MILITARY SALUTES, MILITARISM, MARTIAL LAW, SCHOOLS, EDUCATION,
THE MILITARY-SOCIALIST COMPLEX & THE SOCIALIST SALUTE TO THE FLAG
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The U.S. origins of the Hitlergruß, Adolf's Hitlergruss, origin of Heil Hitler, & origin of Sieg Heil from
Edward Bellamy, Leon Trotsky, Francis Bellamy, the Pledge of Allegiance, and Looking Backward

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The Pledge of Allegiance to the U.S. flag originally began with a military salute.
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The Pledge was written by Francis Bellamy, and he was a big fan of the military, as was his cousin and cohort Edward Bellamy, the famous author of the book "Looking Backward."
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They called their philosophy "military socialism."  They wanted all of society to ape the military. The pledge was created to promote military socialism in the most socialistic institution - government schools (socialized schools).

In the late 1800s, flags were not as widely flown as they are today. While flags flew daily over military installations, schools were not one of the venues where flags were seen.

Francis Bellamy made schools for children more like military bases.

The pledge began with a military salute for the phrase "I pledge allegiance" and then for the rest of the chant the arm was extended outward to a straight-arm salute.  It was the origin of the salute of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
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The self-proclaimed socialist Francis Bellamy created the salute and pledge in 1892.  His use of government schools to promote socialist militarism was a monstrous example to the world for decades.  His dogma inspired militarism worldwide, including the countries of the socialist Wholecaust (of which the Holocaust was a part): 62 million killed under the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; 49 million under the Peoples' Republic of China; 21 million under the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
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All later socialists who adopted the straight-arm salute (e.g. the National Socialist German Workers' Party) knew that the salute was being used in government schools in the U.S. to promote the military-socialism complex. The swastika, although an ancient symbol, was also used sometimes to represent meshed "S" letters for "socialism" under the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
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Jewish children were forced to perform the socialist straight-arm salute in government schools in the U.S. long before the National Socialist German Workers' Party existed, and for years thereafter while the horrid party tried to impose socialism everywhere. For more info on the monstrous National Socialist German Workers' Party see http://rexcurry.net/swastikamain.html

Government schools (socialist schools) expelled children who did not perform the original salute and pledge to the U.S. flag.

Bellamy belonged to a group known for "Nationalism," whose members wanted the federal government to nationalize most of the domestic economy. He saw government schools as a means to that end.   It was a view later shared in the military-socialist complex of the socialist trio of atrocities.

In his Pledge of Allegiance, Francis Bellamy is expressing the ideas of his first cousin, Edward Bellamy, author of the American socialist utopian novels, Looking Backward (1888) and Equality (1897).

Bellamy’s “Looking Backward” is about a man who sleeps from 1887 until the year 2000.  The United States has become one giant socialist monopoly (excuse the redundancy). The book openly portrays men treated as military draftees, from the age of twenty-one until the age of forty-five, in the U.S.’s industrial army.  Before the age of twenty-one, men attend one enormous school system of government schools that are an integral part of creating the industrial army in the socialist system. Bellamy’s glorification of the military includes government assignment of all jobs.  Everyone is issued ration cards which are used to draw goods from government storehouses. Everyone is forced to have only the same amount in value annually.

Of course, all of the preceding is portrayed as a dandy utopia just as it was in the military socialist complex of the socialist trio of atrocities and elsewhere. 

The book was translated into 20 foreign languages.  It was popular among the elite in pre-revolutionary Russia, and was even read by Lenin's wife. John Dewey and the historian Charles Beard intended to praise the book by stating that it was matched in influence only by Das Kapital.
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Frightening information about the history of the Pledge of Allegiance is at http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-pledge.html (with shocking historical photographs) and for fascinating information about symbolism see http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-swastika.html      

Did Bellamy foresee soviet-style rationing, or did he inspire it?  

Bellamy’s is the same socialist naivete that resulted in 7 million persons who perished from 1932-33 in the famine that resulted in Europe’s “breadbasket” after the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics imposed collectivist land management in the Ukraine. By the spring of 1933, an estimated 25,000 people died every day in the Ukraine.  It is the same socialist naivete that resulted in 27 million people starving to death in 1958 in the so-called “Great Leap Forward” in China.  Was the “Great Leap Forward” inspired by “Looking Backward”?  Did Bellamy foresee the military-socialist complex of the socialist trio of atrocities, or did he help inspire them?

Bellamy proposed the original socialist salute and the pledge after he joined the staff of the magazine "Youth's Companion."  Bellamy believed that the best way to promote socialism was by removing children from their parents and placing them in socialized schools (government schools) and other youth groups.  It was a view later shared in the military-socialist complex of the socialist trio of atrocities.

The salute and pledge were created by Bellamy to promote socialism among the youth in the most socialistic institution  -government schools (socialized schools). When the U.S. Constitution was written, children received private educations.  Bellamy lived during the time when schools were becoming socialized heavily in the United States. 

