Conspiracy Theory No. 19 -The Pledge and The Prez

Bush knew! There can be no other explanation for a federal appeals court decision to ban the Pledge of Allegiance in schools -a ruling which was subsequently put on indefinite hold.

Forget ridiculous, absurd, outrageous. The ruling was just weird. To determine that "one nation under God" violates the constitutional prohibition against establishment of a religion is such a legal stretch and so out of touch with American reality that we can only figure it's a political scam.

Not by the left, which would be too obvious, but by the right, which ultimately would benefit. Stay with me here.

I figured this out with help from my conspiracy correspondents who e-mail me with daily updates on President Bush's foreknowledge of and participation in the Sept. 11 terrorist attack. You'll recall that Georgia Rep. Cynthia McKinney planted the conspiracy seeds a couple of months ago; now they've sprouted into a towering cosmic beanstalk down which little space men climb each night to implant sleeping damsels. The dots came together when a conspiracy source wrote me:

"One of us even got a phone call from a political group in the U.S. explaining the financial reasons that 911 was staged ... and that many in Congress know this? So where the hell are you guys (journalists) on this? Waiting for something? The next "terror" event to distract us so you don't have to deal with the real story ... that the president and many others killed 3,000 in NY and are killing more as we speak.

"Oh if only Bush and Co. would stage something soon you'd be saved from the truth! July 4 does seem to be the most likely day ... not long to wait eh?"

I guess it wasn't that much of a stretch to figure out. Once you begin thinking like a conspiracy theorist, conspiracies are all around you. It was easy to see that Michael Newdow, who filed the California lawsuit allegedly on behalf of his second-grade daughter so she wouldn't have to say "one nation under God," was just a cog in the Bush conspiracy machinery, a Republican operative hiding under the mantle of deep conviction.

Well, we see right through it, buddy. Otherwise, how else could one explain this silly lawsuit and absurd ruling in the midst of a near-global war that threatens catastrophic human loss? Don't we have more important things to worry about? Couldn't we focus our energies on ways to bolster hope and community rather than in designing excuses to destroy our nation's symbols and rituals?

Clearly, the Republicans -anticipating the backlash that has resulted -are behind this, just as clearly as the U.S. Supreme Court will restore sanity and leave God alone for the time being. For regardless of one's definition of God -and the Pledge leaves plenty of room for interpretation, not to mention the right to mumble or insert the word of one's choice (one nation under blog) -not even many atheists want to challenge the ultimate patriotic symbol at this juncture.

As atheist blog pundit Stephen Green put it on his Web site (www.vodkapundit.com), Newdow's court challenge was idiotic and rude. The proper response to minor offenses, he says, is good manners.

"When someone asks your kids to use the words `under God' abstractly in a voluntary oath -understand that we atheists are in the slightest of minorities. And when you church people come to my door to talk about my soul -I'll smile and say `no thank you' in my very sweetest tone. … Have some manners. Show some understanding. Learn to shrug off the little stuff."

Given the reaction even among some atheists and Democrats (not that they're necessarily mutually inclusive, I hasten to add) -including a unanimous 99-0 Senate resolution condemning the court ruling and ten thousand pundits punditing -Bush must have known. He's a politician, after all, and politics makes for strange bedfellows. Why not an atheist and a Methodist putting their heads together to create a win-win controversy just as Americans are getting twitchy about the Fourth of July?

Of course I'm not saying Bush "knew" knew. I am not aware of any evidence showing that President Bush or members of his administration have personally profited from the court ruling. Or that they're planning another attack for July 4. But a complete investigation might reveal that to be the case.

Actually, sometimes playing the conspiricy theorist can be quite fun. Mind if I give it a bit of a whirl?

The way I see it, the judge running in front of the camera to stay his own ruling, which was an meaningless gesture due to the fact that the ruling wouldn't take effect for 45 days anyway per procedure (to allow for appeals, etc), demonstrated clearly that Ruth Bader Ginsberg's claims aside, Judges can be very political.

So imagine yourself as the Chief Justice on the 9th Circuit. You are a liberal, a Democrat to the core. You know that some in your party are true believers, who are impatient and have a tin ear to political considerations. You have gotten where you are partly because of your judicial accumen, but also in part because of your political skill.

You have this case coming before your court over the Pledge. It had been brought by a true believer, and they had craftily filed suit in an area where they knew it was likely to get a true believer judge. So instead of the case vanishing on the lower levels, it has gone on. So now it is in your hands. What do you do?

You think to yourself, I can finesse this. Throwing the pledge out would be suicidal, but affirming it would tick off the hard cases in the party, including some big donors and PACs. Your court is two thirds liberal, but you pull some strings and get two Republicans put on the three judge panel hearing the appeal. They'll throw the case out, and everyone goes home happy.

