What We Are About To Do Here Is What The Good Lord Would Call A Cleansing of the Wicked. I Call It A Good Old Fashioned Texas Ass Kicking.
Posted on 04/02/2006 5:00:59 PM PDT by Former Military Chick
Apache Junction High School students went through a Friday steeped in racial tension, confusion and ultimately, a partial reversal by an administrator who tried to calm things down.
The day began with emotions high, a day after an incident in which Hispanic students raised a Mexican flag on a school flagpole only to see it taken down and burned by Anglo classmates. A shoving match ensued.
On Friday, students wore Mexican and American flags to school as tension between Hispanics and Anglos reached a near-riot pitch, some said.
The situation caused Superintendent Greg Wyman to create a new policy: No flags of any kind, whether on clothing, jewelry or otherwise, will be worn or brought on campus.
He also canceled the school's MORP ("prom" spelled backward) dance scheduled for today.
The no-flag policy set off a wave of phone calls from outraged parents who said it violated rights of free expression. Some said it was downright unpatriotic.
By late Friday, after meeting with school and district officials, Wyman reversed part of his decision. The dance is still off, but the no-flag policy, which was supposed to last until the end of the school year, didn't last the day.
A district spokeswoman cited the calls from parents. Angela Morrissey, who has has two daughters who go to the school, opposed the flag ban.
"My problem with this is that you're taking away our children's right to show pride in their country, whatever country that is," Morrissey said before the policy was reversed.
Stories about what may have set off the no-flag policy Friday are conflicting.
Morrissey said her daughters reported seeing ethnic "gangs" fighting at lunchtime — Hispanics wearing white T-shirts and Mexican flags, and a carload of Anglo kids driving by the school flashing a Nazi salute.
In an e-mail to the Tribune, Apache Junction senior Ari Kalan said tension at the school was thick, with a few students shouting, "White pride!" and others carrying Mexican and American flags.
District spokeswoman Carol Shepherd said there were no reports of violence on campus.
The flag-burning incident Thursday seemed to have been set off by a series of pro-immigrant rallies across the nation and Arizona for more than a week.
Now the high school in Colorado should take note of this result.
Flags Banned At Local High School- students SUSPENDED for bringing US FLAG to school
PING
For those following the Colorado high school flag banning, I thought you would be interested in this news item.~FMC
See what havoc uncontrolled immigration causes?
"My problem with this is that you're taking away our children's right to show pride in their country, whatever country that is," Morrissey said
So, according to this proud parent it would be OK to fly any and all flags of whatever nation any student happened to be from. He's a perfect example of the muticultural nonsense that has brought us to paralysis.
Why does this article associate Nazis with the white kids? Seems like it's the Mexico doing the invading...
That sounds like a "plant" propaganda e-mail. The folks I have talked to said the students were trying to counteract the Mexican flag being flown above Old Glory.
This "Nazi" crappola reeks of something leaked to the press to try to squash the opposition.
Any money says this is bullshit >>> "a carload of Anglo kids driving by the school flashing a Nazi salute."
Excellent thoughts, thanks for adding them to the thread.
Thanks for the ping and the great news.. and it shows if we fight back we can win. The Silent Majority must not remain silent any longer.
This is another example of what happens when Americans start standing up for their rights.
I'm tired of all the defeatism and apathy I see on this board with respect to this amnesty bill.
Almost as if grafting this country onto Mexico is a foregone conclusion.
It makes me almost as upset as watching the cavalcade of anti-American, law-breaking simpletons that marched across the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday demanding "rights" for "undocumented workers."
STAND UP AND FIGHT!
Thanks FMC. I am sorry to see any use of a flag for anything other than the honor it is due. In Arizona, replacing the American flag by the students was the proper thing to do. Burning of the Mexican flag was simple animal behavior. I trust in the Colorado case the principal will retract the ban as soon as everyone has cooled off, and will have a discussion of the proper use, respect, and etiquette relating to the flag. People should be encouraged and permitted to display flags but, only properly. If they are used for intimidation or to otherwise cause disorder, their free speech rights come to a halt as far as I am concerned.
If the "child's" country that they want to show pride in, is Mexico, then they should go back across the border and wave the Mexican flag there. These are the people with no pride or loyalty to America that the Senate Judiciary Committee wants to grant amnesty and eventual citizenship to? Not on my watch!
If there is some patriotism going on it is important to suggest a nazi angle. If there wasn't some fool kid flashing a nazi salute, the journalist will just invent it.
a few students shouting, "White pride!"
To show any pride for the white race is a crime.
As I recall, our Supreme Court has found that burning of the American Flag is an expression of free speech. I can't see how burning a Mexican flag could be viewed any differently. If you think burning a Mexican flag goes too far then you aren't in step with our own laws.
At least some citizens are awake.
"I would prefer a policy of no other flag than and American flag flown on any Federal, State, School or Public property."
I agree. My grandparents legally immigrated to the US from Italy, they were grateful to become Americans and proudly flew the American flag on their front lawn, not the Italian flag.
After yesterday's discussion of Colorado's banning, I was just so angry. Then a friend sent this along, and I thought this was good news.
You are so right, we MUST NOT remain silent. At least there are a lot of teen's choosing to do the right thing, and to speak and speak loudly.
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