People can’t sing our National Anthem on the people’s property
I saw this story yesterday about a group of students from across the country who, while visiting the Lincoln Memorial were inspired to begin singing the National Anthem. They were told to stop singing by the Park Police.
A program officer of the YAF tells the story;
So they did it again;
I’m inspired every time I look from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial across the Reflecting Pool to the World War II Memorial to the Washington Monument and the Capitol.
Now, I just watched on Fox News, a member of the Park Police defending their actions because the students were blocking the HUGE steps of the Lincoln Memorial and their need to enforce a reverence for the memorial. Really? I wonder how many times they’ve enforced the reverence for the Memorial when ANSWER, Code Pink and IVAW were blasting loud rock protest songs a few yards from those steps.
Category: Society
You know, this really pisses me off. You know why? Because some higher-higher in the Park Service will be interviewed in a couple of days, and cry and weep and wring his hands and say lo, how terrible it is that Park Service employees overreacted, and how sorry we are that this incident happened and we feel so bad about… but you know what? By then (hell, by now) its too late. The moment has passed, and the damage done.No amount of crocodile tears and insincere apologies are going to repair the damage that a couple of over-officious nazi-wannabes did to those kids and the freedom that that memorial stands for. I am so afraid that we are going to end up, in 20 years, wearing government approved clothes, living in government approved housing, driving our government approved electric vehicles while our incredulous grandkids listen to us tell them about how, in the United States, we used to be free to wear what we wanted, live where we wanted, and drive what we wanted. It just makes me sick to my stomach.
It’s the Park Police Chest Puffer Syndrome. He got to be a dick because he can’t be fired…Kinda like the TSA idiots who wave you frantically through the airport pick-ups at Midway like they’ll kill you for slowing down because they are SOOO important.
I hope this backfires on them and every church choir in DC ‘camps out’ at the Lincoln Memorial this weekend.
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If as Americans you can’t celebrate your country in your nation’s capitol, then where do you go?
Remember the headlines a few years back, when a kids’ lemonade stand was shut down because they didn’t have a business license?
This reminds me of that. I didn’t know it was possible to grow a human with a pea-sized brain and no heart…
“Remwmber the headlibes a few years back” You mean last week?
Also, the exscuse I read was it violated the “Political neutrality” of the zone. Guess they realized that was crap, and changed the story.
“Remember the headlines a few years back” Didn’t it happen last week?
Also, the exscuse I read was it violated the “Political neutrality” of the zone. Guess they realized that was crap, and changed the story.
God bless them, “So they did it again.”
My Grandson will attend YAF when he is old enough.
I too saw that douche from the Park Police. I wanted to reach into the screen an slap him – he kept saying “content neutral… content neutral…” What a waste of a uniform.
Sorry about the double post, computer sent the first one and then the latter, “Read what you actually typed first” one.
“The Russian theme song” – wow, he’s such an idiot.
This is what happens when you allows your freedom of speech to erode. It starts with things like “no protests here,” “no racial slurs” and “no flag burning” – which eventually erodes into things like “no religious discussions” or “no saying anything too patriotic.” This is all part of the fluffiness of trying not to offend anyone.
According to the police there is a certain distance that no singing of any kind is allowed from the Lincoln Memorial. I’m for that, otherwise there are going to be all kinds of groups sing THEIR songs. Would you want to hear the Muslims sing there chants from the steps?
What about the people who are shooting a video and want to tell about the memorial as they film. Are they supposed to wait for each group that wants to sing on the steps?
PintoNag
The lemonade stand was at a park that venders had to pay for a license to sell their products, and they didn’t get one. I like to get as much information as I can before I come to a conclusion on something new I heard or read.