File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_2000/anarchy-list.0004, message 621


Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 21:22:40 -0400
From: ARON KAY <pieman-AT-pieman.org>
Subject: Re: Star-Spangled Banner


the pig headed school system has no right to force you to sing a song if
imperialism........i recall i refused to salute the flag in high
school...during the vietnam war


HedNclowdz-AT-aol.com wrote:
> 
> Does anyone think that it's right to be required to sing "The Star Spangled
> Banner" (America's wonderful national anthem) at a public school's graduation
> ceremony??  I was at school and they have started having graduation practice.
> I did not know that we had the sing the star-spangled Banner. Well, of
> course, I refused to sing. Boy, did that start some controversy. They made me
> get up from the rest of the group and sit alone at the side of the room. Then
> one of our wonderful armed police officers came up to me and asked why I
> wouldn't sing. I told him because I didn't believe in singing it.
> Automatically he asked if it was political (he thought I was a "punk" because
> I was wearing a camouflage bandanna that day). I said yes. The officer almost
> started to say "Stupid kid, you just don't want to sing." But held it back.
> Of course, my refusal seriously upset Ms. Choir Director. She started to
> explain what The Star-spangled Banner stood for and that we should all be
> proud of American and all the soldiers that have fought for our freedom and
> all that other crap. Of course, them separating me from the crowd made all
> the other students afraid to refuse. I know this because I noticed some other
> kids hiding their heads to avoid being noticed because they weren't singing.
> Afterwards, I got harassed by quite of few of my fellow classmates. Isn't
> that lovely? Even another girl who called herself an anarchist called me a
> poser. She said that my refusal to sing wasn't what anarchism was about. She
> said anarchism was about vandalism. All of this because of a little song.
> Does this seem a little upsetting to anyone else?? Or is it just me?
> 
> *~*Natalie*~*
> "Most people sleep while their eyes are wide open."

   

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