On Jul 10, 1:09 pm, "\"Stop the Pledge of Allegiance\"" <pledge-of-
allegia...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> The "Timeline of Terror" tracks the growth of National Socialism in
Ameri=
can
> through the lives of the Bellamys, and specifically Francis Bellamy
(auth=
or
> of the "Pledge of Allegiance") and Edward Bellamy (author of "Looking
> Backward"). It shows how they originated flag feti****sm, robotic
> group-chanting to flags, Nazism, Nazi
salutes.http://rexcurry.net/pledge-=
allegiance-pledge-allegiance.jpg
>
> The Bellamy cousins also spread the modern swastika symbol (as two
S-lett=
ers
> for "socialism").http://rexcurry.net/swastika3swastika.jpg
>
> The research is part of the jaw-dropping discoveries of the noted
histori=
an
> Dr. Rex Curry (author of "Pledge of Allegiance
Secrets").http://rexcurry.=
net
>
> 1740 Joseph Bellamy, and his older cohort, Jonathan Edwards, both of
> Connecticut, were among the leaders of a movement known as "The Great
> Awakening," a religious revival that struck the country in 1740. Joseph
> Bellamy wrote and spoke extensively in sup****t of his utopian fantasy.
> Joseph Bellamy (1719-1790) was the great-grandfather of Francis Bellamy,
> Edward Bellamy, Charles Bellamy, and Franklin Bellamy. Charles Joseph
> Bellamy was named after Joseph Bellamy and touted ideas similar to
Edward=
's.
> "The Great Awakening" movement had started in Europe. It swept through
> England in the rise of Methodism under John Wesley, Charles Wesley and
> George Whitfield. Whitfield came to this country and became a leader of
t=
he
> movement here.
>
> 1762 Joseph Bellamy delivered a sermon to the General Assembly of
> Connecticut and denounced competition, blamed competition for poverty,
and
> advocated vague "cooperation" instead.
>
> 1781 Jonathan Bellamy (1781 - 1845), a successful merchant in Wa****ngton
> County, New York State, was the grandfather of Francis Bellamy and
Edward
> Bellamy.
>
> 1794 Joseph Bellamy and Jonathan Edwards publish "The Millennium, or
the
> Thousand Years of Prosperity" which Joseph claims is shortly to commence
=
and
> to be carried on to perfection. The book also contains an attempt to
prom=
ote
> explicit agreement and visible union of people in extraordinary work for
=
the
> advancement of the "kingdom" on earth, pursuant to prophecies from
Joseph
> Bellamy and Jonathan Edwards. That millenium was still "impending" at
the
> time of Edward Bellamy's book "Looking Backward: 2000-1887" in which
Edwa=
rd
> also makes predictions of everlasting prosperity through National
Sociali=
sm.
> Edward originally thought that the time frame for reaching National
> Socialism in "Looking Backward" would be a thousand years, or much
longer
> than the span of 2000-1887 that Edward finally selected for promotional
> purposes. The National Socialist German Workers Party was intended enact
a
> thousand year reich of prosperity for all, as predicted by Adolf Hitler.
>
> 1806 After the German state's "humiliating defeat by Napoleon in 1806, a
=
new
> system of schooling was the instrument out of which Prussian vengeance
was
> shaped, a system that reduced human beings during their malleable years
to
> reliable machine parts, human machinery dependent upon the state for its
> mission and purpose," according to the author John Taylor Gatto. "When
> Blucher's Death's Head Hussars destroyed Napoleon at Waterloo," it was
> interpreted as confirmation of the value of Prussian schooling. (1815).
>
> 1816 Rufus King Bellamy was born (1816 - 1886). He was father to
Frederic=
k,
> Edward, and Charles. Rufus was a younger brother of David Bellamy (the
> father of Francis Bellamy). Both Rufus and David spent their lives in
the
> ministry preaching their versions of utopia. Rufus and his wife (Maria
> Putnam Bellamy) preached to their three sons the need for activist
altrui=
sm.
> Charles and Edward Bellamy went on to write utopian stories and fantasy
> tales. Charles wrote "Were They Sinners?" and "The Breton Mills" (1879)
in
> which he used vague altruism to justify a socialist government. Edward
> followed the same route with "The Religion of Solidarity" and his
> totalitarian utopian fantasy "Looking Backward," both considered part of
=
the
> "Christian Socialism" dogma. Both brothers inpired their cousin, Francis
> Bellamy (author of the Pledge of Allegiance).
>
> 1819 Rome NY's name is selected in an election. Many cities in New York
> State have names from classical history (Albany, Ithaca, Syracuse, Troy,
> Utica) and that is why New York is the Roman Empire State.
>
> 1843 (published Feb.1844) Karl Marx writes his notorious, "On the Jewish
> Question." In it, he intended to libel Jewish folks when he said they
we=
re
> the quintessential capitalists and worthy of total contempt. Marxists
a=
nd
> socialists had no interest in anyone they considered to be "the weak,"
on=
ly
> in the loyal, and their "language of social justice" concerned a
> totalitarian plan for a new man, or more accurately a soldier ant in an
a=
nt
> hill.
>
> 1840s Government takeover of schools was touted by people like Horace
Man=
n,
> who adored the regimented system they saw in Prussia in the 1840s. They
> im****ted wholesale a scheme to tame what they saw as the dangerously
> anarchist new immigrant working class, training the young of this
undercl=
ass
> to re****t to a central government facility, to memorize identical
shallow
> opinions, and to march at the sound of government bells. Eventually, to
> chant robotically the morning prayer to the government flag. A basic
> education would suffice for them to fill their slots in the industrial
ar=
my.
> No critical thought would occur, as it might cause them to question the
> leaders. The government takeover and destruction of schools began in the
> middle 1800's according to John Taylor Gatto, a former New York state
> (public) Teacher of the Year, and author of "Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden
> Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling," and the "Underground History of
> American Education," subtitled "A Schoolteacher's Intimate Investigation
> Into the Problem of Modern Schooling" ($34 postpaid, Oxford Village
Press,
> 725 McDonough Road, Oxford, N.Y. 13830.)
>
> 1847 The Rome Academy school is planned as a non-government school in a
> meeting of citizens. The city is not incor****ated as "Rome, New York"
unt=
il
> 23 years after the school began. In 1848 the Rome Academy opened with a
> principal and six teachers. It was a non-government school for 20 years
> until 1869.
>
> 1847 FREDERICK BELLAMY was born.
>
> 1848 The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx is published.
>
> 1850 EDWARD BELLAMY was born (and died in 1898).
>
> 1852 CHARLES JOSEPH BELLAMY was born (and died in 1910).
>
> 1855 FRANCIS BELLAMY was born (and died in 1931). Through his life he
wor=
ked
> with his cousin Edward Bellamy.
>
> 1857 The National Education Association began.
>
> 1859 David Bellamy (Francis' father) accepted a call at the First
Baptist
> Church in Rome, NY and moved there with Francis (age 4).
