FRANKLIN, Tenn. – Music City is full of songwriters, hoping to land that big break. But a now former Middle school football coach in Williamson County said writing a politically-charged country song got him fired, after it rubbed a few parents the wrong way.
26 year old Bryan Glover is not shy about his political opinions. He is proud tea party Republican and felt compelled to voice his disappointment in the current administration through his music. But he never thought sharing his new song would leave him unemployed.
The song is called, “When You’re Holding A Hammer, Everything Looks Like A Nail.” It is a reference to Glover’s frustrations with the current administration and President Obama. Glover co-wrote the tune with a parent on the Grassland Middle School football team. He never thought sending it out to friends, family and player’s parents could put the hammer on the nail of his job with the school.
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To listen to the song, you can go to Glover’s website at www.holdingahammer.com.
A group of high school students attending a conservative leadership conference in Washington, D.C. said they were ordered by a security guard to stop singing the national anthem during a June 25 visit to the Lincoln Memorial.
“They told them to stop singing,” said Evan Gassman, a spokesman for the Young America’s Foundation. “I was taken aback. You wouldn’t expect a display of national patriotism to be censored.”
The incident occurred on June 25 as students were taking a monument tour of the nation’s capital. The decision to sing the national anthem at the memorial was a spur of the moment event, according to Shawn Balcomb, of Richmond Hill, GA.
“We got maybe two lines in and a police officer came over and he was yelling,” Balcomb said in a telephone interview. “He quieted us down.” Balcomb, 17, said the officer told the group they were being too loud. “I was dumbfounded,” he said.
“I didn’t realize there was something wrong with singing the national anthem.”
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What is wrong with this country? You can get quick approval to build a mosque but you can’t sing a patriotic song in front of the Lincoln Memorial?
Has this country forgot our forefathers founded this country on our freedom to be able to do this type of reverance? This is AMERICA, not a country where WE do not have rights!
The U.S. continues on its way to a ‘Police State’…
Anthony Graber, a Maryland Air National Guard staff sergeant, faces up to 16 years in prison.
His crime? He videotaped his March encounter with a state trooper who pulled him over for speeding on a motorcycle.
Then Graber put the video, which could put the officer in a bad light up on YouTube.
Prosecutors claim the videotaping violates wiretap laws. That’s a stretch, to put it mildly.
What this really amounts too is police don’t want the public to see when they make quick and stupid mistakes.
Anthony Graber’s case is clearly false arrest and violation of his First Amendment rights.
Full report – TIME
A mosque is about to be erected on the hallowed acreage of lower Manhattan’s Ground Zero. Where we Americans weep, they rejoice and intend to erect a shrine to the 9/11 terrorists they hail as martyrs.
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