Rex Curry exposes Pledge of Allegiance

No one should stand for, nor chant, the Pledge of Allegiance, because it was the origin of the Nazi salute and Nazi behavior (see the work of the historian and author Dr. Rex Curry http://books.google.com/books?id=yQaslAEACAAJ&dq ).

Although America's early Nazi salute has changed, the pledge continues to be the source of Nazi behavior. A web search for the phrase "lawyer jailed for pledge of allegiance" reveals copious information about lawyers jailed for refusing the robotic chanting of the Pledge of Allegiance.

There is historical proof that the USA has been run by crazy people since way back and that both the flag and the pledge turn people insane. See the case of Ex Parte Starr, 263 F. 145, 146-147 (D. Mont. 1920), in which a man was sentenced to 10-20 years for refusing to kiss flag under threat of bully mob.

On the evening of March 24, 1918, Ernest Starr was confronted by about 15 men in a local committee while reading a letter at the general store in Big Horn township, and asked about his failure to make Liberty Bond contributions. Forced to kiss the flag, he said, "What is this thing anyway? Nothing but a piece of cotton with a little paint on it, and some other marks in the corner there. I will not kiss that thing. It might be covered with microbes."

Case details: Information filed Aug. 1, 1918. Attorney was John C. Lyndes. Convicted in a jury trial. Habeas corpus petitions denied in state and federal courts. In opinion in Ex parte Starr 263 Fed 145 (D. Mont. 1920), U.S. Judge George Bourquin noted that defendant was "more sinned against than sinning," and added that "Patriotism, like religion, is a virtue so exalted that its excesses pass with little censure. But when as here it descends to fanaticism, it is of the reprehensible quality of the religion that incited the massacre of St. Bartholomew, the fires of Smithfield, the tortures of the Inquisition and is equally cruel and murderous." Served 35 months. Sentence commuted by Gov. Dixon on June 4, 1921, to 5-20 years making him immediately eligible for parole. Evidence that a woman's malicious gossip about Starr, based on comments she said she heard him make in 1917, precipitated the confrontation with his accusers (but her testimony was not allowed for that reason). Released Sept. 18, 1921. Starr's name lives on in several books and articles on the flag.

Personal Information: Born in Wooster, Wayne Co., Ohio. Attended schools in Kalamazoo County, Mich. Had one sister, a missionary in S. America.

Testified that he worked in North Dakota as early as 1886, worked for the Great Northern Railroad in 1887 and later homesteaded in North Dakota and Canada. In 1910 was single and living in Hillsdale, N.D. Left Canada in 1916 to come to Montana. Lived and homesteaded at the head of Tullock Creek near Hardin, 25 miles south of Big Horn township in what was then Rosebud County.

Filed for homestead in 1916 on ceded portion of Crow Reservation. Also worked as engineer and boilermaker. Date and place of death unknown.

http://www.seditionproject.net/STARR.HTM

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:2ew4tXFFZJkJ:www.seditionproject.net/STARR.HTM+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

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On November 9, 1918, the Kansas Supreme Court heard the appeal of Frederick Shumaker, Jr. for his conviction for having made to someone a "vulgar and indecent" comment about flags. The justices voted unanimously to uphold Shumaker's conviction. Do a web search for the words "frederick shumaker 1918 kansas flags" to read the case.

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In 1931, the Supreme Court ruled in the case of Stromberg v. California that laws banning the use of emblems or symbols to express opposition to government are an unconstitutional infringement on free speech. That suggested it is also an infringement on free speech to ban use of the flag in a manner that is "disrespectful."

At first, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right of government schools to expel students who would not perform the stiff-arm salute and robotically chant the Pledge of Allegiance each morning at the ring of the government's bell for 12 years of their lives. The case is Minersville School District v. Gobitis (1940).

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=310&invol=586

Many people used the Gobitis case as an excuse to increase persecution of children who would not chant (and their parents). That was part of the reasons why the Court reversed itself three years later in one of its fastest self-reversals in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943).

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=319&invol=624

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According to the St. Petersburg Times: There was a flag mutilation case in Pinellas County in 2002. The defendant, who pleaded guilty to that charge and others, was put on probation.

Thinking the "public mutilation of a flag" statute remained viable, Tampa police officers in the past year accused two men in three separate instances of the first-degree misdemeanor.

The charge carried a punishment of up to one year in jail and a maximum $1,000 fine. But the Hillsborough State Attorney's Office dropped all three cases, including that of Donnie White's on Thursday.

Donnie James White, 45, of Tampa, was arrested and charged with one count of public mutilation of the flag, a misdemeanor on July 9, 2007 "The United States Supreme Court has made it clear that this type of statute is unconstitutional," spokeswoman Pam Bondi said. "The defendant's conduct is protected under the First Amendment."

When White, 45, appeared in court Tuesday after a night in jail, Assistant State Attorney Linda Grable made a case for the charge to stick. "He rubbed a flag across his body," Grable said. "He stomped on it. He dragged it down the street."

"Sounds like probable cause to me," said a Circuit Judge, usually a family law judge, who was filling in on the criminal side. The judge set bail at $500. White, whose previous arrests include criminal mischief and disorderly conduct, didn't post it before prosecutors got him released at 11:25 a.m. Thursday.

Is there civil liability?

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First they compel the behavior then they ban the behavior. First they punish you for refusing it, then they punish you for doing it. In some countries (Germany) it is a criminal offense to perform the early American gesture for the Pledge of Allegiance (now known as the "Nazi salute").

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