Court rules California school can ban American flag shirts on Cinco de Mayo

[Teh One Who Knocks]

The CNN News Wire


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MORGAN HILL, Calif. — A California school that stopped students from wearing American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo didn’t violate their constitutional rights, an appeals court ruled Thursday.

The school’s approach, according to the appeals court, kept students safe in a climate of racial tension.

“The controversy and tension remained,” a panel of judges from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said in their opinion, “but the school’s actions presciently avoided an altercation.”

School officials were worried about violence and disruption of school activities “and their response was tailored to the circumstance,” the opinion said.

The case dates back to May 5, 2010, when the principal of Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, California, asked a group of students wearing American flag T-shirts to turn their shirts inside out or take them off.

The students at the Northern California school refused, according to the appeals court’s summary of the case, and later brought a civil rights suit against the school and two administrators, arguing that their rights to freedom of expression, equal protection and due process had been violated.

Judges said the civil rights case forced them to weigh the difficult question of what takes precedence: students’ free speech rights or school safety concerns?

According to court documents, the incident occurred amid “ongoing racial tension and gang violence within the school, and after a near-violent altercation had erupted during the prior Cinco de Mayo over the display of an American flag.”

The previous year, court documents said, a group of students carrying a Mexican flag had clashed with students who hung an American flag from a tree and chanted “USA” on Cinco de Mayo, a holiday marking a famous Mexican military battle that is often celebrated in the United States.

In 2010, the appeals court said, “threats issued in the aftermath of the incident were so real that the parents of the students involved in the suit kept them home from school two days later.”

CNN first learned of the court’s ruling on Twitter.

[PorkChopSandwiches]

Are you FUCKING kidding me :suicide:

[Acid Trip]

That's Hellifornia for you.

[DemonGeminiX]

Are you FUCKING kidding me :suicide:

I'd say something about Arizona, but since you mentioned Austin the last time I brought it up....


Can you hear the whispers, Porky? ... Texas, Porky... ... come to Texas...

[PorkChopSandwiches]

Both those states are filled with illegals too.

But, seriously TX is worth moving to for the tax savings alone

[DemonGeminiX]

Income tax savings isn't always what it's cracked up to be. There's no state income tax in Florida, but look at what you've got to put up with.

However, Texas does have places that make the most killer tamales I've ever had, so I would say that offsets any lunatics you might find out there.

[DemonGeminiX]

Unfortunately, according to sources, property taxes in Texas are some of the highest in the nation.

[PorkChopSandwiches]

No state tax, sales tax is around half and housing is easily half as expensive. Plus Austin has a pretty decent music scene
http://sxsw.com/

I can live anywhere, its my wife thats difficult ;)

[PorkChopSandwiches]

Unfortunately, according to sources, property taxes in Texas are some of the highest in the nation.

:facepalm:

Thats one nice thing about CA, they charge 1% based on your purchase price and its not adjusted when property values go up, only after the next buyer purchases the property
California Proposition 13

[DemonGeminiX]

You don't have to sell me on Austin's incredible music scene, I know all about it.

You could always knock your wife out before you leave.

[PorkChopSandwiches]

Older chart but interesting


State Average Property Tax Rate
United States 1.38
Alaska 1.80
Alabama 0.65
Arkansas 0.88
Arizona 1.21
California 0.68
Colorado 1.08
Connecticut 1.72
District of Columbia 1.31
Delaware 0.68
Florida 1.20
Georgia 1.52
Hawaii 0.40
Iowa 2.15
Idaho 1.42
Illinois 1.79
Indiana 2.12
Kansas 2.09
Kentucky 0.96
Louisiana 1.02
Massachusetts 1.07
Maryland 1.06
Maine 1.75
Michigan 1.91
Minnesota 1.27
Missouri 1.42
Mississippi 1.44
Montana 1.65
North Carolina 1.10
North Dakota 1.84
Nebraska 2.15
New Hampshire 2.21
New Jersey 1.78
New Mexico 0.72
Nevada 0.83
New York 1.76
Ohio 1.81
Oklahoma 1.03
Oregon 1.22
Pennsylvania 1.70
Rhode Island 1.52
South Carolina 1.38
South Dakota 1.96
Tennessee 1.07
Texas 2.57
Utah 1.31
Virginia 1.12
Vermont 2.06
Washington 1.13
Wisconsin 2.09
West Virginia 0.95
Wyoming 2.18

[PorkChopSandwiches]

Maybe Hawaii :dance:

[PorkChopSandwiches]

You don't have to sell me on Austin's incredible music scene, I know all about it.

