Outside the Beltway: What Country is California in Again?

Conn Carroll / May 06, 2010

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Do American citizens have the right to express pride in their country by wearing the American flag public? Not in California they don’t. KNTV reports:

On any other day at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, Daniel Galli and his four friends would not even be noticed for wearing T-shirts with the American flag. But Cinco de Mayo is not any typical day especially on a campus with a large Mexican American student population.

Galli says he and his friends were sitting at a table during brunch break when the vice principal asked two of the boys to remove American flag bandannas that they wearing on their heads and for the others to turn their American flag T-shirts inside out. When they refused, the boys were ordered to go to the principal’s office. (more…)