Cali school orders student to remove American flag from bike

November 12, 2010

The Glenn Beck Program

TheBlaze: California School Orders Boy to Remove American Flag From Bike

GLENN: Now, I have a story that has been posted on TheBlaze.com. California school orders a boy to remove his American flag from a bike. And there's video here on it, but I want you to listen to the audio of it. It is this is a remarkable story. Listen to this.

REPORTER: and this teenager in Denair says he just wanted to honor family members with this patriotic symbol of the flag but school officials said no.

GLENN: California.

REPORTER: The Stars and Stripes fly over Denair Middle School and on the back of Cody Alicia's book wherever he goes.

CODY ALICIA: I come from a family full of veterans and thought I would support our country.

REPORTER: But recently he was told he can't fly his flag on the back of his bike when he goes to school. The reason?

CODY ALICIA: You can't have that flag on the back of your bike anymore because some students have been complaining. I didn't ask why. I didn't want to fight with her. So I just said okay.

REPORTER: So now the 13 year old properly folds up the flag and stores it in his backpack while in school. Something his father says he shouldn't have to do.

VOICE: He's got that flag on his bike because he's proud of where he comes from.

SUPERINTENDENT: First Amendment's important.

GLENN: This is the school superintendent that was I'm sorry, that's the school superintendent that you're listening to. You have to hear this.

SUPERINTENDENT: With that comes a responsibility.

REPORTER: The Denair school superintendent says the school dealt with racial tension on campus on Cinco de Mayo.

TheBlaze: California School Orders Boy to Remove American Flag From Bike

SUPERINTENDENT: Our Hispanic, you know, kids will, you know, bring their Mexican flags and they will display it and then, of course, the kids will do the American flag situation, and it does cause kind of a racial tension which we don't really

GLENN: Okay, stop for a second. I just want to make sure. The school's Hispanic kids will bring, quoting, their Mexican flag and then the American kids will bring their American flag. I'm sorry. What? Hmmm? What is I'm sorry. I didn't I'm trying to understand this.

PAT: This is what this is what you deal with in the border states. This is it.

STU: They are not all Americans? I thought they would all want

GLENN: No, no, they are just good families trying to make ends meet and coming to the country, but they are bringing their own Mexican flag. So in other words, what you're saying is they're here, they're sitting at the table in our house and let's just paint this scenario here. It's Thanksgiving and some uninvited people, they're not your family, they just crawl through the window of your house and then they're sitting at the table. Somehow or another your family has gone

PAT: Well, you left the window open.

GLENN: I know.

PAT: You might as welcome in.

GLENN: Your family has gone insane and whoever is in charge of the family has convinced everybody, you know what, this is their table and their house and their food, too. And everybody's looking and going, what the we don't even know these people; who are they. They just good people. Good people? They could have knocked at the door. They came in last night. We found them sleeping in our basement going through our stuff!

PAT: Yeah, but you left your window open. So they have every right. And they smelled the food.

GLENN: Right, okay. So now they are sitting let's just get to the table. Just try to get through the insanity that is this scenario. Where everybody is like, I don't even know, at least the parents and the grandparents are like, yeah, this is totally school. And all of us kids are sitting around going, this is nuts. But they're at the table now. And now they start saying, your food sucks. Our food's much better. Your house is a piece of crap. You know what you have? You saw that doormat out front? It says Beck on it? That is the most hateful thing I have ever seen. It's a doormat that says my how did you even see it? You came through the basement window. "I'm offended by that doormat. I'm putting mine down. Mine says Rosenkrans." And they take your doormat and your parents say, "Just take the doormat. We don't want to have any fights here. Just take the doormat and put the doormat away and just go ahead and put the Rosenkrans doormat." How long before the Rosenkrans just claim this is their home? I've got the damn doormat! Don't you see? Is it just me? Is it just me on this one?

All right, back to the superintendent telling us all how to be good kids.

VOICE: We want them to appreciate the cultures.

REPORTER: A very similar situation to Cinco de Mayo in Morgan Hill. When students wearing American flag T shirts were sent home. But not before getting in screaming matches with students with Mexican flags.

GLENN: Mexican flags.

