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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

"realize that it’s the result of a teacher who didn’t understand the law"

If the tracher was warned once, and continued to harass Danielle Khalaf, then it's not about not knowing, she simply doesn't care.

Maybe it's time to let go of this nonsense. I never had to recite La Marseillaise* every morning, and I love my country (as long as I don't have to eat French cuisine).

* A couple of times only, in history class.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

Soranno's behavior was bad enough done ONCE. She went after Ms. Khalaf multiple times after multiple warnings.

Soranno should damned well have been called on the carpet, read the riot act, and given her walking papers. She's a disgrace to the teaching profession.

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Lynn Veit's avatar

She sounds like a mean-spirited, anti-social, bitter person. Why does someone like that want to go into teaching in the first place?

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Matri's avatar

It’s the MAGAt way.

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Kay-El's avatar

There’s an old joke: those who can’t, teach.

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Crowscage's avatar

Those who can, teach, those who can't shit on those who can.

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Psittacus Ebrius's avatar

Probably a power thing.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

Probably to prove her superiority, and by doing so the way she did, all she's doing is proving what a tool and a bully she is.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Because she's obviously a republican "go back to where you came from." is their favorite line. They enjoy crushing free thinking students.

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Crowscage's avatar

Sounds like a christain alright.

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Stephen Brady's avatar

I would kill to be forced to eat good French Cuisine.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

You can have my share with great pleasure while I gorge on Korean, Sichuan and Thai food :)

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Stephen Brady's avatar

I like those too! There are very few cuisines that I cannot find something I like.

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Stephen Brady's avatar

I spent 3 weeks, once, on Borneo. I found plenty to eat, but I'll admit I skipped out on eating the Palm Grubs...

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

It's in moments like this I am happy to be vegan 🤣

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

I could go for a good bouillabaisse, myself! Some French bread on the side? YUM!

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

But which one ? Baguette, pain, tradition, batard, fougasse, viking, seigle, bucheron... ?

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RegularJoe's avatar

Yes, please. 😁

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

I know right? the old style with all the divine sauces!

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

We are not friends anymore !

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OMGeneres's avatar

In high school, we had to recite the preamble to the constitution in Civics. Thanks, Schoolhouse Rock!

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Stephen Brady's avatar

I still can get most of it out 53 years after graduating HS.

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Donrox's avatar

I would be willing to stand and give a shout out to "Liberty, equality, fraternity"

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oraxx's avatar

The Pledge of Allegiance is not about patriotism, it's about enforcing rote conformity on young people. Repeat anything often enough and it becomes meaningless. Why would you ever need to pledge your allegiance to the flag more than once, if that? From the very beginnings of the American Republic, conservatives have pushed the idea that people cannot be allowed to think for themselves, and woe be unto whomever gets out of line. I suspect the teacher in question has a deep, personal relationship with Jesus.

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John Smith's avatar

I also bet this teacher is a Trump supporter (Christian nationalist maga).

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Lynn Veit's avatar

And the trumpy regime will NOT come to her rescue. In trump's eyes, people who get caught and face consequences are suckers and losers for getting caught.

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oraxx's avatar

I think that would be a safe bet.

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OwossoHarpist's avatar

I think you're right.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

That's a sucker bet, given the performative phrases uttered.

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SeekingReason's avatar

Oraxx I said as much too. This must be eliminated from ALL schools. If someone wants to “pledge” allegiance to a flag…they can do it at home! Just like religion.

And IF these schools are saying pledge of allegiance, it should be the one by the author, Francis Bellamy and it does NOT include the phrase “under god”!!!

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David V. Miller's avatar

Bet you the teacher is a Trumplingnette & a churchling.

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Mr.E's avatar

the orginal purpose was to sell flags.

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Crowscage's avatar

A deep personal relationship with a 2x4 will cure that flavor of stupidity.

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SPW's avatar

Doing the pledge and reciting bible verses we had memorized was routine for me in my public school. As a matter of fact, I remember when “under god” was added to the pledge. I was in third grade.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

👆🎯Or thinks they do, anyway.

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Tinker's avatar

I am tired of people invoking veterans to advance their fascist views. We did not join the military to fight for fascism. We joined to fight against it. We joined to fight for freedom. Freedom enshrined in the Bill of Rights. Freedom such as exercising the First Amendment right to protest.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

When we enlisted, we took an oath to support and defend the Constitution. Not a President, not a party, not an ideology. The Constitution.

And if you were deployed to a combat zone (as I was), you took that oath again. Fascists need to have that drilled into their thick skulls, especially fascists who did not wear the uniform when they had the chance (like a certain mango muttonhead who shall remain nameless).

