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[stellie]

I refuse to say anything during pledge of allegiance anywhere. The whole of the United States in general does not know the proper way to chant the pledge and I will not lower myself to be drowned out by ill begotten pledgers who just mumble the words like everyone else.

THERE IS NO PAUSE BETWEEN JUSTICE AND UNDER GOD.

I will stand up. I will place my hand over my heart (your heart is slightly center, not completely left people!) and look towards the flag, as it stands for freedom and it has stood for such for quite a long time. And I respect that.

I'm not a christian. But I do have a sort of 'faith'. And that, my friend, is the belief in people. It's hard to keep a belief like that when no one around you can get anything right, even something so simple as a pledge. Then again, it's always easy to have a belief like that -- as long as you believe that people will be people and they fuck up most of the time. No one is perfect, not even me. But I can, at least, get the pledge right the first time =\ (I cannot, however, out-shout anyone... and people look at you funny when you chant loudly "ONE NATION UNDER DOG UNDEREDUCATED AND SHOELACES FOR ALL.")

/rant. Brought to you today by the letter D, the user droid and the complete recollection of my disgust during the pledge-saying at the lobster's graduation last friday.

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[garney.livejournal.com]

I started refusing to say the pledge at about sixth grade, some for the reasons of others saying it wrong and so loudly I couldn't hear myself.

But the better part of it was I just didn't believe it anymore.

I wrote an essay in third grade about why I loved my country. It was well-written and prose-like. I wish I still had it. My English teacher gave me an award and through some means I ended up reading it at a convention of some sort, and received an award for that as well.

The things I wrote in that essay, some of it was true. People have died for our freedom, there's no denying that, but did they need to? Were there other means of peace that history (written by Caucasian males) isn't telling us?

Yes this is a beautiful country, a powerful country, we crushed many people getting where we are, and now most people don't appreciate that.

Personally, I want to leave the country, I've come to hate it so much.