N�rnberg, Mittelfranken, 2007-01-19 - 5:55 a.m.

I just read in a blog ( Lizas Welt (it�s in German language)) about a strange sentence in German law. � Someone who had sold stickers like this:

means stickers against Nazis, was fined for �using the here in Germany & Austria forbiden swastika symbol. � That there was a thick red bar crossing it & making clear that is was a sign against & not for Nazism, seemed not convincing for the prosecutor & the judge. The judge argued a tourist from Japan couldn�t recognize that it was an antifascist symbol & would only see the NS sign in it. � I think she was insulting the intelligence of the Japanese tourist.

The sticker seller was fined to pay 50 Euro to the victims of the KZ Buchenwald � this kind of fine is usually only used for Nazis! � So putting those who fight them on the same level as the comitters. � How insensitive (instinktlos)!

The accused one objected & won at least in second instance. � In this isuue also a German parlamentarian of the �Gr�nen� (Green party) wore such a bumper sticker & indicatet herself to the persecutor, to get a clear sentence to this case.

If someone wears a sticker with a gun & a red cross or bar over it � everybody will understand, that he�s not a warrior, but a pacifist.

I remember long time ago � when I conducted a pottery course in a youth center 2 times a week in the evening - when a youth came in � his face all bloody & bruised � he told us, that he was beaten up half an hour ago by a group of heavy booted skinheads, just because they saw him wearing such a antifa sign.

In my youth, when I was about 16 or 17 � it was the flower power time - I had styled my room at my parents house with posters of my fave rock�n�roll bands etc. � I also wrote & painted on the walls � this time was also a time of revolting & sometimes provocation & I was alway at the core of it � so I had the the idea to paint also on a wall of my room something like a 'anti-swastika' � it looked similar to a real swastika but one of the ends was pointing in the other direction, which in my minds eye by then, was intented to make it a fake, an irregular, so breaking the rule of the same conformist line of evil - in fact I hated all that Nazi-shit since youth � & I thought this anti-swastika to be a persiflage to that sign. �

I even had a dispute with my father who wanted me to remove it at once & I tried in vain to make him understand, that this wrong directed line in it was to make it a persiflage.

Now much older I wouldn�t see it as persiflage anymore �it looked too close to real one � I knew what it was intented to be, but others could easily misinterpret it � just like any persiflage turns in false direction if most people can�t distinguish it anymore from the real thing & you get applause from the wrong side, like some American comedians (see Seinfelds �Kramer� Richards recently) & did Borat cross the line to far?

Some years later I lived in a community with some people & a girl living in a room next to me real had some swastikas on her walls � like this:

She had lived a year in India before & had just some Indian pictures & posters hanging there & one of these Gods there had this old Indian sign of swastika on it, which of course had nothing to do with Nazis.

I remember also, that when a long time ago I went one early evening to a pub in a big youth center (communication center) � there were on every table flyers with the swastika sign as header � I was shocked & disgusted at once � so I went from table to table, took all those flyers, tore them to pieces & threw them away. � Later on someone told me that these were flyers against Nazis & had just this provocating header to arouse attention. � But really - they shouldn�t have done it this way -

A similar event happened in my youth, when there was a Lutherian Church Day here in Nuremberg & I helped for some reason to distibrute a flyer blaming Luther�s antisemitism.
It told, that Luther - who had once written the 95 theses against things that were wrong in the Catholic Church � later on also wrote 7 theses against the Jews � like this:

(by the way Luther also supported witch persecution etc.) �

so on this Church day my distributing of this revealing flyer lasted only about 30 minutes � when I gave that flyer to an olderly man he gave it a short look & then reacted totally disgusted, like I had given him a strange obscenetiy & gave it back to me (or threw it away) at once without reading it � I was shocked too, because I noticed that he had only read the headline of the flyer & the headline was �7 theses against the Jews� � without ever learn to know that the contents was against someone who wrote these 7 theses � he reacted the same as I had reacted to those flyers with the swastika in the headline - & he was damn right to react like that. � I quitted of course at once distributing these flyers & you see how important it is to avoid in your fight for truth & against hypocritical schemes - even if you do it satirical, with persiflage or provocative.

It�s very important for all the truth fighters & comedians in this world to not be misunderstood to really be one of the other side � it�s like in war if you wear the uniform of the opposite war party to spy them out & then get shot by your own side � you see?