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Pledge Of Allegiance http://rexcurry.net/nazi%20salute%202.jpg 1984 George Orwell

George Orwell 1984 http://rexcurry.net/nazi%20salute%202.jpg Big Brother and Edward Bellamy "Looking Backward"

IT STILL LOOKS BACKWARD TO MANY.

This photograph http://rexcurry.net/pledge-allegiance-pledge-allegiance2.jpg (and many others photographs on the same web site that archives the work of the documentarian Dr. Rex Curry ) illustrates a difference between the Pledge of Allegiance in the past and in the present. In the past, there was time when the flag and pledge occurred outside, and no flag was inside the classroom(s).  That practice emphasized the militaristic nature of the dogma touted by Edward Bellamy (author of "Looking Backward") and his cousin and cohort Francis Bellamy (author of the "Pledge of Allegiance"). The Bellamy cousins called their scheme "military socialism." Under the old pledge ritual children either 1) assembled and waited outside before school began, enduring injurious weather, until the forced ritual chanting was led by the teacher, or 2) they entered the school and then, at a designated time, they marched outside into injurious weather. http://rexcurry.net/pledge-of-allegiance-images.html

It is difficult to say whether a common modern practice is better or worse: there is often a flag in EVERY classroom. State government dictates the expenditure and the size of the federal flags and their ubiquitous placement. The omnipresent flag is viewed all the time by all children. It still looks backward to many. The orwellian ritual then occurs via a barking or pre-recorded voice over an intercom, often accompanied by martial music and even bizarre video piped over school televisions.  

The pledge tracks the book "1984" by George Orwell (1949).  Orwell describes a government that uses these slogans: Freedom is Slavery; War is Peace; Ignorance is Strength. The government bamboozled Americans into believing that collective robotic chanting in government schools daily is a beautiful expression of freedom. Chanters let the catch-phrase "with liberty and justice for all" delude them from the totalitarian reality of the behavior. Government schools maintain strength by maintaining ignorance about the pledge's true history. Wars over the pledge coincide with never-ending wars abroad under Bellamy's military socialism in the USA.
http://sites.google.com/site/edwardbellamysite/
 
Ouch. This goes into the “I-don’t-know-whether-to-laugh-or-cry-or-both” file. See the video on Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BssWWZ3XEe4

Perhaps, during the rise of the National Socialist German Workers Party, each American child began to put his left index finger under his nose while performing the American "Nazi" salute and chanting mechanically in unison, and thereafter goose-stepping into the school house. Francis Bellamy was alive during the rise of the National Socialist German Workers Party.  What did Francis Bellamy think about his pledge and it's salute, in view of the fact that Francis Bellamy also promoted socialism in the Nationalist movement?
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Many local government schools cannot drop the pledge routine even though they so desire (because the pledge is dictated by state law in many states).  That is unfortunate in that the pledge has acheived a result opposite that intended: It is an opportunity for students to show contempt, loathing and hatred. The pledge is the outlet whenever a student refuses to stand, or stands silently with arms crossed and a glare in his/her eye. Every student can do so every day. Some students continue to chant, and that highlights the divisiveness and puts the spotlight on the rugged individualists. It is an opportunity that they would not otherwise have in such a stark in-your-face manner. But the Pledge of Allegiance gives them that spotlight daily. http://sites.google.com/site/francisbellamy/

It is easy to see why many schools would consider it to be better to drop the attempted brainwashing method entirely, rather than have it used so easily to its opposite impact, with the tables turned.

Student feelings of hate might be directed toward many targets: government, teachers, military socialism, regimentation, taxation, mounting future debt, social security numbers.
 
Defying the pledge is a shorter (and quieter) version of the "Two Minutes Hate" in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984). The Two Minutes Hate (or  "Two Minutes' Hate" or "Two-Minute Hate") was a daily period in which people must watch a film depicting enemies and express their hatred for them.

The film version of Orwell's book portrays the brainwashing technique imposed upon people in Oceania, attempting to whip them into a frenzy of hatred and loathing toward the current enemy. At the end, the mentally, emotionally, and physically exhausted viewers chant "BB" (Big Brother) over and over again.
http://sites.google.com/site/edwardbellamysite/Home/edward-bellamy-francis-bellamy-george-orwell
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It is evolving differently for the Pledge of Allegiance. Job Conger can tell you as a substitute teacher that often a lethargic assemblage of 14-year-olds rises, faces the flag at the start of the class day, and listens to the words that come out of the substitute teacher’s mouth, spoken in unison with the crackly sound whispering from an antique speaker that shares the words broadcast by a student announcer in the government school’s main office.

