Chapter 8 Do not ban symbols of hate and death under fascism, socialism, nazism etc.

FASCISTS BAN NAZI SYMBOLS?
EU socialists-fascists would ban socialist symbols including Nazi symbols.
Modern Hitlers ban Nazi Symbols?

The journalist Rex Curry scooped the news again after comparing a ban of the swastika to the USSR's hammer & sickle and China's red star http://rexcurry.net/swastikanews.html (and after distributing internationally the article in the middle). World news reports that a ban of all socialist symbols might be adopted. RexCurry.net opposes any ban of any sybolism and supports repeal of existing bans everywhere.  However, the news came two weeks after RexCurry.net stated: "The hammer and sickle symbol has not been banned, although the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics slaughtered 62 million people.  The red star has not been banned although socialists in the Peoples’ Republic of China slaughtered 35 million people. They both greatly exceeded the number slaughtered by the National Socialist German Workers’ Party."

BRUSSELS, Belgium --A group of conservative European Union lawmakers from eastern Europe called Thursday for a ban on socialist symbols, including the red star and the hammer and sickle, to match a proposed EU ban on the swastika of the
National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazis).

The group from Estonia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech Republic said the socialist symbols should be included in any ban because of the suffering caused by regimes backed by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in eastern Europe.

"We would like to have an equal treatment of the other evil totalitarian regimes of the socialist system," said a member of the European Parliament.

EU Justice and Home Affairs Commissioner Franco Frattini has proposed a Europe-wide ban on display of the socialist swastikas and other symbols of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.

"If we decide to ban one, we should decide to ban all of them," said Jan Zahradil, a Czech member of the EU assembly.

Frattini's spokesman, Friso Roscam Abbing, said the EU head office was not at this time pushing for a similar ban on socialist symbols.

"He is completely aware of the pain this (socialist rule) has caused," Roscam Abbing said. But including the hammer and sickle alongside the swastika "might not be appropriate" under the rules being negotiated, he said.

"It warrants further political debate," he said.

Justice and interior ministers from the 25 EU nations will discuss the banning of symbols of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazis) at a meeting this month. The proposals need agreement from all EU governments.

Former Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis, who led his country out of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, said the hammer and sickle was also a symbol of oppression.

"It was a fake symbol of unity of workers and farmers," he said.

Last week's commemorations marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz  concentration camp highlighted the growing problem of the National Socialist German Workers' Party dogma in Europe.

Also, pictures showing Britain's Prince Harry wearing a socialist swastika armband at a costume party last month added to EU calls to ban all  symbols across Europe of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.  

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Members of the European Parliament from Eastern Europe called for a ban on Socialist  symbols like the hammer and sickle on Thursday if the European Union decides to outlaw symbols of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazis) like the swastika.

Lawmakers from the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania and Slovakia said any ban should also cover other Socialist symbols, because of killings and torture suffered by people in the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or countries under its domination.

The deputies wrote to the EU justice, freedom and security commissioner, Franco Frattini, to press their demand.

EU justice and interior ministers are to discuss a possible ban on symbols of the National Socialist German Workers' Party in the light of a recent scandal over Prince Harry of Britain wearing a socialist swastika at a costume party, as part of proposed rules across the 25-nation bloc.

Frattini's spokesman said it would not be appropriate to include symbols of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in the ban because some are still used by legal Socialist parties in the West.

The above articles were from 2 / 3 & 4 / 2005


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Here is something unique that someone sent.  If it is true then it is remarkable.  RexCurry.net opposes all bans on all symbolism and does not endorse such laws in the EU or anywhere.

EU to ban
 USA’s pledge of allegiance?

BRUSSELS, Belgium – The recent EU proposal to ban Nazi symbols might include the USA’s pledge of allegiance.

EU Justice and Home Affairs Commissioner Franco Frattini has proposed a Europe-wide ban on display of Nazi symbols.  A group of European Union lawmakers called then for a ban on other symbols of oppression, including the red star and the hammer and sickle. Another new proposal bans the USA’s pledge of allegiance to its flag. 

“If we decide to ban one, we should decide to ban all of them,” said Jan Zahradil, a Czech member of the EU assembly.

“Most Americans are ignoramuses about their pledge as a Nazi symbol and that it was the origin of the straight-arm salute of the Nazis,” a spokesman said.

He added that the ban would not apply in the USA but only in the EU.

“The ban may not be necessary in that the USA’s pledge is a bizarre ritual that is already shunned by every other country.  We don’t want it to happen here,” He said “Or we don’t want it to happen here AGAIN.  It already happened once.”

Even in the USA some action was taken against the pledge in 1942, but only the original straight-arm salute was changed. 

“Many Europeans know more about the USA’s pledge than does the typical U.S. citizen.  That is because U.S. schools teach propaganda and never show historic photographs,” said Tomas Corbisier pointing to a web image search for the “original socialist salute.”

“The only reason the pledge continues in the USA is because the U.S. government hides the truth,” Corbisier added.

The USA’s pledge was created by Francis Bellamy, a self-proclaimed national socialist in the USA and an advocate of “military socialism.”  At that time government schools in the U.S. imposed segregation by law and taught racism as official government policy. It happened for three decades in the USA before the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazis) adopted the salute and similar behavior.

In the past, U.S. schools expelled and jailed people who refused to pledge until the U.S. Supreme Court enjoined the punishments. “But there are many people who disagree with the court decision and there are many laws that require teachers to try to lead a daily robotic chant of the pledge in military formation like Pavlov’s lapdogs of the state,” he added.