GOP Bill Would Make Pledge of Allegiance Mandatory for Michigan Students
A group of Republican state senators have proposed a bill that would make the Pledge of Allegiance mandatory for every public school student in Michigan.
Republican state Sen. Roger Kahn's SB 637 would also require schools to purchase a flag for every classroom.
"THE BOARD OF A SCHOOL DISTRICT OR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICT OR BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL ACADEMY SHALL ENSURE THAT EACH PUPIL IN EACH PUBLIC SCHOOL IT OPERATES IS REQUIRED TO RECITE THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES EACH SCHOOL DAY," the bill says.
The group Michigan Atheists opposes the bill, but not so much because of the phrase "under God" that students would be forced to say.
"The 'under God' is far less important to me than the entire sense that requiring the Pledge of Allegiance is just plain wrong," Michigan Atheists director Arlene Marie told South Bend Tribune. "It is divisive and there are many reasons why parents would not want their children to say the Pledge of Allegiance."
Marie explained that many of the children would be too young to understand what taking a pledge means, and some religions like Jehovah's Witnesses forbid followers from citing pledges.
"Many children in our public schools are not even citizens of this country," she added.
Christian Socialist Francis Bellamy wrote the Pledge in 1892 as a part of a campaign to sell flags to schools. The words "under God" were added by Congress 1954 because President Dwight Eisenhower perceived a threat from secular Communism.
The Supreme Court ruled in 1943 that forcing students to cite the pledge was unconstitutional unless parents were given the opportunity to have the final say on whether their child participates.
"If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein," Justice Robert Jackson wrote for the majority.
"We think the action of the local authorities in compelling the flag salute and pledge transcends constitutional limitations on their power and invades the sphere of intellect and spirit which it is the purpose of the First Amendment to our Constitution to reserve from all official control."
To address those concerns, members of a state Senate committee added language to the Michigan legislation that would allow parents to opt out.
Republican state Sens. Rick Jones, Patrick Colbeck, Michael Green, Tonya Schuitmaker, Howard Walker, Goeffrey Hansen, Jack Brandenburg, and John Pappageorge are co-sponsoring the bill.
Hmmm, maybe my parents signed something giving the (Orange County public) school permission to make me pledge? I can't say I ever remember seeing anyone refuse or be sheltered from the daily pledge I took (60s, 70s).
BTW, will they require the same for home-schooled kids? Will the taxpayer pick up the tab for the flags and enforcement costs of the police sent house-to-house? Can I specify that I want a 100% cotton, US-made flag instead of a Chinese POS?
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
No, of course, if you home school, you can teach your kids whatever insane crap you want, in the good, classic American tradition. Just be aware if you don't have a flag displayed prominently in at least one room of your house, you will be subjected to community retraining. This is, of course, nothing like the way the North Koreans treat thier people. We will still be God fearin' capitalists.
I can remember the Jehovah's Witness kids having to leave the classroom for the Pledge back in the 70's-80's.
Good thing we have republicans to tackle these incredibly important issues.
I'm actually amused though, we've seen this sorta thing more and more and more lately. I think it's a sign of desperation. Just a last-minute way to be all.. "R.. remember? You might not like us, but we're the guys with the flags and freedom and god and stuff? Remember?"
The first and last refuge of the scoundrel.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
It's distraction....like "the geys are recruiting your children", "the moooslims are gonna kill you all", "abortionabortionabortionabortion", "libruls are taking away your freedoms".
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
This bill will, of course, create jobs just like the other bullshit bills the Repugnicunnts push.
Sure it will, we'll need at least ten more people in the Flagging industry. Repthuglicans are trying to create jobs, just on a smaller scale. 10 jobs every year.
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The flagging industry in China. Same factory that makes the flag lapel pins, magnetic yellow ribbons for our cars, all the bullshit trinkets and trash.
The good life is a day at the beach.
they wanted us to believe Communist China requires, i.e. blind loyalty to the state.
