Posted on 09/24/2012 1:56:09 PM PDT by Red Badger
A Pennsylvania high school marching band is raising eyebrows with a halftime performance that commemorates the Russian revolution, complete with red flags, olive military-style uniforms, and giant hammers and sickles.
“St. Petersburg: 1917” is the theme for the New Oxford High School Marching Band. Ironically, the school’s athletic teams are called the Colonials and their colors are red, white and blue. The band’s website features a picture of the group with students holding a hammer and sickle.
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And that's a problem. These kids have no earthly concept of the human suffering that takes place under these regimes and leaders. They have romantic notions about Marx and Che Guevara and think they're cool simply because they're not us. Ask them, if communism is so great to people, why do their governments have to keep them there by force, why are they closed societies, why do people literally risk life and limb - like paddling a rowboat from Cuba to the U.S. - to escape? Why, when you look at a nighttime satellite map, is North Korea jet black and South Korea bursting with light?
They're so spoiled, they don't know how good they've got it or how awful life can be. They just know communism would be a "change" and don't you know all CHANGE is progressive and good...right until you fall off the cliff. Pray for their enlightenment.
So....did they get NEW uniforms JUST for THIS? If so, seems the “educational institution” is swimming in dollars....
I checked out the band’s webite:
http://www.newoxfordbands.com/index.html
Yup, the girl in the 2nd row last column is wearing a T-shirt commemorating St. Petersburg 1917, with photos of Lenin, Stalin, et al.
This is so non-newsworthy. Sounds like this is a state marching competition year so they’re going all out. I doubt they’re “celebrating” anything but that the director thought the music score was great and the routine technical enough to advance them to state. The band is getting attention already so the judges will be expecting a clean performance.
FWIW, our drill team’s routine one year ended with them being killed but no one got their panties in a wad and went whining to the msm.
If only they waited 30 days, they could’ve passed it off as a Halloween horror theme.
ANy one else counting yard signs? In a three county area we’ve found over twenty for republican and one group along the side of the road (not in a person’s yard) for the D.
This previously D county is now R. Thank you BO and WJC. You two did what no local people could do!
In the world of high school bands, the months following the football season is the concert season, so maybe the band should hold a concert commemorating the event. They could play songs such as as Harry Scheier's 1934 hit Adolf Hitler's Favorite Flower is the Simple Edelweiss.
This one time at Band Camp..........
The kids are brainwashed, they don’t even know what this stuff really means
Link bump... Thanks.
Well, the band sux! Especially their flag corps.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5vmJC7crxo
And, too, they’re not bug enough to warrant three drum majors.
I looked at the web site and did not see the pictures.
They did talk about the 1917, something or other march.
Someone said useful idiots, yea I agree.
They could do Sound of Music..............
Again, this is probably their marching contest show so the band members buy their own t-shirts. The drum majors’ outfits and the drill team and flag corps costumes are usually paid for out of their budgets which do come from your tax dollars or from proceeds from the kids’ fundraisers. The music scores and routines, depending on how wealthy the school district is, is either paid out of their budgets or through the kids’ fundraisers.
I wonder if they played “Back in the USSR”?
George Soros helped the Nazis back then, and today the pagans are doing the same thing.
Let the Music teacher march playing a kazoo.
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