POWER OF SYMBOLS:
THE SWASTIKA CONTROVERSY

What is your reaction to this symbol?

This swastika is here to show a curious occurance in Canada today. Certain forces are trying to eliminate all use of the swastika, on the grounds that it is an evil symbol of hatred and death. Anyone in Canada that dares display it runs the risk of being branded a Nazi. With expanded Human Rights Legislation, it might be possible that the mere display of of it could get one charged with a Human rights violation, if anyone viewing it feels harrassed or threatened. Can a mere symbol be considered to promote hatred? Can a symbol do harm to anyone, merely by viewing it. Well, the answer is YES, in Canada anyway.

The swastika in the form represented is a symbol of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party of Adolf Hitler. Its presence evokes universal scorn and rage.

Is your reaction to this symbol the same?
If not, why not?

What i find interesting is that there is another symbol in wide spread use in Canada today that represents an ideology and system that has been responsible for the deaths of at least 10 times as many people as Nazism has. My question... Why is this other symbol not equally reviled and disgraced? Our local newspaper the St Catharines Standard recently carried a picture of a local youth wearing this other evil symbol of death, yet there was no hue and cry... no special interest groups were clamoring for an explanation as to why this picture was allowed in our local paper. Is there an underlying politcal bias in this country responsible for this curious discrepancy...I don't know... but one can suspcect

THE SWASTIKA:
GOOD OR EVIL?

The swastika is actually an ancient and honourable symbol, still used today by many cultures around the world, including Buddhists and Jains. The Jains also have the swastika on their flag. I can't be responsible for the fact that certain organizations adopted it as their political symbol. I also can't be responsible for the reaction of people to perceived sighting of this symbol. I can however post it on my website in solidarity with innocent groups and organizations that are being persecuted by special interest groups pursuing their own motives and agendas.

Where Will They Stop?

There is a town in California that has the misfortune of having a swastika in the cast-iron scroll-work of their lamp standards. Certain organizations in that town are in the process of demanding the town replace the lamp-standards. The town of Glendale is being pressured by the Jewish Defence League to remove the "offending" symbols. The town is fighting it. To visit the site, CLICK HERE.

When the JDL has finished with Glendale, they can fly out to Hawaii and visit The First Chinese Church of Christ campus and CHECK OUT THE DECOR

When they get back to the mainland, they can drive to a certain dam on the Colorado river with some bags of cement and cover up some swastikas INLAID IN CONCRETE

After that, they should go on to Denver, and visit Saul Rosenthal, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League office in Denver, and ask him why he has not started a complaint about a prestigious subdivion in Denver named SWASTIKA ACRES

And what is the JDL going to do about museums that display ANCIENT ARTIFACTS with swastika motifs? Are the museums anti-Semitic? Should the artifacts be destroyed, or merely hidden from public view?

How do Hindu's feel about this relentless attack on one of their oldest and most sacred symbols. To visit a site that answers that question CLICK HERE. You'd think that all Jews would be sensative to the religious symbols of another faith, considering all they've been through.

Personally, I think the JDL is making themselves look stupid fighting over such trivial issues. As another example Microsoft was forced to remove one of its backgrounds from its Windows 95 program because it "looked like" a swastika. There are even groups and individuals in Canada trying to force the town of Swastika, Ontario to change its name. Nothing is too trivial for some people in their obsession to promote "tolerence and acceptance".

If you banned the swastika tomorrow, it wouldn't make the world a better place. It would just make it's allure that much stronger. If you want to destroy the effect of the neo-Nazi's strongest symbol, don't suppress it. Promote it, restore it to it's true meaning and status as a nature and good luck symbol. The name itself means to be of good fortune. They're all around anyway, if you look for them. Symbols only have as much power as you give them. By obsessing about the "evilness" of the swastika, you only give more power to the people who use it.

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