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State troopers rebuke students for singing national anthem

worldnetdaily.com — "These future leaders have seen first-hand how we are losing our liberties – including simply expressing our patriotism in public," said Meredith Turney, the legislative liaison for CRI Impact and a graduate of City on the Hill.

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  • alanhlake, on 07/12/2008, -8/+28If I were a Democrat legislator, I wouldn't want the Star Spangled Banner sung either. After all, how much more seditious can you get than "land of the free"?
    • Minarchian, on 07/13/2008, -7/+7LOL!

      Democrats my ass.

      The entire government institution is against freedom.

      One look at the sameness of Obama, McCain and Bush will tell you we are in deep ***** in the years ahead.
    • Herkimer56, on 07/13/2008, -3/+8Buzzwords and hyperbole, Minarchian.
  • wethepeople1, on 07/12/2008, -3/+18Hmmmm. Think I'll just sit back & wait to see the "list" of how many of our ELECTED officials come out & VEHEMENTLY REBUKE whoever was responsible for the actions of these State ( Storm ? ) Troopers................................................................................a long "list" indicating our country is safe & sound...........a short "list" ( and how short will it be ? ) of course indicating serious decline. Gotta go........I'm feeling seriously nauseous. P.S. God Bless those kids !
  • lajaw, on 07/12/2008, -3/+25Permit = government permission. When will people wake up? It's just like having to get permission to build on your own property. It is a mild case of communism. Wake Up America!
    • delriaan, on 07/12/2008, -1/+20Exactly! They should have proceeded without a permit. It's not like they were giving a concert, and besides, had they not gotten a permit and proceeded, they would have had a golden opportunity to further expose this increasing anti-patriotic sentiment. Can you imagine the PR nightmare from trying to arrest or fine 14-18 year-olds for singing the national anthem in the capitol? I wish someone could find out the exact nature of the comlaint -- I'm sure we all could use a good laugh! Seriously, some people ...
    • DrReaper, on 07/13/2008, -0/+6We will be needing permits to breath air soon.
      • jp111, on 07/13/2008, -0/+8That's in the works, glabal warming taxes.
      • jb1965, on 07/13/2008, -0/+5The breathing permit eleigibility will be based on your voting record! :-)
      • MarineVeteran1, on 07/14/2008, -0/+3Get to Home Depot, buy a carbon filter mask. You don't want to breathe Cali air anyway. In Sacramento it's polluted with that gasbag Ahhhh-nald's breath.

        I wonder if he thinks he's back in pre ww2 Austria with all his nonsense?
      • IPublius, on 07/14/2008, -0/+2You mean you don't have yours yet? Better get it before someone finds out.
  • LITTLEFEATHER1, on 07/12/2008, -3/+17Just an observation, maybe they should have sung the Black Anthem, because that Anthum does not reflect any of AMERICA'S qualities or credit 's people who in the pass and the one's in the future who will defend her.
    Just a thought!

    God Bless America
  • HermanCV, on 07/12/2008, -4/+19Let's see, the public applauded, these kids are citizens and the Socialist State of Kalifornia stopped them from showing their love for this country. I wonder if this people were illegal alians would the same Socialist leaders of said state stopped them from singing the Mexican National Anthem, or ours in Spanish? Of course not, those are Votes for them and these little kids are just a bunch of roudies that may just by conservatives. Who else would do such a hiddious thing as to show their patriotism is a building that WE THE PEOPLE paid for? We need Term Limitations in ALL elected offices in this country to rid ourselves of the dead diseased wood we now have in control of our rights. Nothing else will stop these nio-communists from destroying our country and building a garbage dump of controllist, Godless, heathenistic Socialist we now have
    in office.
    • KOSmurfy, on 07/13/2008, -5/+1I liked the splash of racism you added. It really brings out the ignorance.
    • jp111, on 07/13/2008, -1/+2The patriotic constituents voted them in!
  • mike8668, on 07/12/2008, -3/+20PAPERS VERE ARE YOUR PAPERS?!?
  • KJeffV, on 07/12/2008, -5/+14"Singing w/o a permit" . . . SHOCKING!

    Apparently, some enforcement officials have not matured past the grade school level.
    • JimmySpaza, on 07/12/2008, -5/+13Uh, take a look at who controls the Kalifornia State Legislature and you'll see that it probably wasn't the police who initiated this action...it was the Dem leadership.
  • Savage24, on 07/12/2008, -3/+16Who keeps electing these ignoramuses to office? The people in the state have no one to blame but themselves. Done and over with.
    • MarineVeteran1, on 07/14/2008, -0/+2"Who keeps electing these ignoramuses to office?"

