Re: Uphold 9th Circuit Court Ruling on the Pledge of Allegiance Petition

From: Forrest Bishop (forrestb@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Sun Aug 25 2002 - 04:38:49 MDT


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From: Olga Bourlin <fauxever@sprynet.com>
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Subject: Re: Uphold 9th Circuit Court Ruling on the Pledge of Allegiance Petition

> From: "Mike Lorrey" <mlorrey@yahoo.com>
>
> > Considering that the original 'additive free' pledge was written by the
> American who founded the National Socialism ...

> Wouldn't that be Edward Bellamy? Francis Bellamy was Edward's first cousin,
> and it was Francis who wrote the pledge of allegiance. (I may be wrong,
> though ... and perhaps have been misinformed all these years.)

"Francis Bellamy (1855 - 1931), a Baptist minister, wrote the original Pledge in August 1892. He was a Christian Socialist. Inhis
Pledge, he is expressing the ideas of his first cousin, Edward Bellamy, author of the American socialist utopian novels, Looking
Backward (1888) and Equality (1897)...."
http://www.ifx.net/~wjohnson/pledge.htm
>
> >... movement that spread around the world and caused so much bloodshed in
> the last century ...

" The Pledge was published in the September 8th issue of The Youth's Companion, the leading family magazine and the Reader's Digest
of its day..."

*The Youth's Companion* article had an illustration of the proper method of pledging to the "colored ribbon". The original pledge
included a salute: the right hand was placed over the heart, then extended while saying "allegiance", palm down , arm extended
upward and toward the flag. This was an adaptation of the original Imperial Roman salute. The Nazis revised this to the more
ergonomically correct palm down gesture.
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Pledge of Aggrievance

I pledge collateral to the Fed,
which owns The UNITED STATES of AMERICA (Inc.)
and screw the public,
more which it scams,
one Note, under gold, irredeemable,
with liquidity injections forestall.

--
Forrest Bishop
Chairman, Institute of Atomic-Scale Engineering
www.iase.cc


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