The legend of William Tell Gobitas and the Pledge of Allegiance

Rex Curry

The legend of William Tell Gobitas is a central defining myth in American national consciousness. Most schoolchildren, whether in the USA or elsewhere in the world, know at least the bare bones of the story. Whereas, in most cultures it is little more than one folktale among many, in the USA, it has come to embody the very essence of individual liberty. It is also based on a true story.
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The story -

Once upon a time, the USA had a tiny government and enormous liberty. Decades passed and socialists slowly expanded the government. The government even began taking over all schools. Near the same time, an evil socialist named Francis Bellamy wrote a pledge of allegiance for government schools (1892). He wanted to help the government take over all schools and impose socialism.
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The proud and rugged individualists in the USA joined with their neighbors to resist the government's constant growth, and socialism's cruel oppression. After politicians socialized many schools, the politicians raised a pole in the central square of the schoolyard and hoisted the government's flag to the top, and passed a law commanding all children to assemble in military formation each day upon the ring of a bell and to chant the socialist's pledge with a strange mandatory gesture. It was the last straw. William Tell Gobitas, a man from Minersville, Pennsylvania, had a son and daughter named William (10) and Lillian (12) who chose to ignore the government; Gobitas' son and daughter did not salute the flag. http://rexcurry.net/super%20kids.jpg

The government seized the children and their father, who was well known as a marksman, and set him a challenge. An educrat ordered him to shoot an apple off his son’s head with his crossbow; if he was successful, he would be released, but if he failed or refused, both he and his children and all who would not pledge would be violently attacked and jailed. http://rexcurry.net/pledgegobitas.html

The boy’s hands were tied. Gobitas put one of his black arrows in his quiver and another in his crossbow, took aim, and shot the apple clean off his son’s head. The socialists were impressed and infuriated.

The lead official asked what the second black arrow was for. Gobitas looked the official in the eye and replied that if the first arrow had struck the child, the second would have been for the official.

Determined to see his task through and to use the "second arrow," Gobitas and many individualists removed their children from government schools and used the many better alternatives. Many Americans were inspired by the acts of bravery to throw off the yoke of socialist oppression in their homeland, and to remain forever free. The Gobitas family inspired the motto: "Remove the pledge from the flag. Remove flags from schools. Remove schools from government." They also inspired two court cases from the highest court in the land Minersville School Board v. Gobitas, 310 U.S. 586 (1940) and West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943).

To learn more about the Gobitas family see http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-pledge.html

The socialist dogma behind the Pledge of Allegiance is the same dogma that was touted in the late 19th century by National Socialists in the USA. Francis Bellamy (author of the "Pledge of Allegiance") and his cousin and cohort Edward Bellamy (author of the pathetic book "Looking Backward") wanted the government to take over all food, clothing, shelter, goods and services and create an "industrial army" to impose their "military socialism." See the video documentary at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BssWWZ3XEe4

That was the motiviation behind Francis Bellamy's "Pledge of Allegiance" to the flag, the origin of the stiff-armed salute adopted later by the National Socialist German Workers Party (see the work of the historian Dr. Rex Curry, author of "Pledge of Allegiance Secrets"). http://rexcurry.net/pledge-allegiance-pledge-allegiance2.jpg

It led to the use of the swastika as S-letters for "socialism" on the flag under German National Socialism. http://rexcurry.net/swastika3swastika.jpg

It is the same dogma that led to the socialist Wholecaust (of which the Holocaust was a part): ~60 million killed under the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; ~50 million under the Peoples' Republic of China; ~20 million under the National Socialist German Workers' Party. http://rexcurry.net/socialists.html

Help William Tell Gobitas and others continue the fight against socialism and for individual liberty.

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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