Posted on 03/31/2006 8:52:07 PM PST by lowbridge
I'm thinking they would take the case of a Mexican that would take umbrage at the burning of "his" flag...
That is part of the problem the Border guard has been having...
The ACLU has been down there giving them fits...because of the way they "treat" the poor illegals.
FREE TRAVIS! FREE TRAVIS!
death threats...sounds like a page outta the muslamofascist
playbook...
no wonder our leaders are so fond of them....
over us....
My apologies for the typo.
I see a very logical case here for the boy.
I've never wished I was a lawyer before!
What about trespass for the flag owners who put their flag on someone else's pole?
There are degrees of arson, and spending the day in jail is asinine. Especially, spending it in Florence, 30 miles away from his home and school.
Somebody is being really stupid over this. I did something far worse than what this kid did as a HS student, and didn't spend a minute in jail.
Of course, 40 years does make a bit of a difference...
His lawyer will have to argue "willful and malicious", unless he has some other defense
The good news is this sh-t would not happen at my private high school. The good news about such institutions is that you can "control" who can come in and stay in. Public schools have to take everybody.
CA doesn't have the property's value as part of its statute.
My original understanding (early on this thread) was that they destroyed their own flag. In this case I wonder who asked for the charges to be filed. The school or the flag's owner?
Hmm makes more sense to me that flying a foreign flag over a Public Building, in the USA, would be a Federal Crime. Protecting the USA should earn a comedation from any real patriotic organization. Temporary insanity due to rage should certainly be forgivable as any good American would be likely outraged and act accordingly.
BTTT
It's pretty obvious that there is an element of (poor?) judgement at work in this case, rather than a sterile application of the law.
"Hmm, makes sense then, and thanks for the heads up. Sadly I may have to agree with the charges then since it was not his flag."
The fellow who owned the flag ran it up a flagpole that wasn't his. Twice. It's not like it was torn out of his hands. It was removed from the flagpole and burned.
One could argue it was abandoned.
Courts have ruled for example that taking someone elses trash, even from their can at the street, isn't stealing.
There are two things I use besides toilet paper for rump ribbon, that is a Koran and a Mexican Flag.
If it was the other way around those idiot Mexican students wouldn't have got arrested. I would be surprised if they did though. Of course, they would cry racism if that happened.
It wasn't his flag to burn, I would guess.
"It's pretty obvious that there is an element of (poor?) judgement at work in this case, rather than a sterile application of the law."
I wonder if the school district even has legal standing to press arson charges, considering that they didn't own the property that was burned.
Also, I don't know of any cases where the laws have been applied for flag burning.
Not sure of the laws there, but the law is the law. Liberals would take such a break and run with it, saying they allowed illegals over due to the temporary insanity at the thought of their horrid lives, or such. And I'd agree with them, because they are right about life in Mexico. Laws are in place to stop and keep in line those who would allow there emotions to run and lose there reason. I initially thought this was a case of a student burning his own flag, but that is not the case. Is it wrong to fly the Mexican flag over the US flag? Yes, very and that student needs punished too. Trespassing, and so forth.
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