Ironically enough, apparantly the chicano walkout protestors were encouraged to wave AMERICAN flags during the recent nationwide protests. There was an incident here in Arizona where some students raised the Mexican flag up on their HS's flag pole. The JROTC unit saw it, took it down and replaced it with the American flag. Protestors put the Mexican one back up, JROTC took it back down... and burned it right there on the spot. The protestors beat the hell out of two of the JROTC kids, and guess who gets in trouble? You got it, the JROTC kids... Burning the flag was a step too far, but nobody should be flying anything higher than ol red, white and blue. I know they want more civil rights, I know they want less harsh laws on migrant workers. But they have to realize it is NOT helping their situation when they're pulling crap like this. Most people are very proud of their home country, but they're just as proud to be Americans, too. Often more so than native-born citizens. Case in point: a friend of mine, mexican, who came here legally, was naturalized and beame a citizen. I really think even the most hardcore anti-migrant conservatives might find it easier to accept them, if they were a bit more patriotic... to the United States.