Posted on 02/27/2014 7:05:58 PM PST by montag813
by John Urban | Top Right News
Yes, you read that headline correctly.
A Federal court actually approved banning the U.S. flag in a U.S. school to appease violent threats from Mexican students, many of them illegal aliens.
A panel of the Federal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld a California's high schools decision to forbid students from wearing American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo. The ruling was unanimous, 3-0.
The Court said the officials' concerns of racial violence outweighed students' freedom of expression rights. Administrators said they feared the American-flag shirts would inflame the passions of Mexican students celebrating the Mexican holiday. So they told the students to turn their shirts inside out. When they and their parents refused, the students were sent home.
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What does The Constitution have to do with school dress codes?
Go figure. If we are not a laughingstock to the rest of the world I’d be really surprised. It’s hard to be patriotic anymore when so many of our countrymen are traitorous, lacking common sense, and have no self-preservation.
Perhaps you did not read the entire article. The actions by the school and the 9th Circuit have many implications regarding the Constitution, far beyond school dress codes. If I have to explain that to you, well then, maybe you need a refresher course.
These students should assert their rights, guaranteed from government predation, and as a protest burn a pile of Mexican flags on May 5. Make sure it’s done in a safe manner with no other flammable objects nearby and with fire extinguishers on hand.
Take it to them.
It’s like appeasing Islamists. YOU better walk on egg shells lest THEY fly into an irrational rage. YOU, citizen, better not display a US flag on US territory lest FOREIGNERS cause trouble.
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