Fed Judge: Calif. School Was Right to Forbid Students’ American Flag T-Shirts on Cinco de Mayo

The Blaze ^ | 11/11/11 | Billy Hallowell

[CharlesThe Hammer]

Should public school officials have the right to prevent students from wearing pro-American garb on Cinco de Mayo?

This question has been at the heart of a California court battle between the Morgan Hill Unified School District and students who were told by a principal and assistant principal that they could not wear American flag t-shirts on the Mexican holiday back in 2010.

Following the incident, a lawsuit against the district was launched by the students and their families. This week, the case came to a close, with a federal judge ruling against the students — a blow that is likely to infuriate some free speech advocates.

According to U. S. District Court Judge James Ware, the district did not violate the students’ first amendment rights. The judge also found that officials‘ concern over the potential violence that could be incited by the students’ pro-American outfits justified the school’s actions

[treetopsandroofs]

FWIW, Cinco de Mayo is as much of an American holiday as it is a Mexican one. I read up on the history just earlier this year.

Check out the Battle of Puebla and its commemoration.

The ignorant Peas of Sh!t judge doesn’t realize that the American flag is JUST as important to that day as is the Mexican one.

[theDentist]

“Your Honor. Try reading the first Amendment some day. Until then, go **** yourself.”

[LomanBill]

Should public school officials have the right...

 

...to pervert Jefferson's intended purpose for public education...

 

 

 

...into a Marxist mechanism for destroying America from within?

 

No - obviously that would be an error...

 

"...that truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them. "

--Thomas Jefferson

http://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/sacred/vaact.html

 

 

 

 

 

[EdReform]

That’s precisely what needs to happen. To hell with the judicial tyrants.

[Theodore R.]

Our problem is that a majority of CA people believe in such rulings as this from their almighty federal judges. People in CA just can’t figure out things any more.

[ken21]

disgusting.

[Theodore R.]

Yes, GHWB was always trying to “reach out”, Bob Michel style.

[EdReform]

God Bless You, Patriot!

[A CA Guy]

Abolish that court and start again.

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[EternalVigilance]

Free the First BUMP.

[luvie]

I would be yanking my kid out of that school so fast! Who wants to live like that!

[Munz]

insanity .. sounds like the court has infringed upon the children’s right to express their right to free speech in the form of wearing a shirt proclaiming their proud heritage.

[PeteB570]

“.....If they want to celebrate Cinco de Mayo, then they can go back to Mexico.........”

Funny thing is - Cinco de Mayo is not a National Holiday in Mexico. Only a small town - and of course the Mexicans in America.

[Personal Responsibility]

Is this federal judge from Ciudad Juarez or Mexico City?

[Mich Patriot]

"They want my country, they’ll have to fight us for it."

Amen brother...and I think it's coming to that. I'm ready to help stop the LIBERAL PUSSIFICATION of America, formerly the greatest country on Earth.

[reg45]

Ten years from now, Mexico will no longer exist as a unified country. The government will have collapsed and the tribal leaders and the drug lords will be fighting over bits of the remains.

[reg45]

That’s OK, it’s difficult for English speakers to spell those foreign words. We should do like the French and insist that all those foreign words be translated into our language or at least transliterate it into San Ha-seen-toe.

[4Liberty]

Apparently there are several judges with the same name.

Sorry if I posted the wrong pic

4L

[CharlesThe Hammer]

Schools do need special authority to guide and protect kids. You’re right about that, but the justification for this ban is that those celebrating a foreign affiliation might do students harm if the American flag is depicted on any clothing, on a particular day. That’s intimidation and bullying by any reasonable measure. Would the district court or the school apply similar logic to students who wished to express “Gay Pride”, environmental awareness, or African Heritage? We know they would not. Such favored status is only “granted”, as Thomas Sowell says, to “mascot” groups. When the state favors an illegitimate foreign holiday over a rendering of its own flag...it’s trouble.