The World is owed an apology by the U.S. and
by anyone who thinks that the military-socialism and salute of the Nazis
originated in Germany. An American organization is lobbying for an official
apology and is gaining support to set the record straight. http://rexcurry.net/pledgegermany.html
The pledge of allegiance to the U.S. flag was the origin of the salute
of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazis). The flag’s
original straight-arm salute pre-dated the Nazis by three decades.
The claim that it was an old Roman salute is a debunked myth. http://rexcurry.net/pledgesalute.html
The pledge of allegiance was written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy, cousin
and cohort of the also-famous Edward Bellamy, author of the 1888 book “Looking
Backward: 2000-1887.”
The Bellamys were self-proclaimed national socialists and they loved
the military and both espoused “military socialism” (A Bellamy phrase).
The Bellamy book was an international bestseller and translated into
every major language, including German, and it inspired military socialism
worldwide.
The original pledge to the U.S. flag began with a military salute for
the phrase “I pledge allegiance” and then the right arm extended straight
outward toward the flag for the rest of the chant. The military
salute was not a random choice, and the extended right arm was the origin
of the salute for other national socialists who loved militarism: the monstrous
National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazis). Historic photographs
are linked at http://rexcurry.net/pledge1.html
Many people forget that Nazis were socialists. A mnemonic device
for remembering that Nazis were socialists is that the swastika resembles
two overlapping “s” letters, and “socialism” begins with the letter “s.”
http://rexcurry.net/swastikanews.html
Francis Bellamy’s first description of the pledge had the palm of the
hand turned upward for the straight-armed gesture. The gesture
changed in use, growing in its similarity to the "Heil Hitler" salute because
of the military salute (palm down) extended casually straight toward the
flag.
It's as if the pledge was an original wordier "Heil Nation" and "Sieg
Heil" (Hail to Victory -victory over the southern states). The
Bellamys created military socialism because they loved the War of Northern
Aggression against southern independence. The pledge memorializes their
view, especially the phrase “one nation, indivisible.” "Preservation
of the Union" was not unlike “lebensraum” in the Bellamy mind.
An Apology to Italy and Germany is also due.
The common claim that the salute was an old Roman salute is a myth
from old movies depicting fictional Roman scenes that were inspired by
the pledge, and by the fact that Francis Bellamy was from Rome, in the
state of New York. The term "Roman" was used (and still is used)
to refer to people and products from the U.S. city. Bellamy was a
socialist northerner and was the original “New York liberal” albeit from
Rome. http://rexcurry.net/pledgesalute.html
The straight-armed salute of the pledge in racist and segregated government
schools served as a widespread example to Germany through WWI and for over
three decades before Nazism and WWII. The National Socialist German
Workers' Party was inspired by the films, by the Pledge of Allegiance,
and by the older national socialism movement in the USA.
Government schools teach that the pledge was created to sell flags
to schools and Francis Bellamy is described as an advertising pioneer.
That is a whitewashed piece of the whole story. A better description
is that Bellamy was a propaganda pioneer, comparable to Leni Riefenstahl.
The Bellamys were not beautiful friends of liberty. The Bellamys
were belligerent toward freedom. They wanted the government to takeover
everything and impose the military’s “efficiency,” as they said.
It is the origin of the modern military-socialist complex.
Francis Bellamy is why there are U.S. flags flying at local government
schools or inside classrooms. The Bellamys wanted a flag over every school
because they wanted to nationalize and militarize everything, including
all schools, and eliminate all of the better alternatives. During Bellamy’s
time the government was taking over education.
The Bellamys wanted government schools to ape the military. Government
schools were intended to create an “industrial army” (another Bellamy phrase,
and the word “army” was not metaphorical) and to help nationalize everything
else.
Edward Bellamy was a bitter West Point failure but he loved Prussian
militarism and the educational system. That would interest all who
loathe the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, because Prussia led
to the formation of the German empire, and after World War I, Prussia continued
to exist as the largest Land (state) within the Weimar Republic and under
the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. After World War II it
was dissolved by decree of the Allied Control Council in 1947. According
to Tom Peyser "On his deathbed, he wiled away the hours by arranging tin
soldiers along the folds of his coverlet."
There is only one place on the web that has Francis Bellamy’s original
speech that accompanied the first pledge of allegiance. Http://rexcurry.net/pledgespeech.html
Germany and the entire world is owed an apology for the horrid influence
that government had inside the U.S. in promoting socialized schools, military
socialism within government schools, the creation of industrial armies,
and daily robotic pledges of allegiance in military formation with the infamous
straight-arm salute.
