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Michigan: Four City Council Members Take A Knee for Pledge of Allegiance
Legal Insurrection ^ | October 18, 2017 | Fuzzy Slippers

Posted on 10/18/2017 6:23:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Because rejecting “the republic for which she stands” is the real message of the left

The latest addition to the “this protest is not about America” leftist playbook is taking a knee for the Pledge of Allegiance. Four members of the Ann Arbor city council took a knee during the saying of the pledge that opens their meetings.

Michigan Live reports:

Four Ann Arbor city council members chose to kneel during the Pledge of Allegiance at a meeting on Monday, Oct. 16.

Chip Smith, 5th Ward; Chuck Warpehoski, 5th Ward; Sumi Kailasapathy, 1st Ward; and Jason Frenzel, 1st Ward; moved in front of the council’s table, turned toward the flag and took a knee when it came time to recite the Pledge of Allegiance after the meeting was called to order.

Warpehoski said the move was an act of attention, concern and respect.

“I can’t speak to what is in each person’s heart, but for me to ‘take a knee’ is an act of attention, of concern, and of respect,” Warpehoski wrote on his website ahead of Monday’s meeting and also stated at the meeting. “And it is in that spirit that I take a knee at tonight’s City Council meeting: out of respect for the aspiration that we be a nation ‘with liberty and justice for all,’ with full attention that we fall short of that ideal in many ways, and with humble dedication to continue to work that the promise of the pledge may be fulfilled.”

During the meeting, Kailasapathy said she knelt during the Pledge to demonstrate her commitment to upholding democratic values.

“For me, taking a knee is also showing solidarity with the group of people who have been doing this at the national level,” she said.

Leftist apologists continue to insist that the anti-America #TakeAKnee protests are only about racial injustice (“white supremacy,” free speech, and whatever other cause they’ve concocted). Some, like Hillary Clinton, even go so far as to insist that it’s not anti-American for the protests to take this specific form.

Fox News reports:

In discussing the NFL players who take a knee during the national anthem, she said that “kneeling is a reverent position. It was to demonstrate in a peaceful way against racism and injustice in our criminal system.” She further noted it wasn’t “against our anthem or our flag.”

She can’t be serious.

It’s well understood that one stands during the playing of the national anthem to show respect. To take a knee is to intentionally do the opposite. It’s hard to see it as anything other than a sign of disrespect for the flag and the anthem, no matter what else it’s meant to signify.

Clinton didn’t stop there. She also continued to insist that President Trump’s criticism of black NFL players who kneel is a “dog whistle” to his base. It’s not enough that she makes excuses for the players, she also has to turn any criticism of their actions in [sic] a racial thing.

Hillary would have us believe that NFL players are being reverent in kneeling before our flag and anthem to protest [insert whatever latest leftist talking point]. It’s mind-boggling, and as an aside, I would bet real money that Bill advised against taking this stance.

The left has made abundantly clear that they think America is the root of all racial, economic, social, and blah blah blah problems and is even the problem itself. They’ve been dancing around this point for a century, but they are now openly demonstrating it far and wide.

The American flag is the ultimate symbol of republican values. It represents the foundation and guiding principles of our great country. Disrespecting it to further alternate democratic (?) values is a profound ideological statement with truly frightening implications.

In some ways, taking a knee during the pledge is more telling than doing so even during the national anthem. The anthem is celebratory, a way to bring together all of a nation’s disparate demographics under one uniting force. It serves a function, in other words, that is anathema to the left who thrive on identity politics and division.

Taking a knee for the pledge sees and rejects that unifying “we are all Americans” goal . . . and then ups the ante.

The Pledge of Allegiance:

“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

The pledge specifically states that the flag of our United States of America stands for, is a symbol of, our republic; the flag represents our nation’s foundation on Judeo-Christian values, unity, liberty, and equal justice for all.

Each of these foundational American values is repugnant to a left intent on the fundamental transformation of our nation. Their goal is a secular and deeply divided (and thus easily-controlled population that is centrally-controlled), and in which justice is meted out according to a many-faceted definition of “justice” that is essentially vengeful of perceived (and even real) historic wrongs and that is therefore decidedly unequal.

