Posted on 09/13/2013 9:22:48 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
More than 200 colleges and high schools across the nation participated in Young America's Foundation's 9/11: Never Forget Project. Students came together to establish an American flag memorial on campus consisting of 2,977 flags representing each person murdered in the terrorist attacks. Unfortunately, five student protesters at Middlebury College ripped the flags out of the ground before 3:00 pm. The 9/11: Never Forget Project has been an annual nonpartisan event at Middlebury College for the past ten years. By participating in the 9/11: Never Forget Project, students honor the victims of the attacks, as well as honor the American principles for which they died.
Middlebury student groups spent nearly two hours setting up the flag display yesterday morning. The protesters told Ben Kinney, president of the conservative club on campus, they were "confiscating" the flags in protest of "America's imperialism."
The protesters refused to compromise with the students because the flags were supposedly located on an "Indian burial ground and you can't have anything penetrating the Earth."
By removing the display of 2,977 flags, not only did the five protesters disrespect their fellow students who worked hard on setting up the display, but they also took away the chance for other students to remember the victims of the horrific attacks 12 years ago.
These five student protesters should be immediately sent to diversity training regarding respect for others' freedom of speech. What they did was neither noble nor righteous, it was irrational and disrespectful. Each of them should apologize for dismantling a beautiful display honoring American heroes.....
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All I can say:
“Lets Roll!”
Yeah.
I note that the thieves are known but nothing is being done.
But wear an Obama mask to a rodeo.
The flags were already in and “penetrating” the ground. Does one or two days more make a difference at that point?
While kneeling over plucking a flag i would just love to see the look in the prententious dingbats eyes a split second before the steel toe of my left boot plowed into such moonbats face....
The irony is those protested acted like the very word they called their country. Classic leftists projecting.
That probably the problem; no actual men were there.
“Please understand that I am grappling with my complicity in the overwhelming legacy of settler colonialism. Part of this process for me is honoring the feelings and wishes of people who find themselves on the other side of this history.”
According to your theory everything you and your parents own and the college you attend was stolen from native Americans. Give up all this bloody wealth and leave school otherwise you are a hypocrite and have no right to lecture the rest of us...but she sticks to pulling flags out of the ground.
They said the required PC words. Nothing will happen to them. PC trumps common sense.
The pattern has been that Leftists can use force and threats of violence, but anyone opposing them who even hints of using force will have the entire administration and police force come down on him.
My great-grandfather was 100% Cherokee. My husband’s paternal grandmother was half-Cherokee (and my oldest child is a native Puerto Rican, if that counts for anything).
On behalf of my multiracial husband, my kids, and myself, beat her liberal hiney.
That is too great a burden for a young woman of your obvious sensitivity to bear. I'd suggest an appropriate public self-sacrifice such as self-immolation, as the Buddhist monks did in VietNam during the Diem regime.
You could set up a nice poster board condemning you for your whiteness and accepting symbolic responsibility for the unpleasantness at Wounded Knee. That would be a nice touch, but hey, that's purely up to you. It's your act of contrition, not mine.
Guilty while liberal head full of mush.
They love illegal aliens of today but “illegal” aliens of 300 years are evil?
Ditto
Some why I keep hearing Barbara Streisand singing “Feelings” when I read this.
I almost regard it as miraculous that this College PERMITTED this memorial in the first place AND to have actually had a Young Republican Club!?!? Gads, they will let anybody into those schools I guess!
/sarc
“anyone opposing them who even hints of using force will have the entire administration and police force come down on him.”
Henry, what are you doing in there
Waldo, the question is what are you doing out there?
http://thoreau.eserver.org/wendy.html
“Paging Rick Monday”
Yeah, that’s the kind of man I was talking about.
Some student who was there should have said, Touch one of those flags, and you’ll feel the weight of my hand!”
The ‘protesters’ weren’t even students at the College, they were trespassers, and thieves.
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