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Title: Georgia university cancels classes in flap over flag protest
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URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/georgia-unive ... er-flag-protest-111857196.html
Published: Apr 24, 2015
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Post Date: 2015-04-24 16:56:14 by BTP Holdings
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Georgia university cancels classes in flap over flag protest Associated Press 6 hours ago VALDOSTA, Ga. (AP) — Student demonstrators who walked on an American flag to protest racism have sparked a counter movement, prompting a south Georgia university to cancel classes Friday ahead of a rally expected to draw large crowds of flag supporters to Valdosta. Valdosta State University found itself in the center of a controversy after a video shared on social media showed an Air Force veteran, Michelle Manhart, taking an American flag away from demonstrators who had walked on it to protest racism. At the protest, held a week ago, Manhart was detained by police when she refused to return the flag. She later was banned from the campus of 11,500 students. She was not a student at Valdosta State, according to the school. The flag-walking demonstration involved three protesters, university spokesman Andy Clark said. Flag supporters planned a rally for Friday afternoon. Meanwhile, tensions were heightened at Valdosta State when campus police found a backpack containing a handgun Tuesday. Police said they traced the gun to a protester who was part of the flag-walking demonstration, and they issued a warrant for Eric Sheppard's arrest on charges of bringing a firearm onto a college campus. Sheppard fled and has not been found by authorities, Clark said. But university administrators said it was the possibility of thousands of people rallying on the outskirts of campus Friday that ultimately led to the decision to give students a day off. "That level of traffic and that many people will disrupt a lot of things in the city," Clark said. "We're from an overall safety perspective looking to close the campus down today so they can have a peaceful rally." Organizers of the "Flags Over VSU" rally said they expected as many as 4,000 people Friday afternoon, WALB-TV reported (bit.ly/1DXwIWp ). University administrators arranged for extra police to be on campus to provide security during the rally, Clark told The Valdosta Daily Times (bit.ly/1I3RPJz ). University administrators faced a backlash on social media after Manhart was issued a criminal trespass warning, essentially banning her from campus. Critics saw the university siding with demonstrators who walked on the flag over a military veteran trying to save it. "We were protecting their right to free speech and civil liberties" without taking sides, Clark said. Poster Comment: At the end of the Civil War, or War Between the States, The Rebels stopped the Yankees at Valdosta, Georgia. Tallahassee was the only Southern Capital not to fall during the war. ;)
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#1. To: BTP Holdings (#0)
Bullshit, the university was catering to a bunch of garden-variety niggers, as evidenced by the nigger who fled after a gun was found in his backpack. No telling how many White students would have died "in a protest gone wrong", to paraphrase the usual communist MSM talking point. "We were protecting their right to free speech and civil liberties" without taking sides, Clark said.
-Alex Kurtagic
#2. To: X-15 (#1)
buckwheat's other, other, other, son
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
#3. To: BTP Holdings (#0)
and any decent "administrator" would ask SFW? Puppets, bleh! University administrators faced a backlash on social media
corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
#4. To: BTP Holdings (#0)
Future rocket surgeons at their finest.
corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
#5. To: Dakmar (#4)
HahahaHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, rocket surgeons! Oh, we've got it good!! "We're from an overall safety perspective looking to close the campus down today so they can have a peaceful rally." Why didn't they go up to the nigues trampling the flag and say "YOU ARE MAKING US FEEL UNSAFE" and throw them out, like they'd do to any white people standing up for the red, white and jue?
#6. To: NeoconsNailed (#5)
Why not study and take exams?
corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
#7. To: Dakmar (#6)
You haven't heard? For all Accredited Victim Groups, college is "no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks" since May 30, 1964 (debut of the first Rolling Stones album).
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