A Roman Salute

[Douglas Mercer]

Douglas Mercer
March 30 2022

The so-called Bellamy Salute came around in 1892, it was the new way to pledge allegiance to the flag. Instructions for this new and soon to be very popular salute were given for a National School Celebration of Columbus day in that year. This was a time when they not only still celebrated Europeans coming to this continent they did so in very fashionable way:

"At a signal from the Principal the pupils, in ordered ranks, hands to the side, face the Flag. Another signal is given; every pupil gives the flag the military salute – right hand lifted, palm downward, to align with the forehead and close to it. Standing thus, all repeat together, slowly, "I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands; one Nation indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all." At the words, "to my Flag," the right hand is extended gracefully, palm upward, toward the Flag, and remains in this gesture till the end of the affirmation; whereupon all hands immediately drop to the side."

This was the way American school children saluted their flag until 1942 when it was thought that the coincidence of this salute and the salute of the National Socialists was too close for comfort. It was in December of that year that the Federal Government passed a law stipulating that the proper way to pledge allegiance to the flag was not the powerful outstretching of the right hand palm down but the soft and meekly hand over heart. Here in two sets of images you have all you need to know abut the trajectory that America was on. In one you have an aggressive salute that projects the one saluting out into the world, rigid and at full attention. In the other there is no salute but rather a namby-pamby inward look at one's own heart. Just remember what the hands do everyone can see, but what the heart harbors no one really knows. A softer pledge than the latter can scarcely be imagined.

There was a counter-backlash from the United States Flag Association and the Daughters Of The American Revolution who wanted to keep the proto Hitler salute. But naturally the words of these latter day patriots was of no avail.

And that was it for the Bellamy salute, and that was it for America.

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We all know about the Roman Salute. But believe it or not some Jews did some research and found that there is no evidence that the Romans ever saluted one another that way, though that statement must be taken with more than a dash of skepticism as that is most definitely something Jew want to believe . The Jews story is that the salute came only from a painting by David called The Oath Of The Horatii in which Roman figures in the painting make this salute.

Certainly the salute is a symbol that has a rich after life.

Certainly the salute is a symbol that has a rich future before it.

"Since the end of World War II, displaying the Nazi variant of the salute has been a criminal offence in Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland."

Just remember they don't proscribe something they don't fear.

The 1920s was a good time for the White man. Everywhere and anywhere the White man reigned they were waking up to the mortal peril posed by the dark man. In Rome Mussolini picked up the Roman salute and pretty soon it became the Olympic salute too. You've seen the salute made by Olympians, not the one with the black guys with their first raised, but the ones by the White man with their right arm outstretched palm downward just like those instructions for the Bellamy salute.

And then very famously it was picked up by no less a person that Adolf Hitler and the rest, as they say, is history.

Except it's not: it's our future.

If some are a little slow to pick up on that fact it only seems that way because they fight it so hard.

Then in 1928 a Dutch sculptor named Gra Rueb made a statue that was placed outside the Olympic stadium in Amsterdam and it remained there until very recently. It was there that the Olympics were held in 1928.

They say of course it had nothing to do with Hitler. But surely the sculptor was aware of the use that o which the salute was put in nearby Germany by as late as 1928.

Jews should research this question and get back to us with their findings.

The statue in question is ten feet high and shows a simple and powerful upright male figure with his right arm aloft outstretched palm down ward, the hand reaching towards the sky. It is heroic in every sense, all in all a powerful image with resonances and redolences of many things, like the seemingly endless upward arc of White man and his culture and civilization.

It's the image our enemies hate the most.

The amazing thing is that it lasted as long as it did. But the troubling thing is that our enemies are patient and implacable and slowly, almost desultorily, pick the White icons off one by one until there are no more.

No word yet if they are going to melt it down and reconstitute it in a sculpture of mulattos with their hand over their hearts praying to a rainbow of many hued pastel colors.

"A statue of a sportsman has been removed from the entrance to Amsterdam’s Olympic stadium because of its fascist connotations (March 2022)."

Those are more than connotations. it's the spitting image.

"Te controversial statue with raised right hand has been removed from the entrance of the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam and has been given a place inside the stadium. Historical research showed that the greeting, which looks like the Nazi salute, can be traced back to a fascist tradition."