First it was the condemnation and state sanction made very publicly and widely proclaimed by the compliiant media against MoveOn.org for the Petraeus/Betray Us poster during the Iraq fiasco.
Now the facists are coming out and openly demanding allegiance to the state .
What is the next step?
Recovered believer of myth that no government is better than no government.
Maybe liberals who value secularism should stop letting the religious right frame the debate.
Maybe African tribes should have stopped running into European bullets. Maybe civilians in European cities during WW2 should have stopped letting the other side drop bombs on their houses. Maybe Russia shouldn't have let that last goal during the miracle on ice count. Maybe people should stop blaming victims for the strongarm bully-boy domineering tactics of those with the power.
You know, in courts of LAW as opposed to pounding the pulpits of church?
What else do you want, violence?
Surely, not everyone claiming to be rupublican can actually be as much of a sociopath as these individuals who have somehow been elected(?) to serve in government which is regulated by documents clearly specifying the rights of "We The People"? The absurdity of this whole issue leaves me wondering if in many instances, the reversal of evolution is under way.
Republican voters are borg... and they never, ever stay home on election day. Republicans share one thing - all known human flaws. The power of fear, hate, and greed compels them, while what compels us on the other side is courage, love, and generosity. The only way we can win is to outnumber them.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
And not be busy.
Because we definitely outnumber them.
GOPer's are almost always sociopath's and loners I have found, so voting gives them something to do every year or two.
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
They are definitely the cream of the crop Ape man . From the Republicon politicians to their supporters , they completely reject common sense , normalcy and reality . Selfishness , greed , ignorance and and stupidity are the only virtues they know .
al Qaeda can't hurt us, but republicans surely can. They are the true Enemy.
I detest nationalist BS like this. Sieg Heil kiddies.
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a Lunatic Asylum. -Havelock Ellis
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If a drone kills a child in Kandahar, do the crying parents make a sound?
And these are the same assholes who constantly yell about intrusive government.
No shit!
I tell wingnuts that the economic misery they feel daily in their lives - and which is going on in this country now, is the big government corporate fascist GOP boot of authoritarianism on the back of their necks!
Yeah, small government my ass!
By the way, I will tell my kids not to pledge. I would love a law suit against these useless fascist bastards!
Everyone of those morons listed, is an ultra wingnut psycho.
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
As the country spins out of control....
It's good to see the nationalists are looking out for us.
Creeping fascism.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Actually, I think they're in third gear now, and getting ready to go into overdrive.
By next spring, when it looks like these Teabircher imbeciles are going to be purged by the electorate in the Fall, I can't imagine the rapid pace of destructive bullshit they will try to ram through before the end of 2012. The Koch's demand results!
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
Ya. Watch for false flag operations, smear campaigns, rampant scapegoating, and economic sabotage like we haven't yet seen.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
On freakin' steroids!
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
to that
The good life is a day at the beach.
Creeping "FUNDI" fascism.
Study the symptoms not the virus...
... I'm embarrassed by the actions of my state's government. We truly are becoming "Mississippi of the North," and I've long said that if Texas secedes, they should take Mississippi with them and form the country of Dumbfuckistan. Maybe they'll also annex Michigan as a territory (but please, not until I've moved away).
"Whatever your particular problem is, I promise you, the Republicans are not the least bit interested in solving it. They are interested in two things, and two things only: making you afraid of it, and telling you who's to blame for it."
Aldolf Snyder and the rest of the GOP Hitler youth movement in Lansing is turning Michigan into Michissippi.
But the people I really loathe, are the stupid mofo's who support and vote for them.
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
a republican jobs proposal here and I missed it?
More waste of the taxpayers MONEY from the conservative right wing! It is a disease endemic to the repub baggers!
Your country fought to save itself from the British Empire. Now, who is going to save you from your own 'fascist-style' whackiness?
Canada?
are you kidding, we don't want you
Who would ?