>
> 1861-1865 The Civil War against southern Independence. Bellamy was a
youth
> during the war, and became preoccupied with military discipline. Francis
> Bellamy later explained how the Civil War was not about slavery, but
about
> socialism and centralizing government in the USA. Describing his
inspirat=
ion
> for the Pledge Of Allegiance, Francis Bellamy said, "It began as an
> intensive communing with salient points of our national history, from
the
> Declaration of Independence onwards; with the makings of the
Constitution=
..=2E.
> with the meaning of the Civil War; with the aspiration of the people...
> "The true reason for allegiance to the Flag is the 'republic for
which
> it stands'. ...And what does that vast thing, the Republic mean? It is
the
> concise political word for the Nation - the One Nation which the Civil
War
> was fought to prove. To make that One Nation idea clear, we must specify
> that it is indivisible, as Webster and Lincoln used to repeat in their
gr=
eat
> speeches...." Francis Bellamy did not mention slavery in his comments.
>
> 1867 the book Das Kapital by Karl Marx is published.
>
> 1867 The Prohibition Party is formed to outlaw alcohol by amending the
US
> Constitution. Both Edward and Francis would sup****t prohibition in the
ye=
ars
> ahead. Read more
athttp://rexcurry.net/drugs-prohibition-party-today.html
>
> 1868-9 Edward Bellamy spends a year in Dresden, learning to speak and
wri=
te
> German and attending lectures and studying German socialism. His stay
> occurred shortly after the war between Prussia and Austria. Saxony, of
> which Dresden was the capital, had sided with Austria, had been
conquered=
by
> Prussia, and then had joined the North German Federation. That would
> interest all who loathe the monstrous National Socialist German Workers'
> Party, because Prussia led to the formation of the German empire, and
aft=
er
> World War I, Prussia continued to exist as the largest Land (state)
within
> the Weimar Republic and under the National Socialist German Workers'
Part=
y=2E
> After World War II it was dissolved by decree of the Allied Control
Counc=
il
> in 1947. Bellamy was a bitter West Point failure but he loved Prussian
> militarism and the educational system. While Bellamy was in Germany,
the
> first German unions were founded and the German Workers' Party (Die
Deuts=
che
> Arbeiterpartei) issued its program of socialist cliches that Bellamy
> repeated in his bestseller (Looking Backward) and his other writings for
=
the
> rest of his life. The German Workers' Party would later become the
Nazis
> (the National Socialist German Workers' Party). Edward's brother
Frederi=
ck
> wrote that Edward's letters to him were full of German socialism which
"he
> had read and studied much at home." (see Sylvia E. Bowman "The Year
2000"=
)=2E
>
> Edward Bellamy returned to the USA and completed law school.
>
> Charles J. Bellamy also completes law school and eventually writes
Everyb=
ody's
> Lawyer published by Peoples Publi****ng Co. in Springfield, MA.
> It gives summaries on the "More Practical Parts of Common Law" such as
> Suing, Marriage, Divorce, Testimony, Railroad Travel and more.
>
> 1869 a government school district with a Board of Education was created
a=
nd
> Rome Academy became "Rome Free Academy" a government school.
>
> 1870 The City of Rome was incor****ated. Francis Bellamy and his father
> lived there 10 years before it was incor****ated as "Rome."
>
> 1872 Francis graduated from Rome Free Academy (RFA -the government high
> school that is still there).
>
> 1873 Francis Bellamy entered the University of Rochester where he
studied
> for the Baptist ministry.
>
> 1874 The Religion of Solidarity is written by Edward Bellamy. It
combines
> socialism with religion, and argues that individuality is a delusion
and/=
or
> is unim****tant. It advocates that each individual subsume
himself/herself=
to
> anything and everything else, as repeated later in Looking Backward.
>
> 1878 A S=FCd Deutsch Volklied (South German Peoples' Song) was written
in
> German on the inside cover of Bellamy's notebook, and dated "Granada,
Jan.
> 4, 1878." (see Arthur Morgan's Edward Bellamy from Columbia University
Pr=
ess
> 1944).
>
> 1878 Six to One: A Nantucket Idyl. Edward Bellamy's first novel is based
=
on
> his voyage to Hawaii in 1877. Published in New York, by Putnam.
> Chapter one ****trays a peaceful, orderly, remote island, removed from
the
> stresses of city life. The character Addie Follet has a mystical passion
=
for
> the sea.
>
> 1879 The Duke of Stockbridge. Edward Bellamy publishes serially this
> historical romance dealing with Shays' Rebellion (1786-87). His cousin,
> Francis Bellamy, would complete and issue it in book form in 1900. The
> novel is set in western Massachusetts and ****trays Revolutionary War
> veterans who believe that they have traded rule by a king for rule by
"the
> rich." It is foreshadow's Edward's glorification of the military, and
his
> goal of using the military to take over the government and all of
society.
> Seehttp://www.gutenberg.org
>
> 1879 The Breton Mills - A Romance by Charles Joseph Bellamy is published
> G.P. Putnam's Sons in New York.
>
> 1880 Edward and his brother, Charles, founded a tri-weekly, the
Springfie=
ld
> Penny News, that became the Springfield Daily News.
>
> 1880 Dr. Heidenhoff's Process by Edward Bellamy is published in New
York,=
by
> D. Appleton and Co. 1880 seehttp://www.gutenberg.org
>
> 1882 Franklin Delano Roosevelt is born.
>
> 1882 Edward Bellamy married Emma Sanderson. She had lived with the
Bella=
my
> family since the age of thirteen and Edward called her "tugs." Edward
had
> originally opposed the idea of marriage, and he told Emma so after she
> confessed her love for him. Edward's views on marriage might have been
> similar to the views of his brother, Charles, later explicated somewhat
in
> Charles' book "An Experiment in Marriage" (1889). Edward embraced the
id=
ea
> of marriage after Emma became engaged to another man. Edward and Emma
had
> two children.
>
> 1884 Miss Ludington's Sister (A Romance of Immortality) by Edward
Bellamy=
is
> published in Boston, by J.R. Osgood and Co. seehttp://www.gutenberg.org
>
> 1884 or 1885 The Way Out: Suggestions for Social Reform, by Charles J.
> Bellamy (Putnams), drones on about the equitable distribution of wealth.
> Arthur Morgan said that it "in many respects is as daring and radical in
=
its
> proposals as is Edward Bellamy's own utopia." Edward's presentation in
> Looking Backward is comparable to that used by Charles in The Way Out.
It=
is
> mentioned in the The Nation Magazine Volume: 040, Issue # 1024 of
Februa=
ry
> 12, 1885. Also, compare Edward's How We Shall Get There in 1891.