You could always knock your wife out before you leave.

I'll give her some Mr. T milk and she'll just wake up there :twisted:

[DemonGeminiX]

I've never been there but for some odd reason I don't think I'd want to live in Hawaii. Definitely not Alabama.

Mr. T milk... I had to look that up. That's funny as shit. They drugged his ass so he'd fly.

:lol:

[PorkChopSandwiches]

I've never been there but for some odd reason I don't think I'd want to live in Hawaii. Definitely not Alabama.

Mr. T milk... I had to look that up. That's funny as shit. They drugged his ass so he'd fly.

:lol:

Ha, you never watched A-Team, I loved that shit.

Yeah HI would be cool to visit, but I'm not really a beach person so it would probably drive me crazy to be on an island. Alabama is definitely not an option, I have too may teeth

[PorkChopSandwiches]

I've never been there but for some odd reason I don't think I'd want to live in Hawaii. Definitely not Alabama.

Mr. T milk... I had to look that up. That's funny as shit. They drugged his ass so he'd fly.

:lol:

Ha, you never watched A-Team, I loved that shit.

Yeah HI would be cool to visit, but I'm not really a beach person so it would probably drive me crazy to be on an island. Alabama is definitely not an option, I have too may teeth

[Muddy]

Wasn't the rock GOD frigginJay from Austin Texas?

[PorkChopSandwiches]

TX, not sure where.

[DemonGeminiX]

10 States with worst taxes, 2014:

New York, New Jersey, California, Minnesota, Rhode Island, Vermont, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Maryland.

10 States with best taxes, 2014:

Wyoming, South Dakota, Nevada, Alaska, Florida, Washington, Montana, New Hampshire, Utah, Indiana.

Pulled from the Fiscal Times

[deebakes]

minnesota :dance:






oh, wait a sec :sad2:

[Hal-9000]

complete bullshit.....that's your country, they can be no rule against supporting the flag in any form


I would wear it








*look at hal buck the government :tup:

[PorkChopSandwiches]

http://i.imgur.com/1gKaCBa.jpg

[DemonGeminiX]

Personally, I don't advocate wearing the flag on articles of clothing, because it violates articles found within the Flag Code of the United States:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Flag_Code

However, Mexican flags should not be permitted to fly or be displayed anywhere within the borders of the United States, regardless of freedom of speech issues. These students need to learn to accept that they are not Mexican citizens, they are United States citizens, and they should display their true citizenship with the pride that they're reserving for a country that they're not citizens of.

[PorkChopSandwiches]

Yeah, it pisses me off when I drive through these mexican neighborhoods and the have a full size flag pole with the mexican flag on it and nothing else. If you love Mexico and all it has to offer, get the fuck out

[DemonGeminiX]

Back in the day, that would be construed as claiming land for another country, an act of war.

[Hal-9000]

I have underwear with a Canadian flag on them and it says - Wanna see the north pole? :naughty:



:patriot:

[Hal-9000]

I was having a little tiff with my favorite brown co-worker (the old guy)...giving him the gears about so many of his brethren moving here, that we'll have to change the colors of our flag..

he made a little dig at me and I replied - Yeah, you're very quiet and peaceful here but I know you go home at night and then hit the secret basement, beneath your regular basement and start making the vests and grenades and shit

the other brown guys were laughing so hard he tried to hit me :lol:

[Hugh_Janus]

-I thought ot was a bit of a no no to wear the flag on clothing anyway...

[Hal-9000]

we wear it on shirts, jackets, backpacks, hats, etc when we travel off the continent....it's a pretty regular thing and suggested for reasons I won't get into here

have never heard of anyone catching flack for doing it though

[PorkChopSandwiches]

-I thought ot was a bit of a no no to wear the flag on clothing anyway...

That shit went out the window in the 60s