      That's easy. Socialists, Communists, Tree Huggers, Pedophiles, Dope Addicts, illegals, dead people, the naive, etc.

      Any questions?
  • mcrunch2, on 07/12/2008, -4/+11Californica - again. *sigh*.
  • mchan103, on 07/12/2008, -2/+6The Republic is gone! There's no rule of law but rule of fear and thugs! The armed guards is training them that they are slaves and whoever got the guns make the rules. A new world order is here! Check out http:// www. infowars. com
  • viejoverde, on 07/12/2008, -2/+13The patriotic students forgot they were not in the u.s.a. They were in the jack booted fascist state of Kalifornia.
  • kemojr, on 07/12/2008, -2/+11Gee Whiz! Singing the National Anthem in the midst of Democrat Leftists. That must have really freaked them out.
  • THEROD54, on 07/12/2008, -1/+7DO AS WE SAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OR ELSE...........................
  • mdwhite, on 07/12/2008, -1/+13I'm actually embarrassed to be a native Californian. The leadership of this state has been taken over by ultra-leftest bobble-headed morons who are deaf to the needs and legitimate expectations of the vast majority of California's citizens. The dems are in control and California is going to hell on a roller skate 'ala Vermont, and from top to bottom, the liberal elite smirks from the "moral high ground."
    • jp111, on 07/13/2008, -0/+6CA gets the government it voted for. Three, or so, years ago the initiative partionship ballot question sums it up.

      Shold school officials need to notify parents when taking a pupil for medical care, including an abortion?

      The public voted NO!
  • LadyAmerica, on 07/12/2008, -2/+11Marxi-fascism, going nationwide soon! That is, if Obamanation and the "progressive" (read, Marxist) Dems win the November elections.

    Wake up, folks!!!!!!!!!
    • Minarchian, on 07/13/2008, -1/+5Damn....and McCain would be any better than Obama.

      Remember their real name is McBama.

      Politically identical twins, they are.
    • jb1965, on 07/13/2008, -2/+3McCain, Obama (if he can stay alive after derailing Hillary's ascension) or Clinton (if Obama winds up like so many other people who crossed the Clinton machine), either way WE'RE DOOMED!!! DOOMED!!!
  • georgiajim, on 07/12/2008, -4/+4Someone should find the person, male or female, that complained and very calmly walk up to them and punch them right in the face. Then walk away. Sometimes people using their freedom of speech deserve a radical response.
    • Taquoshi, on 07/13/2008, -4/+5Naw, we don't want to sink to their level by engaging in violence.

