Toni Smith

[Adam]

First of all, this is not a first-ammendment issue. No one is claiming she should go to jail for her behavior. Similarly, just as she has the right to pull this stupid stunt, the students opposed to her have every right to protest it as loudly as legally is allowed. Something about the goose and the gander....
Secondly, she's protesting the wrong thing. The flag is the very symbol of the freedom that allows her to protest. She frankly makes herself look juvinile.
I dare her to try such a protest in any corner of the Axis of Evil. Guaranteed she'd get a lot worse than chants from the Merchant Marine cadets. Contrary to what her pandering college president may have said, her protest doesn't take courage or guts. Guts is going to Iraq and turning your back on Hussein's portrait or the Iraqi flag. It does, however, take collossal ignorance.
Finally, I liked Geno Auriemma's comments. If she were one of his players, she'd be off the team and her scholarship would be revoked. She's representing her college, and apparently she's representing her college president pretty well.

Now, I'll go back to defending her right to be stupid.

Adam
SSGT, Iowa Air National Guard