Posted on 07/12/2018 9:16:08 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
A billboard that went up Tuesday on Pacific Avenue in Tacoma doesnt mince words.
There are NAZIS in our neighborhood, it reads against a black background.
Tacoma Against Nazis paid for the sign, which hovers over a bank just north of South 72nd Street.
The same group held a protest outside a tattoo parlor in the 1100 block of South 72nd Street on June 22. The group contends the parlors owners and staff are white supremacists. The parlor is less than a mile from the billboard.
We wanted something close to the tattoo parlor but we also wanted something in a highly visible location, said Hope Teague-Bowling on Wednesday.
The parlors owners have declined to speak with The News Tribune but have denied being Nazis. Reached by phone Wednesday, one of them called the billboard a joke.
We wanted to say sorry to our loyal clientelle that have been harassed by ignorant, pathetic people, the parlor posted on its Facebook page July 2. It added that business has increased since the June 22 protest.
Tacoma Against Nazis paid for the billboard as part of its campaign to bring awareness about the parlor.
The whole thing is to promote critical thinking about white supremacy in the area, Teague-Bowling said. The effort is directed at white people who might think staying silent and ignoring the problem is the best action, she said.
We havent seen (white supremacy) go away and it continues to rise, she said.
May have been because was that n the car with hungry wife and 2 hungry kids and they were all whining at me. I will have to look for the billboard tomorrow.
Lenin statue still standing in Seattle? Then yes, there are Nazis in Washington and it’s not the Christian wytpepo
No one has EVER been tan in Tacoma!
In the past one was a nazi if he was a member of the nazi party. Then came the neo-nazi’s. But now you are a nazi just for about everything.
No self respecting Nazis would live there with all of those Marxist!
Liberals couldn’t be more nazi’s if they tried.
Burien Wa political gameplay again. Dems convinced voters that burien was full of white supremacists and won the elections by on demographic lines.
There are communists in our country and its time for them to go! One way or another. Say when........
Would this be actionable libel (the billboard) accompanied by slander (the protest in front of the building) ?
Given the choice between Nazis and Antifa....
Antifa is stealth Nazi!
Commie-fa’s
Would never guess she is a Teacher as is her husband /s. Self loathing whitey's. Have a look at her website with her holding a Evergreen State College Banner. You know that bug eyed left of the left Liberal Arts Washington School with 98% acceptance rate and 55% graduation rate. The Schrool that the Student Body wanted a no White People on Campus Day.
Ask the sponsors of this billboard for their enlightening views on God and on Israel, if they are typical Democrats their own zealotry and hate will soon come to a boil.
I am, right now!
Although our modern socialists' promise of greater freedom is genuine and sincere, in recent years observer after observer has been impressed by the unforeseen consequences of socialism, the extraordinary similarity in many respects of the conditions under 'communism' and 'fascism'. As the writer Peter Drucker expressed it in 1939,For those of you in Rio Linda, hes saying that communism inevitably devolves into fascism - and that by 1939 real, existing communism in Russia was actually fascism.'the complete collapse of the belief in the attainability of freedom and equality through Marxism has forced Russia to travel the same road toward a totalitarian society of unfreedom and inequality which Germany has been following. Not that communism and fascism are essentially the same. Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion, and it has proved as much an illusion in [1939] Russia as in pre-Hitler Germany.
No less significant is the intellectual outlook of the rank and file in the communist and fascist movements in Germany before 1933. The relative ease with which a young communist could be converted into a Nazi or vice versa was well known, best of all to the propagandists of the two parties. The communists and Nazis clashed more frequently with each other than with other parties simply because they competed for the same type of mind and reserved for each other the hatred of the heretic. Their practice showed how closely they are related. To both, the real enemy, the man with whom they had nothing in common, was the liberal of the old type. While to the Nazi the communist and to the communist the Nazi, and to both the socialist, are potential recruits made of the right timber, they both know that there can be no compromise between them and those who really believe in individual freedom.What is promised to us as the Road to Freedom is in fact the Highroad to Servitude. For it is not difficult to see what must be the consequences when democracy embarks upon a course of planning. The goal of the planning will be described by some such vague term as 'the general welfare'. There will be no real agreement as to the ends to be attained, and the effect of the people's agreeing that there must be central planning, without agreeing on the ends, will be rather as if a group of people were to commit themselves to take a journey together without agreeing where they want to go: with the result that they may all have to make a journey which most of them do not want at all.
____________— F A Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (May, 1945 Readers Digest Condensed Version)
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