      However, if someone can identify the complainant, and then get someone to shadow them for a bit, I understand that it is important to enforce jaywalking ordinances, or coming to a complete stop at a stop sign, not rushing a yellow light, uh....let's see...help me out here, guys....Heaven above knows there are enough ordinances around to find an itsy, bitsy infraction and call the police. Just a simple application of the old cannard..."What goes around; come around" and the updated version "sometimes with interest."
    • jb1965, on 07/13/2008, -3/+4Leave the violence to the liberals. Just find the complainant and send them a musical greeting card playing the national anthem for every gift giving holiday!
  • popolano, on 07/12/2008, -2/+8This shame is one of many reasons why California should call-off its firefighters and let the State burn to the ground. States like this only understand the language of Fire and Brimstone.
    • jb1965, on 07/13/2008, -1/+5That would never happen. Firefighters are honorable people.
  • garclar, on 07/12/2008, -0/+9Absolutely absurd, the most ridiculous facist act I have ever heard of, getting a permit to sing in our own buidings that our taxpayers paid for, then having to listen to some jerks trying to criminalize their act of free speech! This gives you a good idea of the state of things in the beltway, the mindset that has gotten to the point of the politically correct changing our whole state of what freedom is! It is a wonder they didn't squeeze off a few rouunds to get the riot under control! What a sad state of affairs we live with today, now the morons want to set the speed limit back to 55mph! These jive ass are the brunt of all the jokes here in the midwest!! gkb
    • farmerjohn48pan, on 07/14/2008, -0/+4I'm still trying to get over the fact that there is actually a rule on the books that states you need a permit to sing in the rotunda. Are you kidding me? What about outside? Or on the bus? Where does it end?
  • sexydarin, on 07/12/2008, -2/+13How in the hell did they put into law that you had to get a permit to sing in the rotunda? That is insane.
    • mike8668, on 07/13/2008, -1/+7Very Easy, voters were sleeping or just letting their rep/sen vote however he/she feels and the voter not keeping an eye on their votes....
      One more reason EVERYONE MUST hold their elected reps/sens feet to the fire this voting season. Contact them multiple times, let them know you are watching and you will vote accordingly..
      This is not a joke, I may sound like a broken record, but short of pitchforks and torches, this is the only way we can check THEM!!
    • Taquoshi, on 07/13/2008, -1/+6Don't ask, you really don't want to know...
  • MarilynBr, on 07/13/2008, -0/+11Crazy. These young people sang beautifully in parts without music, just from their hearts. How could anyone object to that?
    • jb1965, on 07/13/2008, -0/+7The Dummycrat girly-men and manly-women! That's who! Those kids were singing songs of love of country and patriotism in the rotunda of one of the most liberal anti-America legislatures in the country! The residents of that den of inequity can't stand to hear pure hearts singing praises of freedom and liberty!
  • DrReaper, on 07/13/2008, -1/+8I am done with the lot of these communists in government.
  • newinnewark, on 07/13/2008, -0/+9Screw their permits, police and heavy handed tactics!!! It's time to start meeting the threats from the police state head on. I'm sorry but kicking ass is the only way left. You cannot fight for your freedoms from the inside of a jail cell when you have been convicted of a false crime by the kangaroo courts. It is now the time for us to rise up and declare our freedom.
  • rkeyo, on 07/13/2008, -1/+9Between the Dummocraps who run the People's Republic of Cah-lee-faw-nee-a, and the self-absorbed morons who vote them in year after year, the paradise that once existed on the west coast of America is fast becoming the model for our future neofascist police state. I pity the young Americans who got this rude awakening to the reality of life in the 21st century, but maybe it will encourage them to to become active patriots. Jefferson's Tree of Liberty clearly will soon need watering. Will YOU be a Gardener?
    • KOSmurfy, on 07/13/2008, -5/+3"Dummocraps who run the People's Republic of Cah-lee-faw-nee-a"

      You think that up all your own?
    • newinnewark, on 07/13/2008, -0/+7I am a Gardener and I believe that I have the correct tools to get the job done!!! Let's see here now, where did I put that SKS? Oh, it's over here by the Ak-74!

      There are ingredients missing from the care taking of Jefferson's Tree of Liberty. The Tree does need watering with the blood of Patriots but lead, steel and guts are the fertilizers.
  • Steyr95, on 07/13/2008, -1/+9Pretty typical of the pinko commies in kalifornia including the CHP. Memories of CHP officers body slamming an old woman in New Orleans during Katrina to steal her only self defense ( a small revolver). Yes I can hear the jack boots now. Liberals, Communists oh I mean Progressives are such pieces of work
  • acb777, on 07/13/2008, -0/+5As a LEO, these INDIVIDUAL CHP's behavior makes me ashamed of my profession. These INDIVIDUAL LEO's are NOT representative of the LEO community. The vast majority of us, are on YOUR side. It's a shame the actions of a few POS make the job that more difficult and dangerous for the ones that are trying to do the right thing.
    • MarineVeteran1, on 07/14/2008, -0/+1abc777,

      One could make a case (this time) about separating the behavior of how these individuals responded to this complaint IF they were acting as an individual LEO, separately. However, the term 'individuals' is plural, and so was this complaint action by the CHP. Therefore, your claim falls flat on its face because they acted in unison, which points to the fact that the CHP is yet another agency with a systemic robot mentality. They operate under the typical US -vs. - THEM mentality and typically and are abusive beyond belief, which is normal SOP for them. Claiming that ‘not all cops are like this” is logical if you want to exclude yourself from these types of clowns, but it also seems redundant given the facts of this case. Your claim makes this a personal issue; which is nothing less than a redirect of the entire premise of the nature of the CHP as a whole. This is, in fact, a clear example of the systemic problems with MOST agencies and there’s no denying that. You as an individual LEO cannot change that system until you have been elected as Sheriff. This is a TOP DOWN problem! Furthermore, no appointments will change this problem because the appointee is beholden to the politician that did the appointment. Moreover, (to paraphrase your premise) you state that “…most (cops) are not like these few idiots, we are on your side…” has no proof or bearing on the reality of this particular incident. Yes, I will grant you the point that you can truthfully say, “I’m personally not like that”, and “I am ashamed of their behavior” and I would buy that. But you go on to include the whole shooting match ‘so to speak’ as your back drop as cops being on your side (civilian friendly) and you ignore the systemic problem of cops throughout recent history. To do that is to insult those who have been abused by the cops (they are MANY) due to their exercise of government power and flies in the face of logic. As I have said many times before, there's only one reason why these legislators or the bureaucrats in the government get away with this nonsense and that's because they have their armed thugs backing them up. Especially in California, it matters not how ridiculous the complaint, the cops are not going to refuse orders to apprehend or try to service a complaint. To do so would mean a political embarrassment to the complainer, and in this case, would probably mean the suspension or loss of one of these thug's jobs.