The mass affirmation of allegiance has become irrelevant to crowds of 70,000 lining NASCAR tracks, and slightly smaller crowds attending ball games and puck games in the USA.  Thanks to this website, many students (and adults) know more than the typical government-school teacher knows about the pledge.  Many people know that the teacher and the office believe that they are REQUIRED by law to perform the chanting on cue.  The teacher and school officials should wonder why any students even continue to stand.












Girl Scouts & Boy Scouts (from 1907) and other Americans spread swastikas, Nazi salutes and robotic chanting to flags internationally from the USA.   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

Camp Fire Girls saluting the flag in Juneau Alaska Feb 4th 1915 (?) http://rexcurry.net/pledgeofallegiance-pledging.bmp Scouting

Camp Fire Girls saluting the flag in Juneau Alaska Feb 4th 1915 (?) http://rexcurry.net/pledgeofallegiance-pledging.bmp Scouting

The Pledge of Allegiance is America's "deutschland deutschland über alles"
back when it used the stiff arm salute it was America's Heil Five!
(One difference is that some American children perform the Pledge EVERY DAY on cue in government schools)

The battle over Germany's national anthem, set to the melody of Joseph Haydn’s “Emperor Quartet,” raged for a long time, especially over the controversial first verse, “Deutschland Ueber Alles” (“Germany Above Everything.”)

The anthem for German unity was written by August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben in 1841, when Germany was a bunch of small states.

After the seizure of power by the Socialists, who sang the anthem in stadiums filled with swastikas and uniformed parades, the words of the first verse acquired utopian overtones.

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.

"What's more un-American than not saying the pledge?" Answer: Saying the pledge.

"Governor, why wouldn't anyone want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they detested their own country or were ignorant of its greatness?"   - Sean Hannity, 6/12/03 Sean Hannity probably suffers from vast ignorance about the Pledge of Allegiance, government schools and individual liberty. His ignorance is so vast that it makes his comment about the pledge seem comical. It would also be comical if all the people who do know about the pledge could be present when (and if) Hannity ever does lose his ignorance about the pledge. It is easier to ask the question, in regards to anyone who knows about the Pledge of Allegiance (unlike Hannity?) and who persists in saying it, "why would anyone want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they detested their own country or were ignorant of its greatness?" And why would they want government schools to exist, or want to attend government schools?

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.  

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

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 confusion 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.

 

George Orwell.....Protectionism isn't free. To the Editor, The New York Times: Sen. Sherrod Brown snarls at the notion that protectionist policies reduce freedom (Letters, March 18, 2009).  Let's see.  If I want to buy a pair of pants from China, armed agents from U.S. Customs stop me from doing so unless and until I fork over to them a fee that Mr. Brown and his colleagues on Capitol Hill determine I should pay for the privilege of engaging in this voluntary transaction. If I resist and try to buy my pants without paying the fee demanded by Uncle Sam's armed goons, I will be imprisoned.  If I resist too adamantly, I will be shot dead. For Mr. Brown to deny that protectionism infringes people's freedom is disgraceful Orwellian newspeak. Sincerely,  Donald J. Boudreaux   http://www.cafehayek.com/ and http://marketcorrection.powerblogs.com/   Chairman, Department of Economics, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030

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.

The photograph below shows members of the fifth grade at "Chcremoya [sic] public school of Hollywood" ( Cheremoya public school ), as they pledge allegiance to the flag during the War Production Board's (WPB) presentation, entitled "Three Thirds of the Nation" at Hollywood's Radio City on May 27, 1942 (Bransby, David, photographer).

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#THE_TRUE_SALUTE

Francis Bellamy, author of the Pledge, would have opposed the change to the hand-over-the-heart (the hand placed flat against the chest).  http://rexcurry.net/pledge-of-allegiance-images.html

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 photograph shows members of the fifth grade at "Checremoya [sic] public school of Hollywood" ( Cheremoya public school ), as they pledge allegiance to the flag during the War Production Board's (WPB) presentation, entitled "Three Thirds of the Nation" at Hollywood's Radio City on May 27, 1942 (Bransby, David, photographer). It is another schocking example of the influence upon Americans of the Bellamy dogma of Military Socialism.

