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Retired Cmdr. John Wells says he cannot in good conscience enter NFL stadium because of the NFL nation anthem protests.
Injured navy veteran John Wells was honored by the New Orleans Saints with their People’s Health Champion Award this year, but has decided not to attend the game.
Wells told the New Orleans Saints he could not in good conscience enter the stadium where players are disrespecting the flag.
Breitbart.com reports…
Meet John Wells, he is a retired Navy commander and executive director of the national Military Veterans Advocacy organization, in Slidell, Louisiana. Mr. Wells was chosen by the Saints to be the recipient of the People’s Health Champion award. A recognition offered to a member of the community who exemplifies “the exceptional achievements of Louisiana residents age 65 and older.”
Though flattered by being chosen for the award, Wells could not “in good conscience” accept the award. Given the “slap in the face” he feels NFL players have shown veterans by way of their anthem protests.
“Although I am touched and honored to be selected for such an award, the ongoing controversy with NFL players’ disrespect for the national flag forces me to decline to participate in the presentation,” Wells said in a press release. “Since this award is tainted with the dishonorable actions of the NFL and its players, I cannot accept it.”
The Saints responded to Wells with this statement…
Respectfully and honorably, we chose Mr. Wells for the Peoples Health Champion Award purposefully for this game to bring to light the exact issues that he and his organization represent — the health and well-being of our military, veterans and their families. Unfortunately, he has chosen very publicly not to accept this honor and refused the opportunity to promote the very cause for which he was being honored and distract from awareness we hoped to build throughout our community. We respect his decision, he has that right, and we thank him for his service to our country and his past efforts on behalf of the military and veterans.
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how can a veteran spurn people for protesting, which is a major part of the very constitution for which he supposedly fought.
How can these players protest against the system which has given them fame and made them millionaires?
Being millionaires doesn´t make them immune to their fellow Americans being murdered and brutalized by the police. They are protesting the police state that this country has become and that blacks are unfairly targeted by police.
Negroes are not unfairly target by police. The percentage of whites killed by police in violent conflicts is HIGHER than similar conflicts involving blacks. If anything, Caucasians are unfairly targeted by the USSA Police State.
Any other RACIST demagoguery?
Is it possible we can agree the USA has become a police state?
No, we can’t, because you and the media, have to make a RACE issue out of it.
I know what I am talking about. I owned a body shop and had several police officers in to repair their cars. I heard them talking about how they don´t allow ¨niggers¨ in Scottsdale. The minute we see one we pull them over and ask what the hell are you doing here. Then tell them to get out and don´t come back.
I won´t argue with you on the crime rate, but that does not give an excuse to treat them all as thugs. And yes, we are a police state which has nothing to do with race.
I know what I am talking about. When I had to use the public bus one day, I went to wait at the bus stop, and a group of black youths came up to wait, too. The are like “get on the bus, nigger” and “move your black ass, nigger” and so on. Having a good time, grinning sideways to see my reaction. These are kids with $300 shoes and $100 t-shirts, from families that make $150,000/year as Federal government bureaucrats, the richest county in America, Fairfax County, Virginia. Why are these PRIVILEGED blacks so racist? Why are NFL players… Read more »
AAAAAAAAnd, he is racist xD i guess xD
What no body is considering about these “kneelings” is the fact that it’s NOT their flag or anthem! At the time the Star Spangled Banner was penned there were practically no negros in the US. The same goes for our flag – the “dead White guys” took that 13 starred flag from that little strip of land on the east coast and progressed all the way to the Pacific with no assistance from the negros. What I’d like to see is about a thousand Whites kneeling in protest outside the stadium because of the trillions of dollars we’ve poured into… Read more »
What the hell are you talking about. There millions of slaves at the time that was written. That progression West stole more land from the rightful inhabitants.
Indians did not “own” the land. They did not have any legal framework to “own” property. The Indians STOLE the land and killed the previous inhabitants, just like all other savages.
If you are going to make another race issue out of Indians and Europeans, and stuff that happened hundreds of years ago, if you are going to apply today’s “values” to stuff that happened centuries in the past, then I want to start with the Hun’s (today’s French) who made a genocide of my ancestors in Europe centuries ago, too.
The Native Americans had been living here for 50,000 years, as new evidence has shown they were here much earlier than believed before. Don´t give that didn´t have deeds to the land, their culture was very different and infinitely better than any white society that ever existed. But the whites came and slaughtered them because they could.
It is coming back in the not to distant future as the US is going to fuck with Russia and China one too many times.
The Indians did not appear in North America by magic. Whatever human groups were here before them, became victims of Indian genocide.
Don;t tell me you claim the Indians were an exception to the barbarian “kill or be killed” “survival of the fittest” rules which governed all uncivilized and most civilized groups since the beginning of time, and up until fairly recently? The Indians were savages, who were always at war with each other.
The only reason that the Left espouses that view is because they are anti-white racists, seeking to legitimatize their ethnic hate.
OK George – just to give you the numbers – In 1814 (at the time of the Star Spangled Banner) the population of the US was a little over 7 million, the negro slave numbers were a bit over 1 million – hardly “millions!” The westward movement made use of the vast land that the few residents had failed to do for centuries. We’re talking about a people that had not even in the 19th century discovered the wheel, a written language, a simple method of starting a fire or hadn’t domesticated any of the local animals for their benefit… Read more »