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Len Koz's avatar

But...but...but...his bonespurs!

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larry parker's avatar

I'm going to need to see the long form bone spurs diagnosis.

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Len Koz's avatar

😁😇

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Awfully funny how those bone spurs never affected all the golfing he does/cheats at. How conveeeeeeenient.

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James Scammell's avatar

The bone spurs were highly likely to have been in his head … and possibly could have melted by now with the results that we now witness.

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Stephen Brady's avatar

Betcha it wouldn't have happened if this had been a generic protestant, white student.

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SeekingReason's avatar

When I was in school in the 70s, a black student refused to stand for it also. The white male teacher went over grabbed him by the shirt and stood him up telling him, he didn’t have to say the pledge but he had to stand! (Why?) That the teacher treated him like that was scary to the rest of us. Atrocious!

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OwossoHarpist's avatar

There were times when I was in school and I didn't stand for the pledge and was never been in trouble over it. Heck. When I was in middle school, we didn't even recite the pledge because back then it was no big deal. We got on with the lessons the teacher has assigned for us to engage in without a problem.

Times sure have changed, isn't it?

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

ABSOLUTELY. Dumping on a young lady with perhaps an Arabic background? Soranno probably thought she was fair game.

She thought wrong.

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John Smith's avatar

You have to remember that according to the Christian nationalist redneck a true American is white (European descent), Christian (evangelical, but other Protestant groups are ok), conservative (fascist), republican (Trump supporter), and only those in the description of a true American I mentioned above deserve civil liberties and human rights. All others according to the redneck’s mindset should know their place and not think that they (anyone who isn’t maga) are equals.

In fact according to the redneck’s mindset all others are to be used, abused a killed without consequences, because at the best of times the redneck see all others as inferior; at worst of times the redneck see all others as less than human.

That is the attitude behind the force pledge of allegiance and other conservative acts that they (the magas) want to push on to American society.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

The contortions xtians go through to pretzel logic their way through activities their own god would find shameful and inhumane, lends credence to the argument that they are all FULL OF SHIT, and it smelleth.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

Oh, I know that. Doesn't change the fact that Soranno thought WRONG, and with any luck, she's going to learn how wrong she was, preferably the hard way.

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John Smith's avatar

I agree with you, I was just pointing out the justification that some people might not realize. I hope Soranno lose her job and teaching certificate, so she doesn’t teach ever again.

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Psittacus Ebrius's avatar

If these same individuals took the time to read (I know, I know), they would discover that a "pure white race" has no basis in genetics. Humankind began in (gasp) Africa.

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John Smith's avatar

Reading any book not approved by the Christian nationalist redneck clergy, their redneck leaders, or right wing media outlets is a sin, as well as being “woke” and anti-Christian.

Otherwise reading might actually cause a redneck to self-reflect, think critically, and introspection which are sins and signs that the redneck is not a true believer. For in the mind of the redneck a true believer is someone who is ignorant, has single minded faith, and blind obedience to the Christian nationalist clergy and their leaders.

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Whitney's avatar

Um, you forgot male. Wimmins don't count. /s

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

I think I already mentioned it, once in high school, a teacher was disrespectful toward two students, one raised a hand to ask a question about something she didn't understood and he deliberately ignored her, another one started to explain and he berated them "The two Arabs at the back, get out". We all looked at each other, grabbed our stuff and got out. We did sit ins until he apologized. He was not tenured and the following year, his contract was not renewed. Bon débarras.

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SeekingReason's avatar

This young lady had every right to sit out the idiotic militant pledge to the flag. That whole thing is Nationalistic & reeks of Dictatorship style government. Pledge of allegiance to the flag should be eliminated altogether from schools!

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Lynn Veit's avatar

Reciting the pledge disappeared from my rural school district when I was in fourth grade. I don't know why, it just stopped being done. It was kind of surprising at first, coming across stories about schools that still do this, but then again maybe not so surprising given the rise in christian nationalism.

It's also ironic that the pledge says our nation is "indivisible" when the pledge itself is often used as a divisive wedge.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Quick OT, lest I forget...

Happy 91st Birthday to Jamie Farr (M*A*S*H). Also a Happy 74th Birthday to the B-52s Fred Schneider.

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Tinker's avatar

"𝑆𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑛𝑗𝑜𝑦 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑜𝑚..."

Teacher doesn't understand the words coming out of her own mouth.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑜𝑚 𝑜𝑓 𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑜𝑚 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑓𝑢𝑠𝑒.

-- David Hume

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Joe King's avatar

“𝑆𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑛𝑗𝑜𝑦 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑜𝑚, 𝑖𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑜𝑛’𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑖𝑡, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑔𝑜 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑡𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑦.”

