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Old 08-07-2019, 01:24 PM
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Question Welfare-Warfare State “Freedom” and “Patriotism”

Welfare-Warfare State “Freedom” and “Patriotism”
BY: Jacob G. Hornberger - 8-7-19
RE: https://www.fff.org/2019/08/07/welfa...nd-patriotism/

I was taken back by this posting as its something I never heard about until I was reading some files. I was born in 46 so this event took place prior to my birth. But it seemed a little strange but I dug up some homework and sure as hell it was true,

1st this report posted: (next one will be below) this thread.

A 13-year-old boy has just received a lesson in “patriotism” at a Montana county fair. He suffered a fractured skull and several hours of bleeding from his ears for refusing to remove his hat during the singing of the National Anthem. That’s because 39-year-old Curt James Brockwell picked the kid up by his throat and slammed him into the ground. Brockwell declared that the boy “was disrespecting the national anthem so he had every right to do that.”

The City Council in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, recently voted to stop reciting the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of city council meetings. They soon encountered 100 angry protestors waving American flags and chanting, “U.SA.!” Weighing into the controversy on behalf of the protestors, MAGA President Donald Trump went on Twitter to declare that “our Patriots are now having to fight for the right to say the Pledge of Allegiance. I will be fighting with you!”

One of the fascinating aspects of all this is the fact that from the time the United States was founded, through the entire 19th century, and until the early part of the 20th century, the American people did not have a national anthem or a Pledge of Allegiance.

What does that make the millions of Americans who lived during those 100 plus years? How can there be any doubt? It’s got to make them unpatriotic America-hating traitors. What other explanation could there be for their continued refusal to adopt a national anthem and a Pledge of Allegiance for more than a century of the nation’s existence?

One reason I find this phenomenon so interesting is that today’s “patriots,” including Trump, have embraced a political and economic system that is opposite to the system that our “unpatriotic” American ancestors adopted.

The system of our “unpatriotic” American ancestors consisted of no income taxation, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, welfare, public housing, drug laws, immigration controls, economic regulations, public (i.e., government) schooling systems, Federal Reserve, fiat (i.e., paper) money, national security state, Pentagon, military industrial complex, forever wars, wars of aggression, undeclared wars, invasions, occupations, coups, torture, assassinations, mass surveillance, Pentagon, CIA, NSA, FBI, Homeland Security, TSA, war on terrorism, HUD, ICE, DEA, and many more welfare-warfare state departments, agencies, and programs that we live under today.

That’s what our American ancestors called freedom. That was the system that they celebrated every Fourth of July. And they saw no need to incorporate a national anthem or Pledge of Allegiance as part of their system. It’ can’t be because they were unaware of national anthems and loyalty oaths because European regimes were adopting them. I can’t help but wonder whether the reason was that they believed that national anthems and loyalty oaths were antithetical to the principles of a free society.

Today’s Americans have adopted a system that embraces all of those things. Interestingly, many Americans today also believe that they are free, notwithstanding the fact that their system is opposite to the system of our American ancestors.

Two opposite systems. Both sets of Americans calling themselves free. And one set of Americans rejecting a national anthem and a Pledge of Allegiance. And the other embracing them with great fervor.

I also find it fascinating that the Pledge of Allegiance was written by a socialist. What is amusing about this aspect of the phenomenon is that many MAGA defenders of the Pledge are ostensibly opposed to socialism. Like their leader Trump, they have declared that America will never turn socialist.

That’s funny because they obviously don’t realize that Social Security, Medicare, welfare, public housing, foreign aid, public schooling, the Federal Reserve, immigration controls, and the other things they support are rooted in socialism. (Hey, they don’t call it Social Security for nothing. The idea of Social Security originated among German socialists at the end of the 19th century and was later imported into the United States.)

That’s why many of these MAGA people dislike us libertarians and wish we would shut up. We remind them of these discomforting truths about their mindsets, including their devotion to socialist programs.

Consider the date that the Star-Spangled Banner was made the official national anthem of the United States: March 3, 1931. That was the decade that would usher in the monumental transformation of the United States from a free-market economic system to a welfare state. That was the decade when Social Security, the crown jewel of the welfare state would be adopted.

Of course, the transformation toward socialism was sold under the rubric of “saving free enterprise” but that doesn’t change the reality of the situation: with their adoption of the welfare state, which is based on the Marxian notion of having the state forcibly take money from those to whom it belongs in order to give it to those who supposedly need it more, Americans began embracing the worldwide trend toward socialism.

Can it really be just a coincidence that the adoption of a national anthem, which foreign regimes were doing as well, happened at about the same time America was embracing the worldwide move toward socialism?

Indeed, consider the year that the Pledge of Allegiance was adopted: 1942, in the midst of World War II. The official name “Pledge of Allegiance” was adopted in 1945, around the time that the U.S. government would be converted from a limited-government republic to a national-security state, which is a type of totalitarian structure, to fight a Cold War against the Soviet Union, which had been America’s wartime partner and ally. Can that really be just a coincidence?

How many Americans have ever heard of the Bellamy Salute? I’ll bet not very many. Take a look at this entry on Wikipedia. Francis Bellamy was the socialist who crafted the Pledge of Allegiance and who also came up with the way that Americans, including schoolchildren, people should recite the Pledge. Pay particular attention in the Wikipedia entry to the photograph of American schoolchildren reciting the Pledge with outstretched arms. For some reason, the Bellamy Salute was later abandoned in favor of having schoolchildren put their hands over their hearts.

