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“Two things need to be done immediately: teachers and students should practice civil disobedience and the judges must be impeached.

“It is up to the teachers in the nine western states affected by this decision to break the law: they should instruct their students on the meaning of civil disobedience and then practice it. All they need to do is call the cops and local TV reporters and then recite the Pledge of Allegiance in their presence. It needs to be shown on television all over the world that as the U.S. prepares to go to war to maintain the liberties symbolized in the Pledge, there are brave men, women and children at home who are prepared to fight tyranny on our own soil.

[kms61]

How is this different from teachers inciting their students to oppose war in Iraq? Public schools shouldn't be used for political organizing. Period.

One thing I see on FR over and over is a lack of consistency...If you're against uninformed busybody actors meddling in foreign policy, be against ALL of them, not just the ones you disagree with. And if you're against political indoctrination in public schools, be against ALL of it, whether it's an antiwar teach-in in Oakland, or Pledge Civil Disobedience elsewhere.

Frankly, if I was going to spend political capital on some mass political movement, there are a lot more important issues out there than whether God is or is not in the Pledge of Allegiance.