I wouldn't.Originally Posted by AGRP
Yes
No
Only sometimes in order to not make it awkward or have to field questions
I wouldn't.
"If you study science deep enough and long enough, it will force you to believe in God." ~Lord Kelvin
Regardless of what the United States is, was, or will be, the National Anthem is pretty badass.
The Pledge of Allegiance at least has "to the Republic." It's amazing what people don't process, regarding the part about the Republic, when they bleat mindlessly.
"I shall bring justice to Westeros. Every man shall reap what he has sown, from the highest lord to the lowest gutter rat. They have made my kingdom bleed, and I do not forget that."
-Stannis Baratheon
I don't and won't ever honor the pledge of allegiance, but I don't mind standing up while someone sings the national anthem.
"No matter how noble you try to make it, your good intentions will not compensate for the mistakes that people make; that want to run our lives and run the economy, and reject the principles of private property and making up our own decisions for ourselves." - Ron Paul
But it also calls the republic indivisible, completely denying state's rights to secession.
"No matter how noble you try to make it, your good intentions will not compensate for the mistakes that people make; that want to run our lives and run the economy, and reject the principles of private property and making up our own decisions for ourselves." - Ron Paul
This. I believe doing the anthem before every sporting event is a way to bind people closer to the state. I'll stand but won't sing a long. I do not honor the pledge either. I pledge alliegance to my values, my family and God but not to a government as out of control as the US is at the moment.
"Unlike my opponents, I'm not running from my voting record. I'm not running from my public statements. I'm not running from my predictions. I'm running on them." -Ron Paul
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." - H.L. Mencken
I am a non-interventionist,anti-Fed, anti-drug war socially conservative Paul supporter(i.e. paleocon)
I worship the American flag as an idol.
It is what our Christian founders wanted.
Definition of political insanity: Voting for the same people expecting different results.
never. I refuse to even stand for it. It would be the equivalent of singing songs about santa clause when I know santa clause is not real. I've always believed that actions speak louder than words. The value of life is what really matters, not a national anthem.
Last edited by CaptainAmerica; 08-18-2012 at 11:37 AM.
..this is the darkest timeline..It was too weird to live, and too rare to die - hunter s. thompson .
That's how I feel as well.
Bentonism is the playing down of Ron Paul’s most popular and important ideas, the impatience with and purging of people who champion those ideas, and an obsessive eye to GOP respectability. Is that what the “liberty movement” is? Then count me out. ~ Tom Woods
Star Spangled Banner > Pledge
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."
- Benjamin Franklin
"No freeman shall be taken, imprisoned, or in any other way destroyed, except by the lawful judgment of his peers."
- Magna Carta
and you wonder why people call libertarians anarchists.
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