Shocking
historical facts were exposed by me (Rex Curry) during research for
court litigation against the Pledge of Allegiance. Elk Grove’s new
Pledge case (9/14/05) virtually guarantees the high court again will
consider the constitutionality of the Pledge, and I will be there to
tell the whole truth, (including the parts that are hidden by the
courts and media). As a libertarian lawyer, I provide pro bono services
in schools nationwide to educate the public about the news:
1. The USA’s first Pledge used a straight-arm salute and it was the
origin of the salute of the monstrous National Socialist German
Workers' Party (Nazis). It was not an ancient Roman salute. http://rexcurry.net/pledgesalute.html
2. The Pledge began with a military salute that then stretched outward
toward the flag. Historic photographs are at http://rexcurry.net/pledge2.html
and at http://rexcurry.net/pledge_military.html
Due to the way that both gestures were used, the military salute led to
the Nazi salute. The Nazi salute is an extended military salute. http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-pledge.html
3. The Pledge’s creator was a self-proclaimed socialist in the
nationalism movement in the USA and his dogma influenced socialists in
Germany, and his Pledge was the origin of their salute. "Nazi" means
"National Socialist German Workers' Party." A mnemonic device is the
swastika (Hakenkreuz in German). Although the swastika was an ancient
symbol, it was also used sometimes by German National Socialists to
represent "S" letters for their "socialism." Hitler altered his own
signature to use the same stylized "S" letter for "socialist."
http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-swastika.html
The Pledge is part of the USA’s growing police-state. The insane
government in the U.S. could cause comatose persons to Pledge
dis-allegiance, desecrate the flag, and recite a declaration of
independence. Remove the Pledge from the flag, remove flags from
schools, remove schools from government.
Government schools will never teach children about their Pledge rights,
nor the truth about the Pledge and its author.
Most comments fail to ever mention that Francis Bellamy and his cousin
Edward Bellamy were National Socialists in the USA, wrote for and
supported their "Nationalist" and "New Nation" magazines, the
"Nationalist Educational Association" and pushed their totalitarian
dogma in their "Nationalism" clubs worldwide, including in Germany, and
that the bible of their movement, Edward Bellamy's book "Looking
Backward" was translated into every major language including the
languages of those countries that became home to totalitarian socialism
and the socialist Wholecaust (of which the Holocaust was a part) under
the National Socialist German Workers' Party (21 million dead), the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (62 million dead), and the Peoples'
Republic of China (35 million dead). It is easy to see why anyone would
want to cover all of that up, but it should not be covered up.
In the USA, the Bellamy dogma supported a government takeover of
education. The government's schools imposed segregation by law and
taught racism as official policy. The USA's behavior was an example for
three decades before the Nazis. As under Nazism, the Jehovah's
Witnesses, and blacks and the Jewish and others in the USA attended
government schools that dictated segregation, taught racism, and
persecuted children who refused to perform the straight-arm salute and
robotically chant the Pledge. Some kids were expelled from government
schools and had to use the many better alternatives. There were acts of
violence. When Jesse Owens competed in the 1936 Olympics in Germany,
his neighbors attended segregated government schools where they saluted
the flag with the Nazi salute. The U.S. practice of official racism
even outlasted the horrid party. And the schools and the Pledge still
exist. The Pledge is still the most visible sign of the USA's growing
police state.
After segregation in government's schools ended, the Bellamy legacy
caused more police-state racism of forced busing that destroyed
communities and neighborhoods and deepened hostilities.
Bellamy was a self-proclaimed national socialist in the USA, with the
"Nationalist" magazine, and he preached what he called "military
socialism." The federal flag darkens schools because Bellamy wanted
government to take over all schools and to eliminate all of the better
alternatives. Worse, Bellamy wanted the government to take over
everything, not just schools. He wanted the government to impose the
military system on all of society. School flags are a symbol of
nationalization, militarism, and socialism.
The Bellamy dogma was the same dogma that led to the "Wholecaust" (of
which the Holocaust was a part): 62 million killed under the former
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; 35 million under the Peoples'
Republic of China; 21 million under the National Socialist German
Workers' Party. It was so bad that Holocaust Museums could quadruple in
size with Wholecaust Museums to document the entire slaughter.
Some schools in the USA are still named after Francis Bellamy. The
Bellamy schools should be re-named because they send the wrong message
to children and the community. It causes emotional distress to children
who attend schools named after a man who popularized the Nazi salute
and who helped the government institutionalize racism and segregation.
I, and my supporters, will also assist in any legal means to defray the
cost of re-naming Bellamy schools.
If government's schools (and the media) told the true history of the
Pledge, then no student would chant it. If Americans knew the truth,
then the Pledge would cease to exist.
Fight the flag hags and their flag fetish. Government's schools should
not teach kids to verbally fellate flags each morning. It is like a
brainwashed cult of the omnipotent state. For adults it is childish.
Remove the Pledge from the flag, remove flags from schools, remove
schools from government.
Listen to audio exposing the flag and the Pledge http://rexcurry.net/rexcurry4.mp3
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As an attorney, I am asked if students can be forced to say the Pledge
of Allegiance in government schools. Another school year has started,
and it is important to educate children about their right to refuse.
Government schools deserve a failing grade for not teaching students
about their right to refuse and about the horrid history of the Pledge.
