Pledge Of Allegiance http://rexcurry.net/nazi%20salute%202.jpg

Pledge Of Allegiance http://rexcurry.net/nazi%20salute%202.jpg

Who's your nanny? Who's your daddy? The government is your mommy and daddy under socialism, the dogma of the Bellamys. They wanted the government to take over education and they wanted a flag over every school so that everyone would know their new nanny and daddy.  











Girl Scouts & Boy Scouts (from 1907) and other Americans helped spread the USA's "Nazi" salute worldwide.  http://rexcurry.net/pledge-of-allegiance-scouting.html

This is also an example of how the American stiff arm salute was spreading beyond use in the Pledge of Allegiance, where it developed from 1892. In the USA, children would dress in uniforms (scouts), wave flags, and were forced to perform the stiff arm salute in government schools that imposed segregation and taught racism, and it occurred long before the behavior was adopted in Germany's Hitler Youth (and by Young Pioneers in the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics).

It is frightening to note that the Scouts also used the swastika symbol, including a badge with the swastika.

Boy Scouts swastika Badge http://rexcurry.net/pledge-of-allegiance-scouting.html#BOY_SCOUTS_SWASTIKA

They were dashing about the globe (including Germany) wearing paramilitary uniforms with swastikas, doing stiff-arm salutes, waving flags, and (in the USA) chanting mechanically to flags with the pledge's early stiff arm salute, years before, and leading up and beyond the creation of the National Socialist German Workers Party.

Many of those young men eventually joined the USA's military or they were forced to join via involuntary servitude in the draft, and much of what they learned continued there.  http://rexcurry.net/45th-infantry-division-swastika-sooner-soldiers.html

It helps to explain why similar behavior occurred in the USA's military.
http://rexcurry.net/pledge-of-allegiance-images.html#THE_TRUE_SALUTE


The American salute also spread after it became the Olympic salute. http://rexcurry.net/bookchapter1a1c.html  The International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) displays deafening silence on the Olympic salute. It is fascinating historical amnesia because it is the same behavior displayed by government and media in the USA concerning the Pledge of Allegiance as the origin of the Olympic salute and of the salute of the National Socialist German Workers' Party. http://rexcurry.net/olympics.html

German American Bund http://rexcurry.net/pledgeofallegiance-german-american-bund.bmp

A photograph shows a train called the "Camp Siegfried Special" as it pulls into Yaphank station at the German American Bund camp in Long Island, New York. People standing outside of the train greet it with the stiff-arm salute.

It is another example of how America's early stiff-arm salute was spreading outside of its origin in the Pledge of Allegiance, and was even becoming a general greeting.
http://rexcurry.net/pledgebund.html

Today, historical films evoke surprise by showing the stiff-arm salute performed by Bundists toward both the American flag and the German Swastika flag. The films always fail to mention that the stiff-arm salute was the salute to the American flag where it originated long before Germans adopted it.



America's leading authority on the Pledge Of Allegiance showed that the early Pledge salute was not an ancient Roman salute, and that the straight-arm salute, and the 'ancient Roman salute' myth, came from the Pledge Of Allegiance. http://rexcurry.net/roman-salute-metropolitan-museum-of-art.html




This was the early salute to the flag in the Pledge of Allegiance. It was used by the KKK or Ku Klux Klan as well as by many other people who mechanically chanted the Pledge.  They were performing the gesture and chanting to flags long before people in Germany took up the habit.

The Klan is another example of how America's early stiff-arm salute spread outside of the Pledge of Allegiance, and evolved into a general gesture.
http://rexcurry.net/kkk-ku-klux-klan-christian-socialism.html

Today, historical films cause confustion by showing the straight-arm salute performed by Klan members. The films always fail to mention that the straight-arm salute was the salute to the United States' flag where it began long before German National Socialists adopted it.

