Adolf Hitler Nazism from USA Pledge of Allegiance, Francis Bellamy, Edward Bellamy
Francis Bellamy’s daughter disagreed with the decision to add the words “Under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954. She is often cited by people who claim that Francis Bellamy was anti-religion. Bellamy probably would have disagreed with the addition of “under God” in his pledge, however he would have disagreed because he did not ever want anyone altering his pledge in any way. It had nothing to do with the religious nature of the alteration. Bellamy never wanted anyone to alter his pledge period. One reason is that the original earlier pledge had a “beat” or “rhythm” and”under God” definitely throws it off, some would say even in a non-sensical and crude manner.
Where do some Congressmen acquire the chutzpah to re-write another man’s verse, and change his gesture?
It is not clear that Bellamy’s daughter would disagree with the above.
Of course, as any daughter would, she would want to be kind regarding her father. That is why there is no doubt she would do all she could to distance her father’s dogma and influence from that of Stalin, Mao and Hitler.
That being said, Francis Bellamy also would not have wanted his gesture to have changed either, so he would not have wanted the hand-over-the-heart. Technically, Bellamy did not specify the early stiff-armed salute. He specified an initial military salute that was then extended outward to gesture at the flag with the palm up, as if to say “there is the flag that we are chanting about.” In practice, small brainwashed children would merely extend the military salute out to point at the flag, resulting in the Nazi salute. If Bellamy had made an effort to maintain his original gesture he would have had to constantly demand that young children be drilled and punished for flubbing the nuanced gesture that Bellamy originally penned. It would probably have been impossible because anyone can see how easy it is to casually extend Bellamy’s initial military salute out at the flag. Imagine trying to teach six-year-olds how to do the second part of the gesture any other way. Teachers were probably relieved to have them achieve the military salute and then the teachers would probably yell “ok, now point at the flag!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BssWWZ3XEe4
Some people thought that having children do the military salute was both disrespectful (the children were not in the military) and/or creepy, so the first part was dropped entirely, leaving only the nazi salute.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvDwL553pVM&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
Bellamy, a self-described “Christian socialist” did not have a problem with religion, nor with references to God, and Bellamy showed it in his life and in the larger pledge program which contains various religious references including the actual phrase “under God.” http://rexcurry.net/pledgespeech.html
Robyn Blumner St. Petersburg Times cover up for the National Socialist German Workers Party
