From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Thu Jun 27 2002 - 16:13:44 MDT
Brian D Williams wrote:
>
> >From: Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com>
>
> >Eli, some of us can actually remember standing in class for an
> >explicit Christian prayer at the start of the day--in my case that
> >was a Mississippi public elementary school in the 60s. We've made
> >/some/ progress at least. Next on the chopping block is the whole
> >idea of pledging one's allegiance to a damned piece of cloth in
> >the first place.
>
> "and to the Republic for which it stands"
>
> It's about considerably more than a piece of cloth...
>
> Former Marines get picky about these things...
This Air Force vet thinks, though, that the Pledge should be removed
entirely because it is nothing more than a bit of national socialist
propagandizing using misdirection. We should be pledging allegiance to
the Constitution, and to nothing else.
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