If i could have been in the room as a parent or guardian, I would have gone off on the teacher. Citing West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette | Oyez https://share.google/EXYguvfzItk5NTDzJ then turning her words back on her. Which white European country did her family come from, and would she go back there?

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Lynn Veit's avatar

I wish someone had been there to give her a good dressing down like she deserved...in front of the entire class.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

If you had been in the room, she would not have done it. These freaks are miserable weaklings that must be stood up to. They hide in the shadows. With Shitler in power, they feel empowered to discriminate.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

Carissa Soranno sounds Italian.

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Joe King's avatar

Possible, but could be by marriage.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

Do USA women change their first name too when marrying ? How peticular 😋

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Lynn Veit's avatar

Some parents in the USA do like giving their daughters names that sound "fancy" or "poetic" or whatever.

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Guerillasurgeon's avatar

God, that teacher was stubborn wasn't she? You'd think that after it's all been explained to her – and I presume it was but who knows – should have the sense to shut up and sit down. Bet she's a fundamentalist Christian. They never know when to shut up and sit down.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

It's pretty clear to me that she had a chip on her shoulder of some sort. Whether it's about Arabs or what, I don't know, but her repeated behavior should have been called out, pointed out, and then she should have been thrown out.

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Matri's avatar

I’m getting very close to the point of advocating the guillotine for all of them.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

Guillotine would be too quick and too easy. Let us do in her own juices in a 6x9 cell for a little bit and see how she feels.

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Matri's avatar
2dEdited

El Salvador?

Or the newly opened Alligator Alcatraz?

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Lynn Veit's avatar

Every time I think I can't possibly be more embarrassed to be from Floriduh.....

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

*holds your hand in solidarity.*

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

For the Dominican Republic.

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Lynn Veit's avatar

I hope she is stripped of her teaching credentials. She should never be allowed in a reaching position anywhere ever again.

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Lynn Veit's avatar

From their POV, it's all those OTHER people who are supposed to sit down and STFU.

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David Friedman's avatar

I fail to see how someone sitting quietly is disrespectful, but creating a disturbance by berating that person isn't.

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ericc's avatar

Forget disrespectful, what the teacher did was illegal harassment. They did it once, the victim let them know they didn't like it and asked them to stop, the harasser's *boss* told them to stop, and they kept doing it to the same victim. Textbook harassment.

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OwossoHarpist's avatar

The same slop the teacher gave out is the same slop every teacher gave out every time their student refuses to stand or recite the pledge out of blatant hypocrisy of respecting the military only to render them as outcasts and destitutes by throwing them out into the streets and rendering them homeless as a token of "thanks" for serving this country.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

This is how you would expect prisoners to be treated, not our children.

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Joan the Dork's avatar

To conservatives, that's a distinction without a difference. Children are property, in their worldview.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

👆🎯

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Lisa's avatar

Thinking back to my own adolescence, the kid was brave for staying seated, thinking ahead to issues it might have caused with classmates. The teacher’s bullying gave wholesale approval for open season on the child.

Horrible.

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RegularJoe's avatar

Disabled Combat Veteran here....I served so Ms. Khalaf could sit, stand, recite, remain silent, take a knee, whatever she so chooses. It certainly wasn't to enable asshats like Soranno could use her position of authority to repress the Rights of others.

Sue her into poverty.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

Some people simply do not get it, and by "it," I mean the First Amendment. I've forgotten what court decision it was, but the right NOT to stand for the Pledge was established years ago. Yet this dingbat Soranno goes after Ms. Khalaf multiple times, even after being advised and warned about such behavior, and has clearly caused her considerable trauma.

From the article, it at least sounds as though Soranno has left the building, not to return, and that's at least SOMETHING. Still, the legal action is warranted, and employed or not, she should be a part of that lawsuit. She fucked around. She should damned well find out.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

And not just once, yet it's not the first post written by Hemant about a student 1st amendment rights bring trampled.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Instead of putting up Ten Commandments signs in public schools, maybe faculties could put up West Virginia State Board of Education v Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943)

What should be particularly highlighted are the opinions of Chief Justice Robert H. Jackson and concurring Justices Hugo Black and William O. Douglas

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Joe King's avatar

They want conformity. They don't want to let the students know that they have 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴.

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OwossoHarpist's avatar

"They want conformity."

Just like Christian Fundies, including creationists.

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SeekingReason's avatar

NOGODZ20, I’m all for that. The pledge is an asinine relic that must be eliminated.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Amen…so to speak.

A loyalty oath in a constitution republic/democracy. It should have been unthinkable.

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