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To: nickcarraway
It is an old symbol that is on Jewish synagogues (from the time of the Romans) in Israel and the front of the Metropolitan(I think that is the one) Museum in New York.

It is thought by some to originally be a symbol of the proposed kin of the Germanic peoples, the so-called corded Nordics. It is for this reason Hitler took it up, as he thought he was acting as a pan-racial king.

If we ban this symbol then we must ban all symbols that have been used by enemies, past and present.

How can we let such a recent foe to hijack an ancient symbol?

It boggles the mind.
4 posted on 01/17/2005 1:15:59 AM PST by demecleze
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To: demecleze

Post #6 was also for you.


7 posted on 01/17/2005 3:03:08 AM PST by Gengis Khan ("There is no glory in incomplete action." -- Gengis Khan)
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To: demecleze
If we ban this symbol then we must ban all symbols that have been used by enemies, past and present.

And of course, in America there's the First Amendment. Which shows the gulf between our conceptualization of the relationship of citizen and government and the Old World one.

There'd never be any question of the Dalai Lama's being able to display his swastika-decorated throne here. Everyone would understand.

Prince Harry displayed amazing bad taste (Nazi fliers bombed Buckingham Palace, for one thing) that Queen Mum would have jerked him up straight about, but making too big a deal about it tends to give the symbol more cachet for the rebelliously-minded.

10 posted on 01/17/2005 4:58:47 AM PST by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: demecleze
Hinus reclaim their symbol of life. click here.
24 posted on 01/20/2005 7:46:05 AM PST by Jason_b
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