(on Mon, 04 Feb 2002 23:28:57 -0600) Alan Shilepsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I hope our Minneapolis schools are saying the Pledge every day. The only pledge I've heard about from my daughter is the "peace" pledge -- which I find ironic given the so-called war the same government that runs the schools is now fighting. I certainly hope any move to get school children to pledge allegiance to the flag is accompanied by posting the Bill of Rights where the children can read them and a discussion about how "liberty and justice for all" might be a bit misleading in a nation which jails more of its people than any other nation in the world (and in which the rate of incarceration has more than tripled in the last 20 years, see http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/incrt.htm) and which involves blacks in the "justice" system at over three times the rate it involves whites (see http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/cpracept.htm). - Michael Libby ( Cleveland/North Mpls ) -- ______Michael_C_Libby__{_x_(at)_ichimunki_(dot)_com_}______ | "even monkeys fall from trees" : "saru mo ki kara ochiru" | | public key at http://www.ichimunki.com/public.key | |_Fingerprint: D946FE20 79EE2109 161BFAFB E02956F4 A330AA73_|
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