      After all, we can't have a police officer actually refusing to obey an order from a political hack by actually remembering his OATH of OFFICE to perform his job, can we? That would turn the whole rotten system on its head and that officer would be summarily fired. And that is unacceptable to the individual officer (loss of benefits, time in service- promotions, etc,) which makes my argument.

      These problems are not about you per se, they are about the system!
      • ccso8462, on 07/14/2008, -1/+2As long as we are painting with such a broad brush, who says that our own soldiers, including the Marines, won't rape, pillage, and kill their own citizens when given the orders from above? And the threat of courts martial, loss of pay/retirement and prison for disobeying an order that the political hacks deem "lawful" to those whose conscience gets in the way makes my argument. "I was just following orders" has been used before by soldiers as an excuse for their crimes.
      • acb777, on 07/14/2008, -0/+1M.V. vet you are right on target about the politics of LE. The b*** jobs get promoted. I almost lost my job for refusing to act on what I knew was an unlawful order. It's only by the grace of the living God I still have a job. I will NEVER be promoted. My job as firearms, tactics, CQC instructor were stripped from me. I would do it again in a heart beat. Fellow like minded LEO's still train with me. It means the world to me. I will NEVER let them down. What LE lacks where I work is LEADERSHIP. It comes down to one thing "NO f'ing BALL's". I'm one of the few baby boomers left. Later generation X and now Y. Have no verbal skills. Because the have spent most of there life in front of a computer. That being said 2/3 of my department has NEVER EVEN PLAYED A CONTACT SPORT!!!! It's f'ing BAD. But the older guys are trying to keep things together. In five years we will all be gone. So I share your concerns. Like I have said to you in the past I would break ranks in a heart beat and hook up with like minded people like yourself and take care of business (I think ccso would be there also)
        MV 1 ccso brings up a valid point. I remember the Marine Close Air Combat Support Center at 29 Psalms did a survey that was VERY disturbing. It's been a long time but when asked if they would turn there weapons against fellow Americans, if ordered 30-40% said YES!!!! They heaviest weapon in our inventory is a 12 gauge SGN w/OO. No match against a M16A3 w/ M203, SAW, M-240, Bradley Fighting Vehicle, M1A Abrams tank. I ask you who is more of a POTENTIAL threat LEO's or MILITARY PERSONAL? I have a lot of Vietnam era combat Vet's that are my close friends that have "made there bones" MANY times over. Most of them are former CAP Marines. We train together. Trying to keep the warriors edge sharp. But it's not so easy anymore. I'm the youngest and I'm 53 yoa. If you saw "No Country for Old Men" I related with Tommy Lee Jones character a 110%. But if there is a fight to be fought to protect this Country I love as long as the Living God gives me strengh to pull a trigger I promise you myself and my Brothers in arm's we will be at the point of the spear. MOLENS LABE. "Old age a treachery always beats youth and ability". I wish you all blessings from the Lord Jesus Christ (absent from the body present with the lord). It doesn't get better than that. Semper Fi.
  • jb1965, on 07/13/2008, -1/+6More evidence that California is the cement blocks tied to the feet of the rest of the country! They're taking us down with them!

