Members of the city council for a Minneapolis suburb have voted to stop reciting the Pledge of Allegiance before council meetings, citing an effort to "create a more welcoming environment." CBS Minnesota reports the St. Louis Park city council voted unanimously to make the change that will take effect on July 15.
"In order to create a more welcoming environment to a diverse community, we are going to forgo saying the Pledge of Allegiance before every meeting," said Council Member Tim Brausen. At the meeting, Brausen said members might recite it in the future if there's an appropriate opportunity, like if Boy Scouts are there.
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Mogodishu, Somelia
Damn you idiots have caved in to the take over of your country!! How about making people adapt and assume the traditions and customs of the country that want to become citizens of. Don't ever question why idiots like Omar and Cortez do what they do
My audience, this is true. I ''foresaw'' this year's Ago ! The liberals are InSane ! What does Dear Leader Obama say ?
"The BRAIN Initiative will accelerate the development and application of new technologies" focused on your brain.
-President Barack Hussein Obama
What do they have in store for you?
Muslim capital of the US! Deport all of them NOW!
That's fine. No federal money for anything. Pledge allegiance to your a$$hole.
Treasonous scumbags.
RECALL THEM.
Sell the state to Canada.
They are pouring in from our Southern Border
7:40-Pretty narcissistic to think we are your audience. You are nothing to me. Find another pulpit, Jim Jones!
My goodness, you are so smart my fellow traveler
I worship you 7:40
You are my idol, when I grow up I want to be just like you
Minnesota needs Jesse Ventura back as governor
DC needs to make it excruciatingly difficult for this suburb to get dollar one from the federal treasury.
This is so easy.
Compelled, forced speech, is not free speech. It is not freedom, it is not liberty.
Countries that compel speech or pledges or behaviors are generally ones we categorize as "enemy".
To say in one breath that we believe in freedom, then with the other say other people should be forced or compelled to do something is a really special brand of cognitive dissonance.
I refuse to say the pledge, mostly because a nation where there is "liberty and justice for all", I would not be compelled to claim this nation is "under" a deity that has never been demonstrated to exist.
Additionally, I would pledge to defend liberty or freedom, but not a piece of cloth. It's absurd to pledge allegiance to a piece of cloth. To argue it "represents" those things is an unnecessary step.
It's important to point out that being convinced to pledge the flag instead of what is supposed to represent allows those with power to skew the meaning, and get you rallied behind whatever their intention is... even when it is opposing freedom or liberty.
I will not be fooled by this false patriotism or nationalism.
What freedom means, what liberty means is that I cannot be compelled to speak, or to pledge to what I don't agree with, or what is unnecessary to pledge to.
How do they get from the Southern border to Minnesota?
Soros wants more of this open Islamic NON BOARDERS to collapse AMERICA.
Boom.
The Somalia invasion thanks to their Muslim king OBAMA. But EVERY dog has his day.
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