Posted on 03/30/2006 11:31:23 PM PST by beaversmom
STOCKTON, Calif. -- The display of the Mexican flag is becoming a point of debate as protests against an immigration bill continue in Northern California and across the nation.
At almost every demonstration, a Mexican flag is waving.
When students from Stockton's Edison High School took to the streets to demonstrate, the Mexican flag was raised as a banner as traffic passed by.
"We're trying to show that Mexicans also work hard and we deserve something better than to get kicked out of here," student Ophelia Ortiz said.
"I think that (the flag) represents us by saying we are united and it doesn't matter what color we are, how we look, stuff like that," student Nadia Medina said.
At Grace Davis High School in Modesto, students held a rally on Monday, but when student Dustin McGregor held up a Confederate flag to counterprotest, he was suspended for five days.
"A person had a Mexican flag. My buddy said that should be an American flag. The dude looked at us and somebody in the crowd said 'F---- America,' and that upset me, so I got that flag," McGregor said.
School officials said Confederate flags are prohibited on campus because they are associated with racism. But McGregor's father said that wasn't the intent.
"Basically, all he was saying is this was America and you shouldn't down-talk America," Rich McGregor said.
Meanwhile, across the country large crowds have waved the Mexican flag while protesting, drawing mixed reactions from those who see the images.
"That personally doesn't bother me, but if they are here illegally they shouldn't have the same rights as we do," an unidentified woman said.
"It brings to my mind that they are not trying to assimilate themselves into this culture. If the Mexican culture is what they predominately want to be part of ... I'm afraid of that," an unidentified man said.
Every day this situation gets worse. Waving the Mexican flag in our faces on our soil and cursing our country is acceptable demonstration and waving a Confederate flag in protest is not acceptable because it is racism? Huh? This must be a VERY BAD nightmare from which I have not awakened.
Well toots, we are giving you the opportunity to leave of your own accord, without the shackles, and with your dignity intact. Take US up on the opportunity, before it changes. Blackbird.
However, that is okay with the liberals as long as conservatives are being killed. I'm beginning to think someone has a bigger plan here.
"School officials said Confederate flags are prohibited on campus because they are associated with racism. "
Shows you how little they know about the War Between the States in the schools these days. They have Nazified an entire demographic of people, when very few of the men that faught and died under the Confederate flag owned slaves or cared to own any. In fact at the begining of the war there were more slave owning States north of the Mason-Dixie than to the south of it.
In Mexico, participating in a public demonstration is one of the quickest ways for a foreigner to get deported. And that's people there on valid visas. The Mexican government is even more swift and brutal when it comes to removing people in the country illegally.
Anyone care to guess how the school would have reacted if the student had burned an American flag instead?
This is why they want to take our right to keep and bear arms.
The shame in all of this is that we would be hard pressed to find a harder working people than the Mexicans and they, for the most part, have very strong family values. They screw themselves by committing a crime of illegal entry and trespassing in this country then compound the illegal acts by demanding and receiving, taxpayer funded education, medical treatment, and the occasional amnesty. Add to this a reluctance to learn English and then rub the Mexican flag in our face they are showing their true colors.
Well this is one citizen who is tired of funding all this crap while at the same time blaimed for acts going back hundreds of years. The minorities have made it obvious that no matter what special benefits, race based job placements, they are given they will still hate the evil Americans.
Taking my hard earned dollars and giving it to anyone here illegally is theft pure and simple. I am forced by my government to fund this invasion. Other than using what is left of the 2nd Amendment what are my choices. Neither political party cares about anything past the next election.
Why any right-minded conservative insists on living in that soon-to-be third-world hellhole, I honestly have no idea. For pete's sake, y'all, at least move to Texas! :)
Uhh, on second thought, nevermind... We as a nation are lost, and perhaps after as much PC as we've had to endure over the past decade, we deserve it. Sheesh!
"Shows you how little they know about the War Between the States in the schools these days. They have Nazified an entire demographic of people, when very few of the men that faught and died under the Confederate flag owned slaves or cared to own any. In fact at the begining of the war there were more slave owning States north of the Mason-Dixie than to the south of it."
Shhhhhh, some people can't handle the truth!! They find it easier to believe that the South committed treason.
Given that the Mason-Dixon Line forms the border between Maryland and Pennsylvania and Maryland and Delaware, then at the beginning of the rebellion only Delaware, a small part of Virginia (later West Virginia) and about a third of Missouri were the only slave-owning parts of the country north of that line. Every other slave holding state, all 15 states in whole or part, were south of it.
Well then why didn't he get a U.S. flag? Why wave the confederate flag unless he was suggesting that southern California secede from the Union and join Mexico or something?
That's something they would approve of though. No prohibition on treason from the left.
So these 'hard working" mexicans aren't working very hard to be in this country by legal means.
Exactly! They're working harder to AVOID becoming legal.
Got this from NewsMax:
Did you know that:
According to the Bureau of Justice, twenty-nine percent of the inmates in federal prisons are aliens.
According to the House of Representatives, illegal aliens cost state and local governments more than $13,000,000,000.00 per year.
An alien comes into this country illegally at about the rate of one a minute... that's 60 an hour... 1400 a day... and over 42,000 every month.
That's not a trickle -- that's a tidal wave.
That's not a problem -- that's an epidemic.
"In fact at the begining of the war there were more slave owning States north of the Mason-Dixie than to the south of it."
Given that the Mason-Dixon Line forms the border between Maryland and Pennsylvania and Maryland and Delaware, then at the beginning of the rebellion only Delaware, a small part of Virginia (later West Virginia) and about a third of Missouri were the only slave-owning parts of the country north of that line. Every other slave holding state, all 15 states in whole or part, were south of it."
Ummm, I do believe you're responding to the wrong person. I didn't post this.
We are a becoming a broken lawless nation because the majority does not have the will to rule any longer. We have been programmed to work our 40 hours, spend our wealth like drunken sailors and accept every perversion of our society as multiculturalism and diversity.
We are reaping what we sow.
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