The Bellamys believed that government schools with pledges and flags
were needed to entice children to embrace nationalism, militarism, and
socialism.
Francis Bellamy used his position with the National Education Association
(NEA) to promote the pledge. Edward Bellamy published the “Nationalist”
magazine and both Bellamys supported its publisher, the “Nationalist Educational
Association,” (NEA) named with deliberate similarity to the National Education
Association. There is only one place on the web with an example of the "Nationalist"
magazine. http://rexcurry.net/pledgelead.html
The U.S. flag flew over a country that recognized private slavery for
over a century. Thereafter, the Bellamys, the pledge, the U.S. flag, and
the War of Northern Aggression inpired massive centralized socialism that
resulted in nationwide government policies of racism and segregation, along
with a government takeover of schools. Children used the “sieg heil”
gesture for flags flying over racist government schools through the rise
of Nazism (the hand-over-the-heart spread in 1942). The bizarre practices
served as an example for three decades before they were adopted by the
National Socialist German Workers’ Party. The U.S. practice of segregation
even outlasted the horrid party, into the 1960's and beyond. That is
why the Bellamys are known as the “American Hitlers” and as the first “American
Nazis.” http://rexcurry.net/pledge1.html
Thereafter, the legacy caused more police-state racism of forced busing
that destroyed communities and neighborhoods and deepened hostilities.
Both Bellamys were bigots. http://rexcurry.net/pledgebigot.html
There is only one place on the web with a historic photo of a segregated
class chanting the Pledge with the original straight-arm salute.
http://rexcurry.net/pledgeracism.html
No one can measure the monstrous impact of government schools imposing
racism and teaching racism as official policy for so long. Government school
racism did much more damage than private enterprise could ever have afforded
to do. It would have been better if government had stayed out of schools
altogether. http://rexcurry.net/stopthepledge4.html
The famous desegregation case of Brown v. Board of Education ignores
how government schools started the problem that Brown ended. When government
began socializing schools in the late 1800's, it expanded government-mandated
racism. Brown is another example of government peeing on everyone and then
claiming that it was rain. In addition to ending government’s racism, Brown
should have ended government schools.
If the government had taken over all churches then the same horror
would have resulted, with government-mandated racism in government churches.
The libertarian solution would have been to end socialized churches. It
is fortunate that the Constitution prevented government churches. It is
unfortunate that the Constitution did not prevent government schools, though
they are no where authorized.
Did the Bellamy scheme for schools work? Edward Bellamy’s book
“Looking Backward: 2000-1887" predicted society in the year 2000 as totalitarian
socialism. Did Bellamy propaganda make the predictions come true?
Most Americans now support Bellamy’s vision of a massive government-school
monopoly, and the social security system with socialist slave numbers, massive
government spending, and other widespread socialism. They submitted to
socialist schools that imposed racism and segregation. Children robotically
chant the socialist’s pledge daily on the ring of a bell, like Pavlov's lapdogs
of the state.
Some socialists chuckle knowingly at the spectacle.
The pledge is about submission. The only saving grace seems to
be the last sentence, “with liberty and justice for all.” When a
socialist says “liberty and justice for all” he means the exact opposite
of everyone else. When a socialist says “liberty and justice for
all” he means that he wants to rob, enslave and kill you.
Socialists robbed, enslaved and killed millions in the socialist Wholecaust
(of which the Holocaust was a part): 62 million in the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics; 35 million in the People’s Republic of China; 21 million under
the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. (Death tolls from the book
"Death by Government" by Professor R. J. Rummel). It was the worst
slaughter in world history.
The Bellamys were also pompous about "equality." When a socialist
supports "equality" he means that he doesn't like the way you are, and wants
to change you and he wants to use government force to do it. He is
saying that he dislikes all people because they are "different" and have
different possessions, incomes, clothes, cars, property, families, ideas,
educations, successes, cultures, languages, interests, entertainment,
etc. He is saying he wants you to believe that changing everyone is
a good idea. That is why he supports government schools and military
socialism as a way to use government to force change and stop differences
and make everyone a cog in an "industrial army." It is the worst bigotry.
They acheived massive equality for many in the socialist wholecaust by making
them equally poor and then equally dead.
Edward Bellamy’s book was an international bestseller, translated into
all major languages, including German, and inspired socialists in all the
hell-holes worldwide.
The massive impact of Bellamy schemes on all countries of the world
is detailed by the author Sylvia E. Bowman in her book “Edward Bellamy Abroad.”
http://rexcurry.net/pledgebowen.html
Francis Bellamy’s pledge is a chant of capitulation, and the U.S. flag
in a school is a white flag of surrender, to government, to the Department
of Education, to nationalization, to socialism, to militarism. The
Bellamys gave the red stripes a loathsome connotation for socialized schools.