Now put yourself in Judge Newman's shoes. You are senior, should have been retired long ago. You have watched as the bench has become more and more political, which offends you. You have watched as Clinton stacked the bench with outright communists. You know that reinforcements for the side of sanity are being held up by the Democrats. Heck, this is partly why you keep coming back when asked out of retirement- you want to help stem the tide of damage inflicted by the liberal activists by taking some of the cases.

You know that the Carter appointee is going to vote in a manner that will appease his base. You know that the Bush appointee is going to vote to uphold the Pledge.

You know that if you vote to uphold the pledge, the status quo is maintained. And then it dawns on you. It would be so easy to change the whole political landscape, to break free the reinforcements from the Judiciary Committee's logjam, to demonstrate to the people that judges have been politicized for a long time, to wake people up to what the leftists have been trying. You could actually make a difference, and it might get a philosophic bretheren in place to finally replace you for good, so you could enjoy retirement without feeling as if you were letting the country down...

And all you would have to do is vote in an absurd manner, confident that it would be overturned, confident it would change everything politically.

The vote is made, and the Carter appointee goes "oh s**t!". He gets on the phone and tells the party to get a response ready while the opinion is written, because they are in trouble. The decision is announced, and the Dems try to get out in front.

So you decide to twist the knife, and go and demonstrate to the world how political judges are by staying your own opinion, which was stayed by procedure anyway.

More likely, Judge Newman actually does believe that he made the right decision. But then again, I could see how the politics would work for it to have been a political screw job, and I can't dismiss the fact that his actions do show that judges act politically...

Oh, come on, there's a much deeper conspiracy than that!

The Bohemiam Grove, Trilateralists, and (your favorite conspiratorial organization here) are using the Pledge case to establish the New World Order and, ultimately, advance worship of the antichrist! You heard it here first:

After Sept 11th, the once-Christian America people have been force-fed a "we-are-the-world" vision of religion. Islam is a religion of peace, as are all the great world religions. We need to be tolerant of all religions and lifestyles. We need to accept them as equally valid, and embrace them equally. We need to understand that all religions serve to unite people to serve the same God, and that God wants us to live in peace, harmony, and social justice. Once we all accept that all religions are equally true, we will welcome false prophets of the new syncretic world religion, and then the antichrist himself.

But evil Fundamentalists refuse to accept this. But, since most of them are both gullible and conservative, the Pledge ruling was plotted to obtain their cooperation. The Fundies still think the US is a Christian nation, and that "under God" means their Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. So, the conspirators fully expected that they would be deeply offended by the 9th Court's ruling. It was an intentional ruse so that the Fundies would welcome NWO religious instruction in public schools.

Of course, once the "under God" Pledge is re-instated, nothing could be further from the truth. The Fundies' children will be indoctrinated in state-run schools as to the NWO-meaning of God in their daily Pledge. "God" will not mean a Christian God, a Judeo-Christian God, a monotheistic Muslim Allah, or any such thing. It only means an abstract universal spirit from which the State derives its authority. The entertainment media will reinforce this message. Before long, the mankind's concept of God will evolve to make worship of the Beast seem quite natural. "Imagine all these things."

Seriously ... Many of the comments on the 9th Court's ruling lament how far we are from the society that the Founders' intended. But do you really think the Washington, Jefferson, Madison et al would be happy to learn that American children are compelled to recite a daily pledge of allegiance in compulsary, state-run schools?

We must make our voices heard...before it's too late!

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Don't be fooled, America! Yes, the Ninth District Court has delayed a ruling, but this is only a tactic to convince the enraged public that the issue is settled. But it isn't! There is an automatic 45 day waiting period before judgment so that parties can file appeals!

So, in reality, nothing has been taken off the table!

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Its much simpler. A lib Judge gets tilted a bit off his rocker due to the Republicans riding the wave of patriotism.

All of this is subconcious though.

What people dont appreciate about 'conspiracies' is that the system itself simulates intelligence. Its like chess, there are games that 'make sense' and those that are insane. Its all built into the logic of the rules, the system. So when you find the insane 'the real world', or when you find your opponent in chess 'not making sense' there is most likely some 'sense you are unaware of'.

But we are all just pieces on the board, some of us have more insight, some more of a vantage point, but most are doing things for reasons that 'make sense' on a local level only because they have gotten some sublime or not so sublime indoctrinizations from another level -- and are actually making moves that coincide with a higher plan.

They just dont know it.

Liberalism and fascism dance together like a wave and a trough.

In the midst of holy war the 'system' asks the nation 'Under God'?

You heard the answer =)

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