Making A Stand...or Maybe Not

[agchristie]

Do you think his principles will do him any good?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/american-football/2016/08/29/colin-kaepernick-to-continue-us-national-anthem-protest-i-am-not/

[TWR]

I wonder if he would make a stand if they cut his American pay packet?

[Mamyalynne]

I don't think his stand will get him far but he's allowed to make it - on other occasions like this I accept that some won't sing anthems but it's the visual and physical snub that irks me.

The back turning or in this case the sitting down.

[mikey4444]

In the Land of the Free, I can't see any reason why he shouldn't be allowed to continue his protest.

Whether it will do any long-term good is another matter.

[Buenchico]

I refuse to stand for a national anthem which calls upon a god I don't believe in to 'save' a monarch whom I refuse to acknowledge - but I don't actually expect it to change anything!

[mikey4444]

Chico....I am old enough ( just) to remember when the National Anthem was played after the last film at the pictures, although as a boy I often wondered why.

....I can distinctly recall standing up, with my Mum, after we had seen "101 Dalmatians", when I as about 8, wondering if the Queen had sneaked into the back row when I wasn't looking !

[Mamyalynne]

That's a broad brush you are using in regard to the few replies above - can't say I see any denigration of our nation.

[Mamyalynne]

ah.

[ToraToraTora]

why has my answer been removed?

[ToraToraTora]

"that's a broad brush you are using in regard to the few replies above - can't say I see any denigration of our nation. " - so knocking the Monarch and the anthem is not denigration? right oh!

[Peter Pedant]

god you have to admire his courage

when sineadh - professional protester - announced she would burn the Flag of Freedom on stage at her next performance - they chucked her out of the country ....

[ummmm]

He's being a twit imo...

[Peter Pedant]

Da oirish routinely dont stand for God Save the Queen
or when she is toashed

OK OK the ones in the Nort do ....

[Mamyalynne]

Buenchico's views are well known and simply his views, he wasn't rude.

Mikey was discussing an incident when he was a child.

[Peter Pedant]

sorry umm
didnt notice you had posted above me
the juxtaposition was quite by chance

[ummmm]

I can't talk for all Irish people but I would stand for it if the occasion called for it.

[jambutty]

Ha ha knew it !!

[wolf63]

Surely he has the right not to stand to an anthem if he feels that it would be wrong for him to do so.

We live in this country but it doesn't own us. Not standing to the national anthem is pretty pointless but it is not wrong or immoral.

We are individuals and we do not have labels - he did what was right for him and the flak that he is getting is a sign that there are many starnge people in the world.

Now - sing together "Flower of Scotland" :-)