Posted on 06/20/2008 9:49:08 PM PDT by buccaneer81
Ex-teacher accused of stomping Old Glory Reports reacting to confiscation of Mexican banner from student Posted: June 20, 2008 6:35 pm Eastern © 2008 WorldNetDaily A former teacher in Idaho has been charged under a state law that bans desecration of the U.S. flag after he allegedly threw Old Glory on the floor of an administrator's office at Minico High School and stomped it, breaking the pole and ripping the flag from its fastenings.
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Maybe he could find work as a teacher in Mexico.
Hissy fit ping
This complaint he had, that Hispanic students were being mistreated, is a double edged sword.
Ask anyone from Mexico if they miss their country and wish they could go back. Most would say “Si!”, yes. Then ask them why they’re here and sometimes it is about money but mostly it is because of dishonest police and courts back in Mexico.
So Hispanics, who really don’t want to abandon either their culture or language tend to stay together.
We don’t like that.
World Net Daily reported the following. (With teachers like this is it surprising? I don’t think so.)
“Polls show parents want education alternatives”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032578/posts
In addition, the Idaho survey revealed only 4 percent of parents between the ages of 36 and 55 would use public schools over alternatives such as private or charter schools.
“What is significant is that this age group is the primary consumer of public education,” said Bryan Fischer, executive director of Idaho Values Alliance, a public policy research group based in Boise. “These are the people that have their children in the education pipeline. This says the more parents use the Idaho public school system, the less satisfied they are with it, and the more they want to be provided with genuine choice in education,” he told the Chicago-based Heartland Institute.”
"Fears of possible violence led some white parents to keep their white children out of school, and one student was arrested for an alleged threat," the report said.
“Ask anyone from Mexico if they miss their country and wish they could go back. Most would say “Si!”
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I can confirm that being from L.A. My 2nd cousin actually asked that Q to a “mexican”: “If Mexico is so great, what are you doing here?”
Better yet.
"Employ" him for the next 10 years teaching his Illegal immigrant cellmates English in a Federal prison.
I’m sure his degree will come in handy when applying for work at the nearest taco stand.
He’d make a fine “Secretary of Education” in the Obeymao administration.
When I was going to school we would have stomped the ex teacher for that act.
“esl teacher afraid of losing his gravy train.”
esl teacher, afraid of having to become an adult, damages his mommy and daddy’s property to get back at them and make them do what he wants.
IMHO
He will probably become a College Professor at Columbia U.
That said, what I would support is that flag desecration falls under the "fighting words" definition and that the subsequent actions of the observers be understood as a justifiable response to a "fighting words" provocation. "Yes, they beat you to a pulp but you provoked them beyond any reasonable restraint. Case dismissed."
I agree with you. This charge will not stand - Texas v. Johnson in 1989 established that flag desecration is a constitutionally protected form of free speech. Why else would Congress keep trying to pass a Constitutional amendment to carve out an exception to the First Amendment?
The prosecutor violated his oath of office by even bringing the charge in the first place, and should be ashamed of himself.
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