Vanity: The Pledge of Allegiance is Unconstitutional - If That Doesn't Convince You What Will?

June 26, 2002 | Jim Robinson

[Jim Robinson]

This is your wake-up call

My friends, I've been taking a lot of flak lately because of my stand on President Bush and the Republicans. Well, my thinking is that the coming elections are so critical that the very continuation of America as we know it may be at stake.

All of our institutions are controlled by liberals. Both houses of Congress are awash in liberals and socialists and moderates and very few conservatives. The Courts are infested with liberal activist judges. Our media and entertainment industries are overrun by liberals. Our universities are overrun by liberals. Our public education systems are overrun by liberals. The liberals control public opinion through their controlled nightly news programs and their daily liberal newspapers. My God, the whole damn country is run by hordes of mushy headed liberals and socialists in biblical proportions! And now they even have the audacity to openly attack patriotism and even God Almighty Himself!

A United States Federal Appeals Court in California has declared the

Pledge of Allegiance to be unconstitutional! And this simply because it contains the phrase, "Under God." I'm speechless! I just sit here and shake my head. Don't even know what to say.

Wake up America! We've been saying that for years. The far right-wingers have been shouting it for decades. Wake up America! Wake up America, the socialists are coming!

And now it's here. The Republic is in grave danger. The liberal activist judiciary has tested the waters. If America does not wake up and not only say no, but hell no to this abomination, then what will the emboldened court take next? Well, I don't know about you, but I'm not gonna sit around on my butt doing nothing while we find out.

Call to action: Get off your Butts! Call or write your reps! Voice your opinion. Demand that they do something about this. Tell them that America will not allow this outrage to stand! Demand of your Senators that they move President Bush's judiciary appointments through the Senate! The Democrat controlled Senate is holding up his appointments, hoping to delay as many as they possibly can until Bush appoints judges more to their liking, or possibly even until they can get Gore or Hillary elected in 2004. God forbid!

And, I'm convinced more than ever, that we must have a complete turnover of the judiciary in the next decade. This is critical. The liberal activist judiciary is getting more and more aggressive. If we do not get some conservative judges in there pretty soon, this game is going to be over.

How do we get conservative judges? Well, I can guarantee you that we will not get them as long as the Senate is controlled by Democrats. We must have a Republican President to appoint conservative judges and we must have a Republican majority so they will be moved through the Senate. This is one of the primary reasons why I want to push so hard to help elect Republicans to the Congress and especially to the Senate. And this is why I want to push so hard to help re-elect President Bush in 2004.

Wake up America! And wake up right-wingers! Vote out the Democrats. Vote in a huge Republican majority so we can retake America from the liberals!

We cannot afford a loss or even a squeaker in the next couple of elections. We must have Reaganesque landslides! Send them to Washington with a mandate from the American people! We want a complete turnover and makeover of the judiciary and all of the government. Give is back our Liberty!

This is not the time for sending a negative message. It does us no good for conservatives to sit on their hands or to vote third party. The only message that sends is to say you don't care if we have wall-to-wall liberals forever. The Democrats will love you. The liberal activist judiciary will love you.

The message you should send is one by pen and ink, or by phone calls and personal meetings. Send a message now to your congressmen and to the Republican Party. Now is the time to send the message. Tell them what we want them to run on and what we want them to do when they get in there. Send them a positive message filled with patriotism and love for God and Country. Tell them that we are fed up with the liberals and we want our country back and we want our rights back. Tell your relatives and your friends and neighbors. Tell them to write and call and visit. And tell them to vote for the Republican in their districts. We must do this if we want it back. We cannot afford to fail.

God bless you all and thank you for bearing with me. I love my country and I love my freedom more than life itself. I don't care what anyone says about me, or what labels they pin on me. From this day forward I am a Bush-bot and proud of it! I am going to help turn this thing around or I'm going down in flames trying.

FReegards,

Jim Robinson

[hobbes1]

Thanx. Sometimes it really helps to be an Evil P*ick at heart...lol

[UncleJeff]

In this country we enjoy freedom OF religion. Not freedom FROM religion. Get it?

They are the same thing when it comes to the use of Government power and tax dollars. While you are free to practice almost any religion you choose, if tax dollars extorted from you by threat of force are used to support any religion you do not have "freedom OF religion".

[hobbes1]

And the Pledge imposes Religion, in exactly what way?

[HiTech RedNeck]

What they see occurring here is the "better to elect moderate Republicans than moderate Dems" mindset. That's is just plain foolishness; we already know that moderate R's vote lockstep with liberal D's.

