Well, this is pretty outrageous. I’m not so easily offended, I think, as some middle-aged white guys. I believe in liberal applications of the First Amendment. But really.

At a recent protest against pending immigration reform, students at Montebello High School here in Southern California hauled down the American flag, and hoisted the Mexican flag — with Old Glory upside down underneath it. This is documented here , on Michelle Malkin’s blog.

Who is raising these miscreants, that they would do something so profoundly stupid, so abjectly insensitive to the memories of men and women of all races who’ve died under that flag? If I were a Latino veteran of the US military, I’d be pretty pissed at these idiots.

As Malkins writes:

“I predict this stunt will be the nail in the coffin of any guest-worker/amnesty plan on the table in Washington. The image of the American flag subsumed by another and turned upside down on American soil is already spreading on Internet forums and via e-mail.”

And that’s exactly how I found out about it. And here it is:

Who do these kids think they are? That’s not their flag to mess with. It belongs to all of us. … I could go on. Suffice it to say this was a selfish, moronic, juvenile act that really makes me mad. And it won’t go far to helping the cause of immigrant rights.