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Imagine my surprise when I stepped off the elevator and looked through a glass partition on my right to see a Mexican Flag displayed on a cubicle. I was visiting the legal Dept. to try to get clarity on exactly where petitioners may operate in "public forums". Have we been captured? What does this signify for our petition efforts? Houston....we have a problem.

A listener to Michael Berry’s radio broadcast in Houston Texas, called in to express her dismay with a Mexican flag being prominently displayed at her son’s school, Klein Collins High School. The Texas Mom did the appropriate thing and called the school to complain about the display and request that it be taken down, however, the school failed to return her phone call. The student, possibly upset from the actions in California and after his mother received no response, took the Mexican flag down himself. The administration of Klein Collins didn’t take too kindly to the act. According to...

Brazen is as brazen does. If I were a car thief I wouldn't run onto a baseball field in front of thousands of witnesses, announcing that I'm a car thief, sticking up for my fellow car thieves, and daring anyone to arrest me. Yet two men wielding Mexican flags protesting Arizona's immigration law strutted across the grass at the seventh inning during the Arizona Diamondbacks vs. the New York Mets ballgame, Friday, July 30, 2010. The men most likely were associated with several dozen protesters across the street from teh stadium who were chanting, "Boycott Arizona! and "Oppose racism!" But...

NEW YORK -- Two men carrying Mexican flags ran into the outfield during the seventh inning of the New York Mets' game against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday night at Citi Field. The men were apprehended by security fairly quickly without much incident. Before the game, about 40 demonstrators across the street from the ballpark protested Arizona's immigration law, chanting "Oppose racism!" and "Boycott Arizona!" Others stationed closer to the subway exit

Jim Brossard, a US veteran, uses an Iraqi Freedom Army knife to cut down an American flag being flown under a Mexican flag at a business in Reno, NV

The Mexican flag is back on the streets of Los Angeles after several years of political exile. Four years ago, Miguel Haro was among half a million people who marched for immigrant rights in downtown L.A. At the urging of organizers and Spanish-language disc jockeys, he left his Mexican flag at home and waved an American flag instead. Concerned that the Mexican flag carried the wrong message, Mexican American political leaders and other activists launched a largely successful effort to have people at public events, particularly protest marches, wave the American flag, believing it to be a better symbol for...

Dozens of arrest were made as troublemakers in several locations threw rocks and bottles, set cars on fire, got into fights, and in some cases harassed motorists trying to leave the area, police said. ‘As the crowds left the area, we had some groups that decided to celebrate irresponsibly,’ LAPD spokeswoman Mary Grady said.

Veteran Removes The American Flag: This is a video clip showing the veteran who went down to a Mexican restaurant in Reno, NV ,to take down the American flag that was being flown UNDER their Mexican flag. This guy silenced the folks on the sidewalk and makes me proud to be an American. I think it's going to take a lot more of this kind of revolting to change things...watch and be proud.

From “The O’Reilly Factor” a little over thirty minutes ago. Bill O’Reilly talks about the growing tensions going on between Americans and Mexicans. It started on May 5, 2010, when on the day of Cinco De Mayo, students of Mexican backround wore tee-shirts with the Mexican flag on it, while American students who had worn tee-shirts with American flags had gotten into trouble with the principle.

Per Drudge... Yesterday, a listener’s son was offended that his school, Klein Collins High School, displayed the Mexican flag prominently. His mother called to complain, and the school wouldn’t return her call. The student took the sign down. The school pitched a fit, reviewed the surveillance tapes, found the student, and suspended him for 3 days. AND he has to pay for the flag.

Latino students and supporters seem to go after a man in a motorized wheelchair over a Mexican flag.

A MUST SEE video!

We've got a little movie for you today. There's a hero and a villain. And your job is to decide which is which, boys and girls. [Youtube link] So here's the plot. A business in Reno is flying a Mexican flag above the American flag which, among other things, is a violation of the law in the United States. As the local media begins to report on the story from the scene, a large bearded man (that would be Jim Brossard) walks up to the flag pole, pulls down both flags, and cuts the American flag off the pole (with...

