Because you are being anti fart and anti freedom, and anti everything if you don't. Just say " WTF was that?" and see the response. Suffer in silence and know all the other liberal snowflakes are crying with you, or open up and celebrate freedom....

May be the anthem is a holdover from a bygone time, but it is entirely symbolic and the political system has made a cottage industry out of programming symbols into the american psych and culture, so killing it off will probably not happen. With the use of hot button accusations, "You are UNAmerican" would ring out in 30 seconds after the announcement, and controversy is always bad for business, hence, is Colin. He should go with the flow, as it is a job expectation, one he decided to forgo.

It's a complicated issue for me. First, I've been a 49ers fan since 1953, and Kaepermick has provided the only interesting QB play for the 49ers in the last 15 years. I love his play and wish Lynch would sign him again.
Second, I think Colin is wrong in his assertion that blacks are being shot by police at an elevated rate. Blacks commit about ⅔ of felonies, but constitute only 40% of people shot and killed by police. If anything, blacks are being treated with kid gloves.
Third, the NFL is a private organization and if they don't want to deal with anyone for any reason they should be free to "blackball" him. He has other options---arena football, CFL, and whatever he was planning to do after his athletic career was over.
Finally, I dislike symbols. You only have to live in a foreign country for a while to realize how artificial they all are. Flags, national anthems, various colors associated with days of the week--it's all nonsense. The national anthem being played before a sporting event only started during WWII. Before that baseball umpires started a game by yelling "play ball". I'd prefer the NFL would just dump the play of the national anthem before games. Problem solved.

Football is an entertainment venue - a business. When people quit watching because something disturbs them, the owners loose money. They can pretend to be "politically correct" as long as it doesn't hurt them in the pocket. This my friends is an example of how we as thinking people should be responding to the endless left wing garbage hurled up at us every day. Just quit doing business with the sponsors of this garbage!

I find this ironic because he can't get a job because he didn't respect our flag. I couldn't get a job because I did respect our flag. His incident was in 2016, mine took place in 1969. Maybe we have moved in the right direction in some aspects.

Why does someone expect the people on the elevator to like them when they pass gas?

Have to wonder what his liberal friends think of him now.. How brave he was to show how much he despised the nation that paid him so well...!

Idiot.

I agree that once the BATF had attacked and their crimes (e.g., using military aircraft to attack under false pretenses) were known to the people inside the compound and the illegality of said attack was evident in the bullet holes of the structure, the BATF could not allow a mass of people to testify to the crimes of the BATF and the evidence had to be destroyed. The system designed by government for the benefit of government was rigged against the Branch Davidians and they had to die so the truth would not be so obvious that the BATF might suffer the death it truly deserves.

I would go with Eddie Willers or Ragnar. I do not recall Ragnar needing to be of a specific background. I don't see Tim Allen pulling of a foriegn accent and character well...but you never know, he is great at comedy, but I also think he has a serious streak in him.

Again, I am not arguing the points as they are all valid components of the situation. I do believe that one of their key beliefs was in an "end of the world cneario with a goverment takeover and imprisonment" of all people, and a removal of all guns from their hands. In that scenario, the situation was doomed before it started, as the BATF was committed by it loony leadership to make an example of them, and incompetently thought they could overwhelm them with their poorly executed use of force. On the other hand, the Wacoites all believed this was a fulfillment of prophecy and died before being taken by the evil government. There was no possibility of a peaceful outcome, once the wheels started to move.

Exactly right their is no consistency to their value system. Support Muslim immigrants ---a religion that oppresses women making them wear burka's
and conform to Sharia Law and live under strict control of the males.
The BLM crowd ignores the black lives lost daily
amongst the gang bangers and the recruitment of youth into said gangs, and focus on the police
responses that in many cases is justified, again no consistency.

People who make a valid observation about out of control government and then try to get out of the way of it while obeying the law were not "committed to the act" of being attacked by that government. If that is true, then anyone who is different from the norm is fair game for attack. The people running BATF were wholly at fault for the initial attack and the people running the FBI intentionally burned to death innocent people who had done nothing wrong and harmed no one. The BATF ignored the reports of the local sheriff who had already visited the scene and found no probable cause for a warrant.
I do agree that a part of the stage was set. The government had been moving toward this kind of illegal action for many years, including the National Firearms Act of 1934 and the Gun Control Act of 1968, both unconstitutional without doubt. The government has continued to act in the same way since, using civil forfeiture to steal property of people that government allegedly suspects of a crime, but has not found evidence to prove wrongdoing, placing the burden of proof on the supposedly innocent, effectively rendering them guilty until proven innocent. Such government is deserving of revolution and execution for treason against the sovereign people.

If you were casting an "Atlas Shrugged" miniseries, who would you like Tim Allen to portray?

This guy is from the ghetto and as they say- you can take him out of the ghetto but you can't take the ghetto out of him...

No argument, but they were committed to the act way before they started, and the Wacoites were also committed to it, in that they believed that the world was ending and the government would come get them with weapons. So, that was what I meant by the stage was set, there was no way out when you have 2 groups of people diametrically opposed, and both stupid in their own way. Although the Feds seem incredibly well suited at hiring the least intelligent they can find, and then giving them guns (and I do not mean the military). Disgraceful is a very soft way to describe the debacle...

The BATF knew exactly why they attacked the people in Waco, to get positive publicity and get their budget increased. They earned the nickname "F Troop". But burning people alive is the FBI's area of expertise, and they knew exactly what they were doing (and what the outcome would be) with the CS gas and tanks in a wooden structure where the electricity had been turned off and there were candles and lanterns for lighting. It was not mere incompetence.
Both agencies should have been disbanded in 1994 and the people in charge of the initial BATF raid, and those who ran the FBI inferno operation should have had adjoining cells for life in highest security federal prison. Disgraceful.

She also would not have the "I am special because of race' card either...

Your story is very true and the root cause was indeed the whole guilt thing, a lot of pressure from employees not to hire "baby killers" and a total lack of knowledge of just went on, a lot of it caused by the government trying to cover it and forget. Thanks for your service in a really crappy situation. Intel hired me after 20 years as a Submarine Sonar man and gave me credit for a bachelors degree, so it change d over time and they actively recruited military.

Nope, I will bet he has 0 in the bank, and owes a few million to the gangs for all his drugs, girls and cars.

Which is exactly why he will never work in it again...

Excellent points! Maybe you should be his manager...

Personal responsibility? Nope, that requires a form of self honesty to recognize the world the way it really is. That line of thought is neither encouraged or presented by the education establishment, and I have a sneaking suspicion he was one of those odd people who went to college and never had a class...

Exactly, it is the use of any excuse to claim special privilege that is really the sick part of all these situations. No one is special, in that we are all special, making it a neutral claim.

BTW, not that that doesn't happen, it is just the selectivity of their causes that makes me sick. These loons will make a protest over one specific thing and ignore 90 others that are just as bad. That is what both political parties count on.

And Ias Isaw on a show dealing with terrorism in the US, the Waco thing came out of a conflict between people who felt the government were going to come and get them, and a government that did go out to get them, neither party had a clue as to why they were doing it, it was spun out of control way before it started.