John Francis wrote: > Personally I find the whole spectacle of a class of schoolchildren > reciting any pledge by rote, without really thinking about what they > are saying, to be eerily reminiscent of Red China in the days of Mao.
It can be seen as brainwashing. The writer had some pretty extreme views about the role of government. See here: http://www.ffrf.org/fttoday/1999/May99/lynn.html Tom Reese
