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High School Kid Who Burned Mexican Flag Arrested And Charged With Arson
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| 3/31/06
| kstewskis
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
TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; antiwar; arizona; arson; burnedwrongflag; communism; firstamendment; flagburning; hateamericafirst; illegal; illegalaliens; illegalimmigration; illegals; immigration; janetreno; jimmih; leftists; mexflagtoiletpaper; mexicanflag; pc; socialism
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To: stands2reason
Yours sounds like the most rational defense to me. That, plus "Screw Mexico!", of course.
181
posted on
03/31/2006 10:10:22 PM PST
by
Hank Rearden
(Never allow anyone who could only get a government "job" attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
To: Txsleuth
Fox has sent his 'federales' to escort those who want to trespass our borders. I'd like to sic a pit bull on him.
To: sonsofliberty2000
Makes both perfect rational sense and legal sense to me, sons-- but I left law school long ago because of the BS.
Here's a philosophical question for you -- I'd be interested in your views.
If the three principal purposes of government are NOT to 1) defend the nation, 2) maintain civil order, and 3) protect private property, then -- why bother even having a government?
The only conceivable answer to this query, in my view, is that anarchy is thoroughly unstable, therefore some sort of government is necessary.
Were I to write a Constitution for a new republic, to be formed at some date in future, I absolutely guarantee you that I should include some sort of provision making assassination of public ''officials'' lawful under controlled circumstances.
183
posted on
03/31/2006 10:11:27 PM PST
by
SAJ
To: isrul
Not only have we been invaded; it seems as if we have been conquered.
We're a long way from being conqured. We may have Neville Chamberlain in the White House, but we've got Winston Churchill in the House of Representatives. $100 to Tom Tancredo to save America.
184
posted on
03/31/2006 10:12:13 PM PST
by
Old_Mil
(http://www.constitutionparty.org - Forging a Rebirth of Freedom.)
To: mass55th
I don't think civil war. Although Bush and his illegal amigos may be subjected to the fury of the American people, in one way or another. I don't see that as necessarily a bad thing.
185
posted on
03/31/2006 10:12:39 PM PST
by
isrul
To: lowbridge
America has become an oligarchic plutocracy.
The government no longer serves the general public and the average American.
Sam Adams had the right idea.
186
posted on
03/31/2006 10:12:55 PM PST
by
ZULU
(Non nobis, non nobis, Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
To: B4Ranch; La Enchiladita
Have you seen this thread?
187
posted on
03/31/2006 10:13:23 PM PST
by
texastoo
("trash the treaties")
To: All
UNITED STATES CODE
TITLE 36
CHAPTER 10
§174. Time and occasions for display
(e) Display on or near administration building of public institutions The flag should be displayed daily on or near the main administration building of every public institution.
(f) Display in or near polling places The flag should be displayed in or near every polling place on election days.
(g) Display in or near schoolhouses The flag should be displayed during school days in or near every schoolhouse.
"I live in a small farm town in Nelson County, Virginia, and will retire from the Virginia Army National Guard in April 2006, after 22 years. I have spent almost one half of my adult life preparing myself and my soldiers for a time, such as now, that our country might successfully face our enemies, foreign and domestic.
Looking at your webpage this morning and seeing the pictures of the high school students raising a Mexican national flag over an upside down American flag saddened me terribly, insofar as there are American soldiers, Marines, sailors, and airmen currently putting their lives in danger in order to provide these "citizens" the comfort of knowing that their protests will not result in being lined up against a wall and executed for their behavior, as they might in other countries around the world.
What would be interesting to know is if these young men and women are enjoying their educations on the back of the American taxpayer at a public school, while denigrating the country that provides these benefits to them, and so blatantly desecrating the flag that serves as a beacon to draw them to America in the first place."
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/004869.htm http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1605381/posts?page=1853#1853 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1605381/posts?page=1876#1876
188
posted on
03/31/2006 10:14:25 PM PST
by
68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
(How could an illegal be a "guest" of anything? What part of criminal don't RINO's understand?)
To: isrul
Very true. It has been preying on my mind everytime the pro-illegal alien group start their little dance around the fire who they remined me of. Well, I finally figured it out...they remind me of "The Lord of the Flies."
They get whipped up into a frenzy on illegal alien threads. Look at those who have been suspended, two off the top of my head are anti-illegal alien supporters. Are we who are anti illegal supporters being sent a message?
189
posted on
03/31/2006 10:15:14 PM PST
by
processing please hold
(Be careful of charity and kindness, lest you do more harm with open hands than with a clinched fist)
To: festus
Did you ever find out how we can help him?
To: vetvetdoug
rump ribbon hahahahahahahahahahahahahahhaha
191
posted on
03/31/2006 10:16:09 PM PST
by
peggybac
(Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing)
To: Hannity
To: HiJinx
So, since when is burning a foreign flag arson? This is insane and speaks of another agenda.
193
posted on
03/31/2006 10:16:27 PM PST
by
TheLion
To: hispanarepublicana
To: SAJ
ther property of another person or of burning one's own property for an improper purpose, as to collect insurance.
The Flag Code suggests that, "when a flag has served its useful purpose, it should be destroyed, preferably by burning."
Sounds proper to me. Let the kid out of jail.
195
posted on
03/31/2006 10:16:58 PM PST
by
Old_Mil
(http://www.constitutionparty.org - Forging a Rebirth of Freedom.)
To: SAJ
I don't see any improper purpose. But that's just my opinion.
196
posted on
03/31/2006 10:19:09 PM PST
by
isrul
To: Teacher317
So if you were to purposely burn one blade of grass of your neighbor's yard it is arson?
A bit extreme...
There needs to be some definition of property with a threshold of value. At some point it is meaningless.
197
posted on
03/31/2006 10:20:31 PM PST
by
DB
(©)
To: ZULU
Sam Adams had the right idea. Have a beer?
198
posted on
03/31/2006 10:21:15 PM PST
by
dr_lew
To: lowbridge
but it is no crime to burn an American flag?!
199
posted on
03/31/2006 10:21:27 PM PST
by
Minutemen
("It's a Religion of Peace")
To: KittyKares
nope. you are the only reply.
200
posted on
03/31/2006 10:22:59 PM PST
by
festus
(The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
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