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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: gao seng who wrote (28478)	9/19/2001 8:21:56 PM
From: Poet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Next the oath to tell the truth in court would have to be amended to so help me, me. Now that's funny!

To: gao seng who wrote (28478)	9/19/2001 8:33:02 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

lol I say it all the time with my kids in class. I won't be the one to bring a law suit about it. My kids have always said it and I have never mentioned that it bothers me to their teachers nor have I said anything to my children. I always try to explain the words to the students I teach- since most of them have NO idea what they are saying. It makes a nice vocabulary lesson.

To: gao seng who wrote (28478)	9/19/2001 8:59:45 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I wouldn't say it in high school, not because I was unpatriotic (I volunteered to go into the Navy), but because IT WAS coercive. The fact that you HAD to say it meant it meant nothing (to me, anyway). I wonder how many of our biggest traitors (like Aldrich Ames) stood tall every morning in school and cheerily said it? I've never approved of oaths and still don't. Oath doesn't equal patriot. You want to demonstrate your loyalty? Demonstrate it with acts, not recited words.