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A Modest Proposal to end the National Anthem kneeling conundrum

Posted: June 18, 2020 by Jon Fournier in Uncategorized
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It has been maintained by many of the National Anthem kneelers and many on the political left that the keeling during National Anthem has nothing to do with disrespecting our flag, our military, or our country.  This was echoed by Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt when he tweeted this:

if you still think it’s about disrespecting the flag or our military, you clearly haven’t been listening.

Was he right about that?  Let’s look at what Houston Texans head coach Bill O’Brien had to say about this issue:

The players have a right to protest, a right to be heard and a right to be who they are. They’re not taking a knee because they’re against our flag. They’re taking a knee because they haven’t been treated equally in this country for over 400 years.

To me the entire kneeling during the National Anthem is all about disrespecting our flag and everything associated with it.  Why else would they take this action specifically during the National Anthem?

There is no greater expert on this whole kneeling issue than Colin Kaepernick.  Here is his justification for kneeling:

I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color. To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder

I believe that whole quote is dripping with disrespect for our flag, country, and everything else.  The United States does not have a perfect record when it comes to its treatment of people of color, far from it when you examine slavery, segregation, and racism.  However this country has made enormous strides and is no longer a racist nation.  Protesting racism specifically during the National Anthem is very disrespectful to the flag, our military, and those that gave their life for our country.  It is so disrespectful it pisses me off a great deal.    I know I’m far from alone.  Based on social media and the drop in NFL viewer ship a very large segment of the country agrees with me.

Every single individual has a right to protest as they wish as long as long as they do it peacefully.  That most definitely includes kneeling during the National Anthem.  Because freedom of speech and freedom of expression are two way streets it is perfectly fine to criticize those who kneel.  Some individuals do not understand this. 

It is the timing of the protesting that pisses people off.  Since the kneelers claim that their kneeling has nothing to do with disrespecting the flag why don’t we make them prove it? 

I have just a proposal to end the anthem kneeling situation and make the kneelers prove it has nothing to do with disrespecting the flag.  The NFL, NASCAR, and all other sports associations should specifically set aside time for any athlete to protest racism and racial injustice in any manner they see fit.  The stadium announcers and TV broadcasters should announce the time to protest and the reason behind the protesting.  They should make a big deal about it.  The kneelers will find that they have far more support for their protesting and their cause if the stand during the anthem and protest during that allotted time. 

Society Without Police: Blue States Red Rules.

Posted: June 18, 2020 by datechguy in Uncategorized

Two Faces’s Thug: NO! Stay BACK! I got RIGHTS.

Batman: You’ve got rights. Lots of rights. Sometimes I count them just to make myself feel crazy! But right now you’ve got a piece of glass shoved into a major artery in your arm. Right now you’re bleeding to heath. Right now I’m the only one who can get you to a hospital in time.

Batman The Dark Knight Issue 1 1986

George Washington McLintock: [through gritted teeth after knocking Jones down and taking the shotgun point at him and sticking it in Jones ribs] Now, we’ll all calm down!

Drago: Boss, he’s just a little excited.

George Washington McLintock: [Pushing Jones back with his shotgun]I know, I know. I’m gonna use good judgement. I haven’t lost my temper in forty years, but pilgrim you caused a lot of trouble this morning, might have got somebody killed… and somebody oughta belt you in the mouth. But I won’t, I won’t. [slight pause] The hell I won’t! [decks him!]

There is real fallacy among the left concerning the right’s willingness to fight back in a confrontation. concerning our willingness to fight back.

Because the right has a respect for law and is highly Christian many times when facing abuse from the left you run into the demands of Christianity to turn the other cheek or call a cop if they go over a line.

And for those who don’t have all that much respect for either there are always the consequences of same. Deck a leftist and you might face arrest and a court date.

But what happens in a world without police?

Now suddenly the danger of arrest is small or non-existent. If a person is being an ass, suddenly the restraint that kept you from decking him, or beating him, or if they pose the slightest danger, shooting him, is gone.

“But DaTechGuy”, you ask, “Can’t they still go to court and press charges?” Well forgetting that you will need a “police report” you also have the issue of how do you enforce any court decision. You do it with police and marshals. Andrew Jackson famously said when the Surpreme Court ruled in a case involving the Cherokee “John Marshall made his ruling, let him enforce it.”

No police or marshals to enforce a court judgement makes such a ruling a “suggestion” not an order. But it’s even worse than what it sounds like because these scenarios only involve regular people whose 1st instinct is not violence.

While despite the media template leftist extremism is far more rampant than on the right (mainly because the left embraces such folk unlike the right which rejects them) they do exist. How do you think they will react in a city where there are no police to stop them?

Does the left really want to enable and encourage the next Scott Roeder by conniving him that there will be no cops after him if he targets an abortionist or a “clinic”?

