Lawyer jailed for pledge silence Published: Oct. 7, 2010 at 1:38 PM
OXFORD, Miss., Oct. 7 (UPI) -- A Mississippi lawyer said he was briefly jailed by a judge for refusing to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in court.
Danny Lampley, 49, of Oxford, said he was silent while the pledge was recited Wednesday in Chancellor Talmadge Littlejohn's Lee County court; the judge gave him a second chance to recite the pledge, which he refused, the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, Tupelo, reported Thursday.
Lampley said he was jailed at about 10 a.m. and released on Littlejohn's order at about 2:30 p.m. to continue the day's business.
The lawyer said he and Littlejohn have a "different point of view" on things, including the Pledge of Allegiance.
Lampley said he was jailed at about 10 a.m. and released on Littlejohn's order at about 2:30 p.m. to continue the day's business.
And I thought rotterdam was the only liberal socialist backwards town!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
You folks are usually complaining that the "liberal socialists" don't believe in the Pledge ... so why would a "liberal socialist" jail someone for NOT saying the Pledge ????
You folks with the conspiracy theories and perpetual negativity syndrome ... really have a mental disorder ---- the disorder is called "head up your own butt syndrome"
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"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground." Lyndon Baines Johnson
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
His problem and the problem of the entire Perpetual Negativity Choir.
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"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground." Lyndon Baines Johnson
The Right Wing Nuts are the group always trying to Enforce Patriotism, not the Left.
This is America! Land of the Free! And part of that freedom is the right NOT to recite the pledge if that is your choice.
The Republicans are the enforcers of patriotism... Flag burning amendments to the Constitution, and outrage when any American differed with Bushy on the legality of the Iraq war.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Personally, I like saying the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of meetings .. and also having a prayer led by a clergy person ....
but I don't think anyone should be jailed for not saying the Pledge.
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"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground." Lyndon Baines Johnson
Well, I must say that I agree with both Box and DVOR. I don't fully believe in the full Pledge of Allegiance as it is currently stated, and think that no one has the right to do ANYTHING to you whether you say it or don't. There's this amazing thing called freedom of speech, as stated in the First Amendment. That also means that you have the right to keep your yap shut if you don't want to say anything. This goes back to the old rule mom's everywhere teach you. If you don't have anything nice to say, say nothing at all.
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