freedom ever in jeopardy?
Think, people. Her protest and her voice are PROTECTED by this great country's constitution, and as Americans, we should respect her stand, even if we don't agree with her cause (which, by the way, I do).
So I say, fuck all those who want to take that freedom of speech away from her. Instead of telling her to leave the US, why don't you find a country where your sort of censorship is welcome, where a free society has no voice or opinion other than that which the government feeds it? Because if you really feel that way, then you don't belong here either.
But anyway, this girl, in protest to the pending war in Iraq, has taken to turning her back on the US Flag during the national anthem.
To which I say, you go girl!
That kind of shit takes guts. Real guts, not the kind of guts it takes to lay down and automatically agree with everything our Administration feeds us. Not the kind of guts it takes to say "yes, we should go to war" while sitting at home on our couches and watching reruns of "The Real World." Not even the kind of guts it takes to wear the uniform of the Armed Forces and to go to war knowing that you may die never having seen your family again.
No, this takes the guts that this girl posesses, because her position is not a popular one. I happen to agree with her stand, and I also think that her public display of protest is admirable in this society where no one gives a shit about anything but what's in their immediate sphere of existence. I applaud her tenacity and her courage. She's been booed, she's had vets standing in her face with an american flag, screaming at her. And yesterday on the Radio, I heard all kinds of people calling up calling her everything from Traitor to Hanoi Jane. One caller said she needs to respect her flag and remember the vets who died to keep her freedom - "in Viet nam."
I'm sorry, at what point during the Viet Nam conflict was our freedom ever in jeopardy?
Think, people. Her protest and her voice are PROTECTED by this great country's constitution, and as Americans, we should respect her stand, even if we don't agree with her cause (which, by the way, I do).
So I say, fuck all those who want to take that freedom of speech away from her. Instead of telling her to leave the US, why don't you find a country where your sort of censorship is welcome, where a free society has no voice or opinion other than that which the government feeds it? Because if you really feel that way, then you don't belong here either.
