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U.S. kids required to pledge allegiance to Mexican flag in TX school; ALSO: Witness: 80% of illegals' kids wouldn't stand for U.S. flag pledge



 
 
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Default U.S. kids required to pledge allegiance to Mexican flag in TX school; ALSO: Witness: 80% of illegals' kids wouldn't stand for U.S. flag pledge


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> ALSO (see below): Witness: 80% of illegals' kids wouldn't stand for
> U.S. flag pledge at homecoming football game in California
>
> Exhibit 1:
>
> "When Linda Granzella describes the Williams High School homecoming
> game of 1993, her words come out in an emotional rush. She is sitting
> in the office of her family's combination restaurant, motel and olive
> packing company, barely looking up as the tale bursts forth.
>
> "Granzella was in the bleachers, waiting for the Yellowjackets to
> take the field, when the high school band struck up the national
> anthem. The loudspeaker's disembodied voice asked everyone to stand.
>
> "What happened next "put me over the edge," she said. "Eighty percent
> of the stadium wouldn't stand. They were Hispanic children, and they
> didn't stand for the national anthem ... I asked them why. They said,
> 'This is not our country.' "
>
> "The indignant mother's response was visceral: She took her daughter
> out of Williams Elementary School and sent her 10 miles east to a
> public school in the county seat of Colusa.
>
> " 'I didn't want her to be in a school where she was a minority in
> her own country, and they didn't have respect,' Granzella said."
>
>
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...ck=1&cset=true
>
> Exhibit 2:
>
> Parents Outraged Over Mexican Pledge in Texas School
>
> {Note by George Washington Admirer: It was just a few short weeks ago
> that illegal aliens in secessionist illegal alien "sanctuary city"
> Maywood , California lowered Old Glory and replcaed it with the Mexican
> flag; no doubt most reading this also recall the photos of Mexican
> illegal alien and anchor baby middle school students lowering the U.S.
> flag, hoisting the Mexican flag, and then raising an upside-down U.S.
> flag below it that occurred in Los Angeles during the illegal alien
> street marches last Spring -- lots of photos of these two incidents
> online. See www.saveourstate.org for starters.}
>
> Some parents in Freeport were livid after they said a Velasco
> Elementary School assembly last week included a requirement that
> children say the pledge of allegiance to the Mexican flag.
>
> By Scott Braddock
> Tuesday, September 19, 2006
>
> One mother, who has a daughter enrolled at the school, told KTRH News
> she couldn't believe a school assembly would include children holding
> small Mexican flags and reciting a pledge in Spanish. "Where is the
> sensitivity to the men and women who have fought and died for this
> country?" the mother asked.
>
> Several parents have complained to the Brazosport Independent School
> District administration, school officials confirmed, but claims that
> students were required to recite a pledge to the Mexican flag were
> simply false, a school spokesman said.
>
> Brazosport District Spokesman Stuart Dornburg said, "A group of
> parents, who are volunteers, did get up on stage and recite the pledge
> to the Mexican flag ... the students did not recite the pledge."
>
> The volunteers handed out small Mexican flags for the children to hold
> during the recitation, Dornburg said.
>
> The assembly last week was meant only as an educational activity
> intended to teach the children about Mexican Independence Day,
> according to Dornburg. The holiday is celebrated on Sept. 16, to mark
> the day Mexico won independence from Spain.
>
> "This was totally done as an educational, cultural activity," he
> said. Dornburg stressed that students in the district recite the
> pledges to the Texas and U.S. flags at the beginning of each school day
>
>
> http://www.ktrh.com/pages/houstonnew...article=982537


Other than sleazy employers, just who wants these Mexican "Mericans"?

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