Baseball Stadium Issues Warning Against Singing National Anthem, What Fans Did Instead Made
Officials Regret It
This is enough to bring a tear to the eyes of the toughest Patriotic Americans among
us.
And at the same time, it goes to show how we who are stuck here living in California
might elect evil people into office, but as American Citizens are still alright.
Last night at a baseball game Fresno California before Clovis High played Buchanan Friday
night for the Central Section softball championship, the announcer representing the section stated
there wouldn't be a national anthem prior to the game.
So the crowd did what all Americans should do when faced with such an asinine conundrum,
after a loud chorus of boos they rose to their feet and sang it anyway.
And no one could, or would even dare to try to stop them.
Breitbart News reported that as the people sang the players stopped their pregame warmups
to turn around and face the American flag that waved beyond the center-field wall.
When the song was over, the crowd burst into a round of applause and then the teams went
on to play ball.
After the game, the event coordinator Bob Kayajanian of the Central Section "almost"
apologized by making a statement that it was a mistake on his part.
"The national protocol is the first game of the session you have the national anthem,"
he said.
"The games after that are just played.
We got caught (off-guard).
Both the teams turned to face the field and they all started singing the national anthem.
They started to play some music and the people took that as the national anthem and they
all started singing, which I think is obviously a wonderful thing to show off their patriotism.
"We try to follow with what normally gets done.
It's all a learning experience for everyone and (going forward) we're playing the national
anthem at every game."
How is love of country a so-called "learning experience Mr. Kayajanian?
On a side note.
This makes me proud to be a lifelong Californian, and God knows I don't have many opportunities
to say that.
Although our land here is without a doubt one of the most majestic and fruitful of all
God's creations our politicians here are evil, and they carry disdain for all that
is good, wholesome and American.
But our people are just the same as anywhere else in the nation, we have love of country,
our family, and our creator.
And I know in my heart that someday our elected officials will reflect what we are, Patriot
Americans!
At last count, nearly a dozen local governments in California have voted to oppose what is
known as the state's "sanctuary law" — Senate Bill 54 — escalating tensions
over the long-divisive issue of illegal immigration in the Golden State.
The law, passed last year, aims to protect some immigrants in the country illegally by
limiting cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities.
alifornia is believed to have the largest population of undocumented immigrants, and
the state is on the front lines of the resistance to the Trump administration.
But the recent wave of opposition to California's opposition to the administration is turning
some heads.
Much of it began in the small Orange County suburb of Los Alamitos, where the city council
passed a measure last month to opt out of the "sanctuary" law.
"I don't like the direction California is [going]," says Warren Kusumoto, mayor
pro tem of the city.
Orange County Supervisors Revolt Against California's Sanctuary Law
Kusumoto decided to draft the initiative because he said Los Alamitos is caught in the middle
of a national political fight and is being asked to work under conflicting laws.
The small city of 11,000 also has close economic ties to the federal government.
It is home to several companies with large federal contracts as well as a U.S. military
base.
But there are also bigger symbolic reasons at play.
Kusumoto is frustrated more broadly with state policies on everything from taxes to immigration.
"As a state, we've squandered away what the Greatest Generation provided for us,"
he says.
Kusumoto is a Republican and Japanese-American — in his words, a product of immigrants.
"I believe my grandparents did it the right way, they were able to immigrate, become naturalized
eventually and citizens," he says.
"Why is that not the right way for anybody to come over here as immigrants?"
In some Southern California suburbs, and in many rural areas, there is mounting frustration
that views like Kusumoto's are being crowded out by liberal cities that have gone to battle
with President Trump.
"When you start to legislate that we cannot cooperate or communicate with another law
enforcement partner, that is problematic," says Orange County Undersheriff Don Barnes.
Last week, the sheriff's office began posting the release dates of inmates online, using
an existing database, they say, to alert federal immigration authorities to potential issues.
That move was widely seen as an open defiance to the state government in Sacramento.
Sheriff officials had loudly opposed SB-54 when it was under consideration last year.
"We shouldn't be mixing public safety with politics," Barnes says.
"And there's a crossover that keeps happening that is becoming more politically driven [that
is] disregarding the public's safety."
Still, it is clear that at least the undercurrent of this recent backlash in Southern California
is also political.
"It's the dying gasp of Orange County's nasty brand of conservativism that's infected
the body politic of the United States for far too long," says Gustavo Arellano, a
longtime liberal columnist here.
One reason the wave of conservative opposition has turned some heads is that pundits had
been predicting that Orange County in particular was beginning to turn blue.
In the 2016 presidential race, for instance, the county voted Democratic for the first
time since 1936.
The demographics have changed dramatically since the 1990s.
Whites are now in the minority in the county.
But Arellano says more diversity doesn't necessarily mean it's more Democratic.
Many of the city councils — and the Orange County Board of Supervisors, which voted to
join the Trump administration's lawsuit against California — are still controlled
by Republicans.
And 2016 may have been an anomaly, he says.
"Ultimately, the Orange County dream is suburbia, and suburbia turns even the most
fresh-off-the-boat person from Mexico or whatever into a rock-ribbed Republican," Arellano
says.
So the national political divide is just as sharp — and complicated — in Southern
California as it is anywhere else.
At heated public hearings, you can see a mix of local grass-roots activists from both sides
mingling with Trump supporters who travel from meeting to meeting, some from as far
away as Arizona.
"Put the lives of Americans and American safety first," said Jennifer Harrison, of
Phoenix, who testified this week at a hearing in Escondido.
"Americans have dreams too."
Earlier this week, Escondido became the latest city to pass a resolution condemning California's
sanctuary law, voting to file a legal brief in support of the Trump administration's
lawsuit against the state.
In Los Alamitos, where the recent backlash began, Warren Kusumoto says he was surprised
by all the attention that his council's "opt out" ordinance got.
He also resents that some on the left have cast his city as some sort of anti-immigrant
enclave.
"I may be anti-illegal immigration, but I don't hate people," Kusumoto says.
Los Alamitos leaders aren't sure whether their decision will hold up if it's challenged
in court.
But, they say, it has started a much-needed debate."
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