The original Pledge of Allegiance began with the classic military salute (to the forehead) that was then extended out toward the flag. It was known as the "Bellamy salute." 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. See the part played by the Harvard grad Ernst Hanfstaengl, aka Hilter's piano player.  http://rexcurry.net/swastika-hanfstaengl.html

U.S. wartime intelligence also believed the German National Socialist salute may have been copied from American cheerleaders. A government report claims of the Hitler salute: "In 1923 he adored American football marches and college songs. The 'Sieg Heil' used in all political rallies is a direct copy of the technique used by American football cheerleaders." And the American football cheerleaders adopted the method from the American Pledge of Allegiance. Cheerleaders continue to use the military salute to the chest extended out into the stiff-arm palm-down salute.

In the USA today, high schools and universities continue to use out-stretched arm salutes in their alma mater songs, chanted in unison while pointing at the school flag or emblem. http://rexcurry.net/pledge-alma-mater-point.jpg and http://rexcurry.net/pledge-alma-mater-point2.jpg  Almost no American students are aware of the history of the Pledge of Allegiance and the similarity of some alma mater salutes to the early American pledge 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. The Pledge is a way to  train monkeys. That was the purpose of putting flags over every school and ordering mechanical chanting in military formation daily. They wanted the government to take over all schools and create an "industrial army." 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

After Francis Bellamy created the Pledge of Allegiance in 1892, the Bellamy salute and the Bellamy swastika spread together globally.

By 1915, the symbol was also widely popular as an ornamental "Good Luck" symbol, as in a 1915 postcard showing the American flag posed favorably with a swastika. http://rexcurry.net/swastika-flag2.JPG

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 fanaticism 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 BELLAMY SALUTE & THE BELLAMY SWASTIKA

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


Life as a trained monkey:  The Bellamys wanted all of society to ape the military. The Pledge creates trained monkeys. That was the purpose of putting flags over every school and ordering mechanical chanting in military formation daily. They wanted the government to take over all schools and create an "industrial army." 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." A video documentary explains the police state ideas at
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BssWWZ3XEe4

Yes, a U.S. Supreme Court case says that people cannot be forced to chant the pledge, despite what various idiotic state laws state. No school teaches that. And when you are 5 and the teacher says stand and recite this, and everyone else does, that’s coerced. And it is creepy. It is disgusting.
http://rexcurry.net/pledge-of-allegiance-images.html

In opposing government's schools, Jacob G. Hornberger writes: With its coerced system of regimentation and conformity, along with its use of Ritalin on those who resist such aberrance, the sooner we rid the country of this socialistic scourge, the better.

As I stated in my article some 20 years ago: “What is the answer to socialism in public schools? Freedom! Why not separate school and state in the same way that our ancestors separated church and state?”

Hornberger's article is entitled "Milton Friedman Was Wrong on Vouchers." For more on that topic see http://rexcurry.net/schoolsmain.html

MEXICAN FLAG SALUTE TO FLAG OF MEXICO


The military salute to the chest (as well as the stiff-arm gesture) that is used in Mexico originated in the United States and is more consistent with Bellamy's original Pledge of Allegiance than is the current hand-over-the-heart in the United States.  http://rexcurry.net/pledge-of-allegiance-images.html#THE_TRUE_SALUTE
and see http://rexcurry.net/bellamy-edward-emiliano-zapata-mexico-socialism.html

Mexico adopted socialist flag salutes that originated in the United States (from 1892). The National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazis) also adopted the U.S. flag gesture after it had been used in the USA for decades. http://rexcurry.net/bellamy-edward-emiliano-zapata-mexico-socialism.html

It was not an ancient Roman salute. The "ancient Roman salute" is a myth, as shown by Dr. Rex Curry (author of "Pledge of Allegiance Secrets").

The Pledge of Allegiance in the USA originally began with a classic military salute (to the forehead) that was then extended out toward the flag. The initial military salute was sometimes performed from the chest. In practice, the 2nd gesture was performed palm down because children simply extended the military gesture outward.  

The Pledge was written by a National Socialist who wanted military socialism in the USA, Mexico, Germany and worldwide.

