whittier ca. put mexican flag above american so where is patriotism?
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Fock  the flag.  It's just fabric to me.  Put me above spending billions to rape, rob and kill Iraqis people because their leader stuck his tongue out.
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This is NO JOKE, people.\nThese people want to take California (and other south western states.) In case you weren't sure, it has already begun. If they want Calif. back...the only way we should give it is without any of the infrastructure that was designed, built and has been maintained by the U.S. \n\nThe land was theirs before, but now it's not. They should get over it. If they want to be Americans, no problem....but if you want to run around town with a Mexican flag, you should do it in Mexico. In case there's any confusion, if you're geographically challenged, that's south of San Diego! Bye bye!!! Hasta Luego! Que te vallas bien y nunca regresan!\n\nSeriously, though. You should go to the site below and read how racist these guys are. (Yes, the same ones who call me racist for wanting my government to enforce the law.) They want to take over what they consider to be already theirs. \n\nWAKE UP, PEOPLE!! This is not a joke, it's serious.
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I feel like it is the united states and am proud to be an american. The stars and stripes remind me of the military, the president and our great countrty.
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.\n- George Bernard Shaw\n\nThat being said, I still consider myself patriotic... you can't help but be proud of the country you belong to.
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What makes you ask this?  Do you think thee is a lack of patriotism in the US?\n\nIf so, I couldnt disagree more.  Even in a time where we are fighting a very unpopular war, there are American flags on every corner and a "support our troops" magnet on every 3rd car.\n\nOr maybe I just think that because I'm in the Air Force and live in a military community
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Sir,\nYou make me very proud to be an american, Bravo.  I wish more people were like you.  Good point though if you dont want to be here than get the hell out.  If you dont agree with the way we do things here well than get the freakin hell out.  If you are going to try and fly a mexican flag on american soil well get ready to get a flag pole shoved up your a$$ and get ready to get kicked out.
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no it isnt its just like burning our own flag. there are many mexicans who arent aliens and shouldent have their flag burnt.
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Some Mexicans love it enough to break the f***ing law!!  GODDAMMIT!! I am SOO F***ING tired of hearing about this "rights for illegal immigrants" bullS**t!  they broke federal law coming here, then have the gall to say they want citizenship?? F**K THAT!  I dont care!!  I pay my f***ing taxes, and dammit, build a big f***ing wall if you have to.  There are too damn many illegals in this country now, and I live with more than half of them in SoCal.  For God's sakes, with the immigration protests, illegals brought down the American flag at a SoCal High School and raised the Mexican flag, with the US flag underneath, and upside down.  If you proud Americans aren't pissed about that, there's a problem.  That is BULLS**T!  and i think our f***ing president, despite being a MORON, should understand that, and PREVENT ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, not grant known felons CLEMENCY!
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As a hispanic I do find offense to it, not necessarily because of what it represents but because of the misinterpretation that it causes. It does cause some confusion to some...I mean why would a person who wants to become a U.S. citizen still have strong nationalism for the country that they wish to escape the hardships of? But from another perspective I believe that the Mexican flag provides comfort and familiarity to those that are on this journey. I think they should wave both.
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I understand how you feel.  I am very sympathetic about the immigrants wanting to become citizens.  I believe that I would also do what ever I could to make a better life for my family.  BUT... the present protests going on, has really ticked me off, and one of the biggest reasons was seeing them waving the Mexican flag.  If they would like to become AMERICAN citizens then they shoudl all be waving the AMERICAN flag.  To me anyone that is waving the Mexican flag is saying in effect " I don't really want to give up my sovereignty to my country, I want to be a Mexican citizen with the rights here also" You just can't have it both ways.  There is nothing wrong with being proud of where you came from, but to be an American, your loyalty should be to the US
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I see Mexican flags here in the States all the time...but, unless you WANT to go to jail do not try flying the United States flag in Mexico...because they WILL put you in jail for doing so. Also being an illegal in Mexico is a felony. These are just 2 examples of how strict laws are in Mexico on illegals.
