Official's decision to kneel during pledge divides her small town
The crowd stood up, but Melissa Schlag didn’t. Scattered boos drowned out the Pledge of Allegiance, and as they reached the last phrase of the oath, “with liberty and justice for all,” they raised their voices, nearly screaming the words as they looked down at the silent protester kneeling in front of them.
“I wholeheartedly respect your right to protest, to take a knee, to lay down, to burn the flag, to do whatever it is .?.?. but if that’s what you would like to do, do that on your own time,” Haddam resident Pablo Arroyo said, looking and gesturing at Schlag as he held a small American flag.
Schlag, a member of the board of selectmen, or the town’s executive body, did not respond to a request for comment from The Washington Post. In a Facebook post, she called Monday’s town meeting “a verbal stoning.”
“The intolerance and hate was palpable in the room. The room booed throughout their own pledge as they belted the pledge at me like [a] weapon. I was told I urinated on the graves of dead soldiers. I was told I hate my country,” she wrote in the Facebook post Wednesday.
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I love this woman's courage. She really loves her country.
What is the best response to the "do it on your own time" bullshit argument that right-wingers proffer? It's such a stupid "suggestion".
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so it's perfectly acceptable and appropriate for right-wingers to piss on the flag in order to protest someone protesting, but it's not ok for someone to take a knee to call attention to americans getting killed by our government for no reason other than being black, because they call *that* pissing on the flag?
