On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 13:05:06 +1000, hel
wrote:

On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:23:07 -0700 (PDT), LarbGai
wrote:

On Jun 21, 6:21*am, (Magnus) wrote:
A New Pa
The Thai junta's minions are less hypocritical than their whitey
counterports! If you had the slightest doubts about the true nature of
the PAD, *this logo will rid you of them.

Anti-Nazi Mort


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http://www.time.com/time/world/artic...905378,00.html

In early June, the founders of Thailand's New Politics Party (NPP)
unveiled their logo - usually a routine procedure in a country where
new parties seem to come and go with the monsoons. But the
yellow-and-green symbol of the NPP has generated controversy not just
for its questionable 1970s color scheme but because it resembles a
swastika.


Asians are rightly miffed that Adolf Hitler hijacked an ancient
religious symbol of luck and peace and turned it into the unofficial
logo for genocide and racial hatred. The swastika symbol is venerated
in eastern religions ranging from Hinduism and Jainism to Buddhism.
Even in pre-Nazi Europe, the good-luck talisman adorned everything
from Celtic art to Finnish Air Force medals. A 1904 first-edition copy
of Rudyard Kipling's Traffics and Discoveries has a swastika on the
cover, a sign of his kinship with India where he was born.
Naturally, the Führer stripped the luck from the sign in the West, and
its continuing use by neo-Nazi groups - not to mention Charles Manson
slicing the symbol onto his forehead - prevents its rehabilitation.
But in Asia the swastika still connotes all things auspicious. I
remember traveling in Japan years ago and watching the shocked faces
of American tourists coming across a giant topiary swastika that
adorned a hillside near a famous temple. In fact, on some Japanese
maps, temples are denoted with a swastika, just as churches are
symbolized by a cross. (For the record, the Japanese swastika, or
manji, faces counter-clockwise, while the Nazi symbol goes clockwise.)
Similarly, Tibetans, who believe the symbol represents the Buddha's
footsteps, adorn their walls or bodies with the token.
The NPP, which has aligned itself closely with Thailand's Buddhist
King, was presumably reaching for a potent religious symbol as its new
logo. Fair enough. But the swastika carries a lot of global baggage.
The NPP is an outgrowth of a street-protest movement called the
People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), which, despite its name, is
skeptical of the efficacy of a one-man-one-vote system. Last year, the
yellow-shirted PAD besieged Bangkok's international airport, forcing
its closure for a week before the government it was protesting was
ousted from office by a court ruling. The airport takeover dented
Thailand's tourism industry and contributed to an aura of instability
that has enveloped the country since. Choosing such a contentious
symbol could further harm the NPP's fledgling reputation. No matter
how many ancient talismans are used, that's hardly auspicious.

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Common Larby, wake up to a good omen. 55555555555555

Helmut

LOL!

I wonder if our Lardyboy has also put swastika flags on his/her Isuzu
pick-up truck

:-p
Mort
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"My wife has a Honda Jazz, maybe called a Fit, or something similar,
in America. It has a 1.4 Ltr. engine (the non VTEC engine), carries
three adults and two kids, or four adults with ease, and gets 45 miles
per gallon. Rock, stock, right off the showroom floor. Honda also
makes a 1.2 Ltr version. It isn't sold in Thailand, but I believe it
gets over 50 miles per gallon. My Isuzu pickup, 6 years old, still
gets about 30 miles/gallon and the more recent electronic injected
models get better. 2.5 Ltr engine." The Brown-Eyed Mullet on
rec.boats.cruising, 07 Jun 2009

(Magnus) wrote in :

Asians are rightly miffed that Adolf Hitler hijacked an ancient
religious symbol of luck and peace and turned it into the unofficial
logo for genocide and racial hatred.

Actually, the swastika dates back to cave wall drawings depicting sightings
of COMETS....before human superstition turned it into another crazy
religion.

It dates back to cavemen, before religion was invented to control
populations and steal their money.


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Larry

If a man goes way out into the woods all alone and says something,
is it still wrong, even though no woman hears him?

On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:30:31 +0000, Larry wrote:

(Magnus) wrote in :

Asians are rightly miffed that Adolf Hitler hijacked an ancient
religious symbol of luck and peace and turned it into the unofficial
logo for genocide and racial hatred.

Actually, the swastika dates back to cave wall drawings depicting sightings
of COMETS....before human superstition turned it into another crazy
religion.

It dates back to cavemen, before religion was invented to control
populations and steal their money.

You're right when you say this sign is very old, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika

but it's not the reason why our usenet troll loves it so much

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Larry

If a man goes way out into the woods all alone and says something,
is it still wrong, even though no woman hears him?
LOL!

Morty
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A recent Harris On-line poll 38562 men across the US were asked to
identify woman's ultimate fantasy. 97.8% of the respondents said that
a woman's ultimate fantasy is to have two men at once.
While this has been verified by a recent sociological study, it
appears that most men do not realize that in this fantasy one man is
cooking and the other is cleaning.

On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:21:27 GMT, (Magnus) wrote:

A 1904 first-edition copy
of Rudyard Kipling's Traffics and Discoveries has a swastika on the
cover,

So does my copy of somthing or other, by him, about that vintage.

Casadu