Leftists in Brookline, Massachusetts Bans Pledge of Allegiance

By Douglas V. Gibbs

Liberal Leftist Brookline lawyer Marty Rosenthal has decided there is something seriously wrong with the Pledge of Allegiance. In fact, he has determined that making children recite the Pledge is dangerous, and a direct cause of bullying.

The school district had already made the Pledge voluntary so that no child felt obligated to recite it.

Rosenthal has compared the Pledge to loyalty oaths used in Nazi Germany, and claims that the Pledge promotes bullying because it divides the kids, and opens up the children that do not recite the Pledge to being bullied by the kids that do recite the Pledge.

Leave it to a lawyer to come up with such a cockamamie argument.

Rosenthal has also argued that the Pledge promotes anti-patriotic overtones and even shades of McCarthyism.

The group that is helping Rosenthal with his crusade against the Pledge states that the Pledge has no educational value and is “literally and psychologically a loyalty oath, reminiscent of McCarthyism or some horrific totalitarian regimes.”

Rosenthal, in response to critics, said, “The pledge is at odds with America’s most important traditions. . . Is [our soldiers' fight] for the flag of the United States, or the principles that we stand for?”

A parent that opposes Rosenthal's efforts said about the lawyer's crusade against the Pledge of Allegiance, “It’s very selfish. What kind of selfish people would want to do that? You’re a citizen of the United States. Why would you not want to pledge your allegiance to it?”

The irony is that the Pledge of Allegiance was written by a socialist who originally intended the verse to be a loyalty pledge in the hopes of spreading nationalism across the United States.

Originally, a salute, similar to the Nazi salute, was used during the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance. The salute was changed to a hand over heart gesture when Nazi Germany used a similar salute.

The phrase "under God" was added in 1954, by a bill signed into law by President Eisenhower on June 14, 1954 (Flag Day), a decision largely driven by the lobbying of the Knights of Columbus, as a means of differentiating America from the "godless" Communists of the USSR.

President Benjamin Harrison ensured Bellamy's Pledge was first used in public schools on October 12, 1892, during Columbus Day observances.

In 1923 the National Flag Conference called for the words "my Flag" to be changed to "the Flag of the United States", for the benefit of new immigrants. The words "of America" were added a year later. The United States Congress officially recognized the Pledge as the official national pledge on June 22, 1942.

The Pledge of Allegiance, a socialist attempt to head America in the direction of tyranny, through the years came to be a patriotic recitation that many believe the Founding Fathers would be proud of.

Amazing how America, with our exceptional spirit of liberty, can even turn something originally created to destroy us into a beloved show of patriotism.

Even more interesting is that originally socialists wanted the Pledge so that America may be turned into a nationalistic nation. But the goodness of America changed the Pledge to represent something else - What was meant to be a national socialist salute became a patriotic pledge that resides close to our hearts.

Now, after patriotism has changed the socialist Pledge into a thing of patriotic pride, the Left wants to eliminate it.

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