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EU Considers ban on Nazi Symbols
Soo because I feel like opening a can of worms here, what are your thoughts?
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/eu....ap/index.html EU considers Nazi symbols ban Monday, January 17, 2005 Posted: 1406 GMT (2206 HKT) BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- The European Union's top justice official was considering Monday whether the 25-nation bloc should ban the use of Nazi symbols after Britain's Prince Harry wore a swastika armband to a costume party. Franco Frattini, the EU's justice and home affairs commissioner, said he was open to discussing the issue at a Jan. 27 meeting of EU justice ministers. "It may be worth looking into the possibility of a total ban, a Europe-wide ban," his spokesman Friso Roscam Abbing told reporters. "Commissioner Frattini shares the general feeling of opprobrium on the use of the swastika and other Nazi symbols." The call came after several German conservatives, socialists and liberal democrats in the European Parliament urged a European ban following a scandal last week over photos of Harry, third in line to the British throne, wearing a Nazi outfit at a costume party. German Socialist Helmut Kuhne called Harry a "royal idiot" for not knowing the consequences and World War II history linked to the Nazi swastika. Germany already bans such symbols. Roscam Abbing said Frattini would urge EU ministers to use the swastika incident to push for agreement on EU-wide rules to combat racism, fascism and anti-Semitism. A proposal was introduced two years ago but discussions have failed to make headway. Roscam Abbing said officials would take care not to violate freedom of expression in devising such a ban. Frattini's decision to look into an EU-wide ban could further embarrass Queen Elizabeth II, who is to lead British commemorations of the Holocaust in London later this month. |
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germany, italy and france already ban nazi symbols and memorabilia...
personally, i'm more offended by the fact that harry is apparently that dumb than by what he wore.....it's all about context, this was after all, a costume party. while it was incredibly STUPID of him, i don't really find it that offensive, or at least, the way i look at it, a nazi outfit IS automatically offensive, it's just that at a costume party one is given a certain license to be offensive....how may bin ladens were running around on halloween? one of the best halloween cotumes i saw last year was a guy in a beige raincoat with awearing nothing but boxers underneath with a massive huge foam cock and balls ssticking out of them. offensive? yes. funny? hell yeah! now if harry had worn that ourfit to give a speech to parliament on the other hand..... |
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Yes. But Harry is the member of a not so ordinary family. Everything he says and does is closely watched and criticized by the public, he should know full well he, as a potential heir to the throne IS UNDER THE MICROSCOPE.
all those little bin ladens running around on hallowe'en don't have the queen as their grandmum. That was a silly mistake. |
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so in other words while you're more than allowed to say "third world immigration is detrimental to the fabric of european society and serves to erode our long-held cultures and beliefs, and we should cap the number of immigrants allowed to the E.U. or simply end immigration period." you are not allowed to say "let's go out and lynch some of those ragheaded bastards to solve the problem." there's a distinction there and i hope youare to see over your persecution complex to make it. i wonder what africans and arabs thought about european immigration and the damage it did to their society during the slave trade or the crusades... |
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i don't agree with banning anything. freedom of speech and expression and all that. if someone is a nazi and wants to show it, fine, that's their call. regardless, i agree he's stupid for doing it. he's way too high profile and should have known better.
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wasnt the swaztika a native american or chinese symbol of peace or prosperity or something??? If they are to ban the swztika its like banning a part of the native maerican culture or chinese culture which ever one it was...i cant remember.
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more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika |
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*** I find it rather comical to see what Prince Harry did. Maybe he is a anthropological scholar into the Phoenicians and thought he was wearing the Skywalker rather than the Swastika, though the arms of the cross were going clockwise, but the symbol wasn't turned the usual 45 degree angle so who knows. It's too bad because the roots of the Swastika are really an ancient symbol with alot more history than WW2, banning it would just be a hasty cutting of the Gordian knot. Besides, you can't ban ignorance. |
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