alt.politics.economics

"alexy" wrote in message
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> "no surrender" wrote:
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> >SUGGESTED READING FOR CONSERVATIVES, REQUIRED FOR WEE, TWEE, AND FEY LIBS
> >
> >FROM DRUDGE AND NBC AFFILIATE NEWS
> >
> >
> >SAMPSON COUNTY, . - On the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks,
> >students at one high school were not allowed to wear clothes with an
> >American Flag.
> >
> >Under a new school rule, students at Hobbton High School are not allowed
to
> >wear items with flags, from any country, including the United States.
> >
> >The new rule stems from a controversy over students wearing shirts
bearing
> >flags of other countries.
> >
> >Gayle Langston said her daughter, Jessica, was told to remove her stars
and
> >stripes t-shirt.
> >
> >"Today she wanted to wear her shirt, and I had to tell her no," said
> >Langston. "She didn't like it at all because I knew it would get her in
> >trouble. Of all days, 9/11, she could not wear her American Flag shirt."
> >
> >The superintendent of schools in Sampson County calls the situation
> >unfortunate, but says educators didn't want to be forced to pick and
choose
> >which flags should be permissible.
> >******
> >I've got a wonderful and easily enforced rule for those PC prick teachers
> >and that cranial/anal superintendent ...how about the only flag permitted
> >will be America's?
> >
> >Dennis
>
> United States Code Title 4 Chapter 1 Section 8 Paragraph d:
> :The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery.
> :It should never be festooned, drawn back, nor up, in folds, but always
> :allowed to fall free. Bunting of blue, white, and red, always arranged
> :with the blue above, the white in the middle, and the red below, should
> :be used for covering a speaker's desk, draping the front of the platform,
> :and for decoration in general..
*****
Small point of order, that section of the US Code is not "law," but
recommendations.
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