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Originally Posted by Steve Rupe
I will remind you the Flag represents the document that you claim to "worship". In my case I do not "worship" anything but I do respect both the document and the Flag that it is representative of the document. In the case of the Flag it represents more than just a document. It represents every man/woman that has served their country in uniform, those that lived and those that have died.
If someone in my presence disrespects that "idol" as you call it I will exercise my "god" given right to knock your ass out.
The kneeling began because of some blacks thinking that local city/county/state cops were wrongfully shooting their criminal brothers. I am not aware that Federal cops were engaged in this but there were probably some occasional shootings of criminals by the Federal cops.
So they kneel to protest the Federal Governments National Anthem or to disrespect the Federal Flag. When the Federal Government was not the ones doing the shooting.
That makes zero sense to me but maybe it does to you. BTW even if the kneeler's were to use another way of protesting it is not ever going to stop cops from shooting criminals. Just my opinion of course.
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The Constitution is everyone's Constitution.
The flag is a symbol. I do not worship symbols. Many of you want to create a parody of the flag means our troops or our documents or other things. Nonsense... If those words of that document are not honored, what exactly is it those troops were fighting for ? At that point that flag become a mere rag.
But we really are not talking about a flag, it was a anthem. How is a anthem a flag and a flag then our troops ? When the anthem is over, they rise and the flag is still flying just as it did before they took a knee.
You are like attacking the messenger... you don't want to deal with the root problem here nor admit one exists. I don't agree with all of the accusations made against the law enforcement community, but I don't see real progress working to a solution to the others.
The constitution is meant to protect everyone... not 'some people'
The cops being agents of a state or city are still governed by the US constitution.
We are a nation of laws.
Those laws insure equal protection and equal judgement for all, not some.
The moment you ignore any part of that, you are ignoring all of it.
If you wanted to defecate on the flag, I might laugh at you and advise you not to do it, but I would stand-up for your right to do it if anyone tried to stop you.
It does not change the words of the document I cherish. It adds true meaning to them.
But our men and women in uniform have not lost their lives so that I might be forced to bow and worship before a flag. And I always have honored them and what they do.
You can say it is a matter of respect.
If you want to be respected, act respectful.
When our nation does not act respectful, it is not respected.
Nobody is asking for more than to live-up to the words in that document.