Posted on 02/22/2010 9:13:17 AM PST by joinedafterattack
Edited on 02/22/2010 9:38:05 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Congressman Xavier Becerra (D - CA) Laughs When Someone from Ari David for Congress Suggests Opening an Immigration Rally With The Pledge of Allegiance. Becerra is the one in the dark suit seated on stage. Not until the congressman is specifically confronted does he and the CHIRLA/SEIU rally leader agree that not to do so would be a massive fault. However, you can see the natural inclination was to dismiss the suggestion. Date 2-19-10, location is the Los Angeles SEIU offices.
Let’s send this one around!
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Send this little tidbit to Fox and/or Glen Beck.
What they do is more important than what they pledge to do.
Interesting.
Kinda' like a psyops against things people don't talk about .. (sex, religion, politics etc.)
It’s very simple. His allegiance is to Mexico and not the USA.
He needs to sneak back over the border and go back to banging donkeys outside of his mud hut.
The pledge should be abolished. It was created and promoted in the name of socialism.
THIS is a perfect vehicle for YouTube and every outlet and email each of us have. THIS man cavorting with SEIU defines the Obama idea of democrat patriotism.
The Pledge of Allegiance at an immigration rally? I wonder how many immigrants actually knew the Pledge of Allegiance. My guess is, not very many.
Ok, sorry. that should read Immigration not ImmAgration.
True. And it's a fact that the pledge was introduced by a committed socialist.
But at the same time, our nation is a collection of allied states and peoples. The very least we can expect from a congressman is a commitment to that alliance.
His laugh reveals his true feelings about our union. He apparently thinks it's a joke.
Glad you posted this. I've been worried that I may be out of the loop! Couldn't figure out if Immagration was something I should know about or not.
I fessed up to my spelling up the page. Sorry.
Congressman?....one has to wonder how seriously he took his oath of office
Quite telling that LAUGHING is their first response. When someone suggests saying the pledge, LAUGHING is not my response, standing up and saying the Pledge is.
I know that there are a lot of people who don’t think this is important, because it is just words, complete symbolism.
Symbolism is important. When we had POW’s in Vietnam, these guys, at the risk of their lives, fashioned an American flag from pieces of cloth they sewed together. They would take the flag out every day, face the direction of the USA, and recite the Pledge of Allegiance.
If they were caught, they likely would have been beaten to within an inch of their lives, and knowing how close some of them were to that, it would not have taken much.
But they did it anyway, because it meant something. It was important.
So, when I see someone being disrespectful in that situation, it isn’t important to me why or when the pledge was brought into the popular culture, or that it isn’t binding.
The fact that someone would be so overtly disrespectful is what I am focused on. If it was important enough for our men to risk their lives for the symbolism of it, then it is important enough to me to shut my mouth and cause my hand to cover my heart.
This is my opinion. Others may feel differently, and that is their right. But this is how I view it.
I used to feel the same way, but a minimal pledge as a sort of oath to the principles of our republic seems to acceptable.
If a person can't even do that, then why be part of a union at all?
Then again I believe people have the right to secede. Of course they can't expect help when some other stronger union comes to claim new territory.
To be fair, the guy who suggested the pledge said he was from the congressman’s opponent’s campaign, so this seemed to be a gotcha kind of ambush using our most sacred pledge. If you ask me, that tactic using the pledge as bait is more shameful than the laughter. Backfire.
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