>
> 1886 Haymarket Square riot in Chicago
>
> 1886 Dr. Edward Aveling and his wife Eleanor -the daughter of Karl Marx-
> wrote that when they toured the U.S. and preached the gospel of
socialism=
as
> far westward as Kansas, they were surprised by the prevalence of what
they
> termed "unconscious socialism" and that the "American people ... were
> waiting to hear in their own language what socialism is."
>
> 1887 Edward Bellamy's bible of military socialism "Looking Backward" is
> published and becomes an international bestseller translated into every
> major language including Russian, Chinese, and German and it inspires
the
> creation of 167 "Nationalist Clubs" worldwide. In its time, it was
outsold
> only by Uncle Tom's Cabin and Ben-Hur (set in Rome). The book appears by
> title in many major Marxist writings of the day. "It is one of the few
bo=
oks
> ever published that created almost immedately on its appearance a
politcal
> mass movement." (Eric Fromm, p vi) 165. The book was popular among the
el=
ite
> in pre-revolutionary Russia, and Lenin's wife was known to have read the
> book, because she wrote a review of it. seehttp://www.gutenberg.org
>
> 1888 (November) Bellamy personally made a contract with an interpreter
to
> translate Looking Bacward into German. By the end of the year, sales of
=
the
> book did not exceed ten thousand, but sales increased rapidly
thereafter.
> (see Morgan, p. 65).
>
> 1888 A Moment of Madness by Charles Joseph Bellamy is published in New
Yo=
rk,
> by A. L. Burt.
>
> 1888-91 (June) Edward Bellamy became editor of The Nationalist magazine
a=
nd
> the "Nationalist Educational Association," (NEA) is formed to publish
the
> magazine and it is named with deliberate similarity to the National
> Education Association.http://rexcurry.net/nationalistmagazine.jpg
>
> 1888 James Upham in the Premium Department of the Youth's Companion
launc=
hes
> its School Flag Movement, a four-year campaign to put U.S. flags in
> government schools in order to promote end non-government schools and to
> promote "Nationalism."
>
> 1888 (December) First Nationalist Club formed in Boston to discuss and
> implement principles in Looking Backward; Francis Bellamy is a charter
> member.
>
> 1888 Nationalist Clubs gain the backing of the Theosophical Society and
> Madam Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. Blavatsky's mentions of Looking
Backward
> and its author had a clear financial impact on the Nationalism according
=
to
> Arthur E. Morgan in his biography, Edward Bellamy, 1948, pp. 260-75; see
> also The Key to Theosophy by H. P. Blavatsky, pp. 44-5. -- K.V.M.]
> Theosophists saw in the Nationalist Movement a practical means to
> further their "ideal of universal brotherhood." A symbol for Madame
> Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society includes a swastika or
hakenkreuzh=
ttp://rexcurry.net/bellamy-blavatsky-brooch.gif Her book "The Secret
> Doctrine, the Synthesis of Science, Religion and Philosophy" is
considered
> her magnum opus and was originally published as two volumes in 1888.
The
> publication success coincided with Edward Bellamy's "Looking Backward"
and
> with his Nationalism movement. In The Secret Doctrine, Blavatsky
postulat=
es
> "Aryans" as the fifth of her "Root Races," dating them to about a
million
> years ago, tracing them to Atlantis. It was an idea also repeated by
Alfr=
ed
> Rosenberg, and held as doctrine by the Thule Society. The idea
eventually
> influenced the National Socialist German Workers' Party. Blavatsky
> travelled extensively to Germany, India and worldwide (The Esoteric
World=
of
> Madame Blavatsky: Reminiscences and Impressions by Those Who Knew Her by
> Daniel H. Caldwell: Chapter 14, Germany and Return to India 1884-1885;
> Chapter 15, From India to Italy and Germany, 1885; Chapter 16, Germany
> 1886).
>
> 1889 (February 18) Society of Christian Socialists formed in Boston.
> Francis Bellamy is Vice President in charge of Education.
>
> 1889 Looking Backward was translated and published in both Sweden and
> Denmark, and a Norwegian translation, Tilbageblik, was published in the
> United States in the early 1890s. "Det nationalistiske program" was
> discussed in the widely circulated Norwegian review Kringsjaa, and other
> Norwegian periodicals and newspapers included re****ts on the Nationalist
> Movement during its peak period of activity. See Lars Ahnebrink, "A
> Contribution to Scandinavian Socialism" in Bowman et al., Edward Bellamy
> Abroad, 261-4.
>
> 1889 Hitler born 4-20-1889. Died 1945.
>
> 1889 Edward Bellamy wrote the short story, "An Echo of Antietam," in
which
> he glorifies the militarism via a group of men marching to join the
Union
> army.
>
> 1889 An Experiment in Marriage by Charles Joseph Bellamy is published by
> Albany Book Co.
>
> 1889 Edward Bellamy writes "To Whom This May Come" printed in the
> Nationalist monthly. In it he describes the evolution of men to realize
> that "life is hid in our brethren, in the race" and not in the "petty
sel=
f=2E"
> Selfishness is said to be suicide. Later, the world would see that
> socialism is suicide.
>
> 1890 Were They Sinners? by Charles Joseph Bellamy is published in
> Springfield, Mass., by Author's Pub. Co.
>
> 1890 (October) The Theosophist endorses Edward Bellamy, his book, and
the
> Nationalist Party, and remarks about Theosophists being involved in the
> formation of the party and acting as its "most active and ardent workers
=
and
> sup****ters." p 62. There is also a remark about "The Key to Theosophy"
> being translated into the German language (p.
61).http://www.amazon.com/T=
heosophist-October-1890-April-1891/dp/14179218...
>
> 1890 (Nov. 13, 1890) Edward Bellamy wrote for The Christian Union, "Some
> Misconceptions of Nationalism." In the article he states: "Nationalism
is
> not based on the maxim 'To each according to his needs, from each
accordi=
ng
> to his abilities.' Of course, as a matter of conscience, every man is
bou=
nd
> to do all he can, and the needs of others are sacred claims upon his
> service; but both abilities and needs are indeterminate, and therefore
co=
uld
> not be made the basis of any regulation to be enforced by society. The
> principle of Nationalism is: From all equally; to all equally."
>
> 1891-94 Edward Bellamy became editor of the New Nation. In it he writes
> columns about "Talks on Nationalism." Bellamy would sell his weekly
combi=
ned
> with Karl Marx's Capital as a package
deal.http://rexcurry.net/edward-bel=
lamy-karl-marx.jpg
>
> 1891 (January 30) Edward Bellamy's How We Shall Get There is published
in
> the Twentieth Century Library, No. 30, Fortnightly, New York.
> compare The Way Out: Suggestions for Social Reform, by Charles Bellamy
in
> 1885.
