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Revealed: the Prepared Remarks of the LSU Flag-Burning Planner

You’ve already been introduced to Ben Haas (here and here), the communications graduate student who planned to burn the American flag on the campus of LSU today. That didn’t happen after a group of counter-protesters showed up. Now, the student newspaper The Daily Reveille has gotten an exclusive copy of the remarks Haas planned to share at the protest but never got a chance to recite.

In those remarks, Haas says his protest was supposed to bring attention to “due process” and to “call on LSU and universities across the country to defend basic human rights and avoid putting students into the criminal justice system when it can be taken care of internally.” That seems to be a reference to a student last week who was arrested for stealing and burning a university American flag.

“In the name of peace, there will be no flag burning today,” he says in the remarks. “This country and the flag that flies over it stands for freedom, democracy, love, peace and the ability to question our government.”

You can read them in full below:

“Funny Facebook said that there were only going to be 64 of you. I initially began this flag burning protest to define due process for students and suspected terrorists alike, to call on LSU and universities across the country to defend basic human rights and avoid putting students into the criminal justice system when it can be taken care of internally.

Solidarity means standing with those who are treated as guilty until proven innocent, instead of the other way around. That’s what freedom is, standing with those who express their constitutional rights in ways that may be unpopular, especially the accused and the marginalized no matter the consequences.

In the name of peace, there will be no flag burning today. This country and the flag that flies over it stands for freedom, democracy, love, peace and the ability to question our government.”

Reveille photographer Adam Vaccarella snapped a picture of the remarks during the protest:

Revealed: the Prepared Remarks of the LSU Flag Burning Planner(Photo: ADAM VACCARELLA / The Daily Reveille)

There’s also new video from the event. A video report filed by the paper shows counter-protest leader, and student government president, Cody Wells thanking attendees after they gathered en masse:

But the most interesting information now coming from the LSU campus may be that Haas isn’t just a graduate student. Additional reporting by the Reveille reveals he also teaches some undergraduate students:

Ryan Nuckolls, agricultural business sophomore, said Haas is one of his instructors, and he spoke to Haas about the burning yesterday. Nuckolls, adorned in American flag attire, said Haas said he was “protesting unfair persecution of Isaac Eslava” — the University student arrested last week for vandalizing and burning a University American flag — because Eslava should be innocent until proven guilty. [Emphasis added]

The crowd, which some numbered in the hundreds, was apparently not made up of just students. “Several community members attended as well,” the Reveille says, “including veterans and members of the Baton Rouge Tea Party.”

Rebecca Favre Lipe, vice president of the Baton Rouge Tea Party, even gave the outlet a quote: “We have First Amendment rights, but there’s also respect.”

Comments (160)

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  • DVT
    Posted on May 11, 2011 at 6:21pm

    dirty hippy said what?

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  • Beck_MSM_AlexJ_antibirther_bedfellows
    Posted on May 11, 2011 at 6:20pm

    In his case, being turned over to the criminal justice system, was better than being handled at the local level. I would hope that he thanked the cops for saving his ass.
    I guess he was taught the lesson instead. Threatening to burn an American flag, is not only stupid, it is also very dangerous if you are not in California or at an Obama sactioned event.

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    • Cerealface
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:21am

      He wasn’t threatening anything. He was showing how a mob was a threat to an intellectual society.

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  • Jd85
    Posted on May 11, 2011 at 6:18pm

    Why is it that the only insult that people on this site can muster is to “shower and shave hippie”?? yeah the guy is an idiot but come on you can be more creative than that…

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    • virgie morgan
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:00am

      the man “created” the intention that he was going to burn the flag. It doesn’t matter what he had written on that paper. He said he was gonna burn the flag and showed up with a flag and a lighter. People had every right to think that he intended to burn it because HE CREATED that intention. Now, since Arizona is the state obama hates, the idiot will get out of jail where he was only held for his own protection and not because he is involved in any crime. Then he will promptly have the students arrested for water boarding because they threw water balloons on him. And the DoJ will happily string these patriotic students up for the world to see how far this administration will go to protect anyone who is not an American. This will be spun to fit obama’s every campaign speech from illegal mexicans to muslims and democracy in the middle east. I feel bad for the students. Proud of them though for standing up to the commies.

