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 | | From: | MMET572 | | Subject: | Re: Stop the totalitarian Pledge of Allegiance | | Date: | Mon, 29 Nov 2004 07:11:31 -0500 |
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"rexitis" wrote in message
news:40817045$1_1@corp.newsgroups.com...
> Few students or teachers know that the pledge was written in 1892 by a
> self-proclaimed socialist in the U.S. nationalist movement, to promote
> socialism.
>
> Few people know that the original salute to the flag was like the Nazi
> salute and that "Nazi" means "National Socialist German Workers' Party."
> (Eye-popping photos are only at http://members.ij.net/rex/pledge1.html )
> An
> easy mnemonic device to remember that Nazis were socialists and that
> "Nazi"
> means "National Socialist German Workers' Party" is that the horrid
> swastika
> resembles overlapping "S" shapes for "socialism," and that the Nazis often
> used stylized "S" symbolism. (See
> http://members.ij.net/rex/swastikanews.html )
You are a funny little kook.
http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-hitler.htm
DFooK
>
> The pledge of allegiance was authored by the self-proclaimed socialist
> Francis Bellamy. Bellamy was the first cousin of the socialist Edward
> Bellamy. Edward Bellamy's futuristic novel, "Looking Backward," was
> published in 1888, and described life in the year 2000. It described a
> totalitarian society where all private transactions are outlawed, where
> the
> government places all men in an "industrial army" and where the monolithic
> government school system is operated specifically as part of the
> "industrial
> army" system. Of course, all of the preceding was portrayed as a dandy
> utopia just as it was portrayed by so many apologists for the industrial
> armies of socialist hell-holes worldwide.
>
> The book spawned a socialist movement in the U.S. known as "Nationalism,"
> with the Nationalist magazine, and "Nationalist Clubs" whose members
> wanted
> the federal government to nationalize most of the American economy.
> Francis
> Bellamy was a member of this movement and a vice president of its
> socialist
> auxiliary group.
>
> Francis Bellamy had often lectured on the so-called "virtues of socialism
> and the evils of capitalism." In 1891, he was forced to resign from his
> church because of his socialist activities and sermons. He then joined the
> staff of the magazine "Youth's Companion" and wrote the pledge of
> allegiance, first published therein.
>
> In the original articles about the Pledge of Allegiance, Francis Bellamy
> promotes government schools and snipes at the many better alternatives,
> and
> urges that education should come only from government. It is consistent
> with the government school monopoly in the book "Looking Backward" and the
> "industrial army" promoted by the Bellamys.
>
> Bellamy lived during the time when schools were becoming socialized
> heavily
> in the United States. When the U.S. Constitution was written, children
> received private educations (schools are not mentioned in the U.S.
> Constitution).
>
> Edward Bellamy's book was translated into 20 foreign languages. It was
> popular among the elite in pre-revolutionary Russia, and was even read by
> Lenin's wife. John Dewey and the historian Charles Beard intended to
> praise
> the book when they stated that it was matched in influence only by Das
> Kapital.
>
> Francis Bellamy lived from 1855 to1931. Edward Bellamy lived from
> 1850-1898.
> Edward Bellamy was spared witnessing the horrors that his socialism caused
> to the rest of humanity. Francis Bellamy lived in the U.S. during the
> first
> 14 years of mass atrocities under the industrial army of the Union of
> Soviet
> Socialist Republics. Francis Bellamy might not have known about the
> horrors
> of his socialist ideas in the U.S.S.R. at that time. Francis Bellamy
> lived
> long enough to see a similar salute and philosophy espoused by the
> industrial army of the National Socialist German Workers' Party. If
> Edward
> Bellamy's fictional character had awakened in the year 2000 he would have
> learned that since 1887 Bellamy's philosophy had set and was holding all
> the
> worst records for shortages, poverty, misery, starvation, atrocities and
> mass slaughter.
>
> According to R. J. Rummel's article in the Encyclopedia of Genocide (1999)
> the worst trio of socialist atrocities (see
> http://members.ij.net/rex/socialists.jpg) occurred under the industrial
> armies of: (1) the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 62 million deaths,
> 1917-'87; (2) People's Republic of China, 35 million, 1949-'87; (3)
> Germany
> under the National Socialist German Workers' Party, 21 million, 1933-'45.
>
> After the National Socialist German Workers' Party tried to impose
> socialism
> on the world, many U.S. citizens were disturbed by the Pledge's similar
> salute and that it was written by a socialist in "Nationalist" groups in
> the
> U.S. Although the salute changed, the pledge remained the same.
>
> There is something more disturbing than all of the above: Most children
> are
> never told any of the preceding history in government schools, even though
> there is often a totalitarian-style robotic recital of the pledge as a
> collective by children in government schools en masse on cue from the
> government every single day.
>
> It is a wonder why anyone recites the Pledge of Allegiance. It is
> probably
> because of rampant ignorance about the Pledge's origin and history.
>
> No one would trust the government to tell you the truth if it ran the
> newspapers. Why would anyone expect the government to tell children the
> truth in government schools? As Libertarians say: The separation of school
> and state is as important as the separation of church and state. And that
> is
> the real solution to the pledge debate and all other school issues: remove
> government from education.
>
> to learn more visit http://members.ij.net/rex/pledge1.html
>
>
>
>
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