 

THE TRUE SALUTE THAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE MODERN HAND-OVER-THE-HEART GESTURE IN THE PLEDGE ?
Francis Bellamy would oppose the hand-over-the-heart salute to the flag in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Also see http://rexcurry.net/military-salute-socialism-pledge-allegiance.jpg


The hand-over-the-heart in the Pledge of Allegiance is supposed to be performed with the right hand in a military salute over the heart. That news is supported by photographic evidence in recent research. http://rexcurry.net/pledge-of-allegiance-images.html

Francis Bellamy, author of the Pledge, would have opposed the change to the hand-over-the-heart (the hand placed flat against the chest).

Today the military salute at the chest complies with "the right hand over the heart" dictated under the Flag Code that Congress passed. The chest-military salute may have been the original intent of people who supported "the right hand over the heart" legislation.

A photograph of the military salute at the chest is at http://rexcurry.net/military-salute-socialism-pledge-allegiance.jpg

The original Pledge of Allegiance began with the classic military salute (to the forehead) that was then extended out toward the flag. It was the origin of the stiff-arm salute adopted later by the National Socialist German Workers Party in chants to its swastika flag and as a general gesture of greeting (as shown by the historian Dr. Rex Curry, author of "Pledge of Allegiance Secrets"). http://rexcurry.net/pledge-allegiance-pledge-allegiance.jpg

The Pledge's initial military salute was sometimes modified because some educrats believed that children should not mimic the military, because it was either disrespectful or creepy. A modified version of the gesture used the military salute from the chest and then extended outward in the stiff-arm salute. An 1899 photograph of the gesture is at
http://rexcurry.net/military-socialism-pledgeofallegiance1899.jpg 

It is frightening to note that Adolf Hitler and German National Socialists also adopted the gesture of the military salute from the chest extended outward to the stiff-arm salute.

Congress was so vague that some people (especially those people who were already performing the military salute from the chest) interpreted "the right hand over the heart" as meaning the military salute from the chest and they continued to perform it in that manner, but no longer with the stiff-arm extension that had followed in the past. http://rexcurry.net/1n1.GIF

Research indicates that the current hand-cupping-the-breast is NOT the correct gesture, as originally intended, and that the chest-military-salute IS what was intended by people who supported the current "hand-over-the-heart" phrase.

The military salute at the chest is consistent with Francis Bellamy's original intent to use the military salute as his initial gesture. Francis Bellamy (author of the Pledge of Allegiance in 1892) and his cousin Edward Bellamy called their dogma "Military Socialism." They wanted all of society to ape the military. They wanted the government to take over all schools and create an "industrial army." That was the purpose of putting flags over every school and ordering mechanical chanting in military formation daily. A video documentary explains more at
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BssWWZ3XEe4

The "swastika building" at the Navy's Coronado Seabees Barracks in California is an odd reminder of the Bellamy dogma. http://rexcurry.net/military-socialism-militarism-socialist-complex.html

The Bellamys bear some blame for the modern swastika as alphabetical S-symbolism for "socialism."  When the Theosophical Society (TS) teamed up with the Bellamyite Nationalist movement for military socialism (1888), the TS was already using the swastika as a symbol for socialism. The TS began using the symbol from 1875. http://rexcurry.net/theosophy-madame-blavatsky-theosophical-society.html

American soldiers adopted the swastika during WWI, and it was used against Germany. Before that time, the symbol was associated in the USA with the growing popularity of the Bellamy dogma of "military socialism." http://rexcurry.net/45th-infantry-division-swastika-sooner-soldiers.html

Bellamy's military salute in the Pledge (and the military salute over the heart) is consistent with the flag code's demand that persons in uniform should render the military salute during the Pledge.

It is disturbing to note that the flag code requires persons in uniform to NOT pledge allegiance ("persons in uniform should remain silent" during the Pledge) while persons not in a government uniform (all other individuals) are commanded to mechanically chant in unison. It would make more sense if the opposite occurred.