By the looks of things, it won't be the free press. Journalism died with equal justice under the law. Perhaps we can all emigrate to Antarctica and form a nation of the people, by the people, and for the people...
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Won't work. Been tried. Had to be attacked, invaded, occupied and overthrown from outside to correct the whole mess. Interesting idea though.
Humpty Dumpty was pushed.
of the Ode to the Misplaced Priority continues, I see...
CTHULHU 2012 "Why vote for a lesser evil?"
Forced to make a pledge of allegiance to who ? The American Reich wing and the Republicon fascist party ?
Some minor changes are proposed:
"I pledge allegiance to the flag,
of the Corporate States of America
and to the fascists, for whom the republican's stand,
one cult, without liberals or justice for anyone but the 1%."
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
I see so many people use the word fascism, and fascist, but somehow I don't believe they even know what fascism is. They couldn't define it if their lives depended on it!
The modern GOP is the text book dictionary definition of a corporate fascist regime.
But you are right, Teabirchers and rightwingers have no idea what it really means.
When I tell them "fascists" and "socialists" are mutually exclusive terms, and that calling a socialist a fascist also - is like calling a guy a lesbian, the silence is deafening.
The chirping of crickets emanating from the wingnuts' empty heads are priceless. Especially when I offer to bet them $100 by looking it up in the Webster's.
I have yet to this day have one wingnut take my offer, but it does get them to STFU. Especially if others are around and start laughing at them.
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
You can redefine anything you want, but to be understood you need to use well understood definitions. Unless you are speaking in code, and you don't want them to understand you. The Courts use this tactic all the time.
Easy to defeat, if you know more about the word, and it's history than the other person.
http://www.rense.com/general37/fascism.htm
Every single one is currently being pushed by the anti-American republican church!
It's a good article, but the U.S. only seems to have 5 of the 14 conditions, and it would seem neither party is much different than the other.
Of the 14 I only saw:
7. Obsession with National Security
9. Corporate Power is Protected
12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment
13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption
14. Fraudulent Elections
as being representative of the U.S. to any great degree. I know there is election fraud, I've on that myself!
10. Labor Power is Suppressed, Public sector labor unions will still be preferred to private work, because the benefits are better with the public labor unions.
Most here know damned well what the base definition / meaning of the word is .
That's good, for a time I thought it simply meant "authoritarianism". The largest corporations support the government to create a safe environment for them. They create a Corp / Govt partnership. America's industrialists have long financed, and supported the Soviet Union. Why would they not support a similar system here?
the more the fucking gop/teabaggers say they want
the government out of our daily lives, the more they
prove what a bunch of fucking nazis they are. this is
a country of personal freedoms. we don't need to
prove to anyone else that we are loyal and dedicated
citizens. where are the fucking JOBS the gop has
promised they would bring when they got control
of the govt. seems all the jobs they are creating
are outsourced to mexico and overseas.
Wait until Obama is re-elected! We want chaos in the streets!!! Coast to coast occupy Oakland! Tear gas, rubber bullets, the National Guard! riots!
The American people are not ready yet, for the government they need, and want!
JP
http://giveusthisdayourdailtydread.blogspot.com
I taught third grade for a number of years, and sixth grade for a number of years...and honestly, THEY didn't even know what the hell they were mumbling.....not to mention the ESL students, the Jahovah Witnesses, etc. What a freakin joke!
Sociopath's are incapable of understanding or empathizing with anyone else's point of view.
That's why they are republican's in the first place.
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
I said it in school every day for years without the slightest clue as to what any of it meant. Same with the Lord's Prayer at Sunday School.
The Supreme Court ruled in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943) that students could not be compelled to recite the Pledge, a ruling that has been repeatedly sustained over the last 68 years. There is no doubt that this law is unconstitutional.
