Comments on: Pledging Allegiance to the Flag and Fried Chicken

By: JAXTAC

JAXTAC — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:41:28 +0000

Rob, thanks for your comment. RE: "I have no allegiance to this union" – It's a contradiction to human nature to have allegiance to a union which diminishes a humans inalienable rights.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:47:51 +0000

Very interesting. Now that the country stands for tyranny, you wouldn't want to pledge your allegiance to the country. The flag represents the union. The union at one time stood for individual liberty, however pledging allegiance to a union contradicts individual liberty.

I've got to think about this one. If it's any consolation to the author, I recited that thing for years but I have no allegiance to this union.

By: azdebi

azdebi — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:29:20 +0000

I agree with you…one question though…shouldn't the word "inalienable" be replaced with "unalienable" rights? Just askin'…

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 22:56:11 +0000

What percent of readers are moved by the endorsement of Chuck Norris in the pop-up?

By: JMB

JMB — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 12:18:41 +0000

The word indivisible means no alternative, whether you like it or not. lol

By: Julie Mercer

Julie Mercer — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 01:42:52 +0000

I agree this subject should be broached carefully. So many people are in the dark about our history and the pledge carries sentimental meaning to them apart from its negative founding or the motives of the socialists behind its creation. I completely get why others find it offensive and unamerican but but we need to give people more time to digest just how far we have strayed from our roots constitutionally before they can grasp why the pledge may not reflect who we really are as a nation.

By: Philosopherking

Philosopherking — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:07:17 +0000

I think this subject has to be broached very carefully with our fellow righties (the left will embrace because they hate America). It could be seen as something that is equal to anti-patriotic hate-america dialog that you get from the far left. I attacked the picture in this article because it was written on an upside down American flag. I didn't know it was the navy sign of distress. The picture made more sense once I realized that. It wasn't hate-america but just saying things are not level right now.

By: Philosopherking

Philosopherking — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:02:37 +0000

I didn't know that.

By: MichaelBoldin

MichaelBoldin — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:47:29 +0000

Sam – no clue – our automated system works great….most of the time. I went in and manually saw them after your message here and – heck of a good comment by the way. thanks for sharing your perspective on this issue!

By: SamComyn

SamComyn — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:21:43 +0000

Like most, I grew up reciting the pledge of allegiance without much thought as a schoolroom ritual.
As an adult now, I refuse to recite it, in public or otherwise.
As mentioned in the article, the pledge was a socialist statist scheme to encourage subservience to the State, which I reject.
Further, I cannot pledge allegiance to a lie and enemy of my liberties and way of life, i.e. to a government that has rendered itself illegitamate and unrepresentative of the citizens it is supposed to serve, and has become a hostile oppressor of American citizens, usurping powers it does not legally hold.
The U.S. government does not constitute a republic "with liberty and justice for all" anymore, and I reject the premise that the federal union was, and is "one nation, indivisible".
In short, I will not pledge allegiance and obedience to what I consider the worst enemy of Americans' liberties and way of life: the United States government.