Peter Lynch gets six-month deferred sentence, ordered to anger management. Peter Lynch, the 30-year-old University of New Mexico student who was charged in connection with tearing down a lone Mexican flag flying on the UNM campus, then tearing and trampling it, has just been found guilty in Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court of criminal damage to property. The jury took less than half an hour to reach the verdict, and Lynch showed no emotion as he learned he was guilty of the petty misdemeanor, according to the Journal's Joline Gutierrez Krueger, who was in the courtroom. Metro Court Judge Clyde DeMersseman...

-Snip - It began when a store in Reno hung a Mexican flag above an American flag. That's illegal. While a photographer from NBC affiliate KRNV was outside the business an angry man claiming to be a veteran walked up to the flagpole and cut down both flags with a large knife. -end snip-

After hearing a Reno bar was flying a Mexican flag above a U.S. flag, an angered U.S. Army veteran took matters into his own hands, drove to the site and cut down the banners in front of a stunned group of Hispanic patrons. Reno television station KRNV, which was there to document Jim Broussard's act of defiance, noted the U.S. code prohibits raising the flag of any other nations above Old Glory. Broussard pulled up in his truck to the Cantina El Jaripeo near downtown Reno yesterday, cut the rope that anchored the flags and pulled them down from a...

A University of New Mexico student who tore down the Mexican flag from a school flagpole said Monday he was upset because the university was flying another nation's flag without the U.S. flag. "I was livid with the situation, and it wasn't the fact that it was the Mexican flag," said Peter Lynch, a mechanical engineering student who served in the U.S. military for nearly eight years. "It was the fact that it was any foreign banner." He said he was particularly upset that it happened on Constitution Day, Sept. 17, and that university officials did nothing to rectify the...

The Flag is Our Shepherd

A radio station in Houston has posted on its website two video clips of a Texas elementary school "diversity" assembly where a volunteer leads students in saying a pledge of allegiance to the Mexican flag. Station KTRH has posted both a video clip showing elementary students cheering and waving Mexican flags, and a separate clip showing people the school described as volunteers leading students in the pledge in Spanish. The story by Scott Braddock of KTRH notes that "whether students also recited the Mexican pledge remains a point of contention," however the audio clearly indicates that students are reciting the...

Liberals fly their colors, by Mike Rosen It was two years ago that North High School was the center of controversy over a foreign flag. A Mexican flag was given equal prominence with an American flag in a permanent wall display in the school lobby and in a social studies classroom. The teacher who hung the Mexican flag in his classroom said he wanted his students to feel welcome. This was a nice sentiment, but a direct violation of Colorado law. Although North High is almost 85 percent Hispanic, this is still an American school in the United States, funded...

The city of Maywood - a 1.2-square-mile town with an official population of just over 28,000 about eight miles south of downtown Los Angeles - is a pocket for illegal immigrants, lauded by immigrant advocates and decried by detractors. In this 96 percent Hispanic town, signs advising pedestrians to use crosswalks are printed in Spanish and English, and many storefronts' signs are in Spanish as well. The last census says 55 percent of residents are foreign-born, and 92 percent speak a language other than English at home. Earlier this year, the Maywood City Council passed a resolution opposing the Sensenbrenner...

Police officers in Maywood, Calif., Saturday eventually came to the pole to remove the flag but had bottles and rocks thrown at them, a radio listener named Sandra reported to the Terry Anderson show, heard on KRLA in Los Angeles. A video can be viewed here, and photographs can be seen here on the website

PHOENIX - Hundreds of protesters gripped Mexican flags as they marched for immigration reform in the past few weeks, but they say a display of cultural unity is being mistaken as a lack of loyalty to the United States. The displays turned off many Americans. Conservative talk show hosts admonished the protesters, while everyday people wrote angry letters to the editors of their local newspapers. Some called for those carrying the Mexican flag to return to Mexico. Others questioned why immigrants demanding rights in the United States would wave symbols of Mexico. But those who carried them, and scholars of...

