Good job, young man. # em if they can’t take a joke. And # em harder when they deny our Constitutional liberties.
Zero tolerance. No inspiration or brains allowed. It’s the rule.
In a way they are making religion, patriotism, the constitution, etc. “Edgy” and cool because that which is forbidden becomes the choice of the young rebel. Now that all the formerly forbidden things are allowed, they will become undesirable and “establishment”.
Was his speech substantively correct? Most 18 year olds (even class valedictorians - especially class valedictorians) often talk out of their @ss when it comes to matters like the USC.
I don’t know what is happening in Texas, but it seems the last 12 months has gone down hill with regards to religious freedom, and other rights that we have under the constitution. Stories like these are starting to pop up quite a bit. I want the days back where the only thing that Texas wrote about was energy (oil), Friday Night Football and maybe an occasional illegal immigration story.
A Texas high school silenced its Valedictorian’s microphone during his speech
Better planning next year: Set up a simple speaker with receiver and a wireless mic prior to arrival of the crowd. Probably wouldn’t even be noticed during setup.
Wear the wireless mic when giving the speech and let them panic while trying to cut the student off.
Another Silent Running ping has been detected!
“Silent Runnning (On Dangerous Ground)” (1985)
by Mike and The Mechanics
According to Mike Rutherford (from Mike and The Mechanics), the song is about a guy who’s traveled light-years away, out in space somewhere, and he’s ahead in time. Therefore he knows what’s going to happen to his wife and kids back home, on Earth. And he’s trying to get the message to them to say what’s going to happen, the kind of anarchy, the breakdown of society, to tell them to be prepared
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep7W89I_V_g
Take the children and yourself
And hide out in the cellar
By now the fighting will be close at hand
Don’t believe the church and state
And everything they tell you
Believe in me, I’m with the high command
Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?
Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?
There’s a gun and ammunition
Just inside the doorway
Use it only in emergency
Better you should pray to God
The Father and the Spirit
Will guide you and protect from up here
Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?
Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?
Swear allegiance to the flag
Whatever flag they offer
Never hint at what you really feel
Teach the children quietly
For some day sons and daughters
Will rise up and fight while we stood still
Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?
Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?
Can you hear me running (can you hear me calling you?)
(Can you hear me) hear me calling you?
(Can you hear me running) hear me running babe?
(Can you hear me running) hear me running?
Calling you, calling you
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Running_%28On_Dangerous_Ground%29
“A Call To Arms”
by Mike and The Mechanics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzHHj1cBDJk
Pass the word, it’s a call to arms
Midnight man at your door
Blackened faces run in the night
Daybreak under the floor
Bring my bow
Fill my head with flame, and we must
Let them know that the torch is lit again
Crystalize the pain behind your eyes
Are you ready to fight?
(you hear the drum and) run for your life
(sweet avalon the heat is on)
In other words, I hope and pray
That time and tide wash the hate away
A simple man with simple thoughts
Who turned to force as a last resort
All around us, chaos rings
Buildings crumbling down
Silhouettes in the fiery rain
Timbers crash to the ground
Bring my spear, invested with my youth
Bring the children near, they must now be told the truth
Old and young and those of foreign tongue
Are you ready to fight?
(you hear the drum and) run for your life
(sweet avalon the heat is on)
In other words, I hope and pray
That time and tide wash the hate away
A simple man with simple thoughts
Who turned to force as a last resort
In other words, I hope and pray
That time and tide keep the day away
When simple men with simple thoughts
Will turn to force as a last recourse
Who says you need a microphone...Once that mic was turned off, if the audience could cool down, I would have kept right on speaking...A little louder of course...
I agree the pre-approved speech craphas got to go...If the kids was really smart he should have delivered for “ahem” pre-approval his Constitutional remarks in that speach...Let them try to keep him off message that way, and keep the origianl speech (before they edited it) tucked away for safe keeping for proof of the districts’ shinanigans...
When certain people feel the Constitution is too contraversial, then the burn is on those people, not us who understand the show...Those people need to be outed for what they are and replaced by the people in that district...
Wow, Joshua, Texas is not too far from where the tornados hit Cleaburn, Texas before the ones in Oklahoma grabbed the headlines a few weeks ago...
hmmmmm...Just a geographic discovery I suppose...;-)