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Three Yale students charged with burning flag
WTNH Television ^ | 04/04/2007 | Puppage

Posted on 04/04/2007 5:07:33 AM PDT by Puppage

(New Haven-AP) _ New Haven police have arrested three Yale University students and charged them with burning an American flag hanging from the porch of a Chapel Street home.

The three are facing charges ranging from reckless endangerment to arson. Police identified the three as 23-year-old Said Hyder Akbar, 19-year-old Nikolaos Angelopoulos and 19-year-old Farhad Anklesaria.

They were held in jail early yesterday and later arraigned in New Haven Superior Court. Bond was set at $25,000 for two of the suspects and $15,000 for the third.

Anklesaria and Angelopoulos are foreign students while Akbar was born in Pakistan, but is a U.S. citizen.

Police say the three set fire to a flag mounted on a pole to the house. It was spotted by two police officers on patrol. One officer pulled down the burning flag to prevent the fire from spreading and the other tracked down the three men.

Police say while the three students admitted setting the flag on fire, there is no reason listed in the police report.


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KEYWORDS: afghanistan; american; americanflag; burningflag; connecticut; ct; flag; flags; muslim; muslims; pakistan; yale; yaleuniversity
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To: Puppage

Said, Nikolaos, Farhad, three Yale University students. 3 stooges. (apologies to Larry, Moe and Curley)


21 posted on 04/04/2007 5:49:20 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: Guenevere
I’m beginning to think that the appropriate consequences for flag burning is a one way ticket to the country of their choice, effective immediately. If anyone so despises this country and all it stands for, they don’t need to live here. But to spit in the face of the place that gives then such freedoms is unconscionable.
22 posted on 04/04/2007 5:49:26 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Puppage
The quality of America hating lefties has really declined at Yale over the years. Hilary and BillyBob’s generation of America hating lefties would never be caught so easy.
23 posted on 04/04/2007 5:53:25 AM PDT by Leisler
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To: CT-Freeper

Is burning logs in your fireplace free speech?

The above is a very poor comparison to “Flag Burning.”


24 posted on 04/04/2007 5:59:09 AM PDT by Paige ("Facts are stubborn things. " President Ronald Reagan)
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To: Puppage

Send them to our Cuban prison and let them think it over for several years, then deport them.


25 posted on 04/04/2007 6:00:16 AM PDT by hgro
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To: Nailbiter

That’s Mennonites. My wife and I were both raised Mennonite.

We like to say we were Mennonites until we became Christians.

I doubt that they would burn the flag.


26 posted on 04/04/2007 6:01:43 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: Paige
The above is a very poor comparison to “Flag Burning.”

I agree...you're right.

Still, my point remains:
My flag. My property. Nobody is being physically harmed by my actions. The government is not allowed to tell me what I may do with my belongings on my property.

27 posted on 04/04/2007 6:03:58 AM PDT by CT-Freeper (Said the perpetually dejected Mets fan.)
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To: Puppage

Just for fun, could we pass laws requiring flags to be recycled? In many areas you can’t burn leaves; you have to bag them. Why not pass a similar law on flags? Why can’t my burning of leaves be a First Amendment issue showing my disgust for Al Gore and his ilk?


28 posted on 04/04/2007 6:11:15 AM PDT by Dilbert56
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To: Puppage

Ah, sweet youth....send ‘em home and let them see just glorious life really is, especially when our Marines or Army and Air Force personnael are hunting them down like the dogs they are. Maybe, if they are lucky, missles from our Navy guys will find their new home away from home. Just desserts for a couple of creeps! Burn my flag and I’ll bury your sorry ass as deep as possible, preferably in Hell.


29 posted on 04/04/2007 6:25:47 AM PDT by geezerwheezer (get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
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To: Guenevere
Let me get this right...

They were arrested because the flag was still attached to the pole of someone's house...

..but if they'd taken the flag off the pole and stomped & burned it on the sidewalk, no problem...no arrest ~sarcasm

Actually, that's a good thing. Do you remember those pictures of the militants torching an American flag, with the caption reading "this thing is worth this much, and that thing is worth that much...", and then you come to the third picture, and the Towel-Head catches himself on fire, and the caption reads: "Priceless"? Well, it's the same thing here. If these guys had just gone out and bought a flag, and burned it, they couldn't be touched. But since they burned it while it was still attached to the house, they have opened themselves up to arson charges. Priceless.

30 posted on 04/04/2007 6:27:17 AM PDT by NurdlyPeon (Thompson / Hunter in 2008)
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To: NurdlyPeon

good point !


31 posted on 04/04/2007 6:39:42 AM PDT by Guenevere (Duncan Hunter for President, 2008!!)
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To: metmom

well said!


32 posted on 04/04/2007 6:40:14 AM PDT by Guenevere (Duncan Hunter for President, 2008!!)
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To: nutmeg; onyx; Liz
Hyder Akbar, 19-year-old Nikolaos Angelopoulos and 19-year-old Farhad Anklesaria.
33 posted on 04/04/2007 9:18:11 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: neverdem; Flavius; M. Espinola
translator for U.S. forces during the invasion of Afghanistan ...
34 posted on 04/04/2007 9:21:35 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: metmom

Sounds good to me. I’m sick of this crap.


35 posted on 04/04/2007 9:47:56 AM PDT by CT102ndInfSister (Please pray for the soldiers of the 102nd serving proudly in Afghanistan.)
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Nikolaos Angelopoulos? Send him home—they’ll probably do worse to him than we could even imagine.


36 posted on 04/04/2007 2:05:31 PM PDT by Neo-Luddite
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To: CT-Freeper
Otherwise, I’ll admit, I would have had a fit about someone being arrested for flag burning.
From your homepage - "I switched back to Democrat after moving to Connecticut, because my wife's family are heavily involved in politics"
Don't look now, but your lack of principles is showing.
37 posted on 04/04/2007 3:43:45 PM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: RaceBannon; scoopscandal; 2Trievers; LoneGOPinCT; Rodney King; sorrisi; MrSparkys; monafelice; ...

Connecticut ping!

Please Freepmail me if you want on or off my infrequent Connecticut ping list.

38 posted on 04/04/2007 11:48:18 PM PDT by nutmeg (The Democrats' "new direction" for Iraq: SURRENDER)
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To: Balding_Eagle

I did not mean to insult Mennonites, should have included /s.
Poor attempt at derision directed at MSM.


39 posted on 04/06/2007 10:05:13 PM PDT by Nailbiter
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To: Nailbiter

No insult taken, I was just pointing out that there are two n’s in Mennonite.


40 posted on 04/07/2007 6:51:06 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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