Adam Garcia wants everyone to know he never burned the American flag, which is one of the rumors he’s heard about himself. Watch Tribune reporter Nicole Birk's report Related Links Immigration tensions spark flag-burning Today's Top Stories News The 16-year-old is the Apache Junction High School sophomore who brought a Mexican flag to campus Thursday. He said he got the idea from friends to hoist it on one of three flagpoles there. It was before school, and before an American flag had been raised. “I wouldn’t have taken it down if it had been there, because I’m proud of that...

Sen. John McCain, AZ 202.228.2862 fax U.S. Constitution Article 4 Section 4: "The United States shall protect each of them (States) against Invasion;" What is it about the American flag flying upside down under the Mexican flag in these demonstrations that you do not understand? What is it about these illegals DEMANDING THEIR RIGHTS (??) that you do not understand? What is it about the government existing to protect this land from invasion that you do not understand? What is it that you do not understand about enforcing the existing laws? What is it about you working FOR We the...

Several Ennis High School seniors have been barred from their school prom tonight for protesting Thursday against proposed federal immigration legislation. School officials suspended 120 to 130 students from classes Friday and barred them from school events this weekend, including sporting events and the prom. The students attend Ennis High School, Ennis Junior High and the Sixth Grade Center. "We got suspended, and we're not allowed to go to prom for standing up for something that we believe is right," said senior Araceli Garcia, 18.

LONGMONT, Colo. - Dozens of high school students protested a temporary school policy forbidding students from displaying the U.S. flag — as well as flags from other countries — amid racial tensions following immigration rallies. ADVERTISEMENT Skyline High School Principal Tom Stumpf said American flags were brazenly waved in the faces of Hispanic students and in one case a Mexican flag was thrown into the face of another student. "When it involves the American flag and its abuse in vilifying other people, we simply will not tolerate it," Stumpf said. "They were using the symbol derisively as misguided patriotism." Students...

Just got home from work, and was listening to Joe Crummy on KFYI interview one of the dads of the kids that burned the Mexican flag: Apparently, his kid was arrested by AJ Police and was held in detention in Florence all day yesterday. CHarged with Arson. It took all of their savings to get a retainer for an atty. It gets better. The family is now getting death threats. They were informed by police that there are those trying to find out where the family lives, and are going after them. AJ police stated to the father, there is...

I didn't see a specific thread on this sick one... It only gets worse.... (First topic post...be nice:) From the DenverChannel.com LONGMONT, Colo. -- More than two dozen students walked out of Skyline High School Friday morning to protest what they say is a ban that doesn't allow the American flag to be flown on school grounds. Several students said that they were upset that Mexican flags can be waved around but that American flags couldn't. They said that school officials confiscated their American flags because it has become inflammatory because of recent immigration issues. "When the immigration laws came...

More than two dozen students walked out of Skyline High School Friday morning to protest what they say is a ban that doesn't allow the American flag to be flown on school grounds. Several students said that they were upset that Mexican flags can be waved around but that American flags couldn't. They said that school officials confiscated their American flags because it has become inflammatory because of recent immigration issues. "When the immigration laws came out we noticed that a lot of Hispanics were waving Mexican flags and what we were thinking to ourselves is like, isn't the immigration...

Tensions over immigration reform heightened in the Phoenix area's East Valley Thursday when students raised a Mexican flag over Apache Junction High School — and then other students yanked it down and burned it. --Snip-- School flagpoles have been lightning rods across the country this week, including an incident in which a Houston high-school principal was disciplined after he flew a Mexican flag underneath his campus' U.S. and state flags. A new political awareness among students has also been grabbing attention, as thousands have walked out on classes to join rallies in Phoenix and elsewhere. More than 100 students from...

