Subterfuge and National Anthem Protests (Congress, enemies, legal, weapon)

[rpc1]

When kids first start playing basketball, their instinct is always the same: follow the ball. It's in a child's nature, when they play sports, to run to the spot on the court or field where the ball is at any given moment; it's the simplest strategy in team sports, and it's the hallmark of the untrained. Incidentally, coaches spend years trying to get young kids to "stay at home" and cover their zones.

Most Americans are basically big children, when it comes to academic issues. We're the lone country who've failed to adopt the metric system. We're the lone country who deny climate science. We're the lone country who fail to correlate gun availability with gun violence. We're something like 29th in education, globally. And we approach politics with the same naivety: like kids playing basketball, we run around frantically, obsessing over whichever political issue is momentarily trending in the media, totally oblivious to how we're being manipulated.

Government agencies are fully aware of public sentiment. Data collectors and polling agencies spend millions of dollars collecting feedback on trends in American culture. And given that something like six corporations own something like 90% of the media in this country, it's not difficult for wealthy organizations with specific political agendas to fan the flames of a particular political issue. Fox News is a great example: they aren't registered with the FCC as a news program, but as an entertainment program, because they (purposely) fail to meet the minimum legal standard for dissenting voices in their programming. (In other words, Fox News is the Jerry Springer Show for conservatives). Meanwhile, on the other side of the aisle, MSNBC functions as Fox's liberal equivalent, using more or less the same agenda-pushing tactics to grow liberal ideology.

The point of the huffing and puffing that the media do is, often times, to distract Americans from addressing the big issues: is life as we know it sustainable under a warming atmosphere? How will rising ocean acidification effect Earth's food chain? Will the human race engage in nuclear war? Will all humans have access to potable water? These are questions about issues that threaten the very survival of the human race. Yet, if we look at what's trending in the media today, Americans are overwhelmingly concerned with professional sports and whether or not the individuals who play them stand up or sit down during the performance of the American national anthem.

To make an analogy of it, Americans are arguing over a game of Pictionary, while standing inside a house that's burning down, with an active shooter inside, and twenty starving babies in the basement.

I have no idea what kinds of policies Congress is voting on right now, but given the current public uproar (over a ****ing FLAG), I can almost guarantee that they're pushing through some monumentally disastrous piece of legislation that none of us would ever vote for, if we had the good sense to pay attention to it. In other words, because most of us are like children in a basketball game, following the basketball to wherever it goes, the opposing team are running carefully-calculated plays that were specifically designed to distract us from protecting our hoop; we're being drawn out to our perimeter, because our opponents know that we can't defend a goal from 30 feet away.

I challenge anyone who reads this to Google the phrase "what is Congress voting on today." I haven't done it; I don't even know if they're in session. But I'll bet that all of this furor over the totally inconsequential bull**** that most Americans are currently arguing over has provided them with perfect opportunity to do some truly dastardly ****, and I'll bet they're taking that opportunity.

Sadly, it won't be until Americans learn to stay focused on the important issues that we'll defend our democracy from those in power.

[PedroMartinez]

Reduce the size and scope of government. That's the best way to get rid of horrible legislation.

[grampaTom]

Originally Posted by rpc1

When kids first start playing basketball, their instinct is always the same: follow the ball. It's in a child's nature, when they play sports, to run to the spot on the court or field where the ball is at any given moment; it's the simplest strategy in team sports, and it's the hallmark of the untrained. Incidentally, coaches spend years trying to get young kids to "stay at home" and cover their zones.

Most Americans are basically big children, when it comes to academic issues. We're the lone country who've failed to adopt the metric system. We're the lone country who deny climate science. We're the lone country who fail to correlate gun availability with gun violence. We're something like 29th in education, globally. And we approach politics with the same naivety: like kids playing basketball, we run around frantically, obsessing over whichever political issue is momentarily trending in the media, totally oblivious to how we're being manipulated.

Government agencies are fully aware of public sentiment. Data collectors and polling agencies spend millions of dollars collecting feedback on trends in American culture. And given that something like six corporations own something like 90% of the media in this country, it's not difficult for wealthy organizations with specific political agendas to fan the flames of a particular political issue. Fox News is a great example: they aren't registered with the FCC as a news program, but as an entertainment program, because they (purposely) fail to meet the minimum legal standard for dissenting voices in their programming. (In other words, Fox News is the Jerry Springer Show for conservatives). Meanwhile, on the other side of the aisle, MSNBC functions as Fox's liberal equivalent, using more or less the same agenda-pushing tactics to grow liberal ideology.

