Dcopymope
Well-Known Member
It's the done thing with our anthem and sports events - if we are playing other countries in football ( unwritten law I guess )
I presumed it was mandatory because of the way it was hitting the news, don't you have to show alligience in schools ect ( I am sure I have seen children standing together in classrooms before the class starts in films ect - or is that something else ? )
In fact I have seen it quite a lot, where you place your hand over your heart - or is that a pledge of some kind.
They make it seem mandatory in schools, because if you don't the teachers may give you that look, or a piece of their mind about it, when I was in school at least. But no, if there ain't no law saying they have to, or even policy as part of the school or the NFL, then no one has the right to tell me I can't kneel, or do the Roman salute, or lay on my belly for that matter. The fact that this discussion still persists speaks volumes about how easy it is to keep people distracted over non-sense.