Francis Bellamy would oppose the hand-over-the-heart salute to the flag in his Pledge of Allegiance. The same people who say that Bellamy would have opposed changes to the words of his Pledge (e.g. the addition "under God" in 1954), would agree that Bellamy would have opposed changes to the gesture of his Pledge to America's fasciate flag. http://rexcurry.net/fascism=socialism.html#AMERICAN_SOCIALISTS_SPREAD_FASCISM

The military salute at the chest is consistent with the military mentality of Congress when the current gesture was enacted in 1942 (years after WWII had already begun, and a year after the U.S. had entered WWII. On June 22, 1942 Congress passed a joint resolution which was amended on December 22, 1942 to become Public Law 829; Chapter 806, 77th Congress, 2nd session. The Pearl Harbor attack had occurred on December 7, 1941, the U.S. declared war the following day). http://rexcurry.net/pledge_military.html

Many people opposed changing the stiff-arm salute, and did not care that German socialists had "stolen" it, and Americans voiced explanations like: "we originated it" and "we did it first" and so it was "our salute" or "America's salute."

Before 1942, some people thought it was creepy for children to perform the initial military salute to the forehead as written by Francis Bellamy in his original Pledge, so the forehead salute of the ritual was sometimes dropped entirely, leaving nothing but the American stiff-armed salute.  That modified form of the American salute was later adopted by the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
http://rexcurry.net/pledge2.html

The military salute is a sign of submission to a superior officer / commanding officer (in this case the flag / government) whose orders must be obeyed without question. The Pledge fits the USA's police state, which continues to expand and grow in power. http://rexcurry.net/1n1.gif

U.S. soldiers used the stiff-arm salute before it was used by the National Socialist German Workers Party (the NSGWP or Nazis). The American practice was the origin of the behavior adopted later by German National Socialists. http://rexcurry.net/military-socialism-militarism-socialist-complex.html

U.S. soldiers had learned the behavior in government schools (socialist schools) and in the Boy Scouts.  Scouts traveled internationally (including Germany) wearing paramilitary uniforms with the Boy Scout's swastika badges, doing stiff-arm salutes, waving flags, and (in the USA) chanting mechanically to flags with the pledge's early stiff arm salute in government schools (socialist schools) that imposed segregation by law and taught racism as official policy. That happened decades before, and leading up to (and beyond) the creation of the National Socialist German Workers Party. http://rexcurry.net/pledge-of-allegiance-scouting.html

Early flag ettiquette for men in uniform included the straight-arm salute when the flag was passing or when the Pledge of Allegiance was being mechanically chanted.
http://rexcurry.net/45th-infantry-division-swastika-sooner-soldiers.html

The Sunday Times-Signal in Zanesville, Ohio of August 9, 1942 states, "When the flag is passing in parade or in review, all persons present should face the flag, stand at attention and salute. Those present in uniform should render the right-hand salute." The same article distinguishes the behavior for the actual Pledge of Allegiance by stating that during the pledge, "Persons in uniform shall render the military salute."  The newspaper provides a photograph of the right-hand salute showing a stiff arm salute with the palm up. The arm and the palm are so stiff and straight that, at a  distance, the viewer would not see the direction of the palm.

Old photographs collected by Dr. Curry show that the salute was also performed palm-down in the classic stylized salute adopted later by German socialists.
http://rexcurry.net/pledge2.html

Several newspapers carried an article similar to the one in the Bismarck Tribune on May 28, 1926.  It states that during the pledge of allegiance "persons in uniform render the right-hand salute."

In that sense, the "Nazi salute" is actually the "American salute" based on its origin.

As a consequence, the USA set a bad example for a long time.
http://rexcurry.net/45th-infantry-division-swastika-sooner-soldiers.html

The world observed U.S. military personnel delivering the straight-arm salute to the flag before WWI, during WWI, after WWI, into WWII and for almost three decades before the existence of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.

It continued into WWII and to 1942 (and beyond) when Congress began to dictate the hand-over-the-heart gesture.

