Posted on 03/31/2006 8:52:07 PM PST by lowbridge
Just got home from work, and was listening to Joe Crummy on KFYI interview one of the dads of the kids that burned the Mexican flag:
Apparently, his kid was arrested by AJ Police and was held in detention in Florence all day yesterday. CHarged with Arson. It took all of their savings to get a retainer for an atty.
It gets better. The family is now getting death threats. They were informed by police that there are those trying to find out where the family lives, and are going after them. AJ police stated to the father, there is nothing they can do about it, until someone actually shows up on their property.
Also, there was another kid from the school (Rod, who said he was a "future" Marine) read that letter from the school, forbiding any kid to wear any article of clothing resembling or representing a flag, no matter what country it represents.
He said emphatically, that he *will* wear the US Flag to school Monday.
Apparently this flag burning was near the ROTC table.
My respect for the kids in AJ have grown a hundred fold!
366 posted on 03/31/2006 5:52:20 PM PST by kstewskis
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1606660/posts?page=366#366
"SAJ appears to have some knowledge of the law, and is saying that the school district does not have legal cause in this case...that the student who owned the burned Mexican flag is the injured party and has a tort action."
That is my understanding as well.
Nothing like being nuts and drunk
What a rootin' tootin' combination.
[You try this with any (your lib protestor group here) and you will be sued for violating their free "speech" rights.]
As bad as the ACLU can be... they will pick this up in a heartbeat. If true.
Joe Crummy was the radio guy who was talking tonight to one of the parents of the ROTC kid who burned the flag, and was arrested. He brought up the idea of the legal defense fund.
I was sorta pondering that on another reply to SAJ. I hope it doesn't seem like I'm against the kid who is jailed, I'm not, but I try to stay consistent, and inside the law. Plus, its been a loooong day. Hope I'm wrong, and this all works out for those involved and protected the sovreignity of our flag. Abandonment may work, but what is the legal precedence of it?
Actually, I believe there are federal statutes that prevent the Mexican flag from being flown over govt property. Someone posted them on another thread tonight. If I were the kid's family, I would be making sure that the original flag thugs had appropriate charges filed against them.
If it was a Mexican flag, he would be receiving honors. The time has cone for armed resistance against these fascists.
Me too. Made the front page of the Washington Post.
Funny enough, it involved a flag pole :-)
So the school pressed these charges for certain? Another legal hair I was trying to split. If so, I'm in agreement that this kid is wrongly imprisoned, unless the school owned the flag, and sent this other kid to put it up, or such. Then we are screwed in another, more creative way.
The family will get all their money back, and a lot more when they sue for a Fourth Amendment violation. Slam dunk case.
Yeah, right. He'll probably call the kid a vigilante.
Come on, lets hear it.
As regards criminality, however, and most certainly regarding the felony crime of arson, these ''rules'' are simply irrelevant, and, were I the student involved, I should sue any school personnel, and the district, within an inch of their lives regarding the censure imposed on me.
The school's and the district's remedies regarding student behaviour are limited, very, very, strictly. The little jerk who burnt the flag probably deserves a paddling, a good one, but there is, sadly and especially in blue states, a prohibition against stopping a problem where and when it begins.
Doing so, unfortunately, would deprive the taxpayers of paying for another non-solution, year on year on year.
Sorry 'bout that.
Apache Junction, AZ.
I cannot put into words how angry this makes me.
If our government doesn't take decisive action against illegal aliens soon, I think 2006 will go down in the history books as the beginning of the second American revolution. It may not end up being an armed conflict, and we may end up with the united states of meximerica, but this has gone too far to be broght back to sanity without some sort of revolutionary change.
What we need is a "flaglight" vigil. At some appointed hour in the near future, everyone burns a Mexican flag. I think I heard Savage mention that on Wednesday's show, and now I don't think it's such a bad idea.
"But it's okay to burn the American flag? "
Not anymore. Congress passed a bill that makes illegal to burn the U.S. flag...in America. But I didn't know it included foreign flags, too.
Did you really need to say that on FreeRepublic? ;)
But I will take your advice and clean my guns.
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