From Texas, of all places, comes this radical cretin who doesn't like our country. She apparently doesn't have a problem taking our tax dollars (she is a professor at the University of Texas), but she thinks we are bad. From the letters section of the Daily Texan:
My daughter, who is 11, and I were delighted at the California court decision omitting the words "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance. She and I have always been uncomfortable saying the pledge, not only because of the religious imposition, but because it seems very strange to pledge loyalty to a scrap of cloth representing a corrupt nation that imposes its will, both economic and military, around the world by force. So she inspired me to rewrite the Pledge.
If our country is so awful, why do you work for it? Aren't you contributing to the corruption by accepting a job (and its blood money) with the government?
The letter continues with her rewrite of the pledge, which manages to work in solidarity with third world workers, those laid off by WorldCom and Enron, Iraq and Palestine, and not less than three references to the "brutality" of Capitalism.
Castro would be proud; maybe the next time he needs a new speechwriter, he'll hire her, since her communistic worldview (no other way to describe it) syncs nicely with his.
Remember, folks, this is your tax dollars at work.
It's people like her that give universities a bad name.
Very funny, actually, and not untypical. Biting the hand that feeds you, etc. The thing that caught my eye is how she refers to her 11 yr old daughter as if she is some autonomous adult who developed these views on her own. Did she emerge from the womb uncomfortable with the pledge? Were her first words admonishments to her ideologically lax mom for not already rewriting it? "Ma-ma! Ma-ma! Ooo say pedge, it bad, Ma-ma! me not wike god! Make it go 'way, Ma-ma!" Somehow, I'm thinking this child's ideological stance was at least a little affected by Mom. And that being the case, her bringing her daughter into it as part of the argument is, well, Newdowish.
posted on July 05, 2002 12:22 PM
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