Permission Slips for Pledge of Allegiance

[platoonDaddy]

Massachusetts School Issues Permission Slips for Pledge of Allegiance


The principal of a public school in Brookline, Mass., is asking parents to fill out permission slips before their children can participate in a weekly recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance.


dang it is time to LOCK-N-LOAD, following comment by a WACK'O parent:
"It's uncomfortable," Judi Puritz Cook told the Local Wicked newspaper. "The pledge is a promise, and I've always taught my kids to think very carefully before making any promise. It's not a decision I want to make for them."

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/12/22/massachusetts-school-issues-permission-slips-pledge-allegiance/?test=latestnews

[The_War_Wagon]

Bulldoze it into the ocean, and let the gulf stream carry Taxachusetts back to England. :mad:

[kwelz]

What idiots!

While I do take some issue with the addition made last century to the pledge I still recite it, in full, with pride.

[Army Chief]

Yet another reason why folks from New Hampshire (Live Free Or Die) refer to these lost sheep as "Massholes."

AC

[RyanB]

I always refused to say the Pledge. I don't like how it's worded, and children shouldn't be asked to make oaths anyway.

[JackOSU]

I always refused to say the Pledge. I don't like how it's worded, and children shouldn't be asked to make oaths anyway.

I think it's a pledge and not taking an oath technically, but why would you not hold your alliance to the flag and this country???

[pilotguyo540]

Pledging allegiance to a flag seems awful blind. It is something I never really felt comfortable with. I would feel comfortable pledging allegiance to the constitution.

[RyanB]

Because saying the pledge in school is an exercise in mindlessness. It is cheap. It's foolish to pledge allegiance to the flag... A flag is not capable of autonomous thought.


"I (insert name), having been appointed a (insert rank) in the U.S. Army under the conditions indicated in this document, do accept such appointment and do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter, so help me God."

There is an oath that means something. My brother refused to say the pledge for years, but when it was his turn he swore the above happily.

[JackOSU]

Because saying the pledge in school is an exercise in mindlessness. It is cheap. It's foolish to pledge allegiance to the flag... A flag is not capable of autonomous thought.


"I (insert name), having been appointed a (insert rank) in the U.S. Army under the conditions indicated in this document, do accept such appointment and do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter, so help me God."

There is an oath that means something. My brother refused to say the pledge for years, but when it was his turn he swore the above happily.

Good answer. Has merit. I was just curious to your thoughts on the subject. Thanks for clarifying.

[GermanSynergy]

More Communist BS....:mad:

[Von Rheydt]

Bulldoze it into the ocean, and let the gulf stream carry Taxachusetts back to England. :mad:

Bog off! We don't want it...........they don't drink tea;).