American Flag Blog

It has long been suspected that the far-left has no sense of humor, and now out of a Georgia high school comes more proof. Robert Muzzillo, who teaches science at Eagle’s Landing High School has filed a defamation law suit against a student for posting jokes about him on a website. Comedians everywhere should take note.
15-year-old student Alex Davis wrote that Muzzillo has a sexual attraction to Michael Jackson and that he had lost an eye wrestling alligators and midgets. Stupid stuff and no doubt funny only to other 15-year-olds. But defamation? We are living in strange times when a teacher can’t deflect the barbs that a student throws at him.

But what I’m really wondering is, why is the ACLU once again missing in action? The organization that will rush to defend the freedom of expression of some nasty nut case that torches an American flag in a crowd of people, won’t defend this hapless student’s right to free speech?

The answer probably has a lot to do with the fact that poor Davis is not a member of the NEA, which puts him on the wrong side of this controversy. Both the ACLU and the NEA actively seek to undermine the values that Americans hold near and dear - things like displaying American flags in classrooms or not discussing sex with 6-year-olds - so the ACLU will naturally extend the professional courtesy of leaving this one alone.

The Associated Press reports today that serious trouble may lay ahead for Mexico. In a poll released Friday, 50% of respondents  expressed fear that the government is quickly losing control of the country and that Mexico is on the brink of a violent upheaval. And the United States will be spending huge sums of money in coming years in what many believe to be a vain attempt to control the border.
So here’s an idea that should please all the diplomacy freaks. Why don’t we enter into talks with Mexico with the goal of annexing the country as our 51st state? The benefits would be enourmous for Mexico and the Mexican people as well as Americans.

As a state, federal dollars would pour into Mexico and U.S. law enforcement would make an immediate dent in the astronomical crime and corruption that has plagued our neighbor to the south.

Of course, Mexicans in record numbers would make a bee line for the north but would quickly find that job opportunities have become a lot more scarce. That’s because employers would now be forced to pay at least the minimum wage to these newly-minted Americans and the Mexicans would find themselves in competition for jobs with the existing American workforce.

But not to worry because American entrepreneurs would head south in droves and quickly drive the Mexican economy into the 21st century. And Mexicans who live in the lower 48 would no longer need to send dollars south to relatives since those relatives would be earning dollars in Mexico and might even be out-earning their northern cousins.

Mexicans waving Mexican flags would no longer be a cause of consternation among non-Mexican Americans since it would now symbolize state pride. The market for American flags would be record-setting not only in the state of Mexico but all over America since all American flags would need 51 stars (now you know my agenda for this post).

And lets not forget that our southern border would be less than half of what it is now making U.S. security a whole lot less expensive.

Well, that was a nice daydream, but it’s never likely to happen because there are too many impediments - to many competing self-interests. The reality is that as a nation, we must protect our self-interests and recognize that Mexico is a seperate and distinct country with their own self-interests that may often be in direct opposition to ours.

It never ceases to amaze me that the scrap of fabric that constitutes a flag can sometimes hold the power to influence world events. The reaction of Americans to a sea of Mexican flags was strong and emotional and spured furious action in Washington. And like all strong and emotional reactions, it will eventually cool.

So the question is, after the emotion is spent, will the reality of the situation seem dire enough to sustain America’s will to take control? Well, if some respected experts are even partly right, our political leadership is shamelessly selling out our country for the sake of personal gain in the form of a permanent underclass whose vote will be sold to the highest bidder.

Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation and Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama are two informed policy experts who are warning of the impending catastrophe that will follow passage of this bill. According to a Heritage Foundation study, the immigration reform bill has the potential to add 193 million immigrants over the next 20 years above and beyond those already here.

And because the bill illiminates a portion of current immigration law that prohibits citizenship to anyone that is “likely to become a public charge,” the vast majority of those 193 million could wind up on some form of welfare. Rector estimates the tab to maintain our new immigrant population to be in the neighborhood of $50 billion annually, a sum that can only spell disaster for the U.S. economy.

Senator Sessions warns that the bill will shift immigration from a privilege to an “entitlement.” Sessions explained it this way, “The decision as to who may come will almost totally be controlled by the desire of the individuals who wish to immigrate to the United States rather than by the United States government.”

If this bill should pass, the end of a sovereign United States of America will be at hand and our children will inherit a country whose greatness will only be a fading memory.

Most Americans, myself included, were alarmed when thousands of illegal immigrants marched through U.S. streets waving Mexican flags. The following week, shock turned to anger as we watched those same illegals trade Mexican flags for American flags in an obvious and shameful attempt to trick us into believing that their loyalty belonged to America.

