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Okay, so some students have banned the Pledge of Allegiance at their meetings.
Big Whoop.
Little Green Footballs goes apeshit over it, calling it: “the dead end of the “progressive†ideology—young people with no sense
of history, no pride in their own heritage, and no moral center”.
Well, no, not really. They’re doing the college thing, wearing berets like Che, acting out, simple stuff. Remember, this is for their own meetings, not for the school or campus or anything big. A sense of history doesn’t come from a much-modified Pledge of Allegiance to a flag. Pride in your heritage doesn’t come from a much-modified Pledge of Allegiance to a flag. Moral center doesn’t come from a much-modified Pledge of Allegiance to a flag. No matter the flag, no matter the pledge, it won’t instill history, pride in yoru heritage or moral center.
One of the kids even speaks truth about the pledge:
“That (’under God’) part is sort of offensive to me,†student trustee
Jason Bell, who proposed the ban, told Reuters. “I am an atheist and a
socialist, and if you know your history, you know that ‘under God’ was
inserted during the McCarthy era and was directly designed to destroy
my ideology.â€
Guess what, he’s right. “The last change in the Pledge of Allegiance
occurred on June 14 (Flag Day), 1954 when President Dwight D. Eisenhower approved adding
the words “under God”.” — HomeofHeroes.com
1954 was the beginning of the end for McCarthy, but he was in full fascist swing that year, too.
As for the kid being a socialist… well, kids will be kids. They’ll learn the hard way that you have to EARN your standing, it can’t be granted to you by the great, powerful and benevolent government. The hippies learned, so will they.
Further:
Bell said the ban largely came about because the trustees didn’t want
to publicly vow loyalty to the American government before their
meetings. “Loyalty ought to be something the government earns through
performance, not through reciting a pledge,†he said.
How dare he insist that government should earn trust. He’s a socialist, the government is always right to a socialist.
As for me, I think his words are correct. In our society, a capitalistic republican democracy with a limited government constitution, the government DOES have to earn the trust of the people. Every day, in word and deed. It hasn’t been doing so well lately (and the democrats are going to make it worse, just as the republicans would’ve if they’d been kept in office).
So, the kid ain’t so bad. LGF, however… a bit nutroots on that one.
http://www.globalincidentmap.com/
A global display of terrorism and other suspicious events. Pretty fascinating to watch.
