Pride In America Is Offensive And Must Be Snuffed Out?

There have been signs all around for decades that America is headed for disaster.  We've taken one baby step after another toward the neutered, socialist, multi-cultural vision of America that has occupied the hopes and dreams of the progressive left for generations.  Steps so small, and so seemingly trivial, that they're often unnoticed by the mainstream, or even dismissed as the concerns of a paranoid fringe on the right.  But every now and then, the left tires with the baby steps and begins to take leaps instead.  For the first time in a long time, the left gained unbridled control over the House, the Senate, and the Executive branch, and what ensued was the clearest demonstration imaginable of the true designs the left has for the future of this country.  Fortunately, because they simply couldn't help themselves when confronted with that much power, left wing idealogues like Pelosi, Frank, Dodd, Reid and Obama showed their hand too soon, and America was slapped out of its malaise.  The 2010 elections were, hopefully, a signaling of the turning of the tide that will culminate in a conservative tsunami in 2012 and beyond.  Unfortunately, while the American people do have the ability to "right" what's wrong in this country through the ballot box, there is a wildcard that most simply haven't accounted for.  A variable with infinitely more power than misguided freaks like Pelosi could ever hope to amass.  And, unfortunately, it's a threat that cannot be addressed at the ballot box.  That threat is judicial activism, and, both sadly and ironically, it's on disgusting display on Veterans Day of all days.

Miguel Rodriquez, Asst. Principal

U. S. District Court Judge James Ware has ruled that the Morgan Hill School District acted within its rights in stripping the constitutional rights of American citizens to proudly wear clothing displaying the American flag.  Last year, on Cinco de Mayo, several students at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, CA decided to counter the displays of Mexican pride by hispanics in the school by donning their own source of pride... t-shirts including the American flag.  In response, the assistant principal of the school, Miguel Rodriguez,  required the boys to either change their clothes or wear them inside out.  Why?  Well according to school officials, they were afraid of violent response from the hispanic students.  So just to summarize this as simply as possible, the First Amendment rights of American school kids have been stripped to avoid a violent response by other students, many of whom are not even citizens with a legal right to be in this country.  As ridiculous as this sounds, it's sadly the kind of stupidity and misguided politically correct garbage we've all grown to expect from those running our public schools - especially in a left wing cesspool like California.  But to have a Federal judge actually green light the denial of an American student's rights, using the possibility of a criminal response by other students is by far the greater concern.

Students with violence-inciting shirts

So tell me, what is the logical extension of this argument?  If a college student who lost his father on 9/11 might be offended by the presence of an openly Muslim group on campus, should all displays of the Muslim faith be banned from campus for fear of an angry response?  If a group of white supremists on a High School campus in Alabama might respond violently, should all t-shirts donning the face of Martin Luther King be banned as a precaution?  When did it become not only acceptable, but now constitutionally feasible, to tell an American student that he has to hide his pride in his country because the citizens and/or refugees of another country might be offended?

Time to wake up yet???

While some might see this as a travesty of justice, I personally choose to look at it as a positive.  Just as America responded when the true face of the left was revealed in 2009, I believe she will respond to this disgusting display of judicial activism as well.  Baby steps are easy to miss, but when the rights of Americans are trampled this obscenely, those baby steps are more like a boot on the throat... and that's something really tough for even the most passive of Americans to ignore.