Posted on 09/18/2014 7:55:38 AM PDT by mandaladon
It’s official: the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has issued an order declining a request for an en banc hearing in a case involving four students in at a California high school who were sent home for wearing American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo.
The full slate of Ninth Circuit judges has thus agreed with a lower district court and with a trio of appellate judges that officials at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, Calif. could censor students who wanted to wear flag-emblazoned shirts.
The federal appeals court issued its denial of an en banc hearing on Sept. 17 — Constitution Day.
“[N]o further petitions shall be permitted,” the court ordered.
The trouble dates back to Cinco de Mayo (May 5) in 2010, when officials at Live Oak High — a school with a predominant Mexican-American student body — forced the students to remove their American flag-festooned shirts. Administrators called the shirts “incendiary” and worried that fighting would break out between white and Latino students if Latino students noticed the shirts. So, assistant principal Miguel Rodriguez told the students to turn their shirts inside out or leave school.
Students of Mexican heritage told local media that the students wore wore American flag T-shirts should apologize. They said ethnically Mexican students wouldn’t wear a Mexican flag on the Fourth of July (not a school day, but never mind).
The high school, located 20 miles south of San Jose, has experienced numerous gang problems. Nevertheless, the school seems to have organized impressive Cinco de Mayo celebrations in recent years.
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Crazy!
A decent Congress would immediately move to impeach these judges, and have them executed for treason. The “principal” of the school also seems to be a worthy candidate for an imprecatory prayer. If you hate America, you should be forced out.
All the while many bars, restaurants, pubs, and other food and drink establishments use stinko de mayonnaise to boost business. I guess they don’t realise that they are adding to our downfall.
Ja! Er ist der Sieg!
But if they want to burn it, it’s all ‘free speech’........................
Then there should be NO flags of any kind allowed, including the Mexican flag. And the school administrators should be fired.
From the very mouth of one of Mexico's greatest leaders who truly loved his people, Emiliano Zapata:
"Better to die on your feet (standing and fighting) than to live on your knees."
Maybe they can wire mexico for the $.
The h*** they wouldn't. Since when are they so sensitive and considerate? Besides, it's easy to say that when there's no school on the Fourth of July.
More proof that the invaders have very powerful sponsors.
Did they include in the ruling that you can’t wear one on Saint Patrick’s Day now too?
Tell the 9th circus to go eff themselves!
Mexican T shirts on the 4th of July, that would be ok, right?
Not because the invaders are all that aggressive, but because our government is docile and apologetic about defending American values.
You're reading my mind.
September 16th is Mexico’s Independence Day. Only uneducated Latinos in America and other idiots celebrate Cinco de Mayo unless they want to celebrate a battle victory over Napoleon. I think celebrating battle victories is a wonderful idea. Americans would be celebrating every other day.
Some kind of uprising on the horizon?
I believe we have time to make the wearing of the Flag a goal next May 5th.
Is it illegal to wear the mexican flag on July 4th?
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