The Pledge of Allegiance Age 5

[jbenny1277748]

Might as well put him down now.

[Ineededanaccount0]

this 5 year old sounds like he's trying to gargle peanut butter

[pharmdmsn]

"Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither" Job1:21. "for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return" Gen3:19. For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts...so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity".Eccl3:19 Why then is your soul beholden to a piece of land? You have dominion over all things, land and country, not country over you! Stop child manipulation! This is ultra right-wing brain-washing and country-first garbage!

[Largo64]

Would somebody please tell me what a little boy's recitation of the US pledge has to do with WWII and the A-Bomb? I would also like to know why anybody thinks a 5-year-old has any idea of the meaning of the words, and why those words are taught by rote to children who do not understand what they are saying.

[FacultyFan]

dude, liberals are the WORST racists in history and no one seems to get that. they think this kid isnt an american because he is asian. thats how racist they really are. LET THEIR TRUE COLORS SHOW!

[Psalm127v3]

This child will never know what the words mean if they don't teach them the words.

GOD BLESS AMERICA AND THIS FAMILY.

[enterjakarta]

So America is guilty for "supporting" other nations that terrorize?

[kc285]

Yes,and I don't mean that we are allies w/, I mean we provide weapons, planes, troops, and support ignoring international law for the last 50 years because it gets in the way of our foreign policy (which is what the enemies against us REALLY hate). Look up 1986 When the US funded an army that basically destroyed the entire country of Nicaragua and killed hundreds of thousands and did so when the international community told us several times to stop what we were doing.

[enterjakarta]

War is never the answer right?

Why did Harry Truman drop a bomb on a big city? To END the war.

War's don't end until more of your enemies die than you do. War is hell.

You can call it murder, but name a time in history when peace was won peacefully?

What is it with our foreign policy that our enemies hate? I don't want a foreign policy that our enimies love.

[kc285]

So our whole basis for entering WWII was that Japan attacked our naval fleet, and consequently also killed a few hundred civilians (actually war was declared on us by Germany right after the attack, but that's beside the point), and we are then just to kill hundreds of thousands of 100% INNOCENT CIVILIANS to end that war. That may or may not be 'necessary' in your eyes, but hopefully you can at least see it as it is - hypocrisy

[enterjakarta]

We had to hit them with so much force so they would surrender. It saved lives in the end. That war could have lasted many more years and cost many more lives on both sides. Truman(D) ENDED that war by killing innocent civililans. War is hell.

[kc285]

Actually, if you look into it, Japan had been trying to surrender since that summer. We also sent 1000 planes out as they were surrendering and bombed Tokyo. And the only lives we were saving (even in Truman's own words) were young soldiers - the only men who ideally would be lost in a war. So think of like this, why not nuke hot spots in the Middle East, JUST THINK OF ALL THE LIVES WE WOULD BE SAVING!

[enterjakarta]

I like the way you think. Bring out the big guns. Show them your not afraid to use them. I like how you want to pull out of Iraq. Heck Saddam only killed millions of his OWN people, not ours. I like how you want to "engage the enemy" of North Korea. Man, I like you.

[swissfullback]

great idea thx for posting :)

[clockwise16912]

You can call it murder, but name a time in history when peace was won peacefully? when has there ever been peace? we havent won it through war either.

[enterjakarta]

What are you talking about? What word were you searching that brought you here? I didn't send you this link. How did you get here and why do you feel the need to comment here? Go away. This is a five year old boy who might grow up to defend your right to speech someday or fight

[clockwise16912]

lol i was replying to another comment on here.

im sorry. i was looking for the pledge in sign language.

God didnt even grant the right to speech to some people ☺ haha.

srry man. my comment didnt actually adress the video. which is kinda stupid when you look at it. srry bout that.

alot of comments on here seem to be rather random.

the kid is cute though

[kc285]

Allow me to answer your question, and offer a task or even a challenge... State-sponsored terrorism is a nation 'sponsoring' (providing whatever support necessary) for another nation to commit acts of terror. Who? People of: Iraq, Nicaragua, Panama, Yugoslavia, Cambodia, Libya, Germany, Vietnam, Japan, France, The Phillipines, Mexico, etc... I threw in some that were just instances of killing huge numbers of civilians and seem to fit in well with whom we were 'terrorizing'

[enterjakarta]

God bless America.

