there are many reasons, ok. I know this. People ask, and I have different decisions for different days. One is that I don't agree with the Under God; that is true. But I never really recongized it was there until the controversy in California. I admit that. I also don't stand because that flag is alot less pure than many people who salute it choose to realize, and I don't want to be associated with those who purposely turn a blind eye, their lives being so much easier when there's not so much to be unsure about.
I especially don't do it: the two reasons, because I do NOT pledge allegiance to my country. this makes me sound like a traitor, I am aware, but it's true. If the country I was lucky enough to be born in starts fucking up royally, I'm not going to stand by their actions! I'll move to Canada. Hell, since the American consticution was ritten almost all countrys have the same rights as this one. I am very very glad for this, and will take advantage of it.
But majorly, th reason that makes me less than a traitor or a facadical rebel pathetic identity-lacking spoiled american teenager, is the fact that I sit during the pledge because I have that right... and I sit lest it be taken away. It's backwards logic, to some, but a) I don't say the pledge because I don't pledge. so b) why stand? I have the right to sit, and god bless this revolutionary country for it. While people suffer all over the world for things equating to or even less than my act of sitting during the pledge, I sit in my happy corderoy and eye-liner and sit. I sit because I can, and I want to be sure I ever will. I also am allowed the right to help others less fortunate than I am (to sit), and I take that initiative, unlike many pleasantly blinded people. I sit, lest I am not able to sit anymore. That is why. Now you know. Because I've told you. You were too afraid to ask.