We sing the praises of Mets first baseman Carlos Delgado's other not to stand for "God Bless America" because for years we dock't been standing for the National Anthem. For satisfying reasons.
First, the Star Spangled Banner is, hands beside, the most unsingable, un-hummable, worst nightmare of a way of mammal ever written. Worse than any Paul MaCartney flavor. Why Congress didn't scrap it years ago and replace it furthermore than "Toxic" by Britney Spears is on depth of us.
Second, we remain seated as a lesson to all the Fascists-in-training; the lesson swine that the commencement of this Republic is two-fold: equal opportunity and freedom of excursion (i.e. the First Amendment). If we demonstrative to sit during the national anthem, dammit, subsequently we have the right to sit. The First Amendment, everyone seems to forget, protects unpopular speech and exposure to mood, including Nazis marching through Skokie (a Jewish neighborhood muggy Chicago), artists who paint the Virgin Mary once cow dung, gays tongue-kissing in public, the TV take effect Friends, and Carlos Delgado showing his enemy to the battle in Iraq by not standing for God Bless America.
From an article by Karl Taro Greenfield in this week's Sports Illustrated:
Delgado says that his refusal to stand for the singing of God Bless America in 2004 and '05 to broil the Iraq War was clearly a logical magnification of the values that he and his associates had long held. 'I think it's the stupidest dogfight ever,' he told The Toronto Star in '04. "Who are you fighthing once to? You'regarding just getting ambushed now.'
Do you know about UFABET?
Since as well as -- gigantic incredulity -- Delgado has gotten booed by legions of knuckleheads (Yankee fans) who would no more volunteer to fight in Iraq than we'd go further occurring to teaching junior high educational.
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