>
> 1891 (July) Francis Bellamy openly and publicly defends Edward Bellamy's
> form of Socialism in the article "The Tyranny of All the People" in The
> Arena July, 1891 (p. 180-191). "Socialists believe in the fearless
extens=
ion
> of government because they have a clear and high idea of the nation as
an
> organic relation****p apart from which the individual cannot realize
> himself." And "Democratic government, however socialistic it may become,
=
is
> nothing but democracy expressing its own will. If the individual is led
to
> surrender certain of his freedoms for the good of all, he surrenders to
a
> paternalism of all the people. That were better called, once and for
all,=
a
> fraternalism. Socialism aims to produce an environment where not only
the
> Golden Rule, but the Law of Love will have a living chance." The
"Republ=
ic
> of the Golden Rule" is a reference to the authoriatian socialist society
=
in
> which Julian West awakens in Edward Bellamy's book "Looking Backward."
>
> 1891 Advertisements list together the books of Charles Bellamy, Edward
> Bellamy and Karl Marxhttp://rexcurry.net/bellamy-charles-brother1891.pdf
> and athttp://rexcurry.net/bellamy-charles-edward1891.pdf
>
> 1892 The year the Francis Bellamy wrote the Pledge Of Allegiance was the
> year that the immigration station on Ellis Island opened. Many people,
> including the Bellamys, were fearful of immigration and the "new
immigran=
ts"
> coming from Southern and Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean rim. Most
> immigrants did not hold the Protestant Christian faith known to a
majority
> of Americans. In the words of Emma Lazarus, they were the "wretched
refu=
se"
> of older "teeming shores" (Her famous poem using those words was affixed
=
to
> the Statue of Liberty). The tide of immigration swelled to its greatest
> heights. Bellamy-style bigotry grew.
>
> 1892 (July 4) Edward Bellamy writes "Fourth of July, 1992" in the Boston
> Globe. Bellamy's historical revisionism recasts the American Revolution
=
as
> leading inexorably to his utopian fantasy and the article alludes to
> "Looking Backward" in predicting, by the year 1992, a "new declaration
of
> independence" that will enact the Bellamy dogma and abolish the
distincti=
ons
> of "employer and employed, capitalist and proletarian" and that it will
c=
ome
> "peaceably or forcibly..."
>
> 1892 In August, Francis Bellamy finishes penning the Pledge of
Allegiance
> (with a straight-arm salute). James Upham and Francis Bellamy were
editor
> and associate editor of the Youth's Companion at the time. Francis had
be=
en
> given the assignment to prepare a celebration for Columbus Day, and he
us=
es
> the assignment as an excuse to espouse his dogma. The Pledge is
published=
in
> the "Youth's Companion" Magazine on September 8, 1892, along with an
arti=
cle
> ("The Meaning of the Four Centuries") wherein Francis Bellamy's
historical
> revisionism recasts Columbus' "discovery of America" as leading
inexorably
> to the Bellamy utopian fantasy. The article alludes to "Looking
Backward"=
in
> predicting a government takeover of education that will eventually enact
=
the
> Bellamy dogma. It was also a way for Bellamy and Upham to behave as
> socialists always do and use government to separate people from their
mon=
ey
> in government schools (socialist schools) by placing flags in every
schoo=
l=2E
> It is a process still followed today (In Florida, a law was imposed
> dictating that flags in schools were too small, and commanding that
larger
> flags be placed in each classroom, including college and university
> classroomshttp://rexcurry.net/debate-florida-legislature.html.
Enormous
> amounts of money were wasted complying with the new dictate).
>
> 1892 (October 12, Columbus Day, the 400th Anniversary) Francis Bellamy
was
> chairman of a committee of state superintendents of education in the
> National Education Association and he used the NEA to promote his pledge
=
and
> dogma (including a government takeover of all schools). The government
> schools begin to impose and institutionalize segregation by law and to
te=
ach
> racism as official policy.
>
> 1894 Henry Demarest Lloyd says of Looking Backward, that the book was
> "debated by all down to the bootblack on the corner."
>
> 1895 New York became the ninth state to require displays of the National
> flag in government schools.
>
> 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson is decided by the U.S. Supreme Court which
uphold=
s a
> government law imposing and requiring "separate but equal" seating upon
> railroads, and that reasoning is carried over to government schools that
> impose segregation and teach racism.
>
> 1897 Edward Bellamy's book "Equality" is published, the sequel to
"Looking
> Backward." The "American swastika" appears for the first time as the
> "equality symbol" ( =3D ) repeated all over the cover of the book
"Equali=
ty."http://rexcurry.net/bellamy-edward-equality-swastika.jpg
While the
> swastika/hakenkreuz was the symbol for German National Socialists, the
> "equals sign" was the "swastika" for American National Socialists.
Bellamy
> wrote, "Nationalism is not based on the maxim 'To each according to his
> needs, from each according to his abilities.' Of course, as a matter of
> conscience, every man is bound to do all he can, and the needs of others
=
are
> sacred claims upon his service; but both abilities and needs are
> indeterminate, and therefore could not be made the basis of any
regulation
> to be enforced by society. The principle of Nationalism is: From all
> equally; to all equally." (Some Misconceptions of Nationalism, by Edward
> Bellamy in The Christian Union, Nov. 13, 1890). The book Equality
continu=
es
> the story of Julian West in Bellamy's totalitarian future of National
> Socialism. In whole or in part, it was translated into Danish and
Swedis=
h=2E
> seehttp://www.gutenberg.org
>
> 1898 the New York state legislature imposes the first statute forcing
> children in government schools to robotically chant the socialist's
pledg=
e=2E
> Other states follow.
> The legislature required the Commissioner of Education to provide the
> programs and the Education Department published a book on flag history
w=
ith
> suggested lessons and ceremonies in 1910. Included was the original
Balch
> pledge, then recommended for the elementary grades. Here is a later
examp=
le
> regarding the Pledge Of
Allegiancehttp://rexcurry.net/reciting-the-pledge=
-of-allegiance1918.jpg
>
> 1898 The Blindman's World and Other Stories by Edward Bellamy [Int. by
> Howells, W. D.] is published in Boston and New York, by Houghton,
Mifflin
> and Co.
> The book is a collection of short stories including the title story
writt=
en
> in 1885, wherein "an astronomer's 'dream soul' is trans****ted to Mars
and
> communicates with its advanced human inhabitants."
>
> 1898 Edward Bellamy dies of consumption (tuberculosis). His book
"Looking
> Backward" details his weltanschauung, but he didn't have to look back at
> most of the world's socialist slaughter. Although Edward Bellamy was a
> bitter West Point failure, he loved Prussian militarism and the Prussian
> educational system and, according to Tom Peyser, "On his deathbed, he
wil=
ed
> away the hours by arranging tin soldiers along the folds of his
coverlet."
>
> 1900 Francis Bellamy completed and issued in book form Edward Bellamy's
1=
879
> work The Duke of Stockbridge. The historical romance dealing with Shays'
> Rebellion had been published serially in 1879.
seehttp://www.gutenberg.org
>
> 1905 a Finnish translation of "Equality" was published in 1905 in
Hancock,
> Michigan.
