• American High School Band Marches with Hammer & Sickle
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[URL]http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/high-school-band-celebrates-russian-revolution.html[/URL] [QUOTE]A Pennsylvania high school marching band is raising eyebrows with a halftime performance that commemorates the Russian revolution, complete with red flags, olive military-style uniforms, and giant hammers and sickles. [B]“St. Petersburg: 1917” is the theme for the [URL="http://www.newoxfordbands.com/index.html"]New Oxford High School Marching Band[/URL].[/B] Ironically, the school’s athletic teams are called the Colonials and their colors are red, white and blue. The band’s website features a [URL="http://www.newoxfordbands.com/index.html"]picture of the group [/URL]with students holding a hammer and sickle. [URL="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Todd-Starnes/128334087241432"][B] FOLLOW TODD ON FACEBOOK FOR CULTURE WAR NEWS. CLICK HERE TO JOIN![/B][/URL] “There is no reason for Americans to celebrate the Russian revolution,” said one irate parent who alerted Fox News. “I am sure the millions who died under Communism would not see the joy of celebrating the Russian revolution by a school 10 miles from Gettysburg.” The parent, who asked not to be identified, attended a football last Friday night with his children. He said he was shocked by what he saw. “It was Glee meets the Russian Revolution,” he told Fox News. “I’m not kidding you. They had giant hammers and sickles and they were waving them around.” “Who thought this was a good idea?” [URL="http://www.amazon.com/Dispatches-Bitter-America-Chicken-Baptists/dp/1433672758/ref=tmm_pap_title_0"][B][I] Sarah Palin, Sean Hannity and Mark Levin say you need to get a copy of Todd’s book – “Dispatches From Bitter America.” Click here to get your copy![/I][/B][/URL] Rebecca Harbaugh, the superintendent for the [URL="http://www.conewago.k12.pa.us/"][B]Conewago Valley School District[/B][/URL], told Fox News that the band’s performance was “not an endorsement of communism at all.” “It’s a representation of the time period in history called St. Petersburg 1917,” she said. “I am truly sorry that somebody took the performance in that manner. I am.” “If anything is being celebrated it’s the music,” she said. “It is what it is. I understand people look at something and choose how to interpret that and I’m just very sorry that it wasn’t looked at as just a history lesson.” Besides, she explained, “in 2008 we did an entire show on freedom.” But some critics said it’s outrageous for any American school to be celebrating such a violent era. “It would be tantamount to celebrating the music of 1935 Berlin,” the parent said. “If I was Lithuanian, Estonian, or Ukrainian, I’d be a little hot. I’d be really hot. It’s insulting to glorify something that doesn’t need to be glorified in America.” Paul Kengor is the executive director for the Center for Vision & Values at Pennsylvania’s Grove City College. He initially thought the halftime performance was a joke. “This is surreal,” he told Fox News. “This is like something out of the Twilight Zone – but it’s even stranger than that.” Kengor said even if the school was not celebrating the revolution “they seem to be commemorating this to some degree.” “The Bolshevik Revolution launched a global Communist revolution that from 1917 through the 1990s was responsible for the deaths of over a hundred million people,” he said. “What the Russian revolution unleashed was a nightmare – a historical human catastrophe. This is something that should be condemned and not in any way commemorated or laughed at.” Gerson Moreno-Riano, dean of Regent University’s College of Arts & Sciences, told Fox News the performance is shocking. “The Russian revolution was one of the most violent episodes of the 20[SUP]th[/SUP] Century,” he said. “Lenin put into place a doctrine of mass terror to crush the opposition and thousands and thousands of people were murdered. The history professor said there’s very little to celebrate in that movement. “It’s full of violence, terror, destruction and in some weeks thousands of people were executed – some thrown with rocks around their necks into the river to drown,” he said. “It’s quite frankly horrific that a high school would be celebrating that at a football game,” he said. He was even more disturbed by the group photograph of the band in front of the hammer and sickle. “To raise the emblems of the hammer and sickle – the emblems of so much violence, destruction and terror – is a lack of knowledge of history,” he said. In the best case scenario, he said the editors were simply ignorant of the era. “The worst case scenario is someone who is trying to celebrate something they know about – and they’re trying to insert this into their educational agenda,” he said. [/QUOTE] I have no words. The stupid is just to powerful for me. Read the comments for maximum hilarity.
Oh my god the comments, are we in the fucking 1950's? People like those dumb asses piss me off so much.
Last year our marching band show was Russian themed and we formed a hammer and sickle on the field, Nobody seemed to have a problem with it. Oh god the comments....
hahaha "This is no different than marching with a swastika."
I think this is fucking awesome, a really nice gesture, a reminder for the people that other nations had it bad too [editline]25th September 2012[/editline] People are celebrating the civil war too, how bigoted do you have to be to condemn this for the violence of that period?
The comments are worse then Leninism itself.
[quote]There is no reason for Americans to celebrate the Russian revolution[/quote] uh [quote] “It would be tantamount to celebrating the music of 1935 Berlin,” the parent said.[/quote] well uh [quote]The Bolshevik Revolution launched a global Communist revolution that from 1917 through the 1990s was responsible for the deaths of over a hundred million people[/quote] [quote]Lenin put into place a doctrine of mass terror to crush the opposition[/quote] [quote]To raise the emblems of the hammer and sickle – the emblems of so much violence, destruction and terror[/quote] uh okay [quote]In the best case scenario, he said the editors were simply ignorant of the era[/quote] how can you say that without any irony?? [quote]“The worst case scenario is someone who is trying to celebrate something they know about – and they’re trying to insert this into their educational agenda,” [/quote] New Oxford High School, birth place of the fifth international amirite
So... People running around dressed like Confederates is perfectly okay?
people do run around clothed like Confederates, it's called Civil War re-enactments.
