10-Year-Old "Gaywad" Refuses to Pledge Allegiance
Can't We All Possess the Wisdom of a Child?
Jay Phillips, asked if his son was prepared for the media attention, said his son saw it as "an opportunity to shit on the graves of the over 1 million soldiers who died in the service of a country that has shed more blood for other nations than any other in history, and plucked more people from the crushing jaws of grinding poverty and brutality that has afflicted mankind since we learned to walk upright." "He felt that just because he's ten years old doesn't mean he doesn't have opinions," whined his father.
"I've always tried to analyze things because I want to be lawyer," Will said. "I really don't feel that there's currently liberty and justice for all, never mind the fact that I only dropped out of my mom's vagina ten years ago. I understand the symbol of America better than the hordes of immigrants who flock here every year in the hopes of finding something better for their family. They're stupid heads."
On Monday, Oct. 5, when the other kids in class stood to recite the pledge, he remained sitting down. "I'm not paying my respects to anything this country has done until my neighbors Allen and Frank can get married." The class had a substitute teacher that week, a retired educator from the district who by some miracle actually understands what the American flag stands for, was annoyed by the brainwashed little bugger.
A columnist for the Arkansas News, desperate to latch onto any story that might gain him some notoriety, has stood up for Phillips against his angry substitute teacher. Thankfully, fellow students have taunted the kid and called him "gaywad," and "lawyer," but he says he doesn't see his quiet act of uninformed protest ending any time soon.
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Post a Commentwhere did the potty-mouthed guy go?
What does the pledge accomplish exactly? When the Chinese come to take over, are kindergartners going to stand tall beside our armed forces? And if they don't, will you be there to say, "Come on, kid, you made a pledge. Hit the beach or straight to bed with no supper"? It's meaningless when a child says it just like it's meaningless when a child talks about God or agrees to the terms of the Columbia House music deal.
And it's not about what side it comes from. I would find children told they had to take morning pledges about continuing to live a vegan lifestyle just as foolish.
America doesn't have feeling so it doesn't care if something nice is said about it? And good for this kid if he thinks the country is falling short of its ideals and refuses to be a lemming like the rest. The soldiers you mentioned actually died for his right to stand up for what he believed in, so if anyone is shitting on their graves and what America stands for, it's the people who are against
Hey, El Bicho, who is this other potty-mouthed dipshit who writes incoherent comments without a spell-checker? Let the big boys talk, there, cowboy....
If kids don't understand something, adults need to explain it to them. Funny how ideas that seem to come from the Right are "indoctrination" but ideas that come from the Left are merely "instruction," just little factoids that kids ought to know, like about global warming and gay marriage and second-hand smoke and how meat is murder and war is not the answer. Compared to the vast majority of humans throughout history who lived and died under horrible conditions their whole lives, he's probably lived like a king and it's because of this country and the influence it has on the rest of the world. But God forbid he should say a little something nice about America in the morning at school if he doesn't want to. Jesus Christ, did it hurt either of us? I didn't say it half the time because I was too tired to speak but the idea of protesting it is quite silly and paradoxical if you axe me.
Not really clear why you are in support of indoctrinating the youth with a pledge they don't understand and can't fully commit to as a minor. Are you playing a Glenn Beckian character online or are you foolish enough to actually believe this?