>
> 1905 "By 1905, Prussian trained Americans, or Americans like John Dewey
w=
ho
> apprenticed at Prussian-trained hands, were in command of every one of
our
> new institutions of scientific teacher training: Columbia Teacher's
Colle=
ge,
> the University of Chicago, Johns Hopkins, the University of Wisconsin,
> Stanford," according to the author John Taylor Gatto. "The domination of
> Prussian vision, and the general domination of German philosophy and
> pedagogy, was a fait accompli among the leader****p of American
schooling."
> And, "You should care about this for the compelling reason that German
> practices were used here to justify removal of intellectual material
from
> the curriculum; it may explain why your own children cannot think. That
w=
as
> the Prussian way - to train only a leader****p cadre to think." And, "Of
a=
ll
> the men whose vision excited the architects of the new Prussianized
Ameri=
can
> school machine, the most exciting were a German philosopher named Hegel
a=
nd
> a German doctor named Wilhelm Wundt. ... G. Stanley Hall, one of Wundt's
> personal prot=E9g=E9s (who as a professor at Johns Hopkins had
inoculated=
his
> star pupil, John Dewey, with the German virus) ... shrewdly sponsored
and
> promoted an American tour for the Austrian doctor Sigmund Freud so that
> Freud might popularize his theory that PARENTS AND THE FAMILY WERE THE
CA=
USE
> OF VIRTUALLY ALL MALADJUSTMENT (emphasis added) - all the more reason to
> remove their little machines to the safety of schools." And, "Teacher
> training in Prussia was founded on three premises, which the United
States
> subsequently borrowed. The first of these is that the state is
sovereign,
> the only true parent of children. Its corollary is that BIOLOGICAL
PARENTS
> ARE THE ENEMIES OF THEIR OFFSPRING. When Germany's Froebel invented
> Kindergarten, it was not a garden for children he had in mind but a
garden
> of children, in which state-appointed teachers were the gardeners of the
> children. Kindergarten is meant to PROTECT CHILDREN FROM THEIR OWN
MOTHER=
S"
> And, "The best-known device to break the will of the young, practiced
for
> centuries among English and German upper cl*****, was the separation of
> parent and child AT AN EARLY AGE. Here now was an institution backed by
t=
he
> police power of the state to guarantee that separation. ..."
>
> 1907 the USA's salute is used in a fictional Roman scene in the American
> film "Ben-Hur."
>
> 1908 the salute occurs in film in the Italian "Nerone."
>
> 1910 CHARLES JOSEPH BELLAMY died (he was born in 1852).
>
> 1913 the Federal Reserve Act is imposed, expanding the government's
abili=
ty
> to print, counterfeit and inflate money, leading to more depressions
crea=
ted
> by the government, including the Great Depression in 1929.
>
> 1914-1918 WWI. Hitler awarded the Iron Cross Medal (Ritterkreuz -"Rider
> Cross" or "Knight's Cross") . In Nov. 1918, the Kaiser and the House of
> Hollenzollern had fallen. The "Fatherland" was now a republic. The war
was
> over.
>
> 1914 the salute occurs in film in "Spartaco" and "Cabiria."
>
> 1915 A memorial edition of "Looking Backward" is published with
introduct=
ion
> by Sylvester Baxter of the Boston Herald, one of the first members of
the
> Boston Nationalist Club in 1888.
>
> 1916 The Wonder Children, Their Quests and Curious Adventures, by
Charles=
J.
> Bellamy. The MacMillan Company. 321 pages. Stories of Christmas Eve,
Three
> Fishes, Enchanted Cave, Bad Boy, Golden Key, Magic Mirror, Boy who
Teased,
> Underworld and Three Wishes.
>
> 1919 in imitation of such films, self-styled Italian "Consul" Gabriele D
> 'Annunzio borrowed the salute as a propaganda tool for his political
> ambitions upon his occupation of Fiume in 1919. Earlier, D'Annunzio had
> worked with Giovanni Pastrone in his colossal epic Cabiria (1914).
Mussol=
ini
> had worked with D'Annunzio.
>
> 1919 Anton Drexler, Gottfried Feder and Dietrich Eckart form what will
> become the Nazi Party, and they use the name "German Worker's Party."
>
> 1919 The Prohibition Party's most infamous deed was in 1919, with the
> passage of the 18th Amendment, which outlawed alcohol. National
prohibiti=
on
> under the 18th Amendment was repealed by the 21st Amendment in 1933.
Mode=
rn
> prohibiton continues as does the loss of individual rights. Edward and
> Francis sup****ted prohibition. Read more
athttp://rexcurry.net/drugs-proh=
ibition-party-today.html
>
> 1920 Francis Bellamy gives speech "The Pledge of Allegiance: How I Came
to
> Write It" in the New York City Stadium.
>
> 1920 the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi Party) takes its
> name. The party program includes the German version of the social
securi=
ty
> scam "We demand that generous improvements be made in old-age pensions"
a=
nd
> a government takeover of schools.
>
> 1920 Another mystical India-Germany promoter of National Socialism was
> Savitri Devi. Known as the "Aryan Hindu prophetess," she believed that
> Hitler was an avatar or god come to earth. Born Maximiani ****tas, she
> became a strong admirer of Hitler in the 1920s, moved to India in 1932
> because of its caste system, and took a Hindu name. Later, her writings
w=
ere
> republished, and she gained new fans in the 1970s as new interest in
> National Socialism spread. Devi died in 1982, but the author boasted
that
> her combination of Hindu religion and Nordic racial ideology became a
bri=
dge
> between National Socialism and the New Age movements.
>
> 1920s the German American Bund movement consists of American National
> Socialists who sup****t German National Socialists. During this time,
the
> American National Socialists (and their children in government schools)
> pledge allegiance to the flag using the straight-arm
salute.http://rexcur=
ry.net/pledgeapology.html
>
> 1922 Francis Bellamy retires to Tampa, Florida and continues to speak &
> write about his author****p of the pledge.
>
> 1923 Francis Bellamy article in Elks Magazine: "A Twenty-Three Word
Natio=
nal
> Creed: How the Most Widely Known Patriotic Formula in America Came Into
> Existence."
>
> 1923 Lenin, the Bolshevik founder (not Stalin), begins his first
> concentration camp (the Gulag) at the Solovetsky Islands -or Solovki- a
> string of small islands in the White Sea near the Arctic Circle.
>
> 1924 The Elks Magazine of June 1924, Vol. 3, Edition # 1 contains "A
> twenty-three word national creed" by Francis Bellamy with photos of
> correspondence. Hence, Bellamy continued to promote his National
Socialist
> dogma and the stiff-arm salute (and robotic chanting to flags) among
vari=
ous
> civic groups, as the Bellamys had done while they were Freemasons in
Maso=
nic
> Lodges.http://rexcurry.net/1qb1.html
>
> 1925 Mein Kampf is published and the terms "Nazi" and "Fascist" are
never
> used in the book in reference to the Party. The terms "socialist" and
> "national socialist" are used repetitively in reference to the Party.