BUSTED By Michelle Malkin   ·   March 31, 2006 09:41 AM Still on vacation, but wanted to bring you an update on the American flag vandal at Montebello H.S. (via the Whittier Daily News). He or she was from neighboring El Rancho USD: A student protest that resulted in a Mexican flag being flown on top of an upside-down U.S. flag at a local school has prompted disciplinary action against one El Rancho High School student. El Rancho Unified School District officials said the unnamed student was punished for being involved in the flag incident, which took place Monday at Montebello...

Tensions over immigration reform heightened in the Phoenix area's East Valley Thursday when students raised a Mexican flag over Apache Junction High School — and then other students yanked it down and burned it. "I know (they) shouldn't have burned the Mexican flag," said Jacob Stewart, a 16-year-old sophomore. "I heard it was raised above the American flag and that just irked me." He said the turbulence was tied to debates going on in the state Legislature and Congress, where ideas ranging from offering illegal immigrants a chance at citizenship to making them felons are being floated. Freshman Chelsea Garcia,...

STOCKTON, Calif. -- The display of the Mexican flag is becoming a point of debate as protests against an immigration bill continue in Northern California and across the nation. At almost every demonstration, a Mexican flag is waving. When students from Stockton's Edison High School took to the streets to demonstrate, the Mexican flag was raised as a banner as traffic passed by. "We're trying to show that Mexicans also work hard and we deserve something better than to get kicked out of here," student Ophelia Ortiz said. "I think that (the flag) represents us by saying we are united...

Given the anger many of us feel at the masses marching waving Mexican flags and supporting the invasion of illegal immigrants drwoning parts of our nation, how many Freepers in teh NY/NJ area would be interested in a counter-protest where the Mexican flag was burned as a symbol of our rage? I am in Rockland County, NY.

The Stars and Stripes have been replaced by the Mexican flag at Chasewood North, and residents of the condominium community off Central Boulevard are puzzled as to who made the switch. "I woke up Sunday morning and looked up from my patio and then realized that the American flag wasn't on the flagpole," said Sue Miller a Chasewood North board member. "What captured my attention were the colors — at first I thought it was an Italian flag, but one of our residents said it was the Mexican flag. "I went to the flagpole, to see if the American flag...

Mexican flags divisive topic as principal shows his support for student protests Reagan High School Principal Robert Pambello was ordered to remove a Mexican flag Wednesday morning that he had hoisted below the U.S. and Texas flags that typically fly in front of his school — a symbol he agreed to fly to show support for his predominantly Hispanic student body. At nearby Hamilton Middle School, a child was asked to wipe off Mexican and U.S. flags painted on his face. Hundreds of other students carried Mexican flags during walkouts Wednesday — acts of protest that they vow to continue...

Here is the link to Sen. Allard's website: On the menu is a link "En Espanol". If you click on that, you will come to the spanish page with the mexican flag:

California protest defines roles of each group Two groups arrived to face off in Vista, California recently. A group affiliated with the Minutemen Project chose a corner of a busy street where day laborers congregate to hold a protest of illegal immigration. Another group opposing the Minutemen, and thus supporting illegal immigration, protested in an area around the corner, with sheriff's deputies in riot gear staged between the two groups. The groups were roughly equal in size, although the minutemen were spread out and right on the curb, while the counter protesters took up less than half the curb space...

DENVER — School officials here said yesterday they plan to replace two Mexican flags removed from a local high school this week after a public outcry about the issue dies down. School staffers at North High School took down the Mexican flags on Tuesday after receiving threats from callers who said they would come to the school and tear down the flags themselves.

DENVER — Criticism over a Mexican flag hung in a classroom has led school officials to create a policy that says the display of foreign banners must be temporary and related to what is being taught in class. Officials at North High School (search), where the student population is 84 percent Hispanic, said they received complaints over a photograph in the Rocky Mountain News taken on Monday, the first day of school. The photo showed a Mexican flag displayed in a classroom next to a U.S. flag. Andrew Fox, who teaches English to Spanish-speaking students, said he wanted his Latino students to feel...