Posted by Isis at cau03.cau.cornell.edu on July 10, 2002 at 13:28:46:
In Reply to: The "God" part of the pledge came out of... posted by TheMojoPin on July 10, 2002 at 13:16:33:
If saying that the first amendment is important makes me an airheaded liberal, why don't you just strap a basket to my ass and ride around the world in eighty days. I'm proud to be a TRUE American and stand by the values our country was created on -- not the crap fascist paranoia left over from the 1950's.
: ...the insane "Communist threat" nonsense of the 50's, when thousands of innocent Americans were harassed out of their homes, lives, jobs and even into suicide just at the whim of some alcoholic Midwest senator with some magic papers and wildly fluctuating numbers of "proven" Commies. Who cares if someone doesn't wanna say it? Doesn't make you any more or any less of an American. Kids don't give a shit about the Pledge to begin with.
: -TMP