The Pledge salute even influenced the military salute at that time. The Daily Northwestern Newspaper (Thursday Evening) March 8, 1917, explains that the military salute had an outward extension. "Standing- at attention, raise the right hand to the forehead Over the right eye, palm downward, fingers extended and close together, arm at an angle of forty-five degrees. Move hand outward about a foot, with a quick motion, then drop to the side." http://rexcurry.net/nazi%20salute%208.jpg

The American salute and the outward extension of the military salute influenced flag fetishism adopted later by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
 http://rexcurry.net/ussr-socialist-swastika-cccp-sssr.html

Many people marveled at Adolf Hilter's "hypnotic" powers of propaganda, as if he was the first of his kind as head of the National Socialist German Workers Party. Adolf Hitler's propaganda had already been pioneered by Francis Bellamy, Edward Bellamy and American socialists. Francis Bellamy's original Columbus Day program was a blueprint of nationwide propaganda for socialism in government schools. They put government flags over schools, in classrooms and everywhere.

They even put flags (and chanting to flags) in churches in another eerie parallel followed decades later by socialists in Germany.

Those historical facts explain every politician's anti libertarian obsession with your children. That led to your neighbor's obsession with your children and your life. It led to the enormous size and scope of government today, the USA's growing police state, and its aggressive military socialism. It led to the the welfare-warfare state and the USA's decadent, Chinese-funded global military empire. They are reasons for massive reductions in government, taxation, spending, debt, and socialism.

The fixation on the fasciate flag in the Pledge of Allegiance http://rexcurry.net/1n1.GIF

MORE MODERN PLEDGE IGNORANCE AND INSANITY, VIA CONGRESS AGAIN, OF COURSE: "The Newport Harbor Elks Lodge has begun a campaign to let veterans know they can now salute. It seems that, until recently, all civilians were not supposed to salute the flag during the Pledge of Allegiance, a parade flag passing by or the playing of the national anthem. Instead, they were to put their hand over their heart. However, Keith Hunziker, editor of the Newport Lodge newsletter has admonished members that a new law, passed by Congress now allows veterans of United States military service as well as current service members to salute "at baseball games, parades and formal events." Said Keith in his editorial, "Those who are currently serving or have served in the military have earned this right, and their recognition will be an inspiration to others."                               - Dec. 31, 2007 by PAT MICHAELS in the OC Register

Hugh S. Johnson (above). General Hugh Johnson, was head of the National Recovery Administration (NRA). He was an army officer and politician and loved the Bellamy dogma of military socialism and the military-socialist complex. Government creates socialist programs to coerce everyone (including industrial leaders) into submitting to socialism, and the NRA was another example of that modus operandi.

In one photograph (Granger Collection, N.Y.), Johnson presents President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to a group of industrial leaders in Washington, D.C. on March 5, 1934 and Johnson uses the straight-arm salute (FDR is holding the arm of Secret Service aid Gus Generick). see the photograph at
http://rexcurry.net/nazi-salute-hugh-johnson-fdr.JPG

Hugh Samuel Johnson (1882-1942) enjoyed the salute and performed it a lot, even when other people were becoming even more uncomfortable about it.
According to Time Magazine (9-25-1933), Johnson as head of the NRA (the National Recovery Administration, FDR's socialist program) used the salute to review a parade over which General Johnson presided.

Hitler as head of the NSGWP (National Socialist German Workers' Party) used the salute to review parades.

General Johnson's military background influenced the behavior of other military personnel. http://rexcurry.net/military-socialism-militarism-socialist-complex.html

The American salute (1892) evolved uses outside the confines of the Pledge of Allegiance and the flag. It was another ominous parallel with what developed later under the National Socialist German Workers' Party. http://rexcurry.net/45th-infantry-division-swastika-sooner-soldiers.html

Those other uses increased through the efforts of Americans such as Ernst Hanfstaengl and through organizations such as the German American Bund (The Bund began as the Friends of New Germany in Chicago in 1933. The group traced its roots to the Teutonia Society and National Socialist Party, both active in the USA during the 1920s).


