(The Katrina flag)
There are few things about our childhood that brings back more memories than standing with our hand over heart and saying The Pledge Of Allegiance. Yet, in this world of double - speak (to use an Orwell phrase) there is little that rivals our exposure to mouthing slogans that are just plain lies than this pledge. Actually, the public school experience has little to do with the essentials of learning, and everything to do with conformity to the obedient drone mentality that the powers that be wish for us!
"I pledge allegiance to the flag, of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands - one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." It has all the buzz words that make up a mindless slogan, because it certainly does not bear witness to reality!
To state this in brief, we pledge allegiance to a myth - a fraud, to that which is held up before our eyes and drilled into our tender young minds, it is a denial of reality. Within this pledge we find all the elements of the design of those who rule over us, what they want us to believe - what they want us to cling to when all the evidence speaks to the contrary.
What is a "pledge?" It is a binding promise to give or refrain from doing something. It is an agreement to commitment, to loyalty, a binding promise to swear. I say, if it is a promise to be loyal and to support what words we find in this statement - than we have a lot of work to do! However, those in power have no intention of making this a reality - even though they foist this ritual upon us, it is merely something to mis-direct us with empty verbiage while they rape and pillage both at home and abroad. It is like a smoke screen that hides activity that is less than honorable - despicable activity done in our name.
"Allegiance" is the act of binding yourself (intellectually, emotionally) to a course of action. Once again it (allegiance) carries with it this loyalty that is owed. Presently, in reality, it is stolen loyalty by those in power who wish to merely exploit the people. Given in proxy to a flag which sports the identity of this country, it is supposed to represent all that we stand for, and this is further stated in the pledge - the flag represents the United States of America.
We are told in this pledge that we are a "republic." We are supposed to be a constitutional republic with a representative form of government. In reality we are an oligarchic/plutocracy - run by a few in power who are extremely rich. All of the nonsense of "of the people, by the people, and for the people" is just so much tripe.
If you do not believe it than try as a group of people to exercise true power or attempt to get the ear of your representative with results. Let me go to a visceral level - we all feel it, we know something is not right, it is in the collective consciousness. However, we are supposed to be a constitutional republic with a form of representative government, and we are told to confess such in the pledge from tender youth.
"One Nation Under God" - now this is the one that takes it all! It goes back to the concept of a nation being the special province of God Almighty. Not that we are just one nation among many that the almighty may look upon, but that we are his special concern. That everything we do, and I mean everything, is specifically empowered and sanctioned by God. Manifest destiny, which is really the church's special (sarcasm) contribution to this country's image of itself. A sort of Christian Zionism.
Every day people thank God for all the "blessings" that they have. As if God dropped them from the heavens just for them! It is as if they are oblivious to what their government does to gain these "blessings." All of the pain, and all of the misery caused at home and abroad, the disenfranchisement of the poor and minority, the subversion of other countries for their resources - it just boggles the mind how these human ostriches stick their heads in the ground (or up their arse) to come up with these blessings! This is what our government wants to turn our children into, mindless drones.
"Indivisible," that is undivided - incapable of being divided. Now that's a crock if I have ever heard one! This country is divided in every way possible. It is divided on purpose by the powers that be - by class, racially, economically - every which way. It is divided because of it's philosophical foundations - everything for me and nothing for you. I could go on forever, but the next point is really pertinent because it shows one of the great divisions.
"Liberty and justice for all," this point's back to a previous post of mine "The Rule Of Law??" What a farce, the rule of law. Tell this to the millions of minorities that languish in the prison industrial complex! Preach this to the nations that have been raped and robbed by our "national interest!" This phrase is akin to "everyone gets their day in court," as if that is supposed to mean justice. The "day in court" means time in prison for the poor and minority in this country, guaranteed!
You have a modicum of liberty because of the democratic struggle of the people in the face of this ever encroaching fascism, but it is losing ground swiftly. The entire judicial process is vitiated with corruption, from the law's enacted to the enforcement of these legal dictum's, to the remedy in the breaking of these sham legal enactments. By the mere flick of a pen thousands of people are made felons to feed the prison complex!
It is my hope that this has helped to draw back the curtain that those who rule and reign over us have drawn over our eyes. This is just another example of why we need a Democratic Revolutionary Movement in this country. We need to take back the hearts and minds of the people that have been stolen by the few.
