Pledge of Alligiance - Unconstitutional?

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Lincoln
I think the 9th circuit court also outlawed all of our money...

If it is affirmed that will be the logical extension of the stupid ruling.

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by paiktis22
what's next? taking the CROSS out from our FLAAG??!!

Our jolly archbishop proclaims.




which looks like this.

One "revolutionary artist" (Panoussis) replaced the cross with the sickle and hammer and painted it red to advertise one of his theatrical satyre plays and got busted

(charged by some for desecretion of national symbol - was acquited i think).

People just like to complain. Either it's "in god we trust" or the color of the walls.

[Bereta_Eder]

It is customes.
Greece was liberated in the name of God. Our forfathers considered themselves Romans (that's what they called themselves) fighting the infidel dogs (=muslims).

These are the costumes. I say yes to progressiveness but this quick prompt to discard the costumes does not find me in accord.

If kolokotronis heard that some are asking for the takeing out of the cross from the flag he would have slaughtered them too without seciond though

[Bereta_Eder]

(kolokotronis was one of the formost revolutionaries in the fight of liberty) - and he also had a big cross on his helmet.

[DinoDoc]

Any guesses on if this will fire up the Republican base in the upcoming elections?

[Bereta_Eder]

BTW they thought that only *they* were the romans. all others were something else (levantines, franks, venecians etc) - which is logical considering that eastern roman empire was alive 1000 years more than the western (where proto nationalities were taking place)

[Vlad Antlerkov]

http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/06/26/pledgeofallegiance.ap/index.html

[Bereta_Eder]

"Hear the lamentations of the turkish women as they weep for their slaughtered men"

Kolokotronis, 1821.

Yes, he also was a poet.

[Bereta_Eder]

He was imprisoned to death by Greeks (=romans) themsleves... and his son murdered by greeks too...

[Boris Godunov]

This thread has been Greek-jacked!

[Bereta_Eder]

sorry just a trip down to memory lane.

we now return you to your programmed schedule/

[DinoDoc]

BTW, the reason this lawsuit was brought, according to the father, wasn't due to any ostracism the kid suffered. It was brought because it offended him. He only used the kid to have standing to bring the suit.

[Lincoln]

[Bereta_Eder]

wow.

[Guynemer]

Come on Dino, I expected better of you.

"under God" was not originally in the Pledge; it was added to it in the '50s, as a way to affirm American democracy against "godless" communism. "In God We Trust" was added to paper money at the same time for the same reason, IIRC.

The phrase "under God" is a worthless anachronism and it's high time it got tossed into the wastebin of our history.