What is our country coming too?
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
Also check this thread out http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1607458/posts
this kid who organized a rally said his CA school tried to interfere with his right to organize a patriotic USA meeting on school property while giving time to the school's racist MECHA club, they confiscated his flags then suspended him and threatened to have him arrested for trying to organize on his own time, off campus .
While in the meantime, kids in CA by the thousands were allowed hold pro Mexico National rallies on campus, with Mexican flags and were allowed to walk off campus, greeted by mayors and were provided bus transportation by the schools, all on taxpayers money!!!!
Folks it is a sorry day when our kids can can be penalized and threatened with arrest for being patriotic and loyal to the laws and sovereignty of the USA.
If ALL flags are banned, where is the problem again? Sounds like appropriate safety control to me.
and this one ; http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1607726/posts
stumpf_thomas@ stvrain.k12.co.us
The page IS THERE! I just went to it!
They could have stopped this whole ordeal by TELLING the Hispanics that Mexican or any other Hispanic flags will not be permitted on school grounds, but NO!!!! They only banned the AMERICAN FLAG!! Bunch of Commie liberals!!!!!!!
Our schools are infested with misguided leftists. (redundant, I know).
US FLAG PING
Hey, parents turn their children over to indoctrination centers(public schools) and then are surprised when they are castigated for trying to show their Americanism. Go figure.
No, sweetheart, they are just suspicious of you when you identify with a foreign country and show disloyalty to the US while living here.
Nothing "racist" about it.
Students’ rally draws legal threats
By John Fryar and Paula Aven Gladych
The Daily Times-Call
DENVER — The First Amendment implications of the Skyline High School flag policy sent quick waves throughout the state, drawing threats of legal and legislative action from several Republican state senators.
Friday afternoon, after hearing about the school’s temporary ban on flag brandishing from a Denver television station’s Web site, Larimer County GOP Sen. Steve Johnson wrote in an e-mail to Skyline principal Tom Stumpf: “... be advised that your policy prohibiting display of the U.S. flag is in violation of state statute and the U.S. Constitution.”
Johnson added that Stumpf should “be prepared for legislative action and legal action against you to follow.”
St. Vrain officials, however, say they were not infringing on students’ constitutional rights; rather, they were trying to protect students and prevent the flag from being used inappropriately.
“There is absolutely no way that there would ever be an indication that the flag would be banned from being displayed at any of our schools,” said St. Vrain Valley school board President Sandi Searls. “... We do have the ability to limit how a flag is being used in a building. If it is used in an inappropriate manner or a harassing manner, we do have the ability to limit that.”
Johnson said in an interview he’d also written the St. Vrain Valley Board of Education advising them they should reverse the Skyline policy but that as of late Friday afternoon he had not heard back from either the board or Stumpf.
However, Searls and Stumpf both said they spoke with several state legislators late Friday afternoon, but didn’t identify those legislators.
“I talked to two state (legislators) and allayed their fears ...” Stumpf said Friday evening. “We still display the flag in the classrooms. ... It appears in common areas (and) in our gyms.”
Stumpf emphasized that the school’s ban on carrying or brandishing national flags was meant to ensure students’ safety.
“My goal in the whole thing was to keep the school safe,” he said. “I saw misuse of the American flag and misuse of the Mexican flag in a discriminatory fashion and a taunting fashion. I was concerned about the escalation of feelings and that violence would break out. ... There was a temporary ban on displaying or waving of the American flag, the Mexican flag, any kind of flag.”
Longmont Democratic Sen. Brandon Shaffer said in a Friday evening interview that he’d talked to Searls, Stumpf and school superintendent Randy Zila and was satisfied that their actions were intended “to stop bullying” and to “defuse a potentially harmful situation.”
“They saw a potentially violent situation and they were trying to protect the safety of the kids,” Shaffer said. “If I felt that they were denying a person’s right to display the American flag and to demonstrate patriotism, I would be the first one to call them on it.”
Johnson said he and Castle Rock Sen. Tom Wiens, the Senate Republican Caucus chairman, were told of the Skyline situation by a GOP Senate staffer who spotted a story about it on a Denver television station’s Web site.
Johnson said after he and Wiens were unable to get Stumpf on the phone, they both sent him e-mails about their concerns.
Johnson said that either he or Wiens may seek to introduce either a resolution or a more binding state law to specify students’ right to display the flag.
He noted that the Legislature last year passed a law to ensure that houses or condominiums in residential developments covered by homeowners association rules cannot be barred from flying the U.S. flag.
Shaffer, though, said that “this is more of a matter of political opportunism” on Johnson and Wiens’ part “than a matter that needs to be addressed by the Legislature.”
The Longmont senator charged that by sending their e-mails before Stumpf could return their telephone calls — and by Johnson’s telling reporters about those e-mails — Johnson and Wiens were “trying to score some cheap political points” at the principal’s expense.
We just got back from Texas several minutes ago, my sister said she fears a race war isn't too far off in our future. She asked if Americans were going to defend this country or go on with their lives like nothing is wrong.
Articles and editorials relating to public schools and display of Mexican and American flags in Colorado, seems this has happened before;
http://www.cairco.org/articles/articles_school_flag.html
Spoken like a TRUE Leftist. This is the primary weapon used to defend illegals - they call anyone opposed to ILLEGAL immigration a biggot.
Illegal immigration is illegal immigration. It just so happens that the VAST majority of the illegals are from Mexico and a handful of other latin-amierican countries.
Those of us with at least half a brain also see the invasion as a planned action that goes way beyond a desire for a better life. The primary organizations who support the illegals are on the record as wanting the SW US to be returned to Mexico - and many of these same organizations actually endorse 'taking over" these areas - by whatever means they can find.
I am not usually a destructive person, but if someone pointed out to me where Mr. Stumpf's car was parked, time to get out the turpentine.
Meanwhile in the gymnasium of Little Wound High School The body of Marine Cpl. Brett Lundstrom, who was killed by small-arms fire Jan. 7 in Fallujah, lies in state in a flag-draped casket inside a 30-foot tepee.
And no liberals protested the carrying of The American Flag by the Lakota or the Marines in Attendance.