University of Texas Professor Creates New Pledge For The 'Godless Radicals'

The Daily Texan ^ | Dana Cloud

[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

[Dominic Harr]

This is just out version of entertainment here -- laughing at the stupid stuff the L's say in the Texan (which is the University newsrag).

That's what keeps Austin so interesting. Austin is where Texans keep their liberals. We've found it's safer to herd as many as possible into one city, kinda like a 'preserve'. It's easier to keep an eye on them, and less chance they'll get shot when they say stupid stuff like this.

Just remember -- she's living on an island of liberal, govt-funded fantasy in a sea of gun-totin', politically-incorrect Texans.

For an entertaining thought, imagine this gal going out into the countryside to talk to the honest, hard-working Texans about socialism.

"Lil lady, I figure you best high-tail it back to that University of yours while you still can."

[Irene Adler]

So how come "Dana Cloud" is willing to live and raise her kid in a "corrupt nation"? Is Dana pursuing a perfectly pure and honest life while the rest of us are practicing corruption daily all around her?

I recently graded a paper from a college student in one of my classes in which she referred to "this ignorant world" which she evidently believed didn't share her personal obsession with rape as a MASSIVE, ongoing social problem affecting everyone on the planet. I gently admonished her in my comments on her paper about so casually calling everybody ELSE ignorant.

Just one more annoying habit of the left with its corresponding insight into its attitudes.

[The Californian]

Please, please, please - if you don't support the United States, our Flag and our nation founded as a Judeo Christian Nation - MOVE SOMEWHERE ELSE!!!!

[TxBec]

I had reservations about sending my kids to a "party school" because my oldest wanted (and still kinda does) to go to UT. This clinches my decision.

[Tribune7]

Methinks you have unknowingly introjected the liberal mindset that sees communism as less objectionable than Nazism.

OK, never forget. The Communists were socialists

Both totalitarian systems were, of course.

The point you miss is that our "liberal" establishment consistently, although often subtly, infers that socialism is somehow an advancement over free-market, free interaction status quo. They consider it to be progress or "progressive," if you will.

Since Hitler and the Nazis were exposed as evil far, far more quickly and concretely than the Communists, the big-government types were forced to disown him. I'm not letting them.

The Nazis were socialists.

[Squantos]

Awwwwww Gheeeesh wheres the BARF alert ! Come on have a heart Tarawa.....We just had lunch and wade into this Seditious Senoritas Socialist Sh*t and Shineola Show.

Her PHD in her case stands for Pile it Higher and Deeper IMHO. UT in Austin is slowly becoming a pit of cow pies no one should let their child step in........

Stay Safe !

[MeekOneGOP]

Before you read this, here's your........

Barf Alert!

[gcruse]

The point you miss is that our "liberal" establishment consistently, although often subtly, infers that socialism is somehow an advancement over free-market, free interaction status quo. They consider it to be progress or "progressive," if you will.

I didn't miss the point.  It is the liberals, being closer to socialism, who
damn Nazism while giving communism a pass.  In making
Nazism the reason to hate socialism, you allow them to shift the focus
from communism to dictatorships and  to US support
for dictators in the Cold War.  It is a tactic.  And has been
swallowed by too many on the right.

[Squantos]

Dana L. Cloud (PhD, University of Iowa, 1992)

specializes in the analysis of contemporary and popular and political culture from feminist, Marxist, and critical anti-racist perspectives. She teaches undergraduate classes in persuasion, social movements, speechwriting, and rhetorical criticism, as well as graduate courses in rhetoric and the public sphere, rhetoric and ideology, rhetoric and feminist theory, and rhetoric and popular culture. Dr. Cloud's areas of current research include the critique of therapeutic discourse, feminist and Marxist theories and politics, rhetoric of "family values," and the rhetoric of the U.S. labor movement.

dcloud@mail.utexas.edu

512-471-1947 (office)

512-471-3504 FAX

Google is kewl..........

Stay Safe !

[weegee]

< satire >

I pledge my earnings to the state

which redistributes the wealth as the elected see fit

And to the president and his vice,

for which there exists no controlling legal authority,

And to the judges who legislate from the bench

who realize that the constitution is a living document

and not a commandment set in stone.

And to the state deparment who fear the United States being

the only world's super power and thus share our technologies with rogue nations.

With freedom of pornography and campaign finance reform for all.

< /satire>

[weegee]

I can't wait to see the satire that I wrote in this thread spread through the net. Anyone is free to make any "improvements" that they may see fit, this was just what came to mind in about a minute.

[aruanan]

Dana Cloud Associate professor Communication studies

Shouldn't this be written:

Dana Cloud, Ass professor Communication studies

[DrewsDad]

Dana L. Cloud

The L stands for Lostina.

[weegee]

If she did have students reciting this pledge, then she would be guilty of siding with the terorists:

Imagine schoolchildren every day reciting the following:

...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,

She pledges allegiance to their struggles to survive/resist "wars" against their families. If you support the combatants that makes you with 'em.

[handk]

Never forget: The Nazis were socialists.

They Were Socialists, and They Were Monsters!

[anka]

out nation wasn't founded as a Judeo Christian nation.

[anka]

correction:

OUR as opposed to OUT

best regards.

[Whilom]

I reckon that this pledge and Dana Cloud are part of a cyberlegend -- that's an urban legend wearing a tinfoil hat. If there is a Dana Cloud, show us the beef!

[DrewsDad]

show us the beef!

Click on The Deadly Toxin link (that was also listed at the top) and see for yourself.

[Whilom]

I did click on the link to The Daily Texan, read the item, and sent the editors an e-mail with the same challenge: Is there really a Dana Cloud? Prove it.