Rep. Ron Paul: Please show America the true photographs!!!

Rex Curry

The most libertarian member of Congress, the Honorable Ron Paul, recently gave erroneous information to the House of Representatives while speaking for the Pledge Protection Act. The errors were about Francis Bellamy, the author of the Pledge of Allegiance and they are at Rep. Paul's official website http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2004/cr092304.htm and they were repeated on LewRockwell.com at http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul205.html

I have personally met Rep. Paul and I admire him. I supported him and voted for him when he was the presidential candidate of the Libertarian Party. I hope that Rep. Paul will speak again in Congress and tell the true history of the Pledge and display photographs of the original pledge for all Congressmen and for all Americans to see. http://members.ij.net/rex/pledge2.html I hope Rep. Paul will change his mind and oppose the pledge, and oppose government schools.

Here is the part of Rep. Paul's speech that contains mistakes: "Francis Bellamy, the author of the pledge, was a self-described socialist who wished to replace the Founders’ constitutional republic with a strong, centralized welfare state. Bellamy wrote the pledge as part of his efforts to ensue that children put their allegiance to the central government before their allegiance to their families, local communities, state governments, and even their creator! In fact, the atheist Bellamy did not include the words "under God" in his original version of the pledge. That phrase was added to the pledge in the 1950s. Today, most Americans who support the pledge reject Bellamy’s vision and view the pledge as a reaffirmation of their loyalty to the Framers’ vision of a limited, federal republic that recognizes that rights come from the creator, not from the state."

Bellamy was not an atheist. Far from it. Bellamy was a preacher, and a member of the Society of Christian Socialists, and was expelled from the ministry for giving speeches such as "Jesus the Socialist" (finding a copy of that speech is harder than finding photos of the original Nazi-style salute to the flag). http://members.ij.net/rex/pledge2.html

So, not only was Bellamy a theist, he was a "religious wacko."

While it is true that the first pledge did not contain the phrase "under God," the accompanying articles for the first Pledge program did contain many religious references. A historic discovery may have just been made in that the phrase "under God" is in Bellamy’s original article/speech next to the first Pledge (Youth's Companion, September 8, 1892, and see the article therein "The Meaning of the Four Centuries"). http://rexcurry.net/pledgespeech.html

A recent search of the internet indicated that the above webpage is the only source on the internet for the Bellamy’s scary speech.

It seems like an oversight that the phrase "under God" was not in the original pledge. In that sense, there is no "secular" Pledge of Allegiance and there never was. Bellamy was a self-proclaimed national socialist and the purpose of the pledge was to promote a government takeover of education, and to eliminate all of the better alternatives, in order to create an "industrial army" openly modeled on the military to nationalize the economy and establish a utopian society of Christian socialism, as described in the book "Looking Backward" by Edward Bellamy, cousin and cohort of Francis. The pledge was a prayer for a utopian society of Christian socialism even before it was explicitly deified in 1954. The Bellamy ideas were dystopian hell here and abroad.

Edward Bellamy’s book was an international bestseller and influenced the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (62 million killed), the People’s Republic of China (35 million killed), and the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (21 million killed). (Death tolls from the book "Death by Government" by Professor R. J. Rummel).

Believe it or not, "our" pledge was the origin of the salute of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.

The original single right arm salute was no less worshipful idolatry then if the left arm had been extended also. That is the mentality that led to its adoption by the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. The claim that it was an old Roman salute is a myth. http://members.ij.net/rex/pledgesalute.html

The right hand over the heart is no less worshipful idolatry then if the left hand were crossed over the right, in another clearer position of prayer.

In 1942 Congress officially recognized the Pledge, but gave it the modern hand-over-the-heart gesture. There is probably one overriding reason why Congress interfered: to make everyone drop the straight-arm salute, which was becoming very embarassing and very revealing.

Congress’ 1954 act deifying the national socialist's pledge should not have been a choice between "theistic socialism" or "atheistic socialism," but Congress compounded its 1942 mess in government schools with the 1954 tweaking. A choice between two evils is still evil. Through bizarre ignorance, the updated pledge more accurately pays homage to Bellamy's monstrous establishment of theistic socialism.

Another error in Honorable Ron Paul’s comment is "Today, most Americans who support the pledge reject Bellamy’s vision and view the pledge as a reaffirmation of their loyalty to the Framers’ vision of a limited, federal republic that recognizes that rights come from the creator, not from the state."

Of course, most Americans support the socialist’s pledge and support Bellamy’s vision of a massive government-school monopoly. One reason that most Americans and most Congressmen support the socialist’s Pledge is because Bellamy’s government-school monopoly taught propaganda about the pledge, and cajoled everyone into robotically chanting it daily on cue from the government, like Pavlov’s lapdogs of the state.

Also, most Americans and most Congressmen have never seen the rare photos of the pledge.

The separation of school and state is as important as the separation of church and state. The government should not run Sunday school, nor Monday school through Friday school.

On September 27th, the U.S. Supreme Court will confer about a case urging that the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional. The case is Wonschik v. U.S. and I have filed an Amicus Brief in that case. http://rexcurry.net/pledgewonschik.html

Wonschik might end the "Pledge Protection Act" before the act starts. It is a race to see which happens first.

A motion to recuse might result in the recusal of the entire U.S. Supreme Court. The motion expands arguments that resulted in the recusal of Justice Scalia. It is the first time in history that a motion to recuse addressed each Justice. The motion to recuse discusses the history of the Pledge and the Court's segregation cases. http://rexcurry.net/schoolbrown.html

Let’s restore the pledge to its pre-1892 version.

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Rex Curry is published worldwide as a libertarian and a lawyer with a degree in journalism. http://RexCurry.net is the only site on the internet that collects and displays historic photographs of the original Pledge of Allegiance. Rex collects historic photos that show how socialism has harmed the U.S., and his hobby is also photography and graphic art, displayed on the website. His predecessors helped settle Key West back when Florida's government was virtually non-existent. The Curry Mansion (historic home of Florida's first capitalist millionaire) is still on the local tour.

Rexy@ij.net