REPORTER: In Denair school officials say no matter the flag, they want it down.

GLENN: Wait, wait. Wait. Wait, wait, wait. Did they send the Mexican flag kids home, too?

PAT: No. No, they did not, no.

GLENN: Really?

PAT: They didn't want to cause a problem. And you know what? It's good for them to show their culture and their heritage.

GLENN: Oh, so we're supposed to

PAT: Good for them.

GLENN: respect people's culture?

PAT: Yeah.

GLENN: Just not ours?

PAT: Right, that's exactly right.

GLENN: Oh, I understand.

PAT: You're getting it now. Finally you're getting it.

GLENN: I'm really not but

PAT: It's about time.

GLENN: Okay.

REPORTER: to help protect all students.

SUPERINTENDENT: Sometimes we just don't want that kid to get hurt or if we hear a rumor or if it's causing some flack during lunchtime or whatever happens, okay, we have to take care of it.

CODY ALICIA: I'm just hoping that I can keep the flag

GLENN: Hold on just a second. So look, we just don't want we don't want kids to get hurt? Yeah, I think that's everybody's I think that's everybody's. That's a pretty good bottom line there, school superintendent. We just don't want kids to get hurt. That's good. And so if we hear a rumor, we're just going to have to take care of it. If we hear rumors? We're just going to have to take care of it.

STU: Strong stand there.

GLENN: It is. I mean, it's good to see the adults are in charge of the insane asylum. I mean, nothing makes sense. You know, you tell me, America. How is this sustainable? It's not. It's not. Our houses we can't afford. You know what the beginning of the unraveling was? The beginning of the unraveling was oil going up to 100, what was it, $130, $140 a barrel? That's what it was. Look at the timing. Look at the charts. I bet you if you put the charts together, I'll bet you that the time that the banks started to unravel was when energy, which is 25%, 25% of the world's economy, when energy doubled in price. We couldn't afford the stuff we had because of the energy.

STU: Yeah, there are some people who think that the oil price was at least as or maybe even more important to the collapse than housing stuff.

GLENN: No, I think the housing stuff collapsed because of the energy.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: We couldn't afford the houses and it was all a tangled mess but then when energy hit, then it was just over. Then it was like, I can't do it. And that's what that was the, the energy I think was the first domino to fall. They are all dominoes and they are all teetering but the energy was the domino to fall.

STU: And you were talking about that at the time, essentially what you were calling the perfect storm theory.

GLENN: Yep.

STU: That there would be this big event of a huge energy increase and that it could cause a bunch of the dominoes over and cause something really bad.

GLENN: Yeah, I was talking at the time that if you had a conflict with Iran and, you know, you had a spike of $200 a barrel, it would be over. It would be lights out. Let me ask you something. Have you noticed that, what is oil up to today? $90 a barrel? Wasn't it like $70 just recently? Why is it up to $90 a barrel?

STU: $85.27.

GLENN: $85.27. Why is that? And nobody seems to be concerned about it. Nobody seems to be concerned. The reason why oil is going up is because our policies are making it impossible. And on top of that, we are devaluing our dollar. The Arabs don't care what we do with our dollar. They don't wear. Oil is pegged to the price of a dollar. It's a dollar. Period. Whatever the dollar does. So if our dollar loses value, oil goes up. That's just the way it is. It's a commodity. It's the same as gold. Gold isn't just going up. Gold is going up on speculation. But also gold goes up because of the value of the dollar. They are tied. So how exactly do we now in the shape that we're in. Let's say oil goes up to $110. Let's just say let's be crazy. Let's come up with an insane scenario. Let's say somebody fires a missile off the coast of California. That would never happen. Let's just say something crazy in the world happens. Let's say there is a, oh, I don't know, a conflict in the Middle East. Again another crazy scenario. What happens to the price of energy? And then what happens to the dollar and what happens to our economy? We are teetering on the edge of the abyss. Not a crash. The abyss, a global abyss. It's not America. It's the globe. If you don't think China isn't freaking out about inflation. Do you know that they have 125 men to every 100 women? That leaves 25 guys I mean, they have got to be praying that, you know, homosexuality catches on or something. I don't know. You've got to have 25 guys who are looking around going, I can't make a family? I can't I mean, hello. That doesn't work. It doesn't work. You are going to have problems because you can't have people young with the possibility of no future. And that's the only thing China has going for it right now is they have a future. They are saying unbelievable growth is coming, double digit growth is coming. It's great. It's great. But if that starts to pummel, if that starts to go down, you're in trouble. You're in trouble. Once if God forbid they start to feel like we feel now where, man, it's not going to get better which is not true, by the way, if they start to feel like that, China becomes your worst nightmare. Because they have to do what they have to do to keep their country and two billion people happy.