There are still some oddball states where government schools are
required by law to begin each day with a robotic chant of the Pledge,
after students hear the ringing of a bell, like Pavlov's lapdogs of the
state.
Government schools in the U.S. were the origin of the salute of the
National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazis) because the Pledge's
original salute was a straight-armed salute. It is a myth that the
salute is an old Roman salute. Most students never see the eye-popping
historic photographs. http://www.rexcurry.net/pledge2.html
I became involved in litigation about the Pledge of Allegiance before
the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Wonschik v. United States http://www.supremecourtus.gov/docket/03-10249.htm
Research in that case and other litigation involving the Pledge, led to
astounding discoveries concerning the Pledge's past.
The history of the Pledge is suppressed because it is unlibertarian.
The Pledge was written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy, a self-proclaimed
National Socialist, who wanted a government takeover of education to
produce an "industrial army" (a Bellamy term) for the authoritarian
vision in his cousin Edward Bellamy's book "Looking Backward." The
Bellamy cousins promoted national socialism worldwide for decades. It
resulted in racist and segregated government schools that lasted
through WWII into the 1960's, setting a horrid example for hate-spewing
groups worldwide.
A webpage helps students learn that the Pledge was written by a
National Socialist and the rest of the Pledge's truly terrifying
history:
http://www.rexcurry.net/stopthepledge.html
The eye-popping new version of the popular graphic art "All in favor of
gun control raise your right hand" is at http://www.rexcurry.net/pledgewonschik.html
In the new version, the original Nazi-style salute to the U.S. flag is
exposed with the phrase: "All in favor of a Pledge of Allegiance raise
your right hand."
The graphic art shows the original Pledge of Allegiance on the left
and
on the right it shows the salute of the National Socialist German
Workers' Party.
It explains that the Pledge of Allegiance to the U.S. flag is the
origin of the salute of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
In the 1930s, the National Socialist German Workers' Party passed laws
that required everyone to pledge allegiance, similar to many state laws
in the U.S. that have tried to require school-children to recite the
Pledge. Jehovah's Witnesses believed that people who enjoy reciting
government pledges are people who worship government. Jehovah's
Witnesses were officially banned in Germany for refusing to join the
raised palm salute of the National Socialist German Workers' Party in
schools and at public events. Many of the German Witnesses were
imprisoned in concentration camps.
The National Socialist German Workers' Party had adopted the U.S.
salute and forced people to perform it. Many states in the U.S. had a
practice similar to that of National Socialist German Workers' Party in
forcing people to perform the salute created by a National Socialist in
the U.S.
In the 1940's, before the phrase "under God" was added to the Pledge of
Allegiance, Jehovah's Witnesses refused to recite the Pledge in school
on the grounds that it constituted worship of government. They hoped
for a different response than they had met from the National Socialist
German Workers' Party. In 1940, in the case of Minersville School Board
v. Gobitas, the Supreme Court ruled that a government school could
expel those children for refusing to salute the flag. Three years later
(1943), in West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette the Supreme
Court reversed itself and decided that school children may not be
forced to stand and salute the flag.
In 1940, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter was freaking
about France falling to the National Socialist German Workers’ Party
when Frankfurter wrote the Gobitas decision that allowed schools to
expel students who refused to say the Pledge of Allegiance. Frankfurter
was very concerned about the progress of the National Socialist German
Workers’ Party in the war and Frankfurter believed it was important for
the country to come together and for everyone to be loyal. Yet,
Frankfurter’s decision allowed compelled collective pledges by the
government in government schools that were using a straight-arm salute
similar to the National Socialist German Workers’ Party salute, for a
Pledge of Allegiance that was written by a U.S. socialist who was a
member of the "Nationalism" movement and a vice president of its
socialist auxiliary group, whose members wanted the federal government
to nationalize most of the American economy. It is fortunate that the
U.S. Supreme Court reversed the Gobitas decision 3 years later.
The original salute to the U.S. flag was the same as the salute of the
National Socialist German Workers' Party. An example of the salute is
at http://www.rexcurry.net/pledge1.html
(historic photographs of the original socialist salute being given to
the U.S. flag are collected at that website, so please contact the
website with information about any historic photographs of the Pledge).
"Nazi" was an abbreviation of "National Socialist Worker's Party of
Germany." They advocated nationalizing the economy. After the Nazi's
demonstrated full blown socialism, the U.S. flag salute changed to the
modern hand over the heart.
The U.S. Pledge of Allegiance was written in 1892 by a socialist, to
promote socialism in the most socialistic institution -- government
schools. The author, Francis Bellamy, belonged to a religious socialist
movement known as "Christian Socialism," and belonged to a group known
for "Nationalism," whose members wanted the federal government to
nationalize most of the American economy. He saw government schools as
a means to that end.
Libertarians like to say they oppose "the cult of the omnipotent
state." There are many parallels between the legal arguments made by
Jehovah's Witnesses and the libertarian catchphrase.
The Barnette case held that students cannot be forced to recite the
Pledge or salute the flag in government schools. One admirable result
of the Gobitas case and every Supreme Court case regarding government
schools is that many parents removed their children from government
schools. And that is the real solution to the Pledge debate and all
other issues: reduce government and remove government from education.
As Libertarians say: The separation of school and state is as important
as the separation of church and state.
For more information on the U.S. flag's Pledge and salute see http://www.rexcurry.net/pledge1.html
Yours in Liberty,
Rex Curry
Attorney At Law