I Pledge Allegiance...
he still stands
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Everything not forbidden is compulsory and eveything not compulsory is forbidden. You are free... free to do what the government says you can do.
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was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
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Well... up until the Nazis fucked it up for us (just like they did with the Charlie Chaplin moustashe).
Hail, Hail!!!
That part reminded me of Borat and the Kazakhstan national anthem... "and they're all run by little girls"
Like religion, get to them while they are young!
" The Pledge of Allegiance was written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy (1855–1931), who was a Baptist minister, a Christian socialist, and the cousin of socialist utopian novelist Edward Bellamy (1850–1898). Bellamy "viewed his Pledge as an 'inoculation' that would protect immigrants and native-born but insufficiently patriotic Americans from the 'virus' of radicalism and subversion."[2] The original "Pledge of Allegiance" was published in the September 8 issue of the popular children's magazine The Youth's Companion as part of the National Public-School Celebration of Columbus Day, a celebration of the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas. The event was conceived and promoted by James B. Upham, a marketer for the magazine, as a campaign to instill the idea of American nationalism by selling flags to public schools and magazines to students.[3][4] [5][6]
Bellamy's original Pledge read as follows:[7]
I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Students swearing the Pledge on Flag Day in 1899The Pledge was supposed to be quick and to the point. Bellamy designed it to be recited in 15 seconds. As a socialist, he had initially also considered using the words equality and fraternity[6] but decided against it - knowing that the state superintendents of education on his committee were against equality for women and African Americans.[8]
Francis Bellamy and Upham had lined up the National Education Association to support the "Youth's Companion" as a sponsor of the Columbus Day observance along with the use of the American flag. By June 29, 1892, Bellamy and Upham had arranged for Congress and President Benjamin Harrison to announce a national proclamation making the public school flag ceremony the center of the national Columbus Day celebrations (this was issued as Presidential Proclamation 335). Subsequently, the Pledge was first used in public schools on October 12, 1892, during Columbus Day observances organized to coincide with the opening of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[9]
so, it is okay because 1) a Socialist wrote it and 2) the word "God" wasn't part of the original? Why should either of those things mean that forcing kids to recite it isn't brainwashing? :? Are you assuming that I'm a godless socialist because I'm not a jingoist?
Now THAT is f'ing creepy. An "inoculation"? "Insufficiently patriotic"? "instill the idea of American nationalism"? Insert "Nazi" for "American" and... you know... I hate being that dude that compares Nazis to something but I think it is fairly appropriate here. The ideas of patriotism and nationalism are the biggest problems in this world. (edit; okay, that is hyperbole, but they are significant problems) To think that somehow this country is intrinsically better than another and that there is any fundamental difference between any living person are absurd notions.
My idea of patriotism is not placing anyone on this earth as superior or of less value than any other person, including myself... and certainly worshiping a flag that represents an construct of the mind with invisible boundaries... it just seems insane.
I was referring the socialist as a surprise. Who would have thought? Also, I brought up the point of God being brought into the mix in 1954 just like it was put on money (paper) in 1957. Just a quick facts there slick. I can personally give a crap if you are a Godless, socialist or not. To each their own.
So what is so wrong with wanting to teach children to be indivisible and having liberty and justice for all? It's not like the pledge said. "I pledge allegiance to the flag of great white Christian America, one nation for whites only, with liberty for whitey and separate drinking fountains for all.
I think you are looking way to into the pledge like it's Sciencetology.
Check the definitions of indivisable & liberty
absolutely, liberty and justice for all, that's awesome. Who wouldn't want those things? The only thing within the pledge itself that I take offense to is the "god" part. But that is not the point...
The point is that kids are pledging allegiance to a flag/country and taught to be patriotic at such a young age... when they are too young to enter into any other verbal contract, yet they are FORCED into entering this verbal contract and are ostracized if they don't.
The love of country I think is only valid if you're living here for free. If you're paying the government 40 cents on the dollar to live here, they can go fuck themselves.