I actually don't say the pledge of allegiance any more. I don't agree with it on several points, the most important being that I believe that the US Government is, in certain respects, working against liberty and justice for all. After some research, I discovered that the pledge was invented by a socialist to sell flags to government schools. Now I say this version instead, pausing at the right times so that it lines up with what everyone else is saying:

"I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America, and to the principles for which it stands, [pause] under God, [pause] with liberty and justice for all."

Notice that in addition to pledging to the Constitution instead of to the flag and the government, I omit the words “one nation” and “indivisible”, because I believe in states rights; if the people in a state decide that the Federal Government is not acting in their best interest, their state should secede from the union. This will provide needed incentive for the Federal Government to behave the way it should.

--- Eric Wadsworth, August, 2011