Patriot Day @ School

[nullvalu]

So, today my son comes home with a note from the school asking that all students wear red/white/blue clothes to school for "Patriot Day".

I told my wife to dress them in all black.

Anyone else's kids schools ask for something like this?

 

[RSLudlum]

Send him to school shoeless with a musket.

 

[constitutional]

Probably not a requirement like you interpret it.

 

[0zzy]

Dear lord, can't have our government school system requesting our kids to wear red, white, and blue! That's totally against our non-aggression platform!

 

[mtj89]

give them ron paul 2008 shirts

 

[BeFranklin]

The real Patriot's Day is April 19th - The shot that was heard around the world when the American Revolution started.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot's_Day

I'd think I'd write something patriotic, and how political correctness shouldn't be used to besmirch the real holiday.

 

[Grimnir Wotansvolk]

send him to school with an upside down flag, and information on why the flag is upside down

 

[tropicangela]

give them ron paul 2008 shirts

 

[Spider-Man]

Don't you have a kid-sized anti-war shirt or something?

How about one that says END THE FED

 

[nullvalu]

Whats wrong with wearing red white and blue? :/

ugh..

i just don't want to commemorate a day that set up a chain of events which has all but gutted our constitution. if we're honoring the victims of the 9/11 attacks, wouldn't black be a more appropriate color?

 

[BeFranklin]

"Inter"dependence day strikes again

The real Patriot's Day is April 19th - The shot that was heard around the world when the American Revolution started.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot's_Day

I'd think I'd write something patriotic, and how political correctness shouldn't be used to besmirch the real holiday.

FYI: Read the history of "Patriot Day" and Bush Jr's involvement in it. I posted in the last few weeks about Bush Sr advocating getting rid of the 4th of July during his term and celebrating "interdependence" day instead of independence day.

Then research "interdependence day" as well - and behold, they are the same day "Sept 11th". There is a definite movement in the New World Order crowd to destroy our national patriotic holidays that give people any remembrance or joy at celebrating liberty or the foundations of this country.

Interestingly, in spite of many individual and local assertions of July 4th (give or take a few days) as Interdependence Day -- see, for example, http://oii.org/html/independence_day.html , http://www.spiritualityhealth.com/newsh/items/blank/item_4458.html and http://www.uua.org/clf/members/connections/Summer/interdependence.htm -- the major efforts to organize a widely-recognized Interdependence Day have been inspired the 9-11 attacks. The collapsing Twin Towers highlighted the USA's interdependence with the rest of the world.

So the nonprofit "We, The World" organization called together peace and environmental groups to build mass public involvement in Interdependence Day as a new global tradition starting September 1, 2002 (see http://www.souledout.org/festivals/globalmeditations/interdependenceday.html ). They proposed this as the first special day of "Culture of Peace Month" which includes September 11th and September 21st, the International Day of Peace designated by the UN. Their effort was endorsed by alternative luminaries like Dr. Jane Goodall, Daniel Ellsberg, Dr. Riane Eisler, Hazel Henderson, Thom Hartmann, Dr. Ervin Laszlo, and Paul Ray.

Benjamin Barber's CivWorld -- who created one of the Declarations of Interdependence, above -- have scheduled their Interdependence Day memorial for September, as well. They figure we woke up to our interdependence the day after 9-11, which suggests September 12 as a good time to celebrate Interdependence Day. They plan a major kick-off this year in Philadelphia, home of the original U.S. Declaration of Independence. See http://www.interdependenceday2003.org/day.htm .

 

[BeFranklin]

ugh..

i just don't want to commemorate a day that set up a chain of events which has all but gutted our constitution. if we're honoring the victims of the 9/11 attacks, wouldn't black be a more appropriate color?

Yes black would be more appropriate, ergo that isn't the real reason.

The bible prohibits cutting oneself for the dead. I take this more generally to mean one shouldn't make gratuitous*1 displays of grief in public. People die all the time. Its a tragedy, but people dying in a tragedy doesn't all of a sudden make their deaths more important than all the other people that die every day.

Its this pagan concept of some deaths are more significant than others that seems to create political hypocrisy.

*1
gra·tu·itous 2: not called for by the circumstances : unwarranted <gratuitous insolence> <a gratuitous assumption>

 

[RSLudlum]

give them ron paul 2008 shirts

exactly,,,,official campaign "Students for Ron Paul" shirt ...also meets the color scheme 'requirement'

Reads on the back: "It is dissent from government policies that defines the true patriot and champion of liberty"



BTW, I have one but if anybody knows where I can find a couple more of these shirts, please let me know. I have a few friends that want one of their own.

 

[slothman]

Send him to school shoeless with a musket.

No, send him to school without shoes, or books, or writing utensils, or anything else the TSA would take away on a flight or security.
Even 5 dollars, a special tax in airplanes "to keep us safe" to let him in school.