Francis Bellamy and his cousin and cohort, the author Edward Bellamy, wanted
government to take over all schools as a socialist monopoly, end all of the
better alternatives, and use government schools to produce an "industrial
army" (a Bellamy term) explicitly modeled upon the military. Francis Bellamy
used his position with the National Education Association (NEA) to promote
"military socialism." Edward Bellamy published the “Nationalist” magazine
and both Bellamys supported its publisher, the “Nationalist Educational Association,”
(NEA) (see bottom of photo) named with deliberate similarity to the National
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U.S. CREATED THE STRAIGHT-ARMED SALUTE & "MILITARY SOCIALISM"
Germans are owed an apology by the U.S. and by anyone who thinks that the
military-socialism and salute of the Nazis originated in Germany. An American
organization is gaining support to set the record straight. http://rexcurry.net/pledgegermany.html
The pledge of allegiance to the U.S. flag was the origin of the salute of
the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazis). The flag’s original
straight-arm salute pre-dated the Nazis by three decades. The claim
that it was an old Roman salute is a debunked myth. http://rexcurry.net/pledgesalute.html
The pledge of allegiance was written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy, cousin
and cohort of the also-famous Edward Bellamy, author of the 1888 book “Looking
The Bellamys were self-proclaimed national socialists and they loved the
military and both espoused “military socialism” (A Bellamy phrase).
The Bellamy book was an international bestseller and translated into every
major language, including German, and it inspired military socialism worldwide.
The original pledge to the U.S. flag began with a military salute for the
phrase “I pledge allegiance” and then the right arm extended straight outward
toward the flag for the rest of the chant. The military salute
was not a random choice, and the extended right arm was the origin of the
salute for other national socialists who loved militarism: the monstrous National
Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazis). Historic photographs are linked
Many people forget that Nazis were socialists. A mnemonic device for
remembering that Nazis were socialists is that the swastika resembles two
overlapping “s” letters, and “socialism” begins with the letter “s.”
Francis Bellamy’s first description of the pledge had the palm of the hand
turned upward for the straight-armed gesture. The gesture changed
in use, growing in its similarity to the "Heil Hitler" salute because of the
military salute (palm down) extended casually straight toward the flag.
It's as if the pledge was an original wordier "Heil Nation" and "Sieg Heil"
(Hail to Victory -victory over the southern states). The Bellamys
created military socialism because they loved the War of Northern Aggression
against southern independence. The pledge memorializes their view,
especially the phrase “one nation, indivisible.” "Preservation
of the Union" was not unlike “lebensraum” in the Bellamy mind.
The common claim that the salute was an old Roman salute is a myth from
old movies depicting fictional Roman scenes that were inspired by the pledge,
and by the fact that Francis Bellamy was from Rome, in the state of New York.
The term "Roman" was used (and still is used) to refer to people and products
from the U.S. city. Bellamy was a socialist northerner and was the original
“New York liberal” albeit from Rome. http://rexcurry.net/pledgesalute.html
Government schools teach that the pledge was created to sell flags to schools
and Francis Bellamy is described as an advertising pioneer. That is
a whitewashed piece of the whole story. A better description is that
Bellamy was a propaganda pioneer, comparable to Leni Riefenstahl.
The Bellamys were not beautiful friends of liberty. The Bellamys were
belligerent toward freedom. They wanted the government to takeover everything
and impose the military’s “efficiency,” as they said. It is the
origin of the modern military-socialist complex.
Francis Bellamy is why there are U.S. flags flying at local government schools
or inside classrooms. The Bellamys wanted a flag over every school because
they wanted to nationalize and militarize everything, including all schools,
and eliminate all of the better alternatives. During Bellamy’s time the government
was taking over education.
The Bellamys wanted government schools to ape the military. Government
schools were intended to create an “industrial army” (another Bellamy phrase,
and the word “army” was not metaphorical) and to help nationalize everything
Germany and the entire world is owed an apology for the horrid influence
that government had inside the U.S. in promoting socialized schools, military
socialism within government schools, the creation of industrial armies, and
daily robotic pledges of allegiance in military formation with the infamous
The Bellamys believed that government schools with pledges and flags were
needed to entice children to embrace nationalism, militarism, and socialism.