As early as the 1920's, Harvard Graduate Ernst Hanfstaengl ("Hitler's Piano Player") personally encouraged the leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party to adopt American salutes and chants, especially those that Hanfstaengl used at Harvard football games. http://rexcurry.net/swastika-hanfstaengl.html

Roosevelt also attended Harvard and knew Hanfstaengl.

The leader of America's national government, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, learned the salute while growing up, and the salute was still being performed while Roosevelt was in office as an adult. Congress did not attempt to change the salute until after the United States was in WWII.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt received the USA's Nazi-style salutes while he held office.  The American salute was used outside the confines of the Pledge of Allegiance and the flag. In other words it acquired other uses, another ominous parallel with what developed under the National Socialist German Workers' Party.  

Like a cancer, the flag ritual of government schools in the United States spread domestically and internationally.

Adirolf (the backward state of Florida) requires the Pledge of Allegiance in government schools every day for 12 years of every child's life.  Due to its appearance on maps, Florida is often said to look as if it hails the rest of the United States with the early Pledge salute (the origin of the German National Socialist gesture used by Adolf Hitler to "heil" the Hakenkreuz/swastika flag of his nation). Adirolf's brainwashing propaganda is so intense that it also requires a U.S. flag in every classroom (and even college classrooms) and even specifying each flag's size. That is in addition to the flag over the school outside.

"I was fascinated to see the pictures of US school kids saluting the flag, as they do seem to have an uncanny resemblence to images from the period of the National Socialist German Workers' Party. In this respect they are similar to images you explained from the 20's and 30's of people giving the 'Olympic' salute which was identical to the National Socialist German Workers' Party. This salute was given not only at the Olympics but at all sorts of other sporting events. I've seen pictures in the local papers for Northamptonshire from the 1930s of English school children giving the salute as they march past!"   - Philip C.
http://rexcurry.net/bookchapter1a1c.html

The memoirs of Ludwig von Mises, written from his exile in Geneva in 1940, contain this moving, even tragic, passage: "Occasionally I entertained the hope that my writings would bear practical fruit and show the way for policy. Constantly I have been looking for evidence of a change in ideology. But...I have come to realize that my theories explain the degeneration of a great civilization; they do not prevent it. I set out to be a reformer, but only became the historian of decline." See "Ludwig Von Mises Notes and Recollections" by Ludwig Von Mises and Hans F. Sennholz; also see the article "Memories of Ludwig von Mises" by Hans F. Sennholz.

Charles Lindbergh










National Socialists and Christian Socialists in the USA (Francis Bellamy, Edward Bellamy et cetera) were bigots and hated immigrants and wanted the government to take over all schools to "correct" everyone. When the government granted their wish, the government's schools imposed segregation by law and taught racism as official policy. The government schools also dictated mechanical chanting to the flag with the early American stiff-arm salute and persecuted anyone who refused.

Before WWII, there were many Americans who were anti-intervention, including aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh. In his Pulitzer prize winning biography "Lindbergh," author A. Scott Berg explains that pro-intervention propagandists would photograph Lindbergh and other isolationists using the American stiff-arm salute from an angle that left out the American flag, so it would be indistinguishable from the salute of German National Socialists.

Today, reporters in the mainstream media behave in a similar manner when they show old film footage and photographs of the Ku Klux Klan and of German-American Bund members performing the stiff-arm salute to the American flag. The reporters imply that the films show Americans mimicking German National Socialists (Nazis). Reporters are ignorant of the fact that the stiff-arm was the salute of the Pledge at that time, and a general salute to the flag, and more.

The government's behavior set a bad example and it pre-dated and outlasted the same practice adopted later by the National Socialist German Workers Party. Some of those policies continue to haunt Americans and government schools. http://rexcurry.net/kkk-ku-klux-klan-christian-socialism.html


Pledge of Allegiance http://rexcurry.net/pledge_of_allegiance_1930_los_angeles.jpg Pledge of Allegiance



This is the American salute by employees of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power at Ducommon Yards. A fan  suggested that the photo date is October, 1930, however cars in the photograph might indicate that the date is later (possibly as late as 1939) according to another fan. The flag was raised over the agency. It is another example of how the American salute was spreading outside of laws forcing children to chant it in government schools (socialist schools).

