Word: swastikas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bilking its members of their savings. German officials explain that it is precisely because of the Nazi past that they are hard not only on Scientology but on all "radical cults and sects, including right-wing Nazi groups." People have gone to jail in Germany for displaying a swastika or denying the Holocaust. And most Germans, 70% of whom tell pollsters they think the church should be banned, consider Scientology a subversive organization. "The federal government," says Peter Hausmann, its spokesman in Bonn, "will continue to combat Scientology with all legal means." Kohl snapped that those who signed the letter...
...read with dismay on the Internet your staff editorial of Oct. 29, 1996 ("Peninsula's Rant: Staff Culpable, Swastika Harmful") concerning Jose Padilla and the Peninsula. Given the condescension and closemindedness with which you, the staff of a newspaper at one of America's finest colleges, insult and dismiss the views of the Peninsula, it should come as no surprise that someone a little less responsible than you chose to tack a swastika on Padilla's door...
...weeks ago a swastika, drawn on a piece on looseleaf paper, was taped to the door of an Eliot House suite. Residents of the room interpreted the swastika as a message for Jose M. Padilla '97, a member of the ultra-conservative campus publication Peninsula...
...latest publication, and by naming those who appear on the masthead. What does surprise us is the response he apparently elicited. Someone within our community decided that the best way to let Peninsula know that he or she disapproves of its inflammatory and overblown rhetoric was to tape a swastika to the door of one of its members. Apparently, linking Padilla to the genocidal reign of the Nazis was seen as an appropriate and effective way of pointing out how oppressive and irrational his beliefs are. The only thing more amazing than how narrow-minded and intolerant some individuals...
Essentially, this appears to be a classic case of irresponsibility on the part of Peninsula, the author of the Peninsula piece and those who tacked up the swastika. The active members of Peninsula need to muster the courage to admit to themselves and the campus just how small and isolated their organization is, and their less-active members need to have the courage to either disavow themselves entirely or else take responsibility for the actions of their colleagues. By the same token, those who disagree with Peninsula must enter the discourse in a constructive manner and not hide behind anonymous...