It's Springtime for Hitler in Germany....

*Humming a tune*

Nazis arent funny.

Maybe Jonathan Davis did it! Possibly a new KORN album? Hmmmm

Raise your voice
Raise your bier
Every hotsy totsy nazi stand and cheer.

edgesofsanity

I'm not excusing it, but here in America, we restrict freedom of speech all the time. Public nudity will get you arrested. Schools have dress codes. You can't curse someone out on prime time TV. Not commendable, no. People should be able to express themselves how they wish. But I can understand and accept the reasoning for revoking certain images, especially where hate speech is involved.

I'm not one to coddle people or shelter the little children and masses from being "offended", but most people are very irresponsible with their freedom of speech. Again, just because you have the right to say anything, doesn't mean you should say just anything. All laws, rights, and rules aside, there is an underlying principle in civilized society that we should all be respectful of each other and treat each other with dignity and, at the very least, politeness. I'm all for hate speech, if it's what someone truly believes, but words can lead to actions, and if a government were to allow anything of that sort to catch on in the mainstream, it could have some very ugly side effects.

Example: I dislike Eminem. I give himcredit for working the system, but I dislike his style, both because of personal taste, and because I think it's irresponsible, when he thinks of who his audience might be. I wouldn't advocate the government shutting him up, but if he started talking about killing Jews, I'd expect something to be done, either in the market, or by his record label. All actions should have consequences of some kind, and just because you can say what you want doesn't mean there won't be some sort of consequence. Especially because their should be.

Random thought - I wonder if Germany allows the film or theatrical version of The Producers to be shown.

you can get the DVD - amazon.de

Bob_Laublaw

According to the imdb, the film has only been shown in Germany as part of a Jewish film festival because the nazi imagery has made it illegal to show to mainstream german audiences.

Which once again proves my theory: Germans love David Hasselhoff.

rasse und volk? i guess this makes the guys who did this corn"flakes"? ouch! i am going to bad pun hell.

What if the "stiff-armed Hitler salute" is done with the penis? I mean some women have "the hitler" above the pleasure purse. Wouldnt that be natural?

i thought the reverse swastika was an old hopi indian symbol?

http://www.osfa.org.uk/essay-15.htm

Everybody now:

CHILDREN OF THE CREAM OF THE CORN
CHILDREN OF THE CREAM OF THE CORN
CHILDREN OF THE CREAM OF THE CORN
CHILDREN OF THE CREAM OF THE CORN

Shouldn't it read "Extraterrestrial Nazis of the Corn?"

unrealious, I have an idea for my next best-selling book. Also, my first.

farkin nazi's. by far the dumbest bigotted group of people to ever come close to running the world into the ground, and people still think they should have done it. Kind of ironioc when they base their ideals that they are still the superior race when the forward thinking and science covered since then has proved them so blatantly wrong....now they're just making even biggers fools of themselves before.....

moral of the story is, Nazi's suck.

I blame the foo fighters (the nazi spacecraft, not Dave Grohl. He's not evil, just incredibly overrated).

And good show Bukharin, you can never go wrong with GWAR references. :)

Nazis of the Corn; good name for a retro band from
nebraska.

Don't mention the war!

Hreres a big swastika in the woods, planted like during the 1940s.... Check it out, kind of strange.

http://www.heathenworld.com/swastika/trees.html

Did anyone consider that it could have been alien Nazis? or Nazi aliens

Protecting political speech is the crux of the 1st Amendment. It's a bulwark against goverment thought control. It's better to allow bigots to be defeated in the arena of ideas rather than to supress political thought...no matter how vile society or goverment thinks it is.

Bill_Wick's_Friend : Ooops, you had already pointed that out...

I blame Malachai

FoldedSpace: Yes, I think nearly all of us here fall heavily in the "I disapprove of what you say but
will defend to the death your right to say it" camp.

Of course, if our grandparents were involved in one of the most destructive and inhumane nationalist movements in the history of civilization, we'd probably be reluctant to bring it up too.

FoldedSpace

I couldn't have said it better. Once the government decides that speech should be illegal because its content is unpopular, then everything is up for grabs.

Flag-burning would certainly be banned.
The Bible and other religious books would be limited to private display.
Political demonstrations would cease to serve as anything but propaganda.

Unfortunately, those countries that curtail speech based on content find themselves banning more and more content. In France, one can't insult the president. In Germany, it's the Nazis. In Sweden, it's PUL, which bans the use of another's name on the Internet without prior consent.

