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Most of us will react in anger over the exaltation of foreign colors above the American flag, and rightly so.

But I would like to comment on the First Amendment. Increasingly we are moving to a place in our understanding of the First Amendment that the right to free speech ends where someone else's subjective sensitivities begins. Scarcely any doctrine could be more dangerous to free speech.

We have seen the baleful results of this tendency in the cases against preachers and against Marc Stein in Canada and against those who speak out against Muslim excesses in Europe.

It is not the subjective sensitivity of the person who alleges offense which may be determinative of the right to free speech because the left will contrive to find ever more hypersensitive individuals claiming affront. If they can match their hypersensitivity with victim status because of their race or inclination to commit buggery, so much more must their power to restrict our first amendment liberties grow.

In this case apparently, the principal and vice principal alleged that Hispanic students celebrating Cinco de Mayo might take offense at the American colors worn by Anglos and be attempted toward violence.

The Supreme Court has come treacherously close to adopting the standards in the school environment when the administrators believe that the speech is somehow disruptive. Many FReepers have expressed support for the idea of shutting down free speech in the schools to further an environment productive for learning. This tendency must be resisted where ever it raises its ugly head. Disruption alone should be the proper object of state control and not free speech.

It is the job of the school authorities to encourage free speech, not discourage it; it is the job of the school authorities to discourage and punish violence, not appease it.

I absolutely love to wear my “Come and Take It” T-shirt to outings and events around town. Because it says “Gonzales, TX” on it (and because I’m an American of mexican descent), many Mexicans think it must be some chicano-pride thing.

When I’m asked about it, I tell the story of the Battle of Gonzales, with a heavy emphasis on the fact that the historic battle began the Texas fight for independence from Mexican tyranny.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_and_take_it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gonzales

The looks I get are priceless.

Those are some very excellent and intriguing points you mentioned. On that note, it’s interesting that a Conservative Christian will have the discipline to hold his tongue when he needs to, but liberals just blurt out their foolish musings without any thought, or consideration as to what they are actually saying. It’s the reality of Proverbs 17:28 where it says, “Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent,and discerning if he holds his tongue.” But they don’t hold their tongue. They frequently air their isane, idealistic, unrealistic, delusional opinions, even after they have been proven not to work. And the more they are proven not to work, the more they say, “Oh, we didn’t do it right this time. We’ll just do it a different way next time.” Wasn’t it Albert Einstein that said, “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results?” And what happens when the right gets in and does things.... right, or mostly right? In a raging hatred, they go ballistic, but this time exhibiting the reality behind Proverbs 12:16 where it says, “16 A fool shows his annoyance at once,but a prudent man overlooks an insult.”

liberals are so “in your face” about it too. They are too delusional and stubborn in their delusional mindset.

It wasn’t all that long ago Americans (from both sides) held similar principles. Now, it has reached the point that if you are for empowering the individual, and you look at things through the perspective of realism, you are considered a right wing extremist, and if you look at things through sensationalist romanticism, and you are for making the government your “all in all,” then you are an “enlightened individual” with a substantiated bounty of insights worthy of evaluation and careful consideration. It’s enough to make you puke.