re: Whom, by kneeling, would disappoint you the most?

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Protesting is a given right as an American just as owning a gun is. If you truly love America and freedom, you should support Americans exercising their freedoms regardless of your views.

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reread the OP.

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The TD patriots can't handle all of that.

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reading comprehension is H@rD

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Protesting is a given right as an American just as owning a gun is. If you truly love America and freedom, you should support Americans exercising their freedoms regardless of your views.

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What he said.

In other countries the citizens often cannot express their views due to justified fears of never seeing their loved ones again. While I did not agree with kneeling as the manner of that expression, I note that it has indeed been an effective one.

The message is not against the flag or the military, but against police abuse, which I recognize does in fact exist, and it is not just a "minority" issue. ALL OF US have a right not to be abused by the authorities, and we cannot tolerate it on the belief that only SOME citizens are victims but that is okay because it is not US. Abuse by the authorities was one of the reasons we shot the British and I stand for the proposition that freedom from it applies to all of us ... or I may decide to kneel for that proposition. Probably not, since my father and uncles and their cousins were WWII and Korean veterans, but I also feel that they fought for a country in which the "peace officers" did not act like the Gestapo.