    Is there any way to revoke a state's membership in the union?!
  • johnnyreb61, on 07/13/2008, -0/+5The government in California is so out of touch with mainstream Californians and so anti-US that I don't even consider it LEGITIMATE US state govt. As a matter of fact I consider CA st. GOVT. as one of the "axis of evil". I wonder if you have to have a permit to THINK in CA.
  • Gracenotes, on 07/13/2008, -6/+1Is it just me, but why the ***** are people blaming legislators when it was only the police who were involved in enforcing the law here? And I assume that all of the students were just budding Republicans (despite the fact that a majority of students in that age range are Democratic), and all of the police officers were Marxists and/or Democrats (despite the fact that a majority of those in law enforcement vote Republican)? Please don't distort this situation to make it anything other than it is, people overreacting to an impromptu and good-intentioned decision by students to sing some patriotic songs.
    • mike8668, on 07/14/2008, -0/+6The reason that the legislators are being blamed is that THERE IS A LAW ON THE BOOKS THAT PROHIBITS THIS!!! HELLOOOO...Possibly it got snuck in there along with an appropriation bill to paint the window trim around the office windows
      • Gracenotes, on 07/15/2008, -0/+1And what's wrong with the law? You need a permit to sing in most public places, i.e. public parks. (In this case, though, I agree that the police should have made an exception.) Even if you think the law is unjust, there's no reason to interject partisan poison into the debate, unless you're all just venting.
  • LakewoodBob, on 07/13/2008, -0/+7The legislature is responsible for the actions of the Gestapo when they are in the Reichstag.
  • raybojabo, on 07/13/2008, -0/+8That clip brought tears to my eyes. God bless our young generation, and I have faith in these future leaders to correct the mistakes of their misguided elders that have succumbed to the empty promises and carnal pleasures of Marxism at the expense of their childrens freedoms.
  • stevwal, on 07/13/2008, -0/+6Thank God we still have young patriots like that! How long they stay in California is another story. In some areas of CA, its a cultural disaster. I would love to see the Gov. or Pres. declare them as "Federal Cultural Disaster Areas", and then send in troops to teach the Constitution, Bible, and skills of self-sufficiency. [ just kidding .. sorta ... but it would make a great film - no? ]
  • Tallen05, on 07/13/2008, -0/+5Papers please.
  • SHOTGUN285, on 07/14/2008, -0/+3wow. of all the things in this blessed country to have the police accost you for doing. I am shaking my head in dis-belief.

    Did anyone notice that the kids did an amazing rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner? The harmonies were amazing. This assault on liberty is even worse than the so-called Berkely police refusing to enforce the laws of the city and state and allowing violent protestors to assault law-abiding citizens there in support of the Marine recruiters. Californians should collectively hang their heads in shame. You are an embarrassment to the nation.
  • d1gp1g, on 07/14/2008, -0/+4And the things that get into law in Cali end up in the other states, or end up as federal law.

    It really sucks.
  • vpats, on 07/14/2008, -1/+3Gee - I wonder if these were the same California State Troopers who violently disarmend and threw to the floor that nice 70 old lady in New Orleans after Katrina?

    Let's hear it for the People's Republic of Kalifornia ....Phhhhhhhhhhht!
  • kchenault, on 07/14/2008, -0/+4As abhorrent as I find that this singing is against the laws of the California legislature, this was not an impromptu performance. Impromptu performance of The Star Spangled Banner doesn't usually sound out in three part harmony with everyone knowing their respective parts. These kids, God bless them, knew exactly what they were going to sing and how to sing it, well.

    I do agree though that this is a retarded law, from a group of retarded legislators, elected by retarded voters, in a retarded state that doesn't have it's priorities straight.
    • MarineVeteran1, on 07/14/2008, -0/+4I think you miss the point entirely my friend. When a law is unjust, it is your right, and your DUTY to disobey it. Or did you forget about that important line in the Declaration of Independence?

      The premise of this outrage is not about quibbling over whether this was impromptu or not. It's about who's country is this? Some bureaucrat's or ours?
    • Gracenotes, on 07/15/2008, -0/+1The performance was impromptu. They've sung it before to close out mock legislative sessions, and decided to do it at the state capital.
  • Ruler4you, on 07/14/2008, -0/+3I'm certain there is a Bill being submitted right now that makes it illegal to sing the national anthem because it is hate speech.
    This friggin' government is insistent on destroying our nation. What do they care? After all, they only wanted to pillage what they could from the easy pickings. The rest of the soup is ours, aren't we lucky?
    With an approval of less than one person in ten 'representation' is obviously not their priority.
    Which brings us to the question: If representation isn't the priority of our "representatives", then what is?
    Well, since they won't tell us what is the priority (without lying) it would seem clear that they have their own agenda, wouldn't it?
    Why aren't the American people conversant in our governmental plans for our future?
    I have the answer: Because you won't like them. That's why.
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