>
> 1925 Everybody's Magazine FEBRUARY contains article by Francis Bellamy.
>
> 1927 The Dutch Bellamy movement emerged in the Netherlands.
>
> 1929 Francis Bellamy is quoted in the Tampa Tribune Newspaper about the
> pledge and his author****p of it.
>
> 1930 electoral breakthroughs for the National Socialist German Workers'
> Party.
>
> 1930s The wife and daughter Edward Bellamy (1850-1898) were key figures
in
> the revival of interest in Bellamy and his writings during the 1930s
duri=
ng
> the government-created depression. With several other notable
individuals,
> including journalist Heywood Broun and educator John Dewey, the two
Bella=
my
> women were part of what Broun called a "Back to Bellamy" movement. The
> daughter, Mrs. Earnshaw, tried to revive Edward's Nationalist movement
and
> she was president of the International Alliance of Bellamy Clubs.
>
> 1930 (June) The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act imposed the harshest tariffs in
U=
..S.
> history. It is sold as "Nationalism" to "protect" farmers against
> foreigners. It causes poverty, misery and exacerbates the worldwide
> depression and makes it "Great" and long-lasting.
>
> 1931 Francis Bellamy dies in Tampa, Florida at age 76. He died just as
his
> salute & ideas became even more infamous. He lived long enough to see
pa=
rt
> of the socialist slaughter in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
and
> the beginning of the National Socialist German Workers' Party aping his
> straight-arm salute.
>
> 1931 Looking Backward published in new edition with introduction by
> journalist Heywood Broun. Broun suggested: "Many of the questions both
of
> mood and technique are even more pertinent in the year 1931 than they
were
> in 1887."
>
> 1933 (3-4-1933) FDR takes office and feverishly imposes socialist
programs
> including the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camps run by the
military=
..http://rexcurry.net/bookchapter5a1.html
>
> 1933 (3-23-1933) dictator****p is imposed by leader of National Socialist
> German Workers' Party.
>
> 1933 the International Bellamy Association (IVB) is founded in
Rotterdam.=
By
> the end of the 1930s the IVB has around 10,000 followers.
>
> 1933 The Golden Book Magazine Issue Date: JUNE, 1933; VOL. XVII, No. 102
=
"A
> SOLUTION FOR UNEMPLOYMENT" by Edward Bellamy spouts Bellamy's National
> Socialist dogma in America after German National Socialists impose
> dictator****p.
>
> 1933 the first concentration camp begins under the National Socialist
Ger=
man
> Workers' Party. It will utilize numbering and eventually, at Aushwitz,
> tattooing of numbers upon victims.
>
> 1933 "Back to Bellamy," by Heywood Broun in World-Telegram (7-19-33),
> reprinted in Broun, It Seems to Me, 1925-1935 (see below).
>
> 1933 Movie idea of "Looking Backward" is mentioned in letter of August
29,
> 1933 written by CARL LAEMMLE on Universal Pictures Cor****ation
stationary,
> written to Lester Anderson, an early science-fiction fan (see Locus
Volume
> 25:4 No.357 Oct 1990).
>
> 1933 Franklin Delano Roosevelt was so impressed by Bellamy's book
"Looking
> Backward" that Roosevelt wrote "Looking
Forward"http://rexcurry.net/fdr-f=
ranklin-delano-roosevelt-looking-forward.jpgon
> Roosevelt's way to impose Bellamy's national socialism in
America.http://=
rexcurry.net/book11pledge-ch2a1a.html
>
> 1933 National prohibition under the 18th Amendment is repealed by the
21st
> Amendment. Modern prohibiton continues today as does the loss of
individu=
al
> rights. Edward and Francis sup****ted prohibition. Read more
athttp://rexc=
urry.net/drugs-prohibition-party-today.html
>
> 1934 "Triumph of the Will," directed by Leni Riefenstahl, shows the
Natio=
nal
> Socialist German Workers' Party parading its industrial army. In keeping
> with their socialist dogma, Hitler is praised as an "epitome of
altruism"
> and the speakers refer to each other as "comrades" who will cause a
> "revolution of the people and workers" to end "class struggle" and
create
> "egalitarianism."http://rexcurry.net/filmrev-triumph-of-the-will.html
>
> 1935 Lillian and William Gobitas refuse to stand and recite the pledge
in
> Minersville, Pennsylvania and are persecuted and expelled. As under
Nazis=
m,
> Jehovah's Witnesses and others in the USA were persecuted for refusing
to
> perform the straight-arm salute and robotically chant the pledge. They
w=
ere
> also expelled from government schools and had to use the many better
> alternatives.
>
> 1935 Two years following Roosevelt's proclamation of a "new deal"
forAmer=
ica, Broun wrote: "I think there should be a great revival of interest
>
> in the work of Edward Bellamy, for notions which he expressed before the
> beginning of the century are just now coming into articulation and a
few,
> indeed, into action." Broun, It Seems to Me, 1925-1935 (New York:
Harcour=
t,
> Brace, 1935), 207-10.
>
> 1935 the USA's Congress imposed the social security scam and nationwide
> numbering began.
>
> 1935 Columbia University requested three people - John Dewey, a
philosoph=
er;
> Charles Beard, a historian; and Edward Weeks, the editor of Atlantic
> Monthly - to list the ten most influential books from 1885 to 1935; on
all
> three lists, prepared independently, Looking Backward appeared second on
=
the
> list, the first being Karl Marx's Das Kapital. It shows how Bellamy's
> socialism was being compared with Marx's socialism for blending or as an
> alternative. It is im****tant to remember that during this time of
Bellamy=
's
> great influence, the National Socialist German Workers' Party had been
in
> existence since 1920, with electoral breakthroughs in 1930, and
dictators=
hip
> in 1933.
>
> 1936 Mrs. Emma S. Bellamy and Miss Marion Bellamy addressed a public
meet=
ing
> in ****tland on the topics of "Edward Bellamy as I Knew Him" and "Edward
> Bellamy Today."
>
> 1936 Jesse Owens competed in the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany, while
his
> neighbors in the USA attended segregated government schools where they
> saluted the flag with theNazi salute.
>
> 1937 Edward Bellamy Speaks Again! By the Peerage Press, First
Edition.htt=
p://rexcurry.net/bellamy-edward-speaks-again-francis-bellamy.jpg The
> spread of Bellamy ideas was reinforced with these additional "Articles,
> Public Addresses, Letters." http://rexcurry.net/bookchapter1a1h.html
>
> 1937 The broad international interest in Bellamy dogma and the revival
of
> that interest in the 1930s is reflected by a 1937 edition of "Looking
> Backward" translated into Esperanto (an international language) by L.L.
> Zamenhof - and published under the auspices of the International Bellamy
> League in The Netherlands.
