Posted on 09/18/2014 12:29:16 PM PDT by thetallguy24
It’s official: the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has issued an order declining a request for an en banc hearing in a case involving four students in at a California high school who were sent home for wearing American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo.
The full slate of Ninth Circuit judges has thus agreed with a lower district court and with a trio of appellate judges that officials at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, Calif. could censor students who wanted to wear flag-emblazoned shirts.
The federal appeals court issued its denial of an en banc hearing on Sept. 17 — Constitution Day.
“[N]o further petitions shall be permitted,” the court ordered.
The trouble dates back to Cinco de Mayo (May 5) in 2010, when officials at Live Oak High — a school with a predominant Mexican-American student body — forced the students to remove their American flag-festooned shirts. Administrators called the shirts “incendiary” and worried that fighting would break out between white and Latino students if Latino students noticed the shirts. So, assistant principal Miguel Rodriguez told the students to turn their shirts inside out or leave school.
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I agree with that. I also recognize that trait in myself.
The worst lies by far are lies about love.
Agreed, except: The shirts should now be worn with an upside-down flag.
If I still had children in school I would not allow them to attend on the racist cinco de mayonaise, a holiday which 99% of mexicans are completely ignorant of the significance, or lack there of.
Won’t be long before our national flag is banned as “hateful,” just like what happened to the flags of the Confederacy.
I agree.
It’s a shame, but people you wouldn’t expect it from do it anyway. I guess we’re all capable of it, and we all make mistakes along the way.
I sure try to avoid it when it comes to love.
I don’t like to lie anyway, because then you have to lie more and more to cover it up.
Just tell it like it is up front and take your lumps.
Hurting someone who has put their trust in you, it’s devastating to them. You mean a lot to them, and they can take years to recover from it. They may never trust again.
It’s a very low thing to do. You would hope people would know better, but sometimes they don’t.
Yup.
And they do that, then I get a Mexican flag and do the same. After all, they are American right? They are proud citizens of the US, right? Can’t have any loyalties to the mother country, right?
Exactly. And that’s one reason I don’t buy into the banning of the Confederate Flag. That’s B S.
If there is one argument for not sitting out a presidential election, this alone is one.
Stacking the judicial system.
The American flag is flown upside-down on ships as a sign of distress. It is a plea for help.
Can I burn a Mexican flag?
governmental double standard.
Gotcha. Of course. I forgot about that fact. Thanks. :)
The USA is the only country in the world that has willfully and enthusiastically terminated itself.
Wear the American Flag T shirts anyway, it’s not like the 9th Circuit can issue arrest warrants for 9th Graders.
Did theses federal injustices take an oath to uphold the American or Mexican Constitution?
USMC
We kicked your ass
in 1848 and
we can do it again!
“When will people take arms? I just hear grumblers.”
When will questionable agitators like you share your bonafides about how you turned back a communist threat in your neighborhood by attending a local schoolboard meeting?
Eff the Court.
Next Cinco de Mayo the entire school should wear US flag t-shirts. I’d bechya a few Mexicans even show up in ‘em.
“Remember The Alamo!”
Since Cinco de Mayo commemorates the Mexican victory over Emperor Maximillian and his French supporters, protestors should wear the French flag on CdM. After all the United States has never been at war with France.
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