[DogByte6RER]

New Mexico is part of the United States of America. Hence the name NEW MEXICO (unlike current, present day Mexico run by corrupt political parties, Napoleanic code of justice, socialism and a government bought and paid for by the drug mafias.)

[Blue Turtle]

Hero alert....

[lormand]

Good news: Congress may pass a flag desecration bill making it illegal to maliciously damage the flag

Bad news: It will only cover the Mexican flag

[-=SoylentSquirrel=-]

I support his act. He is a patriot.

[Cicero]

Burning or tearing American flag = constitutionally protected right.

Tearing Mexican flag = hate crime.

—The PC Police.

[neodad]

"It's inexcusable to desecrate a flag," he said.

"I'm not going to be very pleasant to deal with on this issue."

What makes the situation worse is that it was a Mexican flag, Schmidly said.

The education Taliban strikes again.

[reagan_fanatic]

I would like to shake his hand and congratulate him.

Too bad more Americans aren't like this.

[Radio_Silence]

“It’s inexcusable to desecrate a flag”

Unless of course it’s an American flag.

[KarlInOhio]

"It's inexcusable to desecrate a flag," he said. "I'm not going to be very pleasant to deal with on this issue."

But apparently not to our court system who said that desecrating a flag (or at least the US flag) is free speech.

What makes the situation worse is that it was a Mexican flag, Schmidly said.

Thus the offense taken by foreign nationals trumps the court given free speech "rights" to descecrate a flag.

[Kozak]

No doubt the school will bend over backwards to grant him “amnesty” from prosecution.... Hey right

[Disambiguator]

New Mexico is part of the United States of America. Hence the name NEW MEXICO (unlike current, present day Mexico run by corrupt political parties, Napoleanic code of justice, socialism and a government bought and paid for by the drug mafias.)

Some parts of that description apply to NM, too, unfortunately. Most notably the corrupt parties and the socialism.

[grjr21]

Torres and interim vice president for institutional diversity Rita Martinez-Purson issued an apology Tuesday from the University for the incident.

I suppose it would be to much to expect that the apology was for not flying the American Flag 

[untenured]

Ethnoreligious relations are worse on university campuses than anywhere else in the country. This is because the most politicized segments of the faculty have every incentive to make it so. It would probably never occur to an employee of a McDonald's to run up a Mexican flag outside his restaurant, and if it did all the non-Hispanics would know that the Big Macs will still taste the same.

Daniel Pipes notes today that academics are more sheltered from the consequences of their choices than any other occupation. This is the fruit of that.

[California74]

"This sort of incident hurts everyone," Torres said. "It's something that you don't expect to see at a place like the University of New Mexico where we celebrate diversity."

No, flying the mexican flag is the sort of incident htat hurts everyone! I don't see how this (the tearing down of the mexican flag) hurt ANYONE and what does flying a mexican flag have to do with diversity? If there was an american flag flying with it- then maybe I see diversity. Otherwise, I see the flag of a foreign nation as though that foreign nation took over our country/that location.

[Resolute Conservative]

If you want to celebrate Mexico’s independence day. go to friggin’ Mexico!

I complained to a local Mexican restaurant about flying a Mexican flag and not a US and the reason why it was wrong, three days later it came down and was moved to the wall behind the cash register. That I can live with.

[tailgunner]

Happy days are here again! My house is a safe haven for hunted victims of the illegals! :-D

[CodeToad]

“Mexican” is not a race!

I guess France was just being racist when Germany invaded France?

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

Just exercising his 1st Ammendment rights.

[RockinRight]

"For God's sake, New Mexico was part of Mexico at one time," he said. "There's tremendous ties, and we have a large population of Hispanics that live in our state and many of them have relatives and connections to Mexico."

So? Let them fly a flag there then. This is the USA.

[sappy]

IMHO, no other country’s flag should fly in this country, except at the UN or that country’s embassy.

[azhenfud]

"For God's sake, New Mexico was part of Mexico at one time," he said. "There's tremendous ties, and we have a large population of Hispanics that live in our state and many of them have relatives and connections to Mexico."

Either you're American or you're not.