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The teacher who desecrated the American flag inside a North Carolina classroom told me he has no regrets and wants the student who photographed him to be punished. Lee Francis, a first year history teacher at Massey Hill Classical High School in Fayetteville, has been placed on administrative leave while the school district investigates the incident.
I fought for this flag, and ....
Actually, I didn't fight for this flag.
I fought for " ...the Republic for which it stands ....” If some yahoo wants to burn the flag, and I'm there, I may choose to challenge it. But this yahoo is right. Living in a free country means that you are not obliged to respect it. And I think there's more to the story than meets the eye. I'm not sure if his students actually understood the lesson; I hope that he explained that he disrespected neither the flag or the country. I hope that this was not some demonstration of the BLM/Slavery outrage that's currently in vogue. I hope that he was illustrating the point that this IS a country where there are no laws constraining our freedom to protest. To assemble, to speak, to assert our rights even when the means of our expression are unpopular. But even if none of my hopes are realistic, he was very clear in his point that freedom means we can disrespect, and disagree, and protest. The Constitution is clear; that's why the First and Second Freedoms are so important, and why it's important that the next generation understand what 'freedom' really means. America isn't undermined because some first-year teacher tramples the flag. America is undermined when our young people grow up fearing our government. We don't have to respect (for example) the representatives which 'other people' have elected, contrary to our wishes. I know that I don't respect a lot of our Congress-critters. I didn't vote for them, but they were elected fairly; I'll protest THAT, and then I'll accept it. But I respect the system which gives us a choice, even if I have to hold my nose to vote for some of them. America is a country which gives us hope. Not a lot of countries can claim that. America is a country which accepts dissidents, and protest, and disrespect. That's what I fought for. That's what I came home to. It makes me proud to know that I live in a country where a teacher can defile the flag, and the worst consequence is that some people call him unkind names. I won't be one of those people; I think this teacher earned his pay by teaching a very difficult lesson.
Well, except that he spoiled it all by demanding that the student who took the photo be punished; perhaps this teacher wasn't quite as convinced that the rights to free speech extend to the students as well as to the teacher.
If the student doesn't get an "A" in the class, then I will have lost all of my respect for the teacher!
Well, the teacher is young; he'll learn as much from the experience as did his students, I expect.
"The risk of death for women increases by 500 percent when a gun is present in domestic violence, even if the woman got the gun for her own safety."
True, if she's not the one with the gun!
I don't know what "Elite Daily" is, but it certainly presents the "elitist" message clearly.
In reponse to the Dana Loesch video message which encourages women in danger to prepare to protect themselves (ie: "gun-empowered women can fight back"), the elitists seem to ignore the threat to defensless people because it's just .... awful ... to think women might feel it's necessary to defend themselves. There are many emotional and physical factors which FORCE women to stay in abusive relationships ... nobody is saying those women must user force to resist force; only that this may be a viable alternative to deadly threats.
Real empowerment for me looks like men who are empowered to know they don’t need to defend their masculinity and assert their power through violence. It looks like men who understand consent. It looks like men who honor and value both my safety and the safety of other women.
The NRA wants you to think that rapists are strangers in alleys. But three out of four victims of sexual violence are attacked by someone they know, as New York magazine points out.
The NRA wants you to think that domestic abuse can be easily solved by a gun. There are many emotional and physical factors that contribute to why women stay in abusive relationships. Having a gun isn’t a solution.
As New York magazine points out again, having a gun while in an abusive relationship could also threaten your own safety. The risk of death for women increases by 500 percent when a gun is present in domestic violence, even if the woman got the gun for her own safety.
There are many things you can say to potential attackers. “Go ahead” shouldn’t be one of them.
I'm sorry, Elite Magazine, but you got the quote wrong:
There are "many emotional and physical factors" which FORCE women to stay in abusive relationships ... nobody is saying those women must user force to resist force; only that this may be a viable alternative to deadly threats.
Oh, I didn't want to put the whole 90 minute movie "The Burning Bed" up here, but please be aware that this is also another option for abused women in fear of their life.
That is, for women who don't live in your idealistic dream world, you .... elitists.
(Chicago City Leaders join) in honoring a woman who took a gun from an 11-year-old boy on a public street.. And well they should!.
The video which was recorded in Harvey, Illinois shows Ms. Stacie Davis confronting the 11-year-old boy on the sidewalk. Ms. Davis claims to have seen children behind a building where one of the young boys put a gun in his pants. After confronting the boy, Ms. Davis took the gun from the clearly agitated young boy.
At 11 years of age, your heroes don't include your mother; it takes years of maturity to learn that the person most familiar to you is your best mentor. Sometimes, even Hillary Clinton can be right: it does 'take a village'.
We've been writing for YEARS, here, about the need for Chicago citizens to take the lead in reducing violence in their neighborhoods.
And residents of other high-crime neighborhoods in major American cities.
Ms. Stacie Davis is the hero of the month for accepting the personal responsibility of teaching the youth of her neighborhood the lessons he may not be listening to at home. It's not that this little boy hasn't heard the lesson, it's just that sometimes you need to hear it from ... someone else.
This lady might have saved a few lives in these few minutes out of her busy day.