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Reader tells of pledge ritual that was stopped  By John Bogert, Columnist for the Daily Breeze - Torrance,CA,USA Posted: 12/14/2008

Over the past week I received several messages like this one from a Lomita resident wanting to pass along a now nearly forgotten Pledge of Allegiance ritual.

"I was surprised how in your column you failed to mention something...In school we used to look at the flag and recite, `I pledge allegiance ' And right then we would reach with our extended right arms toward the flag and keep it there until we finished."

The new film "Die Welle" by Dennis Gansel is described with the slogan "From an American Classroom to the German Screen!" The film shows no understanding of how true that slogan is. There is also another film version of the story entitled "The Wave" directed by Alexander Grasshoff for television in 1981. Both films are based on the book by Todd Strasser (under the pen name Morton Rhue). The book is based on a true incident that occured in a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, in 1969.   By the year 1969, most people had forgotten, or not experienced, what had happened 27 years before (in 1942 Congress began its effort to change America's stiff-arm salute, which originated in 1892, and became the origin of the salute adopted later by the National Socialist German Workers' Party). see the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BssWWZ3XEe4 Dennis Gansel, Alexander Grasshoff and Todd Strasser have knowledge of 1969, but they do not seem to know about American history that began when Francis Bellamy, a self-proclaimed national socialist, wrote the Pledge of Allegiance (in 1892), the origin of the straight-arm salute and robotic chanting to flags in government schools (socialist schools). That history has been exposed by the distinguished historian Dr. Rex Curry (author of "Pledge of Allegiance Secrets"). http://rexcurry.net/pledge2.html The salute gesture in the film and the book are essentially the same gesture that was sometimes used in conjunction with America's stiff-arm salute and later, when the stiff-armed portion of the salute was abandoned.  Francis Bellamy's initial military salute (which was then extended out toward the flag into the stiff-arm salute) was altered to a military salute to the chest. http://rexcurry.net/pledge-of-allegiance-images.html#THE_TRUE_SALUTE In Strasser's book the powerful forces of group pressure that pervaded many historic movements such as German National Socialism (Nazism) are recreated in the classroom when history teacher Burt Ross introduces a "new" system to his students. Before long "The Wave," with its rules of "strength through discipline, community, and action," sweeps from the classroom throughout the entire school. As most of the students join the movement, Laurie Saunders and David Collins recognize the frightening momentum of "The Wave" and realize they must stop it before it's too late. http://rexcurry.net/pledge-of-allegiance-scouting.html In reality they were too late. It spread throughout the entire school and it kept going. Bellamy's mechanical socialism spread nationwide, and then worldwide. It remains here today. *************************** The Tampa Tribune Newspaper and its writers, Daniel Ruth and Elaine Silvestrini, were exposed and defeated in recent public debate challenges about the topics above. Learn more at http://rexcurry.net/elaine-silvestrini-tampa-tribune.html

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
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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. http://rexcurry.net/book-rev-mein-kampf.html

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.  
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Like a cancer, the flag ritual of government schools in the United States spread domestically and internationally.
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See this photo of women greeting Hilter in September 1934 in Nuremberg, Germany.
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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.

It takes little effort to understand the connection of the USA's authoritarian government with Bellamy dogma (its national socialism and the Pledge of Allegiance). Indeed, it would take all the ingenuity of the cleverest academics not to understand it. http://rexcurry.net/pledge-allegiance-pledge-allegiance.jpg

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. (concerning Mises' exile from National Socialists in Germany) http://rexcurry.net/swastika3swastika.jpg

"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.
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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

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. 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."

Never suffer fools gladly.

Always try to see things as they are, not as others want them to be.

 "I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."   -- Elie Weisel

This gesture below would have been a better idea for America's stiff arm salute
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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."

YOU MUST VOLUNTEER

On 02/18/09 the so-called "news" reported that the Department of Agriculture proposes to have meat processors put country-of-origin labels on their products.  The report noted that, "Agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack said that the program is voluntary, but could become mandatory if meat processors don't comply."

It's clear that if Mr. Vilsack were an armed robber he'd assure persons looking down the barrel of his gun that he seeks only voluntary compliance with his requests that they hand over their money and jewels - but also that he'll shoot those persons who reject his requests.

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

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