How do you feel about foreign flag waving in protests in the USA?
824791
There Is A HUGE Difference Between\nWaving / Displaying A (Foreign) Flag In Celebration And Pride\n( ie : Cinco De Mayo, St. Pat's Day)\nAnd Brandishing / Marching Under A Foreign Flag \nIn Protest And An Attempt To Intimidate\n\nMay 1st - You All Shot Yourselves In The Foot\n\nFolks .. \nYou WANT To Be Treated Like AMERICANS \nYet You Will Protest Under A FOREIGN FLAG ... \nAnd You Expect ME To RALLY With You??? \nAnd SUPPORT Your Cause??? \n\nI Think NOT.. \nPerhaps You Should Realize \nExactly What It Is That You Are Trying To Accomplish... \nBecause To ME \nIt Looks Like An INVASION From A Foreign Army .. \n\nAnd I'm Prepared To Defend\n\n\n\nYou Wish To Become AMERICANS \nWith The RIGHTS Of AMERICANS .. \nYet Many Of You REFUSE To SPEAK My/Our LANGUAGE \nAnd REFUSE To Honor My/Our Flag\n \nWell I REFUSE To Let YOU Continue To Burden My Pocket \nAnd The Pockets Of My BROTHERS Of ANY DESCENT\nWho Are "PROUD TO BE AMERICANS" \n\n\nYou Call It INTOLERANCE???\nCall It What YOU Wanna Call It-\nIf It Makes YOU Feel Better-\nCall It RACISM,\nIf It Makes YOU Feel Better\nCall Me A NAZI\nIf It Makes YOU Feel Better\nCall It WHATHEF**KEVERYOU Wanna Call It-\nAs Long As It Makes YOU Feel Better\n\nWhats Gonna Make ME Feel Better???\n\nI Pledge ALLEGIENCE To The FLAG\nOf The UNITED STATES Of AMERICA\n\nI KNOW Im Not A Racist\nI KNOW Im Not A Nazi\nI KNOW Im A PROUD AMERICAN CITIZEN \nAnd A HARDWORKING TAXPAYER\nAnd A MILITARY VETERAN\nAnd NOTHING YOU Call ME Is Gonna Change That\n\nYou DISGRACE My NATION???-\nYou DISGRACE My FLAG???-\nNO SOUP FOR YOU!!!\n\nThe LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY \nBrought This Upon Themselves\n\nThey Created A Racial Divide Within The US\nWE THE PEOPLE Will Close The Gap\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe cannot allow illegals to remain in this country \nbecause it sends the very clear message \nto anyone from any country : \nGo ahead and enter the U.S. illegally. \nNothing will be done to you. \nThe stupid Americans will pay \nto feed you, clothe you, educate your kids \nand pay for your medical care \nwhile they themselves are forced to go without \nbecause they can't afford health insurance \nbecause their tax dollars are paying for you! \n\nHa, Ha! \n\nGo ahead and enter the U.S. illegally \nif you're a terrorist, \nno problem, \ngo ahead and build your cells, \nblow up buildings and schools. \nNothing will happen \nbecause American politicians \nare too cowardly to repel this invasion \nand deport the millions of illegals aready here \n\n\n\n\n\n\nDEPORT ALL ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS UPON DISCOVERY\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTheodore Roosevelt on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN\n\n"In the first place we should insist \nthat if the immigrant who comes here in good faith \nbecomes an American and assimilates himself to us, \nhe shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, \nfor it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man\nbecause of creed, or birthplace, or origin. \n\nBut this is predicated \nupon the man's becoming in very fact an American, \nand nothing but an American...\nThere can be no divided allegiance here. \n\nAny man who says he is an American, \nbut something else also, isn't an American at all.\n \nWe have room for but one flag, \nthe American flag, \nand this excludes the red flag, \nwhich symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, \njust as much as it excludes any foreign flag \n\nWe have room for but one language here, \nand that is the English language...\nand we have room for but one sole loyalty \nand that is a loyalty to the American people."\n--Theodore Roosevelt 1907\n\nThere is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. \nThe one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, \nof preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all,\nwould be to permit it to become \na tangle of squabbling nationalities. \n— Theodore Roosevelt, \nspeech before the Knights of Columbus, 1915, New York\n\nTo announce that there must
616674
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.
