US Park Police Order Students to Quit Singing National Athem at Lincoln Memorial

[W. Gray]

Students visiting at the Lincoln Memorial told to stop singing the National Anthem but after being dumbfounded at the request, the students continued singing, anyway.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/08/09/students-lincoln-memorial-told-stop-singing-national-anthem/

[twirldoggy]

Seems to me the students were in a contemplative mode and spontaneously sang.

[Diane Amberg]

This happened back in June. Why is it being shown now? Unfortunately I do understand both sides of this. They don't want groups "taking over" for any reason whether it's preaching for a cause or singing because it could happen many times a day and disrupt the  atmosphere. When I was a kid the teacher told us we weren't even allowed to talk while we were there. ( silent prayers were OK) But today's kids, who are very loose and free could get caught up in the moment, which seems so innocent until  50 other groups want to do the same thing and the serene atmosphere of the memorial is lost. My problem was that they refused to stop and got all smart with the officer. I hope every group that goes there now doesn't try to demand their "rights" to do something too. Leave it to the media to make a big deal out of it. I think if the kids had moved over to the side of the memorial rather than in it, it wouldn't have been a problem. Also note the very few kids who had their hands over their hearts. I hope this whole thing just quietly goes away as a one time thing and the media doesn't manipulate it into something that gets out of hand.

[srkruzich]

I wonder why they would even sing the anthem at a momument to a traitor

[srkruzich]

Article 3 section 3 of the Constitution prohibits the federal Government from levying war against any state and defines this act as Treason.  Lincoln comitted treason in this act.  Lincoln censured and prosecuted the press a clear violation of 1st amendment.  He unleashed troops that murdered civilans, raped women, burned courthouses, and robbed banks in the southern states.  He blockaided southern ports to prevent trade, suspended habeus corpus and imprisoned 16000 suspected confederate sympathisers in the north without trial.  Spent money before congress authorized it.  He introduced the first draft, and income tax without authorization of congress.  Lincoln preferred Safety over liberty.

[redcliffsw]

Lincoln changed America from what the Founding Fathers intended.
Lincoln layed the foundation for the mess in our country today.  It's
your gov't schools that continue to promote the tyrant and his kind.

There's a women of about 85 yrs whose father came to Kansas from
Virginia in the early 1900's.  She was born and raised here in KS.  Recently,
she told me that when she was in school she wrote a report on Lincoln and
gave it to her dad to read.  After reading her report, he said, "Honey, that
man was not like that at all". Obviously,her father knew the truth about the
real Lincoln.  All of us raised in KS and attended the gov't schools, learned
what a great man that Lincoln was.  Now, many of us know that he was not
a great man but he that he stood against the principles of our founding fathers.

[Diane Amberg]

You both very cleverly changed the topic. Now why is that? Not enough Lincoln bashing today? That was not a school trip so leave the schools out and go back to the topic or start another thread,  PLEASE. 

[srkruzich]

You both very cleverly changed the topic. Now why is that? Not enough Lincoln bashing today? That was not a school trip so leave the schools out and go back to the topic or start another thread,  PLEASE. 

Oh no lincoln bashing at all. I just said i don't see why anyone would honor a traitor, and gave his incredible track record he left.

Only thing booth did wrong was he waited too long

[Diane Amberg]

You surely know that the average American living today does not agree with you.You are welcome to your opinion of course but why hijack this subject?

[srkruzich]

You surely know that the average American living today does not agree with you.You are welcome to your opinion of course but why hijack this subject?

I could care less what the average American believes.  A FACT is a FACT.  The FACTS i listed cannot be refuted.  All of them were crimes, 1 of them was treason, and all were done by lincoln.  if you can disprove the facts then i'll say he was a great hero but until then, he was one of the biggest traitors of this country.