Pledging Allegiance to the President

As a follow up to yesterday’s post, at least one Utah School couldn’t wait until the 8th to let educational propaganda start rolling.

Here’s the video they showed in school assembly (which included 1st graders).

Overall, I thought there were several inappropriate parts (including a part about flushing “deuces”), but perhaps the most dangerous lines were:

“I pledge to be of service to Barack Obama.”

and

“I pledge to be a servant to our president and all mankind.”

Remember these are first graders here: impressionable sponges (and not too discerning). We ought to be indignant.

But those quotes seem to be in line with Obama’s compulsory service plan:

“Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year.” (emphasis added)

I would be very surprised if Obama’s September 8th’s in-school address to students didn’t have similar sections, intended to grease the skids on the “Community Service” draft.

Regardless, we should never pledge allegiance to the president –particularly when that president willfully reneges on his presidential oath to uphold and defend the constitution. To me, this projection of blind subservience into the classrooms of our unsuspecting youth is profoundly disturbing.

“When an opponent declares,
‘I will not come over to your side.’
I calmly say, ‘Your child belongs to us already…
What are you? You will pass on.
Your descendants, however,
now stand in the new camp.
In a short time they will know nothing
else but this new community.’”

–Adolf Hitler

5 Comments

  • By Emily, September 3, 2009 @ 9:33 am

    Infuriating! Absolutely not appropriate.

    And on a personal note, everyone on that video is full of crap.

  • By FullTimer, September 3, 2009 @ 12:27 pm

    I pledge to fight BO’s Totalitarian Fascist Socialism by revealing the truth about money to all those who will listen. NotesOnMoney at gmail dot com

  • By JohnG, September 3, 2009 @ 9:46 pm

    And the religious aren’t feeding propaganda and and fear to little children all the time? So who produced this video and who had it shown to 1st graders?

  • By Sue Waite-Langley, September 4, 2009 @ 11:23 am

    OK…how can we abolish slavery (although the last time I checked Lincoln did that in 1863) while propagandizing to our children that they must become a servant of Barack Obama? Seems like what he’s really trying to do is create an entire new class of slaves.

  • By Brian Mecham, September 9, 2009 @ 11:43 am

    I pledge my Allegiance to God and my dedication to the Title of Liberty (God, Religion, Peace, Freedom, Family)

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