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Screw 'em.  Why should you be afraid to display your own flag, in your own country, for whatever reason you choose?\n\nI don't know if the Mexicans who are breaking windows with the flag are legal or illegal; as far as that goes, I don't even know if they are in fact Mexican. I don't know if they were trying to make a political statement or if they just wanted to destroy something.  Furthermore, I don't care.  All of that is beside the point.  What I do know is that they are thugs, trying to intimidate people through force and violence, and jail is where they belong.\n\nSome of these answers scare the heck out of me.  Why should you display a Mexican flag, if you have no particular allegiance to Mexico?  Further, why should you give a good flying flip at a donut WHO does not like America overseas?  THIS IS YOUR COUNTRY.  You are an AMERICAN.  And the idea that you should have to be afraid to display YOUR flag in YOUR country for ANY reason is sickening.  Take pride, display your flag, and if somebody tries to destroy your property -- and this applies whether they are white, black, Mexican, Japanese, Arab, or from Mars -- do everything you can to make sure the slime winds up in jail (that's provided that you don't catch them in the act and happen to have a baseball bat or a .44 magnum handy).
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It's people like you that make this country great. You come to this country the right way, you make something of yourself, and I get the impression that you are patriotic- that you would sooner wave the american flag than the italian. However, it's people like pancha over there, that drags this country back down. Go home, senorita, no one wants you here anyway.
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LMAO MY SON SAID TO ME LAST NIGHT WATCHING THE NEWS MOM IF THEY WANT TO BE AMERICANS WHY ARE THEY HOLDING A MEXICAN FLAG CHANTING USA.....ITS PATHETIC AS I HAVE SAID A MILLION TIMES IF YOU ARE ILLEGAL YOU DO NOT HAVE RIGHTS....GO BACK TO MEXICO AND WAVE YOUR FLAG....
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Yes. It is unfair.  I sincerely apologize for that!  It was unjust and uncalled for!  I have personally made the same mistake many times, not verbally, just mentally.\n\nI know it is wrong but it happens. I hope to explain why it happens, not to justify it, but just to help you understand why. It definitely is wrong. I can't justify it. I welcome legal immigrants and future citizens here with open arms, no matter where you are from.  You ARE the future of our great nation, as you were our past!\n\nOur country is being invaded by illegal aliens. They have been coming here for decades and now it's become an epidemic. Although it's only now being so publicized, Americans HAVE been annoyed and sick of it for decades!  \n\nUnfortunately, the most visible illegals have been Mexicans.  To make it worse, the Mexican illegals and/or the supporters disrespected our country by flying the Mexican flag and flying the American flag upside down. This was a slap to our face!  \n\nIt is wrong, but when a Mexican annoys us now in any way, we associate it with the illegals. It's a shame because legal Mexicans have so much to offer our country. That has been true since our origin and remains true now.  \n\nI would like to say it's the few ruining it for the masses, but the few are becoming masses which is the problem.
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I think this debate is a complex one that has been oversimplified on both sides.  Personally, I see the Statue of Liberty as inspiration, " bring me your cold, huddled masses" as a benchmark for what we are supposed to be striving for.  Regrettably it seems that the sign should be updated, "give me your highly trained, educated professionals (the ones your developing state can least afford to lose) ready to get all entrepreneurial up in this hizzy".\nThat is just my lens.\nI also have an issue with the term, "illegals" exceptionally dehumanizing.   No other lawbreaker carries such a label.  Take me, nobody calls me an illegal and I steal puppies (just ugly ones).\nResponse to Daisy:\nI tend to agree with your general characterisations of those who would support undocumented or illegal immigrants.  Though the terms you've used for each category I find a little dismissive.  Am I a "bleeding heart"?  Possibly.  I would call myself an empathizer, one who believes the world is unequitable and can understand why someone would try about anything to gain access to the United States.  I'm not saying it's right, just that I think I understand.\nAnother thing we should be mindful of, the U.S. has enjoyed hegemonic status in this hemisphere since WWII.  Some policies employed by the U.S. have decimated infrastructures in Latin American countries.  This includes the wide-spread counter-insurrgency efforts or "dirty wars" fought by American trained militaries and the current interdiction efforts in the Andean Region.  These are understandable policies as regards our national interest, but they are the outgrowth of an American need that have very real consequences in these countries.\nSo, my support is more a by-product of empathy, but it can be called a bleeding heart, my position I consider to be a (not the) moral one.
