Mexican Independence Trumps American Flag

By Elizabeth Nelson

I'm not sure many of you would remember earlier this year, when a Federal court ruled that a San Jose School had the right to tell a bunch of American kids that they had to turn their shirts, with the American flag, inside out or go home, during their Cinco de Mayo celebration.  You see, the school justified it by saying that there was a history of problematic racial gang members and they were afraid of a violent upheaval. Well yesterday a Federal Appeals Court refused to rehear the challenge to that case.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals let stand its February ruling in favor of Live Oak High School administrators, who argued that a history of problems on the Mexican holiday justified the decision to act against the American flag-wearing students. Officials at the high school ordered the students to either cover up the shirts or go home, citing past threats and campus strife between Latino and white students that raised fears of violence.

Lawyers for the parents, backed by 20 Republican members of Congress, had asked the 9th Circuit to rehear the case with a special 11-judge panel. Three 9th Circuit judges dissented, saying they disagreed with both the court’s ruling in the case and its decision to not grant a new hearing.

William Becker, the parents’ lawyer, called the decision “outrageous” and vowed to take the case to the Supreme Court. “(We) will not allow the politically correct judiciary to insult our flag,” he said.

A unanimous three-judge panel had found that the school’s actions were reasonable given the safety concerns, which outweighed the students’ 1st Amendment claims. “Our role is not to second-guess the decision to have a Cinco de Mayo celebration or the precautions put in place to avoid violence,” the judges ruled. Continue reading PersonalLiberty.com

Okay, here's my major malfunction with this entire story. I understand life "isn't fair." However, if you're going to tilt the scales to one race or class, you're sending a wrong message entirely.  What message did they send here?  

It's the racial gangs that are causing all the problems here, and are now being given all the power to dictate the dress code, but hey, "Go ahead and sport your Mexican Independence;" no wait, go back to Mexico if you want to celebrate Cinco de Mayo, which had nothing to do with any battle fought by America, in or about America, for Mexican Independence.  

Yet somehow our American flag, the symbol of the Country the immigrants wave when they get all their "free stuff," that very same symbol that has suddenly become "offensive and dangerous" to them and in doing so, our freedom of speech is further gagged? Someone explain this to me, please. #SMH

American Flag is Now Considered "a Threat to Muslims?"

By Elizabeth Nelson

Okay, since Obama took office, we've all heard stories like this next one, you're about to hear, of illegals in our Country, and even Americans, protesting wearing the American Flag and even Independence Day, for fear it may "offend" people of another culture.  Well, here we go again, but this time we've taken it to the Twilight Zone extreme.   

A Texan was told by his apartment manager that he must remove his American flag hanging on his patio because it’s a “threat to the Muslim community.”

Even more, the manager of the Lodge on El Dorado in Webster, Texas released a press release to reporters stating that while management “admires our resident’s patriotism,” they must “maintain the aesthetics of our apartment community and provide for the safety of all residents.”

Somehow Duy Tran is a threat to his neighbors, particularly Muslims, for proudly displaying an American flag on his patio.  Continue reading InfoWars

So, the argument is really an infringement of Tran's freedom of speech, more so than Tran's "threatening his neighbors," because not one "threatened neighbor" could be found by this news reporter, on the day she did her story.



“What really stunned me is that she said it’s a threat towards the Muslim community,”

 “I’m not a threat toward anybody.”

 “I’m gonna leave my flag there, as an American, until she shows me proof that I don’t have the right to leave my flag there,”

 “I have friends that died for this country.”

Okay, here's a picture POP QUIZ:

Take a look at this graphic of our American flag:

Q: Now, do you, as a Muslim, find it offensive or threatening in any way, shape or form?

If you do, then you really need to take a good hard, long look in the mirror and examine the reason that you are in our Country and then take a look at your neighbors, because if you aren't a terrorist, or have terrorist leanings, you're ripe for the picking and that neighbor of yours - if they are a dyed in the wool Red, White, and Blue American Patriot - they are going to defend our colors, at all costs.