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Old 05-07-2010, 09:27 AM
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Default Mecha Student Group at Live Oak High (MOrgan Hill)

Well, this just shows that when you think you smell a rat, it's probably because there is one. This story confirms that a chapter of Mecha, a Mexican supremacist organization, has official club status at Live Oak H.S. in Morgan Hill.

"It was revealed earlier this week that the school officially sponsors a Mexican nationalist group, MEChA, as one of the Live Oak’s extra-curricular clubs, alongside the chess and drama clubs. MEChA’s mission is, “as a nationalist movement we seek to free our people from the exploitation of an oppressive society that occupies our land.”

http://concrave.com/content/00127-te...tudents-revolt

http://concrave.com/content/00123-fl...ionalist-group

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Old 05-07-2010, 12:39 PM
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Well until everyone understands, I'll say it again. It all starts in our schools. I did a protest of MEChA at CSUN a few year back and hoped that it would draw attention to this crap in our schools. MEChA is in most of our schools here in the west. Find out if your schools in your area have this and protest it! It only takes a few of you to have an impact. Get four of five people together, that's all it takes and you'd be surprised at the response you'll get. Too many people don't know about this organization and its goals.

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Old 05-07-2010, 02:33 PM
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Tensions High at California High School Following Flag Flap
By Joshua Rhett Miller
- FOXNews.com
Tensions are rising at a California high school where five students were sent home for wearing American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo.
Tensions are rising at a California high school where five students were sent home for wearing American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo.
Morgan Hill Police Department Cmdr. Joe Sampson said two officers were stationed at Live Oak High School school midday Friday to give a "visual presence" in order to thwart any potential acts of violence.
"We want to give them peace of mind should they need us," Sampson told Fox News.
Sampson confirmed that no arrests were made during a walkout at the school on Thursday.
School district officials are scheduled to hold a press conference Friday afternoon, a day after more than 200 Hispanic students reportedly skipped class on Thursday and marched to school district headquarters while chanting "we want respect" and "si se puede" -- "yes we can," the Morgan Hill Times reported.
"We did this to support the Latino/Hispanic community," Francine Roa, a 2005 Live Oak High School graduate, told the newspaper.
At least six Morgan Hill police vehicles traveled alongside the students, many of whom carried Mexican flags.
Police have been told to be on alert for gang-related retaliation against the boys, according to Ken Jones, whose stepson, Daniel Galli, was one of the students who refused to turn their T-shirts inside-out when asked by a vice principal on Wednesday.
"We just want this whole thing to die down," Jones told FoxNews.com. "We're not trying to keep these flames firing."
The five teens -- Galli, Austin Carvalho, Matt Dariano, Dominic Maciel and Clayton Howard -- were sitting at a table outside Live Oak High School Wednesday morning when Assistant Principal Miguel Rodriguez asked two of them to remove their American flag bandannas, one of the boys' parents told FoxNews.com. The youths complied, but were asked to accompany Rodriguez to the principal's office.
The students were then told they must turn their T-shirts inside-out or be sent home, though it would not be considered a suspension. Rodriguez told the students he did not want any fights to break out between Mexican-American students celebrating their heritage and those wearing American flags, the parent said.
But Jones said the preemptive action was unnecessary, and that Rodriguez "overstepped his bounds."
"The issue was, there was nothing going on," Jones told Fox News on Friday. "There was no sense of violence at all amongst the students, there was no conversation, there was no bullying.
"We just feel like the vice principal overstepped his bounds. He jumped in too quickly. We can understand he might be concerned something would happen, but there was no indication that was going to happen at all."
Officials at the high school, a 1,300-student institution in Santa Clara County, near San Jose, have not returned several messages seeking comment.
As of late Thursday, Jones said the five boys' parents have no plans to sue the school or Morgan Hill Unified School District, which has characterized the incident as "extremely unfortunate" and is conducting an ongoing investigation. Several attorneys have contacted the families offering to represent them pro bono, Jones said.
"We're keeping an open mind," he said. "We want to stand up for our First Amendment rights."
He said the families are seeking an apology from school officials and want the students' unexcused absences for leaving school to be expunged.
Galli said he frequently wears the American flag T-shirt to school and that he wasn't trying to incite any tension. Asked if he wore the shirt to make a statement related to the ongoing immigration debate, Galli said, "No, it had absolutely nothing to do with that."
District officials, meanwhile, sent a voicemail message in English and Spanish to all parents late Thursday.
"The Morgan Hill Unified School District does not prohibit nor do we discourage wearing patriotic clothing," the message from Superintendent Wesley Smith said. "The incident on May 5 at Live Oak High School is extremely unfortunate. While campus safety is our primary concern and administrators made decisions yesterday in an attempt to ensure campus safety, students should not, and will not, be disciplined for wearing patriotic clothing. This situation and our response are under review."
Asked if the district will be taking any steps to quell rising tensions at the school, a district official told FoxNews.com in an e-mail, "Our focus for [Thursday] was student safety. Students are safe and administrators are continuing to work through the investigation."
Eugene Volokh, a professor of law at UCLA, said the students are protected under California Education Code 48950, which prohibits schools from enforcing a rule subjecting a high school student to disciplinary sanctions solely on the basis of conduct that, when engaged outside of campus, is protected by the First Amendment.
If the school could point to previous incidents sparked by students who wore garments with American flags, they could argue that the flag is likely to lead to "substantial disruption," Volokh said.
"If, for example, there had been fights over similar things at past events, if there had been specific threats made. But if [school officials] just say, 'Well, we think it might be offensive to people,' that's generally speaking not enough."
Volokh said the students and their parents likely have a winning case on their hands if they decide to take the matter to court.
"Oh yes, it's almost open and shut," he said.

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Old 05-07-2010, 03:15 PM
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You know if these Mexican "students" had studied this "holiday" they would understand that the flying of the French flag would be the truly insulting thing to do.
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Well until everyone understands, I'll say it again. It all starts in our schools.
It starts in the home.
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It starts in the home.
Well to some degree you have a point. But there are many parents who have children who have been indoctrinated in our schools and will completely rebel against anything their parents say to the contrary. They'll say "My teacher told me, or I learned it in class by a 'teacher'. Then when they get into college, they then feel the professors are so wise and knowledgeable that you can't convince them of anything different, because it's so cooooool to be a liberal. Although it's hard to admit, kids hardly listen to their parents, and if yours do, you're very lucky.
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Well to some degree you have a point.
Well... if you really want to get technical, it's starts with a sperm
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