Green Tee Readings

I was forwarded an email the other day by someone I know with a picture of some Latino high-school aged students outside Montebello High School in California. In the background of the picture is a Mexican flag above an up-side-down US flag on the school’s flag pole. To be entirely clear, according to Montebello High District administrators, no Montebello High Students were involved in either the 1000 person rally or the arrangement of the flags. (This handy google search will fetch many relevant images) The text of the email, exactly as it was sent to me, follows:

These kids will be voting and running for office one day….

You will not see this heart-stopping photo on the front page of the NY Times or on the lead story of the major news networks. The protestors put up the Mexican flag over the American flag flying upside down at Montebello High School in California.

I predict this stunt will be the nail in the coffin of any guest-worker/amnesty plan on the table in Washington. The image of the American flag s subsumed to another and turned upside down on American soil is already spreading on Internet forums and via e-mail.

Pass this along to every American citizen in your address books and to every representative in the state and federal government. If you choose to remain uninvolved, do not be amazed when you no longer have a nation to call your own nor anything you have worked for left since it will be “redistributed” to the activists while you are so peacefully staying out of the “fray.”

Check history, it is full of nations/empires that disappeared when its citizens no longer held their core beliefs and values. One person CAN make a difference. One plus one plus one plus one plus one plus one………

The battle for our secure borders and immigration laws that actually mean something, however, hasn’t even begun.

If this ticks YOU off…PASS IT ON!

First, the protest action of some high school kids is supposed to be heart-stopping? Really? Why, exactly, am I supposed to get riled up over a non-violent protest? I say, good job, young fellow. Now that you have my attention, what do you want to have happen with immigration laws? My cursory search doesn’t reveal much, other than immigration issues, what the protest was about, and I’ve yet to stumble onto any specifics.

I am curious where the author of the email gets the idea that altering immigration law will lead to a more Socialized (as in Socialism, not socialite tea and crumpets, or whatever) version of American life. I’ve missed that plank in their agenda entirely. Also, McCarthy ain’t here no more, ya hear?

So, no, that picture doesn’t make me angry. It doesn’t make me sad, and it doesn’t make me yearn for some mystical time from yesteryear when everything was somehow better. It makes me glad that kids from a background different than mine want to have their say in how the country is governed.

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