Nazi Banner on a Plane in Long Island Flys over like that’s alright!
Look up in the sky, it’s a cloud, it’s a bird, it’s a what… Nazi plane and a banner. Long Islanders enjoying the sun at Point Lookout yesterday said they were outraged to see a small plane dragging a banner bearing a swastika and promoting an organization whose goal it is to repair the reputation of a symbol most often associated with Nazi Germany.
The International Raelian Movement said it has flown the controversial banner over New York and New Jersey beaches annually since 2012 as part of its “swastika rehabilitation” movement.
The banner depicts a swastika, a peace sign, a heart and the name of the group’s website. A final image shows a swastika inside the Star of David.
Long Islanders where outraged with misunderstanding of what the planes message was. Can you try and change an image that has been corrupted so horribly and tragic?
The group’s goal, Kaenzig said,
is to restore the swastika to its original, pre-World War II meaning of peace for Hindus and Buddhists.
“Before Hitler used it for its
atrocities, the swastika was a symbol of peace and had only positive connotations,” he said.
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