Santa Clara Police Union threatens to stop working 49ers games
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If the police don't understand someone's First Amendment Rights,
perhaps they should be put on administrative leave, sent back to school and
kept off the streets until they learn what their job is. They shouldn't stop
protecting the public because one person stages a protest. It’s not up to
members of a police department to determine when someone can exercise their
right to Free Speech and when they cannot.
If the police disregard their sworn duty to enforce the laws of
our nation, they shouldn't be police officers at all. Every single police
officer, threatening to not do their duty, should be fired without pay. What
other Civil Liberties do these police officers not understand? Have the police
in this case, forgotten a very important principal of the American dream?
"I may disagree
with what you say or what you believe, but I will fight to the death for your
right to say and believe as you please, as long as you are legal". I'm paraphrasing of course.
There are no laws requiring you to stand during the National
Anthem. If you are forced by the government to stand up for the National
Anthem, then that government is not worth standing up for. I will tell you this
much. I will not stand up for our National Anthem in order to please you, when
you know so little about American values.
If I stand up for the National Anthem, I will do so only as a
voluntary action on my part. I will not stand up if some government entity
demands respect from me. My respect for government is exercised only in a
voluntary way. You, or the government cannot gain respect from me with your
threats.
If I must stand up for the National Anthem because of your threat
to punish me, I will stand up, if forced too, but, I won’t stand up out of
respect for the song. I will stand up out of fear of you.
If you think
threatening me will gain my respect, you are wrong!
If you are one of those people demanding people stand up for the
national Anthem, or you will punish them, you should never be in a position of
authority. You should never be a policeman, that's for sure. As a matter of
fact, if I knew you were like that, you would never eat dinner at my table.
What other demands are you capable of making of me and my family? I wouldn’t
want your kind to have any interaction with my children.
If your demand for obedience is so strong you want to punish
people for not believing as you do, stop waving the American flag. You are not
an American anymore. Your behavior is as unpatriotic as somebody waving the
American flag and calling for secession.
It makes me sick to my stomach watching someone wave the
American flag while demanding the destruction of our nation with the threat of secession. Next thing you
know, there will be policemen waving our flag, playing our National Anthem and
threatening Federal troops with death when they are called upon to protect citizens from your infringement of their 1st Amendment rights.
There comes a time when people suffering from authoritarian personality
disorder, need to shut up. I'm really talking to Trump Republicans, right? Democrats
don’t demand obedience.
Isn’t it odd how Democrats defend our Civil Liberties and Republicans
work overtime trying to take them away? It makes a person wonder. Who are the
real conservatives and who are the real reactionaries? I’ll be voting for those
who defend my Civil Liberties and against those who want to take them away.
If I were in charge, I would fire those police officers threatening the
public's safety.
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