Posted on 07/08/2002 9:18:00 AM PDT by tarawa
Pledge for the workers
My daughter, who is 11, and I were delighted at the California court decision omitting the words "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance. She and I have always been uncomfortable saying the pledge, not only because of the religious imposition, but because it seems very strange to pledge loyalty to a scrap of cloth representing a corrupt nation that imposes its will, both economic and military, around the world by force. So she inspired me to rewrite the Pledge.
Imagine schoolchildren every day reciting the following:
I pledge allegiance to all the ordinary people around the world,
to the laid off Enron workers and the WorldCom workers
the maquiladora workers
and the sweatshop workers from New York to Indonesia,
who labor not under God but under the heel of multinational corporations; I pledge allegiance
to the people of Iraq,
Palestine and Afghanistan,
and to their struggles to survive and resist
slavery to corporate greed,
brutal wars against their families,
and the economic and environmental ruin wrought by global capitalism; I pledge allegiance
to building a better world
where human needs are met
and with real liberty, equality and justice for all.
The original pledge does not include or represent us godless radicals. The backlash against the California decision shows just how thin our democracy is.
Dana Cloud Associate professor Communication studies
A University of Texas communications professor who describes herself as a longtime member of the International Socialist Organization and spends her spare time promoting gay rights and workers' power has penned a new Pledge of Allegiance more suitable for self-proclaimed "godless radicals" as herself.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,57124,00.html
Imagine Whirled Peas.
I just tried that and I began to feel sick.
Within a week it'll be posted again, attributed to George Carlin.
In almost any other nation on the planet which she pledges to, her opinion would get her deported, imprisoned or shot.
If she is so anti-American, she is free to leave........and good riddance!
And the fact that such a huge proportion of the population disagreed with the California court ruling shows how real democracy works. Majority rule, however, does not mean total disregard for opposing views.
Never forget: The Nazis were socialists.
It especially hurts to know that this woman is right here at the University of Texas, my alma mata!
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| Name | Dana Cloud Dana L Cloud |
| Title | Assoc Professor, Ph.D. |
| College/Department | Communication Studies College of Communication |
| dcloud@mail.utexas.edu | |
| Office Phone | +1 512-471-1947 |
| Office Address | Dept Of Communication Studies Campus Mail Code: A1105 University of Texas Austin, TX 78712 |
| Fax | +1 512-471-3504 |
| Room | CMA 7.114 |
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What an odd thing to say. Many more
people died under Stalin than Hitler and
communism enslaved nations for decades.
Yet you tell us not to forget the political
nature of Nazism as if we need the lesser
of two evils as comparison to remind us
of the greater of two evils. Methinks you
have unknowingly introjected the liberal
mindset that sees communism as less
objectionable than Nazism.
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