NAZI ITEMS THAT GLORIFY NAZISM ARE ALLOWED
BY EBAY
USA's EARLY PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE IS VERBOTEN.
A lot of fascinating research concerns eBay. Much of the work examines tips
and tricks for selling items in online auctions. Most of the work is puff,
with very little critical analysis of the web site. More information
is needed to aid sellers in navigating eBay's esoteric and oddball rules.
http://rexcurry.net/ebay-sucks.html
For example, one rule states that eBay "will deem inappropriate and remove
listings of items whose primary value is that they are from or promote organizations
that glorify hatred, violence, racial or religious intolerance...." and
the rule refers to the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSGWP)
among others. That rule creates glaring hypocrisy when compared to the special
exception that eBay makes for the sale of collectibles from the NSGWP, including
stamps and coins.
Any review of eBay's stamps and coins from the NSGWP shows that they are
offensive items that were made by real, live German National Socialists
to glorify German National Socialism and its leaders.
In comparison, many items are banned that were not made by real, live German
National Socialists to glorify German National Socialism.
For example, a historic photograph of the early Pledge of Allegiance to
the flag of the USA was removed by a worker at eBay. In the ban
of America's flag heritage, an eBay worker cited the "anti NSWGP" rule, as
if to state that the early pledge was an artifact of German National Socialism
or intended to glorify hatred, violence, racial or religious intolerance.
The early Pledge of Allegiance is verboten on eBay. The eye-popping
eBay letter is can be found in searches of the web and at http://rexcurry.net/ebay-sucks.html
The photograph that was removed from eBay can also be found in web searches
and at http://rexcurry.net/roman_salute_roman_salute_roman_salute.jpg
That ban of the flag salute photo was stark hypocrisy compared to eBay's
aid for stamps and coins made by real, live German National Socialists to
glorify German National Socialism. The auction site allows stamps
from the NSGWP that show the swastika flag being saluted.
The actual implementation of eBay rules has had an effect that seems pro-NSWGP,
while suppressing items that are critical of German National Socialism.
The bizarre behavior at eBay might be explained by the ignorance of eBay
workers. They probably attended government schools (socialist schools)
where they were taught propaganda and lies about the Pledge of Allegiance
and its history of National Socialism in the USA. The workers are
probably not aware that the early Pledge of Allegiance used a straight-arm
salute that was the origin of the salute of German National Socialism, as
discovered by the historian Dr. Rex Curry (author of "Pledge of Allegiance
Secrets"). On the other hand, if eBay is aware of Professor Curry's
work, then the question arises whether eBay has made a decision to ban some
Pledge of Allegiance items on the grounds that they were sources of German
National Socialism. http://rexcurry.net/pledge2.html
The eBay policy might result in other odd outcomes. There are photographs
of U.S. athletes at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin giving the straight-arm
salute of the U.S.A. There is the danger that eBay workers will strike sales
of U.S. athletes giving the U.S. salute, and that eBay workers will label
them as artifacts of German National Socialism.
A little known secret about the Olympics is that the games have an official
salute. It is a straight-arm salute like that of the former National Socialist
German Workers' Party. Dr. Curry showed that both salutes originated
in the United States from an Amercian National Socialist, Francis Bellamy.
The straight-arm salute was the early gesture of the Pledge of Allegiance
(1892), written by Bellamy, a self-proclaimed National Socialist who espoused
"military socialism." The pledge spread the straight-arm salute and
Bellamy's socialist dogma in the USA. Participation in the Olympics by the
USA influenced the games to adopt the same straight-armed socialist salute
used for the pledge. The Olympics spread the straight-arm salute and the
socialist dogma worldwide.
The leader of the German Workers' Party was so impressed with the dogma
of National Socialism that he renamed his party the National Socialist German
Workers' Party. He also turned the swastika 45 degrees to the horizontal
and pointed it clockwise to highlight the "S" shape to symbolize the party's
"socialism," as discovered by Professor Curry, author of "Swastika Secrets."
The anti NSGWP rule at eBay has banned sales of items showing or analyzing
the swastika and explaining its modern use as overlapping "S" letters for
"Socialism" as exposed by Dr. Curry. http://rexcurry.net/swastika3swastika.jpg
The ban was stark hypocrisy compared to eBay's aid for stamps and
coins made by real, live German National Socialists to glorify German National
Socialism. The eBay auction site allows stamps from the NSGWP that
show the swastika symbol on a flag and being saluted with the straight-arm
salute. The actual implementation of eBay rules has had an effect that seems
pro-NSWGP, while suppressing items that are critical of German National Socialism.
