[greymule]

Yes, that Ohio student should have gone to the press, and he should have told the college just where they could shove their edict that he had to take his American flag down.

But it takes a lot of courage for a young college student to stand up to people who are telling him what a horrible villain he is for hurting people's feelings by flying the flag. If you don't go along with the program, you risk harassment, ostracism, bullying, vandalism to your car, and who knows what else.

Of course, college campuses are notoriously PC places now, where free speech covers the entire spectrum from left to far left.

By the way, how could anyone know for certain that flying the flag meant support for war? Maybe he was simply saying, "I love my country." Maybe he just liked the colors. Amazing how these people know exactly what's in someone's mind.

Interesting, isn't it, that if that same student had publicly burned the American flag (and offended vastly more people), the same crowd that was hassling him for flying it would be screaming about his sacred right to free "symbolic" speech.