Theory - Republicans in Michigan won majorities in both houses and the governorship - and just like in Ohio, Florida and Wisconsin they immediately overreached by passing a raft full of draconian ALEC laws that have made them very unpopular. They foresee their new majorities slipping away in another wave election in 2012. How to hold on? Crank up the disenfranchisement machine so that Democratic leaning voters find it hard to vote - done that, check. Energize their conservative base with anti-abortion laws - done that, check. Create an ultra-patriotic and religious backlash against the evil liburls who voted against the Pledge Of Allegiance and then had it struck down by the evil liburl activist courts after it passes anyway due to the Godly GOP majority. In other words it is all about culture wars to make the voters forget what a-holes they are.
They don't give a good god damn that it's unconstitutional. Hell, that's a feature, because then they get to be the victims of "activist judges".
Obama should declare a national emergency, and suspend elections for a little while! He has the authority! He should use it!
Can't remember quite where, though.
Humpty Dumpty was pushed.
We see how well that worked. What's a jew or two amongst friends?
What's next, posting people's pics in the post office who refuse the pledge?
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get out of my life!
I don't pledge allegiance to a country that inflicts so much violence on people around the world. Does that make me a traitor?
Nobody believes in anything, have no guide in their lives, and do not know why they believe what ever they believe. Conservative fascism = Bad, Liberal fascism = Good:) For all the noise of the OWS'ers Wall Street made more money in the last 3 years, than it did in 8 years of Bush!
The current democratic leadership is not liberal.
They are DLC conservative-lite: Fascists' to be exact.
There is no liberal fascism. The terms are mutually exclusive.
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics
Fascism:
s an economic system, fascism is socialism with a capitalist veneer. The word derives from fasces, the Roman symbol of collectivism and power: a tied bundle of rods with a protruding ax. In its day (the 1920s and 1930s), fascism was seen as the happy medium between boom-and-bust-prone liberal capitalism, with its alleged class conflict, wasteful competition,
Make a pledge of allegiance to this country as it is ? Sorry , no can do .
They don't know they're Brown Shirts but they're every where and they don't know it. I thought this was a free country? Yet now we are being told we must pledge allegiance to it? All these small government conservatives are now telling us we must make a daily pledge to them? This is sick. This is big government and anti-American.
is intended to be a factual statement
Then use that information later in their lives when they want jobs, or allow them into a decent college! Start weeding out the chaff early, and quietly!
Can we see your papers? Do you belong to the right party and support that party?
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
We'll use technology! Monitor cellphone, and gps data. We have the technology Stalin never could have imagined. There is already a Terabyte of data on each of us. Soon with new video
technologies there might be 100 Terebytes data on each one of us.
Ha! An ad written by a Christian SOCIALIST in 1892 to sell flags. Dipshits probably think it was wriiten by Benjamin Franklin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_alleig...
and "Under God" in the Pledge were the work of the founding fathers, you know, those guys who ended slavery at the same time Paul Revere rode through Concord, New Hampshire. This is why they call us "elitists", cause we gots us some edurkatiun.
The good life is a day at the beach.
Republicans lost their ever loving minds? Hasn't this come up before and been shot down by the courts?
Yes , they have .
Communism is not dead, but it is dormant for a season. Have to lull them G.D. capitalists into a false sense of security. Get them to sell us the rope we'll use to hang themselves.
The American Empire in the latter state of decay. They have been divided on race, gender, wealth, class, religion. Even love of nation! Americans don't know their history, because they are not taught their history, they don't even know the most basic facts about the government.
19 in 20 would say America is a Democracy, and 19 in 20 would be wrong! Perhaps 49 in 50 in this group believe America is a Democracy:) My great wish is to see the fall of America in my lifetime.
Destroyed from within , rotting away . Anymore there is nothing to be proud of , nothing to be patriotic about , much to hate and despise , much to be ashamed of , but I don't want to see this country fall , I would like to see her turn around , for the people to come to their senses and save this country , take her back , make it what it ought to be ! There's about a snow ball's chance in hell of that happening , I know .