Socialists use a sense of belonging to seduce people.  Socialist schools (government schools) are used to destroy individuality with regimentation and military-style submission (by children and their parents) to the commands of  government.  Bellamy had often lectured on the so-called "virtues of socialism and the evils of capitalism."  It was a modus operandi later shared in the military-socialist complex of the socialist trio of atrocities.

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the National Socialist German Workers' Party demonstrated the full-blown military-socialism complex when they became allies in starting WWII and invading Poland, and thereafter (in 1946) the U.S. flag's socialist salute was merely altered, and the socialist pledge remained.  Both the pledge and the salute should have been dropped.

The U.S. is still an oddball in the world for the bizarre socialism of a pledge and salute to a flag, all because of a socialist and socialized schools.  And government schools started it in 1892.    It all helps explain how the U.S., and the world, have suffered so much sick socialism.

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It is worth noting that Americans still use the greeting "hello" as they did then, and it is related to the German greeting "Heil" and thus to "Heil Hitler."  The term "hello" is used for hailing people and is related to the phrase "Hail to the chief," and to these words: hail, heal, health. It is also related to the term "salud," meaning "health," and thus to the term "salute" and the act of saluting, which included the manner of saying "hello."

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Bellamy used military hierarchy in his dystopia. To wit: "The line of promotion for the meritorious lies through three grades to the officer’s grade, and thence up through the lieutenancies to the captaincy or foremanship, and superintendency or colonel’s rank. Next, with an intervening grade in some of the larger trades, come the general of the guild, under whose immediate control all the operations of the trade are conducted. This officer is at the head of the national bureau representing his trade, and is responsible for its work to the administration. The general of his guild holds a splendid position, and one which amply satisfies the ambition of most men, but above his rank... is that of the chifs of the ten great departments, or groups of allied trades. The chiefs of these ten grand divisions of the industrial arm may be compared to your commanders of army corps, or lieutenant-generals, each having from a dozen to a score of generals of separate guilds reporting to him. Above these ten great officers, who form his council, is the general-in-chief, who is the President of the United States."

Bellamy's nightmare inspired Trotsky’s goal to "militarize labor" in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (after the Civil War in Russia in 1921), and the system of Soviet socialist central planning that Stalin imposed in 1929 that expanded the ranks of the Prison Gulag by tens of millions, and the systme of socialist central planning that Hitler imposed under the National Socialist German Workers Party, and the socialist planning impoased by Mao in the Peoples' Republic of China.

It led to the socialist Wholecaust (of which the Holocaust was a part): 62 million killed under the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; 49 million under the Peoples' Republic of China; 21 million under the National Socialist German Workers' Party. http://rexcurry.net/socialists.html  

Trotsky's first government post in the R.S.F.S.R. was as commissar of foreign affairs. In 1918 he became commissar of war, organizing the Soviet Socialist Army.

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For more information about how the dogma of Military Socialism from Edward Bellamy harmed Americans see
Militarism, Marital Law, & the Military-Socialist complex http://rexcurry.net/pledge_military.html
45th Infantry Division and the American Swastika http://rexcurry.net/45th-infantry-division-swastika-sooner-soldiers.html
Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Hitler Youth, Young Pioneers and American Military Socialism http://rexcurry.net/pledge-of-allegiance-scouting.html

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The post card above is circa 1906 and was produced by Raphael Tuck & Sons "Educational Series of Post Cards #404" and on the front shows a U.S. Army Major General and on the back of the postcard is advertising for Boy Scouts Shoes with a Swastika symbol and stating "Possessors of this good luck 'Boy Scouts' Emblem, only attached to each pair of Excelsior 'Boy Scouts' shoes prepare to be (see other side)" referencing that lads should turn over the card and prepare to be Major Generals in the U.S. Army as shown in the image. The card also provides a job description for a Major General, including pay: "$8000 a year, in addition to the allowance for quarters, light and heat. Upon retirement (at age of 62), he receives $6000 per annum." This overall gist of the card is in keeping with the Military Socialism dogma touted by Edward Bellamy.

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An excerpt from "The 'Value' of Public Schooling" by Jacob G. Hornberger, Posted February 21, 2007
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Public schooling is much like the military. What is the first thing that the military does to new recruits? No, not teach them to fight or kill. That comes later. First comes boot camp, a seemingly nonsensical period of time in which soldiers are ordered to drop down for pushups at the whim of an officer. Soldiers learn to march together in unison, mastering such movements as right-face and left-face. They’re taught to respond without hesitation with “Yes, sir” and “No, sir” to an officer barking questions a few inches away from their face.

Why? Why does the military spend time teaching those things to new soldiers? After all, none of them comes in very handy once the actual fighting begins.

The reason is very simple: to mold each person’s mindset into one of strict conformity and obedience. That is, higher-ups in the military know that if they can compel a person to do something as ridiculous and nonsensical as a right-face and a left-face, then there is a greater likelihood that that person will obey other orders without question.

