Melissa Mackenzie nails it:
When the Games were held in Spain, every other team stopped, turned to face the King and bowed their heads. In contrast, the Americans walked to the King’s box, did not turn their bodies, but turned their heads, looked into the King’s eyes, turned back, and kept walking. They showed respect for the man, but they did not bow. The King is just a man, after all.
Why? Because Americans do not bow to their fellow man. They answer to one authority, and one alone: God’s.
Bowing is all the rage on the left these days. Black Lives Matter activists are making idiot white women bow and kiss their boots. Yes, literally. Nancy Pelosi and the Democrat dimwits in Congress took a knee, bowing their heads, and then couldn’t get back up. In the worst form of this, a police chief chose to lay down prostrate for eight minutes for the mob.
These cases of performative obsequiousness should disgust all free people, but especially Americans. The fundamental truth about where our rights come from, God, and that all men are equal before God should be front and center in every citizen’s core beliefs. That some people in authority distort their mandates and act like mini potentates does not mean that there’s a new truth. It means they’re violating The Truth.
Go here to read the rest. I was born a free man and I will die a free man, with no kneeling in between except to God and when I asked my Bride to become my Bride.
On impious, obsequious, virtue signaling, kneeling.
Our “Pope” sets the ultimate example, even going so far as to wash the feet of the dispossessed. Liberals might add this practice to their cow towing repertoire.
I would like to point out that, while I agree with the main point and think that all this kneeling is a disgrace, the beginning of Mrs. Mackenzie’s article smells strongly of BS. I am a Spaniard and the thing about bowing in the 1992 Olympics doesn’t ring a bell at all. Even if it were true, bowing is certainly nothing unamerican. Washington, Jefferson and all the founding fathers bowed often, as polite persons used to do to honour or greet other people. So that behaviour on the part of the athletes, if true (which I strongly doubt it is), would have been merely rude. Another thing that points to a fake anecdote is the absurd idea that American athletes at the Olympics are “unlike any other team” because they are “diverse” and “exuberant, joyful, and bursting with optimistic energy in a way that’s obviously and uniquely American”. Whoever says something like is obviously letting their imagination run wild or has never seen an Olympic opening ceremony (where most if not all the athletes are exuberant, joyful and bursting with optimistic energy, and diversity is more the norm than the exception).
Again, I agree with the main point that this kneeling fashion is merely a way to make everybody submit to our progressive overlords.
Don, any thoughts on the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff publicly getting political by apologizing for walking across the park with the Commander in Chief? Where as I didn’t know he was involved before, I do now and I know now that he thought wrong, otherwise why apologize? I find it appalling that the General in the highest position of Authority has just publicly undercut the President!! Since when does the military publicly apologize for standing / walking with the President?
I find it appalling that the General in the highest position of Authority has just publicly undercut the President!! Since when does the military publicly apologize for standing / walking with the President?
I agree. We have now a highly politicized class of flag officers who lean left for career advantage. They view Trump as a temporary bump in what they perceive as complete Democrat dominance for many years to come. I will have more to say about this in a post.