Well, it turns out that Houston wasn’t totally absent from the mass protests by illegal aliens across the country against the Immigration Reform bills in Congress, waving their Mexican and Aztlan flags. There were a few hundred students who walked out of classes and marched on the Immigration Office on the North side of town.
The kids who skipped classes will be disciplined for cutting class without an excuse. However, I think that as an additional punishment, the student who was quoted as saying this on the radio during the walkout needs to be beaten with the Irony Stick:
“We all want an education, we all want something in life.”
Let me get this straight: you all want an education, so you walk out of classes? The classes that the nation you’re in illegally provides you for free, and in your own language when you can’t be bothered to learn the primary language of commerce and education in that country?
I guess if you’re stupid enough to walk out on your education to protest that you want an education, you’re stupid enough to open your mouth and let everyone know it.
What’s next? Abstinence protests against teen pregnancy? Hunger strikesprotesting obesity?
Welcome to Houston: Here’s a diploma. And a leafblower.
I hear all the illegal Mexicans are also demanding free abortions for all, the they are going to take Aztlan back! FIRST!
Wow. That’s amazing. I’ve been asking my fellow liberals what part of the word “illegal” they’re missing in the phrase “illegal alien”. I’m for revising our policies for letting people in legally but protesting punishing a crime is just not a logical stance.
“We all want something”…
I WANT the government to stop pandering & rid the country of illegal aliens….I’m an American citizen….do my “wants” take priority over the masses that shouldn’t be here?
And why wasn’t INS out in full force to lead the protest marchers in the direction of the border? Until new laws get passed, they should at least try enforcing the existing ones.
Couldn’t help but laugh when i saw this. One thing though: the two other options you offer aren’t ironic or in the same vein as walking out of class to protest not getting an education. It’s kind of logical to stop eating to protest obesity, or talk up abstinence while decrying teen pregnacny. Perhaps a mroe apt example is hunger strikes in protest of worldwide hunger. Or people walking out of their jobs to protest unemployment.
Actually, I sorta sympathize with the students. I think part of HR4437 was that if your parents were illegal, you would be deported even if you were born in the US. Which would blow from the standpoint that you’d be deported to a country that you would never have lived in, and defeats the whole definition of naturally-born citizen.
Ah HAH! You are assuming that there was some edjucatin’ going on in those classrooms. That’s a pretty unlikely scenario, my friend.
Also, pardon my quibbling, but wouldn’t abstinence protests against teen pregnancy make sense? Mass orgies held to protest teen pregnancy would be a lot more ironic (and fun! Hey, this could catch on! And eating contests to protest obesity. Yeah! Beer-drinking contests to protest, ah, everything!) What a great idea, Laurence. A sin-in to promote piety! This has possibilities!
and to reiterate my point on these students “protesting” how many actually ended up at the protest, and how many really went home and played video games…seriously, if you’re not old enough to have filed taxes at least once, you’re not mature enough to protest anything, and chances are, you’re just trying to get out of class for the day.
“Welcome to Houston: Here’s a diploma. And a leafblower.”
way to be racist! but still hillarious….. i’m having my irony stick mailed to me so the kid’s beating may be late.
sigh and then they all move to Massachusetts and either get state jobs or go on welfare…
Um,it’s English.He meant protesting against absinence.
Im in houston as well and we had a “protest period” for anyone who wanted to protest could sit in the auditorium during one class w/ supervision. Of course it turned into 700 kids not wanting to go to class instead of the 100 mexicans we have in our school.