But it’s not all doom and gloom. President Trump reads the American public particularly well, and his observation that Hillary’s argument that kneeling for the anthem and flag has nothing to do with America is why she lost.

It’s not the only reason, or even a main reason, but it is not an insignificant factor. Her loss last November has somehow freed the left, they are deliberately and overtly attacking not only Trump and Republicans but the very fabric of our nation. And it’s not going unnoticed.


TOPICS: Michigan; Issues; Parties; State and Local
KEYWORDS: democrats; football; michigan; patriotism
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1 posted on 10/18/2017 6:23:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You peoples didn’t understand that black lives matter means white lives no longer matter.


2 posted on 10/18/2017 6:28:39 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Each of these foundational American values is repugnant to a left intent on the fundamental transformation of our nation. Their goal is a secular and deeply divided (and thus easily-controlled population that is centrally-controlled), and in which justice is meted out according to a many-faceted definition of “justice” that is essentially vengeful of perceived (and even real) historic wrongs and that is therefore decidedly unequal.


Bears repeating. This is a movement to destroy the Republic of the United States of America.


3 posted on 10/18/2017 6:32:26 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ann Arbor residents are slaves on the Dingell Family Plantation, aka Mich’s 12th Congressional District.


4 posted on 10/18/2017 6:32:56 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s gonna be really easy to distinguish the good guys. Just play the pledge of allegiance.


5 posted on 10/18/2017 6:33:30 PM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Justtice for all would have H->! in the klink.


6 posted on 10/18/2017 6:35:15 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I am so sick of the phrase “take a knee”

They disrespected the flag and the country——period.

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7 posted on 10/18/2017 6:35:21 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Mears

“Hey, look at me. Look at me. I’m important and oppressed.”


8 posted on 10/18/2017 6:36:52 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They’re living in the past.


9 posted on 10/18/2017 6:37:35 PM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Idiots.


10 posted on 10/18/2017 6:47:17 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: ichabod1

The actions of these four imbeciles plays right into point number one...the top of the 11 point list of subversive activities of “Critical Thinking” designed to convert Western Democracies into Cultural Marxist States. read it and weep...

https://billmuehlenberg.com/2009/05/11/the-frankfurt-school-and-the-war-on-the-west/


11 posted on 10/18/2017 6:48:43 PM PDT by albertabound
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Tell me again how this isn’t about the Flag.


12 posted on 10/18/2017 7:00:39 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Just wait until sh*tbird Dem candidates start this crap. I dare a presidential candidate to do it. Obama at times during his run refused to put his hand over his heart. Everyone saw the the Whookiee’s disdain for the flag. These people are total anti-American scum.


13 posted on 10/18/2017 7:09:26 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

These are the same people that would be on their knees begging the government for a handout instead of standing up against the very tyranny that is happening to them.

Nothing but pawns.


14 posted on 10/18/2017 7:11:42 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Here’s what Sheriff Clarke has to say about this
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3596032/posts


15 posted on 10/18/2017 7:43:34 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (Mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin)
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To: Mears

IF they take a knee then they can damn well take a hike out of this country.


16 posted on 10/18/2017 7:48:22 PM PDT by sweetiepiezer (Winning is not getting old.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

the whitey owes pose


17 posted on 10/18/2017 9:12:58 PM PDT by aces
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To: FreedomStar3028

When the Jehovah witness would come by to convert us - my did would say “I like to start these conversations with the pledge of allegiance”. I guess we not going to be in the 144,000.


18 posted on 10/18/2017 9:55:24 PM PDT by datricker (Cut Taxes Repeal ACA Deport DACA - Americans First, Build the Wall, Lock her up MAGA!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
One of them was born in Sri Lanka and only came to the US in the 1990s. Another Third World import disrespecting our nation.

https://localwiki.org/ann-arbor/Sumangala_Kailasapathy

19 posted on 10/18/2017 10:03:26 PM PDT by Mozzafiato
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I thought all the old reds and black extremists had died from the Detroit City Council but I guess I was wrong.

A new generation of ignorant leftists and racists has taken their play.

“Hey Jack, forget it. It’s Detroit”.


20 posted on 10/18/2017 11:26:23 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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