no. the child was well within her rights. what vanmeter and nesser did was the crime. violating a little kids rights. at best bullies, at worst treason against the consitution.

no one should stand for the pledge of allegiance - it was the origin of the nazi salute and nazi behavior (see the work of the historian dr. rex curry). when stories such as the one above come out, the old news media will never mention the ...pledge's putri...d past, nor print a photo or video of the early american stiff-armed salute. if they did, then no one would stand for the pledge. the pledge continues to be the source of nazi behavior wherein government schools (socialist schools) begin each day by teaching bullying and peer pressure and punish dissenters. the pledge is a daily repetition of the milgram experiment and a demonstration of the banality of evil. it is sad to see that the news today has two stories: an adult selectwoman politician in falmouth, ma who cowardly caved in to bullying regarding the pledge, and a 13-year-old student in a government school in brownsville, pa who is not a coward and who defied the pledge despite ongoing persecution from cowardly adults. francis bellamy is sometimes referred to as america's leni riefenstahl because of his earlier influence on spreading socialism (and the stiff-armed gesture) through government schools et cetera. of course, bellamy was very religious, a "christian socialist" and his original pledge was a small part of a his much larger pledge program replete with hymns, prayers, references to the bible and god, including the phrase "under god." that is why the original pledge program cannot be performed in government schools, only the pledge's tiny part (to which the deifiication was also added in 1954).