Francis Bellamy used his position with the National Education Association
(NEA) to promote the pledge. Edward Bellamy published the “Nationalist”
magazine and both Bellamys supported its publisher, the “Nationalist Educational
Association,” (NEA) named with deliberate similarity to the National Education
Association. There is only one place on the web with an example of the "Nationalist"
The U.S. flag flew over a country that recognized private slavery for over
a century. Thereafter, the Bellamys, the pledge, the U.S. flag, and the War
of Northern Aggression inpired massive centralized socialism that resulted
in nationwide government policies of racism and segregation, along with a
government takeover of schools. Children used the “sieg heil” gesture
for flags flying over racist government schools through the rise of Nazism
(the hand-over-the-heart spread in 1942). The bizarre practices served
as an example for three decades before they were adopted by the National Socialist
German Workers’ Party. The U.S. practice of segregation even outlasted
the horrid party, into the 1960's and beyond. That is why the Bellamys
are known as the “American Hitlers” and as the first “American Nazis.” http://rexcurry.net/pledge1.html
Thereafter, the legacy caused more police-state racism of forced busing
that destroyed communities and neighborhoods and deepened hostilities.
No one can measure the monstrous impact of government schools imposing racism
and teaching racism as official policy for so long. Government school racism
did much more damage than private enterprise could ever have afforded to do.
It would have been better if government had stayed out of schools altogether.
The famous desegregation case of Brown v. Board of Education ignores how
government schools started the problem that Brown ended. When government began
socializing schools in the late 1800's, it expanded government-mandated racism.
Brown is another example of government peeing on everyone and then claiming
that it was rain. In addition to ending government’s racism, Brown should
have ended government schools.
If the government had taken over all churches then the same horror would
have resulted, with government-mandated racism in government churches. The
libertarian solution would have been to end socialized churches. It is fortunate
that the Constitution prevented government churches. It is unfortunate that
the Constitution did not prevent government schools, though they are no where
Did the Bellamy scheme for schools work? Edward Bellamy’s book “Looking
Backward: 2000-1887" predicted society in the year 2000 as totalitarian socialism.
Did Bellamy propaganda make the predictions come true?
Most Americans now support Bellamy’s vision of a massive government-school
monopoly, and the social security system with socialist slave numbers, massive
government spending, and other widespread socialism. They submitted to socialist
schools that imposed racism and segregation. Children robotically chant the
socialist’s pledge daily on the ring of a bell, like Pavlov's lapdogs of the
Some socialists chuckle knowingly at the spectacle.
The pledge is about submission. The only saving grace seems to be
the last sentence, “with liberty and justice for all.” When a socialist
says “liberty and justice for all” he means the exact opposite of everyone
else. When a socialist says “liberty and justice for all” he means that
he wants to rob, enslave and kill you.
Socialists robbed, enslaved and killed millions in the socialist Wholecaust
(of which the Holocaust was a part): 62 million in the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics; 35 million in the People’s Republic of China; 21 million under
the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. (Death tolls from the book
"Death by Government" by Professor R. J. Rummel). It was the worst
slaughter in world history.
Edward Bellamy’s book was an international bestseller, translated into all
major languages, including German, and inspired socialists in all the hell-holes
Francis Bellamy’s pledge is a chant of capitulation, and the U.S. flag in
a school is a white flag of surrender, to government, to the Department of
Education, to nationalization, to socialism, to militarism. The Bellamys
gave the red stripes a loathsome connotation for socialized schools.
It is not too late to separate school and state. The separation of
school and state is as important as the separation of church and state. The
government should not run Sunday school, nor Monday school through Friday
school. Remove the pledge from the flag, remove the flag from the schools,
and remove the schools from the government.
As an attorney, I was the first to educate the U.S. Supreme Court about the
pledge's poisonous past. As a pro bono service I educate the public.
Rex Curry is an attorney, and can be reached at lawyer (at) rexcurry.net
A GERMAN FAN - says "Thanks!" for showing that crazy socialists in the U.S.
created the salute and ideas before German socialists did it in the National
Socialist German Workers' Party. http://rexcurry.net/pledgegerman.html
This is a German translation of the Pledge of Allegiance. In German it
is known as the Treueschwur der USA. Der Wortlaut: "Ich schwöre Treue
auf die Fahne der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika
und die Republik, für die sie steht, eine Nation unter Gott, unteilbar,
mit Freiheit und Gerechtigkeit für jeden"
The court case of Frank Herbert Wonschik v. U.S.,
argued that the jury selection process was impermissibly tainted by the trial
judge's request that all potential jurors stand and recite the Pledge of
Allegiance prior to jury selection. Furthermore, that bias also transgressed
the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment
to the U.S. Constitution. http://rexcurry.net/pledgewonschik.html
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