A child’s pledge of allegiance to the flag
January 30th, 2006
Received from a reader who wishes to remain anonymous out of fear of government spying:
A Child’s Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag
When I Was Just a Small Lad
I Looked up So Proud,
I Saw the Stars and Stripes
And I Recited out Loud!I Pledge Allegiance
My Young Voice Cried,
To the United State of America
And to the Freedom for Which -
So Many Have Died!I Pledged Allegiance
To the Republic for Which it Stands,
To the One Nation under God
I Folded My Hands!As I Recited My Pledge
To the Indivisible Country,
I Whispered a Little Prayer
That Really Seemed -
Very Important to Me!I Was Pledging to a Country
That Promised Liberty and Justice for All,
Not Just for a Few
No ! Really, Really -
They Meant it for All!So Everyone Can Be Free
We Go to the Polls and Vote,
Everyone Has a Voice
We Proudly Gloat!No One Is Supposed to Be Left out
We Should All Have a Say,
But I Find That Is Not Always True
I Just Found That out -
Just the Other Day!I Found That Some of the Meanings
Of the Pledge Have Changed -
You See,
They No Longer Seem to Mean
The Same Things That They First Meant to Me!I Recently Read That an Iraqi
General Had Died,
Around His Face an American Sleeping
Bag Had Been Tied!An American Military Officer
Who Recited the Pledge Right Along,
Sat on the Generals Chest
Until All of His Air Was Gone!I Don’t Think it Was
Was the Right Thing for Him to Do.
And I Find Myself Wondering
If He Thought He Was Doing it -
Doing it for Me and for You!I Wonder Which Clause of the Pledge
He Thought the Generals Death Would Uphold,
Was it an Act under God
Or Was it Liberty and Justice -
For All to Behold!I Read That Yet More
Of Our Soldiers Across the Sea,
Were Fighting in Afganastan
They Claimed They Were Fighting -
Fighting for You and for Me!But I Never Recall
Casting a Vote to Tell,
Those Soldiers That They Could Murder
A Prisoner in a Jail Cell!They Went into His Cell
To Question Him You See,
And While They Were There
They Beat Him -
Unmercifully!When They Came Back
Some Time Later That Day,
The Found That the Man Was Dead
They Really Felt -
Like They Had Earned Their Pay!When Their Commander Was Asked
If These Murderers Would Go to Jail,
The Prisoner Could Have Died of Natural Causes
That Was His Tale!So All of this Makes Me
Makes Me Wonder Some How,
How Did Our Pledge Change
Why Are We the Way -
The Way We Are Now!Didn’t Enough of Us Go
Go to the Polls and Vote,
Maybe Too Many of Us Just Sat
Just Sat at Home and Gloat!Or Did We All Decided
That Our Pledge Should Permanently Change,
The Whole Constitution
We Should Conveniently Rearrange!If We Are Truthfully a Noble Nation
A Nation under God,
Can We Really Give These Murders
An Approving Nod!If Our Pledge Does Mean
Mean Anything to Us,
Openly These Murders
Our Country Should Discuss!If We Don’t Believe in Liberty and Justice for All
As the Pledge Does Say
Then Lets Start Teaching Our Children
The New Words Today!Liberty and Justice the New Words Might Be
God Lets Us Kill
If Public Homage -
They Don’t Pay to Me!I Write this Anonymous Poem
Anonymously You See,
For I Now Fear That My Government
Might Do the Same Thing -
to Me!
Entry Filed under: Iraq, Rights and Liberties, Torture, Uncategorized, War and Peace
2 Comments Add your own
1. Bridger | February 4th, 2006 at 6:13 pm
I’m not trying to spam or anything, but I thought you might be interested in a local case that I’ve been following. I go to one of the most conservative/conformist schools in my part of Pennsylvania. One of my friends, Sam Smith, doesn’t stand for the pledge (and it *doesn’t* relate to “Under God”), and he got sent to the office for it.
Here are the results of him knowing his rights:
http://nazo-update.blogspot.com
2. Libertarian Lawyers Group | February 18th, 2006 at 3:19 am
1. Dr. Rex Curry showed that the USA’s early Pledge of Allegiance (to the flag) used a straight-arm salute and it was the origin of the salute of the monstrous National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazis). Dr. Curry helped to establish that it was not an ancient Roman salute, and that the “ancient Roman salute” is a myth. http://rexcurry.net/pledgesalute.html The myth is still repeated in modern efforts to cover-up Dr. Curry’s discoveries about the Pledge’s poisonous pedigree.
2. The original Pledge began with a military salute that then stretched out toward the flag. Historic photographs are at http://rexcurry.net/pledge2.html and at http://rexcurry.net/pledge_military.html In actual use, the second part of the gesture was performed with a straight arm and palm down by children casually performing the forced ritual chanting. Professor Curry showed that, due to the way that both gestures were used sequentially in the pledge, the military salute led to the Nazi salute. The Nazi salute is an extended military salute. http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-pledge.html
3. Francis Bellamy (author of the “Pledge of Allegiance”) and Edward Bellamy (author of the novel “Looking Backward”) and Charles Bellamy (author of “A Moment of Madness”) were socialists. Edward and Charles were brothers, and Francis was their cousin. Francis and Edward were both self-proclaimed National Socialists and they supported the “Nationalism” movement in the USA, the “Nationalist” magazine, the “Nationalist Educational Association,” and their dogma of “military socialism,” and Edward inspired the “Nationalist Party” (in the USA) and their dogma influenced socialists worldwide (including Germany) via “Nationalist Clubs.” http://rexcurry.net/bellamy-edward-german-connections.html The Pledge was the origin of the Nazi salute. “Nazi” means “National Socialist German Workers’ Party.” A mnemonic device is the swastika. Although the swastika was an ancient symbol, Professor Curry discovered that it was also used sometimes by German National Socialists to represent “S” letters for their “socialism.” Curry changed the way that people view the symbol of the horrid National Socialist German Workers’ Party. Hitler altered his own signature to use the same stylized “S” letter for “socialist” and similar alphabetic symbolism still shows on Volkswagens. http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-swastika.html
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