(Yes, believe it or not, a socialist crafted the Pledge of Allegiance. I’ll bet those 100 MAGA protestors at that Minnesota City Council meeting don’t know that. Why, I’ll bet Trump himself doesn’t know it.)

Interestingly, from 1942, the year that Congress formally adopted the Pledge of Allegiance, until 1954, the Pledge did not contain the phrase “under God.” Does that mean that the American people who lived during those 12 years, while “patriotic,” at the same time hated God? Fortunately, Congress fixed the problem in 1954, thereby placing the nation in God’s good graces.

Socialism, militarism, interventionism, imperialism, the national anthem, and the Pledge of Allegiance. They are all part and parcel of modern-day American “freedom” and “patriotism.” Unfortunately, that 13-year-old Minnesota boy has had to learn how to be “freedom-loving patriot” the hard way.

About this writer:

This post was written by: Jacob G. Hornberger
Jacob G. Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation. He was born and raised in Laredo, Texas, and received his B.A. in economics from Virginia Military Institute and his law degree from the University of Texas. He was a trial attorney for twelve years in Texas. He also was an adjunct professor at the University of Dallas, where he taught law and economics. In 1987, Mr. Hornberger left the practice of law to become director of programs at the Foundation for Economic Education. He has advanced freedom and free markets on talk-radio stations all across the country as well as on Fox News’ Neil Cavuto and Greta van Susteren shows and he appeared as a regular commentator on Judge Andrew Napolitano’s show Freedom Watch.

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2nd thread I found posted some history on the Pledge of Allegiance:
RE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellamy_salute

Topic: The Bellamy salute? Never heard it until today.

The Bellamy salute is a palm-out salute described by Francis Bellamy, the author of the American Pledge of Allegiance, as the gesture which was to accompany the pledge. During the period when it was used with the Pledge of Allegiance, it was sometimes known as the "flag salute". Both the Pledge and its salute originated in 1892. Later, during the 1920s and 1930s, Italian fascists and Nazi Germans adopted a salute which was very similar, and which was derived from the Roman salute, a gesture that was popularly (albeit erroneously) believed to have been used in ancient Rome.[1] This resulted in controversy over the use of the Bellamy salute in the United States. It was officially replaced by the hand-over-heart salute when Congress amended the Flag Code on December 22, 1942.

1st. Photo link: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...amy_salute.jpg

History of this Bellamy salute:

2nd photo link: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...y_salute_1.jpg

The inventor of the Bellamy salute was James B. Upham, junior partner and editor of The Youth's Companion.[2] Bellamy recalled that Upham, upon reading the pledge, came into the posture of the salute, snapped his heels together, and said "Now up there is the flag; I come to salute; as I say 'I pledge allegiance to my flag,' I stretch out my right hand and keep it raised while I say the stirring words that follow."[2]

The Bellamy salute was first demonstrated on October 12, 1892, according to Bellamy's published instructions for the "National School Celebration of Columbus Day":

At a signal from the Principal the pupils, in ordered ranks, hands to the side, face the Flag. Another signal is given; every pupil gives the flag the military salute -- right hand lifted, palm downward, to align with the forehead and close to it. Standing thus, all repeat together, slowly, “I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands; one Nation indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all.” At the words, “to my Flag,” the right hand is extended gracefully, palm upward, toward the Flag, and remains in this gesture till the end of the affirmation; whereupon all hands immediately drop to the side.

— From The Youth’s Companion, 65 (1892): 446–447.
In the 1920s, Italian fascists adopted what has been called the Roman salute to symbolize their claim to have revitalized Italy on the model of ancient Rome. A similar ritual was adopted by the German Nazis, creating the Nazi salute. Controversy grew in the United States on the use of the Bellamy salute given its similarity to the fascist salutes. School boards around the country revised the salute to avoid this similarity. There was a counter-backlash from the United States Flag Association and the Daughters of the American Revolution, who felt it inappropriate for Americans to have to change the traditional salute because aliens had later adopted a similar gesture.[3]

From 1939 until the attack on Pearl Harbor, detractors of Americans who argued against intervention in World War II produced propaganda using the salute to lessen those Americans' reputations. Among the anti-interventionist Americans was aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh. Supporters of Lindbergh's views would claim that Lindbergh did not support Adolf Hitler and that pictures of him appearing to do the Nazi salute were actually pictures of him using the Bellamy salute. In his Pulitzer Prize winning biography Lindbergh (1998), author A. Scott Berg explains that interventionist propagandists would photograph Lindbergh and other isolationists using this salute from an angle that left out the American flag, so it would be indistinguishable from the Hitler salute to observers.[4]

On June 22, 1942, at the urging of the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Congress passed Public Law 77-623, which codified the etiquette used to display and pledge allegiance to the flag. This included use of the Bellamy salute, specifically that the pledge "be rendered by standing with the right hand over the heart; extending the right hand, palm upward, toward the flag at the words ‘‘to the flag’’ and holding this position until the end, when the hand drops to the side." Congress did not discuss or take into account the controversy over use of the salute. Congress later amended the code on December 22, 1942 when it passed Pulic Law 77-829. Among other changes, it eliminated the Bellamy salute and replaced it with the stipulation that the pledge "be rendered by standing with the right hand over the heart."[5]

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I never heard of this until today. I was shocked! I still am. Something I must have missed during school days.

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