Er... there have been a lot of party line, or near party line, votes on clear liberal/conservative issues. And the battle is most intense when it comes to the courts, because they wield so much power. Why else would Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats so doggedly keep Bush's judicial nominees bottled up in committee? Surely it is not always because the Democrats on that committee all disagree with the proposed judge... all it would take would be one Democrat to break and side with the Republicans to free up the logjam.

[RollingThunder]

Unfortunately, This is just a continuance of A group of judges that do not care about morals, or anything else. Remember, over 90% of their rulings have been overturned. This just shows us how grossly stupid the extremist liberals are and what they will try to do to get their way.

[B Knotts]

From this day forward I am a Bush-bot and proud of it!

OK...while I agree with pretty much everything you've said here, I hope your definition of "Bush-bot" is different from mine. Because someone who always supports the president, and never criticizes him or his administration is acting in a counter-productive manner.

The administration has a lot of people in it. The president needs our feedback when they go astray. Failure to provide this in the 1970s when Nixon was giving us abominations like "Wage & Price Controls" is what got us into this mess to begin with, and is what got us this particular judge.

So, yes, we should all try to get Republicans elected, and regain the Senate, but, no, we should not become "Bush-bots."

I also think we ought to get these two judges impeached!

[Abundy]

Hey Laz - check out #293

[hobbes1]

That, for me, is the most piss in the eyeballs maddening part. NOT ONE NEWS ORGINIZATION has been pointing out that the 9th circuit is pretty much considered a Rogue Court by SCOTUS.....

[Chairman_December_19th_Society]

This is an open plea to all FReepers, and pardon me if it has been posted on this thread already.

Write your Congresscritters, send it by fax (it'll take weeks by snail mail - anthrax checking). Tell them you want a Constitutional Amendment so no court can ever do this again!!

A suggested form for the Amendment follows:

Article 1: There shall be allowed a Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and it will take the form:

"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation, under God, with liberty, and justice, for all."

Article 2: Congress shall enact the necessary legislation to effect the language of this Amendment.

Article 3: This Article will become a part of the Constitution of the United States with the concurrence of three-fourths of the several states within seven years of its submission thereto by the Congress.

[HiTech RedNeck]

She got him to acknowledge that his daughter says the Pledge of Allegiance WITH all the words! Because"my daughter can do anything she wants"

Looks like that is one daughter that is sick of her dad's world famous nuttiness. Good for her.

[bleudevil]

That's the point I was trying to get at.

[Billie]

Thanks for the ping, JH. Thanks for writing this, Jim. Know there are many FReepers who are NOT Republicans, but Republicans are still our only hope in getting rid of the liberals, and we need so badly to take back control of the Senate this November.

[JohnHuang2]

You're more than welcome, friend -- and Good morning =^)

[HiTech RedNeck]

Remember, over 90% of their rulings have been overturned.

I think this means 90% of their rulings that have gotten called up by the Supreme Court... still, that's a ghastly large number.

[hobbes1]

IS it really necesssary to Amend the Cconstitution for that?

This decision will be overturned by SCOTUS.

IF you are going to go thru all the trouble of amending the Constitution, go the Whole Hog, and add the founding principles from the DOI.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,

[B Knotts]

Very well said. That's the point I was trying to make, but
you have said it much better.

[NMC EXP]

In summary, the judges and/or council of judges of the court in question are expected to police themselves even to the point of recommending impeachment.

Marvelous.

Not long ago problems like this, for both plaintiff and judges, would have been corrected with fence rails, tar and feathers.

Now the annointed ones in black robes judge each other.

Regards

J.R.

[Abundy]

Thank you. For the record, I abhor this decision and I'm not some DU disruptor or anti-American jackass - regardless of what some of the shills here will tell you.

[HiTech RedNeck]

The administration has a lot of people in it. The president needs our feedback when they go astray. Failure to provide this in the 1970s when Nixon was giving us abominations like "Wage & Price Controls" is what got us into this mess to begin with, and is what got us this particular judge.

I think if it had been possible to freep Nixon, much of this nonsense would never have occurred. It is with the Internet the same as was first transmitted on the telegraph... What hath God wrought?

[Chairman_December_19th_Society]

IS it really necesssary to Amend the Cconstitution for that?

This decision will be overturned by SCOTUS.

Yes, my friend, it is.

Read today's Washington Post.

Here is only a one paragraph excerpt of the view from the left, followed by a link to the whole distasteful article:Although the 9th Circuit is the most liberal federal appeals court in the country -- its rulings are frequently reversed by the more conservative Supreme Court -- legal analysts from across the ideological spectrum said yesterday that it was not stretching the high court's past cases.

[Emphasis added.]

U.S. Court Votes to Bar Pledge of Allegiance - Use of 'God' Called Unconstitutional

We must make sure they can NEVER EVER do this again!!!