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Chancellor Talmadge Littlejohn ordered Lampley jailed shortly after court began in Tupelo this morning.
Eyewitnesses said Littlejohn asked the court audience to rise and repeat the pledge. Lampley rose but failed to vocalize the words to the pledge, an act he has done before, apparently to the judge's consternation.
Jail records show Lampley was brought in about 9:40 a.m. and released about 2:30 p.m. on the judge's orders.
They both were back in chancery court during the afternoon.
For more, read Thursday's NEMS Daily Journal.
Barnette v. Board of Education (1943) specifically guarantees the right of American citizens NOT to say the Pledge of Allegiance. Then again, the law and the Constitution have never meant much to Mississippi.
If I were this lawyer, I'd be hiring myself a lawyer and start making plans about how I'm going to spend my settlement money.
Pathetic lack of understanding of "the law" from somebody whose job is to uphold and represent it.
Just because it's Mississippi, doesn't mean we should lower our standards for judges to "pathetic scum."
The Pledge of Allegiance, written in 1892, was authored by Francis Bellamy who promoted "military socialism" to help accomplish his lifelong goal of making socialist fantasy a reality in America. He said that the "true reason for allegiance to the Flag" was “to teach blind obedience to the state and indoctrinate American school children in the false history of the American founding that was adopted by Abraham Lincoln, who claimed that the states were never sovereign and that the union created the states, not the other way around.” He further stated that he got the idea from the "loyalty oaths" that were imposed on Southerners during Lincoln’s invasion of the Southern states and afterward, during Reconstruction. The "Oath of Allegiance" for Southerners was recommended by Lincoln in 1863. During and after the war many Southerners were required to take an "Oath of Allegiance" to the Union before they were given their political rights. During the war, adult male civilians in the South were compelled to take a loyalty oath to the federal government or be shot. The "iron-clad" oath eliminated former Confederates and Southern sympathizers from government office or even jury duty. In Bellamy’s own words: The true reason for allegiance to the Flag is the "republic for which it stands." …, the concise political word for the Nation – the One Nation which the war was fought to prove. The "one nation, indivisible" wording was especially important to Bellamy, for if secession were legitimized, his pipe dream of socialism through a consolidated, monopoly government would be destroyed. This was the thinking of all the worst tyrants of the twentieth century, including Hitler and Stalin. It’s a known fact that Adolph Hitler greatly admired Lincoln for his total war on the American continent and for inflicting so much destruction and indiscriminate mass slaughter without regard to age, gender, or combat status of the victims. Hitler even quoted approvingly Lincoln’s "union created the states" theory from his first inaugural address in Mein Kampf in order to make his own case for destroying federalism and states’ rights in Germany. The Pledge of Allegiance is an oath of allegiance to the omnipotent, Lincolnian state. Its purpose was never to instill in children the ideals of the American founding fathers, but those of an eccentric nineteenth-century socialist. The Pledge of Allegiance doesn’t support American ideals. Instead, it gives away our liberty, minimizing that for which the founding fathers fought. It might also interest you to know that the original salute to the American flag is the same straight-arm salute which was the origin of the salute of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazi Party). Public schools in the United States spread and mandated the Nazi-style salute by law. The world observed U.S. military personnel delivering the straight-arm salute to the flag before, during and after WWI, into WWII and for almost three decades before the existence of the National Socialist German Workers' (Nazi) Party. It continued until December 22, 1942 when Congress dictated that the Flag Code of the United States change the salute to the "hand over the heart" due to Adolf Hitler’s "hypnotic" powers and use of the original straight arm salute.
The most basic lesson in all of these things is the importance of words and the necessity of asking questions, and thinking to see the ideas behind the words. Of course this is my opinion, and I will continue to respect the rights of others who willingly give up their freedom without even knowing it. It’s sad though, that so many people can still pledge devotion and loyalty to the symbol of a nation that chooses to exclude God. It is because of him that we enjoy the freedoms and the many blessings that we too often take for granted, and it is only to him that we should pledge our allegiance.
Please, Judge Littlejohn, read the ringing conclusion, in which Justice Jackson wrote,
"[i]f there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein." (see http://www.oyez.org/cases/1940-1949/1942/1942_591/)