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students attending a conservative leadership conference in Washington, D.C. said they were ordered by a security guard to stop singing the national anthem during a June 25 visit to the Lincoln Memorial.
“They told them to stop singing,” said Evan Gassman, a spokesman for the Young America’s Foundation. “I was taken aback. You wouldn’t expect a display of national patriotism to be censored."
U.S. Park Police confirmed that the students were in violation of federal law and their impromptu performance constituted a demonstration in an area that must remain “completely content neutral.”
U.S. Park Police confirmed that the students were in violation of federal law and their impromptu performance constituted a demonstration in an area that must remain “completely content neutral.”
“It’s not the content of their activity – that being the national anthem – it’s the location,” he said. “A couple steps and it would have been no problem whatsoever.”
.....to “maintain a contemplative and reverent area for the Lincoln Memorial, for the other guests and visitors.”
Schlosser said the students would have been in compliance had they moved approximately 25 steps from where they were standing.
Originally posted by Majic
Teapot Forecast: Tempest
This is the sort of story that inspires the "Faux News" epithet: a carefully-crafted headline that is intended to provoke a reaction among people who don't actually read the non-story article beneath it. It's a practice akin to slinging mud at a wall to see what sticks, and sure enough, there's a well-primed audience ready to gobble it up.
Fox should give proper credit to William Randolph Hearst for their signature journalism style.
While they're at it, they might also have the basic decency to credit Ivan Pavlov for their extensive reliance on classical conditioning in their "news" reporting.
Maybe Rush or Hannity (or both) can pick this up as a cause célèbre to rally the "troops" for "emergency action," because this is such an "outrage."
Even better, maybe as Election Day approaches we'll see a string of "guerrilla national anthem singings" break out in places like court rooms, churches, mosques and funeral homes as a form of "patriotic civil disobedience."
Originally posted by Loutty
It was a slow news day yesterday, this is a pointless issue that will be forgotten in 3 days.
176. Respect for flag
No disrespect should be shown to the flag of the United States of America; the flag should not be dipped to any person or thing. Regimental colors, State flags, and organization or institutional flags are to be dipped as a mark of honor.
* (d) The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery. It should never be festooned, drawn back, nor up, in folds, but always allowed to fall free. Bunting of blue, white, and red,