Every day we hear of another town or school district that refuses to say the Pledge of Allegiance. Some schools refuse to even have an American flag in the classroom. It goes along with Political Correctness. They go hand-and-hand together. They are both responsible for destroying the fabric of America. Progressives like to tell you what to do and how to live. They impose their will over you to achieve Their goals no matter how they achieve them (lie, cheat, mislead, steal, accuse, name call, discredit, etc). Their objective is simply to have power so they can exercise control over others. Progressives take from society in order to benefit themselves (this is called the re-distribution of wealth under the guise of "social justice"). Of course, they never tell you that. Progressives hang-out with minorities and harass society into getting what they want. ACORN Community organizers (Obama) are a good example. So you see Progressives want to change the way Americans do things - even change old traditions like the Pledge.
What Is the Pledge?
How did we get the Pledge? Gee, they never tell us that in school. Ever wonder why? The Pledge was authored by a Progressive Socialist!
The Pledge of Allegiance of the United States of America is an oath of loyalty to the flag and the Republic of the United States. It is (or was) spoken in every school at the beginning of each school day here in America.
It was and remains, one of the most controversial things in America's history. The Pledge originated back in 1892 composed by Francis J. Bellamy, a Freemason, Socialist, and Baptist minister who was later deposed for his "Socialistic sermons" in Boston, Massachusetts. He wrote it to commemorate a flag raising ceremony at a public school in order to help a close Socialist political friend sell American flags. It was first published on September 8, 1892 in "The Youth's Companion, a leading family magazine (considered the Reader's Digest of the day in the Boston area). Its original content was as follows:
"I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
Bellamy accounted for why he wrote the Pledge in 1892 by saying:
"...It began as an intensive communing with salient points of our national history, from the Declaration of Independence onwards; with the makings of the Constitution...with the meaning of the Civil War; with the aspiration of the people...
The true reason for allegiance to the Flag is the 'republic for which it stands.' ...And what does that vast thing, the Republic mean? It is the concise political word for the Nation - the One Nation which the Civil War was fought to prove. To make that One Nation idea clear, we must specify that it is indivisible, as Webster and Lincoln used to repeat in their great speeches. And its future?
Just here arose the temptation of the historic slogan of the French Revolution which meant so much to Jefferson and his friends, 'Liberty, equality, fraternity.' No, that would be too fanciful, too many thousands of years off in realization. But we as a nation do stand square on the doctrine of liberty and justice for all..."
Back then, Bellamy wanted to revise the Pledge by adding the word "equality" to stand with "liberty and Justice" to read "with liberty, justice, and equality," but he feared that this would be too controversial and too radical. Many years passed without any changes. During that era many schools required saying the Pledge or students faced expulsion. They also had to salute the flag using the infamous "Bellamy Salute" during the pledge. The salute was a military salute over the heart or an extended right arm salute like the one Hitler adopted after seeing it used in the USA! FDR changed the flag salute to simply placing the hand over the heart in 1933. Here is a picture of the Bellamy salute:
Then in 1924, the Daughters of the American Revolution and the American Legion pressured the National Flag Conference to replace the words "my flag" with "the flag of the United States of America." They so adopted this change and the Pledge remained as such until 1954 when Congress officially added the words "under God." The Pledge has remained as-is since then.
Full Circle
Ironic that a Socialist wrote the Pledge of Allegiance for the purpose of getting government control into the schools. Now Progressive Socialists want to abolish it because they believe it has instead become an American tradition. Whether you continue saying the Pledge is (of course) entirely up to you. It is noteworthy that its history has been hidden from textbooks and not taught in public schools.
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