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Foreigner Behind Royalist Pledge Plot Dies at 97 By nojo
at Stinque
The man who forced generations of schoolchildren to mumble in fear
each morning died on Thanksgiving, more than a half-century after he brought
McCarthyism to the classroom.
It was transplanted Glaswegian and Presbyterian mole George M. Docherty
who in 1952 campaigned to get “Under God” added to the Pledge of Allegiance,
fearing his 7-year-old son would roast in the pits of Hades, or worse,
turn Commie, if he didn’t swear fealty to a mythical airborne foodstuff
before spelling lessons:
“I didn’t know that the Pledge of Allegiance was,
and he recited it, ‘one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for
all,’” he recalled in an interview with The Associated Press in 2004. “I
came from Scotland, where we said ‘God save our gracious queen,’ ‘God save
our gracious king.’ Here was the Pledge of Allegiance, and God wasn’t in
it at all.”
Docherty’s first sermon on the subject fell on heathen Harry Truman’s
deaf ears. But a second attempt at Constitutional subversion in 1954 found
Seventh Commandment violator Dwight D. Eisenhower in the pews, and by
Flag Day that year Ike signed the revised Pledge into law.
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The Reverend George M. Docherty, pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church in Washington, gave a sermon attended by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
"There is something missing in the pledge," said the Reverend, "something
that is the characteristic and definitive factor in the American way of life...
[A]part from the mention of the phrase, 'the United States of America,' it
could be the pledge of any republic. In fact, I could hear little Muscovites
repeat a similar pledge to their hammer-and-sickle flag in Moscow." http://rexcurry.net/pledgegobitas.html
Docherty was right. He was wrong when he thought that altering the pledge
solved the problem. The President (Eisenhower) and Congress were wrong along
with Docherty. But that was the case nearly every time they made any decision
at all about anything.
Docherty was right that the pledge was consistent with the deadly dogma
of socialism under the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the Peoples Republic
of China and the National Socialist German Workers Party (the pledge was the
origin of the stiff-armed salute adopted later under German national socialism,
as shown by the historian Dr. Rex Curry (author of "Pledge of Allegiance
Secrets"). http://rexcurry.net/pledge-allegiance-pledge-allegiance.jpg
American national socialists (e.g. Francis Bellamy and Edward Bellamy) influenced
the National Socialist German Workers Party, its dogma, symbols and rituals.
http://rexcurry.net/stopthepledge.html
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This is why references to God on money and in the pledge of
allegiance were added in the 1950s because of a single pastor who preached
that America had to demonstrate that it’s totally different from those
godless socialists. It is entirely consistent with "Christian Socialism"
preached by the Bellamys and their ilk. It is as if the Bellamys and there
ilk intended no difference between the USA's socialist police state and
that of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, other than the
phrase "under God."
"As a child, I remember seeing footage of school children in the USSR
pledging allegiances to their country. This footage was always shown in
the context of look at this scary country brainwashing their children. I
always wondered what was the difference in what my class was doing everyday?"
- a fan.
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From "Death and Taxes" blog by npetrikov
December 02, 2008
Tyranny, in the Good Ol' Orwellian Fashion
The Rev. George M. Docherty has cashed in his chips. I, for one, must
temper my grief for the death of this unwitting friend of tyranny.
And why do I call him so? Because he induced that pack o' ho's that
we call Congress to add the phrase under God to the Pledge of Allegiance.
I don't object to the phrase because it twists an affirmation of Caesar
that every American can endorse into an affirmation of the Deity that some
Americans cannot, although that is what it does; nor do I object to it
because it turns the phrase one nation indivisible into one that is either
meaningless or redundant, although it does that, too; nor do I object to
it because it destroys the beautiful rhythm of the original, although it
also does that. No, I object to it, because it represents an assertion of
power on the part of the aforesaid pack o' ho's that scares the living daylights
out of me.
Nowhere in the United States Constitution is the power given to Congress
to re-write works of authorship. The man who wrote the Pledge, whom I shall
call Francis Bellamy for the sake of convenience, is an author. The same,
in essence, if not in stature, as Shakespeare, Dante or St. John. What
he wrote is what he wrote. Neither he nor any other author should have
his work re-written by the State to suit itself. If the State doesn't like
Mr. Bellamy's Pledge, let the State write its own dam' Pledge!
I could fulminate for pages, but it is enough to say that what Congress
did is what the Ministry of Truth would have done in the same circumstances.
Here's the real Pledge. Paste it in the lining of your hat:
I pledge allegiance to my flag
and the republic for which it stands:
one nation indivisible
with liberty and justice for all.
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