The German-American Bund, a supporter of German Socialism and of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, was popular in southern California. In 1930, no one knew how the War would go in regard to the USA.

Today, adults do not want loudspeakers interrupting them every morning to command their mechanical chanting ala the dystopian book "1984"! Nevertheless, adults allow their children to be so abused in government schools where parents surrender their children. Adults also submit on occasion to the mechanical chanting due to peer pressure.











Pledge of Allegiance http://rexcurry.net/pledge_of_allegiance_1930_los_angeles.jpg Pledge of Allegiance

From FrontPage Magazine: "Teachers openly oppose reciting the Pledge," according to Ari Kaufman. The same article indicates that Mr. Kaufman taught in government schools (socialist schools) from 2001-2005 (in Los Angeles).

The follies of altruism or simply put: trying to gain approval and happiness in life by continuous self-sacrifice to others. Perhaps better stated: living your life for the sake of another person or persons, as exposed by the Philosopher Ayn Rand. Everyone should read her great work of non-fiction, "THE VIRTUE OF SELFISHNESS." Most folks are brainwashed from the cradle on (and by government schools / socialist schools) to believe that self-sacrifice is the only good virtue. Miss Rand explained that selfishness would bring out the best human characteristics. Perhaps even result in our getting along much more peacefully with one another - as individuals and even as nations. Altruism is a powerful tool for controlling people. It was probably discovered by the most primitive religionists and other thugs before that. The morality of altruism is a tribal phenomenon. Prehistorical men were physically unable to survive without clinging to a tribe for leadership and protection against other tribes. The cause of altruism's perpetuation into civilized eras is not physical, but psycho-epistemological: the men of self-arrested, perceptual mentality are unable to survive without tribal leadership and "protection" against reality. The doctrine of self-sacrifice does not offend them: they have no Their leaders -the theoreticians of altruism- know better. Immanuel Kant knew it; John Dewey knew it; B. F. Skinner knew it; John Rawls knows it. Observe that it is not the mindless brute, but reason, intelligence, ability, merit, self-confidence, self-esteem that they are out to destroy.

On Mindlessly mumbling in unison: "Better to be silent and thought a fool than to robotically chant the Pledge and remove all doubt."

This gesture below would have been a better idea for America's stiff arm salute
http://rexcurry.net/pledgeofallegiance-salute-gun-girl-right-arm.jpg

http://rexcurry.net/pledgeofallegiance-salute-gun-girl-right-arm.jpg
Pledge Allegiance to the right to keep and bear arms. It still is a better idea for a salute.

"Professor Rex Curry's work shows everyone an unintended consequence in the Pledge: It is a scary reminder of value in the Bill Of Rights - especially the Second Amendment."

The swastika was used as S-letters for "Socialism" http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-swastika.html   See the Swastika image http://rexcurry.net/swastika3swastika.jpg Swastika photograph The stiff-arm Nazi salute originated in the USA's Pledge of Allegiance http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-pledge.html View a photograph of the early Pledge of Allegiance and its Nazi salute http://rexcurry.net/pledge-allegiance-pledge-allegiance.jpg Francis Bellamy, socialist and author of the Pledge and its notorious salute http://rexcurry.net/pledgetragedy.html Image of straight arm salute from Francis Bellamy http://rexcurry.net/pledge-utah2.jpg Pledge Of Allegiance photograph Edward Bellamy, socialist and the swastika http://rexcurry.net/theosophy-madame-blavatsky-theosophical-society.html Image of swastika under Edward Bellamy http://rexcurry.net/swastika3clear.jpg Swastika image Hear audio on worldwide radio at http://rexcurry.net/audio-rex-curry-podcast-radio.html Fan Mail http://rexcurry.net/pledge_heart.html

Shocking PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE PHOTOGRAPHS page 1 http://rexcurry.net/pledge2.html