Or if a person can be taught to obey orders to march in unison within a group of people, all of whom are wearing the same uniform, there is a strong likelihood that such a person will lose his sense of individuality and instead simply consider himself part of the collective.

That is the real value of military boot camp ­ it very quickly eliminates all notions of individuality within the human being and makes him feel that conformity and obedience are the only acceptable states of mind.

In principle, the public-schooling system is no different, although government officials have a much longer period of time ­ 12 years ­ in which to accomplish the same task ­ produce mindsets of conformity and obedience.

That’s not only what compulsory-attendance laws are all about but also the manner in which public schools are operated.

Compulsory-attendance laws are, in principle, no different from the compulsory draft that the military employs.

In the draft system, the government sends a notice to a citizen commanding him to appear at a military installation for compulsory service in the military. If the citizen refuses, he faces criminal indictment, prosecution, conviction, imprisonment, and fine.

In the public-school system, families are required to submit their children to a state-approved education. While this encompasses attendance at state-approved private schools and homeschooling, for most families compulsory-attendance laws mean sending their children into public schools in their neighborhood for education. Those families who refuse to submit their children to a state-approved education face the same things that draft resisters face: criminal indictment, prosecution, conviction, imprisonment, and fine.

Equally important, the operation of public schools tends to produce the same type of mindset that the military produces ­ one of conformity and obedience to state authority. Just as in the military, the student is taught to conform to what some people would ordinarily consider nonsensical rules and regulations that bear no relationship to a genuine love of learning.

For example, consider the rigid class schedules that are imposed in public schools. All students are required to attend a daily series of 50-minute classes addressing several different subjects. When the bell rings at the end of one class, the student is expected to immediately proceed to the next class. If he fails to arrive on time, he is punished. Never mind that he might not be interested in the subject matter of the next class or that he might want to stay and talk with other students or the teacher about a subject that he is genuinely interested in. That doesn’t matter. What matters is that he respond to the bells and obey.

That rigidity, conformity, and obedience may be perfectly suitable for some types of people, just as the military way of life is perfectly suitable for some types of people. The problem, however, is that not everyone is suited to that way of life. For those who are more individualistic, more free-spirited, the public-school experience becomes a long, 12-year battle in which the military-like school system tends toward grinding away at the natural sense of individualism and independence that characterize those students, a process that such students naturally resist.

For example, suppose a student says to his public-school administrators, “I absolutely love playing the piano. I am totally uninterested in math, chemistry, and a foreign language. Therefore, I have made the decision to stay in music class six hours every day for the next three months and take no other classes.”

How would the public-school administrator respond? He would laugh outloud at such an audacious statement. He would firmly tell the student to follow the class schedule that the school has provided him . . . or else. In earlier years, the student would have even faced a paddling with a “board of education” if he insisted on skipping regularly scheduled, mandatory classes to play the piano.

One might respond that the student has the choice of dropping out of public school and receiving his state-approved education from a private school or through homeschooling. The problem, however, is that most private schools have the same rigid-type curriculum system that public schools have. After all, private schools must be approved by the state in order to meet the standard of a “state-approved” education. Moreover, many parents simply lack the competence or time to homeschool.

Under a free-market educational system, however, each family would be free to fashion the education that would fit each child in the family. If a child said, “I want to do nothing but play the piano for the next six months and study nothing else,” that would be up to the family, not the state. And before someone says, “It would be irresponsible for a family to educate the child in that way,” reflect on the fact that many students travel abroad each summer to study nothing but a foreign language and that they study that language for several hours every single day for several weeks at a time. No math or science classes. Just the foreign language.

The point is that in the compulsory state system, the military-like way of learning is imposed on everyone, even those who are not suited for that way of life. The result is an endless battle in which individualistic students come to hate school and learning in general.

In a noncoerced educational system ­ that is, one in which the state is not involved in any way ­ the family controls the educational environment of its children. Thus, if a child says, “I think I’ll just go fishing today and reflect on the ideas and philosophies I’ve been studying,” the parents are free to say, “That sounds like an exciting idea.” If the student tries that in the state system, he will be told, “Try it and you’ll find yourself in detention for the next three weeks.”

What happens to those public-school students who rebel against the military-like regimentation that characterizes public schools? Government administrators make them feel like something is wrong with them. Even worse, they convince their parents that something is wrong with them. The students are sent to school psychiatrists who diagnose mental disorders such as “attention deficit disorder.”

Think about how a new military recruit who announced “I’m going fishing today instead of learning how to march” would be treated. Would not everyone in his unit think he was crazy? That’s the same way school administrators would feel about the student who said the same thing. He’d be considered crazy ­ or at least distracted. Of course, in the mind of the state official, the malady is nothing that drugs, such as Ritalin, can’t cure. Given the right dosage of drugs, over time the mind of the recalcitrant, independent-minded student will be molded in the “proper” way, especially over the 12 long years that the state has control over him.

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