Pledge of Allegiance

I haven't recited the pledge of allegiance for a very long time. The last time I can remember doing this would be 3rd or 4th grade. I can remember many times just mechanically repeating the pledge with no thought about what I was saying. Children often repeat things from memory without considering what they are speaking.

Let's look at the pledge for a moment and see what these words actually mean. "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

This pledge is short yet there is a great deal of meaning here. Let me make a point before I get involved with analyzing the pledge. There are times in life when we must make a choice between one loyalty, person, or thing. As a Christian, my first allegiance is to Christ. Nothing or no one is supposed to come between Him and me. If I were to describe this format as a level of allegiances then Christ would be first, family would be second, friends would be third, every other person would be fourth and country would be last on the hierarchy. This may anger some people. Undoubtedly it will make some people very upset.

Consider this concept as I try to share the logic and thought behind this belief. For those who are Christians and have placed their faith in Christ as their Savior, there is no person or entity who deserves our allegiance more than Him. We will be challenged in life to make choices to show our devotion to Him and we must decide then who we will obey. We owe our very lives and eternal souls to Him and no one has the power to take us away from Christ.

Family is second most important on the hierarchy of allegiance. As such, it behooves us to put our families welfare, safety, and overall well-being above friends, other people, and our nation. This may cause some people to wonder if we are putting individuals and others first, how is it possible to have allegiance to a nation? The key concept to remember is that individual people are more important than any ideology, political platform, or nation. The family is the unit that constitutes society, individual sovereign states, and finally a nation. Since family makes up all of these groups, and remains a separate entity; family can exist without a community or state or nation. None of the latter can exist without some family unit or part thereof. 


Friends are the next important entity on the hierarchy of allegiance. After God and family, we should be concerned about our friends. It should not need to be explained that family must be more important than friends but in this age of the loss of familial ties and allegiances, it behooves me to talk about this aspect of the hierarchy. The family is more important than friends simply because we are brought into this world into a family. Though no family is perfect, it is the means by which God chose to organize humanity. You could say that the family is the building block of every other group in the world. A community, a state, a nation is built upon the families which exist within its boundaries. We cannot choose which family we are born into, yet we can make the most of the family into which we are born. 


The fourth level of the hierarchy of allegiance consists of people who are not our family or our friends. This would be acquaintances as well as people we do not know at all. We owe an allegiance to all of mankind that supersedes the allegiance to any government, state or nation. 


The final level of the hierarchy of allegiance is the state and the nation. Most people would believe we owe our allegiance to the state before our family, friends or others. It is thinking like this that has spawned the atrocities of the Russian purges, the Nazi concentration camps, and many similar events in history. 


To sum up this article, there is a hierarchy of allegiance that begins with God and the family continues through friends and acquaintances, and finally ends with a community, state, and nation. It is important that we understand that if we put our allegiances in the proper order, many of the disagreements, problems. and ills of society can be resolved much faster and with less time and trouble.

I will continue the exposition of the Pledge of Allegiance in the next installment of this blog. 

To a Socialist State in 100 days

Many are the voices of those expounding the praises of our current President and his first 100 days in office. Few are there who would rise up and raise their voice to disagree with his calamitous plunge into unabashed socialism. Take for one simple instance the swine flu "pandemic". There have been some confirmed cases of this strain of flu that does not naturally fuse together.



This condition has brought to the forefront some startling information. The "stimulus" bill recently passed by Congress has some very disturbing revelations. Chief among them is that this bill established a board which will determine the health care that Americans will receive. "The House bill calls for this appointed board, dubbed the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research, to be at least 50 percent 'physicians or other experts with clinical expertise.'" http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/05/stimulus-bill-may-change-health-care-forever/ These "experts" must be bureaucrats. Yes you read that right. Here is the quote from the same article linked above: "However, there is no way the Council's 15 members - all of whom also must be employed in federal government agencies - can determine which drug or treatment is going to work." So what we have here are government agents known as bureaucrats to the rest of the populace, as the sole judges on which types and at what prices healthcare may be dispensed to citizens of the United States.



Socialized medicine is the term for government control of healthcare. Hilary Clinton tried to establish this as early as September 28, 1993. Thankfully there was such a public outcry over the idea of the Federal government telling the average American what kind of health care they could receive and in what amount, that it was never brought to a vote. Many future candidates in the years since would not have dared to bring up the words "healthcare" and "governmental control". We are obviously long past the point of fear of political retribution if a Senator or Representative voted for this "stimulus package". How can I say that? Simply put, by their own admission, none of the Senators and Representatives who voted for this bill ever read it in it's entirety. Over 1000 pages of legislation and no one read it?



America is fast losing her Republic. Citizen, you must act now to reclaim our rights to self determination. Contact your Senator and Representative and comment regarding this socialistic surreptitious power play.



I certainly hope that this frightens the average American into getting away from the latest smoke and mirrors of television and engaging themselves in the process of confronting their legislator who voted for this socialistic engineering bill.

Reason for this blog

I am writing this blog to wake up the vox populi (voice of the people) in order to stir them to action so that our Republic may be restored. I know this is a monumental task given the current state of the nation and the obvious laissez faire attitude of most people I talk to. They may generally get energized about a given problem but soon their resolve dims and they do nothing.

If this is you, please read my posts. I will be talking about everything from the economy to the current state of our government. Stay tuned and be prepared to be challenged and encouraged!