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To: epicure who wrote (46079)	1/31/2000 12:13:00 AM
From: JF Quinnelly	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

there were a lot more people using the Swastika for purely benign reasons than there were using the Southern flag Oh? And what 'non-benign' purpose did the Battle Flag have? If slavery is your measure, the Stars and Stripes flew over American slaves for 90 years, compared to the Confederacy's 4. And what about the flag that flew when the Plains Indians were massacred by the likes of George Custer, and Phil Sheridan, Union Army Generals who first practiced war against civilians in the American South? No, if you want to find a non-benign flag, start with the one we still salute. As for a hierarchy of mass murder---there were 80 million people killed this century under the Red Star and the Hammer and Sickle, and no one gets excited about those flags. The Rising Sun waved over a criminal regime that killed millions and millions, and no one gets excited about that flag. You could buy these flags and fly them every day, no one would bat an eye. There's no widespread revulsion against the symbols of mass murdering governments. Your argument doesn't hold water.