Mexican Flag Burned After Week Of Protests

Arizona Republic ^ | 31 March 2006 | AP

[buccaneer81]

Mexican flag burned after week of protests

Associated Press Mar. 31, 2006 07:10 AM

Tensions over immigration got a little heated Thursday in Apache Junction.

A Mexican flag was brought to school by a Hispanic student in response to what he said was a racist remark directed at him the day before. After he and other students raised the flag on the school's flagpole, the newspaper said another group of students took it down and burned it.

The burning and ensuing shoving match between the two groups of students happened before most students arrived at the school.

The school's principal said all six students involved will be disciplined.

Security was beefed up after the incident but there were no other problems at the school Thursday.

[Frank_2001]

Exactly!

[princess leah]

What if we boycotted all Mexican related business? Foods, grocery stores (FOOD CITY,etc), places that hire mostly hispanics - would this not send a strong message without breaking laws? I'm willing to give up Taco Bell and El Torrito.

[Butcher Kilroy]

I understand your point. Its valid, but the situation is not the same. These American kids were protecting the American flag. If the Mexican kids had not raised their flag above the American flag the U.S. students wouldn't have burned the Mexican flag.

[conserv13]

Thanks. I don't like it either.

[AmericanRepublican]

I didn't realize they flew it higher than our flag.

But still, we wouldn't even have this problem if they weren't here in the first place.

If anyone is to blame for this matter, it's the softy who allowed the flag to be raised in the first place.

As was said before, which I totally agree with, this ain't Mexico, motherf**kers... this the US of A. If they want to come here so f***** bad because their country is so piss poor and dilapidated, then do away with your flag and don't come here trying to uplift your piss poor dilapidation.

I'm not saying these kids burning the flags were wrong. Not at all. I could honestly see myself doing the same thing. In fact in high school, me and a friend burned these french foreign student posters... hey we were young... but we were sick of the French. So what these kids did holds an even higher merit because it means something. It signifies something.

My argument was it sucks to see that it has come to this.

[Namyak]

I agree 100%. I'd pity anyone who did this in my presence, because as a red-blooded American I'd do anything in my power to rectify that affront to our national honor.

[uncitizen]

Raise a foreign flag in anger on American Soil (on government property yet) is a sign of insurrection, not "protest".

I'M WITH YOU!

[conserv13]

It doesn't have to. If we fix the problems now instead of letting them fester as we have for the last 20 years...

[MadeInAmerica]

What if we boycotted all Mexican related business? Foods, grocery stores (FOOD CITY,etc), places that hire mostly hispanics - would this not send a strong message without breaking laws? I'm willing to give up Taco Bell and El Torrito.
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OK, I'm down with this...lets see...I will give up chiwawa's. Yup, no more friggin chiwawa dogs. I hate the little suckers anyway :)

[magslinger]

It's not wrong to burn the Mexican flag.

It is wrong to burn someone else's property without the owner's permission. If you want to buy a Mexican flag and burn it, go right ahead. I'd be willing to help. Just don't steal someone else's flag for the purpose.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Remember way back in the 1960's when US high school students in the Panama Canal Zone took down a Panamanian flag and burned it? It had flown along side the American flag.
Several days of riots ensued.

[MadeInAmerica]

It's not wrong to burn the Mexican flag.
It is wrong to burn someone else's property without the owner's permission. If you want to buy a Mexican flag and burn it, go right ahead. I'd be willing to help. Just don't steal someone else's flag for the purpose.
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Uh...it wasn't stolen...they left it FLYING where our flag was. Therefore...they abandoned it as TRASH

[Red Badger]

...but that's no excuse for destroying someone else's property.

They abandoned it on the pole........

[conserv13]

Taco Bell is owned by Pepsi. Boycotting Taco Bell makes as much sense as the muslims who burn down a KFC because they hate the US.

[ishabibble]

I didn't see any homicidal maniac shooters wearing black Matrix trench coats and spraying their schools full of bullets. Did you?

In what school in Apache Junction did this incident occur?
Where are the names? Where is the who what when where why of this story?
It's just another inflammatory headline, and I'm not buying.
I walked out of my high school during the Kent State Moratorium because everybody else was doing it. I didn't have a single political thought in my head because I was just a clueless teenager who thought it was more a party than a protest. I just wanted the day off. Has anything like that ever happened to you?

[stopem]

:::::::APPLAUDING::::::::

[samcgwire]

So, the students that defended the American flag and disposed of the foreign, invading-enemy's flag, is going to be disciplined? What a farce.

[muawiyah]

If it's a Mexican flag and it's flying over American public property, it's quite burnable.

Failure to burn it raises some serious questions about the loyalty of the guy who raised it (or allowed it to be raised absent some sort of appropriate official directive).

[Darnright]

Goose, meet Gander.

[stopem]

"The school's principal said all six students involved will be disciplined.

I give the ones who burned the flag gold stars!!!!