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The New Oxford High School Marching Band, in New Oxford, Penn., marched into hot water on Friday by Hammer and sickle (© Karl Shone/Getty Images)performing a football-game halftime show commemorating the bloody Russian Revolution with bright red flags, military outfits, hammers, sickles and all. “It was ‘Glee’ meets the Russian Revolution,” an irate parent told Fox News, suggesting the millions who suffered and died under Communism as a result of the 1917 revolution would not have been amused. “They had giant hammers and sickles and they were waving them around … Who thought this was a good idea?” The school administration first defended the show as a history lesson, noting that in 2008, the district “did an entire show on freedom, ” but finally agreed to change the show’s name and remove the hammers and sickles. [Source]

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  1. Tim

    September 26th, 2012

    Next they’ll celebrate that other Great Socialist Event

    … The Holocaust!

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  2. Toaster

    September 26th, 2012

    Wow, NEA & teachers unions are trying to hasten the 0bamapocalypse / revolution I guess.

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  3. joe6pak

    September 26th, 2012

    I can’t imagine how pissed off I would be if one of my kids was involved with that. There is no acceptable explanation anyone would be able to give me!

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  4. karl

    September 26th, 2012

    Gotta wait until after he gets re-elected to do this sorta thing. I went to public school, and even I know this!

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  5. czekmark

    September 26th, 2012

    Liberalism/socialism/communism all birds of the same feather, all proud displayers of the hammer and sickle. Wonder if they also carried pictures of the gulags.

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  6. Maudie N Mandeville

    September 26th, 2012

    Next up, ‘The Nazi Follies’, complete with brown-shirted little goose steppers singing ‘Deutschland erwache’, the stadium field lined with search lights pointed skyward as in Albert Speer’s Cathedral of Ice with a large swastika mounted on each of the goal posts.

    “It’s showing expression with music, not an endorsement of nazism, rather it’s a representation of the time period in history called Nuremberg 1938.”

    “Hey, you don’t like it? Go to the concession stand at halftime, you dirty Jew.”

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  7. Stranded in Sonoma

    September 26th, 2012

    ♪♫ Springtime for Hitler and Germany.
    Winter for Poland and France.
    ♪♫

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  8. bitterclinger

    September 26th, 2012

    What’s the matter? Couldn’t they get a deal on Hitler uniforms and little moustaches?

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  9. Toaster

    September 26th, 2012

     
  10. Aharte

    September 26th, 2012

    So, no parents had a clue what their child was practicing? Really???

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  11. Unneutral

    September 26th, 2012

    If we don’t get the liberals away from the school system there may be little hope for this country.

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  12. FreeMan & Sarah Voting Early & Often

    September 26th, 2012

    Commies here in my own back yard. They are taking over I tell you.

    The mussies and the commies

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