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  • TheGreyPiper
    Posted on May 11, 2011 at 6:16pm

    Allah Akbar!

    http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2705/5711566896_0ba4f9f809.jpg

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  • ARSILHOUETTE
    Posted on May 11, 2011 at 6:14pm

    So this commie grad student/teacher was trying to make a point of allowing due process in defending a student who stole personal property (US flag was property of the LSU) and committed arson. Those are crimes and I believe arson is a felony. LSU was well within it’s rights to turn the flag burner into the police. Maybe now these liberals will understand that the law works both ways…

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  • TheGreyPiper
    Posted on May 11, 2011 at 6:10pm

    And Pastor Terry Jones owned his own Koran.

    Classic trolls:

    “By Jove, I’m glad to see you,” said Ransom….“I say—you’re all right, aren’t you? You got through the barrage without any damage?” ….

    “To tell you the truth, Ransom,” I said, “I’m getting more worried every day about the whole business. It came into my head as I was on my way here—”

    “Oh, they’ll put all sorts of things into your head if you let them,” said Ransom lightly. “The best plan
    is to take no notice and keep straight on. Don’t try to answer them. They like drawing you into an interminable argument.”

    C.S. Lewis “Perelandra”

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    • UpstateNYConservative
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 6:25pm

      That’s liberals in a nutshell. Or on the half-shell. Or whatever. That‘s why I generally don’t address them directly. The effort is simply pointless; for a bunch of people who don’t believe in God, they sure seem to act like they think they are Him all the time.

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    • David, the Constitutional Libertarian
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:47am

      One of my favorite authors.
      My favorite quote-

      “Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”-C.S. Lewis

      Leftists never go to sleep, never stop the relentless march toward controlling every aspect of our lives for our own collective “good”.

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  • geonj
    Posted on May 11, 2011 at 6:08pm

    so accoording to this loon, if a student kills someone on campus it should be handled internally?

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  • cookcountypatriot
    Posted on May 11, 2011 at 6:04pm

    the sleeping giant is waking up…thank you jesus

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    • brado9505
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 7:04pm

      AWESOME! We The People are awake at last!!!!!!!!!!

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    • BornandBredintheUSA
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 7:17pm

      I thought the same thing when I saw the video of this earlier. I was so proud that the silent majority was finally standing up. Thank you Lord!

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  • Fina Biscotti
    Posted on May 11, 2011 at 6:01pm

    Ben Haas’ ideology behind why he is protesting the criminal arrest of a student……Issac Estava…..whose criminal behavior that Haas believes should be handled internally w just the university………..is the same ideology that gave FREE PASSES to JARED LOUGHNER for his criminal behavior on school campus…… that provided Loughner with the opportunity to be successful with his other premeditated acts, threats and intimidation tactics……leading into his deadly massacre in TUSCON, ARIZONA….. slaughtering innocent people in the parking lot of a shopping mall…….to make a name for himself.

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    • ExpertShot
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:02am

      Haas said he was “protesting unfair persecution of Isaac Eslava” — the University student arrested last week for vandalizing and burning a University American flag — because Eslava should be innocent until proven guilty. [Emphasis added].

      Since when is being arrested for suspicion of a crime “unfair persecution”?? As far as innocent until proven guilty…isn’t that why we have trial by a jury of peers??? From what I’m reading this “educated” guy doesn’t believe in arresting someone for suspicion of a crime?? Hmmmm, if he‘s like most 60’s wannabe’s, he doesn’t like police or “pigs” as they like to call law enforcement; however, he didn‘t turn down the police when they got him out of the area for safety’s sake. Just an observation.

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  • Freedom1984
    Posted on May 11, 2011 at 5:58pm

    All this guy did today was to really upset a lot of good, decent people who love AMERICA and what the AMERICAN FLAG, not just some piece of cloth, represents.

    He should be ashamed of himself.

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  • IMaTELLaU
    Posted on May 11, 2011 at 5:54pm

    DUMB HASS being arrested for stealing is DUE PROCESS. Go to wal-mart and pay for it yourself. But, since you have institutionalized yourself in the career of forever student, student loans, grants and typical mooching… paying for something is a foriegn concept to you!!!!!

    Thank you, LSU for standing up to this socialist/marxist wanna-be….. go to an ivy league school if you want all that commie Kr.app!

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  • curtmavi38
    Posted on May 11, 2011 at 5:41pm

    I respect the flag because it represents a country that has been over generous to all people around the world, a flag that our forefathers with much thought created, a flag that our brave soldiers fight under,
    I respect the flag because it signifies strength,compassion and a will to keep America free and most of all to me it means that as long as we keep GOD as our hope we will never be defeated.meh

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  • UpstateNYConservative
    Posted on May 11, 2011 at 5:37pm

    I once burned a flag because it had become unserviceable. Felt guilty has h*ll, but that’s the Code.

    Good thing Haas came to his senses. If he tried to carry through, there might have been arrests of a lot of young patriots.

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 5:55pm

      We have given our tattered flags to the VFW. They dispose of them in the correct way.

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    • smak
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 6:07pm

      A mob attacking somebody for burning his own property.

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    • TheGreyPiper
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 6:08pm

      Correct, there is a difference between a respectful incineration and this attention wh0ring. First off, when you are disposing of a flag, you are supposed to cut the Union from the stripes, so it is not even a flag any more.

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    • smak
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 6:43pm

      >>>>>>>>First off, when you are disposing of a flag, you are supposed to cut the Union from the stripes, so it is not even a flag any more.

      If someone doesn’t cut his flag first, he should be beaten.

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    • smak
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 6:48pm

      >>>>>>>>>>> If he tried to carry through, there might have been arrests of a lot of young patriots.
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      Trying not to drop the soap in the jail shower room.

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    • Meyvn
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 10:00pm

      @smak: You should burn your OWN property, in your OWN trash can, in your OWN backyard. The dudes intent was way out of line and he paid the price for it. We all are free to express ourselves but we are also free to get an a$$-whoopin if we offend others in the process. I’d say Haas was lucky he got out of there safely.

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  • Tom
    Posted on May 11, 2011 at 5:33pm

    Just another selfish over privileged democracy mooch. that will spend the rest of his life tearing down the American Dream.

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  • von der Recht
    Posted on May 11, 2011 at 5:33pm

    You could pick out the liberals in that crowd…..they were somewhat less than “well groomed”. They all seem to have that grungy look as if it is a uniform. I wonder if they bath……..

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  • AmericanHorse
    Posted on May 11, 2011 at 5:32pm

    And more thing. He didn’t decide not to burn the flag to keep the peace. He decided not to burn the flag because the coward didn’t want to get his ass kicked.

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  • AmericanHorse
    Posted on May 11, 2011 at 5:31pm

    Nothing worse than an America hater trumpeting the constitution. The only thing they like about their country is that the constitution gives them the right to bash it.

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  • PansyShare
    Posted on May 11, 2011 at 5:31pm

    I am proud of the students of LSU for understanding what America stands for! These students are not brain washed by the liberal profs.

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    • Cerealface
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:28am

      Yeah, it stands for creating a mob to take down due process.

      That’s what LSU taught me just now.

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  • Mstrrlm
    Posted on May 11, 2011 at 5:29pm

    They should arrest him for causing civil unrest

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  • Andrei Mincov
    Posted on May 11, 2011 at 5:28pm

    As I said, a mob is a mob, regardless of the causes that drive it.
    The guy may be a lesser dirtbag than I originally thought.
    What this story demonstrates is that debates are never one by yelling louder than the other side.
    And we desperately do need a debate about the fundamental principles.
    Even with respect to the Constitution, it is not enough simply to say that we should stick to it because the Founding Fathers thought it was a good idea. It is necessary to go back to the basic principles and have a firm understanding of WHY they thought it was a good idea.
    Many of today’s so called achievements of the civilization do not require freedom as a precondition. And the statists always throw these examples in our face.
    Man do not need freedom to live.
    Man DOES need freedom to be man, as opposed to a living organism.
    The fight is not about shutting down flag-burners or climate-changers. The fight is not about taxes, budgets, or borders.
    The fight is about the principles. BASIC principles.
    Without the debate about the principles, nothing really matters.

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  • Carl1
    Posted on May 11, 2011 at 5:26pm

    Haas may have a short life. Better keep his lil butt inside till things cools down. Someone may give him an attitude adjustment

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  • Eric_The_Red_State
    Posted on May 11, 2011 at 5:25pm

    I’m with him – that IS what freedom is. Our ability to be free. YES he can burn the flag if he wants….. our constitution says we have freedom of expression…. and I can, under the constitution, burn a koran if I want…. would I do either? No.
    Would I yell FIRE in a theater No. because it is not just ME that I affect.
    I think we CAN govern ourselves – but it takes some common sense.
    But it is common – then why is there not more of it?

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 5:29pm

      Ask “ Common”

      PS He’s at your Whitehouse right now.

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    • MeMadMax
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 5:39pm

      Majority Rules….

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    • CowboyandBrewser
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 7:09pm

      13 Immam- “Dynamite drop in Monty, that broadcasting school really paid off.
      Ask COMMON he’s at the whitehouse now. That is the best post ever. LOL if the hippy wants freedom of expression that’s fine, but those young patriots there also have freedom of expression. If you want to be a moron in a public institution be prepared to hear it when the people who paid for that institution get pissed.

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    • JJ Coolay
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:44am

      1st of all.. yelling “fire” in a theater is illegal because it puts people in harms way. So the 2 are different from each other.

      2ndly.. nobody is saying he’s not free to burn the flag. But that doesn’t mean the rest of America has to sit there and like it. So if you want to bring that kind of heat down on yourself, be prepared to accept the mob that will be protesting your protest.

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  • armorbearer
    Posted on May 11, 2011 at 5:23pm

    The flag of our nation should never be disrespected in this way – no matter what excuse is given.

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    • vennoye
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 6:55pm

      I have already lived out this movement…….yes, I am old enough to remember when the radicals in our universities were out on the streets in the 60′s. No more, we are tired of having our flag burned and trampled upon by these people…….they have had their freedom of speech for 50 years!!ENOUGH!!

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    • 123456789_0
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 1:57am

      so you can‘t even talk about burning the flag even if you have no intention of doing it but just say you’re doing it to get people to come to your demonstration? that should be illegal? lying?

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  • eat-more-bacon-USA
    Posted on May 11, 2011 at 5:22pm

    Burning the American flag or threatening to burn the American flag – there is no difference; it is an insult to America and Americans and should never be tolerated.

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    • JamesBurnett
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 5:37pm

      Who cares if he burns an American flag? Its not hurting anyone! I thought people that listened to Glen Beck were libertarians or freedom lovers. Libertarians stand for freedom. Freedom to burn the American flag? YES.

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    • Silversmith
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 5:50pm

      James – he was free to burn the flag, just as they were free to say what they felt was necessary. He felt threatened? Too bad. You cannot do things to irritate people and expect them to sit quietly by and say nothing. That is not a right. It is childish thinking.

      Silversmith

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    • Mobus
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 6:05pm

      Burning the American Flag may be an expression of freedom to you, JamesBurnett, but to me it’s an insult to soldiers, citizens, and the nation. These sort of expressions should be discouraged and opposed with vigor, which is what those students were doing. Just because you have the freedom to insult me doesn’t mean I have to stand there and take it!

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    • Freedom1984
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 6:10pm

      Exactly right Mobus!!!!
      You couldn’t have summed it up better!

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    • mossbrain
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 6:17pm

      Drawing cartoons of Muhammad or threatening to draw cartoons of Muhammad – there is no difference; it is an insult to Muslims and should never be tolerated.

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    • Jedrin
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:50pm

      The flag only has the meaning one gives to it, to follow a flag mindlessly, well you should think about it. To burn a flag just to get a reaction, again one should think about it first, then take the consequences. Same with drawing a picture of Muhammad, same with reacting to a picture of Muhammad. We need to become thinking people, not stimulus – response creatures. But…… it is up to the groups of individuals in society to determine the rule of “civil discourse”. Laws don’t matter so much as what the public will tolerate. Put up with child molesting and you get child molesting, put up with the Fed you get the consequence, put up with freedom of speech you get all kinds of thing. I don’t care too much about the flag getting burned, I do care about a lot of the people that do care so I am glad the flag burner got put down, I agree he was out of line. Whipping a 14-year-old girl to death (Pakistan), or sitting by and watching a stewardess have her throat slit and do nothing (9/11), someone has to stand up or we all get what we accept.

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    • glock26
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 10:17pm

      J.Burnett. An action doesn’t have to hurt someone physically or hurt anyone at all to be disrespectful. Every action has a reaction. Most Americans respect the Flag and what it stands for. The action was disrespectful so the reaction was as well. I think these anti American people surround themselves with people that think and feel the same way. They shout down people who disagree, and that day they were shouted down, Good Americans are waking up and their voices are being heard agree or disagree how they voice themselves. This guy found out the hard way that Americans do care about the Flag.

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    • JJ Coolay
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:38am

      Who cares if he burns an American flag? Its not hurting anyone! I thought people that listened to Glen Beck were libertarians or freedom lovers. Libertarians stand for freedom. Freedom to burn the American flag? YES.
      _________________________
      Yup… you’re free to do it. But then again, the people that don’t like it are free to stand there an object to it.
      As far as who cares: Red blooded Americans my friend. People that have been quiet until now. We’re sick and tired of the liberals pulling this kind of crap. The flag means something. It’s just a sheet of material just like the bible is just a collection of pages with ink on them. But they both mean something. Ask Muslims if the Koran doesn’t mean anything. So to ask “who cares” must mean you’re not paying attention.

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    • Cerealface
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:23am

      You guys worship copies of flags like it is the original. Worship the Lord, not his worldly items. Durrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

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    • Taquoshi
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:46am

      Cereal Face – It had nothing to do with worship. It has to do with respect.
      By the way, our neighbors in the building had their flag stolen off our front porch a few years ago. Odd how this started over someone else stealing a flag, isn’t it? But wait, my story gets better. Our flag wasn’t terribly expensive, just nylon stripes with a plastic gold eagle at the end. The gals called our police, one of which happened to be a former Marine. The officer noticed that there was a piece of the bottom red strip caught in the porch railing where it joins the roof support. He worked it out & put the piece in his wallet. That was on Memorial Day. Come July 4th, a group of people were having a LOUD party up the street. The police were called by their immediate neighbors. They didn’t tone it down, so the police paid a second visit. When the officers walked into the house, they noticed a flag being used as a rug for shoes. On top of the TV in the living room, there was this funny little gold eagle, the kind that fits on the end of a flagpole. The officer who was a former Marine walked over to the flag rug & said, “Mind if I take a look?” Everyone shrugged. He looked at that bottom stripe & sure enough, there was a corner missing. BUSTED!!!! The desecrated flag was turned over to our Fire Department for proper disposal, our neighbors were presented with a new one from the VFW & the fools up the street got hit with not only the noise ordinance, but theft of private prop

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    • JJ Coolay
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 2:57pm

      Nice police work. That justice must have tasted sweet!

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  • katinalabama
    Posted on May 11, 2011 at 5:17pm

    Well, Haas got his 15 minutes of fame….now go shower and shave

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    • the_zazzy
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 5:21pm

      It’s good to know that he came to his senses before burning the flag. He could have said all that by writing to the editor of the school paper and not gotten everyone fired up. That is free speech.

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    • chiefparker
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 5:22pm

      This is how they’re taught to start a promising career. ——-What?——What?

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    • MAULEMALL
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 5:23pm

      And ask the 2 skanks that werte with you to bath as well..

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    • TexasCommonSense
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 5:23pm

      and move to Cuba.

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    • D0ntTread0nMe
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 5:23pm

      Honestly I have no patience for such a slime ball… I hope you accidentally set yourself on fire during your “expression of free speech”
      http://www.mythoughtsfromthemiddle.blogspot.com

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 5:28pm

      Regarding Issac Estava

      He is a dual citizenship American/Columbian Who cut down an American Flag at a War Memorial. was chased by cops.Burned the American flag Stole a car to escape. Drug items were found in the stolen vehicle, along with a knife that still had the flag halyard strands on it.

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    • Susan Harkins
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 5:28pm

      Hey Ben Ha(m)as,

      Yall come back now, ya hear!

      ;;;waving and grinning;;;

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    • jeffyfreezone
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 5:30pm

      I hope he spends the remainder of his time at LSU looking over his shoulder.

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    • JamesBurnett
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 5:33pm

      I thought Conservatives were supposed to show respect and love to your fellow man. From the looks of the protest which included veterans, students and tea party members who were being very disrespectful to Haas: cursing him out and saying he should go to hell and threatening to beat him up. Why? He wasn’t even going to burn the flag! If you read his letter he was protesting something that every student should stand behind him: the arrest of a fellow student. People wake up. The video shows a MOB harass a man with curses and threats. Is that how conservatives or you want to be portrayed? Is that how a Christian country should act when we disagree with each other? We need to show love and respect to everyone! Treat each other as we would want to be treated. Yes burning a flag is wrong but the way conservatives reacted to his desire to protest was just as wrong.

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    • vlbennett66
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 5:46pm

      “Free speech alley?!” Isn’t this country supposed to be a free speech zone all the time, everywhere? And the university of today limits free speech to a designated space. Maybe it’s time to ignore the unconstitutional diminution of our freedoms and do what the Founders would do – declare our independence from stupidity and speak out whenever and wherever we wish.

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    • the_zazzy
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 5:48pm

      As Christians, we have every right to stand up when we are threatened. Christ did not teach us to continue turning our other cheek, until we have allowed ourselves to be taken over. I believe Christ wants us to stand up and defend what He has blessed us with, not quietly sit back as we lose it. Wake up and stop being the silent majority!

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 5:55pm

      He stole property that belonged to LSU – bottom line. It doesn’t matter if it was a flag or a trash can, he is a thief. Send him back to Columbia and revoke his US citizenship, we don’t need more criminals here.

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    • verityquest
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 6:08pm

      My apologies, JAMESBURNETT. To a seemingly large percentage of people in this country there still are lines you do not cross. I am firmly in the camp that if you are going to live here, and take advantage of everything this country offers and provides, you absolutey do NOT burn the flag. You disrepsect every single person that suffered and dies ON YOUR BEHALF when you do that. There are many many ways to express political discontent. That one is OUT OF BOUNDS.

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    • No1YaKnow
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 6:16pm

      People like Haas are even more confused than the hippies of the ’60s. The hippies for the most part were so stoned out of their minds most of the time it made perfect sense why they had no idea what they were protesting. Now—these moonbats have no excuse. It’s as if they are so insignificant in their own worlds, that they have to seek attention in sickening ways to feel relevant. Protesting a person vandalizing private property being arrested? So, essentially, he says he believes you should have your own justice system where you see fit. Let me guess….UNLESS he thinks the student is a conservative or racist. These anarchists need to find a country they fit into, and it ISN’T this one. This is what is also good about free speech—not only do they have the freedom to speak out (and should), they call themselves out on the carpet every time.

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    • nkawtg
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 6:19pm

      Why should a crime on campus be treated any different than a crime in my neighborhood. If someone stole something it’s off to jail, not the dean’s office.
      This guy thinks just because he’s a student, he should somehow get treated differently than in real life.
      I say; “Get A Life and Grow Up”

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    • nothingbuthetruth
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 6:21pm

      I wonder how many of those kids know that their professors are a bunch of libs who probably did the same thing in the 60′s

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    • Lucy Larue
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 6:35pm

      Haas needs to EMIGRATE. He is a sniveling Wine Wienie COWARD!
      I just want him to go to some other country because he epitomizes the cajoneless men that are abetting the destruction of the greatest country the world has ever known!

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    • HeWalksOnWater
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 7:03pm

      Ben Haas should now change his name to Has Been.

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    • Nick84
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 7:33pm

      I can only imagine the comments on here if people you support had been pelted with water balloons…

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    • Professional Infidel
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 7:35pm

      I love Emigrants, I Hate immigrants!!

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    • Taquoshi
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 10:21pm

      Well now, the protest didn’t quite turn out the way you wanted it to, did it, Ben? You wanted a gathering and, boy, you got it. Slight problem with the fact that they turned against you, rather than against the country and the fascist pigs, though.

      Whoops!!!!!

      You might want to brush up your resume and maybe consider a relocation. The mood of the crowd indicates that people have just about had it with the compassionate liberal stance of always giving the law breaker the benefit of the doubt at the expense of law abiding citizens.

