Posted on 07/14/2009 11:35:38 AM PDT by Freedom2specul8
RANDOM POLL:
Veterans: how many of you are offended by the peace symbol and why?
(Family members and friends who know the answer, please feel free to speak on behalf of Veterans who cannot post.... )
Thank you for your time!
To quote myself: "Ive always associated the peace symbol with those who spit on the vietnam vets"
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. (1918) Theodore Roosevelt
My father, a WW II vet, used to call it the CHICKEN”S FOOT.
I could give a rat’s ass about the peace symbol.
However, whenever a smelly hippy flashes the VICTORY sign, as immortalized by Winston Churchill, and claims it as a “peace sign”, I get very, very angry.
Oh, you mean the upside-down chicken’s foot?
I am not a veteran, but I have always and will always find the so-called “peace symbol” offensive.
Anyone with a ping list interested in helping with this poll? Or if you know of someone with a ping list that could help, I would really appreciate it.
It reminds me of the pot smoking hippy crowd who have been mind raped by college professors. This group exercises their free speech rights often but would rather surrender to communism or socialism than serve their country to protect this right. Essentially, they take up air and contribute nothing to society.
I’m not.
>I am not a veteran, but I have always and will always find the so-called peace symbol offensive.
Why, though?
Helping Kim...
Christians find this symbol very offensive, if they know from whence it comes.
PEACE SYMBOL or NERO’S CROSS: A broken, upside-down cross. To Roman emperor Nero, who hated and persecuted the early Christians, it meant destruction of Christianity. Revived in the sixties by hippies and others who protested nuclear weapons, Western culture, and Christian values, it now symbolizes a utopian hope for a new age of global peace and earth-centered unity. But many of heavy metal rock fans would agree with Nero and use it to mock Christ and His followers.
Source: http://www.radioliberty.com/Symbolsandtheirmeaning.html
It isn’t the symbol in itself, it it is how it is used. First, it assumes that only those special hippies who wear it want peace (which we know is false). They just aren’t willing to do what is necessary for peace. To them, it means surrender.
They lie and say we are ‘for war’ and they are ‘for peace’. That is a simpleton approach. They just want an absence of conflict (unless they are in charge of course). They want to use it as a symbol of taking the high moral ground, when in reality, it is nothing more than symbolism over substance. They would let people die under the thumb of tyrants all over the world just so they can play the moral high ground. They aren’t willing to do the dirty work it takes to truly have peace, they just want to throw out their hippie slogans and wish it all better.
So, in summation, it isn’t the symbol itself, frankly, these days it is as common as the Nike Swoosh with the same meaning to most- it however, is how people use that symbol and the real message they want to send (hint, it isn’t one of peace.)
History of the “peace” symbol.
It is a neutering unilateral surrender sign on one hand, a militant refusal sign on the other. Neither are mainstream nor reasonable courses of action or belief.
Beat your sword into a plowshare and you'll be a servant farmer for those that did not.
It reminds me of ‘useful idiots’ and I am offended by what the people behind it did to my country.
My uncle - three tours of Nam - taught me the first rule of war.
1. Eliminate those around you who will get you killed.
He may have been including the peace symbol folks in that group.
Excellent question, and one which deserves a long and thoughtful response. But the shorthand version would start “Because I love America.”
The kind of holier than thou peace-mongering that excuses evil, chastises the brave, and invites utter ruin at the hands of those who will savagely abuse us.
That’s a valid complaint. The liberals seem to have a pattern of taking something of historical significance, and twisting its meaning. (or changing it)
Thank you Lucy...
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