i was watching tv,and saw lou dobbs and again another school is banned from flying the american flag,or the kids wearing anything that has to do with the flags... has the american people loss their guts and the balls in regards to AMERICANS FLYING OUR FLAG.... because it might offend other nationalities.......i say bullshit !!!!!!!!!
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BULLS*IT Is RIGHT\nWHATS NEXT??WE CANT FLY EM ON OUR FRONT PORCH EITHER??\nTHIS IS OUR NATION\nEXCERSIZE YOUR RIGHTS AS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN\nDO NOT CRUMBLE UNDER THE PRESSURE OF THE THIN SKINNED\nAUTHORITY THAT LACKS THE BACKBONE TO STAND UP FOR THIS NATION(WHAT IS THE SCHOOL TRYING TO TEACH OUR KIDS)\n\nWAKE UP AMERICA..SPREAD THE WORDS..FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS\n\nDO NOT BACK DOWN..SEND YOUR KIDS TO SCHOOL WEARING THE AMERICAN FLAG AND TELL EM TO WEAR IT PROUDLY\n\nMAKE SURE YOU TEACH YOUR CHILDREN THAT NOONE CAN TAKE AWAY THEIR RIGHTS AS AMERICANS AND THAT THEY SHOULD BE PROUD TO BE AMERICANS\n\nFrom My Blog:\n\nThe media estimates that almost ONE MILLION ILLEGAL FOREIGN MIGRANTS  and their advocates Militantly Marched in the streets of America under the flag of Mexico. Their agenda is for our FEDERAL LAWS TO BE IGNORED , and their Criminal Trespass into these sovereign United States to be rewarded with unlimited benefits that include the rights of American Citizenship! \n\nAs these large mobs of foreigners marched proudly under the flag of a foreign country to demand the right to live and prosper in the United States, they claimed that the issue is immigration. But their own actions reveal what is in fact a determined effort to FORCE Americans to ACCEPT LARGE FOREIGN COLONIES  in our midst, and to pay handsomely for the privilege of doing so. We have both the RIGHT and the moral MORAL OBLIGATION  to DEFEND AMERICA , and  JUST SAY NO !!!\n\n\nIt REALLY BURNS My *** That A Large Portion Of The Latin Community (Citizens And ILLEGAL ALIENS ALIKE) Are MARCHING On Our Cities Carrying The FLAG Of ANOTHER NATION , And DEMANDING The Rights Of AMERICAN Citizens... THAT Is The ICING On The Cake \n\nFolks .. You WANT To Be Treated Like AMERICANS Yet You Will Protest Under A FOREIGN FLAG ... And You Expect ME To RALLY With You And SUPPORT Your Cause??? \n\nI Think NOT.. Perhaps You Should Realize Exactly What It Is That You Are Trying To Accomplish... Because To ME It Looks Like An INVASION From A Foreign Army .. \n\nYou Wish To Become AMERICANS With The RIGHTS Of AMERICANS .. \nYet Many Of You REFUSE To SPEAK My/Our LANGUAGE \nAnd REFUSE To Honor My/Our Flag \nWell I REFUSE To Let YOU Continue To Burden My Pocket \nAnd The Pockets Of My AMERICAN BROTHERS Of ANY DESCENT\n\nSAVOURFARE(Below)\n\nYou Are CORRECT That You May NOT WEAR THE FLAG, Or ALTER The Flag In ANY Way\nBut There Is NO REASON That You Or ANYONE ELSE Cannot Wear A T-Shirt With A FLAG Silkscreened On It, Or A Flag INSIGNIA\nSewn Onto Your Clothes\nALL US Servicemen Have A Flag Insignia On Their Uniforms And There Is NO LAW Stating That CITIZENS May Not Sew An Emblem Representing The Flag On Their Attire\n\nI See Your Response And You Got Me\nBUT As Stated In The Text "There Is No Penalty"\n"Merely GUIDELINES"\nIll Keep Wearin My T-Shirt With PRIDE__:)>-
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Boof is not a man that will go for anything in the wazoo!! I, like so many of my countrymen and women, are sick to death of this whole thing. Push 1 for English! WTF!!! My freakin' Corn Flakes - an All American Breakfast - have Espanola all over the box! The Star Spangled Banner - not only in Spanish, but changing the words to fit their "cause"! Did you see the cartoon of the Iwo Jima Marines, except they have Mexicans in sombrero's putting up a Mexican flag on Mt Suribachi?! My a*s is big, but (no pun!) there is no way any of that is goin' in!! The American people have had it. It takes a lot to really piss us off - but I think they have done it, and it's about time! There'll be a big house (& Senate!) cleaning party come November! God Bless the USA!!
