[b]University of Texas Professor Creates New Pledge For The 'Godless Radicals'[/b]
The Daily Texan | Dana Cloud [url] http://www.dailytexanonline.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2002/07/01/3d201c20b81d0[/url]

Pledge for the workers
My daughter, who is 11, and I were delighted at the California court decision omitting the words "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance. She and I have always been uncomfortable saying the pledge, not only because of the religious imposition, but because it seems very strange to pledge loyalty to a scrap of cloth representing a corrupt nation that imposes its will, both economic and military, around the world by force. So she inspired me to rewrite the Pledge.

Imagine schoolchildren every day reciting the following:

I pledge allegiance to all the ordinary people around the world,

to the laid off Enron workers and the WorldCom workers

the maquiladora workers

and the sweatshop workers from New York to Indonesia,

who labor not under God but under the heel of multinational corporations; I pledge allegiance

to the people of Iraq,

Palestine and Afghanistan,

and to their struggles to survive and resist

slavery to corporate greed,

brutal wars against their families,

and the economic and environmental ruin wrought by global capitalism; I pledge allegiance

to building a better world

where human needs are met

and with real liberty, equality and justice for all.

The original pledge does not include or represent us godless radicals. The backlash against the California decision shows just how thin our democracy is.

Dana Cloud Associate professor Communication studies

Something smells funny.

Looks like someone was sleeping in civics class....we don't have a democracy.

Sure does. If you ask me - it stinks.

Isn't this a shame...his pledge is unconstitutional as well because it still states "under God."

Won't you crack-pot liberals EVER GET ANYTHING RIGHT?!?!?!?!?  You said you can't put the word "God" in...yet you do anyway.  What a bunch of utopian sheople you are!!!

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Mike Tyson converted to Islam, and look at the change it made to his life!

Sometimes ago a councilwoman in Los Angeles (who and where else?) came up with a similarly socialistic chant that passed for POA, ending with something like "equality, fair housing and living wages for all" or whatnot.

Feel free to dredge it up and post it if you can find it.

As a former Enron employee, I don't want this moron, her idiot daughter or anyone else pledging anything to me.  My wife pledges her devotion to me, and I to her, and that's all I'll accept.

But having gone to school at UT in Austin, I can understand how this came about.  The only thing worse than the hippie "radical" professors (who desperately wish they could have been a part of the 60's) is the hippie "radicals" juggling and loitering along "the drag" (the section of Quadalupe street that runs along the front of campus) begging for change and drugs.  The whole place smelled like piss when I lived there, at the Goodall-Wooten dorm.

Remember the Alamo, and God Bless Texas...

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