With the seventieth anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack approaching
on December 7, Craig Shirley is set to release a new book next week on
the surprise Japanese assault that prompted American entry into World
War II, “December 1941: 31 Days that Changed America and Saved the
World.” In an online interview Shirley was asked What are new tidbits
of history that readers will learn from the research he conducted for
his book “December, 1941”? Shirley responded "How about the woman in
Kansas who was sentenced to two years in prison because her two sons
refused to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in school? Or the woman in
New Jersey who was sentenced to a year in prison because she tore up
the American flag?"
If Shirley is similar to almost every other American, he is ignorant
of the fact that the early Pledge of Allegiance used the stiff-armed
salute and was the origin of the Nazi salute adopted later by German
national socialists. American national socialists Francis Bellamy
(author of the pledge) and Edward Bellamy influenced German national
socialists, their rituals, dogma and symbols (e.g. the use of the
swastika as crossed S-letters for "socialism"). The early pledge began
with a military salute that was then extended outward to point at the
flag, resulting in the nazi salute. See the amazing discoveries of the
historian Dr. Rex Curry (author of "Pledge of Allegiance Secrets").
http://rexcurry.net
Government officials then persecuted Americans who refused to perform
the stiff-armed salute and robotically chant in unison to the flag on
command every day in government schools (socialist schools). It was
happening in America at the same time that similar behavior was
happening in Germany: persecution for refusing to perform the stiff-
armed salute and chant on cue. Thus, the pledge was the origin of the
Nazi salute and Nazi behavior. Those were some of the many reasons
that Americans had to refuse to robotically chant the Pledge of
Allegiance, or to tear up the flag. Similar bullying continues to
occur today if anyone refuses to mechanically chant in unison on cue
daily for 12 years of their lives in government schools (socialist
schools).
Shirley's book would have been much more interesting and educational
if he had explained all of the facts surrounding the pledge's putrid
past and the persecution it caused and that it continues to cause.
Remove the pledge from the flag, remove the flag from schools, remove
schools from government. That is the patriotic thing to do.