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If this were true, it would be a scandal.  However, I doubt it is true.\n\nPlease could you support your assertion that "Local government in England are banning" the English flag with a reference to a media article, so I can follow this up?\n\nOne further minor point - if local government did ban the flying of the English flag, Tony Blair would hardly be the person responsible, since he is the Prime Minister and does not have a vote in local government decisions.\n\nAnother minor point - is it actually possible that local government (by which you presumably mean a district or county council) would have the power to pass a law like this?  They can't legislate against basic liberties.
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No, there should be no penalty for these actions.  It is the fundamental freedom of all Americans to do what they will in protest short of wanton destruction of other's property and inhibition of another's freedom of movement.\n\nIf we penalize someone for flying a flag upside down or beneath another nation's flag, we are lessening our freedom and that is, ultimately, what the USA flag represents: FREEDOM.\n\nDo I approve?  No, I do not.  Will I fight to the death for their right to desecrate a USA flag?  Yes, I will.  The reason I feel this way is based on my belief that we, above all nations, must always, always, always protect freedom above else.  It is what we are, who we are, why we are.  And it is not optional.  Anyone who would lodge a penalty against someone for expressing themselves with a piece of cloth (even if that cloth is an American flag) is not a true and loyal American, but a pseudo-patriot who puts more value on woven material than freedom.\n\nIt isn't disrespect for the nation to do it although it is quite childish and makes no sense.  It is disrespect for freedom to stop it, though.\n\nBy the way, flying a flag upside down is not disrespect, it is a universal sign of distress.  If those students think they were doing something disrespectful they were not only being ridiculous they were being ignorant.
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I have many ways to eloquently prove my points or rant and rave like a lunatic to feel better...but I can't possibly make a better point than one that I saw on the news today.\n\nIn Montebello, California...students from another school had ditched class....again....and went to Montebello High School to try and get the students out of that school to run amok in the streets, but none of the students from Montebello came out.\n\nThose punk a** kids who do not deserve to be here had the nerve to take down the American flag...and then put it back up UPSIDE down. WHAT THE????? Talk about a slap in the face of the very nation they are trying to live in and gain rights in...they just proved what I have believed all along. Someone that comes here and pays no attention or respect for the laws of the US will have no respect for the US as a nation and will have no allegiance. THEY CANNOT BE TRUSTED! THEY DON'T GIVE A RIP ABOUT THE US EXCEPT WHAT THEY CAN GET OUT OF US!\n\nDon't get me started!
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SORRY, FELL ASLEEP. BUT MY SON TOLD ME ABOUT IT.\nWISH I SAW IT. AND YES HE SHOULD BE SUSPENDED.\nWHAT ARE WE TEACHING ARE KIDS?\n\nGO PACKERS!!!!
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I THINK i know what you mean??!! The "news"people in THIS country are mostly ALL liberally minded,and as such,they put a SLANT on the way they do news reports!!! Just like,during the ILLEGALS "protest march". A LOT if them (news media) did NOT show the MAJORITY of mexican flags being flown in this country!!! They did NOT show the way mexicans were THROWING things at the protesters!! They did NOT show the mexicans putting THEIR flag ABOVE the flag of the United States,nor did they show the U.S. flag,hung UPSIDE down UNDER the mexican flag!!! There were only a FEW newsmedia with the GUTS to show these pictures!!! WHY??? BECAUSE, big businesses in this country WANT illegals here,and OUR President,wants to allow them to stay to APPEASE the big businesses!!! ANd, yes,i'm sure you're right!!!I'm sure that if this country was like mexico,then the newspeople who reported what was ACTUALLY HAPPENING in the country,would have been silenced.
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hmmm....  obviously you have offended the yahoo  people... you know they are  promoting the gay parade don't you? (it's true) and  you combining it with soccer...well...maybe they just  don't like sports that involve kicking balls..lol....it also has become quite fashionable to  insult/ hate our president.. though  this appears to be  mostly a liberal pursuit..... it gives them something to do between  pizza deliveries...
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I agree with you Tory.\n\nThis situation is getting nuts all over because of a handful of people.\n\nMy sister teaches at a CATHOLIC school. She had her class make Easter Cards for their parents with religious pix from old Christmas cards, etc. and had them hang them on the wall.\n\nThe principal had her TAKE THEM DOWN because they were 'religious'!!!  \nAnd there were non-Catholic kids in the school!!??\nHello?? What is wrong with THAT picture?\n\nMy opinion with the Atheists....\nthey want every 'God' related word removed from our history, buildings, etc.\n\nWhat they fail to realize is their belief of non-belief is also represented -\non government buildings....any blank spot or wall ...\nrepresents the Atheist.\non our currency....the white blank border.....\nrepresents the Atheist.\nWhen we are finished saying our "Pledge of Allegiance" under Our God and we are silent for the 30 seconds following...that is for the Atheist!!\n\nGet my drift?\n\nTheir non-belief \nis very much represented \nin our Government!!
