REP. RON PAUL: PLEASE EXPOSE THE TRUE PHOTOGRAPHS !
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By Rex Curry
The most libertarian member of the House of Representatives, the Honorable
Ron Paul, recently misinformed Congress while speaking for the Pledge Protection
Act. The errors were about Francis Bellamy, the author of the Pledge of Allegiance
and they are at Rep. Paul's official website http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2004/cr092304.htm and the errors were
repeated on LewRockwell.com at http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul205.html
After Mr. Rockwell was alerted to the errors, he wrote that he would not
print these corrections, he did not deny them, and he persisted in posting
the errors on his website. I then asked Mr. Rockwell to convey to Rep.
Paul (and to everyone who prints Rep. Paul's errors) my standing challenge
to publicly debate their errors, and their knowledge of the history of the
pledge, and their views about the pledge today. Hearing nothing within
a week, I will announce my victory (by default).
I have personally met Rep. Paul and I admire him. I supported him and
voted for him when he was the presidential candidate of the Libertarian Party.
I hope that Rep. Paul will speak again in Congress and tell the true history
of the Pledge and display photographs of the original pledge for all Congressmen
and for all Americans to see. http://rexcurry.net/pledge2.html
Does any public official have the guts to do it? Does
any media or website that prints Rep. Paul's errors have the guts to do it?
I hope Rep. Paul will change his mind and oppose the pledge, and oppose government
schools.
Here is the part of Rep. Paul's speech that contains mistakes: "Francis Bellamy,
the author of the pledge, was a self-described socialist who wished to replace
the Founders’ constitutional republic with a strong, centralized welfare
state. Bellamy wrote the pledge as part of his efforts to ensue that children
put their allegiance to the central government before their allegiance to
their families, local communities, state governments, and even their creator!
In fact, the atheist Bellamy did not include the words "under God" in his
original version of the pledge. That phrase was added to the pledge in the
1950s. Today, most Americans who support the pledge reject Bellamy’s vision
and view the pledge as a reaffirmation of their loyalty to the Framers’ vision
of a limited, federal republic that recognizes that rights come from the
creator, not from the state."
Bellamy was not an atheist. Far from it. Bellamy was a preacher, and a member
of the Society of Christian Socialists, and was expelled from the ministry
for giving speeches such as "Jesus the Socialist" (finding a copy of that
speech is harder than finding photos of the original Nazi-style salute to
the flag). http://rexcurry.net/pledge2.html
So, Bellamy was theistic and he was a religious wacko.
While it is true that the first pledge did not contain the phrase "under
God," the accompanying articles for the first Pledge program did contain
many religious references. A historic discovery may have just been made in
that the phrase "under God" is in Bellamy’s original article/speech next
to the first Pledge (Youth's Companion, September 8, 1892, and see the article
therein "The Meaning of the Four Centuries"). http://rexcurry.net/pledgespeech.html
A recent search of the internet indicated that the above webpage is the only
source on the internet for the Bellamy’s scary speech.
It seems like an oversight that the phrase "under God" was not in the original
pledge. In that sense, there is no "secular" Pledge of Allegiance and there
never was. Bellamy was a self-proclaimed national socialist and the purpose
of the pledge was to promote a government takeover of education, and to eliminate
all of the better alternatives, in order to create an "industrial army" (a Bellamy term) openly
modeled on the military to nationalize the economy and establish a utopian
society of Christian socialism, as described in the book "Looking Backward"
by Edward Bellamy, cousin and cohort of Francis. The pledge was a prayer
for a utopian society of Christian socialism even before it was explicitly
deified in 1954. The Bellamy ideas were dystopian hell here and abroad.
Edward Bellamy’s book was an international bestseller and influenced the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (62 million killed), the People’s Republic
of China (35 million killed), and the National Socialist German Workers’
Party (21 million killed). (Death tolls from the book "Death by Government"
by Professor R. J. Rummel).
Believe it or not, "our" pledge was the origin of the salute of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
The original single right arm salute was no less worshipful idolatry then
if the left arm had been extended also. That is the mentality that led to
its adoption by the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. The claim that
it was an old Roman salute is a myth. http://rexcurry.net/pledgesalute.html
The right hand over the heart is no less worshipful idolatry then if the
left hand were crossed over the right, in another clearer position of prayer.
In 1942 Congress officially recognized the Pledge, but gave it the modern
hand-over-the-heart gesture. There is probably one overriding reason why
Congress interfered: to make everyone drop the straight-arm salute, which
was becoming very embarassing and very revealing.
Congress’ 1954 act deifying the national socialist's pledge should not have
been a choice between "theistic socialism" or "atheistic socialism," but
Congress compounded its 1942 mess in government schools with the 1954 tweaking.
A choice between two evils is still evil. Through bizarre ignorance, the
updated pledge's deification of government is more accurate in paying homage to Bellamy's monstrous establishment
of theistic socialism.
Another error in Honorable Ron Paul’s comment is "Today, most Americans who
support the pledge reject Bellamy’s vision and view the pledge as a reaffirmation
of their loyalty to the Framers’ vision of a limited, federal republic that
recognizes that rights come from the creator, not from the state."
Of course, most Americans support the socialist’s pledge and support
Bellamy’s vision of a massive government-school monopoly, as well as the
social security system and other widespread socialism. One reason that most
Americans and most Congressmen support the socialist’s Pledge is because
Bellamy’s government-school monopoly taught propaganda about the pledge,
and cajoled everyone into robotically chanting it daily on cue from the government,
like Pavlov’s lapdogs of the state.
Also, most Americans and most Congressmen have never seen the rare photos of the pledge. Government schools never show them.
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.
On September 27th, the U.S. Supreme Court will confer about a case urging
that the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional. The case is Wonschik
v. U.S. and I have filed an Amicus Brief in that case. http://rexcurry.net/pledgewonschik.html
Wonschik might end the "Pledge Protection Act" before the act starts. It is a race to see which happens first.
A motion to recuse might result in the recusal of the entire U.S. Supreme
Court. The motion expands arguments that resulted in the recusal of Justice
Scalia. It is the first time in history that a motion to recuse addressed
each Justice. The motion to recuse discusses the history of the Pledge and
the Court's segregation cases. http://rexcurry.net/schoolbrown.html
Let’s restore the pledge to its pre-1892 version.
Rex Curry
Attorney At Law
813 238-5371
lawyer@rexcurry.net
Copyright © 2004 Rex Curry
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