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Crap that needs to stop - Mexican flag flown at ICE facility protest

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  • karlac

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    1773 all over again.
    Did it once, too damned old, but ready to give it a try once again if need be.

    Something's gotta be done.
    We can't keep this shit up without losing a unique heritage of freedom ...
     

    Sublime

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    One wonders if the Dems will accept credit for inciting these acts? They have been attacking ICE verbally daily.

    Nah!
    Don't hold your breath waiting for Pelosi, AOC, or Schumer to denounce it. The left incites and encourages violence. I say let's go. We went to war over taxation. We could give these "protesters" a history lesson on bleeding and dying for liberty in one weekend.

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    lkilgore

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    What I saw about the desecration of our US flag and elevating the Mexican flag over the US flag greatly troubles me.

    However, there's nothing new here, about the Mexican flag replacing the US flag.

    Back in March of 2006, I was a teacher in Houston ISD. A high school principal added a Mexican flag to the school's flagpole, flying under the US flag ("Mexican Flag Fuels Immigration Debate" from the Houston Chronicle). Also see the Fox News article, "One Year After Taking Down School's Mexican Flag, Student Has No Regrets" about another instance in Houston in 2011. Also see a Los Angeles Times article, "Massive Student Walkout Spreads Across Southland" about another Mexican flag incident in 2006. Flying a Mexican flag, in the US, and often replacing the US flag, in order to show disrespect, appears to be a common form of attack on American culture and values. When I drive down Division Street in Arlington, Texas, I notice used car dealerships flying the Mexican flag as a part of their desire to get Mexicans to buy used cars. The recent US flag desecration at the ICE facility, with the flying of the Mexican flag, is once again an attack on American culture and values. Unfortunately, our country permits such things to take place, often invoking the First Amendment (remember how the US flag was spit upon and stepped on during the Vietnam War protests?). However, the First Amendment was never intended to allow what happens today. This is what Wikipedia says about our First Amendment:

    "The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prevents the government from making laws which respect an establishment of religion, prohibit the free exercise of religion, or abridge the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press, the right to peaceably assemble, or the right to petition the government for redress of grievances. It was adopted on December 15, 1791, as one of the ten amendments that constitute the Bill of Rights."

    What we must do, as citizens of the United States, is to be informed citizens. Simply telling the dissenters to go back to their home country (as President Trump recently did) or to threaten bodily harm is not the best way to oppose these anti-American sentiments. We must oppose them with the law and to use language and actions that maintain our dignity and moral character, while highlighting the dissenters' lack of dignity and lack of moral character.

    Ladies and gentlemen, I left the United States 10 years ago and have only recently moved back. I did not like what I saw President Obama do to our country and I could no longer remain here. With our goal of "Making America Great Again," I have returned home. I want to work towards a stronger America and to oppose those who want to destroy it. That's why the first thing I did when I returned to the United States was to apply for my License To Carry. The government should always fear the people, not the people fearing the government. This last year, I lived in China and I witnessed first hand how their government controls their population by denying them free access to information and by keeping the people unarmed and unable to defend themselves. It is VERY safe to live in Shanghai, a city of 25 million people, but there are cameras everywhere, all buying and selling is monitored by the government, and no one will speak in opposition to the government, because they know they will disappear. In 2011, I lived in Egypt and was there during the Arab Spring and the Egyptian revolution. Egypt used to maintain 100,000 police officers, whose sole duty was to keep the people in check. The first thing that happened during the revolution was to have every police station burned to the ground and every police officer attacked by mobs with sticks and clubs (truly a "Lord of the Flies" situation). That event also solidified my understanding that the American people should never give up their rights and powers to the government. Those politicians, who today call on the United States to become more socialist, are traitors to the American way of life. My wife grew up in the Soviet Union and she witnessed with her own eyes, socialism at its "best." Today, while we go through her legal immigration process (which takes more than a year and a few thousand dollars to complete), she is more pro-right than I am! If this country continues on the path it appears to be going, we might need to leave the United States again, never to return. That is difficult for me to say, for I am a Desert Storm veteran and former military officer, but I do not want to finish out my last years of life under the yoke of socialism.

    God bless America and God bless Texas!
     
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