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, Nazismsee 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
