| T-shirts for sale! |
[Sep. 22nd, 2008|01:28 pm] |
I have 2 swastika shirts for sale if anyone is interested!
They are high quality Fruit of the Loom shirts in black with red and white print, courtesy of Swastika Freakshop (the website is mosty in German, sorry about that)
Pictures!
Front print
Back print
I have 1 of these in a size large and 1 in small.
25 euros each including shipping.
Message me with your address and preferred size and I'll give you my paypal address. |
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| ignorant savages... 8/ |
[Apr. 25th, 2008|11:12 am] |
Ganesha The Car has been kicked out of another parade - only this time it was early enough that i didn't actually drive to the parade. it still irritates me that people can be so outrageously ignorant. this is the response that i got from the 4th of july parade coordinator in everett:
Thank you for your quick response. I appreciate your detailed
description and respect your views. However, we are unable to fund your
participation in our parade due to the sensitive and controversial
nature of some of the symbols on your car. I am very sorry and wish you
the best of luck in the future.
Sincerely,
Laura Baird |
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| Swastika / Greek Key Pattern at Pennsylvania State Capitol |
[Mar. 25th, 2008|01:25 am] |
On Saturday I spotted this lovely swastika pattern on the ceiling of the rotunda area at the Pennsylvania state capitol building in Harrisburg—an astoundingly gorgeous building! I have heard that it is considered by architects to be one of the top five most beautiful buildings in the United States, and it is certainly the most beautiful Western-style building I’ve ever seen. If you ever get the opportunity to visit, it’s definitely worth the trip! |
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| Allentown Post Office |
[Dec. 26th, 2007|11:01 pm] |
The post office in downtown Allentown, built in the early 1930s, has many swastika tiles on its floor. My contacts in the city government say, fortunately, that there is no plan to remove them anytime soon, and nobody has complained about them. Here are three blurry photos, taken with my cellphone:
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| further adventures of the guy with the swastika on his car |
[Nov. 6th, 2007|11:03 am] |
so i submitted pictures of my art car to the national 2008 Art Car Calendar.
this was the response they sent me:
Hi,
You have a beautiful car, but I do have a problem with the swatstika on top.
Yes, I know that I am ignorant and narrow minded, but the image is embedded in my brain as an evil symbol of hate.
Next year if you would allow me to cover it up or replace it with another symbol, then I would feel more comfortable to have it in the calendar.
I truly apologize if I have offended you in any way, but that is my opinion and I publish the calendar.
Thank you for submitting your car for the calendar.
so this was the response i sent back:
if people like you continue to be in positions where they can determine what other people see, then the swastika will never regain that which it had for everyone, for literally thousands of years before anybody ever heard of the nazis. if that happens, it will be a sad day for humanity.
one of the reasons why i put a swastika on my car is to show people that it had another, entirely opposite meaning from the one people like you have put upon it in the past 85 years.
you may not cover or alter the artwork on my car. to do so would be a misrepresentation of what i meant for my art car, and i will not permit you to do so.
i am offended, but i will get over it. however, you should examine your prejudices again in a year or so and see if they haven't changed, because if they haven't, then it is possible that you have offended The Remover of Obstacles, and i can't speak for Him. |
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| Glimpses in a movie |
[Nov. 5th, 2007|02:54 pm] |
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At several points in the film The Darjeeling Limited swastikas can be seen in their Hindu context. Just thought you all might like to know the filmmaker didn't knuckle down to well-meaning yet misguided censorship. I've seen a few forums online where people with no idea about the symbol's real history got all screwy about it... |
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| US Naval swaztika soon to be "camouflaged" |
[Sep. 28th, 2007|01:24 am] |
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The US Navy will spend thousands to camouflage a California barracks resembling a Nazi swastika after the embarrassing shape was revealed on the internet.
Navy officials said they became aware the barracks looked like a swastika from the air shortly after its 1967 groundbreaking - and had decided not to do anything.
According to The New York Times the resemblance went unnoticed by the public for decades until it was spotted in aerial views on the internet.
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| This is the whole article that yesterday's post was a part of: |
[Aug. 11th, 2007|11:51 am] |
( Swastika is banned in parade )
my rebuttal, such as it is:
you got some details wrong. although you never asked me, it's a 1996 Mazda Protegé, not a Mitsubishi Eclipse. i know, it's details, but still... you could have asked me.
the point of your article is a bit vague: it could be in support of me, because i was discriminated against, but it could also be a fact-filled article proclaiming that "if you've got a swastika, you'd better not try to be in a parade in our town". i wonder what you would think if i entered next year and put a big sheet over the "offending" symbols with a sign saying "CENSORED", so that you couldn't see it? you haven't made that absolutely clear in your article, and that concerns me.
