Short Note on Columbus Day, Preamble & "Pledge"

Remember The 9th Amendment

And the Preamble to the US Constitution

We the People of the United States, in Order to:

1. form a more perfect Union,

2. establish Justice,

3. insure domestic Tranquility,

4. provide for the common defence,

5. promote the general Welfare, and

6. secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity,

 do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

That's it. Fifty-two words. Not a bad mission statement for a self-governing Republic. It's served us well for going on 220 years now. But it won't do us any good if we don't defend it.

So, recite the Preamble every day. Commit it to memory. Carry around a pocket copy of the Constitution. Insist that your children's classes recite the Preamble every day. Ditto all of our elected and appointed officials.

And let's drop the pernicious, invidious, subversive, up-start habit called "The Pledge of Allegiance."

It was concocted in 1892 by a Boston school superintendent and cleric for the 400th Columbus Day celebration. The Preamble was ratified in 1789, a good 103 years earlier. The Preamble is the KEY paragraph of the Constitution, wherein WE, the people DELEGATE SOME OF OUR POWERS -- ONLY SOME -- to a tri-partite federal government, with a legislative, judicial and executive branch.

Oh by the way, as historians have vetted good ol' Chris Columbus's background, it turns out he was a genocidal murderer. He and his band of merry men exterminated the Arawak indians that he found in the Caribbean. (That's "exterminated," as in "killed every one of the, man, women and child". "Caused them to be extinct.)  I appreciate holidays as much as the next person, but I think it's time we uncoupled the October holiday from the name of a mass murderer.

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