[QUOTE=thisispain;37793986]people do run around clothed like Confederates, it's called Civil War re-enactments.[/QUOTE] I know, that's what I'm talking about. I have no sympathy for October revolution or anything that happened after that, but come on, aesthetics of that era is very unique.
This is obviously Obongos work and he's trying to brainwash hardworking Americans into thinking that socialism is acceptable!! Mitt Romney 2012 better dead than red!!!! I think the comments are more amusing than the people in the article panicking about this, like the person calling for the band director to be fired on the grounds that he's the stupid one apparently.
I am going to hold a band march celebration for the first intelligent comment ever posted on Fox News. [QUOTE]You need to stop using the word "celebrate", for that is not what the band is doing. If the majority of you were at the show, you would see that the members do not prance around smiling, holding the communist sign. The show is a musical interpretation of an important event in history, NOT a celebration. There are many musical works that depict events in history. Go listen to Penderecki's, "Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima", for example. The reason there continues to be so much hated in our world is because of the vast amount of narrow minded people.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]Today's second reason to homeschool. This makes just as much sense as marching in Nazi uniforms and waving swastikas. After all, that was an era in history, too. Disgraceful.[/QUOTE] oh my god.
I don't understand the issue with comemorating one of the most important parts of human history god bless my country
Nice to see Macarty's Red Scare is still alive 60 years on.
[QUOTE=Syrix;37794069]oh my god.[/QUOTE] let them homeschool their kids; this ensures the next generation of bigoted conservatives will be a bunch of socially awkward weirdos who don't know how to interact with real people might slow down the spread of the disease a bit
[QUOTE=valkery;37793834]Read the comments for marximum hilarity.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]To raise the emblems of the hammer and sickle – the emblems of so much violence, destruction and terror[/QUOTE] Oh god, what? How can you be this dense?
When I ran for class president I tried a communist era approach. My logo was a sickle and pencil. Propaganda posted everywhere. No one told me to stop. What happened here is just stupid.
I've looked through comments. Oh the horror, that's even worse then most of neostalinist communities in .ru zone, and that should tell you a lot... May I ask Americans here, did people [b]actually[/b] believed some time in your history, that communism is some kind of evil curse that immediately corrupts you in some way once you as much as get a glimpse of some soviet attribute? Ah, I laughed so hard at this comment: [quote]the soviet union helped kill many thousands of our troops, Korea/Vietnam.[/quote] Yeah, because U.S. troops were just, like, sitting there, doing nothing, native to these lands themselves. [quote]“We will bury you. Your children will be communists. No, you won’t accept Communism outright; but we’ll keep feeding you small doses of Socialism until you will finally wake up and find that you already have Communism. We won’t have to fight you.” - Nikita Khrushchev.[/quote] Yeah. "The first and biggest issue in the Internet is that no one verifies the quotes" - Vladimir Lenin(Ulyanov).
[QUOTE=gudman;37794218]I've looked through comments. Oh the horror, that's even worse then most of neostalinist communities in .ru zone, and that should tell you a lot... May I ask Americans here, did people [b]actually[/b] believed some time in your history, that communism is some kind of evil curse that immediately corrupts you in some way once you as much as get a glimpse of some soviet attribute?[/QUOTE] uh yeah anti-Russian sentiment was a national institution in the United States for many years, until the Berlin Wall collapsed and the media started painting Gorbachev as a big lovable friend to the US.
[QUOTE=thisispain;37794225]uh yeah anti-Russian sentiment was a national institution in the United States for many years, until the Berlin Wall collapsed and the media started painting Gorbachev as a big lovable friend to the US.[/QUOTE] I'm not asking about official propaganda, it was so much worse in our side of "Iron Curtain", but next to no one honestly believed any word of that nonsense. I'm asking if anyone really believed that you can get yourself a nice little communism sitting in your guts.
[QUOTE=Xieneus;37794183]When I ran for class president I tried a communist era approach. My logo was a sickle and pencil. Propaganda posted everywhere. No one told me to stop. What happened here is just stupid.[/QUOTE] We had model parliament at our school a few years ago, and my brother and his friends ran the communist party. They didn't win, but they came a close second. No one gave a shit, although this is Canada... Heck, my English teacher had a bust of Lenin on his desk.
[QUOTE=Xieneus;37794183]When I ran for class president I tried a communist era approach. My logo was a sickle and pencil. Propaganda posted everywhere. No one told me to stop. What happened here is just stupid.[/QUOTE] I would of voted for you in a flash.
Why is this on the news, who cares if they want to theme themselves after the Russian Revolution.
Ban idiots from existence 2012 :suicide:
[QUOTE=valkery;37793834] To raise the emblems of the hammer and sickle – the emblems of so much violence, destruction and terror [/QUOTE] They confused hammer and sickle with swastikas.
thread music [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yDrtNEr_5M[/media]
[QUOTE=koeniginator;37794678]thread music [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yDrtNEr_5M[/media][/QUOTE] Probably the best anthem ever
Poor Benjamin Bracker arguing his ass off with the idiots in the comments...
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