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2005/08/134731.php
A nationwide boycott of eBay is protesting eBay's hypocrisy regarding Nazi
items that glorify Nazism. Ebay abets sales of Nazi stamps and coins, for
example. eBay's Nazi stamps and coins show offensive items that were made
by Nazis to glorify Nazism, Hitler, hatred & racism. Hypocritically,
eBay banned the sale of a historic photograph of the USA's original Pledge
of Allegiance (which was the origin of the Nazi salute) while allowing Nazi
stamps that show the Nazi flag saluted.
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A nationwide boycott of eBay is protesting eBay's hypocrisy regarding items
that glorify Nazism. Nazi items that glorify Nazism are allowed on eBay
for auction. For example, Ebay abets sales of Nazi stamps and coins, and
openly admits it in written policies. Any review of eBay's Nazi stamps and
coins shows that they are offensive items that were made by Nazis to glorify
Nazism, Hitler, hatred, violence, racism and religious intolerance. http://rexcurry.net/ebay-sucks.html
Ebay banned the sale of a historic photograph of the original Pledge of
Allegiance to the flag of the USA. The ban was stark hypocrisy
compared to eBay's aid for Nazi stamps and coins. Many Nazi stamps bear
the Nazi flag being saluted, and eBay abets the sale of those Nazi stamps.
In the ban of America's flag heritage, Ebay cited it's policy
against other "Nazi" items, believe it or not! The eye-popping eBay
letter and the photo are at http://rexcurry.net
and at the url cited above and can be found in web searches for the historian
Rex Curry.
EBay claims that it "will deem inappropriate and remove listings of items
whose primary value is that they are from or promote organizations that glorify
hatred, violence, racial or religious intolerance, such as the Aryan Nation,
Hitler Youth, Nazis, neo-Nazis, etc." That is a glaring contradiction
of the special exception that Ebay makes for Nazi items that glorify Nazism.
A review of Nazi items on eBay suggests that eBay's removal of items to
which eBay objects is inconsistent or selective. In addition to Nazi
items that eBay policy openly abets, there appear to be many items that violate
ebay's remaining polices, and many of those items are not removed.
At the same time that eBay aids Nazi items that glorify Nazis, Ebay also
removes items that denounce Nazism. Thus, whether eBay intends the outcome
or not, eBay's behavior gives the appearance that eBay is included in "organizations
that glorify hatred, violence, racial or religious intolerance, such as
the Aryan Nation, Hitler Youth, Nazis, neo-Nazis, etc." Ebay's Nazi-like
conduct leaves the appearance that eBay is an organization that removes
and censors opposition to Nazism.
Even more bizarre is that Ebay has removed items that denounce Nazism and
then eBay claimed in canned emails that the items that denounced Nazism
"violated eBay's Hateful or Discriminatory policy..." (sic).
Ebay's self-confessed "hateful or discriminatory policy" is one of many
reasons why Ebay and its "hateful or discriminatory policy" of hypocrisy and
its outrageous fees are being replaced by competitors (e.g. Yahoo Auctions
- which post auctions free of charge).
Questions raised by Ebay's ban of a historic US flag
photo include the following (and any answers are not clear from Ebay's
letter):
Is Ebay acknowledging that the USA's original pledge
of allegiance (which used a straight-arm salute) was the origin of
the Nazi salute? That historic discovery was exposed by the historian Rex
Curry.
Does Ebay believe that historic photographs of America's
original pledge violate laws in countries that ban Nazi depictions? (Selling
or displaying Nazi artifacts is illegal in France. Germany is similar. In
other words, is the U.S. pledge a Nazi artifact? Is it illegal to display
/ sell historic photographs of the original USA pledge in France and/or
Germany?)
Ebay's "hateful or discriminatory policy" evinces
hatefulness for liberty and it shows eBay's discrimination against Americans
in order to adopt un-American and authoritarian behavior in other countries.
Ebay recently suspended a seller who had a five year
history on ebay and a 100% positive rating by customers. Ebay suspended
the seller in order to ban the sale of a book criticizing Adolf Hitler's
bizarre signature. The book can be found at http://rexcurry.net and in web searches
for the historian Rex Curry. Ebay acted unilaterally and without any complaint
from any of its customers. Why did eBay do that?
Most people have never seen Adolf Hitler's bizarre
signature and it seems that Ebay intends to keep it that way, and keep its
customers in the dark and ignorant.
