So if she doesn't like the US, then maybe she should go to the Dominican Republic or some other island in the Caribbean...where she can be "free."
I agree. Indeed, any person who comes here and tries to change our culture should just go back where they came from or to a place where their views are more acceptable. I think she’d be comfortable in Haiti.
I wonder how they would feel if she refused to say the Pledge because she didn’t like the President.
> The Damascus High School student said she’s protesting the political situation in Puetro Rico. Although the school district doesn’t require students to recite the pledge, the girl said she’s been harassed over the issue.
Nobody’s making her recite the pledge. It’s just that she doesn’t like other students exercizing their right to free speech in condemning her actions.
Learn to live with it, honey, the world doesn’t revolve around you.
Is the American Communist Liberties Union going to back the student who was kicked out for wearing a pro-military tee shirt (because her father is in the military)?
Is the American Communist Liberties Union going to back the student who was kicked out for wearing a pro-NRA tee shirt?
Didn’t think so.
Hey, chirping little bird, do you realize that despite your being an honor student and all that other ‘stuff’ that society says makes you smarter than everyone else that you are just a stupid little sheep in a big herd of stupid little sheep.
I watch from beyond the fence and laugh at you stupid little sheep being led to the slaughter house.
No, I will not save you when the time comes.
Somehow, the little tiny violin illustration comes to mind...
Deport her.
You are all dead wrong in your criticism of her refusal to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. For very good reasons I have given in FreeRepublic previously, every true Patriot of America ought to refuse or respect others who refusee to with a tool for totalitarianism created by and for socialists using it as a tool of social indoctrination and authoritarian rule. You all owe this young lady an apology for not making the effort to get past the prejudice and attempting to understand the nature of the conflict.
The island was divided into several different mini-states.
The Spanish found it a convenient base for their military forces in the Americas and that was it's primary use for several centuries. The United States then acquired it from Spain and organized it under well practiced 'territorial' laws. in 1948 all Puerto Ricans became citizens of the United States, and as far as I know the USA is the first nation state on the planet to do that.
The young lady is sadly mistaken in her beliefs.
there is the issue of standing vs the issue of reciting
she should be made to stand as a sign of respect for the beliefs of others and the flag of the nation in which she is residing. No country would expect less
reciting, she can keep her mouth shut. hopefully her family is not collecting benefits from this govt she despises apart from the about $14K a year taxpayers are spending on her “free” education
We have an organization here in our little town that required all members to recite the Pledge of Allegiance at each meeting.
This being a group dedicated to helping keep the town clean and neat by picking up trash and litter on a weekly basis.
Our winter Visitors from Canada(propety owners here) refused to recite the pledge and left the group.
I should have.
Uber Patriots sometimes forget, some people have good reasons to refuse.
Good reasons that have nothing to do with hating the U.S. but everything with loving their own country.
...and what will happen to me when someone standing close to me during the pledge hears me say “stood” instead of “stands”? ..that one word change makes it a memorial lament instead of a pledge of allegiance to a government I no longer recognize as mine to be proud of and defend.
The government is not constitutionally empowered to force one to say something or to force someone not to say something. This applies to all speech including prayer.
The government is not constitutionally empowered to force someone to buy something or to force someone not to buy something.
The government is not constitutionally empowered to force someone to marry or to force someone to not marry.
The government is not constitutionally empowered to force someone to burn the flag or to force someone to not burn the flag.
The government is not constitutionally empowered to force someone to abort a baby or to force someone not to abort a baby.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!