So if you think that President Bush and the rest of the Washington elite are about to set things straight, then get ready for a second and larger dose of shock and anger.

If the leaks about the President’s address tonight are accurate, he will propose stationing National Guard troops along the border and he will also make a strong pitch for the immigration bill currently in the Senate. While these measures might seem like a step in the right direction, the net effect is likely to be that we will be overwhelmed with a huge flood of immigration that makes today’s influx look like a trickle.

To begin with, by all accounts, Bush will propose stationing around 8000 troops along the border in an “advisory” role. That means they will not be authorized to actually arrest anyone but rather, will report to existing Border Patrol. But the Border Patrol is currently doing an inadequate job at best.

In a recent Salt Lake Tribune article written by Nate Carlisle, the small southern Utah town of Blanding has a pretty much constant flow of van loads of illegals travelling north on U.S. Highway 191 and the local law enforcementis helpless to stop them. According to Carlisle, “Blanding police are not authorized to enforce federal immigration laws, and the federal authorities have stopped coming here to take custody of undocumented immigrants.”

The feeling is that Blanding is not an isolated case. It seems that the U.S. Border patrol now exists to aid illegals in crossing the border by alerting Mexican officials to the locations of the Minutemen. Adding a few thousand National Guard troops with no real authority is likely to do nothing to stem the flow.

Then there’s the “immigration reform” bill currently in the Senate that contrary to how it is being portrayed, is almost guaranteed to dramatically increase the flow of immigrants into the U.S. The bill has a number of provisions that make a flood of immigration inevitable.

First, not only will it make it relatively easy for illegals already in this country to gain citizenship, but it will allow them to seek citizenship for relatives still in Mexico. There is also a provision to allow hundreds of thousands of “guest workers” entry annually as well as any woman or orphaned child anywhere in the world who is “at risk of harm” due to sex or age.

But perhaps the most shocking aspect of the Senate bill is that it will make it far more difficult for educated and skilled workers to obtain visas than uneducated and unskilled workers. Under the current system, roughly 60 percent of visas are issued only to skilled professionals with “extraordinary abilities” and less than 10% go to unskilled laborers.

The new bill would grant more visas to unskilled workers than to skilled workers with 150,000 going to the unskilled and only 135,000 going to the skilled. In addition, the process of becoming a citizen will be streamlined for unskilled workers while remaining a long and difficult process for the skilled.

In terms of our economy, skilled workers almost always add more than they take away while the least skilled pay the least taxes but are most likely to take advantage of various welfare programs, placing the burden mostly on middle-class taxpayers.

As cynical as it sounds, there is no way to avoid the reality that our politicians are nearly unanimous in their desire to jeopardize America’s future to get a piece of what promises to be a huge block of voters who can be easily manipulated with promises of government largesse.

School districts around the country have been banning American flags on school property in recent weeks in an effort to prevent violence. Currently at the center of the controversy is Castro Valley High School in California where tensions flared on Wednesday as students with American flags faced off against students with Mexican flags.

In response, the school administration called for “mediation” on Thursday, which turned out to be nothing more than 40 or so students along with Principal Debbie Coco and other school officials meeting to discuss “free speech” and a student’s “right” to demonstrate.

Of course, the Principal and her posse never thought to or were too afraid to discuss the real issues. Every school kid in America has grown up learning that American citizenship is a privilege and with that privilege comes certain rights and responsibilities.

Our rights as citizens are those guaranteed by the Constitution and we have the responsibility to defend the Constitution and our country. So now we have American high school kids who are sharing a school with kids who are not citizens, yet they get right in your face and demand the rights of citizens and more.

And to make matters worse, if a white kid takes a stand and demands that the Mexican kid respect America, the white kid is labeled a racist. A case in point is Castro Valley student Javier Sanchez who brought a Mexican flag to school and maintains that his experience Wednesday just reinforced his belief that white students are racists, “Now the American flag is racism more than anything else.”

Charges of racism, however, are more appropriately directed at the pro-illegal immigration crowd because it is they who view this new and large underclass as the pawns in whatever games they are playing.

For example, New York City Council member Charles Barron has made the rounds recently in support of illegal Mexicans. Barron does not have a special affinity for Mexicans, but he openly states that since they are not white, they can help to tip the balance of power in America away from whites. If ever their were a racially motivated agenda, that’s it.

