When You Can't Even Display The American Flag

This has got to be one of the saddest...not to mention most frightening....stories I've seen in a long time.

A kid in California was told by his school that he coulnd't display the American flag on his bike, because this would incite racial tensions.

This is the United States of America! Since when do we have to be ashamed of displaying our flag, or worse, afraid of displaying it? If someone beats up someone else for displaying a US flag - the person who does the beating up should be deported, as they're obviously not here because they love this country!
Story #4: School Tells Kid American Flag on Bike Could Offend

RUSH: For the last 75 years, ladies and gentlemen, the Democrat Party has simply used the federal budget to buy patronage jobs for its political machine, to redistribute tax dollars to its political machine, and to stock the government and the bureaucracy with its own like-minded people -- and now we've gotten to the point where bureaucracies can simply issue edicts without having to go through Congress that can affect the way you live, what you can do with your own property. All of this is going to have to be dealt with if we are serious. Look at this story from near to my adopted hometown, Sacramento, California, Denair, California.

"13-year-old Cody Alicea rides with an American flag on the back of his bike." He's 13 years old. "He says he does this to be patriotic and to honor veterans, like his own grandfather, Robert. He's had the flag on his bike for two months but Monday, was told to take it down. A school official at Denair Middle School told Cody some students had been complaining about the flag and it was no longer allowed on school property. 'In this country we're supposed to be free,' said Cody. 'And I should be able to wave my flag wherever I want to. And they're telling me I can't.' Cody's grandfather says the school was concerned about racial tensions or uprisings because of the [American] flag.

"He feels if there was really a problem it should have been brought up two months ago, not during Veterans week." Racial tensions or uprisings because of the AMERICAN flag? This is what a school administrator in California said. Who are they afraid is going to rise up? What racial tensions are they talking about? Are they worried about offending some illegal aliens? Is it African-Americans? I mean, aren't we told illegal aliens love America as much or even more than US citizens do? "'No action should be taken. We don't want any repercussion,' said Roger. (sic) 'We just want Cody to be proud of what he's doing.'" I don't know who Roger is in this story. But what "repercussions" is he afraid of?

This is the kind of thing that we laugh at. We hear this, and we get temporarily outraged by it. But you have here a kid being told you can't even put the US flag -- the American flag -- on the back of his bicycle because it's going to offend somebody. Why is it that The Offended always win? I don't care who they are. The Offended always win. Whatever somebody says offends them, whoever the person doing the offending is has to stop it. I remember the good old days, folks (and they weren't that long ago) I was dining one evening at the famous 21 Club in New York. Back in the good old days when culture and refinement were on full display, and while dining afterwards you could light up a great cigar at your dinner table and consume your postprandial beverage.

I was doing so one night, and a guy next to me called to a maitre d' over and said, "You gotta get him to put that out."

The maitre d' said, "Sir, if you don't like it we can move you to a different part of the restaurant."

"Well, that offends me!"

"Well, if it offends you we'll take you to some other part of the restaurant."

Now, of course, those days are gone. You can't even smoke outside, cigarettes, cigars, or what have you. By the way, [Denair Unified School District Superintendent Edward Parraz] said 'Our Hispanic, you know, kids will, you know, bring their Mexican flags and they'll display it, and then of course the kids would do the American flag situation, and it does cause kind of a racial tension which we don't really want'" and they don't want to deal with it at school. (interruption) What do you mean, how does he have a job? It's California. What do you mean, how does he have a job? This guy is considered enlightened! This guy is preventing racial tensions. The very appearance of the American flag produces racial tensions! This is where we are. This is the kind of stuff. Look, this is not an isolated incident. We've chronicled this kind of stuff for you to the entire 23 years of this program.