Indeed so. And all-American one too.

So the interim solution is to place the statue inside where they can circumscribe it with lessons, these lesson being that once upon a time the White man stalked the earth in search of prey, he was put down, and must never rise again.

"The stadium always disputed that the statue was doing a Nazi salute. Dutch sculptor Gra Rueb made it in 1928, well before the Nazis came to power in Germany. The greeting was always thought to be a Roman salute introduced as the Olympic salute at the 1924 Games in Paris by Baron de Coubertin, founder of the Olympic Games."

It occurs to me that everybody has a story.

"New research found no evidence that the Romans ever greeted each other in this way. The researchers found that the greeting originated in Italy at the start of the 20th century, based on the painting The Oath of the Horatii by French artist Jacques-Louis David. The painter invented a group of Roman soldiers who swore allegiance with their right arm outstretched. When Benito Mussolini came to power in Italy in 1922, the fascists adopted the salute. And later, it was taken over by the Nazis. After World War II, the Olympic salute was banned."

The long history of a future salute.

"A spokesperson for the Olympic Stadium called the researchers' conclusions intense because they always thought the statue was making the Olympic salute. The statue of Gra Rueb was never created with bad intentions, but now that we understand the historical context better, we want to take action. This kind of gesture does not fit with the ideals we stand for, so we have chosen to remove it."

The ideal they stand for is pusillanimity in the face of White Genocide, cravenness before Jews, and the brotherhood the whole human race as it descends into slavery and abject horror.

Yes, they didn't know that for all that time they were harboring Nazis! It's got to go now, and not one moment too soon.

"The Van Tuyll monument, a bronze figure with an outstretched right arm, dates from 1928 – the year Amsterdam hosted the Olympics – but had attracted criticism because of its resemblance to the Nazi salute. Earlier this year the statue was daubed with red paint and the slogans Fuck Nazis and Fascists Die written on the wall of the stadium behind it."

It appears that Antifa is on the case, though really the green eye shade bureaucrats who removed if have an ideology no different from them, the only difference, is from time to time the latter bathe.

"Het Cuypersgenootschap, a conservation organization for historic buildings objected to the city council’s decision to license the move. A judge still has to rule on whether the statue, a listed monument, should be permanently moved."

Want to lay any bets? Good on this group but in the end they will have no more luck that the good and decent ladies of the Daughters Of The American revolution had. You may or may not be able to fight city hall, but you can't fight Jews, at least not via politics.

"The decision to finally move the three-metre statue inside the Stadium built for the 1928 Olympic Games came nearly two years after an investigation concluded that, although the athlete is not doing a Hitler salute, it still needed to be moved as the gesture is still linked to fascism.”

And so it is. And they can remove art like this, they can ban it, they can proscribe it, they can move it inside, they can hem it in with all sorts of multicultural propaganda. They can smash it to bits, they can lament it, they can recoil in horror from it, or they can melt it down and remake it as George Floyd's meth pipe and place it in Manhattan right were that little demented negro boy was. But they can never extinguish the burning idea, or the sweeping peak aesthetics, and they can never stop the always present and ever powerful way a proud White man salutes, and the way he pledges his undying allegiance.

[Douglas Mercer]

[Will Williams]

"Very famously [the Roman salute] was picked up by no less a person that Adolf Hitler and the rest, as they say, is history. Except it's not: it's our future."

Thank you for this essay and for adding the helpful photo. You wrote:

We all know about the Roman Salute. But believe it or not some Jews did some research and found that there is no evidence that the Romans ever saluted one another that way, though that statement must be taken with more than a dash of skepticism as that is most definitely something Jew want to believe . The Jews story is that the salute came only from a painting by David called The Oath Of The Horatii in which Roman figures in the painting make this salute.

The Oath of the Horatii is a painting by Jacques-Louis David, a French artist, painted in 1784 and 1785, and now on display in the Louvre in Paris. The painting depicts a scene from a Roman legend about a dispute between two warring cities, Rome and Alba Longa, and emphasizes the importance of patriotism and masculine self-sacrifice for one's country. The painting depicts the Horatii brothers making an oath to defend Rome with their lives, with their father giving them their swords and the women behind them grieving.

That photo and its description counters the Jew's weaselly explanation of the Roman salute.

[Douglas Mercer]