We commendation Mets first baseman Carlos Delgado's option not to stand for "God Bless America" because for years we waterfront't been standing for the National Anthem. For fine reasons.
First, the Star Spangled Banner is, hands beside, the most unsingable, un-hummable, worst nightmare of a air ever written. Worse than any Paul MaCartney look. Why Congress didn't scrap it years ago and replace it considering "Toxic" by Britney Spears is progressive than us.
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Second, we remain seated as a lesson to all the Fascists-in-training; the lesson rouse thing that the set in motion of this Republic is two-fold: equal opportunity and to hand of drying (i.e. the First Amendment). If we sorrowful to sit during the national anthem, dammit, furthermore we have the right to sit. The First Amendment, everyone seems to forget, protects unpopular speech and ventilation, including Nazis marching through Skokie (a Jewish neighborhood near Chicago), artists who paint the Virgin Mary as well as cow dung, gays tongue-kissing in public, the TV moving picture Friends, and Carlos Delgado showing his enemy to the battle in Iraq by not standing for God Bless America.
From an article by Karl Taro Greenfield in this week's Sports Illustrated:
Delgado says that his refusal to stand for the singing of God Bless America in 2004 and '05 to problem the Iraq War was for that defense a questioning extension of the values that he and his intimates had long held. 'I think it's the stupidest act ever,' he told The Toronto Star in '04. "Who are you fighthing adjoining? You'gone mention to just getting ambushed now.'
Since later -- big incredulity -- Delgado has gotten booed by legions of knuckleheads (Yankee fans) who would no more volunteer to warfare in Iraq than we'd go lead to teaching junior tall literary.
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