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Ninth Circuit Affirms That It’s Illegal To Wear American Flag Shirts On Cinco De Mayo
The Daily Caller ^ | 18 Sep 2014 | Eric Owens

Posted on 09/18/2014 7:55:38 AM PDT by mandaladon

It’s official: the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has issued an order declining a request for an en banc hearing in a case involving four students in at a California high school who were sent home for wearing American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo.

The full slate of Ninth Circuit judges has thus agreed with a lower district court and with a trio of appellate judges that officials at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, Calif. could censor students who wanted to wear flag-emblazoned shirts.

The federal appeals court issued its denial of an en banc hearing on Sept. 17 — Constitution Day.

“[N]o further petitions shall be permitted,” the court ordered.

The trouble dates back to Cinco de Mayo (May 5) in 2010, when officials at Live Oak High — a school with a predominant Mexican-American student body — forced the students to remove their American flag-festooned shirts. Administrators called the shirts “incendiary” and worried that fighting would break out between white and Latino students if Latino students noticed the shirts. So, assistant principal Miguel Rodriguez told the students to turn their shirts inside out or leave school.

Students of Mexican heritage told local media that the students wore wore American flag T-shirts should apologize. They said ethnically Mexican students wouldn’t wear a Mexican flag on the Fourth of July (not a school day, but never mind).

The high school, located 20 miles south of San Jose, has experienced numerous gang problems. Nevertheless, the school seems to have organized impressive Cinco de Mayo celebrations in recent years.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: idiocy; illegals; lunacy; mexicans; uduicy
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To: Lucky9teen

“It’s time for a nation wide protest of this las chorradas.”

And all the “culitos” on the court too!


61 posted on 09/18/2014 8:47:56 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: Carry_Okie
More proof that the invaders have very powerful sponsors.

Absolutely, like Walmart, Budweiser, the U.S. Government and on and on...

62 posted on 09/18/2014 8:48:33 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: 353FMG

“Not because the invaders are all that aggressive, but because our government is docile and apologetic about defending American values.”

Welcome back to Earth.

Now that you are earthside again, please note things are a tad different since you last lifted off. Latrino behavior is often violent as the Federal state and local prison population records illustrate.

Black Urban Ferals are also prone to violent behavior.


63 posted on 09/18/2014 8:49:34 AM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est. Because of what Islam is - and because of what Muslims do.)
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To: mandaladon

I wear my “Proud To Be An American” T-shirt especially on CDM day ... Flag with a bald eagle on it.


64 posted on 09/18/2014 8:59:01 AM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: mandaladon

I’ll go to hell before I give up the right to fly/wear the American any day of the year!

This ruling (probably by A 3 Judge panel won’t survive the light of day, even in the 9th Circus....


65 posted on 09/18/2014 8:59:41 AM PDT by Forty-Niner (The barely bare berry bear formerly known as Arctos Horribilis.)
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To: mandaladon

Whatever happened to diversity?


66 posted on 09/18/2014 9:01:51 AM PDT by Diamond (He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people,)
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To: mandaladon

The 9th Circus needs dragged outside and horsewhipped.


67 posted on 09/18/2014 9:10:28 AM PDT by tomkat
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To: davandbar
We're talk Democrats, here. "...THEY WOULD COME TO THEIR SENSES SOONER RATHER THAN LATER!"

Ain't gonna happen. They won. Even when they are kneeling at the edge of a ditch, with a gun pressed into their heads, they will think they are doing the Right Thing.

68 posted on 09/18/2014 9:10:43 AM PDT by jonascord (Laeti vescimur nos subacturis)
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To: Jewbacca
No one would notice a white t-shirt.


             

69 posted on 09/18/2014 9:12:15 AM PDT by tomkat
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To: Lucky9teen
We have our own dopes, Kirkpatrick and DuVal. http://www.prescottenews.com/index.php/news/current-news/item/24197-mexican-flag-flies-over-kirkpatrick-duval-float-in-eloy-parade
70 posted on 09/18/2014 9:18:41 AM PDT by machogirl
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To: mandaladon
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71 posted on 09/18/2014 9:18:53 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics in always to pick up a weapon...eh? "Bathhouse" 0'Mullah? d8^)
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To: mandaladon

The Ninth Circuit exists to be overruled.


72 posted on 09/18/2014 9:22:27 AM PDT by lurk
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To: CA Conservative

“Actually, wearing the flag as a shirt is against the US Code:”

In my opinion wearig the flag as a shirt is disrespecting the flag, a flag emblem or reproduction is not the same.


73 posted on 09/18/2014 9:24:15 AM PDT by duffee (Dump the Chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party, joe nosef.)
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To: mandaladon

Unbelievable!


74 posted on 09/18/2014 9:24:16 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: mandaladon

Just another example of liberals laying the foundation to allow an Islamic takeover. The decision’s logic will be used to allow Sharia law.


75 posted on 09/18/2014 9:24:53 AM PDT by aimhigh (1 John 3:23)
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To: mandaladon

I know this is a stupid question, given everything else that WASN’T done when there was an opportunity...

WHY wasn’t this “court”(circus) broken up back when the republicans controlled everything? I understand that the congress has the authority to do so with federal courts. Am I wrong?


76 posted on 09/18/2014 9:30:34 AM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: mandaladon
"Ninth Circuit Affirms That It’s Illegal To Wear American Flag Shirts On Cinco De Mayo"

No, that's not what the ruling means.

77 posted on 09/18/2014 9:36:54 AM PDT by mlo
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To: certrtwngnut
All the while many bars, restaurants, pubs, and other food and drink establishments use stinko de mayonnaise to boost business. I guess they don’t realise that they are adding to our downfall.

Really, you'd think our Mexican friends would be more upset about what we've done to their holiday, rather than a few high school students wearing American flag t-shirts. I thought it was a celebration of drunken hookups and tramp stamps.

78 posted on 09/18/2014 9:43:31 AM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: mandaladon

Maybe we should just go back to having school uniforms.

Problem solved...not just on this issue either.


79 posted on 09/18/2014 9:44:26 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: mandaladon

...........................

If I was an illegal alien, I’d be laughing and giving everyone the finger too.

If I was a Muslim terrorist, I’d be making plans too.

There’s a point where stupidity sinks to such a level, it’s no longer considered comical. It’s just sad.


80 posted on 09/18/2014 9:51:43 AM PDT by Tzimisce
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