RexCurry.net hereby challenges Professor Martin Winkler of George Mason University to debate the origin of the "Roman Salute" myth, and the spread of the socialist gesture / symbol and socialist economic ideology. http://rexcurry.net/pledgesalute.html
RexCurry.net is the nation's leading authority on the Pledge of Allegiance and on the "Roman Salute" and the discovery that the salute of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazis) originated from the military salute in the USA and, and from the original flag pledge (as written by a socialist), and not from ancient Rome.
The debate was prompted by many factors, including a poster for Professor Winkler's speech on "The Roman Salute: Origin and Spread of a fascist symbol." The poster and the speech's use of the word "fascist" perpetuate ignorance of the fact that the straight-arm salute was popularized by a socialist in the USA, Francis Bellamy.
The poster announces a speech that might also have perpetuated widespread ignorance of the fact that the word "Nazi" means "National Socialist German Workers' Party."
The debate was also prompted by Professor Winkler's book "Gladiator" which also perpetuates similar ignorance and myths. Winkler's book index lists only the hackneyed terms "Nazi, Nazism....see also Fascism" again perpetuating ignorance about the socialist origins of the salute, and about the National Socialist German Workers' Party. The book appears to never use the actual name of the horrid party but seems to deliberately repeat the hackneyed abbreviation.
The book's tired stereotypes perpetuate the myth that the National Socialist German Workers' Party slaughtered the most people. Here is one sample quote "The Fascist and Nazi movements exploited this fear of the uncontrolled masses to impose their own leaders." The book never indicts the Socialist and Communist movements and their leaders. The socialist Wholecaust (of which the Holocaust was a part) involved the socialist trio of atrocities: 62 million killed by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; 35 million by the Peoples' Republic of China; and 21 million by the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
Another glaring puzzle in "Gladiator" is that Winkler never mentions his own "Roman Salute" work. That might be because, before the book was published, RexCurry.net had already begun commenting on Professor Winkler's failure to address the straight-arm salute's origin from a socialist in the USA who wrote the pledge of allegiance to the flag. Those facts don't fit in with the book's hackneyed perpetuation of ignorance about the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
In Professor Winklers' early work on the "Roman" salute myth, the professor traced the myth to early fictional representations in movies, but Winkler appeared to be unaware that the original pledge of allegiance predated all of the movies and used a straight-armed salute (from 1892).
As an attorney, I am asked about court litigation of the pledge of allegiance and historic precedent. The history of the Pledge shocked my libertarian mind. The "Roman salute" myth is used in the same way that the word "Nazi" is used. To cover-up for socialism. To cover up the fact that government inside the U.S. promoted socialized schools, military socialism within government schools, the creation of industrial armies, and daily robotic pledges of allegiance in military formation with the infamous straight-arm salute (the Nazi salute). Francis Bellamy and his cousin and cohort, the author Edward Bellamy, were self-proclaimed national socialists in the U.S. who promoted "military socialism" and the straight-armed salute, and they did it 3 decades before the Nazis.
Remove the pledge from the flag, remove the flag from schools, remove schools from government.
RexCurry.net
