Posted on 04/04/2007 5:07:33 AM PDT by Puppage
(New Haven-AP) _ New Haven police have arrested three Yale University students and charged them with burning an American flag hanging from the porch of a Chapel Street home.
The three are facing charges ranging from reckless endangerment to arson. Police identified the three as 23-year-old Said Hyder Akbar, 19-year-old Nikolaos Angelopoulos and 19-year-old Farhad Anklesaria.
They were held in jail early yesterday and later arraigned in New Haven Superior Court. Bond was set at $25,000 for two of the suspects and $15,000 for the third.
Anklesaria and Angelopoulos are foreign students while Akbar was born in Pakistan, but is a U.S. citizen.
Police say the three set fire to a flag mounted on a pole to the house. It was spotted by two police officers on patrol. One officer pulled down the burning flag to prevent the fire from spreading and the other tracked down the three men.
Police say while the three students admitted setting the flag on fire, there is no reason listed in the police report.
Can I question their patriotism now?
US citizen in name only. Deport the two and jail the third.
They were arrested because the flag was still attached to the pole of someone's house...
..but if they'd taken the flag off the pole and stomped & burned it on the sidewalk, no problem...no arrest ~sarcasm
That’s arson.
Otherwise, I’ll admit, I would have had a fit about someone being arrested for flag burning.
Same reason Pelosi is meeting with Islamists as I type: they despise America.
There's a pattern here but I cant figure it out...Oh wait, I got it.
Since when did the Irish start hating us?
“Police say while the three students admitted setting the flag on fire, there is no reason listed in the police report.”
No, they wouldn’t dare, just like dhimmi cops in Jersey have to use non-existent fundamentalist Christian terrorists for a school hostage exercise because (a.) they are complete power-freak bigots and (b.) they are craven cowards who dare not offend the media culture and its pet Islamonazis.
As for the Yalies, Angelopoulos sounds like a Greek rather than an Islamo, but Greece is a totally media-dhimmi country anyway, famed for its airport ground unions’ persistent support for various hijackers.
Media beasts and their various dupes really enjoyed the hijack dramas, I wonder if any of them harbor any resentment toward AQ for completely using up one of their favorite real life indoctrination scenarios.
Would that be a hissy fit?
You're right. It isn't speech. It's doing with my property what I want to do with my property. Is burning logs in your fireplace free speech? No, but it's allowed.
My thoughts exactly. Immediate deportation.
Nope..that specific phrase isn't exactly in my vernacular.
I'm not from the South.
String ‘um up and drop them off at the nearest VFW for sentencing and punishment.
Damn democrats at it again.
And it was attached to a house, big no,no.
They have to be conservative christians, right? /sarc off
“Akbar was wearing a hooded sweatshirt that read in bold letters, “I am Famous in Afghanistan,” according to police. The political science major was quoted in a Yale Daily News story last year that he was a native of Afghanistan”.
Here is the full link:
http://www.nhregister.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18166023&BRD=1281&PAG=461&dept_id=7576&rfi=6
SHOW HIM THE DOOR NOW!
I have a better idea, string all three of these scumbags from a pole and set them on fire.
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