If speech is content-regulated, there is no free speech. That's what it comes down to.

I swear i was no where near germany, and anyways i wouldnt make it backasswards like who ever the morons were that did this

http://www.naziufos.com/

I'm tellin' ya, man - Hitler's brain is alive in a jar and being used to pilot a flying saucer.

From Banana's link:

Coins and stamps are exempt from the ban.

Presumably this is so people who still have Nazi money and postage can use it? How often does that happen?

No talk of Swastikas would be complete without a link to Manwoman (maybe NSFW, definitely not safe for sanity)

Had to have a bit of a laugh. Wasn't it in the US that a reporter was frogmarched from a press conference this year for not asking the right questions. Freedom of speech....

It was only a matter of time until a "crop circle" resembling the swastika appeared somewhere.

Isn't the swastika also a sign for the hammer of Thor?

At least it wasn't a US Flag, if Nazi symbols are outlawed, imagine what the penalties for Old Glory must be - that cornfield woulda been burnt...

Acadian, thanks for making the connection for me - Marshall Mathers is a Nazi! He should be dealt with accordingly...

Who needs freedom of speech?

Fetch the shotgun boy, we got Nazis in the corn!

PENIS CORN! PENIS CORN! PENIS CORN! PENIS CORN! IT'S HERE!

You farking dipshiats (especially you brainmeats)....

It doesn't matter how the swastika is oriented: backwards, forwards, upside-down, as a double-ended dildo...it was a symbol stolen, appropriated, and propagandized by Hitler and the Nazi party to stand for hate and death of Jews. 6-farking-million who have no voice would tend to disagree that the backwards swastika is an innocuous little aberration. However it is displayed, it will ALWAYS be a symbol of hatred in the modern context of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. So don't try to market it as benign it to anyone on this siteIm not amused by ignorance.

I don't know what's funnier: stories about people who are probably NAZIs fudging up their own symbol, or all the rabid anti-NAZIs such stories bring out of the wood work.

Like this:

farkin nazi's. by far the dumbest bigotted group of people to ever come close to running the world into the ground, and people still think they should have done it. Kind of ironioc when they base their ideals that they are still the superior race when the forward thinking and science covered since then has proved them so blatantly wrong....now they're just making even biggers fools of themselves before.....

The NAZIs, while bigots and pushing the bounds of what we consider "human", brought about a lot of scientific advances. Not something "the dumbest" of groups would achieve. The people who still believe in NAZI-ism generally tie it to religion (more readily). So they are no more dumb than other rabidly religious people, except they have a few more people who get all antsy in their pantsy when you give them a gun. When the NAZIs were in power there was no real conclusive evidence that some races weren't inferior, if we want to go by science and not philosophy or theology. For example, for a long time people thought asians were more animalistic because a blood type uncommon in whites and blacks is pretty common in other asians. This blood type is also common in animals, ergo conclusion above. Now we've proved it all wrong. And people still believe they are superior. Not because of faux science, but because of religion. Then again, Judaism also teaches its followers are superior: they are God's Chosen People. Christianity teaches its followers are superior: they've accepted Christ and will not burn in Hell. They are elevated above the others.

I'm not making up excuses or depending NAZIs. I'm showing that free speech goes both ways: you can't say you're for free speech and then say you don't want other views expressed. You can't make broad generalizations because they are wrong. And you can't try to outlaw that which you clearly do not understand enough to even attack intelligently. This kind of misinformation is the reason the National Socialist Party remained in power for as long as it did.

Then again, we have to remember what the Germans went through: they lived in fear, constantly. Their contrary was literally torn apart by every other country that could fight them. And only through good graces was it given back, with the understanding that the Germany government would NEVER let anything like the NAZI accension to power happen again. If they fail, they lose their country. That's a lot of weight on their shoulders, I can't blame them for having so many laws which we Americans consider violation of free speech rights. It's important to remember that it isn't America over there. We didn't go through what they did, and we don't face the repercussions that they do.

Contrary = country. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

just a clarification, the swatstika doesnt just stand for hating Jews and Jews werent the sole target of hate in the nazi party. Those asshats hated pretty much EVERYONE. Hell, just being from Poland put you on their shiatlist. And let's not forget gays, gypsys and blacks.....and a combination of any of those especially.