That’s what “no police” means. I think it’s a really stupid idea.

Woke & Stupid Sports, BLM grifting & Potus biding his time Under the Fedora

Posted: June 17, 2020 by datechguy in Uncategorized

I was driving home after my Monday midnight shift when I heard on sports talk radio about some situation at a college football program that a coach was getting grief over. During the time I had it on nobody mentioned what said coach had done. Now I find out that it’s because he wore an OAN shirt on a fishing trip. The next night every sports program was talking woke shit and I had enough, I put on a classical station and plan on leaving it there.

I simply don’t care if sports comes back anymore.

You know I half think that all of this looting and rioting and burning is all about bringing down property values so that someone can swoop in and make a killing. I would not be surprised if a rather wealthy fellow or two picked up some prime city spaces across the nation cheap

I find it interesting that there are protests in Germany over this, it’s very revealing when you consider the history or lack thereof here, but that would only matter if this was an actual protest about the state of black lives rather than a leftist grift conning the gullible into financing them.

Speaking of that I do see why the whole BLM business is about funneling money to the Biden campaign. I mean seriously who would knowingly invest money in that venture otherwise.

I think the NFL is reading it’s fanbase wrong again and I suspect people the reactions in the stadiums to the kneeling, particularly among ticker holders is not going to be pretty. But then again NFL players who have a short window to make their six and seven figures didn’t really want to local endorsement deals anyways did they?

That’s why I’m also mad at MLB. They had a chance to be the only sport in play and to revive interest in the greatest game ever invented, instead you have millionaires arguing with billionaires on how to divide up more cash then most fans will ever see. Someone needs to tell them that it isn’t 1968 anymore and they should stop acting like they’re oppressed.

Finally one of the reasons why I think Potus will let the blue cities commit suicide for now rather than jumping in to save them is he wants to see if the people there will decide they had enough and vote accordingly in local elections come November.

If they don’t elect responsible people who will take care of these issues I suspect that’s when POTUS will do it for them for the sake of the few sane people still living in these enclaves.

Report from Louisiana: Into the Mighty Mississippi

Posted: June 15, 2020 by Pat Austin in Uncategorized
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By:  Pat Austin

SHREVEPORT – The issue of monuments persists.

John Ruberry asked in this space, “Where does it all end?”  I’ve been asking myself this question for several years now as we fight in Shreveport to save our Confederate monument. Perceived symbolism aside, our monument is a beautiful work of sculpture in its own right, and fairly unique among other Confederate monuments.

The unhinged left continues to destroy and deface monuments and it seems that logic and reason has gone further and further out the window. All that matters now is that the target is a monument, never mind what it stands for.

In New Orleans this weekend, protesters attacked a bust of John McDonough (1779-1850) in front of City Hall. Armed with a chisel and a skateboard, they tore the bust off its pedestal and tossed it into the Mississippi River:

A group of protesters used a chisel, rope and a skateboard to tear down the bust of John McDonough in Duncan Plaza, doused it in brightly colored paint and rolled it into the Mississippi River on Saturday.

The New Orleans Police Department said at 5:30 p.m. that two people who drove the bust to Jax Brewery to dump it in the river were “apprehended and transported to NOPD headquarters.” Protesters began gathering at the jail near Tulane Avenue and South Broad Street known as the Orleans Justice Center and there were roughly 200 there by 7 p.m.

Their grievance seems to be that McDonough owned slaves.

While McDonough wasn’t a saint, he did leave his fortune to Baltimore and New Orleans for the purpose of forming schools for poor black and white children.

Two of those who attacked the monument have been arrested.

In Kentucky, armed residents formed a line of protection around their Confederate monument against potential attackers.

Nancy Pelosi has called for the removal of eleven statues from Statuary Hall at the Capitol Building. While her letter does no specify which eleven statues, she does specifically mention Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens who served as President and Vice-President of the Confederacy.

Louisiana’s two statues there include Huey P. Long and Edward Douglas White. White was a U.S. Senator and a Chief Justice of the United States, but he also served as a soldier in the Confederacy. Is she targeting this statue as well? It’s not clear.

But again, you see the problem? Where does this end? We can remove monuments, relocate statues, throw busts into the Mississippi, but where does it end? Who gets to decide which ones go? Under whose sensibilities are we all to live? Whose rights take precedence over any others?

Honestly it makes me crazy. I want to wash my hands of all of it and live on a houseboat in the Atchafalaya Basin.

We need to find our way back to reason and learn to get along. Mind our own business. Find a balance. Enough.

Pat Austin blogs at And So it Goes in Shreveport and is the author of Cane River Bohemia: Cammie Henry and her Circle at Melrose Plantation. Follow her on Instagram @patbecker25 and Twitter @paustin110.

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