Posted on 09/20/2007 8:15:13 AM PDT by DogByte6RER
Good find, I was looking for that and couldn’t get it.
You are correct. This is a property rights issue.
In 1835 a little known conflict took place between Michigan and Ohio. The question to be settled was where the state boundary should be and to which state the city of Toledo belonged. The following article was published in a Michigan paper.
We are sorry to be compelled to state that since individuals in the disputed ground have been base enough to erect, in the village of Toledo, a flag on which was ostentatiously displayed the name of Ohio, some patriotic citizens of Michigan, indignant at the disgusting exhibition, tore the disgraceful badge of freedom from its perch, dragging it through the streets over which it had waved, and after arriving with it at Monroe, finally burned it with suitable demonstrations of contempt.
Back then, before polical correctness, when men were men, they took care of business. Thank God for this young hero in a nation of wimps.
If the American flag usually flies from the flagpole outside Scholes hall, and that Mexican rag was raised in it’s place, then it was being flown “in place of” Old Glory.
That would mean the Mexican Student Association has apparently violated the US Code, while all the student did was take it down and turn it in to the ROTC office. (I know it’s hard to believe: that our good neighbors to the south would intentionally break our laws.)
That rag should have been burned.
Emotions must be running high on this thread. It’s one of the more heavily redacted ones I’ve seen recently.
:^)
“I mean, how can you not like this flag? It practically screams, “Come on over. We have blonde chicks and beer.””
LOL! Just what I think when I see that flag! “Yah, weeve beir!”
Why do I have it in my mind that if it were mexican students ripping down OUR flag the officials would not make a peep?
The U.S. Supreme Court has settled the question, that burning or abusing the U.S. Flag is "freedom of speech" and Constitutionally protected.
But doing the identical thing to the mexican flag is a hate crime.
Do I have that right?
Can someone explain that to me?
Come on stay on subject. Which is FOREIGN FLAGS IN AMERICA. A Southern Flag is part of American History, the MEXICAN OR U.N. FLAG DO NOT BELONG HERE.
Where is the Peter Lynch Suit/Defense Fund located?
That's just a start.
What is the name of the School District?
The School District Board?
That's it!
School Boards must accept the fact that they are responsible for stupid administrators in their schools.
Ignorance and/or stupidity cannot be an excuse for School Boads to allow incompetent administrators to run foreign country protectorates on U.S. soil.
Unacceptable.
Will a large monetary award clarify it for them?
What can you do about it Schmidly, when you're working at Jack-in-the-box?
What are the cash reserves of your School District?
Works for me!
New Mexico was also once part of the Spanish Empire, for more than 200 years for that matter. But no one would mind if they ran the Spanish flag up the pole, because Spain poses no threat to the integrity of American rule.
What a crock ofcrap! Anybody ever mentioned that burning Old Glory, insulting the US citizenry, maybe, maybe...maybe, a hate Crime??
Naaaah, I didn't think so, just a liberal crime.
Let me get this straight.
An American tears down a foreign flag being displayed high on a flagpole within the United States on a government — i.e., taxpayer supported — property and is subject to criminal charges??!!!
He is being treated as a criminal? For what? Because he doesn’t “celebrate diversity?!!”
Don’t get me started.
He’s a Patriot and a Hero!!
The cost of that rag must make it the lowest misdemeanor possible. An over-reaction if it prompts anything beyond a citation and nominal fine.
But then who would explain the U.S. Constitution to folks like you.
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