Federalist Society misses the point on Brown v. Board of Education

Rex Curry

The Federalist Society will misconstrue Brown v. Board of Education at its upcoming national lawyers convention starting November 11th in Washington D.C. The convention topic is "Celebrating Brown v. Board of Education" when it should be "Ending Government Schools."

No one can measure the monstrous impact of government schools imposing racism and teaching racism as official policy for so long. Government school racism did much more damage than private enterprise could ever have afforded to do. It would have been better if government had stayed out of schools altogether.

An eye-popping historic photo of a segregated class chanting the pledge of allegiance is at http://rexcurry.net/schoolbrown.html

The Brown decision ignores (and the Federalist Society program ignores) how government schools started the problem that Brown tried to end. When government began socializing schools in the late 1800's, it expanded government-mandated racism. Brown is another example of government peeing on everyone and then claiming that it was rain.

As the Nation’s foremost authority on the pledge of allegiance in government schools, I have litigated the issue before the U.S. Supreme Court. http://rexcurry.net/pledgewonschik.html

When I speak in schools, I tell students that I will pay $10 to anyone who can find a historic photograph of the original pledge of allegiance in the school’s library. It peaks their interest because it sounds easy. Most schools and school libraries do not have a single photographic example of the original pledge.

The pledge of allegiance was written in 1892 by a bigot who was a self-proclaimed National Socialist. http://members.ij.net/rex/pledgebigot.html

Francis Bellamy and his cousin and cohort, the author Edward Bellamy, wanted government to take over all schools as a socialist monopoly, end all of the better alternatives, and use government schools to produce an "industrial army" (a Bellamy term) explicitly modeled
upon the military in order to nationalize the economy and create a society of totalitarian socialism as described in the book "Looking Backward" by Edward Bellamy. It explains the modern Military-Socialist complex. The Bellamy boys actively promoted what they called "military socialism." Part of the plan was the pledge.

The Bellamys and the pledge influenced the hate-spewing paramilitary societies of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (62 million dead), the People's Republic of China (35 million dead), and the horrid National Socialist German Workers' Party (21 million dead). (Death tolls from Professor R. J. Rummel's book "Death by Government" which is also available).

Most so-called conservatives are ignorant of the pledge's deplorable past, and to the extent they do know, they cover it up. Republican socialists have been duped into robotically chanting the pledge and there are probably socialists in-the-know who laugh silently at the spectacles.

The government forced children to attend segregated schools where they recited the Pledge using it's original straight-arm salute. The practice began three decades before it was adopted by the National Socialist German Workers' Party, and the government school racism continued through WWII and beyond, and the government schools still exist to this day.

If the government had taken over all churches then the same horror would have resulted, with government-mandated racism in government churches. The libertarian solution would have been to end socialized churches. It is fortunate that the Constitution prevented government churches. It is unfortunate that the Constitution did not prevent government schools, though they are no where authorized.

In addition to ending government's racism, Brown should have ended government schools. 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. Its not too late. Government schools are unconstitutional or should be considered unconstitutional and for various reasons http://members.ij.net/rex/schoolsmain.html

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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