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kpete

(71,985 posts) Mon Jun 25, 2018, 09:37 AM Jun 2018

Why must we say those words, some of the children ask at the shelter in Brownsville TX?

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Why must we say those words, some of the children ask at the shelter in Brownsville TX? (Original Post) kpete Jun 2018 OP

Just breaks your heart. Ohiogal Jun 2018 #1

"out of respect" lagomorph777 Jun 2018 #2

Forcing children to repeat words they do not understand and don't believe.. Zoonart Jun 2018 #3

I always resented that when I was a child. They are political prisoners. lagomorph777 Jun 2018 #4

MSN website is reporting they have a teenager that has gone missing from that "shelter." Tipperary Jun 2018 #5

So these children are American citizens? Even Americans are NOT REQUIRED to stand and recite it Freethinker65 Jun 2018 #6

We give our heads and hearts to God and our country; one country, one language, one flag! eppur_se_muova Jun 2018 #7

POA / 2018 ed. alterfurz Jun 2018 #10

Nicely done. nt eppur_se_muova Jun 2018 #11

Yeah....about that, "Liberty and justice for all," part.... Bayard Jun 2018 #8

Just so sick and heartbreaking. smirkymonkey Jun 2018 #9

Ohiogal

(31,979 posts)

1. Just breaks your heart.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Jun 25, 2018, 09:41 AM

Jun 2018

Why do they have to pledge allegiance to a country that treats them like animals, they aren't even citizens!

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)

2. "out of respect"

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Jun 25, 2018, 09:44 AM

Jun 2018

I'm afraid I'm fresh out of respect. We have a war to win now.

Zoonart

(11,850 posts)

3. Forcing children to repeat words they do not understand and don't believe..

Reply to lagomorph777 (Reply #2)

Mon Jun 25, 2018, 09:49 AM

Jun 2018

because their jailers said so... is simply sadistic.

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)

4. I always resented that when I was a child. They are political prisoners.

Reply to Zoonart (Reply #3)

Mon Jun 25, 2018, 09:52 AM

Jun 2018

Especially as I awoke politically to all the injustices of the Viet Nam war, Jim Crow, etc.

Tipperary

(6,930 posts)

5. MSN website is reporting they have a teenager that has gone missing from that "shelter."

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Jun 25, 2018, 09:53 AM

Jun 2018

They have no idea where he is.

Freethinker65

(10,009 posts)

6. So these children are American citizens? Even Americans are NOT REQUIRED to stand and recite it

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Jun 25, 2018, 09:58 AM

Jun 2018

Makes no sense, unless then are trying to indoctrinate future or current American citizens.

I stopped reciting the pledge decades ago.

eppur_se_muova

(36,260 posts)

7. We give our heads and hearts to God and our country; one country, one language, one flag!

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Jun 25, 2018, 11:11 AM

Jun 2018

Ooooooops, sorry. That was the old (Balch) version. Not *exactly* "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer", but -- well, discomfitingly close.

The POA was something our Founding Fathers never heard, and evidently didn't think necessary.

alterfurz

(2,474 posts)

10. POA / 2018 ed.

Reply to eppur_se_muova (Reply #7)

Mon Jun 25, 2018, 12:04 PM

Jun 2018

I pledge subservience
to the profit
of the Corporate States of America--
and to the Republicans
for which it stands--
one conglomerate, under GOP
(taxpayer subsidized),
with liberty and justice
for all (who can afford it).*
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