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Originally posted by rainmaker
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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Look, feel free to wear or not wear whatever you like on
your stripes, but again I ask are you opposed to an
assocation or league requiring you to wear an emblem
in general? When you get to the NCAA D1 tournament will you
refuse to wear the round black patch that says "NCAA" on
it because you are defending your rights and freedoms?
Finally, please do not insult those that lost their lives
and those that will lose their lives by spouting inane
nonsense about us sinking "to the level of the Taliban".
Doing so makes you sound very unaware of the realities we
face.