Here is a great link to see the original pledge salute. Notice how similar it was to what the Nationalist Socialist German Workers' Party (the Nazis) it happens to be.
http://members.ij.net/rex/pledge2.html Enjoy. And don't forget, the Bush family lost assets under the authority granted under the Trading With the Enemy Act, the "president's" grandfather, Prescott Bush, who was one of the two largest financial benefactors of the same party along with Henry Ford.
I just finished watching "Manufacturing Consent" by Noam Chomsky the DVD. I got it at Amazon.com and i highly recommend it to anyone who understands that our country is fucked up but just doesn't understand why it is fucked up. Get it, show it to your educated friends. They need to know what is being done in our name. If you slack on your responsibility and live in the apathy, you are playing right into "their" game of marginalizing us and making us uninterested. The other tool is distractions (sports, video games, alcohol, etc., that are meant to keep us occupied so we don't care).
I also ordered a video about the Secret Life of Plants. I am going to watch that tonight now that i have eaten enough magic peanut butter cookies.