This is the same Ruth Galanter that gave her alligator tear filled testimony at the "assault weapon" hearings. Months before she was attacked in her home by a guy wielding a knife (NO GUNS WERE INVOLVED) and used the lame excuse of "if he had an assault weapon, I would be dead" as a reason for the ban.
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Los Angeles City Council Members
Want to Add New "Pledge of Allegiance"
To Council Meetings.
By Ralph Weller
CalNRA.org Contributing Editor
September 29, 2001 - Just when you think San Francisco is truly the capitol of weird lefty politicians, along comes another California politician in what seems to be a never-ending spiral of competition for the "stupid politician of the month" award. We have found a worthy competitor.
Los Angeles City Councilwomen Ruth Galanter and some of her friends on the council want to change, amend, add to, eliminate, co-exist with, or do something which we aren't quite certain of, to the existing Pledge of Allegiance. As a reminder, here is the pledge as published in 1892 with one change in 1954 adding "under God."
Pledge of Allegiance
I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to
the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with
liberty and justice for all.
Councilwomen Galanter has written her own entitled "Pledge to the Earth". But, it doesn't end there. She introduced it to the city council on September 26 so that it may become part of the official proceedings at the opening of city council meetings, we presume.
Pledge to the Earth
"I pledge allegiance to the earth on which I stand, one world, one people, undivided, with food, shelter, and justice for all."
So what prompted this stroke of literary genius? Galanter was so struck by the September 11 World Trade Center attack that it seemed like an opportune time to write some pearls of wisdom that only a socialist would appreciate. In her motion she wrote: "the events of September 11, 2001, have dramatically demonstrated that ultimately we are all part of the same world community without national or ethnic distinction..."
Oh please! What a bunch of mush-brained, left-wing stupidity. Was she sleeping on September 11? Galanter may think that the world is without national or ethnic distinction, but the very "same world community" she thinks we all belong to is so dangerous to Americans that the U.S. State Department issued a world-wide warning to Americans traveling outside of the U.S. this very week.
As many as 7000 Americans died on September 11, 2001 because we have significant national or ethnic diversity in this world with very different value systems. The bottom line is we are not and, in all probability, will never be the same. There are many people, regimes, crackpot dictators, and governments in other lands that want to see Americans dead.