Clint Straatman doesn't need a flag pin, mind you - he's got a much
better way to show off his patriotism.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080507/ap_on_re_us/flag_incident
Mr. Straatman is a teacher at Minico High School in Rupert, Idaho, and
last week he saw red white and blue when a student brought a Mexican
flag to school for Cinco de Mayo.
Camelo said he was changing into gym clothes at Minico High School in
Rupert when Straatman told him, "Give me the flag."
"I said, 'What's the problem?'" Camelo, speaking in Spanish, told The
Times-News of Twin Falls.
"He said, 'The problem is that we are in the United States and not in
Mexico.' He grabbed it from me. He threw the flag in the garbage can."
Camelo said that Straatman told him the flag would be returned at the
end of the school day, but that Straatman taunted him instead.
"I asked, 'Where is my flag?'" Camelo said.
"He said, 'What, the U.S. flag?' I said, 'No, the one for Mexico.' But
he wouldn't give it to me."
Way to go, Mr. Straatman!
You show 'em what America is all about.
Sadly, Straatman is now under investigation by the Minidoka County
Joint School District.
He does have a really good excuse though...
Clint Straatman denies Froylan Camelo's version of events but said he
took the flag Monday because "white kids" might have hurt the
16-year-old.
He said he put it in a garbage can because he had no place else to
keep it.
Er, sure, that sounds... plausible.
By EarlG
Democratic Underground
http://www.democraticunderground.com/
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