Posted on 02/06/2006 7:04:44 PM PST by beaversmom
The U.S. and Mexican flags dancing with the wind in Louis Garza's front yard have brewed up bitter resentment in his East Dallas neighborhood.
Louis Garza initially flew a much larger Mexican flag above the Stars and Stripes outside his Dallas home. A friend begged him to take it down, and he replaced it with a smaller Mexican flag that flies atop his pole in protest of the war in Iraq.
Perched atop a more than 20-foot pole and seen from blocks away, the green, white and red Mexican flag snaps in the brisk breeze. The red, white and blue American flag flies beneath and there lies the problem.
Sitting on a bar stool surrounded by a few veterans at White Rock VFW Post 6796, Cecil Caddel, a Korean War veteran and Mr. Garza's neighbor, spoke about the U.S. flag being flown below another flag.
"It irritates the hell out of me," Mr. Caddel said. "We didn't go to war to fly a Mexican flag over our flag."
The flag clash has tapped into deep-rooted passions and Mr. Garza's right as a U.S. citizen to use the Stars and Stripes to protest the war in Iraq and support his Mexican heritage.
Mr. Garza, a 71-year-old Brownsville native, recently answered the door to his eclectic home wearing an Alan Jackson T-shirt, mirrored sunglasses and a black cowboy hat.
Two pianos and more than a dozen guitars fill the small house he has lived in for 40 years.
A bust of Abraham Lincoln sits prominently on a bookcase.
His parents came from Jimenez, Mexico, across the border from Brownsville. Mr. Garza said his mother swam the river at Matamoros so she could give birth to him on American soil.
"She wanted the best for me and all this country had to...
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The guy has been all over the Dallas news. He's a senile old man, and he comes across as being extremely emotionally labile. Is he being a jerk? Certainly. Is he a threat of any sort? Absolutely not.
It IS a violation of the flag code. However, there are no punative clauses in the flag code, so there is no penalty for violating it. And...more importantly, we don't deport American citizens.
Urban legend. Walker didn't forfeit his citizenship, nor has he been stripped of it. As a matter of fact, any and all doubt about his citizenship was laid to rest when he was tried as an American citizen.
Yeah that was my thought about him being senile. In fact its the real story is that the Media is taking advantage of a poor mans senile state to make a political point.
ok so this guy has been a citizen for 71 years and you would deport him. I know people can disagree on this issue but that should never be done retroactively. If we est a new rule fine its prospective only. The thought of the Govt divesting me of rights is frightning so lets not go down that road. What would be next
That's what the media does though. We all know this. This story got press because the press knew it would hit buttons, generate anger and stir up hatred. All of which means ratings and sales.
F---Him and the Whores he rode in on.
Which demonstrates a known fact perfectly. They DON'T assimilate. And this unreasonable refusal to become part of a society in which he has lived in all of his life is racist.
Who exactly is they?
Sorry guy, but he's 75 years old, he was born in America, and he's lived in America all of his life. There is no way you can spin him into being anything other than an American. Just because you don't like his politics doesn't change the facts.
Fact this I would like to shove his dentures down his throat. This is his nation if he loves Mexico enough to fly their goddamn flag he should haul his ass down there.
And what a charming individual you must be. Could you possibly try harder to make a fool of yourself?
I get to decide for myself.
In the United States, individuals do not have to have a state or "consensus" to define what they prefer or want or understand.
I vote accordingly. Communism, that is the bad influence of so many from Mexico and South and Central America, has so indoctrinated so many people culturally from those regions, that, just as you are alleging in your own counter here, that no individual "gets to" define whatever.
Yes, I "get to define" what and how I reason whatever. To my read, the Fourteenth Amendment HISTORICALLY AND ACADEMICALLY was not created to provide "anchor baby" privilege for citizenship and in fact, suggests that something of that plan was rejectable and to be denied citizenship.
It has only been reinterpreted in contemporary times and it's an affront to the sinceritiy of the Amendment itself. Many American individuals, including me, reason just that way.
It's my decision, my determination, as to my opinion about this and that's how I'll be working and voting accordingly and that is to see that the Fourteenth Amendment is applied sincerely as it was written and that does NOT include the more contemporary misapplication of "anchor baby" privilege of citizenship.
If you feel differntly, as you appear to, then vote accordingly. But in the United States as a republic, we individuals are free to decide these things for ourselves and work toward improving our representational government by individual vote accordingly.
It does not matter to me what you "concede" or do not "concede."
It's a misapplication of the Amendment and it will eventually be corrected, if American voters are represented in this issue. There's a lot of support for righting the misapplication and misappropriation of the Fourteenth Amendment.
How anyone can illegally enter the country for purposes of birthing a child that they then demand the country to pay expenses for (hospitalizations, medical care, later support and education) is the issue that you might want to concern yourself with, as to the lack of ethics involved in everyone who engages in that behavior.
The United States was not founded upon the hopes and aspirations of thieves and usery. We have a representational government and individuals are expected to earn their own way, to be individually motivated and free to motivate.
Breaking the laws inorder to manipulate the Constitution is unethical of the worst sort and it is insulting to the many Americans who have lost their very lives to protect and defend the country. That illegal-sneak process also demeans the very worth of citizenship. A lot of Americans object to it. As do I.
One finger pointing at, three fingers pointing at you.
I think we can boil everything down to this line from your post. Indeed, you vote your way and I'll vote mine, and one of our views will prevail. You seem to think it will be your view, and I disagree. We're at the point where all there is left to do is wait and see.
Regardless of what you think your passport says, or does not say, Walker did not lose his U.S. citizenship. It's easy enough to research, have at it.
And what a charming individual you must be. Could you possibly try harder to make a fool of yourself?
Only if you had the privilage of watching me senoritta!!! And I would give you the best show I could!!!
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