So how does it all shake, you know, stay together? It doesn't. It doesn't. Not in the form that it's in. But this is where the choice comes in. And there are those, as I showed you over the last three nights, George Soros has his own direction. You're seeing it here in the story about the flag. What is that? That's an Open Society where there are no flags, there are no nations. We all just get along. That doesn't work!

So what I'm asking you to do is to downsize your life, is to find out what you're really grateful for. Find out what the assets are around you. Find gratitude in your life, start service in your life. And then be ready for new year and change your life. Change your life. Let's be a part let's be the change we're looking for. And lead the way.

Are YOUR taxpayer dollars funding these 15 ESG-FRIENDLY states? Find out HERE.

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This week, we published a list of the top 14 states FIGHTING against ESG. Now, we are giving you the top 15 ESG-friendly states who are using YOUR taxpayer money to invest in leftist corporations.

Glenn has long warned of the dangers of ESG on American industry, and this list proves the risk. Already, multiple states on this list have divested their funds from gun manufacturers because they don't comply with their leftist agenda. Moreover, the businesses in these states who don't want to integrate left-leaning environmental, gender, and diversity standards into their business won't have any hope of investment from their government.

However, several of the states are considering ESG legislation RIGHT NOW, so there is still time to act. Glenn encouraged his audience to send THIS Utah bill to their governor's desk to protect reliable American industry. If your state is still deliberating integrating ESG standards into their investment strategy, ACT NOW. If they have already integrated ESG practices, you still have the power to fight back. Find out if YOUR state is considering ESG or already adopted ESG investment below.

Oregon

The Oregon state treasury announced that as a "fiduciary," it will engage ESG monitoring as a factor in its investment strategy:

Acting as a fiduciary, Treasury monitors and manages risks as a prudent global investor, engages as a responsible shareholder, and advocates for investor-friendly practices and regulations, such as improved identification and disclosure of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) risks.

In summary, that means if you are an Oregon resident, the state is using YOUR taxpayer dollars to fund liberal environmental and social agendas.

Connecticut

Connecticut's treasurer, Erick Russell, published the state's "Investment Policy for the Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds" (CRPTF). The plan integrates ESG monitoring as an core value in the state's investment strategy for retirement plans:

The CRPTF supports the integration of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors in the investment decision making process, given that such factors can impact both risk and return over the long term. In most cases, the CRPTF will vote FOR shareholder resolutions that request companies to disclose non-proprietary information related to ESG issues.

If you are a Connecticut resident, how do you feel about YOUR government using retirement funds and taxpayer dollars to fund woke ESG causes?

Maryland

Like Connecticut, Maryland's "State Retirement and Pension System" uses ESG as a core investment value for their states' pension and retirement plans. In fact they have an entire ESG committee dedicated to the task.

You can read the 2022 ESG report for yourself HERE.

Maine

Maine's government also has a special branch dedicated to ESG considerations in YOUR retirement plans. The Maine PERS (Public Employee Retirement System) states:

The primary duty of MainePERS is to serve as good fiduciaries to our members. This requires considering sustainability as a vital component of successful long-term investing. We have compiled this Environmental, Social and Governance Report to outline how these factors impact our investment decisions.

Investment's main purpose should be securing the biggest return on investment--that is what investment should be about... right? At least you would hope so if someone else is managing YOUR money. Yet, this consideration takes a back seat if it comes into conflict with the state's liberal ESG standards.

