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No one should stand for nor chant the Pledge of Allegiance because it was 
the origin of the Nazi salute and Nazi behavior (that is one of the amazing 
discoveries of the historian Dr. Rex Curry, as described in the many books 
about Dr. Curry’s work). The early pledge began with a military salute that 
was then extended outward to point at the flag (thus the stiff-arm gesture 
came from the pledge and from the military salute). The pledge was written 
in 1892 for kindergartners to be forced to recite under the flag at 
government schools (socialist schools). The pledge was written by an 
American socialist who influenced other socialists worldwide, including 
German socialists, who used the gesture under their flag’s notorious symbol 
(their symbol was used to represent crossed “S” letters for their 
“socialist” dogma -another of Dr. Curry’s discoveries). The pledge continues 
to be the origin of similar behavior even though the gesture was changed to 
hide the pledge’s putrid past. The pledge is central to the US’s police 
state and its continued growth.

Francis Bellamy was a “Christian Socialist.” Long ago, socialism and 
“Christian Socialism” tried to make this one nation under God. The Christian 
socialist Francis Bellamy, author of the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag 
(in 1892), included the phrase “under God,” along with hymns, prayers, and 
various references to the Bible and “God” in his LARGER pledge program (the 
Pledge of Allegiance was a SMALL part of a much larger printed program 
covering 2 newspaper-sized pages). That is why the original full Pledge 
program is not performed in government schools (and is essentially unknown).

That two-word deification that was in the larger 1892 pledge program of the 
socialist Bellamy was also added by Christian socialists to the socialist 
Bellamy’s smaller pledge part in 1954.

German socialists used the Nazi flag’s symbol to represent crossed “S” 
letters for their socialism. German socialists did not refer to their symbol 
as a swastika; they referred to it as a Hakenkreuz (hooked cross) because it 
was a type of cross.