It takes little effort to understand the connection of the USA's authoritarian government with Bellamy dogma (its national socialism and the Pledge of Allegiance). Indeed, it would take all the ingenuity of the cleverest academics not to understand it. http://rexcurry.net/pledge-allegiance-pledge-allegiance.jpg
The memoirs of Ludwig von Mises, written from his exile in Geneva in 1940, contain this moving, even tragic, passage: "Occasionally I entertained the hope that my writings would bear practical fruit and show the way for policy. Constantly I have been looking for evidence of a change in ideology. But...I have come to realize that my theories explain the degeneration of a great civilization; they do not prevent it. I set out to be a reformer, but only became the historian of decline." See "Ludwig Von Mises Notes and Recollections" by Ludwig Von Mises and Hans F. Sennholz; also see the article "Memories of Ludwig von Mises" by Hans F. Sennholz. (concerning Mises' exile from National Socialists in Germany) http://rexcurry.net/swastika3swastika.jpg "I was fascinated to see the pictures of US school kids saluting the flag, as they do seem to have an uncanny resemblence to images from the period of the National Socialist German Workers' Party. In this respect they are similar to images you explained from the 20's and 30's of people giving the 'Olympic' salute which was identical to the National Socialist German Workers' Party. This salute was given not only at the Olympics but at all sorts of other sporting events. I've seen pictures in the local papers for Northamptonshire from the 1930s of English school children giving the salute as they march past!" - Philip C. http://rexcurry.net/bookchapter1a1c.html --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
