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Old 05-26-2014, 07:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Monkei View Post
If you google a picture of the 1907 Corn Palace you will see the Nazi Swashtika prominently displaced in that years decoration. History will tell you that before the nazi use of the symbol it had Native American importance as a symbol for good luck.

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personally when I see a "don't tread on me" flag I think of the tea party and militias, I could live with the tea party reference but not the militia reference. I would not fly it anymore than I would fly a flag with a Native American symbol for good luck. Symbols get hijacked by organizations ... it happens.

I am sure that 90 percent who see it just think you are a member of the Tea Party.
I was kind of thinking along the same lines. It is very hard to get around very strong connotations associated with some symbol or another especially if they have a huge amount of baggage. I have never met someone named Adolph for instance unless they were born before 1939 or so. Check out A Martinez -- http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0553436/b..._=nm_ov_bio_sm