We've spent 50 years running from family values towards State values! When family values are destroyed, the state will rot, within the lifetime of the children being raised. I say this as I have a 19 y.o. OWS young lady in my bed, and a 21 y.o. OWS young lady fixin' us breakfast. Taking the RV from Atlanta to Oakland. Hope I don't miss all the fun! :)
Why do the Republicans have such a Totalitarian streak?
It's like they hate freedom.
Govt mandates, and all that?
I mean repressive anti-social behavior.
Acting like a pack of jerk-offs and expecting praise for it.
As a small note to you; the mandate you refer to was a Republican idea.
Medicare for all is a better idea.
I remember back in elementary school ( way way back ) , we had to say the pledge of allegiance every morning , no one thought anything of it , once a week ( once a month ? ) the emergency / fire alarm bell would go off and we would take cover under or little school desks , practicing for the dreaded nukes that the Soviet Union was about to launch upon us ... at any moment . I remember believing completely what we were taught , that it was those poor Pinko Commie kids in Russia who were brainwashed and propagandized , but we Americans ? No way ! Years and years later you realize that Russia had nothing on the Americans when it came to fear mongering , propagandizing and lying to it's own people . America the beautiful ? It never was.
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If a drone kills a child in Kandahar, do the crying parents make a sound?
To be fair, those desks, with their wooden tops and metal bottoms were scientifically designed to protect a schoolchild from a nuclear blast.
Yeah , I'm sure they'd done us wonders Mark .
They will be back at "duck and cover" bullshit drills to scare the little ones out of their wits. You are right, propaganda. But then, when you have no ideas, no solutions, you have to rely on scare tactics and propaganda.
The good life is a day at the beach.
Don't forget the ever popular lecture about "finishing your lunch, because they're are people in China who are starving and would love to eat that food."
Growing up, all I heard about was the horrible, godless Chicoms.
Of course, once the conservative fascists' figured out they could screw the American people by hooking up with the commies, well......., suddenly those Chicoms weren't so bad after all.
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
I was supposed to eat my Brussels sprouts because some kid 10,000 miles away was hungry. Never understood the logic.
It never failed, my mom would trot out the "You have to eat everything on your plate, because there are people starving in China."
And in return, my brother would announce "Well, you should mail them this, because I'm not gonna eat it."
And let the butt-whupping commence in 3...2....1....
A picture of Chairman Mao in every classroom, ditto Stalin. Beware of packages wrapped in a flag.
-The narrator, in Vonnegut's "Mother Night".
This country is fucked. Utterly fucked.
Just 'Cos You Got the Power...THAT DON'T MEAN YOU GOT THE RIGHT!
Deja vu all over again.
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase...
Harlan Fiske Stone (the "1" in the 8-1 decision) put it well:
"This seems to me no more than the surrender of the constitutional protection of the liberty of small minorities to the popular will."
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/personal...
of the United States of America,
And to the Republic for which it stands,
one nation, under god,
with liberty and justice for all.
TFR
I pledge allegiance to the flag
Of the United States of America
And to the Republic for which it stands
Although my state is under siege
Without liberty and justice for all
The good life is a day at the beach.
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TFR
I always left out under god. My parents weren't religious and told me it was upto me whether to say it or not. I opted not. Like they said, WHICH GOD OR GODESS should it be?
and it is because of the republicans - and all they do is worry about the Motto of the united states and if your kid is going to be reciting the pledge of alliegnece in school . who believes in this crap they try to pass off as goverening?
roger allen
From Wiki:
In 1943 the Supreme Court reversed its decision, ruling in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette that public school students are not required to say the Pledge, concluding that "compulsory unification of opinion" violates the First Amendment.[15] In a later opinion, the Court held that students are also not required to stand for the Pledge.[16]
I suppose the Repugnicans are counting on the fact that there are so many more important violations of the Constitution going on today, that they'll never get around to filing against this blatant garbage...
"No amount of intelligence or education is a guarantee against stupidity."
