Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

School: Sorry About Hammer & Sickle (HS Marching Band Commemorates Communist Revolution)
Fox News ^ | 9/25/2012 | Todd Starnes

Posted on 09/25/2012 5:26:24 PM PDT by Dallas59



A Pennsylvania school district has apologized and made significant changes to a high school marching band’s halftime show that commemorated the Russian Revolution with red flags, military-style outfits and giant hammers and sickles.

The New Oxford High School Marching band’s show will no longer be called “St. Petersburg: 1917″ and the performance will no longer include the hammers and sickles, according to a statement from Rebecca Harbaugh, the superintendent for the Conewago Valley School District.

(Excerpt) Read more at radio.foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 1917; apology; communism; freakinidiots; highschool; leftismoncampus; newoxford; pa; stpetersburg
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-46 next last
To: Dallas59

Let me have this idiot who thought this was “ A GOOD IDEA.”

I lived in the refugee camps after VN. I know about a couple hundred thousand Vietnamese and Cambodians, (especially the Cambodians) who would LOVE to surround this idiot, and RE-EDUCATE them. Physically.

Hell, I’ll settle for about 5 Cambodians I still keep in contact with. They would LOVE to have a sit down with the moronic, stupid, idiot who thought this display was “A GOOD IDEA.”

Hey, didn’t Jewish quartets play great music while Jews were herded off to the “showers?” Maybe these gullible fools could do a rendition of that!

The knuckle dragging thugs in the teacher’s union are really stupid. And by that, I mean ALL teachers in the public schoolz.

/rant>


21 posted on 09/25/2012 6:06:06 PM PDT by ConradofMontferrat (According to mudslimz, my handle is a Hate Crime. I just Hope they don't like it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sloth
Aside from the utter impropriety of this... that has got to be the lamest excuse for a sickle I’ve ever seen. It’s not like it’s hard to Google a proper hammer & sickle emblem to copy. Was this the ‘special’ class?

I thought the same thing. Short-bus Socialists!

22 posted on 09/25/2012 6:07:45 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: Dallas59

The “terrible Ivans” would be a good name for a football team.

Was Barry invited to lead the Band?


23 posted on 09/25/2012 6:08:07 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (christian.bahits.com)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Noumenon

Well it seems that Mao’s Long March has just about reached the end of the trail.


24 posted on 09/25/2012 6:11:19 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Dallas59
“It was Glee meets the Russian Revolution,” he told Fox News. “I’m not kidding you. They had giant hammers and sickles and they were waving them around.”

There's your answer right there.

25 posted on 09/25/2012 6:21:52 PM PDT by Smokeyblue
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: DemforBush

In this age of iphone and texting everyone knows everything and no one knows anything.


26 posted on 09/25/2012 6:27:00 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature not nurture TM)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: Dallas59
exactly HOW MANY suckholes had to sign off on this act of anti-Americanism???
27 posted on 09/25/2012 6:48:36 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: txrefugee

What they are doing in Russia on national holidays is turning out & marching in the pre-1917 uniforms of the Imperial Russian Army, with double-eagle emblems and Orthodox crosses.

What if these kids had turned out in traditional Russian garb with no red stars or hammer & sickles? Sang Russian folk songs & performed peasant dances?

Where they really pushed to display communist symbols at the behest of their ideologically inclined teachers? If so, said teachers need to be fired for child abuse.

Celebrating other cultures is fine if the goal is not brainwashing. Now.....we’ve seen Islamic observances where non-Muslim students were required to adopt Muslim names with male & female students kept segregated. Way different.


28 posted on 09/25/2012 6:59:39 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("Free speech is more important than Islam.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Dallas59

They’re sorry? Doesn’t anyone research anything anymore before committing time, money and effort to it? This was a skool with teechers an stuff, right?


29 posted on 09/25/2012 7:07:25 PM PDT by TigersEye (dishonorabledisclosure.com - OPSEC (give them support))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: txrefugee
LOL...they don’t even do this in Russia any more. What genius thought this was a good idea?

Don't know but I'll give odds to anyone that it was an Obama supporter.

30 posted on 09/25/2012 7:16:11 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: ConradofMontferrat

FRiend, you have expoerience that would be a nightmare for any of us.

I seriously ask you to write a letter to this school to be to the teachers and band directors and band members about your view of this situation.

Then some real learning can occur.

Symbols mean something, especially symbols that wind up helping to kill 100 million people worldwide, and enslaving countless millions more for over seven decades.


31 posted on 09/25/2012 7:18:03 PM PDT by exit82 (Pass the word: Obama is a FAILURE!! Democrats are the enemies of freedom!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: Dallas59

More retarded Attention Whores. Oh, look at our bad a$$e$. We be so bad.


32 posted on 09/25/2012 7:18:29 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ConradofMontferrat

My post 31 to you was supposed to say “letter be read to”.


33 posted on 09/25/2012 7:21:21 PM PDT by exit82 (Pass the word: Obama is a FAILURE!! Democrats are the enemies of freedom!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks Dallas59.


34 posted on 09/25/2012 8:10:36 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: carolinablonde

The Children of a failed system giving honor to the Mother of all failed systems.. yep, thats it!


35 posted on 09/25/2012 8:12:10 PM PDT by carlo3b (Less Government, more Fiber..)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: Dallas59
I might enjoy such a halftime show if they played Bolshevik by Waring's Pennsylvanians.
36 posted on 09/25/2012 8:38:28 PM PDT by Fiji Hill (Deo Vindice!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Dallas59
I might enjoy such a halftime show if they played Bolshevik by Waring's Pennsylvanians.
37 posted on 09/25/2012 8:38:29 PM PDT by Fiji Hill (Deo Vindice!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Dallas59
According to the article, the revised halftime show will be dedicated to the music of Dmitri Shostakovich. Perhaps they'll play selections from his twelfth cymphony entitled "The Year 1917" and dedicated to the Bolshevik Revolution.
38 posted on 09/25/2012 8:47:41 PM PDT by Fiji Hill (Deo Vindice!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: DemforBush

They don’t teach real history in schools anymore.

Next question.


39 posted on 09/25/2012 10:32:47 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: Dallas59
Unintentional? Not bloody likely. What we need to know is who was responsible for producing and directing and orchestrating this show. Then, fire them with extreme prejudice.
40 posted on 09/25/2012 11:22:54 PM PDT by MasterGunner01
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-46 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson