[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 138 (Tuesday, September 18, 2007)]
[House]
[Pages H10438-H10439]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            ``NO FLAG HERE''

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)

[[Page H10439]]

  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, on September 11th, America honored those 
murdered by people who kill in the name of religion.
  Americans held solemn tributes, prayers, and raised Old Glory across 
the plains and prairies of this heartland. But no American flags were 
displayed by students at Hobbton High School in North Carolina. The 
superintendent of this government school district banned the display of 
any country's flag on the clothing of students. Dr. Hobbs said 
disruptions have been caused in the school by the wearing of certain 
national flags. So on this almost holy day of September 11th, no 
American flags were allowed on clothes at this American school.
  Dr. Hobbs, if you are going to ban the display or the wearing of 
flags, ban foreign ones, not the ones that fly over this Nation--the 
American flag.
  Have we become so timidly concerned about offending foreigners that 
we now disrespect our Nation by banning the American flag? This 
unpatriotic paranoia is an insult to this Nation and the students of 
your school, and the superintendent should be ashamed. Mr. Hobbs, Betsy 
Ross would not be proud of you.
  And that's just the way it is.

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