Posted on 05/02/2024 5:43:10 AM PDT by SJackson
A student who defended the American flag at a North Carolina campus Tuesday from an anti-Israel mob, said the protesters would have had to yank the flag from him over his "dead body."
Anti-Israel protesters targeted the American flag on The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's quad — which had been flying at half-mast after four Charlotte officers were killed in the line of duty. At one point, they replaced it with a Palestinian flag – enraging students and inspiring members from the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity to take action.
"I don't understand how people can act like this," said Dan Stompel, a junior studying political science at the university. He was one of over a few dozen students who stood up to a mob of hundreds as they tried to desecrate the American flag. Stompel and his fellow classmates held the flag for over an hour until police were able to clear the protest and safely hoist it back on the flagpole. All the while, the students experienced profanity and middle fingers from protesters, along with bottles, rocks, and water being thrown at them.
"We're looking at every direction. If stuff was flying in, we would say, ‘Heads up.’ We would cover each other. We would look out for other people… And it did hurt our arms. It was like an ‘arm day’ [workout] for me that day. There was no gym happening that day afterwards. It was exhausting. It was beautiful moment," Stopel said in an interview with Fox News Digital Wednesday.
"It shows that, …based on the people there, nice, normal, strong boys protecting America's flag. There's nothing more patriotic, nothing more genuine, nothing more inspiring than that," he said.
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If anyone from the Trump campaign is reading this, it would be a wonderful gesture if the President would send each of these young men a little note of thanks for their patriotic defense of our flag.
Dab Stomple this action will follow you for the rest of your life. Rick Monday is still revered for running out and grabbing a flag from some scumbag who was trying to light it at a Cub game.
Nice to read an inspiring story from the current foolishness.
I’m sure his Marxist professors will now fail him.
I was PolySci and conservative and patriotic.
Why do you hope he becomes a GOP politician? You should hope he becomes MAGA. The GOP is dead.
This is just the start. I have high school and middle school kids and they’re fed up with the social BS and anti Americanism. That’s saying something considering we are in NTX and only exposed to 10% of what kids elsewhere see.
good for him.
anyone else think the democratic convention in Chicongo is gonna be a shitshow this year?
The GoFundme account continues to grow.
John Rich is working on scheduling a concert to benefit the fraternity. Emerald Robinson is offering an internship to any of those students that go into law.
The response to those young men’s actions is a pretty reliable political poll if you ask me.
Everyone needs to realize that the long-existing, professional Left is behind these violent, disruptive, and virulently anti-American actions. They have been planning, organizing, and coordinating these things since the Cold War started (Ban the Bomb, Anti Vietnam War, anti-Nixon, Anti Reagan, Anti Bush (I and II) and the Anti Trump, BLM, Antifa, and now pro-Hamas). These are not "spontaneous" uprisings and Mr. Trump needs to make it a first-day initiative to remove all Left-leaning folks in the DoJ and have the FBI go after and indict these agitators.
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I see this too and even a lot of the middle of the road types starting to speak openly and loudly about the bs going on.
What doesn’t surprise me but does many people is there a not insignificant number of Hispanics here that are moving far to the right very fast and would likely put a Pinochet clone in power given the opportunity.
This fraternity was established at the College of Charleston in 1904. Beautiful campus. Unfortunately, it’s in James Clyburn’s congressional district as goes the rest of downtown historic Charleston.
As of now, $389,909 raised of $400,000 goal •
May I suggest that they invite Trump to their party.
I said it once and I’ll say it again... because Gen Z failed to properly bully their freaks, geeks and nerds, those same freaks, geeks and nerds bred, and their offspring is what you see on television every night. These UNC MEN... these glorious bastards, gave one of the freaks an earful when she came up to yell at them. They told her to lose weight, they told her to Eff Off they told her to “Hug a nut!” We need Gen A to bully their freaks, geeks and nerds. Keep those SOBs in check!!!! /S/ (but not really because I mean it)
That’s a great idea. Trump could do frat parties near college campuses nationwide.
That’s a great idea. Trump could do frat parties near college campuses nationwide.
“There was a GoFundMe account started to raise money for the Frat Bros who protected the flag and... the fund had raised over $250,000.”
I predict there’s a 99% chance these kids never will see a penny of that money. GoFundMe is a far left-wing outfit, and has kept money raised for conservative people and causes. GiveSendGo is the ethical alternative.
Entirely possible, not that it will matter to GoFundMe but if they balk about paying out the money it will be reported
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