Posted on 10/03/2014 9:40:41 AM PDT by walford
If it is not provocative to fly the Mexican flag in America, it is not provocative to fly the American flag in America.
We do not determine free speech based upon violence or threats thereof from people who object. Many Americans died to protect this fundamental right of expression — and this does not depend upon ideology.
If expressions of hatred for the United States are protected, so then are expressions of patriotism.
Parents and grand parents. Time to replace some school board members in the next election. Otherwise, keep doing nothing and expect more of the same. Get active.
Know whether your board member is a conservative or a liberal. Vote and campaign for the conservative candidate. I know it takes time, but the satisfaction of tossing a liberal out has its rewards and satisfactions. Even if the effort fails, you have not wasted your time, you have just pissed off a few liberals.
The alternative is to get your kids out of public schools if you cannot change the board. But I recommend keep trying until you do.
Is this satire?
Like Hell.
Agreed. But until something changes wrt your last paragraph, we need to rely on the courts.
Does it suck? Yes. Is it frought with risks. Yes. But apart from taking up arms and dealing with sort of thing by the business end of a rifle barrel (and we arent anywhere near that point) there aren’t many other options.
On May 6, approximately 200 Hispanic teens, most of whom were Live Oak High School students, walked out of their classes and marched through the downtown and to city hall in protest of what they regarded as disrespect from their American-flag-wearing peers. The crowd carried Mexican flags and sported the red, white and green of Mexico’s national emblem. Two days later, a crowd of students led by several Hispanic students gathered in the amphitheater and held an anti-racism rally advocating acceptance and tolerance among the students.
See there?
4 kids against 200, who walked out of class and off campus.
They didn’t just walk off campus they walked a mile to downtown and protest. They were highly incensed.
How else was that going to end?
Badly.
The Supreme Court has ruled that public school students have the right to engage in non-disruptive free speech, however, that ruling “does not require that school officials wait until disruption occurs before they act,” Ware said.
I’m telling you gunshots would have rang out. There is a huge gang element on that campus.
I absolutely do not disagree with your position but...
It would have absolutely ended with a death.
These people are not rational, reasoned nor informed.(kids I should say)
Crappy deal all around.
Like Hell?
Oh, you mean the type of hell a parent goes through, when their child is taken from them, dying before the parents?
That would have happened.
“I’m telling you gunshots would have rang out. There is a huge gang element on that campus.”
the Ninth Circus. Nuff said.
If your child would be killed for wearing the United States Flag then we have fought wars over less. In fact I guess you would not have your kid display the flag, so your child would be murdered if anyone dares display our flag? And you want your kid raised in a country like that?
The others may be citizens they are NOT Americans. I don’t fault them for flying the Mexican flag, I DO fault them for attacking the American flag.
If we can’t have prayer in school why the Hell do we have to honor Mexico or any other country?
No of course I don’t want your kid injured. But I want America restored.
It was the day that the Mexican army won the battle of Puebla which was caused by the French trying to collect a debt owed by the deadbeat Mexican Government
Dead kids are fine by you?
That is a not our choice now is it?
Common sense and safety get tossed?
The American flag should always be proudly displayed but, on this day it wasn’t going to end well, not at all.
Funny thing is, Mexico doesn’t celebrate this day anywhere I’ve been and many don’t even know the day exists and it’s obscure history.
Surprise!! Kaliforinika wins another prize!! Sick bass turds in most of that state.
I still believe that in many, if not most, cases this could be curtailed by a concerted effort of local parents. For a little while longer, anyway.
I do think that the longer it goes on, the closer it gets to the point were physical (and potentially violent) action becomes necessary. Always better to avoid letting things deteriorate that much.
I don’t want my kid raised in a country like that but, I want my kids to out live me.
I would move my kids to private schooling, if I ever have any and at 51 years old, I seriously doubt I will.
I would give my children their value system, their moral code, their integrity.
No way I’d allow a skrewel district to determine those things for my child.
And yeah, you’re right. The other kids are citizens by law but, they are wholly and completely “NOT AMERICAN”.
I blame their asinine parents for instilling that view.
Why a parent would want their children to identify with losers is beyond me.
Hell, the freaking Irish and Scots have it way better than Mexico.
Let me reiterate:
The American kids were right to proudly display their pride for America and all we stand for.
The fake “chicanos” were wrong for being so incensed, walking off campus and nearly starting a riot.
Their parents are the asses in all this.
Yep and I can predict with certainty who wins this war:
Americans
Dead kids are fine by you?
That is a not our choice now is it?
Common sense and safety get tossed?
And if they were shot unexpectedly, it would be the fault of the perpetrators, not the victims.
If the pro-Mexico/anti-America rally were that dangerous, riot police should have broken it up with tear gas and water cannons. Bullies should never be allowed to essentially claim a part of America and impose their own Law.
No amount of words will ever convince me to accept appeasing bullies. Ever.
“Very creative and deceptive headline on this post (I agree students should be able to display the flag. I don’t like being gamed by people with misleading headlines)”
I have been saying that people on the right need to start employing civil disobedience, and calling it exactly that-I want to hear how the media spins civil disobedience by the right into something wrong, when they’ve praised it for decades when it was used by their favored victim groups.
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