Lawyer Jailed for Refusing to Resite Pledge of Allegiance

Mordeci · Oct 8, 2010

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/07/danny-lampley-arrested-pledge-of-allegiance_n_755074.html

Here is an intresting news story I found, an attorney in Mississippi was found in contempt of court for refusing to say the pledge of allegiance in court (which is illegal to be forced to do so by the way). He served five hours in jail and was released, people are taking sides but I think the law is on the attorney's side. Honestly incedents like this make me ashamed to be an American.

Krem · Oct 8, 2010

Stories like this make me chuckle, and make me thankful I don't live in the US.

And here's some info, to put the story in a more humorous perspective.

The idea of pledging allegiance to the flag was basically an early viral marketing gimmick. It was first published in 1892 in a wildly popular children's magazine named The Youth's Companion. The much-bitched-about "under God" was only added to the pledge in 1954.

Who made it up:

Daniel Ford, the man who ran The Youth's Companion, dreamed of putting an American flag in every classroom in the country.

Within a year, 30,000 flags had been sold. Our calculators tell us that comes out to $300,000, which was a lot more impressive a sum in 1892. The man who actually wrote the pledge was a former minister named Francis Bellamy. He was a Socialist (aka, a dirty commie) whose stated mission was to create in America's youth a habit of automatic reverence and utter loyalty to the country. He even came up with an original salute for children to give while reciting the pledge...

The decision to add "under God" was made at the height of America's brief flirtation with paranoid schizophrenia, otherwise known as McCarthyism. Congress felt the pledge, like most people at the time, just wasn't American enough. How were these children standing around the American flag, pledging "allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands" to know that they weren't in the Godless Soviet Union? Thus, Congress added God to the pledge, and every generation who passed through a public school after 1954 was transferred into a flawless vessel of patriotism.
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Lawyer Jailed for Refusing to Resite Pledge of Allegiance

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