as i awoke - groggily from my sleep this morn
i was thinking of what the bushites version of this pledge - would be - smile
so i did some research on the net
to get the exact words
but what i found was um, somewhat disturbing
i want you-all to go to this link
and about half way down there's a picture
of school children reciting the pledge
using the Bellamy Salute
which was a modification of the Roman Salute
(of which i could digress about the Roman state we have been creating
but i won't)
but that's not the worst of it
this little diddy was created to sell flags
and from the lips of it's author:
"Bellamy said that the purpose of the pledge was to teach obedience to the state as a virtue"
so i've decided
not to make a funny and change this pledge to what baby bush thinks
as it pretty much does exactly what baby bush and compadres want it to do...
hell, even Texas has it's own pledge to the flag
i want to change it for 'us'
I pledge my allegiance to the Peaceful citizens of Earth, and to The World for which it stands, one Planet under our Earth Goddess and Father Moon, indivisible, with most importantly ~ liberty and justice for all.
now who wants to design our flag?
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and now for something completely different : creative visualization
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6 comments:
Hi AZ!
This is an excellent post! Thanks for it.
I spotted a comment of yours on Blognonymous. Just had to see your blog.
Mike @
String Cheese Theory
Somewhere in all my documents is a Pledge of Allegiance that I wrote. To the world. A pledge to this country alone is to restrictive.
I like your version of the Pledge.
I knew about the Bellamy salute, that was changed because it was to close to the Nazi salute.
I agree with BBC. The Pledge is too restrictive, and is used to Nationalize young minds that are still being molded. if we were more intelligent we teach our children better lessons than Nationalism. Created to sell flags? Makes Sense.
How about Pledging Allegiance to The US Constitution, and the rights and freedoms it is suppose to protect.
But that's just a piece of paper.
And the flag is just a piece of cloth.
Yeah, lets just stick to the Pledge of Allegiance to the planet, good idea.
I loooovvvveeee your pledge! Beautiful. It invokes world citizenship and unity. I wonder, tho if we have to be under any god/godess influence. Maybe we could be under faith in mankind and its humanity. Dunno.
What a unifying pledge! Thanks azgoddess :-)
Ah, design the flag. Sure, I can do that for you. A rainbow colored background with a picture of the earth on each side. One earth, one peoples, united.
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