California

It comes at no surprise that California is one of the original leaders in pro-ESG policy. In 2022, California's Senate passed the first bill in the U.S. requiring all companies statewide generating more than $1 billion in revenue to disclose their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The bill's author, state Senator Wiener, said:

Corporate transparency and accountability are critically important when it comes to addressing our climate crisis. Corporate emissions are a huge contributor to climate change, but frankly, we don’t yet know the scope of the problem. That’s why we need to act quickly and decisively to ensure corporations are reporting their emissions. This is a landmark bill, and today’s vote is a big step forward for California’s fight against climate change.

This bill has been incorporated into a three-bill package being considered by the California state legislature RIGHT NOW. The addition of the other two bills will give California's government the power to use YOUR retirement funds to invest in ESG-friendly businesses, like Connecticut, Maryland, and Maine.

New Jersey

New Jersey's State Investment Council announced that it would be integrating ESG into its investment practices in 2018. The Council stated:

The policy recognizes that material ESG factors are an important component of a comprehensive investment management strategy, and an analysis of these factors should be applied by the Division in connection with the investment and evaluation of the Pension Fund's assets.

If you have a state pension fund in New Jersey, then your money is being used to fund left-leaning corporations.

New York

New York's state retirement fund published a report stating:

ESG factors are a key component of the Fund’s analysis of both short- and long-term financial risks and opportunities.

That means your taxpayer dollars are funding ESG practices. New York also divested its pension funds from gun manufacturers. Unless you are a liberal-leaning business that complies with the Left's woke environmental and social standards, you will not get public investment from your state's retirement fund.

New Mexico

New Mexico's State Investment Council, which is a part of the State Investment Office, adopted ESG standards in their investment practices in 2021. Among their ESG considerations for investment include: resource conservation, climate change, sustainability, gender diversity, equity & inclusion, and others. In other words, unless your business in New Mexico complies with these leftist standards, you won't get any investment from your government. Moreover, if you are paying into New Mexico's pension program, you are FUNDING these leftist businesses.

Massachusetts

Massachusetts' Pension Reserves Investment Management Board (PRIMB) unanimously voted to recommend to the full board that pension fund managers vote against companies that:

Failed to align their business plans with the goals of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, as set forth in the Paris Climate Agreement, and/or that have failed to establish a plan to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.

In addition to climate change, Massachusetts has utilized the force of its state pension fund to demand that companies adopt leftist gender and inclusion standards in order to receive funding, becoming one of the most outspoken ESG proponents.

Nevada

In 2022, Nevada's treasurer announced that his $49 billion portfolio—taxpayer dollars, mind you—will divest from all businesses that sell assault-style weapons. What other industries will they choose to divest from in the future if they don't comply with their leftist standards?

Rhode Island

Rhode Island, like California and New York, divested its state pension funds from publicly traded gun companies. The state also uses state retirement and pension funds to invest in ESG-friendly companies.

Vermont

Vermont's Teasurer’s Office and the Vermont Pension Investment Committee (VPIC) announced that they "consider financial factors and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors in their investment decisions." They also hold companies to the climate standards put forth in the Paris Climate Agreement.

Washington

Seattle, one of the nation's most left-leaning cities, announced that its City Employees Retirement System will be taking ESG into consideration when choosing their investments. This comes as no surprise from a city in a state that is mandating "100% clean energy by 2040" and holding its first "greenhouse gas allowance auction."

Colorado

Colorado is considering a bill RIGHT NOW that would require Colorado's Public Employee Retirement Association (PERA) to factor the state’s greenhouse gas emission reduction goals into its investment decisions. If it passes, it would affect one out of every ten Colorado residents who contribute to the PERA fund.

Delaware

Delaware has been pushing state ESG policy since 2018. The state Senate passed a bill that enables the government—again, using the same justification as a "fiduciary"—to invest using ESG as a consideration. The state also passed a certification process in 2018. Though "voluntary," these certificates are used by the government to identify sustainable businesses. So if you don't have a certificate, you can kiss goodbye to the possibility of state investment.

Have YOU had an abortion and regretted it? Glenn wants to hear YOUR story!

