{"id":26235,"date":"2017-09-29T09:35:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T14:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26235"},"modified":"2017-09-29T09:36:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T14:36:17","slug":"patriotism-is-a-two-edged-sword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26235","title":{"rendered":"Patriotism Is A Two-Edged Sword"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2017\/09\/28\/patriotism-two-edged-sword\/\">Patriotism Is A Two-Edged Sword<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"single_page_entry_meta\">I sometimes wonder if America\u2019s greatest threat is the population\u2019s hyper-patriotism. The bulk of the population is now at work shutting down the NFL players\u2019 First Amendment rights, and none of the incensed censors are capable of understanding that it is they, and not the NFL players, who are attacking the U.S. Constitution. We have been through all this flag business before, and federal courts have ruled for the protesters who burnt flags, wore them on their clothes, whatever. Yet, here we go again.<\/div>\n<p>Hardwick Clothes CEO\u00a0pulls the company\u2019s advertising from NFL games. Insofar as advertising helps Hardwick\u2019s shareholders, CEO Allan Jones is hurting his own shareholders in order to protest the NFL players\u2019 protests, a thought that probably never occurred to him. <a href=\"http:\/\/ijr.com\/the-declaration\/2017\/09\/984704-first-ceo-hits-nfl-right-wallet-unpatriotic-national-anthem-protests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/ijr.com\/the-declaration\/2017\/09\/984704-first-ceo-hits-nfl-right-wallet-unpatriotic-national-anthem-protests\/ <\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0this report\u00a0\u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcclothesline.com\/2017\/09\/26\/americans-nationwide-burn-nfl-tickets-shirts-in-solidarity-with-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.dcclothesline.com\/2017\/09\/26\/americans-nationwide-burn-nfl-tickets-shirts-in-solidarity-with-trump\/ <\/a>\u2014 white people across the country are burning their NFL shirts and their expensive tickets for which they paid hundreds of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>A Louisiana state representative has\u00a0introduced legislation\u00a0to ban state subsidies for the New Orleans Saints because of their \u201cdisgraceful protests.\u201d It is OK with Rep. Kenny Havard for Louisiana taxpayers to give hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies to the NFL team as long as the players stand for the anthem, but not if they don\u2019t. It apparently never occurred to Havard to question whether relatively poor Louisiana taxpayers should be giving hundreds of millions of dollars to a billionaire team owner. There is no doubt that the average salary of the Saints exceeds the average salary of Louisiana taxpayers. <a href=\"http:\/\/ijr.com\/the-declaration\/2017\/09\/984526-louisiana-state-rep-pushes-make-nfl-team-pay-national-anthem-protests-literally\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/ijr.com\/the-declaration\/2017\/09\/984526-louisiana-state-rep-pushes-make-nfl-team-pay-national-anthem-protests-literally\/ <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former NFL quarterback\u00a0John Elway declares: \u201cI believe that this is the greatest country in the world,\u201d and his personal belief takes care of the numerous protesters who clearly have a different view. <a href=\"http:\/\/ijr.com\/the-declaration\/2017\/09\/984449-john-elway-responds-anthem-protests-nfl-players-pay-attention-words\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/ijr.com\/the-declaration\/2017\/09\/984449-john-elway-responds-anthem-protests-nfl-players-pay-attention-words\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patriotism Is A Two-Edged Sword I sometimes wonder if America\u2019s greatest threat is the population\u2019s hyper-patriotism. The bulk of the population is now at work shutting down the NFL players\u2019 First Amendment rights, and none of the incensed censors are capable of understanding that it is they, and not the NFL players, who are attacking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[16134,3581,2951,657,838],"class_list":["post-26235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-nfl","tag-patriotism","tag-paul-craig-roberts","tag-protests","tag-us-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26237,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26235\/revisions\/26237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}