I just realized that the ref in Slap Shot is Colin Kaepernick. You see, the Hanson Brothers of the ...
I just realized that the ref in Slap Shot is Colin Kaepernick.
You see, the Hanson Brothers of the Chiefs were, with no justification whatsoever, brutalizing players from the Patriots before the game. And then after the brawl died down, and the players are standing, bloody, at attention for the national anthem, a ref comes up to the Hansons and starts yelling at them.
A Hanson yells out, "I'm listening to the f-ing song!"
It doesn't matter that the Hansons were wrong, and the ref was right. What matters is that even the Hansons should get to stand and listening to the national anthem without someone else trying to get their attention.
Sure, Kaepernick is not getting in anyone's face directly. But when you're drawing attention to yourself -- which is what you are trying to do when you are protesting by kneeling during the anthem -- you're ruining the moment for everyone else, even if they are in the wrong.
We're listening to the song, and would appreciate it if you wouldn't be a distraction, if that's not too much to ask.
You see, the Hanson Brothers of the Chiefs were, with no justification whatsoever, brutalizing players from the Patriots before the game. And then after the brawl died down, and the players are standing, bloody, at attention for the national anthem, a ref comes up to the Hansons and starts yelling at them.
A Hanson yells out, "I'm listening to the f-ing song!"
It doesn't matter that the Hansons were wrong, and the ref was right. What matters is that even the Hansons should get to stand and listening to the national anthem without someone else trying to get their attention.
Sure, Kaepernick is not getting in anyone's face directly. But when you're drawing attention to yourself -- which is what you are trying to do when you are protesting by kneeling during the anthem -- you're ruining the moment for everyone else, even if they are in the wrong.
We're listening to the song, and would appreciate it if you wouldn't be a distraction, if that's not too much to ask.
"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt."
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