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Glenn just bought the ENTIRE Roe v. Wade archive from Linda Coffee, the original lawyer behind the landmark abortion case. As a pro-life activist, Glenn doesn't want the lives of the 60 million+ babies who died between Roe v. Wade in 1973 and the Dobbs decision in 2022 to go unforgotten. He purchased the archive so that it wouldn't be treated as a relic of abortion in someone else's collection, but rather as a historical reminder to never sacrifice human life for the sake of freedom EVER again.

But there are two parties in abortion that need to be protected: the baby AND the mother. Glenn wants to honor the mothers who regret their abortions just as much as the babies who lost their lives to the procedure. If YOU had an abortion and regret it, or if you were planning on having an abortion and decided not to, Glenn wants to hear from YOU and honor your story.

If you feel inclined, write your story down on paper, send it to the below P.O. box, and Glenn will include it in his historical vault surrounding the history of abortion. If you would be comfortable with us sharing your story, please sign your name. If you would like to remain anonymous, you can leave your name off of the story. We ask that you include your phone number so that can verify you as a source.

Glenn bought the ENTIRE Roe v. Wade archive from Linda Coffee. Here's WHY... and a sneak peek.

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Linda Coffee, the Dallas lawyer who first launched the landmark Supreme Court case Roe v.Wade that legalized abortion nationwide, decided to sell all of the case documents, from the first papers filed at the Texas District Court to the quill pens given to her during her argument before the Supreme Court. She said that she wanted to "inspire" the next generation of pro-choice activists in light of the Supreme Court's Dobbs ruling that overturned her landmark case. Coffee's lesbian partner Rebecca Hartt said:

We don’t know who’s going to end up acquiring it, but hopefully it will motivate some of the people to get into law or politics or whatever, because it needs to be challenged.

Coffee and Hartt couldn't have imagined who would end up buying the documents: Glenn Beck.

Glenn said the following upon acquiring the documents:

They [Coffee and Hartt] have passed [the documents] to a generation who perhaps is less focused on the so-called "human right" to kill and more on the human responsibility to care, love, and protect both the mother and child.

Glenn has long been an ardent supporters of the pro-life movement—standing up for pro-life Americans under attack from the Left, promoting organizations such as Pre-Born on his radio program, and interviewing pro-life activists to name a few examples. So why did he purchase the documents from the Supreme Court case that legalized abortion?

Glenn and his wife, Tania, said the following:

The real price of these documents were the lives of at least 60 million children [...] If we can use this to help expose this culture of death and Moloch worship, any monetary price we could personally pay would be worth it.

Instead of being purchased by a left-wing activist who would have heralded the documents as a sort of relic, Glenn wanted to make sure they were purchased by someone who would treat them as they are: the signed death sentence of 60 million children in our country from 1973 to 2022.

Now, Glenn is giving YOU access to the documents so that you can learn about the history of this case—and how to make sure that it is never repeated in the future. The slide show below contains 48 images of the 150 documents that went into Roe v. Wade.

The two quill pens given to Linda Coffee, by the Supreme Court, an honor given to lawyers who argue cases before the nation's highest court.

THE DOCUMENTS for the 'Energy Reduction Act' Glenn TV special

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Did YOU know that Biden's Inflation Reduction Act—or, as Glenn calls it, the "Energy Reduction Act"—incentivizes coal plants to permanently close? According to our most recent poll, most of you didn't—and neither did Glenn until recently. That inspired this week's Glenn TV special in which Glenn takes a deep dive into our war on energy. Biden and the progressive Left's radical green agenda is not only shutting down our reliable energy, plunging us towards a nationwide energy crisis, but moreover, we are shutting down reliable energy AROUND THE WORLD.

But there's hope—there are things you can do NOW to stop this dangerous agenda. There are 14 states that are actively pushing for legislation that will fight against the Left's energy agenda. Moreover, on this episode, Glenn invites viewers to send Utah's House bill to their governor's desk, urging them to replicate its protections against this woke agenda.

Do your own homework

You can get all of this information AND MORE about Biden's energy agenda and what you can do about it in the EXCLUSIVE research doc from last night's Glenn TV special. Enter your email below, and the PDF will arrive directly in your inbox!

Watch the full special below (or watch on BlazeTV here):

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