New in PJ Media:
Heidi Wegleitner is a member of the Dane County Board of Supervisors in Madison, Wisc., but her vision and the breadth of her spirit go far beyond that narrow realm, reaching the great and widening divide in American politics today: the Wisconsin State Journal reported Tuesday that Wegleitner “is pushing to remove the Pledge of Allegiance from the County Board’s agenda, arguing it’s an inappropriate opening to public meetings.”
Wait, what? The Pledge of Allegiance is an inappropriate opening to public meetings? Is Dane County no longer part of the United States? Wegleitner’s proposal itself demonstrates that in many important ways it isn’t, for she is doubtless not alone in having other allegiances and quite different priorities. Wegneitner is calling for “the removal of a pre-meeting pledge as well as the word ‘prayer’ from the board’s rules, which are undergoing a biannual redraft.” Nor has she been laughed out of the room: “The board’s executive committee is set to consider Wegleitner’s proposals at a meeting on Thursday, although the final say would rest with newly elected supervisors after the April 5 election.”
Why is Wegleitner trying to get the Pledge removed? “It just doesn’t feel like it’s appropriate for us to be doing,” she explains, “when in a pluralistic society we want to be inclusive and representative. At the end of the day, I think it’s divisive.”
Ah, of course. Above all, we must be “inclusive,” and not just of all races and creeds, which everyone takes for granted as axiomatic, but apparently also of those whose allegiance lies with, say, Russia or China, or the Islamic Republic of Iran. How can we be truly “inclusive” if America is not uncritically welcoming of traitors, saboteurs, and others whose delicate consciences would be troubled by being asked to say the Pledge?
To her credit, Wegleitner has done research on this matter: she has “looked into which local governmental bodies recite the pledge at the start of meetings,” and while she “expected smaller, more conservative parts of the county to stand and recite the pledge,” — oh, those racist, divisive, benighted MAGA-hatted fools! — she discovered that “there isn’t any consistency to what governments have the item on their agendas. Municipalities that don’t have the pledge on their agendas include Madison and Waunakee, she said. Other municipalities, such as Fitchburg, Sun Prairie and Verona, do include it, according to those cities’ agendas.”
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Jay Lykins says
I have a simpler and better idea — let’s ban the Wisconsin ‘official.’
Lee Poteet says
Agreed. Deport her as well.
somehistory says
she must not be aware that mozlums don’t want to obey the laws of the land, and saying they “pledge allegiance to the U.S.” is to them, saying they agree to obey the laws as opposed to setting up a strong opposition in the form of islam and the demands mozlums make on others, wherever they get to numbers large enough to force the issue…or else. Or if she is actually aware of this, she is in favor of islam.
she probably has heard from some of the mozums in her area and they claim they feel “unwanted” and “excluded” by the little speech of allegiance to a government and country that they oppose and plan to destroy.
The word is, the Grand Canyon was formed by the constant river water…maybe beginning with a small drip, drip, drip and becoming a large gushing, raging river that washed away everything in its path.
Kenneth J Johnson says
let’s hope she is up for reelection soon. And let’s hope that the elctolrate4 is wakig uip. too. KEN.
Keith O says
As an Aussie I was only vaguely aware of the pledge of allegiance, having seen it in movies etc. So I read it.
How the freakin hell can this dumb bitch say it’s “divisive” when it uses words like ” indivisible”?
Or was it the term “one nation under God” and no mention of Allah that she found offensive?
Or, heaven help us, the mere concept of Liberty/ Freedom and justice for all that is so against her beliefs that it must never be uttered?
This shit is why western nations, predominately the once United States, are going down this path of destruction.
Remember, it wasn’t a greater, more advanced empire that brought about the demise of Rome, it was the barbarians!
somehistory says
Most likely, “under **God,** with liberty and justice for *all*.”
In the mozlum world, no infidel,, child or woman can get any justice. And they live without liberty of any kind. Their fake “god” is not one that I would wish to live “under.”
Having some “freedom” here in the U.S. was good while it lasted, but we may be very near the end of most freedoms for those who believe in freedoms and “rights.”
gravenimage says
It’s Come to This: Woke Wisconsin Official Wants to Ban the Pledge of Allegiance
…the Wisconsin State Journal reported Tuesday that Wegleitner “is pushing to remove the Pledge of Allegiance from the County Board’s agenda, arguing it’s an inappropriate opening to public meetings.”
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So American politicians feeling any actual allegiance to the United States is “inappropriate”? Utter madness.