Student Tears (Down) Mexican Flag; Suspect Remains At Large

New Mexico Daily Lobo ^ | September 19, 2007 | Jeremy Hunt

[DogByte6RER]

New Mexico is part of the United States of America. Hence the name NEW MEXICO (unlike current, present day Mexico run by corrupt political parties, Napoleanic code of justice, socialism and a government bought and paid for by the drug mafias.)

[Blue Turtle]

Hero alert....

[lormand]

Good news: Congress may pass a flag desecration bill making it illegal to maliciously damage the flag

Bad news: It will only cover the Mexican flag

[-=SoylentSquirrel=-]

I support his act. He is a patriot.

[Cicero]

Burning or tearing American flag = constitutionally protected right.

Tearing Mexican flag = hate crime.

—The PC Police.

[Rick.Donaldson]

What a bunch of idiots (the guys who say things like New Mexico was a part of Mexico, and they want to arrest the kid etc). An American flag, by LAW should have been flying AS WELL.

[neodad]

"It's inexcusable to desecrate a flag," he said.

"I'm not going to be very pleasant to deal with on this issue."

What makes the situation worse is that it was a Mexican flag, Schmidly said.

The education Taliban strikes again.

[reagan_fanatic]

I would like to shake his hand and congratulate him.

Too bad more Americans aren't like this.

[Rick.Donaldson]

Oh, yeah, have a strong dialog about RESPECTING AMERICAN CULTURE YOU TWIT!

[Squeako]

Hero alert....

How can you possibly call this kid a hero based upon this disgusting behaviour? Clearly the flag should have been tread upon and buried in an unmarked grave in TJ.

[Radio_Silence]

“It’s inexcusable to desecrate a flag”

Unless of course it’s an American flag.

[KarlInOhio]

"It's inexcusable to desecrate a flag," he said. "I'm not going to be very pleasant to deal with on this issue."

But apparently not to our court system who said that desecrating a flag (or at least the US flag) is free speech.

What makes the situation worse is that it was a Mexican flag, Schmidly said.

Thus the offense taken by foreign nationals trumps the court given free speech "rights" to descecrate a flag.

[Kozak]

No doubt the school will bend over backwards to grant him “amnesty” from prosecution.... Hey right

[tioga]

I agree. The man did good.

[Disambiguator]

New Mexico is part of the United States of America. Hence the name NEW MEXICO (unlike current, present day Mexico run by corrupt political parties, Napoleanic code of justice, socialism and a government bought and paid for by the drug mafias.)

Some parts of that description apply to NM, too, unfortunately. Most notably the corrupt parties and the socialism.

[tioga]

Free speech should not be to plant a Mexican flag and live as a Mexican in America illegally. True Americans wave an American flag on our soil. Your neighbor isn’t a true American. He should go home to Mexico.

[grjr21]

Torres and interim vice president for institutional diversity Rita Martinez-Purson issued an apology Tuesday from the University for the incident.

I suppose it would be to much to expect that the apology was for not flying the American Flag 

[1rudeboy]

I have a Vatican flag. Should I go home to the Vatican?

[untenured]

Ethnoreligious relations are worse on university campuses than anywhere else in the country. This is because the most politicized segments of the faculty have every incentive to make it so. It would probably never occur to an employee of a McDonald's to run up a Mexican flag outside his restaurant, and if it did all the non-Hispanics would know that the Big Macs will still taste the same.

Daniel Pipes notes today that academics are more sheltered from the consequences of their choices than any other occupation. This is the fruit of that.