Posted on 09/15/2020 8:43:35 AM PDT by montag813
by Ron Kersten
Two Ohio high school football players were suspended from the team after they ran onto the field on 9-11 with thin blue line and thin red line flags in support of the anniversary.
The thin blue line flag represents support for police officers and the thin red line flag represents support for fire fighters.
For the record:
** 50 police officers were killed in New York in the 9-11 attacks.
** 343 fire fighters were lost in the attacks.
The boys were honoring 9-11 victims and their fathers who work as a police officer and a fire fighter.
One player, Brady Williams, whose father is a police officer said he wanted to honor the all the cops who lost their lives on 9-11.
Jarad Bentley, whose father is a firefighter, carried the thin red line on the field and waved it before the game.
Athletic Director Gregory Power kicked the two boys off the team indefinitely!
WATCH:
(Excerpt) Read more at us24news.com ...
They should not have been told no to begin with. The school is remaining silent on the reason why they were denied permission. Care to guess why?
>Perhaps they need to hear the disapproval over the phone. Be a shame if their incoming voice lines melted down.
Looks like they are getting hammered on FacePlant as well. Their first spot about a Cub Scout signup has 1300 comments.
Methinks that most are probably not scouting.
https://www.facebook.com/LittleMiamiLocalSchools/
Then it was an act of civil disobedience.
"Careless seems the great Avenger; history's pages but record
One death-grapple in the darkness 'twixt old systems and the Word;
Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,—
Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own."
The permission being denied IS the real problem here. Never should have been denied! Those officials got the lace panties in a wad when the students ignored their BS denial and they overreacted. Like so many school officials, they are pussies.
They just posted this *very* hasty retraction:
https://www.facebook.com/LittleMiamiLocalSchools/posts/3836620933020953
If only they had a black friend with a BLM flag, and all three of them ran out at the same time.
Yep! He's already lost his man parts...
“They were told not to. They did it anyway. I guess you reap what you sow.”
If I was one of those players I would wave those flags again as soon as my suspension ended.
Maybe. The school would be perfectly justified in saying no flags, banners, etc., for any cause, will be allowed on the field.
If they only denied pro police/fire displays but allowed others it would be a big problem.
are they suspending students that ‘support blm’?
They said they didn’t want the students to do this because it would be ‘Divisive”??
Divisive to who? Those that hate our country? Who the hell cares whether scum who hate our country and laws are offended or not?
This was honoring good and decent people who gave their lives to save other people’s lives- the lives of ALL races
And it’s ‘offensive and divisive’ to honor them? What the hell is wrong with that school?
President Trump won that county by nearly 40%. There might be a few conservatives there who raise a stink about it. Let’s see how it works out for them or if anyone cares.
“The boys are now suspended from their team after not heeding a warning to leave the Thin Blue Line and Thin Red Line flags that represent fallen firefighters and police officers off the field.”
If you wish to be a patriot, you should be prepared to accept the consequences of the act. They were warned.
““Were you trying to make some kind of a political statement here?” Local 12 asked Brady Williams, a senior cornerback.
“No,” he answered quickly. “Not at all. I was just doing it to honor the people that lost their lives 19 years ago.“” Yet later in the interview: “Listen,” Williams said. “I don’t care what my consequences are. Ss long as my message gets across, I’ll be happy.”
He made a choice, he’s happy. One that was in defiance of the decision of the organization he was representing. If an employee of a company does something intentionally after it is established the company doesn’t want it done, and warned consequence would follow, then they would be punished, possible terminated. If the two kids had asked to try for an alternate way to accomplish their goal, and turned down, then a discussion could follow that could appease both sides. This way, there is no room for a discussion. They wanted, they were told no, and they are being punished as previously informed.
Breaking rules intentionally is not the answer. If they had time to ask, they had time to sit down and maybe meet in the middle. But the kids didn’t care by the one’s admittance. And what it represents, has nothing to do with their acts.
They acted in a defiant way by doing something, anything, that was preplanned and unwanted, at least, in the way they wished to do it. They broke the rules. Our country is based on rules, and sometimes laws. And allowing children to break them openly after they were told no, is the kids act, not the school’s. Blame the kids. They knowingly created the problem.
rwood
Sadly we’ve become a litigious nation. Threat of a lawsuit from an attorney is the only way these school clowns will back down.
Power is the district superintendent, not the athletic director.
https://www.littlemiamischools.com/about-us/department-contacts-5/
I’ve sent him an email on the subject already, citing this link: https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/393/503.html
There’s another thread over here where I was posting: https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3884311/posts?q=1&;page=21
Text of my email is posted at that link, as well.
Soooo, people should just go to the back of the bus when they’re told to and sit quietly?
It’s probably a resume enhancer..
What Gregory Power deserves is a ‘do not disturb’ sign on his belongings if and/or when he needs a cop or firefighter.
Especially since he seems politically opposed to police and firefighters.
I understood they did ask permission.
“.. stances...” of insubordination?
From the Board of Ed.
Whoakaaaaay.
Good boys. Public school is overrated. Considerer in legal hookey.
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