and heres what WE THE PEOPLE ARE saying bout that thing!!!
This is truly dispicable
Tuesday, August 10, 2010 at 11:08 AM
margd
This is a tough one. On the one hand, telling people they can't sing the national anthem seems like a violation of the first amendment. Not to mention it's a national monument and the national anthem for heaven's sake. On the other hand, I've been to the Lincoln memorial many times and can confirm there is a very special atmosphere there. It is a place where most people lower their voices in awe a- it is a place conducive to contemplation and meditation on the issues that affect our country, then and in the past. It's almost church-like. The students should have moved the few steps out of consideration for the other people there, but I don't think they should have been forced to do so.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010 at 11:08 AM
bjgreen
joev5638 So someone told these kids to turn themselves into victims. You know what, they are. They are victims of a lost society where nothing is special. Everything is - don't offend someone. The rights of the few overtake the rights of the majority. This mall in Washington has held many events for the "down trodden" "causes" but god forbid anything patriotic ever happens in the sacred place. Oh, I'm sorry, you can't talk about god any more either. I remember a time when a person mught start singing and everyone else would join in. Are we so ashamed of our country that we can no longer show it? As Lynyrd Skynyrd says No, That Ain't My America.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010 at 11:07 AM
dave4yhvh
Exactly what we need as a people...courageous youth standing in civil disobedience to tyrants infringing on our inalienable God given rights!
Tuesday, August 10, 2010 at 11:05 AM
holdonhere
Tennessee
Republicans are stupid creatures. They think they can go around doing what ever, when ever, where ever. You can't. There are rules. These rules are known, except to republicans. Why is that, why don't you people know the rules. These arn't new rules. It's as if we have to constantly update the republicans on the rules that all otheres know about. Why? Is it stupidity?
Tuesday, August 10, 2010 at 11:04 AM
dwatkins
NUTS!
Tuesday, August 10, 2010 at 11:04 AM
teabagparanoia
Ohio
The group these kids belong to is a front for the uber Right Wing. This group is so Right Wing it is a wonder the kids were not singing Deutschland uber alles.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010 at 11:04 AM
maryinohio
Ohio
Exactly what neutrality law is this and when was it passed? I wonder whether the students were allowed to recite the Gettysburg Address?
Tuesday, August 10, 2010 at 11:03 AM
archkid
I am completely dumbfounded how illiterate, ignorant, or just plain stupid most of you are. You fail to accept the fact that the Park Police were just doing there job enforcing a law that was made for a reason and that the children could have finished singing their national anthem if they had just moved 25 feet away from where they started singing. No one stopped them from singing the national anthem per say, they were merely stopped from singing it in the location they were in and as stated in article and above in this comment, they could have finished their song if they moved. Frankly I have a feeling the kids and their handlers caused a huge unnecessary rucus and would not listen to the. TRUTH they were being told. By the way our anthem needs to not be a militaristic ode to war, it needs to be changed to America The Beautiful.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010 at 11:02 AM
fritz59
THE NATIONAL ANTHEM SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO BE SUNG, RECITED, PREACHED, SIGNED, ETC. ON ANY SOVEREIGN TERRORITORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WITHOUT CAUSE OR CIRCUMSTANCE OF THOSE SINGING, RECITING, ETC., OR THEIR POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR ANY OTHER BELIEFS!!!!! THIS IS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THIS IS OUR SONG!!!!! PERIOD!!!!!