Saluting the flag.

HOWLERMONKEY Wed Mar 12, 2008 at 08:42:44 AM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook


Lord Goldsmith is looking into the issue of "Britishness" with the suggestion that schoolchildren partake a similar pledging ceremony that American junior school children perform . It won’t be long before the Dally Mail suggests that it becomes a duty for everyone not just schoolchildren to perform.





If this comes to pass what’s to do with the refuseniks?



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Re: Saluting the flag. (#1)

by doctordunc on Wed Mar 12, 2008 at 11:33:57 AM GMT

At 16 I know full well that I would have refused point blank to swear any sort of oath on leaving school.  Indeed - headstrong young revolutionary that I was at school - I may well have made great ceremony of swearing allegience to Karl Marx or something...  You ask a good question - what would have happened.  A good telling off at school, fair enough, but would anything have happened on a state/legal level?

I am intrigued!  What happens to 'refuseniks' in the US?


Re: Saluting the flag. (#2)

by alexhilton on Wed Mar 12, 2008 at 12:08:08 PM GMT

Would renouncing citizenship get you off making an oath of allegiance?


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Re: Saluting the flag. (#3)

by jkitleft on Wed Mar 12, 2008 at 10:04:50 PM GMT

I am a commited Republican, so I don't want to swear an alleigance to an unelected head of state.


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Re: Saluting the flag. (#6)

by HOWLERMONKEY on Thu Mar 13, 2008 at 06:52:18 PM GMT

Remember Alex your not a citizen, your a subject...It’s different.


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Re: Saluting the flag. (#4)

by Calum on Thu Mar 13, 2008 at 01:28:43 PM GMT

I'm 17 and still at school.
There is no way you would ever get me swearing an oath of allegiance to the monarch. and that's not just because i am a committed republican.

The very thing that makes is Brits different is that we don't go shouting about it! Britishness is not something that we can deifne in a oath, it is about tolerance and how we are reserved about our brittihsness.


Re: Saluting the flag. (#5)

by HOWLERMONKEY on Thu Mar 13, 2008 at 06:42:54 PM GMT

It’s not Will you or won’t you... Its, what is the penalty if it’s a won’t


Saluting the flag. | 6 comments (6 topical)