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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To all against the Pledge of Allegiance - if, someday, when the children are grown, and the country falls apart - remember your blasé attitude is what you passed along to your children.  The U.S. has many enemies, both foreign and domestic.  Countries without a strong sense of belonging and culture eventually disintegrate.  We're seeing the strains on the country now.  Take it seriously.  It's easy to lose what you do not defend.[/quote]

Read this, please. West Virginia v. Barnette, 1943 (so they were plenty familiar with enemies foreign and domestic): https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/319/624

[i]We apply the limitations of the Constitution with no fear that freedom to be intellectually and spiritually diverse or even contrary will disintegrate the social organization. To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary and spontaneous, instead of a compulsory routine, is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds. We can have intellectual individualism and the rich cultural diversities that we owe to exceptional minds only at the price of occasional eccentricity and abnormal attitudes. When they are so harmless to others or to the State as those we deal with here, the price is not too great. But freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.

If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein. If there are any circumstances which permit an exception, they do not now occur to us.[/i]

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