Josh Howard .... again

[Vol4ever]

If it gets overly political, I have no problem with Dol shutting this down.

Where does that stop then? I think that my view is at least moderately clear, Josh wasn't trying to hurt anyone by saying that he doesn't believe in the nat'l anthem, he didn't say anything about the troops which matters to me. He just implied that as a black man, he didn't feel like the American system didn't adequately represent him.

Can an employer punish an employee for ANYTHING that they disagree with? Should an employer make it mandatory that an employee hold his hand to his heart during a song? I mean honestly, where can you draw the line if you think he can be punished by his employer for privately (it was to a camera phone after all) not wanting to stand attention to the nat'l anthem? I just think that opens the door to any sort of discrimination possible.

I don't personally agree with Howard's form of protest but he said to a camera phone that he didn't agree with the national anthem because he's black. Whatever that means, it seems like a very basic form of dissent which is supposed to be the thing that seperates us from tightly controlled state powers. If the great democracy/free market system can't protect those who don't stand at attention to a song, what is it supposed to do?

This type of thought process is what has turned this country into the decline we are in. I could give you several hours of why I disagree but we will just have to agree to disagree.

Socialism is running rampant in this company!

[crimedog]

This type of thought process is what has turned this country into the decline we are in. I could give you several hours of why I disagree but we will just have to agree to disagree.

Socialism is running rampant in this company!

Correct me if I'm wrong but wouldn't Josh Howard probably have to fear for his life if he were to disrespect the national anthem of a socialist country?

Winston Churchill agrees with me:

. . . a socialist policy is abhorrent to the British ideas of freedom. Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state. It will prescribe for every one where they are to work, what they are to work at, where they may go and what they may say. Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanely directed in the first instance.

Edited September 24, 2008 by crimedog

[Eddielives]

Correct me if I'm wrong but wouldn't Josh Howard probably have to fear for his life if he were to disrespect the national anthem of a socialist country?

Winston Churchill agrees with me:

. . . a socialist policy is abhorrent to the British ideas of freedom. Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state. It will prescribe for every one where they are to work, what they are to work at, where they may go and what they may say. Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanely directed in the first instance.

Love that quote. (Sigh) I wish there were more minds like Churchill in the political world today.