657526
They have pride for where they came from. Though I'm an American (I was born here) I'd still wave a Chinese flag along with an American one.
305818
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__:)>-
563604
From my experience of the treatment of the Mexican-American community in the US, even those who have been living there since California, Arizona or New Mexico were admitted into the Union, are treated like second or third class citizens. I doubt that they have been complaining enough. I remember 30 years ago, when living in these US States, that few 'Anglos' treated them as if they were even human beings.  These were not naturalized citizens, but people who's families had been in the US of A for even longer than their 'Anglo' neighbors. Is there any wonder that they are dissatisfied with their treatment?\n\nWhen Americans start treating other Americans like Americans, I'm sure they will start treating the US flag with respect.\n\nI saw many descendants of immigrants in the US, who are considered as being Americans, yet who keep flying the flag of their ancestors.  Poles, the Irish, Scots, Ukrainians.. No one complains about them disrespecting the US Flag, for flying the flag of their ancestors, yet the Mexican-Americans are tarred with this brush.  \n\nI guess someday, Americans will grow up and treat all Americans born in America, the same.  Probably not anytime soon though.
1020057
is it rude? no its na opion. if you live in america you'll probably get charger with treason. like me i live in america.....\n"Death to America!!!"\n"Death to America!!!"\n\nthat is how i really feel . i hate this place
1017806
You also rarely hear your national anthem.  We are a country that is proud of every aspect of it.  We fought for what we have.  We live in a society that teaches us to be proud of where we live and respect where we are from.  The flag is a symbol of our freedom.  It is way more than just a flag to us.  I realize that is something that you may not understand.  The stars and stripes of the flag all represent something.   The 13 stripes represent the original 13 colonies and the 50 stars represent the 50 states.  It isn't "just a flag" it is a symbol of who we are and how we got to be that.  :)
390583
I say, if you want to salute the flag, do it.  If you don't want to, then don't do it.  If each of us concentrated more on our own affairs and less on those of others, most world problems would be solved.  That's just how I see it...\n\nP.S.  JW's pose a threat to no one.  One might argue, however, that they benefit (depending on their country of residence) from the victories of wars in which they refused to participate or even support.  Just the flip side of the coin.
131638
Yes. People are free to interpret any respresentation any way they wish. That's part of what that flag represents.
606775
I agree. If we were to do that down their, the Mexicans with be hating us. If you live in America, U wave the American flags.
980743
Hmmmm I stopped going to them... Now I definitely won't go back....\nThat would just fry me....\nI have stickers made up  - they say welcome to america we speak english here..    I put them everythere when I see that happening...  It doesn't promote unity when you have a class of people who refuse to learn and become part of society....\nprotesting in the streets waving mexican flags....oh that is so wrong....   \nI have had enough as welll.....
428571
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).
402654
Would I be willing to protest against the continued invasion of sovereign American soil, against the continued arrogance of a group of thugs demanding rights and privileges that only legal citizens should get, against Mexican, Salvadoran, Nicaraguan, Cuban, Honduran, and whatever other foreign national flag is being waved in the faces of Americans at the rally's being held by the aforementioned thugs. Would I be willing to do that? You bet your Red, White, and Blue A*s I would! God bless the US and all its LEGAL residents!!
287260
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!
951345
Firstly the UK has four different Nations each with a different legal system (Scoland, Wales, England and Ireland), there is no lwa in any the prohibits the flying of a flag specifically, however, some peole may fall foul of local building codes etc. \n\nI personally fly the Salitre (The scottish flag) on my property and feel that it is one of the many patrotric things that we would do well to incoporate from the USA.
1030772
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.
252170
Why is the Irish flag waved on St. Patrics day?  Because people who came from that country have a reason to unite under it, as does any American who respects their past.\nAre we at War with Mexico?\nGet over it.