Posted by DoctorKz on 7/7/2018 8:37:00 PM (view original):
Posted by laramiebob on 7/7/2018 7:51:00 PM (view original):
ALL irrelevant to MY argument.
It isn't up to Doc, Boris, All3, Dougout, or ME what is a disrespectful protest or a respectful protest.
It just doesn't matter. No one gets to decide HOW or when someone else exercises their 1st amendment right.
It isn't up to ME or You.
I could care less if Boris or Doc, both folks I like (or anyone else) DECIDE to be offended by MY choice of protest (should I EVER figure I need to protest).
When someone thinks they have the right to somehow take away someone else's 1st amendment right just because THEY find it disrespectful then we, for sure, have lost our Country. That's for places like China and North Korea..........NOT here!
I have a right to be offensive in protest.
Others have a right to whine about it.
It's America.
I won't be Putin's *****.
I hope someone else isn't already one.
He is/was an employee. If you owned a restaurant, had an employee that drove away customers, what would you do? What the kneelers have done is forced their employers to take a stand. No pun intended...
They could have found many other ways to get their point out there. Instead, they alienated a significant percentage of their fan base.
I don't disagree with you, Bob. He does have the right to protest. I won't ask that the privilege be revoked. I see his choice of time and place to be very distasteful. As is my right, I ceased following the NFL. They might not ever win me back. If Anheuser-Busch or other major sponsors pull their ads, so be it...
Doc. That is completely true. I have NO disagreement. But wylie is spot on. You served to give CK (and everyone else) the freedom to protest and to annoy you. HIS employer has the right to terminate him IF he chooses to do so. YOU have the right to stop buying the product (NFL football) if it annoys you that much. THat's America!! Ain't it Grand!
As for all3's comments. I won't bother. He's proven himself an idealogue and part of the problem with OUR country.
He is NOW the 1st person I've ever blocked.
Labels are for tiny brains.
I AM a Liberal on many issues............ and a traditional conservative on others.
Mainly I'm a fiscal conservative and a social liberal............ some like to call it Libertarian but I'm not that either.
There are NO labels that encompass my own political views.
I grow tired of debating the same issues with the same folks who don't seem to grasp the realities that come along with their political viewpoints.
IF you get a Gov't to "rule" exactly as YOU think things should be then what happens when the Gov't becomes the "tool" of those who think differently and they use those "tools" to take away YOUR freedoms???
True freedom is messy. You HAVE to tolerate views (and LIFESTYLES) you don't like.
Even lifestyles you MAY believe are wrong (or sinful, etc)
Guys like all3 don't seem to get that.
I won't speculate on why as that might entail some derogatory comments about his depth of intellect.