When a foreigner or someone with loyalty to another country takes down the American flag on US soil and raises the flag of a foreign country, that is a symbol of victory and an act of war. It is a symbol that the United States is no longer sovereign over that piece of real estate.
Those who raised that flag should be deported immediately without hearing and those who burned it should be given medals.
I am hoping by your comment that you failed to realize that this flag was not merely waved, but was used to replace the American flag on American soil. If that doesn't get your blood boiling to the point where you would gleefully burn that Mexican flag and stomp it into the earth, then you are not a patriot.
Excellent!
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.
BTTT. You are absolutely right. We arent talking about the flag being bought at a store and then publically burned here, or taken from private property and then burned. We are talking about an act of war and a declaration of victory by the enemy with in by hoisting a foreign flag on not just public, but government property, which BTW I believe is illegal.
For everbody crying about this burning I urge you to read up on American law.
http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/flagetiq.html
Exactly. I for one am certainly not looking for or rooting for violence at all, but the Aztlan crowd is clearly getting bolder and bolder with each passing year. If they continue down this road they're going down by deliberately provoking America, they're playing with fire, and it's going to be just a matter of time before a real tragedy happens.
This happened in Arizona. Arizona used to be part of Mexico, as was most of the American West. If I were Mexican, it would make my blood boil to see an American flag flying over the land of my ancestors. I know this view is VERY unpopular on this board, and I expect to be flamed, but I'm tired of the anti-Mexican rants I read on this forum every day.
Thank you for that comment - finally some logic in all this.
The Palis, Pakis, Iraqis and whoever who burn our flag, as much as I hate to see it, are generally burning poorly made imitations that were not flying over their own lands.
In the case at hand, the flag was raised on US lands, on PUBLIC school grounds, OVER the US Flag in a specific and calculated act of agression through symbolicly placing the US subordinate to the Mexican flag. Someone among those who planned this KNEW darned well what they were doing.
I'm just waiting for the "shot" heard round-the world (or at least across our nation. And right now - with Bush playing nicey-nicey with Fox - GW is starting to look like a two-faced traitor to me.....
Insert APPLAUSE soundtrack!!