It was not until 1931, twenty years before my birth that baseball mandated the national anthem. Senator Flake and McCain raised serious questions about the military spending money on sporting events a few years back concerning military presence at sporting events. I simply do not understand why a sporting event is connected to the national anthem. I never saw it in little league. I never saw it in my daughter's junior high volleyball games, and as it is well known on this forum that I am concerned with the increasing military presence in America which has consequences on how our civilian policing and military has grown geometrically since our founding fathers created this nation, and warned us about the danger of standing armies.
This idea that if I do not stand or sing is particularly troublesome for me as I am often not strong enough to stand and if I sit and put my hand over my heart and remain seated it has somehow become connected in a totalitarian sense a rejection of the regime. If you watch the Vice News reporting from Korea, and the Nazi rallies of the thirties there is a commonality of group think and pressure for political conformity. I simply want demilitarization of our society. I want smart defensive deployments which cuts our vulnerable and immensely expensive carrier groups by about thirty percent. I want pull backs in Europe, Middle East, and the far east. This idea that we have to send young Americans to be sacrificed on the alter of profit for the military industrial complex, does not mean I am disrespecting those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice, rather that the need for that sacrifice has been less rational over the last seventy years. Ike warned us. It takes far more courage to change the direction this country has taken, than to be a token prop in an increasingly militaristic totalitarian regime.
This idea that if I do not stand or sing is particularly troublesome for me as I am often not strong enough to stand and if I sit and put my hand over my heart and remain seated it has somehow become connected in a totalitarian sense a rejection of the regime. If you watch the Vice News reporting from Korea, and the Nazi rallies of the thirties there is a commonality of group think and pressure for political conformity. I simply want demilitarization of our society. I want smart defensive deployments which cuts our vulnerable and immensely expensive carrier groups by about thirty percent. I want pull backs in Europe, Middle East, and the far east. This idea that we have to send young Americans to be sacrificed on the alter of profit for the military industrial complex, does not mean I am disrespecting those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice, rather that the need for that sacrifice has been less rational over the last seventy years. Ike warned us. It takes far more courage to change the direction this country has taken, than to be a token prop in an increasingly militaristic totalitarian regime.