LSU Student to Burn Old Glory

[greenberetTFS]

Originally Posted by Gypsy

There you go, fixed that for you.

I'm too fuc**n old to be PC......... He's is not an asshat,he's an asshole....
He is not a tool,but a dam fool........ Thank God I'm with men at this VFW who would not tolerate this sh*t.......... If you alI think I'm wrong well it's my IMO....

Big Teddy

[Dusty]

Originally Posted by trvlr

Nope, I meant what I said. Extremists come in all sizes, ethnicities, and socio economic backgrounds.

Stop trying to play the race card Dusty

Stop oppressing me.

[Dusty]

http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/flag...s-20110511-ncx

Published : Wednesday, 11 May 2011, 1:22 PM EDT

NEWSCORE - A mob of angry protesters chased a would-be flag burner at Louisiana State University (LSU) off campus Wednesday to chants of "USA, USA."

Graduate communications student Benjamin Haas had earlier been given permission by the school to burn the flag. But because he lacked a local burn permit, he agreed instead to read a statement in an area of the university known as free speech alley.

As Haas read the statement, a crowd around him erupted into cheers and jeers, many shouting "Go to hell, hippie, go to hell."

"You had a lot of people on both sides of the debate getting into a lot of fights," said James Haralson, manager of Tiger TV, the university television station. "The students started yelling obscenities at him. People started throwing bottles at him."

Fox News reports that Haas' actions were in response to the arrest of another student, who was charged with taking and burning the American flag once posted at LSU's War Memorial. That incident came just hours after Osama bin Laden's killing by US Navy SEALS last week.

Haralson, who filmed the protest, said Haas was surrounded by police officers on horseback and as they protest swelled, they moved him to a safer location.

"At that point, all the students began rushing him, continuing to throw trash at him," he said. "He was finally escorted into a cop car in the street and students were banging on the cop car."

LSU spokesman Ernie Ballard said the school endorsed neither Haas' actions, nor those of the crowd around him.

Word of the potential burning had sparked pockets of anger throughout the campus.

"It's time that my generation stand up for what they believe in and exercise their freedom of speech and let people know that we are not OK with this," said Cody Wells, the student government association president. "I am angry that an individual would want to do this at a public higher education institution."

[tonyz]

A couple of videos from LSU:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzFd8...layer_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0CWV...layer_embedded

[tonyz]

My preference is that these flag burners modify their technique and exercise their simultaneous right of free speech and self induced pyromania via self-immolation, as it maximizes pain and personal suffering, but does not guarantee death - in this regard I cannot disagree with the wisdom of the Supreme Court.

"…if there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea offensive or disagreeable."

Have at it scum-bags.

[hoot72]

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[kawaishi]

I'd just like to say that for the first time in my adult life I'm proud of my home state.

On a serious note, this misguided hippie needs to read up on the history of LSU. It's not his target audience.

1. The first superintendent was none other than Gen. W.T. Sherman.
2. The nickname of LSU is "The Old War Skule" for a reason.
3. The mascot,"Fighting Tigers," came from the nickname of a Louisiana Infantry unit under Gen. Lee during the Civil War.

[Utah Bob]

Poor SA. He should have realized he was in Baton Rouge, not Berkeley.

[Guy]

Originally Posted by Utah Bob

Poor SA. He should have realized he was in Baton Rouge, not Berkeley.

NO SHIT!

[rdret1]

Originally Posted by tonyz

A couple of videos from LSU:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzFd8...layer_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0CWV...layer_embedded

Great videos! I especially liked the waterboarding ... I mean water balloons.

[akv]

Originally Posted by Utah Bob

Poor SA. He should have realized he was in Baton Rouge, not Berkeley.

Sir, FWIW the Berkeley College Republicans were among the largest clubs on campus at Cal, and very creative as well. For example in response to the campus affirmative action admission policies they had an infamous bake sale. Prices were as follows.

Oatmeal cookies for sale,

Asians $1.25

Whites $1.10

Hispanics $.75

Blacks $.50

Native Americans - Free

The rationale being if this was the way the campus admitted students, why couldn't they sell cookies priced accordingly? As you can imagine, this was not well received by the liberal elements in the area.

Never a dull moment in Berkeley...

[John_Chrichton]

Happy and proud to watch the crowd of patriotic students throw the leftist idiot off their campus.

Saddened by the fact that there are people in this Country who don't appreciate what they have here.

Nobody should have the right to burn an American flag.