History Forum / General / General Topics / June 2004

The Pledge of Allegiance court case is a blessing in disguise, by providing
a temporary delay.   It allows the fight to widen against the entire Pledge,
not just two words.  As a libertarian and a lawyer, I am spearheading the
next court case as a pro bono service to the public to liberate Americans
from government pushing the totalitarian Pledge.
http://members.ij.net/rex/pledge1.html

"Pledge II" will be a blockbuster sequel.  The first case led to scary
discoveries about the Pledge's pedigree. A libertarian made the historic
news-breaking discovery that exposed the Pledge as the origin of the salute
of the monstrous National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazis).  It is a
myth that the Pledge's original straight-arm salute is an ancient Roman
salute.  http://members.ij.net/rex/pledgesalute.html

The Pledge was written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy, a self-proclaimed
National Socialist in the U.S., who wanted a government takeover of
education to produce an "industrial army" for the authoritarian vision
portrayed in his cousin Edward Bellamy's book "Looking Backward."  The
Bellamy cousins promoted national socialism worldwide for decades.  Their
acts resulted in racist and segregated government schools that lasted into
the 1960's.

The pledge is a great issue for advocates of freedom.  Americans can change
the entire "pledge issue" from a limited debate about two words, to a
liberating debate about government, totalitarianism and government schools.
http://members.ij.net/rex/pledge1.html

Along with spearheading "Pledge II," I am filing another amicus curiae
brief in a case that is already exposing the entire Pledge of Allegiance, a
case that is more important than Newdow's case was, though it is virtually
unknown: U.S. v. Wonschik, case #03-10249 at the U.S. Supreme Court.
http://members.ij.net/rex/pledge4.html

Wonschik argues that judges should not lead jurors in reciting the Pledge
because jurors feel forced to recite the Pledge, and that criminal
defendants are denied a fair trial due to the appearance that Judges favor
the prosecution. http://members.ij.net/rex/pledgelaws.html     I am also a
member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and NACDL
has already filed an amicus curiae brief in support of Wonschik.

People ask if the Pledge of Allegiance promotes authoritarianism. Yes it
does, not only paying homage to a man who wanted the Pledge used to promote
government schools and authoritarianism, who wanted government schools
operated as a socialist monopoly, and to end all of the better alternatives,
and who wanted government schools used to create an "industrial army" (a
Bellamy phrase) modeled after the military, for a socialist economy and
society.

Everyone knows that the Bellamy cousins succeeded in many ways, in that
most schools are government schools, where the socialist's pledge is still
robotically chanted, and where children and their parents have learned to
accept the government school monopoly, social security, socialist slave
numbers, etc.

The pledge is usually recited because it is required by state laws for
government schools, and done collectively as a robotic chant daily on cue
from the government.

The pledge's history is suppressed because it is so un-libertarian. As
strange as it may seem, the ideas that inspired the pledge's author also
resulted in mass atrocities worldwide.
http://members.ij.net/rex/pledgebackward.html

It is hard to imagine a better issue begging for the correct arguments to
be made. Please help make the Pledge of Allegiance debate into a meaningful
debate about liberty.

On July 4th, declare your independence from the Pledge of Allegiance.  If
schoolchildren should recite anything, then they should recite the
Declaration of Independence, not the Pledge of Allegiance.  They are
mutually exclusive and contradictory.

Support individualism, not authoritarianism.  If the government's
antidisestablishmentarianism does not end, then we will be living in an even
bigger police state.  Pledge your independence, and don't declare your
allegiance.

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A search of Google News at http://news.google.com shows that a libertarian
journalist is the only source listed for exposing the monstrous "National
Socialist German Workers' Party," and that a search for that quoted phrase
leads to articles exposing the history of the Pledge of Allegiance, all
authored by Rex Curry.   It is amazing how intellectually dishonest the
media are, in that there is no instance in Google News of any use of the
actual name of the horrid Nazi Party, other then by a libertarian exposing
the suppressed history of the Pledge.

RexCurry.net is the only website that provides the scary original speech
given by Francis Bellamy for the debut of his Pledge of Allegiance.
http://members.ij.net/rex/pledgespeech.html

RexCurry.net is the only website that collects and displays true historic
photographs of the original Pledge of Allegiance (with the straight-arm
salute).  http://members.ij.net/rex/pledge1.html  that site is provided as
an educational service to the public even though RexCurry.net is not even a
mainstream news media site.

Fan mail praising the expose' of the totalitarian Pledge of Allegiance is at
http://members.ij.net/rex/pledge_heart.html

(For more ideas on liberty and the libertarian philosophy see
http://members.ij.net/rex and http://rexcurry.net from Rex Curry at
rexy@ij.net or ecurry@interaccess.net  or rexatious@hotmail.com ).