It’s Not Enough to Cover an Entire Football Field with an American Flag . . .
November 6, 2013
. . . and for fighter jets to fly over the stadium before the game, for soldiers to march all around the field, and for tens of thousands of people to jump up out of their seats to listen to yet another long, excruciatingly boring, and poorly performed rendition of the national anthem when it comes to worshipping the god of the military. Now Northwestern University’s football team wears American flag uniforms adorned with fake blood splatters. What’s next — human sacrifice at halftime “to honor our veterans”?
Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo [send him mail] is a former professor of economics at Loyola University Maryland and a longtime member of the senior faculty of the Mises Institute. He is the author or co-author of eighteen books including The Real Lincoln; How Capitalism Saved America; Lincoln Unmasked; Hamilton's Curse; Organized Crime: The Unvarnished Truth About Government; The Problem with Socialism; and The Politically-Incorrect Guide to Economics.
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