Lets All Take a Knee.

Today sees the 51st Super Bowl. Super Bowl Li.

The Super Bowl is widely seen as marking the start of the American cultural calender. Using broad brush strokes it along with the commercials that accompany it attempt to promote discussion about the big social and political issues of the moment.

However this year's Super Bowl takes place just 16 days after the inauguration of a new US President. With the US' new political future still largely unwritten it is obviously difficult to discuss what has not yet happened.

So this year's Super Bowl has simply decided to use as its main theme the same theme its been using for the past two years. The deep racial division within in the US that were stirred up by former President Barack Obama in a cynical attempt to have Hillary Clinton succeed him.

So in the supremely white corner we have the New England Patriots. They represent the landing of the Mayflower on Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts in 1620. They also represent the American Revolution of 1776 and the formation of the United States of America as a nation state.

The event that everybody remembers about the American Revolution is the Boston Tea Party which took place in Massachusetts' Boston Harbour. However what people seem less aware of is that it was the issue of immigration rather than taxation that really helped drive the American Revolution.

English King George III systematically attempted to subjugate to the natural born citizens of what at the time were the New England colonies by denying the control over their own borders and immigration policy. King George III would also flood the New England colonies with tens of thousands of immigrants so the number of immigrants loyal to the absolute ruler would outnumber the natural born citizens.

If you take the time to actually read the US Declaration of Independence it talks extensively about the ability control one borders and immigration policy as being the cornerstone to statehood.

It was only the death of Justice Scalia that prevented the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ruling former Acting US Attorney General Sally Yates' in interpretation of US immigration law to be unconstitutional and declaring then President Obama to be a tyrant.

It is also a little know fact that America is actually Britain's largest penal colony. It was only after the American Revolution that George III was forced to start banishing convicts to Australia instead.

After a depleted SCOTUS deferred to lower Courts which had found against his immigration policy Obama announced a deal  to banish some 1,300 Hispanic refugees in the US to Australia. Good luck finding mention of that in the US press.

Also current President Donald Trump is said to be friends with New England Patriots owner Roger Kraft and a number of their players including star Quarter Back Tom Brady..

In the always inferior black corner we have the Atlanta Falcons.

Much of the US media spent 2016 completely losing their minds over a TV show on Fox called; "Atlanta." I can't say that I've seen it or even read a decent review of it. It's clear that the rave reviews I have read simply wanted to touch its hair.

However according to Wikipedia it's about a young black man - "Paper Boi" who drops out of Princeton university. Having got his girlfriend pregnant and then abandoning her Paper Boi lives on the streets in Atlanta, Georgia while dreaming of making it big as a rap star.

In short the Atlanta Falcons represent black American trash culture that everybody mocked Obama for trying to bring into the mainstream.

Within the world of American Football this trash culture is represented by the San Francisco 49's Colin Kaepernick. He has taken to kneeling during the playing of the national anthem before each game in protest against what he claims is fascist America's oppression of black men.

If nothing else Kaepernick's antics highlight the difference between American Hand Egg crowds and football crowds. If Kaepernick tried that in front of a football crowd his silly Afro would soon collapse under a deluge of spit.

What makes me nervous though is that it is the Atlanta FALCONs.

Within the conflict in Syria "Falcons" is a really popular name for an armed group. Just off the top of my head you have the Jarablus Falcons/Suqour al-Jarablus who fight as part of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Falcons of the South/Suqour al-Janoub who fight as part of the Southern Front. Even those who don't use the name "Falcons" tend to feature a Falcon in their Coat of Arms/Flag.

The really controversial ones though are the Falcons of the Levant/Suqour al-Sham. They find as part of the United Turkmen Army (UTA) within the Army of Conquest/Jaish al-Fatah coalition. As the name suggests they share the same ideology as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). So when a terror attack within Turkey is blamed on the Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK) absolutely nobody is talking about the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

As such I think the inclusion of the Atlanta Falcons is intended to explore the link between Islamist terrorism and Obama's Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. Super Bowl Li is being played in Houston, Texas. That is of course not far from Dallas, Texas where five police officers were killed in a BLM terror attack on July 7th 2016 (7/716).

Within Washington State Judge James L. Robart seems to have decided to really get in on this sub-plot.

On Friday (3/2/17) Federal Judge Robart decided to call attention to Washington Attorney General Robert Ferguson - as in Ferguson, Missouri, - sham challenge to President Trump's executive orders on immigration. The effect of this order has been to potentially allow Islamist terrorist from Syria and elsewhere into the US.

The reason why "Falcons" is such a popular name for armed groups within Syria is that Falcons are held in extremely high regard within Arab culture.

This stems from when nomadic tribesman would use Falcons to hunt. So a good Falcon would often meaning the difference between eating at night or not.

As a result Falconry remains a massive sport within Arab societies - particularly in the Gulf States. On Monday (30/1/17) a low ranking Prince from the vast Saudi Royal Family shared pictures of 80 of his hunting Falcons on an Etihad airliner. He'd brought each one an economy class seat.

Rather than being a political statement I think this was just him trying to join in with the fun. After all if you've built up a menagerie of 80 Falcons you're hardly likely to start betting on Postman Pat and his black and white cat, Jess.

Sadly it looks like I'm going to have to give the Super Bowl a miss this year. Due to particularly the fight against ISIL and associated groups it's hard for me to justify staying up until 5AM to watch sport.

I might make it as far as the halftime show though.

17:10 on 5/2/17 (UK date).