[Vision2020] City Council and the Pledge

[DonaldH675 at aol.com]

Donovan,
I strongly disagree with you. In my opinion it is a waste of time for our  
elected officials to spend their time on so trivial a matter as the flag pledge  
when at most of the meetings I've  attended time has been at a premium. 
Granted other people attach more importance to such rituals than I do. I  
spent 20 years in the Marine Corps, 12 of them as an infantry officer, and I  
suspect I have as much respect for our flag as anyone on the list. I cringe to  
see it flown disrespectfully from the antenna of a pickup truck, or on a jacket 
 or pair of jeans, or tatooed on someone's arm, leg, or less visible place, 
and  so on and so on.
But realistically, pledges and oaths are meaningless as professions of  
loyalty and even less meaningful to attempt to keep unworthy (by whatever  
description) persons from places of public trust. You can bet that Aldridge Ames  had 
no reservations whatsoever about saying the pledge or taking oaths. I bet  
even the 9/11 hijackers said the pledge in their flight schools if it was  
recited there and would have taken any oath required in order to deceive or  confuse 
their opponents. 
So we each have our own reasons for wanting or not wanting certain actions  
taken or not taken. Let's not identify those who disagree with us with the  
issues themselves and consequently lose our perspective on the issues. 
 
Don  Huskey

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight  you, then 
you win." Mahatma Gandhi
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