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November 10, 2006

Pledge of Allegiance Banned at California College

Posted by Dave Blount at November 10, 2006 8:20 AM

Student trustees at California's Orange Coast College have banned the Pledge of Allegiance at their meetings.

The ban is the work of three new student trustees, who ran for office wearing Che Guevara/Hugo Chavez–style revolutionary berets, reminding us once again that for moonbats, every day can be Halloween. It follows a 2002 ruling by a federal court in Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco decreeing that having school children recite the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional because liberals so hate the words "under God." (The Supremes struck this down on procedural grounds.)

Snarls student trustee Jason Bell:

That ("under God") part is sort of offensive to me. I am an atheist and a socialist, and if you know your history, you know that "under God" was inserted during the McCarthy era and was directly designed to destroy my ideology.

If anything was designed to destroy his ideology, it was Raid, with which Bell should be hosed down immediately.

Not all students are on the same page as Bell's revolutionary junta. Christine Zoldos plans to attend every board meeting and salute the flag. She loudly recited the pledge at one Wednesday, in defiance of the ban. The poli-sci major explains:

America is the one thing I'm passionate about and I can't let them take that away from me. [...] The fact that they have enough power to ban one of the most valued traditions in America is just horrible.

Let's hope we see this kind of backbone from the White House over the next two years.