Jimmy Higgins
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If memory serves, the citizen is protected from the Government restricting their rights to speech. Trump is pressuring (in the sense of that is what he wants but won't get it) private owners to punish citizens for their speech/expression. The First Amendment is supposed to shield citizens from such crap. The President does not have some sort of magic shield from the 1st Amendment. The 1st Amendment was written to keep the Government (that includes the President) from interfering with its citizens and the views they hold.This one seems squarely in the category of stating an opinion. That's clearly allowed.
Free speech is what this country is based on!
Including the players.
Our nation has generally been free of this bullshit since McCarthy. That'd be one of the actual principles the flag is supposed to represent. Not just unquestioned allegiance to the Government and dog whistling about the military.
Exactly! This whole, 'well they don't have to have this right' at the office is crap because the owners haven't indicated they have a problem with this.Your workplace argument doesn't work here as the NFL has given it's implied consent to these players taking a knee on the sideline.