      Oh, I know you didn’t break any laws, but you advertised that you were going to protest by burning the symbol that represents our country and expected people to stand idly by or cheer while you did. Guess again.

      The kind of raw anger and emotion you experienced was the same kind of feeling that people felt in Wisconsin when the SEIU descended. It’s the same type of feeling experienced by the prayer warriors outside of abortion clinics face when silently praying for the “clients” inside before they are arrested by police for doing so. Oh yeah, and let’s not forget the feelings of the Fred Phelps clan towards families of deceased soldiers.

      I’m sure your familiar with the old saying, “What goes around, comes around.”

      Have a nice day!

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    • joseph Fawcett
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 11:40pm

      Man am I glad for all those students that came out to protest the burning of the American Flag. This is really good news that lightens my heart and encourages my spirit. I hope we can all do like wise in November of 2012 and take back this Republic from the Progressives that are burning down our lives, our freedom and our liberty. O’Lord I give you thanks for these young Americans and for Your blessing this day at LSU!

      http://www.josephfawcettart.com western artist

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    • JJ Coolay
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:24am

      His statement doesn’t make sense.
      The opening line “Facebook said there is only going to be 64 of you”.
      How did he know there was more before he got there? Did he have a printer in his back pocket??

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    • 79USMC83
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:44am

      LMAO!! I do not like the USA’s policies so I am going to use many of the very “Rights” the Flag represents like “Freedom Of Speech”, “The Right To Assembly” The Right To Protest” ect. and Burn the very symbol and live in the very country I hate!! To get my “15” minutes of fame, to feed my bloated ego!!! Bill Ayers blew up buildings to feed his!! Now they are winning elections and giving speech’s down in El Paso instead of burning flags. They just MOCK the country and are trying to destroy it from within !! This flag burner is old school. The real TRAITORS are within the “Government Stupid” and are LOVING this !!! They want us to riot over our Guns and Religion and Flag !!!! Remember the Hidden Agenda is NO USA, NO BORDERS and GLOBAL LAW, GLOBAL ECONOMY and GLOBAL GOVERNMENT !!!

      So now it was all a SCAM??? What ever happened to the law about inciting a riot???? He wants to defend a vandal and theif. The other Flag burner did it to the SCHOOL’s property. He did not buy and burn his OWN flag !!! This idiot is a teacher ???????????

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    • BrotherWill
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:53am

      This shower and shave you speak of? Is that some Capitalist invention? ;D

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    • tvr54
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 7:52am

      While you are cleaning up try a hair cut you dirty Hippie

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    • StonyBurk
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 7:59am

      Haas is an educator– How revealing.It seems our institutions of Higher Education -once loosed from the
      bridle of Religion and Morality have turned to recruiting Communists? I disagree very much with the perfesser (Haas) of course the petty vandal and misguided Useful idiot should have been introduced to the criminal justice system. The malcontents -those who ran like rabid dogs with that fool named Johnson in Texas that secured a bad decision and misconstrueing of the terms used in the First Amendment. (The act of desecrating our flag ought Never be confused as protected speech- words yes– actions — NO [ as demonstrated in the Reynolds v. the US,1878 decision] also involved petty theft and vandalism.so the LSU useful idiot deserved his introduction into the Criminal Justice system. Why should stealing an American flag be protected when a student who steals a pack of cigarrretts or a book form the book store would be charged with theft?So Haas was wrong on ALL counts he ought be deported.Made to KNOW the Shame felt by Thomas Paine– or Benedict Arnold.

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    • Cerealface
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:19am

      It was a set up after all. Shame on you LSU students. A dismal way to act…

      Shame on the speaker for yelling fire in a crowded Theater

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    • TXPilot
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:01am

      If he had any sense at all, his “prepared remarks” also included his last will and testament, because doing something like burning a flag in the South, greatly decreases a persons chances of survival. It’s time to burn all the radicals that are infecting this country, starting with grungy hippies like this guy, because they smell smell the worst.

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    • mikelivi
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 2:19pm

      So the other kid stelas a flag is caught red handed but this stinky hippy bastard complains about innocence and guilt? Im gonna kick both their teeth in………….

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