The point of the huffing and puffing that the media do is, often times, to distract Americans from addressing the big issues: is life as we know it sustainable under a warming atmosphere? How will rising ocean acidification effect Earth's food chain? Will the human race engage in nuclear war? Will all humans have access to potable water? These are questions about issues that threaten the very survival of the human race. Yet, if we look at what's trending in the media today, Americans are overwhelmingly concerned with professional sports and whether or not the individuals who play them stand up or sit down during the performance of the American national anthem.

To make an analogy of it, Americans are arguing over a game of Pictionary, while standing inside a house that's burning down, with an active shooter inside, and twenty starving babies in the basement.

I have no idea what kinds of policies Congress is voting on right now, but given the current public uproar (over a ****ing FLAG), I can almost guarantee that they're pushing through some monumentally disastrous piece of legislation that none of us would ever vote for, if we had the good sense to pay attention to it. In other words, because most of us are like children in a basketball game, following the basketball to wherever it goes, the opposing team are running carefully-calculated plays that were specifically designed to distract us from protecting our hoop; we're being drawn out to our perimeter, because our opponents know that we can't defend a goal from 30 feet away.

I challenge anyone who reads this to Google the phrase "what is Congress voting on today." I haven't done it; I don't even know if they're in session. But I'll bet that all of this furor over the totally inconsequential bull**** that most Americans are currently arguing over has provided them with perfect opportunity to do some truly dastardly ****, and I'll bet they're taking that opportunity.

Sadly, it won't be until Americans learn to stay focused on the important issues that we'll defend our democracy from those in power.

so you want us to pay attention because you aren't?

[jetgraphics]

IF I UNDERSTAND CORRECTLY

The flag and the anthem represent something, but what?

If the flag and anthem are a representation of politics, and the sitting government, then political opponents must surely mock and denigrate it.

Reciprocally, the political opponents from before would have surely mocked and denigrated those symbols... but didn’t.

Odd, isn’t it?

Perhaps the flag and anthem represents something other than partisan politics and the sitting government.

If the flag and anthem are symbols of patriotism - love of country - and respect for those who honorably sacrificed their lives and their fortunes, then it is inappropriate to mock and denigrate the flag and the anthem, let alone make a political protest. That is totally inappropriate, and dare I say, a violation of the obligations of citizenship.

Remember what the Founders pledged?

They pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to secure the Creator endowed rights of the American people from all enemies, foreign or domestic. And in case you were unaware, all subsequent citizens are presumed to make the identical pledge. That is why compulsory militia duty (“Selective Service”) is NOT involuntary servitude. No American can be compelled to be a citizen, without violating the Declaration of Independence, the republican form of government and the 13th amendment to the US Constitution. (That is why government repeatedly asks you to claim to be a citizen. No law can impose citizenship upon the sovereign people in the States united.)

So any disrespect and dishonor by obligated citizens is a violation of their pledge to the people and the government that serves them, partisanship notwithstanding. It would be fitting to strip their citizenship and return them to their original status as non-citizen American nationals under the republican form, for they are unworthy to serve the people at large.

After 84 years of socialist indoctrination it is to be expected that few Americans know of their obligations they accepted by their exercise of the privilege of citizenship. But ignorance of the law is no excuse. From the birth of the country, it was self evident that Americans had Creator endowed rights to life, to liberty, to absolute ownership, and inherent powers that government was instituted to secure. It was also spelled out, that those who consented to be governed, voluntarily waived those endowments and accepted mandatory civic duties (i.e., militia duty, jury duty, owing a share of their property via taxes and being held to a higher standard of behavior) that would otherwise abrogate endowed rights to life and liberty. No citizen can nor should violate his pledge of his life, his liberty, his property and his sacred honor to serve the government and the people, without suffering the consequence. Heaping insult upon the flag and anthem is not only inconsiderate, inappropriate, but an indication that they have no love of county, nor of Creator endowed rights. For if their protest is in furtherance of socialist slavery and thievery (compulsory charity and expropriation of property) then it is despicable and shameful. The Founders didn’t fight and die to bestow their progeny with a system that TAKES from one to GIVE to another, without their knowing consent.

But it explains why the ignorant mob will mock those who express love of God and Country. They are godless predators who seek to take away the rights of others for their own selfish benefit, using socialist government as their weapon.