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Top Czech commander resigns over Nazi scandal
Published: 17 December, 2009, 21:38
Edited: 27 December, 2009, 17:22
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TAGS: Military, EU, Hate crimes, Middle East
A top military official from the 480-strong Czech contingent in Afghanistan has resigned following an incident with two Czech soldiers caught wearing Nazi symbols while serving in Afghanistan.
Deputy military chief of general staff Major General Jiri Halaska, who was in charge of foreign missions, has submitted his resignation.
Back in early November, Czech soldiers Hynek Matonoha and Jan Cermak were caught wearing symbols of two most infamous SS combat units of WWII on their helmets: the 9th SS panzer division Hohenstaufen and the SS Dirlewanger brigade. Matonoha and Cermak were, subsequently, fired from the armed forces also.
A ministry statement claimed that a follow-up investigation revealed problems with the foreign missions and that “failure in command was to blame”.
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The Chech symbol thing was blown out of proportion and very stupid of the instigators. Sensationalism reporting and "do gooder" put on by a bunch of phoneys is nonproductive to humanity as a whole. How would Russians like it if all soviet era symbols and monuments were treated as "filth" and banned worldwide. This is the flipside of the coin. What is good for the goose is good for the gander. Those of us who live in glass houses should not throw stones. Let freedom of speech and freedom of expression prevail everywhere for everyone, not just those in favor.
Poitical corectness is indeed an issue, but not here, this issue has zero to do with political correctness. This is about living in civilisation and not the jungle. The extremist will argue that if you make one rule, then you are automatically on the path to dictatorship. But they never mention that we have rules against incitement, rules against slander, rules aginst libel ..... already. Wow why haven't these rules taken to us immediately to dictatorship. They haven't because we have in civilisation, codified rules concerning criminal actiity. The Nazis were adjudged to be criminal, and they were criminals that brought absolute evil to this earth. Should we feel guilty for baning their filth and the expression of it, in order to regroup, simply no. Are we on the path to dictatorship because of it, simply no. What we are doing, is stopping the extremist using the crowbar of free speech in a trojan way to rekindle their criminal associations. It is no accident that some nations have already implemented legislation to strengthen the approach against the neo Nazis, well done to them! But we need more, and a common front, the way we defeated them in the first place.
The 5-pointed star, known as the Pentagram, or Baphomet Star, is the most notorious of occult symbols, far outranking the Swastika or anything else you can name. The USA has 50 of them on each side of their flag, for 100 in total. The USA and Russia both paint the Pentagram on their military vehicles.
Any student of the occult can tell you this, which is why the Pentagram is such a popular tattoo as well as a national symbol. Those who damn the swastika or other Nazi era symbols while proudly displaying and revering a far more ancient and evil occult symbol are simply hypocrits.
Lose your own evil symbols first before pointing fingers at a lesser symbol.