“I can’t breathe” is a call to racial unrest and puffs up the sails of divisive racial activists like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Eric Holder.
“I can’t live” if your political grandstanding exposes me to even more danger, is gruesome reality for all troops protecting citizen freedom in faraway places when politicians antagonize the enemy with the release of faux torture reports from the White House.
Flag-draped bodies of the fallen alone should prove that it’s risky enough dodging the bullets of the enemy on the battlefield without having a bead drawn on your back by politicians trying to get even with an electorate who retired most of your colleagues in the last election.
The “I can’t live” should have a sister T-shirt emblazoned with the words “I can’t survive”.
The “I can’t survive” T-shirt could be be worn by people like coal miners, thrown out of work by a president who ignores all human suffering in the name of ideology. It could be worn by leagues of fisher men and women, farmers and so many others whose way of life was gobbled up by the EPA.
While it should be the loudest, “I can’t live” is the unheard cry of Christians, raped, crucified and beheaded by an on-the-rampage, caliphate-seeking ISIS.
No one with publicity clout is wearing T-shirts to protest the wholesale slaughter of Christians by Islamist terrorists; no one taking up the safety call for thousands of troops left swinging in the wind by politician-orchestrated faux torture exposes.
Are any of the stars of the sports world willing to take up their cause? Even one?
Not likely.
Are the “I can’t breathe” advocates on both the Cleveland Cavaliers and Brooklyn Nets, including LeBron James, Kevin Garnett, Kyrie Irving and Deron Williams aware that their brothers in the “I can’t live” crowd are the ones guaranteeing their rights to protest the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner?
How about members of the Georgetown basketball team who stood for the National Anthem wearing “I can’t breathe” T-shirts before an NCAA college basketball game against Kansas in the first major “I can’t breathe” protest from college sports?
In places like Iraq, Syria and other nations, Christians and human rights, no balls are getting kicked and lobbed around.
Love them or hate them, football and basketball are only games.
The enemies of the West don’t play sporting games, they play for keeps.
Basketball and football stars rake in millions, all for shooting hoops and scoring touchdowns, often without ever stopping to count their blessings.
While the sports stars bank their money and pose for a cheering mainstream media with T-shirts that can never bring back the dead, ISIS is trying to
blackmail the heartbroken by offering the body of James Foley to his parents for one million dollars.
The wearing of the “I can’t breathe” T-shirt is “not a Cavs thing,” says LeBron James, “it’s a worldly thing”. (
Guardian, Dec. 10, 2014)
Ditto for ISIS, Mr. James.
Judi McLeod——
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-- Judi McLeod, Founder, Owner and Editor of Canada Free Press, is an award-winning journalist with more than 30 years’ experience in the print and online media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared throughout the ‘Net, including on Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.
