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I'm sorry but I am just blown away by all this. The logic you guys are using escapes me completely. I'm free, as long as I'm free your way? How can it possibly be freedom worth "defending" if it goes out the window when the first bomb flies? I'm not saying that anything should go, especially not in terms of desecration or being offensive, but what does any of this have to do with basketball? My opinions about my country, my country's enemies, my country's friends, or anything else of national politics should have no bearing on my basketball. That's freedom. Associations requiring refs to wear flags, or even recommending, feels like prayer in the public schools. It sounds good on paper, but when you start to think about it, it gets real dicey. Whose prayer? Which God? Which form? Kneeling how? Facing where? It is outlawed for a reason, it's unconstitutional, and so should the requirement to express political views be.
If we start requiring certain expressions, we sink to the level of the Taliban, forcing people into lock step uniformity, rather than freeing people to pursue their own happiness. Over and over again, other political expressions have been "un-required" by the Supreme Court, such as the flag salute, the singing of the National Anthem and so forth and so on. Why would requiring or even recommending a flag on our uniforms be any different?
[Edited by rainmaker on Oct 15th, 2001 at 08:50 PM]
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