It is not too late to separate school and state. The separation
of school and state is as important as the separation of church and state.
The government should not run Sunday school, nor Monday school through Friday
school. Remove the pledge from the flag, remove the flag from the
schools, and remove the schools from the government.
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Nazism: Made in the USA.
In the 1930's Edward Weeks, Charles Beard, and John Dewey all listed
Bellamy’s book “Looking Backward” (1888) as being second only to Marx’s
“Das Kapital” as the most important book published after 1885. Back
then, they intended that to be a compliment.
The Bellamy book was an international bestseller and translated into
every major language, including German, and it inspired military socialism
worldwide and in the USA. http://rexcurry.net/pledgesalute.html
Edward Bellamy also became editor of The Nationalist (1889-91) and the
New Nation (1891-94).
The book “Looking Backward” inspired the creation of 167 “Nationalist
Clubs” worldwide. Bellamy nationalists focused on nationalism (“my
country over others”), rabid patriotism, and their interest in nationalization,
or public ownership and management of everything.
In 1919 Anton Drexler, Gottfried Feder and Dietrich Eckart formed the
German Worker's Party (GPW) in Munich. After Adolf Hitler joined, he proposed
changing the name of the German Workers’ Party. Rudolf Jung insisted
that the party should follow the pattern of Austria's Deutsche Nationalsozialistische
Arbeiterpartei. As a consequence, the German Workers’ Party was shortly
renamed the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. Jung supplied
the party with a ready-made ideology that he carried with him from Czechoslovakia.
All of those sources had been influenced by Bellamy dogma.
The National Socialist German Workers' Party was also inspired by German-Americans
who were already national socialists in the U.S. and who joined the German-American
Bund movement to support national socialists in Germany before WWII. http://rexcurry.net/pledgebund.html
Bellamy ideas inspired hate-spewing socialists and para-military societies
throughout the socialist Wholecaust (of which the Holocaust was a part):
the horrid National Socialist German Workers' Party (21 million dead); the
People's Republic of China (35 million dead) and the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics (62 million dead). (Death tolls from Professor R. J. Rummel's book
"Death by Government" which is also available).
The National Socialist German Workers’ Party had been in existence since
1920 (with electoral breakthroughs in 1930 and dictatorship in 1933) and
the invasion of Poland in WWII in 1939.
The influence of Bellamy ideas and U.S. socialists can be seen in the
25 point program of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP),
including those enumerated at the end of this article.
The USA’s worst president, the socialist Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
imposed national socialism in the U.S., along with socialist slave numbers
(social security) in 1935 as a workers program for Roosevelt’s vision of
the industrial army that coincided with similar numbering programs of the
National Socialist German Workers’ Party. During that time
children in government-schools were required by law to salute the flag
with the straight-armed salute in military formation daily on the ring
of a government bell, like Pavlov’s lapdogs of the state.
National Socialism, military socialism and the industrial army only
worsened in the USA. Today, children are given socialist slave numbers
at birth and cannot enter the government-school system without them.
The numbers are used for surveillance of the entire population by tracking
movement, travel, residency, employment, income and everything lifelong,
stealing from everyone constantly for industrial army veterans. Socialized
schools have only grown in size, scope and spending and there are still laws
that require teachers to lead classes in robotic chanting of the pledge in
military formation daily on the ring of a government bell, like Pavlov’s
lapdogs of the state. The USA has widespread socialism, innumerable
government programs and laws, massive government spending, massive debt,
and assembly-line searches in a police state.
Roosevelt’s national socialism coincided with the 1938 publication of
“Talks on Nationalism” by Edward Bellamy. It is a terrifying look
at how socialists in the USA inspired Nazism (the National Socialist German
Workers’ Party). Edward Bellamy died in 1898, but people put this
book together in 1938 to widen Bellamy ideas worldwide, in the USA (under
Roosevelt’s national socialism), and in Germany via the Nazis.
The invasion of Poland in WWII occurred in 1939, with the National Socialist
German Workers’ Party and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as allies
in their scheme to divide up Europe.
The spread of Bellamy ideas was also reinforced in 1937 when additional
writings were published in “Edward Bellamy Speaks Again!”
Both Bellamy books are like most books about the Bellamys in that they
deceitfully avoid use of the full phrase "National Socialist German Workers'
Party" and the fact that Bellamy was a self-proclaimed national socialist.