also, that bit about warmerdam feeling "threatened" when i "became agitated"? that is completely the opposite of what happened. i've never even met warmerdam before, unless she was the woman who was taking my registration at the parade - which i admit she might have been, but she wasn't giving her name when i talked to her before the parade or after i was being kicked out - which was after the "burly" policeman had been involved twice. as far as "becoming agitated", i speak differently since my injury: i speak with a lot of hesitation, stammering, and one-word-at-a-time, especially with people i don't know, and that might have been interpreted as "becoming agitated", but it was just my brain injury showing. not only that, but i was becoming agitated: i was originally encouraged to come to the parade by someone on the phone (who i later found out was warmerdam herself), and welcomed, only to be kicked out at the last moment, with only the vaguest and lamest of explanations. who wouldn't become a little agitated under those circumstances? but to say that she felt "threatened" by me is totally asinine, especially because the "burly" police officer was at least twice my size. i felt threatened by the fact that there was this huge police officer, who "wasn't speaking as a police officer", telling me that someone i had never met was kicking me out of their parade.
but apart from that, you got all of the talking points correct. i'll give it a C+ |
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| IGNORANT PEOPLE REALLY PUSH MY BUTTONS! 8/ |
[Aug. 4th, 2007|05:35 pm] |
i went to snoqualmie today, which is about 70 miles east of here, ostensibly to see the Doc Maynard chapter of E Clampus Vitus Precision Drill Team (which i am probably going to join at their next meeting). when i called to get directions, i mentioned to the person that i had an art car, and they suggested that i should be in the parade as well. i was unsure if they understood what an art car was, but they assured me that they were looking for unusual things to be in their parade, and they assured me that i would be welcome.
so i went early this morning (on saturday, 8:30 am is early), and registered for the parade, got assigned a number, parked my car, and was hanging out waiting for the parade to start, when i was approached by a snoqualmie police officer, who said that they had "an issue" with my vehicle. apparently someone on the parade staff was concerned that somebody might be "offended" by the fact that there is a swastika on the roof and back corner panels of my car. i explained to them that the swastika is an ancient symbol of love, peace and good luck that was used by every group of people on the planet for thousands of years, and in that context, i was reclaiming the swastika from ignorant people who assume that the only thing it means is nazi.
he agreed with me, and went back to his other duties. at the same time, i started talking with some other people in the parade, including some people in the float in front of me, which was sponsored by falun gong, another group which uses the swastika in the emblem for their organisation. they were appalled that there had even been any question about it, and offered to go talk to the parade staff about it, which i wholeheartedly encouraged them to do.
while they were away, talking to people, the snoqualmie policeman came back and told me that he was not speaking as a policeman, but as a spokesperson for the parade staff, who had decided that i couldn't be in their parade, despite the non-nazi use of the swastika, because "it is a family event" and they didn't want anybody to be offended. he said that if i didn't move my car out of the parade lineup, that it would be towed.
i don't see how people can learn that the swastika means anything other than what they're wrong to think it means unless they are exposed to it in public situations that are different from what they think, and i told him that. he said he was sorry, but that if i didn't move my car, it would be towed. he encouraged me to find a parking spot somewhere out of the parade lineup, where i could explain to people what it meant, but there was no more he could do.
several people were watching this whole encounter, and spoke up that they weren't offended by my car, that the swastika has a far more ancient and positive meaning than the "parade staff" was putting on it, and they didn't understand why i was being kicked out of the parade, but it didn't matter, and i was summarily ejected from the parade.
it turned out that one person Tove Warmerdam was the one who was offended, and she (he? i don't know) never talked to me personally. the only person i talked to was the burly policeman who wasn't speaking as a policeman who was insisting that i remove my car from the parade lineup.
i ended up parking my car right next to a "christian" bookstore and handing out postcards to anybody who seemed interested. most of the people were shocked that i was kicked out of the parade, especially since the falun gong float (and chinese dancers) were not, and those that asked me if i "liked hitler" were open to the idea that not only was my car the antithesis of what hitler was trying to create, but that it had been that way for thousands of years prior to hitler's birth, and that the swastika had been used since ancient times to mean completely the opposite of what they initially thought. i also noticed that there were a number of indian families who looked as though they were locals, who didn't even need to be told what the car signifies, who took my picture and pictures of the car, and encouraged me to come to more things in the area (the parade in north bend, just up the road from snoqualmie, is next week. i may go.)
i talked to the guy who is the editor for the snoqualmie valley record, who took a couple of pictures of me and my car, and he said he would be writing me, but it really bothers me that i am trying to educate people, and the people who need educating the most are the ones in charge. |
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| (no subject) |
[Apr. 30th, 2007|11:01 am] |
swastika matchbook cover, found 23 february, 2007 at the ReBar in seattle
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