Posted on 03/30/2006 11:38:23 PM PST by beaversmom
Tensions over immigration reform heightened in the Phoenix area's East Valley Thursday when students raised a Mexican flag over Apache Junction High School — and then other students yanked it down and burned it. "I know (they) shouldn't have burned the Mexican flag," said Jacob Stewart, a 16-year-old sophomore. "I heard it was raised above the American flag and that just irked me."
He said the turbulence was tied to debates going on in the state Legislature and Congress, where ideas ranging from offering illegal immigrants a chance at citizenship to making them felons are being floated.
Freshman Chelsea Garcia, 15, and junior Brittany Ramage, 16, said the unrest had more to do with long-running racial tensions at the school.
The week's events might have sparked some anger, Ramage said, "but kids aren't too deep about that stuff."
The Hispanic student who brought the Mexican flag said he was responding to a remark directed at him Wednesday. The flag-raising, flag-burning, and shoving match that followed happened before most students arrived at school.
Six students — three Hispanic and three white — will be disciplined, Principal Chad Wilson said.
Officials with the Apache Junction Unified School District would not specify what punishment the six face.
Wilson did say in a letter sent home to parents that there would be "increased supervision, including additional police officers, on the campus over the next couple of days."
School flagpoles have been lightning rods across the country this week, including an incident in which a Houston high-school principal was disciplined after he flew a Mexican flag underneath his campus' U.S. and state flags.
A new political awareness among students has also been grabbing attention, as thousands have walked out on classes to join rallies in Phoenix and elsewhere. More than 100 students from Mesa's Carson Junior High and Westwood High schools marched in protest on Mesa streets Tuesday.
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This Mexican Flag raising issue on American soil would really irk most Americans if the MSM reported it.
I can just hear the conversations that must've gone on in the principal's office behind closed doors. "Oh, my God, however many Hispanic kids we discipline, we'd better make darn sure at least as many white kids will be disciplined, or heaven only knows what will happen!" As they probably cowered in terror.
Well, if anyone on FR knows Jacob, please give him an "attaboy" for me!
There's still hope for the next generation.
Outstanding!
I love these threads that help identify quislings.
So is burning an only American flags protected speech?
BTW, I thought it creepy about President Bush and Fox wearing matching outfits.
""You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.' But I say to you, Do not resist one who is evil. But if any one strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also; and if any one would sue you and take your coat, let him have your cloak as well; and if any one forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles. Give to him who begs from you, and do not refuse him who would borrow from you. You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.""(Matthew 5:38:45 RSV)
That fool wouldn't have even been born to say that had not a greater Matthew, Mattithias of the Maccabee clan had not vanquished the Greek Syrians through force of ARMS hundreds of years earlier.
Enemies don't need loving. They need to be met by hard steel.
At least SOMEONE is showing some stones...
"My comment wasn't directed at burning that flag. It's this thread's celebratory talk of bringing down radio towers, anarchic vandalism and thinly veiled threats of violence. That ain't conservative. And this ain't Red Dawn."
Did you just have 500 angry illegals and the kids of illegals march past your house 2x in the past week carrying mexican flags and signs saying things like "yanqui go home" and "this land is stolen?"
It may not be red dawn yet - but it's getting there.
There was also vandalism to a hispanic radio tower which will keep them off the air for weeks. Someone sawed off the steal legs with a blow torch. This is getting a little scary.
Yeah, here in NY things got really ugly on 9/11. And we all know Madame Hillary's FALN loves NY and Washington.
But, it's kind of freaky watching Mexifornia do nothing when your very existence as a state in the USA is challenged by thousands in the streets saying F* gringos.
Did the Boston Tea Party disturb you, as well? That involved the destruction of private property.
.....just the tip of the iceberg I'm afraid...but then...what would you expect from thousands of foreign protestors claiming the United States is their homeland waiving the Mexican flag.....idiots.
I believe some of these young Americans see the writing on the wall, and understand the necessity for stopping this invasion of illegals.
"My comment wasn't directed at burning that flag. It's this thread's celebratory talk of bringing down radio towers, anarchic vandalism and thinly veiled threats of violence. That ain't conservative."
The patriots would have thrown you into Boston Harbor along with the tea, quisling.
A hostile force is invaiding our country and you want everyone to go back to sleep?
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