JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT - AN ATLANTA SCHOOL ENDS THE MORNING PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE - IT'S ABOUT TIME - WHAT A DARK PRACTICE THIS HAS LONG BEEN FORCING PEOPLE TO RECITE PLEDGES - THE STUFF OF CULTS AND TOTALITARIAN STATES - BUT LOOK OUT FOR THE PICK-UP TRUCKS FULL OF LOCKED-AND-LOADED PATRIOTS HEADED THEIR WAY

John Chuckman


COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN WEB NEWS SYSTEM



“Atlanta school: No more Pledge of Allegiance to start day”



This is the right thing to do.

It has always been a very dark practice to have people recite a pledge of "their allegiance" to something each day.

It is a practice one expects to find in totalitarian countries, not free ones. Or in cultish movements.

It has no great long history either, coming into being in the war years of the 1940s, a time it is important to remember when America put thousands of American residents into internment camps owing simply to their national origins.

Then in the 1950s, the Congress added, "under God" to the Pledge, something quite offensive to millions.

Offensive because many do not believe in God, as is their right, but even more offensive in the fact that the words are mandated by government.

As someone wise once said, "Freedom of Religion," as in the Bill of Rights, includes freedom from religion.

But I'll bet the abuse starts pouring in, just as it has for the poor NFL football players, who completely respectfully go to their knee in their protest during the national anthem at football games.

It is anyone's right to protest peacefully. And they do not deserve to be insulted and treated with scorn for doing so, as even the President of the country has joined in doing.