Eric, Thanks for this one. It is really good. I saw a picture of a Mexican Flag raised and the American Flag upside down beneath it. It seems to me that they are really enemies, not immigrants sometimes. From what you describe they want more freedoms than the rest of us. Tensions are certainly there.
Linda Herd ________________________________ From: Eric Vought <evou...@gmail.com> To: missourilibertycoalition@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, May 11, 2010 1:02:47 PM Subject: Re: [MoLiCo] Fw: WARNING: Tensions Rise Across America On May 11, 2010, at 9:41 AM, Fred B. Ellison wrote: > In California, students wearing clothing with American flags were sent home > while students wearing Mexican flags were allowed to stay in class. It is my > strong personal opinion that school administrators sent the Hispanic kids > wearing American flags home because of the clear and present danger of > violence against them. > > The next day, many of the Mexican kids walked out to protest the insult they > felt the kids wearing American flags had delivered by wearing such a "racist" > symbol as the American flag. > > At another school, a kid is in trouble for tearing down a Mexican flag and we > are receiving word of another story where someone burned a Mexican flag in or > near school. Now these incidents I DO seriously object to, again because of the apparent double standard (or even triple standard in that the US flag is the flag of the soil we are sitting on). The school administrators need to be removed. I have read a good bit more about the "Arizona Law" as it is coming to be known. I still regret that it is necessary, but, especially given the reports that border crossers have become increasingly militant and violent in the last few years, it IS necessary. There are also provisions in the bill which purport to limit the police from checking for papers unless some other indication of criminal activity is present. Whether those limitations will be followed or not is unclear, but it definitely gives Arizona authorities the power to apprehend illegals engaged in border trespass which Border Patrol has not been doing. Of course, none of this would be necessary if the Federal government would comply with Article IV Section 4 of the Constitution: > The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican > Form of Government, and shall protect each of them AGAINST INVASION; and on > Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature > cannot be convened) against domestic Violence. [emphasis mine] The US Army has been engaged in protecting citizens on this border since 1829 when Brevet Major Bennet Riley was dispatched there with 200 soldiers to protect caravans, so it is not like the government is being asked to do anything unusual and it could be considered to be the major reason the Constitution was formed in the first place. Sincerely, Eric Vought "Faith does not absolve us from trying to understand our world and make moral distinctions with the eyes and brain given us. Religion is as much responsibility as direction: Duty not Distinction." --This is a Free Speech forum. The owner of this list assumes no responsibility for the intellectual or emotional maturity of its members. If you do not like what is being said here, filter it to trash, ignore it or leave. If you leave, learn how to do this for yourself. If you do not, you will be here forever. -- This is a Free Speech forum. The owner of this list assumes no responsibility for the intellectual or emotional maturity of its members. If you do not like what is being said here, filter it to trash, ignore it or leave. If you leave, learn how to do this for yourself. If you do not, you will be here forever.
