The hidden answers
The hidden questions
What do you do when you don't know what to do?

Star spangled banner: The two final validated
sentences in that song:

For the land of the free
and the home of the Braves

Is America Really Free?

Yes, our soldiers were brave enough to fight for our country. But are they really free? Ask yourself that question, especially the ones who are backing the president, blackballing the NFL, or anyone wanting to protest during the games. Or anywhere else they choose to.

WE CANNOT KEEP DOING THE SAME THING.

Expect different results, America, United Nations, and continents. We ARE going to look at some problematic areas.

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1. Religion

We have a right to freedom of religion, to believe what we want to. But there is no freedom in sexual and physical abuse in religion. There is no freedom in brain washing others in religion. Even in the ones who believe in a religion that hurts people.

The Catholic sexual scandal and brainwashing is no surprise to me. For a long decades, the cover up has been in the Christian churches and Catholic. There are a lot of things that goes on in the ministries that are hush-hush situations. My take on the Catholic sex scandal: it should be treated as murder, no statue of limitations. Because sex crimes are getting worse as murder. Some people have gotten away with sex crimes for decades. Continuously commit the same offenses in secret on other children or adults.

So the freedom in this situation: take away the statue of limitations on sex crimes. People who do things like this are sick individuals who need to be put in a mental hospital or prison.

2. Military

Uncle Sam doesn't care about you.

My uncle is a veteran of the Army. He was exposed to Asian Orange in Vietnam. Had a lot of health issues. My uncle has been fighting for his 100% benefit for 35 years. Now he is 75 years old.

For the land of the free and the home of the brave, the suicidal rates is up. When it comes to military services, they're not getting help like they're supposed to. Homeless veterans, disabilities, and mental health issues are major issues.

Freedom is to live in your community peacefully without being robbed, killed, or judged the wrong way. Freedom is a walk or job in the park without anything bad happening to you. Freedom is to be around who you want to and not be judged or labeled falsely.

Injustice in health care leaves our elderly suffering to meet ends meet, struggling on social security, food stamps, Medicaid, social security barely having enough to live off of. Disabled people suffer paying medical bills and their living is expensive. Most people just barely have enough to meet ends meet, becoming homeless because of lost jobs.

We're denied freedom of speech and freedom of expression, but our president can say whatever he wants, do whatever he wants without repercussions. Anybody holding him accountable? Defamation of character by our president (calling women "dogs", calling NFL players names for kneeling down during the national anthem, faking people security clearance for telling the truth on him)—truly we are living in a "yes, sir" master world. Where is the freedom?

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Injustice with the police sheriff, district judges, attorneys, and department of family/children secure denial of due process to the people in poverty in the courts. You can't live in peace without being in jeopardy of dying at the hands of a police officer.

Radical white supremacists, the whites have taken over just like the slavery days. The whites are running the government. A lot of these small counties in Georgia and others are run by all-white police sheriffs, judges, and district attorneys (or nearly about all-whites). The police or sheriff department might have one, two, or three of another race thrown in their department to make it seem diverse and not prejudice against blacks or other races. But tehy are used as the do-boys and girls. "You do what I say," meaning they do their dirty work.

This is a "yes, sir" master world.

I believe the song said gave proof through the night "our flag was still there." You see, the flag is still there, but what about the moral value of the flag? Is that still there? Is the moral value of our Constitution still here? The value of freedom and justice is not respected in America.

So to say the NFL players are wrong for kneeling for injustice of unarmed blacks being killed by police is wrong. Nobody thought about the words in the song. Do we need to change the song? Absolutely not. But we need to change our minds about how we think as Americans.

Prime example: I can have a two-dollar bill. I ball it up and throw it in the trash. The two-dollar bill didn't lose its value. As a matter of fact, somebody got it out of the trash. Used it. What was wrong with the whole situation about the two-dollar bill? Someone has trashed it and tried to make it of no value.

You see what is wrong with Americans, the national anthem, and our constitutional rights. The problem is not the kneeling at the NFL games. Every time a person's rights are being violated, we ourselves are devaluing and throwing away the flag and the constitutional rights it represents. So, Mr. Trump and others, when we want to blackball somebody for kneeling or protesting? Think about the value of our national anthem's words and constitutional rights.

Written by
Jennifer Johnson