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Schools punishing wavers of U.S. flag (yet patriotic shirt confiscated could incite violence)
Daily Press ^ | April 2, 2006 | GRETCHEN LOSI

Posted on 04/02/2006 5:35:52 PM PDT by Former Military Chick

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To: Almondjoy
"Baker added that if it was a Hispanic student waving the Mexican flag at students to cause a problem, school officials would have taken the same action."

Talk is cheap.

Hypothetical talk is cheaper yet. In fact people should be paid to have to listen to it.

41 posted on 04/03/2006 12:02:41 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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To: kenth; Doohickey

Thank you. That helped me to know that the pledge is still being taught.

Maybe it's the teachers who need to learn it and recite it even more than the students!


42 posted on 04/03/2006 12:09:48 AM PDT by La Enchiladita (Walk softly, carry a big stick... and don't forget to connect the dots ...)
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To: Former Military Chick

They got a lousy website and no email but here's the phone number: 760-244-4411


43 posted on 04/03/2006 2:50:26 AM PDT by Beckwith (The liberal media has picked sides and they've sided with the Jihadists.)
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To: Almondjoy

Almond Joy, a little bit nuttier.

The Mexicans were waving Mexican flags. That was no problem for the school administration.

And stop giving orders to your fellow Freepers. It's a terrible display of arrogance.


44 posted on 04/03/2006 3:18:30 AM PDT by Beckwith (The liberal media has picked sides and they've sided with the Jihadists.)
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To: Former Military Chick
The American flag is always displayed for the purpose of inciting something. It is SUPPOSED TO incite a patriotic emotion as well as a gratefulness for what has been handed doen to us as a Nation.

If AT ANY TIME there are people living within our borders who can be incited to violence by anyone displaying an American flag, on a shirt or on a pole, it is those who can be incited to violence who have the problem and their presence here should be highly suspect.

Waving our flag is, perhaps, a great test. If people of ANY other national background, living among us, become violent because of a waving American flag, we have a good indicator of potential enemies to our "home land security."

If a middle school student of ANY other national background can be incited to violence over the waving of an American flag, while taking advantage of our tax-supported schools, then it is an indicator of what his parents are or are not instructing him or her at home. Somebody at home is INCITING that student AGAINST our nation or at least to withhold due allegiance.
45 posted on 04/03/2006 3:23:49 AM PDT by Free Baptist
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To: Former Military Chick

There was a thread that had a pic of an Ameican girl of Mexican heritage wearing a US flag. She looked like she was about to get lynched.


46 posted on 04/03/2006 3:25:33 AM PDT by cyborg (I just love that man.)
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To: Travis McGee

I blame the government for allowing them in this country in the first place. Revolution is the solution???


47 posted on 04/03/2006 3:27:27 AM PDT by cyborg (I just love that man.)
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To: Free Baptist

That was really all that needs to be said.

Those that are incited to violence by the sight of OUR flag are the enemy of this nation.


48 posted on 04/03/2006 4:21:08 AM PDT by usmcobra (Those that are incited to violence by the sight of OUR flag are the enemy of this nation.)
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To: Former Military Chick

Any way we could lend support to these kids? If a lawsuit is filed, we should pass the hat around here.


49 posted on 04/03/2006 5:57:44 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: La Enchiladita

I talked with my daughter who lives in the liberal state of Washington. I asked her about my granddaughter reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in schools. She said they stopped saying it this year.


50 posted on 04/03/2006 6:13:55 AM PDT by texastoo ("trash the treaties")
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To: T.L.Sink

Yes they do! I never saw the quote you posted. If possible maybe it could have a thread of it's own so it would get ultimate exposure.
thanks...


51 posted on 04/03/2006 6:15:31 AM PDT by tutstar (Baptist Ping List Freepmail me if you want on or off this ping list.)
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To: Former Military Chick

If they ban Mexican flag shirts it will probably be held to be within their power to prevent substantial disruptions of the school...like in the Confederate flag shirt fights in recent years.


52 posted on 04/03/2006 6:30:29 AM PDT by Name Withheld
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To: jackibutterfly

Uh.. well let's see.. the kid is learning that it's ok to be racist?

The hispanics I'm sure he was waving at were probably Americans.


53 posted on 04/03/2006 7:05:53 AM PDT by Almondjoy
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To: ApplegateRanch

Quite a judgement call from someone who wasn't there.


54 posted on 04/03/2006 7:06:52 AM PDT by Almondjoy
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To: Beckwith

It's soooooooooooooooo arrogant to tell someone to actually read an article before they post about it.

But it's not to call me nutty.

Wow..


55 posted on 04/03/2006 7:08:26 AM PDT by Almondjoy
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To: Beckwith

By the way there is no where in the article that says that hispanic students at that particular school were waving Mexican flags.

It appears it is you with the arrgoance problem.


56 posted on 04/03/2006 7:10:10 AM PDT by Almondjoy
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To: jackibutterfly

And, what, pray tell, is wrong with "flaunting" the American Flag??? Especially, when illegals are waving and flaunting the Mexican flag all over the place?

Ummm, there's no evidence in this story that anybody was waving the Mexican flag at this school. It sounds to me like the kid was trying to rile up Hispanics, disobeyed an administrator or teacher's order, and then cussed at the adult. If my kid did that he'd be a in a ton of trouble.


57 posted on 04/03/2006 7:18:15 AM PDT by Gone GF
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To: Beckwith

"The Mexicans were waving Mexican flags. That was no problem for the school administration."

Read the story. One kid says he saw some Mexican kids that he knew were from his school waving the Mexican flag, but that was away from school. The kids were NOT waving a Mexican flag at school.


58 posted on 04/03/2006 7:21:51 AM PDT by Gone GF
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To: La Enchiladita
When did the saying of the pledge of allegiance stop?

It hasn't stopped at the high school where I work, and, in addition to the Pledge of Allegiance to the U.S. flag, we say the Pledge of Allegiance to the Texas flag.

BTW, the kids in my classes know better than to attempt disrespect during either of these times by sitting or standing verrrrry slowly.

:-)

59 posted on 04/03/2006 7:24:52 AM PDT by pax_et_bonum
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To: Former Military Chick

bump


60 posted on 04/03/2006 7:25:50 AM PDT by VOA
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