Posted on 04/01/2006 10:12:20 AM PST by Sub-Driver
I believe it was the ones flying your Mexican flag that were the idiots and it's funny that you believe the flag at Suribachi was planted to honor the Japanese.
As far as comparisons go, Suribachi was more honorable and these students' waving of the flag was more honorable than the mere display of the flag I have on my front lawn.
"I'm sorry but if you can be taunted by an American flag, I think that's your problem"
These are high school kids. And Yes, they have lots of problems. lol.
When shoved into anyone's face, it is abuse, not only of the flag, but of the unfortunate victim. No one who treats the American flag with anything other than respect brings it honor. As I said before, they abused the flag and got what they deserved. What they truly need however, is for someone to sit them down and explain the proper respect and etiquette to be shown the flag. Apparently there are some here on FR unable to do that.
Anyone who treats any national flag with anything other than honor and respect is an idiot, be it a Mexican or an American. And please tell me how you reached the inane conclusion that I thought the Suribachi flag was planted to honor the enemy. This ought to be interesting.
I've lived as a foreigner in another country -- Japan. I never complained about needed a visa, being fingerprinted, or having to carry an ID. I would never think to ask to vote, especially as a non-citizen. It's their country. And when I went to visit the Imperial Palace on New Year's day, they handed me a Japanese flag and I was willing to hold it up and wave it because I was in Japan. Show some gratitude and respect to the country you are standing in, people. If you can't stand the country, go somewhere else.
Agreed, which is why the principal is an idiot because banning the flag surely doesn't do it honor.
And please tell me how you reached the inane conclusion that I thought the Suribachi flag was planted to honor the enemy. This ought to be interesting.
So, you'd agree that the flag can be waved in a fashion that doesn't need to respect everyone? The Marines at Iwa Jima waved it in the face of the Japanese and it was right for them to do so, agreed?
He stopped the abuse of the flag, hardly the same thing.
So, you'd agree that the flag can be waved in a fashion that doesn't need to respect everyone?
When used as a tool to heap scorn on someone, it is no longer being used with the respect and eitquette required. When respectfully held, waved or flown, all those who are present need not agree with it or with what it stands for, but I'm afraid that is not what was being done that prompted this principal to take corrective action.
The Marines at Iwa Jima waved it in the face of the Japanese and it was right for them to do so, agreed?
The planting of the flag signified that we had taken the high ground. It represented a superbly respectful act, respectful to our flag and respectful to all of those who fell taking the island. Doubt that after such a fierce and costly battle, taunting the Japanese was on the minds of those who put up the flag. And the raising of the national flag to signify the victory has been customary for centuries. I don't really care if the feelings of the Japanese were hurt or not. But again, the Japanese were our enemy, not fellow students in a small midwestern town.
We live in a looking-glass world, my man. Curiouser and curiouser.
So now that the American flag is BANNED in the school, how do the kids get to do the Pledge of Allegiance?
A FReep of the school board meeting is in the works.
If you can feel "taunted" by seeing the Stars and Stripes in front of you, you are unfit to be a citizen of the US.
I have no argument with you.
I just don't think that the decision made by the principal was a bad one.
They haven't banned the flag. It's still there. They just aren't allowing kids to bring their own flags to school.
The flag was not banned either from the front of the school or in the classrooms.
You can twist it all you want, but from what I have read, the principle was simply attempting to cool off a bunch of kids who were getting close to violence. Had violence erupted, I imagine someone might have asked where the principal was while this thing was brewing. Since the principal has not banned the flag from being properly displayed either in front of the school or in the classrooms, apparently "seeing" the Stars and Stripes, as you put it, did not seem to concern him.
You forgot the sarcasm note. Somebody might actually believe you meant what you wrote.
Your statements sounds incedibly stupid. Or is it April Fool comment?
Anyone who can't spell shouldn't call others' statements stupid. What part of respect for our flag do you not understand...all of it?
How do we know this was the case? Do you have inside knowledge? Or just based on principal Stumpf's opinion? Should the pro-American flag students just behaved like sheeple and kept their heads down while Mexican flags are flying all about them in their own country?
Don't look like anyone told the Tigers that tonight. Cold Cold Cold
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