Or consider all the celebrities, Hollywood and otherwise, who say over and over that we need illegals to do the jobs that Americans won’t do. The implication folks, is that Mexicans are a lower class of the species and are only good enough to do what we are too good to do. People who make statements like that should certainly not be accusing others of racism. The fact is that many of the Hollywood crowd have huge gobs of money but are too cheap to pay the domestic servants a living wage.

Getting back to Castro Valley, the start of the “mediation” should be for teachers to “educate” the illegal students to the simple truth that they are not citizens and therefore not entitled to the rights of citizens. If they would like to be citizens, then start on that path and work like hell to get there.

As for students like Javier Sanchez, who think the American flag represents racism, nobody’s keeping you here so don’t let the screen door hit you in the ass on the way out.

Here’s something you don’t hear about everyday. A Florida man has found a novel use for the American flag. 28-year-old Brian Stusalitus used an American flag on a pole as a weapon in a carjacking.

Stusalitus approached 93-year-old Bruno Antonietti in a parking lot in Winter Park, snatched the car keys from his hand and beat him with the flagpole. Antonietti was found bleeding in the parking lot, but otherwise in good shape.

It turns out that Stusalitus is a crack addict and needed some wheels to make it to a meeting with his supplier. It’s ironic that Antonietti, a World War II veteran, was attacked with the flag that he once fought to defend.

Our criminal justice system no longer has the teeth it did when Antonietti was a young man mainly because the ACLU and like minded bottom-feeders insure that criminals have more rights than the innocents they prey upon.

The very people who constantly screetch about protecting our constitutional freedoms have created, through never-ending legal challenges, a society where an elderly war veteran doesn’t have the freedom to live what is left of his life without fear of violence.

If only I was a regular viewer of CNN, I would already know that CNN heavy-weight Lou Dobbs is a major fuel contributor to the anti-illegal immigration train. Dobbs really hit the nail squarely on the head when he said the following:

“This president is not enforcing the immigration laws enacted by Congress, and this Congress is failing in its duty of oversight to demand that those laws be followed. Only a fool, Mr. President, Sen. Kennedy, Sen. McCain, would believe you when you speak of new legislation. You don’t enforce the laws now. Would you do so if the law were more to your liking? Would you secure our borders and ports? Would you halt illegal immigration? Those are rhetorical questions, only, I assure you. The answers are obvious; obvious because of your conduct.”

Dobbs has very succinctly stated the obvious truth - we don’t need Congress to pass more laws because the laws we need are already on the books. But instead of meaningful action, all we are getting from our government are lies and obfuscation.

As the chief executive, the President is responsible for enforcing our laws, but instead, he is overseeing a deliberate program that undermines those laws to the benefit of a foreign nation and to the detriment of our own. The road the Bush administration has chosen to travel is peppered with land mines and it will destroy his Presidency and the reputation of anyone that continues to follow his lead.

That’s because, as Dobbs suggests, boatloads of Americans are catching on to the cynical games the politicians are playing for personal gain at the expense of ordinary citizens. Dobbs blames the “… two political parties that are beholden to corporate America, the largest employers of illegal aliens, and the leadership of both parties that are selling out American citizens in search of cheap labor and political advantage. How dumb do you all think we are? Again, that’s only a rhetorical question.”

We are sitting on a powder keg that is about to blow. The hundreds of thousands of illegals who hit the streets waving Mexican flags evidently believed they could defiantly stand up to Americans in a chesty show of bravado and win but instead they ignited the fuse.

Violent confrontation is waiting to happen in any number of places. Take our schools for example, where violence has been simmering just below the surface. School districts across the nation have been banning American flags and other patriotic displays in a lame attempt to appease the illegal students.

And while the U.S. Border Patrol sells out America by conspiring with the Mexican Government to aid the safe passage of illegals across our border, private citizens and local officials have taken it upon themselves to do what our President won’t - protect America.

The legal definition of treason:

A breach of allegiance to one’s government, usually committed through levying war against such government or by giving aid or comfort to the enemy. The offense of attempting by overt acts to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance; or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power.

In a memo that has surfaced from the legendary British intelligence organization, MI6, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been up to more than changing the country’s flags and seizing it’s oil prodution. According to MI6, the Chavez regime “is a new and dangerous threat to stability that is also being exploited by al-Qaeda.”

And according to other documents seized in Pakistan, Al Queda is firmly entrenched in South America and has developed ties in Mexico with groups like the Popular Revolutionary Army that can easily deliver Al-Queda members to the U.S. border.

Just a few weeks ago, Americans were confronted with the images of thousands of illegal Mexicans waving Mexican flags and shouting demands and the reaction was overwhelmingly in favor of fast action to stem the flood of illegals. Yet, with full knowledge of the serious threat to America that is quickly developing south of our border, our government not only refuses to protect us, but has actively engaged in a conspiracy with the Mexican government to keep the border open!