I live in Michigan and tonight I sent my state senator an email (not that he ever responds) telling that I will be watching his vote. Since this new governor and new Republicans were elected in 2010, this state has turned to a junior N A Z I state. I believe the 1943 SCOTUS means only that parents can opt their children out of the Pledge. Unfortunately, this will put those students at risk for bullying or isolation for not participating. Children can be cruel without any encouragement from the state. This is doubly troubling in view of the bullying is allowed if you are doing it as a result of religious or moral beliefs anti-bullying law that same senate passed last week.
The good life is a day at the beach.
To the student(s) that refuse to recite the pledge? Will it then be the teacher's job to watch each student's mouth to make sure that they are reciting the pledge?
This is starting to sound like the soviet Republic of Michigan. Now I remember why I left there after 15 years. It harkens back to stories I remember hearing about the Soviet Union in the 50's and 60's when I was growing up. Making sure that everyone showed the proper amount of patriotism. And woe to you if you didn't, your neighbors or even you children might report you to the authorities, and ship you off the the gulaug if you didn't.
There are only two things in life, but I forget what they are.
John Hiatt
Sieg Heil is a lot shorter and more to the point.
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
in many school districts.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
The addition of 'under dog' to the pledge in the 50s had nothing to do with Dwight Eisenhower, except that he was in the WhiteHouse at the time, and politically gutless enough to sit silently by as the crazies screamed for blood. Nixon and the religionists, of course, loved it. That whole crock came directly from the McCarthyites and the kill-a-commie-for-christ crowd, who claimed -- and may in large part have actually believed -- that no dirty commie would ever be able to say in public the awful words of forced religion. Because the commies were/are dogless, so if they said the words their skin would fall off, or something, and we'd know who they were so we could burn them at the stake, or something. And even then, at a fairly tender age, when it came up in my face, I refused to say the words when they changed. Still don't.
Knowing the truth is a good thing, regardless of how many times the soulless repetition of lies and excuses happens.
Morality is the basis of truth and truth is the basis of all morality.
Gandhi
Ike was in it up to his scrawny Presbo neck. The Catholicks may have been pushing it, but the Supreme Presbo Commander in Chief pushed it over the top.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politi...
TFR
This initiative is akin to forcing prayer in schools, since conservatives and religious zealots always treat the flag as a sacred object (while totally trashing the country it stands for, of course).
At first glance, giving the parents the right to opt their kids out seems reasonable. But I don't know... That child will then be stigmatized by the rest of the children for being 'weird'. And it is conceivable that homeland security might even be notified of the refusal, if the child is a teenager, for instance.
This TURD who took a OATH of OFFICE and serves his Anti American corporate OWNED and RACIST corporations, wants to push th Pledge, like I would believe anything a ASS WIPE Anti American corporate OWNED TRAITOR republican would have to say.
When the ASS WIPES of America start with their phony Patriotism, I get scared, remember it was these TURDS that were in POWER when they ALLOWED this COUNTRY to be ATTACKED, prove me wrung, I dare you.
It was these same ASS WIPES that OUT SOURCED the Capture or Kill of their FRIEND bin Laden, and FAILED as usual, PROVE ME WRONG.
It is the same party that is trying to Bring America to her KNEES because of their Anti American Corporate OWNED ,RACIST republican attitude of we HATE BLACK PRESIDENTS, prove me wrong.
Now this ASS WIPE wants to FORCE the Pledge on our children this coming from the EMBRACER of a TRAITOR, prove me wrong.
This sounds like something that Hitler did. Are these Republicans trying to tell us something.....like they think they are the god of this country? What next? Heil Hitler??
If it's something they like then Uncle Sam should impose it on all of us , the government controlling our lives is not a problem in that case . Man , these people are such ass holes ! Soooooooooooo freaking stupid ! They will be our downfall .
Well, this should create a great many jobs. Maybe we can force those in unemployment lines to do the same, or when they call in to MARVIN, message can state: "To recite the Pledge, press 1"
Quoting Chief Wiggum: "Nice job, boys"
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