Taking its cues from a ruling by the Federal Court of Appeals in San Francisco which declared the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional in 2002, a student group at Orange Coast College in California has banned the reciting of the Pledge at the beginning of its meetings. The student trustees stated that there is no place for 'swearing an oath to the government and the flag' at their meetings.
The newly-elected student trustees ran for office wearing revolutionary-style berets, according to Reuters' News Service.
Some of the classmates of the student trustees are up in arms, however. 18-year-old Christine Zoldos, a political science major, showed up at the meeting to recite the Pledge at full voice, in open defiance of the decision. She stated that she would attend each and every meeting in order to recite the Pledge and honor the flag.
One of the student leaders who voted for the ban is Jason Bell, who said that because he is an atheist and a socialist, the Pledge is offensive to him.
Apparently he is now in very good company in America. With the U.S. Representative of the San Francisco district--the same district of the Federal Appeals Court that issued the ban on the Pledge in 2002--slated to become Speaker of the House, and with Henry Waxman hinting at impeachment proceedings against President Bush, and with a German court bringing criminal charges against Donald Rumsfeld, much to the delight of his Democrat detractors, it would seem that a student group of America-bashers is merely one more indication of the direction in which we are now headed.
Heaven help us...
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