Attorney jailed for not saying Pledge of Allegiance..

[kentuck]

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20101007/US.Jailed.Over.Pledge/

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JACKSON, Miss. — A Mississippi judge jailed a lawyer for several hours for refusing to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, ordering the attorney to "purge himself" of contempt by standing and repeating the oath like the rest of the courtroom.

After Oxford attorney Danny Lampley spent about five hours in the county jail Wednesday, Chancery Judge Talmadge Littlejohn let him go free. Lampley, 49, was released so that he could represent another client, the judge said in a later order.

Lampley told The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal he respected the judge but wasn't going to back down.

"I don't have to say it because I'm an American," Lampley told the newspaper. "I'm just not going to back off on this."

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[GreenPartyVoter]

1. And the judge is a Dem. I did not see that coming!

[baldguy]

2. The Pledge of Allegiance should be done away with

Not the least of which is because of the blasphemous addition of "under God" to it.

[joeybee12]

3. This judge is a bully...n/t

[kentuck]

4. But he is a Democrat.

Right?

[Orsino]

5. Was once, anyway.

But power has gone to his head.

[DirkGently]

6. Ugh.

[Zephie]

7. I refused to say the pledge in high school

and would still do so today. My social studies teacher was the kind of woman who gave out extra credit for going to anti-choice rallies and didn't take too kindly to it. I got sent to administration more than once over it. Never got in trouble though... This judge should be investigated.

[ProudDad]

8. Piss on ALL FLAGS!

and oaths...

I am a citizen of Mother Earth -- not some bullshit granfaloon like a "nation"...

[Zenlitened]

9. K&R for Vonnegut reference.

[ProudDad]

10. You're welcome

I'm re-reading Cat's Cradle...

It's a great metaphor for human's response to the deadly Long Emergency...

Long Live Bokonon but watch out for the hy-u-o-ook-kuh...