Posted on 03/31/2006 9:45:04 AM PST by the anti-liberal
Still on vacation, but wanted to bring you an update on the American flag vandal at Montebello H.S. (via the Whittier Daily News). He or she was from neighboring El Rancho USD:
A student protest that resulted in a Mexican flag being flown on top of an upside-down U.S. flag at a local school has prompted disciplinary action against one El Rancho High School student.
El Rancho Unified School District officials said the unnamed student was punished for being involved in the flag incident, which took place Monday at Montebello High School, about four miles east of El Rancho High School.
The punishment was consistent with the California Education Code, officials said. They did not give further details because of legal and privacy issues.
But Montebello Unified School District administrators said they were glad the neighboring district investigated the incident and took the proper action.
"We appreciate the diligence that \ district has taken in identifying the student who allegedly committed the infraction with the flagpole incident," said Assistant Superintendent Robert G. Henke.
Monday's image of the Montebello High flagpole sparked an uproar locally and across the nation after it was posted on various Web sites and featured in East Coast newspapers and national broadcast media.
The incident took place about noon Monday, when a group of about 1,000 students from the El Rancho and Whittier Union High school districts marched through Pico Rivera to Montebello High, where students had walked out of classes in the previous week to protest proposed immigration reform legislation.
By the time they reached Montebello High, the campus was on lockdown, district officials said.
That's when the protesters took to the flagpole, added the Mexican flag and turned the U.S. flag upside down. The school's California flag was stolen in the process, Henke said.
Rumors that more student walkouts were scheduled for today, the official Cesar Chavez holiday, has prompted Whittier-area police and sheriff's agencies to step up their efforts, with authorities threatening to give $165 tickets to any student who is caught protesting during school hours.
What are the odds that the guilty student and his/her collaborators are here illegally?
And the odds that anyone will do anything about it?
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Another American flag is down
The American flag comes second
Maybe.
A kid was suspended from school this week for wearing a tee shirt that said, "Border Patrol".
And I'm sure he was easily mistaken for an actually border patrol guard. /sarc>
My father fought on Iwo Jima to defend this Republic and the principles of our founding. True justice that respects the Warrior class that protects and allows this Country to prosper would be for this little varmint to be strung up and hung in the public square - no trial would be necessary. He openly and purposely showed himself to be an enemy of all that our country stands for. In my eyes it is an act of war. Anyone who is illegal here and openly defies and spits in our face should be treated as enemy combatants. Nothing stops tyranny quicker than incredible violence visited upon an enemy. If we wait much longer to decisively act to seal our borders with a war and deport millions of illegals, then our Republic will die.
If we wait much longer to decisively act to seal our borders with a war and deport millions of illegals, then our Republic will die.
Bump that!!!!
I agree with you 100% of course.
:^)
Truth is, we've been conquered and taken over without a shot.
Wall, war - what's the difference, as long as it keeps the illegals out.
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Personally, I'd rather not be a dhimmi slave.
We're being taken up the @ss two ways (three if you count the Liberal Socialist Left).
This letter contains a lot of good history that puts islam into perspective, should you be interested:
God love your father, and thanks to him.
In other words, the student was issued a reprimand for not shredding and burning the US flag first.
It is a federal crime to fly an American flag upside down or to fly any other flag above the American flag (there are a few exceptions for US Naval ships at sea). These punks need to be imprisoned for a few years and then deported.
Respectful image of our flag from WWII. More at this site: http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/1942/introduction.html
"It is a federal crime to or to fly any other flag above the American flag"
First, it would be nice to know what the actual states, second, why is he only being punished under the California Education Code and not under Federal Codes?
As for the federal crimes committed here, what would you venture that if charged under federal law there would be one count rather than two counts (one for flying an American flag upside down and one for flying any other flag above the American flag)?
I've heard that band....they're good!
(wink,wink)
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