>
> 1938 publication of "Talks on Nationalism." Edward Bellamy died in 1898,
=
yet
> this book revives his dogma in the USA, Germany and worldwide.
> Roosevelt's national socialism coincided with the 1938 publication of
"Ta=
lks
> on Nationalism" by Edward Bellamy. It is a terrifying look at how
> socialists in the USA inspired Nazism (the National Socialist German
Work=
ers'
> Party). Edward Bellamy died in 1898, but people put this book together
in
> 1938 to widen Bellamy ideas worldwide, in the USA (under Roosevelt's
> national socialism), and in Germany via the Nazis.
>
> 1938 John Hope Franklin, "Edward Bellamy and the Nationalist Movement,"
T=
he
> New England Quarterly, Vol 11, December, 1938 p. 739-772
>
> 1939 U.S. Flag Association Committee examines author****p controversy and
> believes that Bellamy is the author, not Upham. It examines evidence
> presented by David Bellamy and the family of James Upham.
>
> 1939 The National Socialist German Workers' Party and the Union of
Soviet
> Socialist Republics demonstrated the swastika's symbolism of socialists
> joining together, as allies to invade Poland, under a pact to divide up
> Europe (the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, or Nazi-Soviet Pact).
>
> 1940 Edward Bellamy, The Religion of Solidarity, ed. Arthur E. Morgan,
> Antioch Bookplate Company. Published posthumusly.
>
> 1940 the US Supreme Court rules that requiring the Gobitas children to
> salute the flag or be expelled did not violate their free speech right.
> Violence occurs in the USA against people who do not perform the
> straight-arm salute or chant the pledge. The Gobitas children leave
> government schools for the better alternatives.
> The Court's decision adds to the Pledge's long history of persecution
and
> violence. There are acts of student violence, teacher violence, police
> violence and mob violence. There were arrests and prosecutions. Children
=
are
> taken away from their parents on the government's claim of "unfit
parenti=
ng"
> if the children are not forced to pledge. Some kids were expelled from
> government schools and had to use the many better alternatives. The
> government schools then persecuted those non-government schools. During
t=
his
> time, the government's schools imposed segregation by law and taught
raci=
sm
> as official policy. The USA's behavior was an example for three decades
> before the Nazis. As under Nazism, the Jehovah's Witnesses, and blacks
and
> the Jewish and others in the USA attended government schools that
dictated
> segregation, taught racism, and persecuted children who refused to
perform
> the straight-arm salute and robotically chant the Pledge. The Bellamys
> sup****ted the government's takeover of education.
>
> 1941 Tattooing of concentration camp prisoners begins at Auschwitz.
>
> 1941 (December 7th) attack on Pearl Harbor. U.S. enters WWII against
Jap=
an.
>
> 1941 (December 11th) Germany & Italy declare war on U.S. and the U.S.
> reciprocates in kind.
>
> 1942 (June 22) the pledge was recognized by Congress in the Flag Code,
t=
he
> straight-arm salute is changed to the hand-over-the-heart. In 1942,
after
> the USA entered the war against Germany, the salute changed from the
> stiff-arm salute to the hand-over-the-heart. The change was form over
> substance. Children in some government schools (socialist schools) were
> taught that, henceforth, they would be forced to perform the robotic
> chanting with the right hand over the heart in order to replace the
previ=
ous
> blind obedience represented by the old stiff-arm salute used by German
> National Socialists that the children had been forced to perform in the
> past. At that time, children were still expelled and persecuted for
refus=
ing
> to participate, even with the "new and improved" ritual.
>
> 1942 correspondence begins between Margarette S. Miller and others
regard=
ing
> her investigation of the author****p of the Pledge.
>
> 1943 the Supreme Court reverses itself and rules that students could not
=
be
> forced to recite the pledge West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette
>
> Even after German National Socialism, writers continued to cover up for
t=
he
> Bellamys and ignore any comparison
>
> 1944 Elizabeth Sadler, "One Book's Influence: Edward Bellamy's Looking
> Backward" The New England Quarterly, Vol 17, December 1944, 530-555
>
> 1945 Arthur E. Morgan, The Philosophy of Edward Bellamy, King's Crown
Pre=
ss,
> 1945
>
> 1945 (May 22) Paul Bellamy, son of Edward Bellamy and editor-in-chief of
=
the
> Cleveland Plain Dealer, writes an introduction to his father's book
"Look=
ing
> Backward" (published by the World Publi****ng Co., of Cleveland Ohio).
It=
is
> interesting to note that Paul does not mention the National Socialist
Ger=
man
> Workers' Party, nor the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, nor even
Wor=
ld
> War II, in that introduction to his father's book on May 22, 1945.
>
> 1945 Although the National Socialist German Workers' Party turned the
> swastika symbol into overlapping "S" shapes for "socialism," the
> Theosophical Society did not alter the swastika on its logo until the
NSD=
AP
> demonstrated the deadly dogma of socialism to the
world.http://rexcurry.n=
et/bellamy-blavatsky-brooch.gif
> Thereafter, the Theosophical Society changed its logo so that the "S"
> letters are now reversed and their shape has been altered to make the
sym=
bol
> less
apparent.http://rexcurry.net/theosophy-madame-blavatsky-theosophical=
-society.html
> The Theosophical Society still exists. It is remarkable to note that at
t=
he
> time this was written, the Theosophical Society of America (TSA)
continued
> to maintain its Springfield Branch office at the Edward Bellamy House,
93
> Church Street, Chicopee, MA and also its library.
>
> 1945 (May 30) Just a few weeks after the end of German occupation the
> National Bellamy Party (NBP) is founded by a group of six leaders of the
> International Bellamy Association (IVB) in Groningen. The chairman of
the
> party was J. Derksen Staats. IVB, which was reorganized after the war,
did
> not actively sup****t the idea of a political party.
>
> 1947 (April) Van den Muyzenberg and the majority of the National Bellamy
> Party (NBP) members left to join the Progressive Party for a World
> Government.
>
> 1949 (October 1st) Mao Zedong also promotes the idea of world
government,
> and he proclaims the founding of the People's Republic of China. Massive
> bloodshed follows.
>
> 1952 Flag Day Award Ceremony programs (1952 and 1954), organized by
> Margarette S. Miller
>
> 1952 Pledge material is presented to the University of Rochester Library
=
by
> David Bellamy on October 18, 1952.
>
> 1954 Brown v. Board of Education begins to slowly end segregation
imposed=
by
> law in government schools and taught as official policy. Francis
Bellamy
> and Edward Bellamy sup****ted government takeover (socialism) for all
> schools. When the government granted their wish, it imposed segregation
by
> law and taught racism as official policty. Before 1943 , the Bellamy
Pled=
ge
> of Allegiance had been imposed by law, and to varying degrees it was
still
> imposed in 1954 and still is imposed, even beyond the year 2000
(especial=
ly
> following the imposition of the USA's police state on 9-11-2001).