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Now even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us -- the spin masters, the negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of "anything goes." Well, I say to them tonight, there is not a liberal America and a conservative America -- there is the United States of America. There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America -- there’s the United States of America.\n\nThe pundits, the pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States; Red States for Republicans, Blue States for Democrats. But I’ve got news for them, too. We worship an "awesome God" in the Blue States, and we don’t like federal agents poking around in our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and yes, we’ve got some gay friends in the Red States. There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.
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NEVER!!!! And i think the idiots that did that to our flag,should have had the SAME THING done to them!!!!!!!!!!! I don't care what country they're from!! \n\n The flag is not just some piece of cloth!!!!  It's the flag of our country! A lot of people have fought and died for what that flag represents!!! The ILLEGALS that flew the mexican flag during the marches,and the IDIOTS who flew our flag upside down under the mexican flag ,well it's a wonder sombody didn't get SHOT for that stunt!!!!! \n\nAnd,IF i wanted to move to another country,i SURE AS HELL wouldn't be desecrating their flag!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I would not DARE to march in their streets and DEMAND to be given "rights"!!!!!\n\nAnd,if i was STUPID enough to do something that crazy,then i would NOT blame the citizens of that country for hating me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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THANK YOU! \n\nmy fiancee just said this to me yesterday...mexico is supposed to be "sooo bad" but they sure as hell are not hesitant to act like they still live there...\n\na "respected" principal here in houston even had the audacity to fly the mexican flag alongside the texas and united states flag at his high school...the nerve of some people...one would think that american citizens are the criminals and that we are infringing upon on "their rights"...\n\nmexico is profiting from our downfall...
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Pretty sanctimonious for someone who confessed to doing the very same thing tonight, I think that is called hypocrisy, and you, like the NY Times, seem to keep leaving out the adjective illegal. None of us have an issue with legal immigrants we simply do not like it when the Mexicans jump the boarder and refuse to speak English or assimilate into our society. They are bringing this all upon themselves with the reconquista attitude and shoving their flag in our faces.\n\nUpdate;\nUnfortunately you are mistaken, yes, I am patriotic and clout our flag 'here' in the good old USA however when abroad in the many countries that I have been to, I do not do that, in fact I made every effort to learn as much of their languages as possible in the short amount of time I was there. As to my blog on Memorial day, hey, it is my blog and any visitor there is welcome to either comment (for good or bad) or leave, it is their choice but my blog of which it can not even be perceived as rubbing our flag In anybodies face unless you can not read very well, it is a tribute to our veterans.\n\nTo my statement in another question about assuming that that person is Mexican, that was a simple deduction based on the ignorant way that person composed the question, surely you can see that, oh I am sorry, no profiling.
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Most Americans refuse to see the corruption in our political system. As long as they can be happy in their Disney world mentality, they are very content.My eyes were opened years ago when I started reading Taylor Caldwell novels.Too bad that her books weren't compulsory in the schools but that's another story. I'm trying to do my part by signing petitions and get things turned around and keeping abreast of what is going on. I love my country and I'm very much afraid that the up and coming generation isn't going to have the freedoms I had when growing up. They are very rapidly disappearing.
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it's got to be the banning of the use of black board and black sheep- I mean black people don't find this offensive- why would they? I would think that apparteid and the klu klux klan was hideously offensive. Rather than worry about the plight of black inner city kids,  some left wing overpaid white phoney has wanted to ban baa baa black sheep- when some sheep are black and black  boards  need to be that colour to see white chalk on. I think it is an insult to intelligent black people- although even that tag is stupid- o.k as a description such as red hair etc but reallly we are all people.
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Hip! Hip! Hooray! for you I come from from my father's side, mexican and from my mother's american. Both of our parent's had instill in us to be patriotic to our country, which is the good old U.S. of A. and I am proud to be an american. I am a 64 yr. old women and What you wrote about the illegals is very true. Why do they have to flaunt their flag in our soil, we do not go to Mexico and do the same. They should be ashamed of themselves in trying to force their ways in us. Can't they see that they all looked ridiculous doing that.
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They not only changed it to spanish, they changed the words. They already burn or flag and hang our flag upside down. They waved the Mexican flag during a lot of their protests. Some schools have stopped hanging the American flag and forbidden students from wearing clothes with any part of the American flag on their clothing all to keep from offending the Mexicans. It's nothing short of an attack of our country, not only by the illegal aliens, but those who seek to appease them.