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Girl suspended for not pledging to the flag

I give fascist neocon warmonger and all-around State lover Neal Boortz a hard time on this website, but he introduced me to (what he referred to as) libertarianism, and it led to my adoption of pure libertarianism, so I should give him a little more recognition. He has several solid libertarian tendencies that get overshadowed by his confusion of Republicans with something better than Democrats and his support for any and all aggressive military adventures, anywhere and everywhere in the world.

One of his strong libertarian leanings is about government schooling. I’m pretty sure he thinks it should be abolished altogether. I know he wants to abolish the Department of Education. Under that anti-government-school umbrella, he takes the very anti-State position that no one should be required or expected to pledge their allegiance to the United States flag (the central government), and furthermore that it shouldn’t even be done in schools. His reasons are the same you and I would give: it is wrong to indoctrinate children with an adulation of any state, and this seems to be the primary function (purpose?) of government schools, and he opposes feeding children the propaganda that government is good or that government has accomplished what is great about this country. His failure to apply this notion, in principle, to all State actions and neocon military actions in particular is what makes him spectacularly non-libertarian.

I think of this every time I hear anything about the Statist Pledge of Allegiance. A Chattanooga high school student was suspended for refusing to stand and say the pledge. It’s pretty stupid that administrators only reversed their decision and let her back in school after they found out her reasons were religious. I’m with Boortz: the entire pledge should be eliminated from schools, and the government along with it.

Hat tip: Wendy McElroy.

Posted in Education, Statolatry