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School: Sorry About Hammer & Sickle (HS Marching Band Commemorates Communist Revolution)
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| 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 bands halftime show that commemorated the Russian Revolution with red flags, military-style outfits and giant hammers and sickles. The New Oxford High School Marching bands 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.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 1917; apology; communism; freakinidiots; highschool; leftismoncampus; newoxford; pa; stpetersburg
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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>
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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.)
To: Sloth
Aside from the utter impropriety of this... that has got to be the lamest excuse for a sickle Ive ever seen. Its not like its hard to Google a proper hammer & sickle emblem to copy. Was this the special class? I thought the same thing. Short-bus Socialists!
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posted on
09/25/2012 6:07:45 PM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: Dallas59
The “terrible Ivans” would be a good name for a football team.
Was Barry invited to lead the Band?
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posted on
09/25/2012 6:08:07 PM PDT
by
FreeAtlanta
(christian.bahits.com)
To: Noumenon
Well it seems that Mao’s Long March has just about reached the end of the trail.
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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.)
To: Dallas59
It was Glee meets the Russian Revolution, he told Fox News. Im not kidding you. They had giant hammers and sickles and they were waving them around. There's your answer right there.
To: DemforBush
In this age of iphone and texting everyone knows everything and no one knows anything.
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posted on
09/25/2012 6:27:00 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Acerbic by nature not nurture TM)
To: Dallas59
exactly HOW MANY suckholes had to sign off on this act of anti-Americanism???
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posted on
09/25/2012 6:48:36 PM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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.
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posted on
09/25/2012 6:59:39 PM PDT
by
elcid1970
("Free speech is more important than Islam.")
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?
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posted on
09/25/2012 7:07:25 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(dishonorabledisclosure.com - OPSEC (give them support))
To: txrefugee
LOL...they dont 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.
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posted on
09/25/2012 7:16:11 PM PDT
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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.
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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!)
To: Dallas59
More retarded Attention Whores. Oh, look at our bad a$$e$. We be so bad.
To: ConradofMontferrat
My post 31 to you was supposed to say “letter be read to”.
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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!)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
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posted on
09/25/2012 8:10:36 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: carolinablonde
The Children of a failed system giving honor to the Mother of all failed systems.. yep, thats it!
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posted on
09/25/2012 8:12:10 PM PDT
by
carlo3b
(Less Government, more Fiber..)
To: Dallas59
I might enjoy such a halftime show if they played
Bolshevik by Waring's Pennsylvanians.
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posted on
09/25/2012 8:38:28 PM PDT
by
Fiji Hill
(Deo Vindice!)
To: Dallas59
I might enjoy such a halftime show if they played
Bolshevik by Waring's Pennsylvanians.
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posted on
09/25/2012 8:38:29 PM PDT
by
Fiji Hill
(Deo Vindice!)
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.
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posted on
09/25/2012 8:47:41 PM PDT
by
Fiji Hill
(Deo Vindice!)
To: DemforBush
They don’t teach real history in schools anymore.
Next question.
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.
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