http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local-beat/Students-Silenced-for-Singing-Anthem-at-Lincoln-Memorial-100443134.html Students Silenced for Singing Anthem at Lincoln Memorial
Group Told "Demonstrations" Not AllowedBy P.J. ORVETTI
Updated 2:32 PM EDT, Thu, Aug 12, 2010
In 1939, the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to let Marian Anderson perform before an integrated audience at Constitution Hall. The Board of Education of the then-segregated District also refused to let her perform in the auditorium of a white public high school. So Anderson turned to a symbol of freedom: the Lincoln Memorial.
That April, Anderson held an open-air concert on the steps of the monument to the end of slavery and the ideals of the Republic. Stepping up before a racially mixed audience of more than 75,000, Anderson began with "My Country, ‘Tis of Thee."Two months ago, at the same memorial, a group of students were confronted by a security guard for singing the national anthem.
The students, members of the conservative Young America’s Foundation, were told by U.S. Park Police that they were "were in violation of federal law and their impromptu performance constituted a demonstration in an area that must remain 'completely content neutral,'" reports FoxNews.com.
"The area they were standing in and singing is an area that is restricted for this type of activity," said Sgt. David Schlosser. "The United States Park Police is absolutely content-neutral when it comes to any sort of demonstrations in these areas."One of the students, Shawn Balcomb, said the singing was spontaneous, not planned, and was certainly not intended to be political. "We got maybe two lines in and a police officer came over and he was yelling," he told Fox News.
"I was dumbfounded."Evan Gassman, a spokesman for the group, said, "I was taken aback. You wouldn’t expect a display of national patriotism to be censored."
At that point, he said, it had become political -- and the group kept singing as an act of civil disobedience.
"If their idea of civil disobedience is singing the national anthem, then so be it," Gassman said. "Let them disobey."***
How many historical speeches, gatherings, protests, etc,... have been held on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Martin Luther King's famous speech, Glenn Beck is having a major gathering soon, ON THE STEPS OF THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL, and vows to sing OUR COUNTRIES NATIONAL ANTHEM TO OPEN...
Good grief, can we detox the Kool-aid from these asshats! It's the LINCOLN MEMORIAL FOR THE LOVE OF PETE!!!!! (profanity restrictions really holding me back),....
Damn....We have got to do better with this PC BS infecting this country. It's a National Monument, in our nations Capitol, and I CAN'T SING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM!!!!!?
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(insert expletive) THAT. I'd be singing it every damn day if I lived there.
Mosque's at ground zero, unemployment up, foreclosures up, food stamp usage up, our country is broke, the First Lady is spending tens of thousands per day IN ANOTHER COUNTRY, corrupt legislators, a socialist Admin & POTUS, and now this?
I really am getting tired of being so pissed off at this countries direction. I've been to Town Hall meetings, I vote, I email, write letters to Congressional RATS, that could care less, RINO's among what was a respectable party, a POTUS THAT APOLOGIZES & BOWS for pete's sake....
Makes me want to sell my house, probably at a loss, take it and run to the far corners of Alaska, or Montana, North Dakota, or some way off part of Texas, and wait for the TEOTWAWKI. Mayan calender says 2012 anyway, how timely.....
I apologize for the rant. Thank you for the outlet to do so.
The weeping for my country will soon be at an end, and the top of the "pressure cooker" can't hold out much longer....
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