Flag display causes ruckus at Holy Cross

Worcester Telegram & Gazette Staff ^ | Monday, October 01, 2001 | Emilie Astell

[Salvation]

I think there is a Freep just waiting to happen!

OK who has the E-mail and Snail Maill addresses?

Ditto!

[RW_Whacko]

"He took it down, folded it and placed the flag on her desk, she said.

... Mr. Singleton acknowledged ... he had taken the flag down,...

Any bets the jerk doesn't know how to properly fold the flag?

[jackbill]

Check out #25

[Salvation]

From my email:

Mr. Singleton,

President Bush honored this American hero by inviting his wife, Lisa, to the White House and to a joint session of Congress for his speech last week. Todd Beamer is an American hero.

How dare you not allow Mrs. Post to articulate her rights of free speech by displaying a large American Flag outside her window? Get with the program, Mr. Singleton......support America wholeheatedly!

In the words of George W. Bush. "Either you are with us or you are for the terrorists."

Mr. Singleton, I truly doubt that you are with the terrorists, so please allow Mrs. Post to display her flag in memory of Todd Beamer thus allowing her to practice her right to free speech.

Karen
Salem, OR

[1 FELLOW FREEPER]

Did anyone ever meet a Professor of Sociology who wasn't a psychoneurotic,a Marxist,or, ahem....BOTH!!

[Salvation]

I told Prof. Singleton that his actions had offended me as an American, as a Catholic
Good work, afraidfortherepublic!

[Salvation]

Welcome to Free Republic. Enjoy posting and no longer lurking. God bless.

[massconservative]

Here is my email to Singleton:

Dear Mr. Singleton, As a Holy Cross graduate, I am disgusted to hear that the rampant disrespect for this great country has reached my school. Any students who would be offended by the flag of this, the greatest of all countries, do not deserve the precious gift of freedom. Leave our flag alone! If you or any students are offended by what it stands for, exercise your own right of freedom and leave for greener pastures. Might I suggest Afghanistan, Iraq or even Cuba ( I hear the weather is beautiful there.)

[gumbo]

he told her that displaying the flag would make some students uncomfortable

There they go again with that p.c. mantra, "feel uncomfortable."

There is no sin or evil in their silly liberal world, just things that make people "uncomfortable." (And those things are invariably things held dear by traditionalists -- flag, country, marriage, church, family).

Conversely, to "feel comfortable" with something makes that something OK. I.e., two gay men raising daughters is fine if the daughters "feel comfortable" with it.

[Lancey Howard]

“I started the day in honor and left in embarrassment and tears,” the Auburn resident said. “I'm a very patriotic person. I fly an American flag outside my home every day with a light on it.”

Holy Cross is a disgrace for having a clown like this Royce Singleton as a member of their faculty. I hope this news gets out to all the alumni and I hope they speak with their wallets and say, "No more support until you dump this foul Singleton out in the street."

[Shaka]

Can we now just knock the dog piss out of the guys? Is it legal to do so? In defense of enemies...at HOME and abroad? I know we have free speech....but, the price just seems too low now.

[Lancey Howard]

Mr. Singleton denied Thursday night that he said anything about students to Mrs. Post.

This is where Singleton calls the secretary a liar.
Who do you believe - - the secretary who just wanted to display the American flag, or the disgusting mouse who took it down?

[secondamendmentkid]

When I saw your name, I thought,"this is an imposter" as there are surely no conservatives in MA. Then I thought about the population of MA and said, well maybe there is "one" conservative there, however doubtful. Then I weighed the odds of a member of FR being that "one". But then I suspected that like guns, FR was banned in MA which led me back to my original supposition that you were really from another state. Please explain. :-)

[Sueann]

"a more comfortable place"

I was thinking more along the lines of Kabul!

[Salvation]

I copied my letter to Mr. Singleton (I refuse to call jerks like this 'professor') to Margaret Post and already got a thank you from her. What a classy lady!

[Lancey Howard]

Here is my email to Singleton:
Dear Mr. Singleton, As a Holy Cross graduate,...

I hope you copied the school's President and added that you will no longer give any financial support until Singleton has left the school. Nothing talks like money, especially to these comfortable Marxist scumbags who are so intent on redistributing everybody else's money.

[1 FELLOW FREEPER]

We should all freep the dean....create a heat machine on that insolent prof.

[SpencerRoane]

What is truly troubling about this incident is that Holy Cross is considered the finest Catholic college on the east coast. It used to be very socialy conservative. In the past, many working class Catholic families sent their sons there, and these sons went on to become doctors and lawyers. It sounds like somebody told the professor to get his act together.

[massconservative]

Actually do reside in this socialist republic. A very rare breed indeed up here. Transplanted from NJ years ago (not much better there). Attended Holy Cross in the 70's and even then the seeds of pernicious liberalism dominated. Though born in the Hildebeast's adopted state, have always been a true conservative....just lucky genes I guess.

[massconservative]

Have mailed both Ms. Post and the school's president. Probably won't do much good though. I stopped subsidizing the socialists in our institutions of "higher" learning years ago.