Keep The Swastika- Save Some Lives

[David Sklansky]

Just saw a story on CNN where they show that Google aerial photos discovered that a building owned by the US Navy appears from above to be in the shape of a swastika. No one noticed this for decades. Perhaps there were recent additions to the structure. In any case the shape is obviously inadvertant and can only be seen from a high flying plane.

Still the Navy is planning to spend 600K to fix it. Couldn't that money be better spent? I believe that after a little thought, Jewish groups would agree with me that they should urge the Navy to instead give the money to a children's hospital or something like that. And once Jewish groups suggested it, others would go along.

In fact the whole situation could turn into an opportunity to make an important symbolic gesture rather than merely $600,000 worth of shrubbery.

Hopefully two plus twoers will agree with me and prod the right people.

[Mempho]

David,

Do you think this was "an accident?"

[Scary_Tiger]

How about keep the swastika, don't give any taxpayer money to random groups, it looks fine?

[Silent A]

Here is a picture:



(from: http://www.freerepublic.com)

If you think it's a waste of money, just be thankful that they aren't tearing the building down.

[andyfox]

There are quite a few Navajo rugs and sand paintings that have a "rolling log" figure, which is a reverse swastika.

Link

My dad is still active in ADL. Let me see if I can get him to speak to some people who might have some pull.

[pvn]

How is $600k supposed to fix this?

[ZeroPointMachine]

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How is $600k supposed to fix this?

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Camoflauge the roof?

The entire thing is asinine. The Navy shouldn't be remodeling perfectly servicable buildings and they shouldn't be donating money to charity. The real question should be why does the Navy have so much of our money that they would even consider this feasible.

[Silent A]

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How is $600k supposed to fix this?

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Landscaping. Probably a bunch of tall trees to hide some of the features.

Oh, and Andy (or a mod), please edit that link. We don't need to see the entire url.

[IQ89]

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David,

Do you think this was "an accident?"

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About six years ago some show like 20/20 did a report on this. At first you think, "Wow, they obviously had blueprints of the entire layout,...right? So how can this be a mistake?" But then they showed the blueprints, which consists of only one of the four swastika arms. Then they merely duplicated the one building four times (you'll notice the four arms aren't attached to one another.) End of conspiracy.

[Ineedaride2]

Jesus, that's the longest URL I've ever seen!