According to a Mexican government website, the U.S. Border Patrol has been routinely supplying information to the Mexican government about the locations of Minuteman contingents. That folks, fits the definition of treason.

In an apparent attempt to cover his own ass, Mario Martinez of U.S. Customs confirmed the report and pinned it on the Border Patrol, “They just basically endangered the lives of American people.” He then went on to offer the ridiculous excuse that the Border Patrol is only trying to demonstrate to Mexican authorities that the “rights” of illegals are being protected.

America is a sovereign nation, at least for now, and we owe the Mexican government nothing. Our constitution does not provide for the “rights” of non-citizens, but it does provide for the protection of Americans. The bureaucrats at the Border Patrol are evidently unaware of the Constitution or their constitutional duty to protect the citizens of this country from alien invasion.

We need to demand that our elected officials stop skirting the issue and take action to fulfil their duties to the American people and they should begin by arresting anyone who has been complicit in passing information to a foreign government about the whereabouts of Americans on American soil.

President Bush’s strong and straight forward pronouncement that our national anthem should be sung only in English seemed out of step with his usual lax stand on illegal immigration. And there’s good reason to believe that his comments, rather than being off-the-cuff and from his heart, were a calculated political move.

The ABC News “Nightline” program took to the streets of Washington to corner members of Congress this week and challenge them to sing the national anthem. The supposed purpose was to show that as bills have been introduced in both the House and Senate and lawmakers happily gravitate towards this issue, few in Congress really know much about the Star Spangled Banner, proving that all the heated bluster is nothing more than political cover.

As you might expect, only a handful of our elected leaders had the courage (or knowledge of the lyrics) to stop and sing, although one or two did indicate awareness of what the song was about, mentioning the great American flag being visible to Francis Scott Key, and all that. But the truth is that this particular issue is an easy way to appear to be involved in the immigration debate without threatening potential future voters with more serious sanctions like arrest or deportation.

As for the President, he is also using the issue to give the impression that he opposes illegal immigration, but in reality, he is at the forefront of the movement to erase our borders, effectively destroying our sovereignty. In the past Bush has time and again stated publicly that he opposes more stringent border controls and has privately worked towards a single North American political entity.

The Council on Foreign Relations issued a report last year entitled “Building a North American Community” which told of a meeting at Bush’s ranch in Texas at which Mexican President Vincente Fox, Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin and Bush agreed to form an economic and security alliance dubbed “the Security and Prosperity Patnership of North America.” Bush also took the opportunity at that meeting to lash out at the Minuteman Project labeling them “vigilantes.”

This whole thing might sound nice in a Kumbaya sort of way, but what it really amounts to is giving away our sovereignty and our prosperity while trusting our security to people who have no love or respect for the United States or Americans. Bush is giving lip service to the national anthem but he either doesn’t understand or doesn’t care about what the Star Spangled banner stands for.

The vision of the American flag still flying over Fort McHenry wasn’t only a sign that we had withstood the British onslaught and won the battle, but that we had preserved our sovereignty as a nation. We would be free to shape our own destiny unhindered by the self interests of other nations.

In his new book, “While Europe Slept,” author Bruce Bawer describes in great detail the reasons that Europe is slowly succumbing to Islam. Bawer is an American who has lived in Europe for quite some time, so he brings to the party the benefit of being able to compare the cultures.

One of the points Bawer makes is that unlike America, Europe has a culture that is thousands of years in the making. Given that fact plus the political and social chaos of the twentieth century, European society has been infused with a sense of moral superiority and cultural refinement. So Europe has openly welcomed immigrants, predominantly from Muslim countries, not as equals to assimilate into society, but as wards of the state; beneficiaries of European largesse.

Europeans have bent over backwards to lavish every sort of benefit on their Muslim charges while keeping them socially at arms length, and in turn, Muslims are milking Europe for everything they can get. And despite the many warning signals of late - the London Subway bombings, the Madrid train bombing, and the Paris riots to name a few - Europeans continue to insist on coddling the Muslim population.

Just this week, government officials in England banned a London fire station from flying the Cross of St. George flag during the World Cup. The Cross of St. George is a white flag with a red cross and is considered by many Englanders to be the flag of England. The reason given the firemen was that the government is afraid of offending ethnic minorities. Of course, the term “ethnic minorities” is how Europeans typically refer to their Muslim populations.

Can you imagine if a fire station somewhere in the U.S. was ordered to take down the American flag in deference to Muslims?