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-- Antonio Villaraigosa \nMayor- Los Angeles, California-"ELECTED" by the VOTES of ILLEGAL ALIENS - \n Villaraigosa has spent a lifetime opposing U.S. immigration laws - \n Villaraigosa Proclaimed, and I Quote \n"This bill in Congress is wrong. The only thing illegal is making 11 million illegal aliens felons." \nYeah!!! He Actually said that. \nPeople should make No Mistake about it -Villaraigosa's Allegiance is to Mexico, NOT California or These United States of America.                                  http://www.americanpatrol.com/REFERENCE/Villy-Treasonous-Mayor.htmlhttp://www.discoverthenetwork.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1281\n\nSenor Villaraigosa is A Member Of  "MEChA"  and  " LA RAZA"\n\n -- Mario Obledo \nMexican American Legal Defense Fund Founder - \nFormer California Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Gov. Jerry Brown - \nAwarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bill Clinton - \nIs Quoted \n “California is going to be a Hispanic state. Anyone who doesn't like it should leave. Every constitutional office in California is going to be held by Hispanics in the next 20 years.  People who don't like such demographic changes “should go back to Europe.” http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1173\n\nSenor Obledo Is A Member Of "MEChA" And "LA RAZA" \n\nA leading Aztlan group is the Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan, known by its Spanish acronym MEChA. \n\nLike many other Hispanic groups,MEChA came out of the "Brown Power" movement of the late '60s. Its founding motto was, \n"For those in the race, everything. For those outside the race, nothing." \n\nCloser to the mainstream is the Aztlan movement, \nwhich claims Aztec and Spanish ancestry and wants only the western half of the U.S. for      "LA RAZA  de Bronze." \n\nMEChA and the LA RAZA movement teach that Colorado, California, Arizona, Texas, Utah, New Mexico, Oregon and parts of Washington State make up an area known as "AZTLAN" -- A fictional ancestral homeland of the Aztecs before Europeans arrived in North America. \nAs such, it belongs to the followers of MEChA. These are all areas America should surrender to "La Raza" once enough immigrants, legal or illegal, enter to claim a majority, as in Los Angeles. The current borders of the United States will  be extinguished.\n\nThe Council of LA RAZA succeeded in having itself added to congressional hearings by Republican House and Senate leaders. And an anonymous senator even gave the Council of La Raza an extra $4 million in earmarked taxpayer money, (supposedly for "housing reform,") while La Raza continues to lobby the Senate for virtual open borders and AMNESTY for ILLEGAL ALIENS \nhttp://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=13863\n\n-- Angel Gutierrez, \nProfessor, University of Texas, Arlington- \nFounder of the La Raza Unida political party - \n"We have an aging white America.  They are not making babies.  They are dying.  The explosion is in our population . . .They are shitting in their pants with fear...I love it. We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is, if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him."  \n\n-- Art Torres \nCalifornia Democratic Party chairman - \nAt the Latino Summit in Response to Prop 187 at U.C. Riverside (Jan. 14, 1995): \n"Power is not given to you, you have to take it! People say to me when I was on the Senate floor, when I was in the Senate, ' Why do you fight so hard for affirmative action programs? ' And I tell my white colleagues: because you're gonna need them. Remember, 187 is the last gasp of white America"\n\n-- Jose Baca \nCalifornia State Senator - \nIs Quoted 'THE LATINO's ARE COMING, THE LATINO's ARE COMING", Mocking The  American Revolutionary Paul Revere- \n\nYou Can Hear These Words For Yours