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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is amazing to me.  I was reading through the debate about God being recited in the pledge and respected those opinions opposite of mine and thought about it and was enjoying the debate.

Somehow, now it's turned into a "I don't even want my kids to recite the pledge of allegience in school" debate?  It's astounding.  Let me ask those of you with multi-country loyalties (I'm talking to you, 4-passport poster) and others who so proudly don't want to recite the pledge.  If this country was in war with one of your other countries, where would your loyalties lie?  You are pledging your allegience to this country.  It means that you will align yourself with the country in which you live and whose government you support when we are at war.  If you feel SO strongly that you do not want to align with the US, then what's to stop you from disclosing our national secrets (if you know of any) to your country?

You do realize that violating your allegience to your sovereign is called treason, right?  [/quote]

Actually, it's called sedition:  overt conduct, such as speech and organization, that is deemed by the legal authority to tend toward insurrection against the established order.

This is treason:  Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States

And you're an idiot.[/quote]

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