They took down the American flag from the school post and substituted the Mexican flag.
If we were talking about marching down the street with a Mexican flag or putting it on your own car, yeah, let it alone. I don't believe it helps their cause, but I wouldn't advocate ripping it off their own car or from their hands.
But when they take down our flag from our schools and put Mexico's flag up, that flag deserves to be burned. Our flag is sacred, just beneath the Bible IMO. It is to be treated with respect. They disrepected it with Mexico's flag. It got what it deserved.
Now are there consequences? Yes. I assume both groups of these students will be punished according to the laws they violated, and they should be. I DO think they did the right thing in burning the flag, but I also believe in obeying the law. Sometimes you will pay penalties under the law for doing the right thing, and they should be willing to face those consequences.
But I won't condemn them personally, I'd thank them.
But I won't condemn them personally, I'd thank them.
Soul Seeker said what I was trying to much better than I could. The flag burners should be lightly punished. The ones that put their property where it had no business being should be on the outside looking in.
While I'm handing out punishment here, let's bring up school officials and where ... were they while this was going on? A stop should have been put to the whole business when the Stars and Stripes started down the pole the first time.
I'd like it to go like this.
As the kids stand before the judge he says, "youre guilty...now go home."