Another recent disturbing act of suppression of historical
truths on ebay involved an eBay employee who goes by the name "Shea" and who
tries to remain semi-anonymous on eBay while also refusing to converse or
answer questions about his, or eBay's, policies. There have been other
incidences in which eBay has tried to suppress America's heritage concerning
the pledge of allegiance, including actions of the "Community Watch Team
with eBay Trust & Safety." A search of the internet shows Shea
otherwise identified as acting on behalf of Bill Cobb of ebay. It is
not clear what relationship there is between Shea and Oscar or Kimbal or
Jake or Murphie who are also identified on the internet as acting on behalf
of Bill Cobb and Community Watch Team at eBay Trust & Safety.
The banned book about Hitler's signature should not have been banned because
Ebay's policy specifically allows books about historical information from
WWII and information criticizing Nazis. Ebay policy also specifically
allows the book as a War documentary or about victims of war or violence.
Ebay's "hateful or discriminatory policy" evinces
hatefulness for the US Constitution and discrimination against the First
Amendment right of Free Speech.
When asked for a comment, customer service at eBay
clammed up. Ebay customer service is notoriously bad, and the eBay
website seems designed to prevent emailing, or phone calls to eBay. Ebay's
website is designed to force customers to use webpage forms that can then
be easily ignored and prevent customers from complaining to higher-ups about
Ebay employees who are rude, hateful, disciminatory and who need to be fired
before they destroy eBay. Customers who are victimized by eBay are
shut-out and have no alternative but to take complaints public.
Whether eBay customer service intended it or not,
the effect of the hateful and discriminatory policies at eBay is to cover-up
for Nazism, racism, aryanism and totalitarianism. Ebay risks leaving
the appearance of trying to rehabilitate Nazism, racism and Aryanism by suppressing
critics of those horrid dogmas.
That is why eBay is becoming a bad place to do business
and why eBay's competition is growing fast.
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Ebay also has a shocking practice that involves suspending
accounts in such a way that eBay interferes with transactions that have been
paid for but not completed. Their system can sabotage agreements that
have already been made, and interfere with communications between the buyer
and seller in their efforts to wrap up the matters. Ebay does this without
giving explanation to all parties involved, so it leaves a misimpression
of what is happening, and eBay does not honestly state to the parties that
eBay is the cause of the interference and of the inability to finish the
transaction or the inability to even communicate. That is why eBay is becoming
such a bad place to do business and why their competition is growing by leaps
and bounds.
THE EBAY LETTER
Dear ______,
We regret to inform you that your eBay auction..........has been ended.
All fees associated with this auction have been credited to your account.
The item you have listed does not appear to be consistent with eBay guidelines.
In accordance with our Offensive Materials policy, eBay does not permit
Nazi items to be sold on our site. This means that items that bear any markings
of the Nazi party are prohibited on eBay. This applies even if the offending
symbols have been cropped, edited or otherwise covered or altered in the
image or description of the item. Prohibited items also include those that
are advertised with Nazi terms, including but not limited to: Aryan nation,
Hitler, Hitler Youth, HJ, NSDAP, NSKK, Nazi, Neo-Nazi, RZM, SS, or Third
Reich. Sellers may not use techniques to circumvent our policy, such as substituting
XX or other double letters to signify SS items.
Exceptions to this rule are as follows:
- Stamps and coins are allowed even if they contain offensive symbols.
- Non-propaganda books and movies about WWII or Nazi Germany, even if
the Nazi symbol appears on or in the item
- Mein Kampf may be sold provided that it is not a German language edition
of the book. Also sellers must state in their listing that they will not
ship this item outside the United States.
Items from or related to Nazi Germany are sought after by collectors and
historians the world over. However, eBay is now a worldwide community, with
many of its users residing in countries where the possession or sale of
items associated with hate organizations in general, and the Nazi Party
in particular, is a criminal offense.
eBay has always exercised prudence in determining what it must disallow
in order to foster a worldwide trading community. However, eBay will deem
inappropriate and remove listings of items whose primary value is that they
are from or promote organizations that glorify hatred, violence, racial or
religious intolerance, such as the Aryan Nation, Hitler Youth, KKK, Nazis,
neo-Nazis, etc.
eBay will review listings that are brought to its attention by its global
community, and will look at the entire listing to determine whether it is
in violation of our policies.
For more information on this policy, please visit:
http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/offensive.html
For information on infringing, prohibited or questionable items, please
view:
http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/items-ov.html
For more information on why eBay has ended an auction, please visit:
http://pages.ebay.com/help/community/png-endauction.html
Future auctions listed that fail to meet our listing guidelines will be
ended early and repeated violations may jeopardize your account status. We
value you as a member of our community and wish to continue our relationship,
so we respectfully ask you to refrain from any violations of the Listing Policies
or User Agreement in the future.
We thank you in advance for your cooperation.
Regards,
Customer Support (Trust and Safety Department)
eBay Inc
