Brookline group: Wave bye to Pledge of Allegiance in school

the Boston Herald ^ | Thursday, September 8, 2011 | John Zaremba and Joe Dwinell

[Dayvester]

Peaceniks in leafy, lefty Brookline are trying to ban the Pledge of Allegiance from town schools, insisting the iconic verse has anti-patriotic overtones...

[Diogenesis]

[crusty old prospector]

Can we ban Brookline?

[rellimpank]

—here is an intersting take on it which reflects my view entirely—

-http://townhall.com/columnists/pauljacob/2011/07/03/i_pledge_allegiance_to_my_refrigerator_warrant

[DJ MacWoW]

America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within. - Joseph Stalin

[Future Snake Eater]

The activist group argues the pledge has no educational value...

Well, as long as we're going down that road...

[GQuagmire]

If the idiots in Brookline only knew who wrote the Pledge and his background.....


Francis Bellamy

[StAnDeliver]

Great photo contrast. Better than the story.

[DBrow]

And they are using al the new anti-bullying rules to ban the pledge! The bully rules will be used in other instances where people need to be pushed into line.

[Paradox]

I’ve never been comfortable with the Pledge, it reminds me of kids being brainwashed for Mother Russia or the Fatherland. I dont see it as necessary, however, I wouldn’t actively oppose it either.

[DTogo]

I pledge allegiance,
To a flag not on display,
Of the United States of America.
And to the Republic,
For which it once stood,
One nation, under Gaia,
With limited liberty,
And social justice for all.

[fwdude]

Rosenthal looks like some dreg who fell out of a boxcar.

[fwdude]

I know this will probably get me banned, or at least deleted, but I see no other remedy for this country than getting rid of these anti-American infections in our society. And by "getting rid or" I mean either deporting them and banning them from our soil, or exterminating them.

What else do you do with malignant cancer?

[Ballygrl]

People need to defy this if it goes through, teach their kids to stand up and say the Pledge, also the State should threaten to withdraw all funding.

[massgopguy]

You have to see the ones that protest at Cooledge Corner on Saturdays. Well, they protested the war when Bush was president. These are the “Moonbat” in home made knitted clothes and long grey pony tails and scraggly beards. And those are the women.

[ilovesarah2012]

I see it as uniting many people from different backgrounds and countries under one flag that makes us stronger as a whole than the sum of our parts. I see it as reminding us that we are one nation, under God and it is only with His blessings that we remain strong. If someone isn’t comfortable with that, fine. They don’t have to say it but millions of us grew up reciting the Pledge in school each morning and it seems America was a better place back then than it is now.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

These assclowns? Ugh!

http://vimeo.com/2665266

[ExSoldier]

My entire middle school just stood and resoundingly recited the pledge in homeroom just an hour ago. They do it every school day. Unfortunately, having spent the last 16 years in inner city high schools in this district (4th largest in the nation) it was never done in those schools. I'm so glad to be out of that, this year.

[Boardwalk]

This is Barney Frank’s district. Brookline votes yes to the Homo and no to the Flag.

[geezerwheezer]

I’m impressed that the good folks of Brookline even knew that we had a Pledge of Allegiance to ban!!