I’m sure this will make most of the pro-illegal criminal supporting liberals unhappy (though, they may change their minds when they realize that the ACLU supports the students. Then again, maybe not)
Three California high school students are fighting for their right to show their American patriotism — even on a Mexican holiday — after they were forced to remove their American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo.
The three were among a group of teenage boys who were told by a school administrator that they had to remove their patriotic clothing or leave the school because other students were celebrating the May 5 Mexican holiday, raising fears of fighting.
The school district later reversed the administrator’s decision, but on Wednesday, the three students and their parents filed a lawsuit against the Morgan Hill Unified School District and the principal and assistant principal.
Kids standing up for the Rights of American citizens, rather than the “return the Southwest to Mexico” lobby. Brings a tear to your eye, eh?
In October of 1968 the hard right wing arrested and jailed Abbie Hoffman for wearing a shirt that resembled an American flag.
In October of 1968 the hard right wing arrested and jailed Abbie Hoffman for wearing a shirt that resembled an American flag.
Factually false. Hoffman was arrested by the police for a violation of the flag code. He was not arrested by the “hard right wing.”
He was later convicted but the conviction was later overturned on the basis that the flag code was not actual law, and that Hoffman had a right of free expression to wear the flag.
Hoffman, of course, was not the most stable person, which may be why you keep bringing him up.
Birds of a feather and all that.
I miss your point…should they or shouldn’t they be able to wear a t-shirt with a US flag on it?
Besides it wasn’t the hard right wing that arrested Mr. Hoffman but the DC Police as at the time States and the District were allowed to impose penalties for the “misuse” of the US Flag. Each state was able to define misuse in their own terms. In 1968 and still today DC is a Democratic held strong hold. So suggesting that hard right wing individuals arrested Mr. Hoffman is a big reach.
Although on this issue I agree with Mr. Hoffman and that wearing of the flag in a respectful manor is fine. While it took several years the USSC to also agreed that the wearing of the flag was legal.
Yet even today under US Code Title 4 Chapter 1 Section 3 still states the rules against use of the flag for advertising and mutilation of the flag within the District of Columbia. But much like securing the boarder it’s not really enforced.
So again I say…missing your point or where you just trying to blame hard right wing people for Mr. Hoffman’s arrest because he too wore a flag shirt?
Complete facts Mr. Ryan are important items that should not be left out of debate or statements.
Ya’ll gotta remember, this is ‘lil FRIGGIN’ LIAR johnnie ryan you’s all speakin’ about.
‘Hard right’ is his term for anyone to the right of Lenin. Or Lennon, as the case may be.
“How Can You Be In Two Places At Once, When You’re Really Nowhere At All?”
It has no bearing on the display of the Stars and Stripes or First Amendment rights, but I am curious what these young men were about.
Was it simply coincidence that this choice of costuming occurred at this time and place?
Were these T-shirts chosen to show support of an American ethnic population, much like one might carry our flag in a St. Paddy’s Day parade?
Or were these individuals of the close-cropped hair set, hoping to frighten and intimidate other children who were enjoying a display of their ethnic heritage, as I might celebrate the contributions of Kosciusko and Pulaski to our revolution?
As I said, this has no bearing on flag displays or civil rights. But I am wondering where to invest my outrage.