Why should I when I haven't even read the ones that I have?
I think the relationship is finally over, just like it is for America:
"Teen resolute in fight to have pledge said in classrooms; Arlington school board deadlocked on issue" by Brock Parker, Globe Correspondent | June 30, 2010
With a line of military service in his family dating to the War of 1812, Sean Harrington sees the Pledge of Allegiance as something he owes to the men and women who have died fighting for this country.
“It’s a living and breathing statement that basically strengthens a bond a person has with their country,’’ said the 17-year-old Arlington High School student.
But Harrington’s fight to persuade Arlington officials to require the pledge be led in every school has been a frustrating lesson in freedom of speech.
Last week, Harrington, a senior, presented the Arlington School Committee with a petition, signed by more than 700 people, to require that the pledge be led in all the town’s schools each day. The committee deadlocked, 3 to 3, on a motion that would have required a daily, but voluntary, recitation of the pledge to be led over the intercom.
Yesterday, after a week of controversy in town, a compromise surfaced: The Arlington High principal said he’d lead the pledge in the lobby of Arlington High School every morning five minutes before school begins. Principal Charles Skidmore said anyone who wishes to say the pledge can do so in the lobby, and he believes the plan is a good compromise to Harrington’s proposal.
But Harrington, who wanted the pledge said in all of the schools, said the pledge belongs in the classroom, and he does not believe the principal’s idea of saying it before school in the lobby would work among students, who would then have to hurry to class.
Harrington, an associate member of Arlington’s Republican Town Committee and founder of the high school’s Teenage Republican group, said he “teared up’’ when his proposal failed.
Well, I HOPE the little SoB is ENLISTING when he turns 18!!!!
They NEED YOU, haven't you heard?
Joseph Curro, School Committee chairman, who voted in favor of voluntary recitation of the pledge, said some members in the audience taunted the deadlocked committee.
“They told us to go back to our own countries,’’ Curro said....
I LOVE MASSACHUSETTS TOLERANCE, don't you?
Maybe if you guys were gay instead....
Judson Pierce, a School Committee member who voted against the proposal [and] who chairs the Arlington School Committee’s subcommittee on policy and procedures, said he wants to make sure that any policy Arlington approves about saying the pledge will also honor and respect those who choose not to participate.
“I don’t want to create further bullying practices because kids are choosing not to say it,’’ Pierce said....
Related: Bullying the Massachusetts Legislature
The war-promoter behind the agenda.
Harrington said his patriotism pushes almost everything he does. Three years ago, when Harrington was a freshman at Arlington High School, he was surprised to find that many classrooms did not even have American flags. Back then, he persuaded school officials to install the flags.
Now he is on to the pledge, and Harrington said that he has had a number of politicians sign his petition and that since the School Committee’s vote last week he has had a surge of people reach out to him with words of support....
I just want to know where the LIBERTY and JUSTICE for ALL is because WE DO NOT HAVE IT HERE!!!
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"Arlington police investigate threats over pledge vote" by Brock Parker, Globe Correspondent | July 1, 2010
Arlington police are investigating threatening messages sent to School Committee members yesterday in response to a controversy surrounding reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in school.
Police Captain Robert Bongiorno would not specify which committee members received the messages, but he said some were anti-Semitic....
Pffft!
Related: Hate Crime Hoaxes Appearing All Across America
Update: Jewish hate crime hoax - why is she not charged with a hate crime herself????
They never miss a false-flagging opportunity, do they?
“It is unfortunate that the national media [Fox News ] has chosen to distort this very serious debate in a manner which so badly misinforms the public,’’ committee chairman Joseph Curro said in a press release yesterday. “Recent reports have done little to present the facts . . . and have been seized upon by many people throughout the country to target our dedicated school leaders with unwarranted hate mail and threats.’’
Yeah, and TOO BAD the GLOBE ALERTED them to the story, huh?
As the Globe reported yesterday, controversy about reciting the pledge in Arlington schools began last week when Arlington High School senior Sean Harrington requested that the pledge be led each day at school. The Pledge of Allegiance has not been said at the high school for years, and the School Committee voted 3-to-3 on a motion that would have required a daily, but voluntary, recitation of the pledge to be led over the intercom. Because of the tie vote, the motion failed.
School Committee members said they would look into enacting a pledge policy this summer, and on Tuesday, Arlington High principal Charles Skidmore told the Globe he would lead the pledge in the school’s auditorium every morning for students who wished to say it. Harrington said he still wants the pledge broadcast into each classroom.
Then I guess TERRORISM WORKS, huh?
In a telephone interview yesterday, Curro said that since incorrect reports by Fox News that Arlington had banned the pledge, committee members have been receiving messages from “all over the country.’’
Curro said a couple of the messages sent to committee members included indirect threats and one said the members should go to North Korea, where their throats would be slit....
Also see: Around New England: Tip of the Hat in Rhode Island
Sig Heil, AmeriKa!
I must admit that the lifespan of the lies is astounding.
Perhaps if you cared things would be different.
