I want to know why this song is soooooo sacred.
I mean,
really.
It's a
song. Yes, it's a patriotic song.
But yanno something? It doesn't quit being patriotic because it's --- oooh --- sung in a different language. And a citizen doesn't stop being a citizen just because --- ooh --- he or she sings the song in a different language.
I mean,
really.
It's not a controversy. It's grandstanding. Time for folks to grow up and remember that it's not the song, it's not its language, it's not even the words that are important. It's the country. It's the freedom. It's all of that stuff. And if the country doesn't stop being itself because some people don't speak English, why should the anthem stop being the anthem because some people don't sing it in English?
This is your tax dollars at work, folks. This is politicians screaming about this kind of silliness instead of social justice. This is going into the press, rather than Iraq, Iran, gas prices, interest rates, alternative energy or even whether your local streets will be paved or the price of tea in Poughkeepsie. It's a paper tiger, designed to distract us from what's important. Best thing to do is ignore this nonsense and concentrate on things that are more substantial.
Like burning a piece of notebook paper that might have, at one time, touched an American flag.
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