[speechlesstx]

For a little change of pace, check out the Europe4all poster that's been hanging at the European Commission in Brussels.





Don't see it? Look again...









Yes, let's coexist on the same star with one of the most brutal regimes ever conceived, represented by the hammer and sickle.

For three generations, the badge of the Soviet revolution meant poverty, slavery, torture and death. It adorned the caps of the chekas who came in the night. It opened and closed the propaganda films which hid the famines. It advertised the people's courts where victims of purges and show-trials were condemned. It fluttered over the re-education camps and the gulags. For hundreds of millions of Europeans, it was a symbol of foreign occupation. Hungary, Lithuania and Moldova have banned its use, and various former communist countries want it to be treated in the same way as Nazi insignia.

Yet here it sits on a poster in the European Commission, advertising the moral deafness of its author (I hope that's what it is, rather than lingering nostalgia). The Bolshevist sigil celebrates the ideology which, in strict numerical terms, must be reckoned the most murderous ever devised by our species. That it can be passed unremarked day after day in the corridors of Brussels is nauseating.

You can't make this stuff up.

[NeedKarma]

So?

[speechlesstx]

I see you suffer from moral deafness, too.

[NeedKarma]

How does that poster affect your morals? Anyone's morals? How does it affect your life in any way, shape or form?

[speechlesstx]

You're right, I have no idea why anyone would take offense at embracing such a symbol in the name of tolerance.

[NeedKarma]

I guess you'd better contact the people that made that.

[speechlesstx]

I think maybe you might want to see a cardiologist.

[tomder55]

The wrong section of the star is highlighted . More revealing is that the hammer and sickle is at the apex of the star.

[speechlesstx]

I think the yin yang thingy is the only with more representation. Had to balance things I suppose.

[excon]

Hello Steve:

Didja see the Chinese pagoda? They're commies, aren't they? Didn't Mao kill a few of his fellowmen? And, why is the Star of David BIGGER than the cross? And, what about those Muslims? Aren't they our ENEMY?

excon

[speechlesstx]

A far as I know no one has committed atrocities under the banner of a pagoda or the Star of David. I know would have riled the left though...

[paraclete]

I don't know of any that were committed under this one either but there might have been some committed in the name of the Confederacy. In that European representation of unity I would be concerned about the promenence given to Islamic, Buddhist and communist symbolism as well as symbolism of a religious nature that have no place in Europe

[paraclete]

You were didturbed by the original depiction, try this one as a symbol of Europen unity it disturbs me greatly because it gives undue prominence to both Islamic and Communist symbolism

[speechlesstx]

That one is just creepy.