That type of writing bias inspired the "Not say Nazi" movement via people
who never say or write the abbreviations and who always use the full phrase,
in an effort to counter-act the rampant ignorance of journalists and writers,
and the ignorance they spread to the general public.
A good mnemonic device for remembering that Nazis were socialists (and
you'll need to remember for this book) is that the swastika is two "S" letters
overlapping for "socialism" and the Nazis often used stylized "S" symbolism.
Another national socialist cohort of Edward Bellamy was his cousin Francis
Bellamy, author of the pledge of allegiance to the U.S. flag (1892).
Most books and articles on the pledge’s history fail to mention that the
original salute to the flag was a straight-armed salute and contain no historic
photo of the original salute. Most journalists cover-up the pledge’s poisonous
past and that is why the mainstream media did not make the news-breaking
discovery that the pledge of allegiance was the origin of the salute of the
horrid National Socialist German Workers' Party, as exposed by the journalist
Rex Curry.
The common claim that the gesture was an old Roman salute is a myth.
It would make more sense to say that it was "Roman" in the sense that Francis
Bellamy was from Rome, N.Y. and sometimes used the term "Roman" to refer
to his hometown. More likely, it was a product of Hollywood in old movies
that depicted ancient Rome and the salute, with no basis in reality.
The straight-armed salute of the pledge in racist and segregated government
schools served as a widespread example to Germany through WWI and for over
three decades before Nazism and WWII. The National Socialist German
Workers' Party was inspired by the films, by the Pledge of Allegiance,
and by the older national socialism movement in the USA.
Edward Bellamy was a bitter West Point failure but he loved Prussian
militarism and the Prussian educational system. That would interest
all who loathe the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, because Prussia
led to the formation of the German empire, and after World War I, Prussia
continued to exist as the largest Land (state) within the Weimar Republic
and under the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. After World
War II it was dissolved by decree of the Allied Control Council in 1947.
Francis Bellamy and his cousin and cohort, Edward Bellamy, wanted government
to take over all schools as a socialist monopoly, end all of the better
alternatives, and use government schools for re-education to produce an "industrial
army" (a Bellamy term) explicitly modeled upon the military in order to
nationalize the economy and create a society of totalitarian socialism as
described in the book "Looking Backward" by Edward Bellamy. It explains
the modern Military-Socialist complex. The Bellamy boys actively promoted
what they called "military socialism" (another Bellamy term).
The government forced children to attend segregated schools where they
recited the Pledge using its original straight-arm salute. The practice
began three decades before it was adopted by the National Socialist German
Workers' Party, and the government school racism continued through WWII and
beyond, and the government schools still exist to this day.
If the government had taken over all churches then the same horror would
have resulted, with government-mandated racism in government churches. The
libertarian solution would have been to end socialized churches. It is
fortunate that the Constitution prevented government churches. It is unfortunate
that the Constitution did not prevent government schools, though they are
no where authorized.
Other books that are educational about the horrid influence of Bellamy
ideas worldwide have been written by Sylvia Bowman ("Edward Bellamy Abroad")
and by Arthur Lipow (Authoritarian Socialism in America: Edward Bellamy
and the Nationalist Movement).
For more information on the similarities between the USA and the National
Socialist German Workers’ Party see the book “Ominous Parallels” by Leonard
Peikoff.
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The influence of Bellamy ideas and U.S. socialists can be seen in the
25 point program of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP),
including those enumerated at the end of this article.
7. We demand that the state be charged first with providing the opportunity
for a livelihood and way of life for the citizens.
9. All citizens must have equal rights and obligations.
10. The first obligation of every citizen must be to work both spiritually
and physically. The activity of individuals is not to counteract the interests
of the universality, but must have its result within the framework of the
whole for the benefit of all Consequently we demand:
11. Abolition of unearned (work and labour) incomes. Breaking of rent-slavery.
12. In consideration of the monstrous sacrifice in property and blood
that each war demands of the people personal enrichment through a war must
be designated as a crime against the people. Therefore we demand the total
confiscation of all war profits.
13. We demand the nationalization of all (previous) associated industries
(trusts).
14. We demand a division of profits of all heavy industries.
15. We demand an expansion on a large scale of old age welfare.
20. The state is to be responsible for a fundamental reconstruction
of our whole national education program, to enable every capable and industrious
German to obtain higher education and subsequently introduction into leading
positions. The plans of instruction of all educational institutions are
to conform with the experiences of practical life. The comprehension of the
concept of the State must be striven for by the school [Staatsbuergerkunde]
as early as the beginning of understanding. We demand the education at the
expense of the State of outstanding intellectually gifted children of poor
parents without consideration of position or profession.
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