>
> 1955 The Order of the Eastern Star erected a memorial tablet to Francis
> Bellamy in Oriskany, New York.
>
> 1956 The Pledge author****p controversy arose again when news re****ts
again
> asserted Upham's author****p. The Library of Congress appointed a team of
> clowns to officially "finalize" the decision as to the author****p of the
> Pledge. The Library of Congress Legislative Reference Service issued a
> re****t affirming Francis Bellamy as the author of the Pledge in 1957.
> Margarette Miller was involved in the work and wrote a book about it in
> 1976.
>
> 1958 The Year 2000: A Critical Biography of Edward Bellamy is published
by
> Sylvia E. Bowman. It is not very critical at all.
>
> 1960 Signet edition of Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward: 2000-1887 with
a
> forward by Erich Fromm.
>
> 1962 Pledge material is presented to the University of Rochester Library
=
by
> Mrs. David Bellamy on January 16, 1962.
>
> 1966 The NEA did not integrate its member****p until 1966 and only in the
> late 1960's did the NEA begin to sup****t aggressively the same idea in
mo=
st
> state government school systems.
>
> 1966 May, socialist students were encouraged to carry copies of Mao's
Lit=
tle
> Red Book of quotations. These "Red Guards" used his quotations to attack
> "intellectuals" (anyone not stupid enough to embrace socialism) with
them=
es
> such as "Correcting Mistaken Ideas."
>
> 1967 et seq The U.S. practice of official racism and segregation in
> government schools outlasted the horrid Nazi Party, into the 1960's and
> beyond. Thereafter, the Bellamy legacy caused more police-state racism
of
> forced busing that destroyed communities and neighborhoods and deepened
> hostilities.
>
> 1976 Margarette S. Miller writes "Twenty-Three Words: The Life Story of
=
the
> Author of the Pledge of Allegiance as Told in His Own Words." The
> introduction is by Frank P. Di Berardino III.
>
> 1986 Nancy Snell Griffith. Edward Bellamy: A Bibliography. [Scarecrow
Aut=
hor
> Bibliographies, no. 78] Metuchen, NJ: 1986. 185pp.
>
> 1988 Peggy Ann Brown. "Edward Bellamy: An Introductory Bibliography,"
> American Studies International, 26.2 (1988):37-50.
>
> 1988 Richard Toby Widdicombe. Edward Bellamy: An Annotated Bibliography
of
> Secondary Criticism. NY: Garland, 1988. 587pp.
>
> 1991 Merritt Abrash wrote "Looking Backward: Marxism Americanized" In
M.S.
> ***mings & N.D. Smith (Eds.)., Utopian Studies IV (pp. 6-9). Lanham, MD:
> University Press of America.
>
> 1991 According to Gail Collins "...far more American workers read
Looking
> Backward than ever made it through Marx..." Tomorrow Never Knows, The
> Nation, Vol. 252, Issue # 2, January 21, 1991.
>
> 2000 the year in which Bellamy's book predicted a utopian socialist
> totalitarianism. The death toll for the socialist Wholecaust (of which
t=
he
> Holocaust was a part) is: 62 million by the Union of Soviet Socialist
> Republics, 49 million by the Peoples' Republic of China, 21 million by
the
> National Socialist German Workers' Party. It is the worst slaughter in
> history. All Holocaust Museums can quintuple in size and scope by adding
> Wholecaust Museums.
>
> 2003 Dr. Rex Curry, an attorney, helps with litigation against the
pledge=
of
> allegiance that proceeds to the U.S. Supreme Court. In the process
> Professor Curry notices that the media will not tell the true story
about
> the pledge's author nor show any historic photo of the original salute.
> RexCurry.net is formed to set the record straight.
>
> 2003 The Oregon Historical Quaterly, Spring 2003, Vol 104 Number 1,
conta=
ins
> the article "Looking Backwards at Edward Bellamy's Influence in Oregon,
> 1888-1936."
>
> 2004 Tampa Florida is where Francis Bellamy died in 1931 and where his
> pledge of allegiance died also, much later. RexCurry.net disinterred
> Francis Bellamy, Edward Bellamy and the pledge. An atrocious autopsy was
> performed.
>
> 2004 A proposal begins that Holocaust Museums can quintuple in size and
> scope by adding Wholecaust Museums, and that Francis Bellamy and the
pled=
ge
> of allegiance should be added to the museums as the origin of the
> straight-arm salute and similar dogma that influenced the socialist
> Wholecaust.
>
> 2005 (December 23) News re****ts state that Cameron Frazier refused to
sta=
nd
> and recite the Pledge of Allegiance at Boynton Beach High School and it
> sparked a Constitutional battle against his teacher and the Palm Beach
> County School Board. The 17-year-old junior claims in a federal lawsuit
t=
hat
> he was ridiculed and punished Dec. 8 when he twice refused to stand for
t=
he
> pledge during his fourth-period algebra class.
>
> 2005 (March 1st) News re****ts state that an incident occurred in Brick
> Town****p, New Jersey. A video of the shocking behavior is
athttp://rexcur=
ry.net/pledge-of-allegiance-flag-nazis.html
>
> ONWARD: At the time this was written, internet searches indicated that
the
> "Lucis Trust"http://www.lucistrust.org/
is a UN-accredited NGO (in
> "consultative status" with the United Nation's Economic and Social
Counci=
l),
> and an officially acknowledged financial contributor to the United
Nation=
s=2E
> The "Lucis Trust" grew from the organization started by Alice Bailey in
1=
922
> when she founded the "Lucifer Publi****ng Company" to publish her and
> Blavatsky's writings and also published a magazine entitled "Lucifer"
> wherein Edward Bellamy's dogma was promoted. Blavatsky (1831-1891), with
=
her
> "Theosophical Society," is considered the mother of New Age Socialism
and
> modern Occult Socialism. Bailey (1880-1949, n=E9e Alice LaTrobe Bateman)
=
left
> Blavatsky's group and founded her own "Arcane School," wherein the term
"=
New
> Age" itself originated.
>
> At the time this was written, internet searches indicated that the
Edward
> Bellamy Memorial Association and the Chicopee Historical Society and the
> Theosophical Society of America (TSA library and Springfield Branch
offic=
e)
> were headquartered at the Edward Bellamy House, 91 to 93 Church Street,
> Chicopee, MA. Recent lectures there included "Discovering the Secrets in
=
the
> Aka****c Records" and "Alchemical Art Therapy" and "Gnosis: An Ancient
Path
> of
Illumination."http://rexcurry.net/theosophy-madame-blavatsky-theosophi=
cal-society.html
> Here is contact information that was listed: Edward Bellamy Memorial
> Association, Inc., Stephen Jendrysik, 91 Church Street, Chicopee MA
01020
> TEL: 413 594-6496 email: s.jendry...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
is a great post. Thank goodness for the research by Dr. Rex Curry
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