What's good for America is good for the world.

No one ever maintained their freedom without war.

[enterjakarta]

War is nasty, war is mean, war is cruel. War is hell. And most of all War is Necessary for freedom.

If you like the taste of sausage, don't go to visit a butcher and see how it's made.

If you enjoy the freedom that war brings, don't get involved in how freedom if fought for. It's an ugly process. The lives of the many outweigh the lives of the few.

[kc285]

Interesting that a country with no capability to deliver an attack on us, (Iraq) is such a threat to freedom, while a country with a CoP in Kim (North Korea) WITH nuclear weapons, isn't as much of a threat. Not to mention that us killing innocent civilians with every bomb we drop, makes us no better than Saddam. Murder is murder. Bombings don't cause accidental deaths either, you know that when you drop a bomb, civilians WILL die.

[kc285]

Our job as Americans is to research what the gov. says they are doing, make sure they're giving us the whole truth, and always fight them on it. But America today isn't that way.

[kc285]

It deleted one of my comments but I was referring to Howard Zinn (pilot) and Noam Chomsky(linguist). And I'm not saying you can only get it from 2 people (I don't). I encourage people to find other >credible< sources. Its the unquestionable defense of our country when a person asks a question that makes us uncomfortable which is our own undoing.

[kc285]

These aren't crazy nutjobs supporting what terrorists do, these are well-educated, world-famous speakers and activits (one of which is a WWII vet, the other has spoken and taught at the biggest universities in our country and is known throughout the world for his teachings in linguistics). As an American, whether you agree with me or not, it is your duty to at least be sure that you have the truth not as you wish to see it, but as you have studied it on your own.

[kc285]

However, upon even just basic research, you will find the truth is quite contrary to what we believe. I only say this because I swore as a TRUE AMERICAN I would do what I could to help the other patriots of this country see the truth. If you do wish to respond to this, at least do a little investigation on your own first. I'm not saying America should burn. I love what America and that Pledge of Allegiance stands for, but coincidentally,

[kc285]

There's nothing wrong with growing up to be taught to have pride in one's country, but it's sad to say that Opiate is right in what he/she says. Our government doesn't just use fear of terrorism to scare our people, we engage in state-sponsored terrorism around the world. I'm not saying this to be screamed at by people who want to label me as a bleeding heart liberal or w/e (I'd rather be called progressive). I'm doing this because I used to believe that what America did in the world was right.

[ozzbill]

i think the only hidden implication pinnochi is the opiates that your name IMPLIES that your SMOKING,thats the only hidden implication here,the pledge of allegiance is cut and dry with no hidden implications.their is no blind devotion here for if we dont teach our kids to STAND for something,like our country then they could later on in life fall for anything like promises of many virgins and martyrdom in the after life,you decide

[PinocchiOpiate]

Cute, but does know the implications of what he is saying?

[enterjakarta]

Oh please enlighten us with your knowledge O'-wise-one...

What are the implications this 5year old should understand?

[PinocchiOpiate]

Is this how you normally respond to honest inquiry? If so, then I won't bother commenting again.

But anyway... for one thing, he's learning blind devotion to a government that uses the fear of terrorism to make people want to give up their rights. I don't know about you, but I think someone should understand things that have hidden implications before being taught them. And if they can't understand it, they're probably too young.

[enterjakarta]

Are you upset that your right to telephone known terroists privately has been given up?

The fear of terrorism seems to be working on you.

I fear REAL terrorist, not countries that fight terrorists.

If you don't think terrorism is real and should be fought against, feel free to live in Iraq, Israel, Indonesia, Yemen, Jordan, and anywhere terrorist thrive. Ask those govenments to stop using the fear of terrorism to protect it's people.