Thread: VIDEO:Man Charged for Taking Down Mexican Flag

Found this on Breitbart TV: This is on the trial of Peter Lynch who was just found GUILTY for taking down a Mexican flag that didn't have an American flag flying above itl!

http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=72223

Hmmmm vandalism to the Buzzard Rag.

My question is then, whos responsibility is it to enforce the flag code? If a vet can't do it then who can?

Who should be out there demanding that flag to be removed?

Dixie

Sounds to me like the ROTC messed up big time.

So this was the flag for an El Centro De La Raza event lasting several days on a public school campus? Did I hear that right? And so this taxpayer and veteran who walked onto a taxpayer funded school campus and removed the Mexican flag flying over sovereign US soil on a taxpayer purchased flagpole got a suspended jail sentence? A $500 fine, cost of court and "anger management" classes? And this was a jury trial??? Somebody wake me up and tell me that I am not in the Twilight Zone!

You are not dreaming central North Carolina. These people actually have more rights than WE THE PEOPLE DO. That flag should have never been on that flag pole. This is THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA not Mexico. The Mexican flag should not be flown in this country under any circumstance. This is just one of many examples of how corrupt our own government is. They are allowing things like this to go on and on all around the country.

http://kob.com/article/stories/S398803.shtml?cat=500
scroll down and drop a reply. as i write at 3AM there was 503 posts


Peter Lynch in court Tuesday

A man who admitted lowering and tearing up a Mexican flag that was flying by itself on the UNM campus last September has been found guilty by a jury of criminal damage to property.

Peter Lynch received a deferred six-month sentence on supervised probation. He also must perform 48 hours of community service, attend anger management, replace the flag and pay court and probation fees.

In closing arguments Wednesday morning, the defense argued that Peter Lynch's action should be protected under the first amendment.

The prosecution noted that the flag was not Lynch's to damage. It said the fact that Lynch admitted to taking the flag down and then destroying it required the jury to return a guilty verdict.

On Tuesday, Lieutenant Pat Davis of the UNM Police Department testified that when Lynch saw the Mexican flag flying without an American flag, he first reported it to the office of UNM’s Dean of Students, then to the Officer of Veteran Affairs, but wasn’t satisfied with the response.

Davis says Lynch, a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, then began to take the flag down as others gathered nearby.

“At least one person encouraged him by saying, ‘Yeah, brother, go ahead,’ and ‘Thank you,’ and some other things he heard in the background,â€

[quote]Davis said that Lynch told officers that the lone Mexican flag flying without an U.S. flag “could be perceived as a sign of war or that the territory had been taken over by another country and he felt it was his obligation to remove the flag and enforce that code.â€

We need this law.

"When in Mexico the U.S. State Department reminds U.S. citizens to avoid participating in demonstrations and other activities that might be deemed political by Mexican authorities. The Mexican Constitution prohibits political activities by foreigners, and such actions may result in detention and/or deportation."
U.S. State Department

Why is a Mexican flag flying at a state-sponsored university in the first place.

No he was NOT wrong. I cannot believe a jury found him guilty.

I wish I was on that jury, I would have shook his hand and thanked him.