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Flag Pins, and Other Fashion Statements

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by Mike (in Tokyo) Rogers

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Hey!
This is your lucky day. Today I’m going to show you how to pick out a
Neanderthal in the crowd. Don’t be surprised, but they are all around
you, really! Shhhh! Don’t stare! It’s actually pretty easy to spot a
Neanderthal in the crowd. Not only do they sometimes have a heavy brow
and an especially small forehead, they talk very loudly, and they are
usually sporting a nationalist flag pin on their lapel. They are
everywhere. You’ve seen them.

But
first off, we’ve got to get the terminology of some fashion items’
names down pat. May we? Great. The first item that you need to know the
name of is the Hinomaru. The Hinomaru literally
translates into the "Round Sun." It is the flag of Japan. Even though
Japan lost World War II, Japan still uses this flag. You can see the Hinomaru
above government buildings in Japan or on buses during national
holidays and such. One thing you probably won’t see is your average
everyday Japanese sporting one of these Hinomaru flag lapel
pins any day of the year. In fact, I don’t ever recall even seeing a
Japanese Prime Minister sporting one of these pins. Why? I’ll get to
that in a moment.

The
next flag is the Nishoka. The Nishoka was used
specifically by the old Japanese Imperial Navy. I personally think this
design is pretty cool. You will rarely ever see one of these flags in
Japan today. I guess if you go to a museum or such, you’ll find one. On
national holidays in Japan you can sometimes see the Hinomaru
on display in a very – very – few people’s homes, but I cannot
recall even once seeing the Nishoka on public display. If you
do see one of these flags on display in Japan today, that is a sign
that the person displaying the flag is a nationalist. In most countries
that have an educated populace in today’s modern world, being a
nationalist is a sign of a poor education.

This
next one is a real crowd pleaser: it’s called the Hakenkreuz.
It was the symbol of the National Socialist Party of Germany from the
1920’s to 1945. I’ll bet that the Hakenkreuz was the tops in
fashion back in the days when Germany was winning the war.

But,
today, in either of the two above-mentioned nations, you don’t see
educated normal people wearing these types of things on their clothing
anymore. Why? Well, the answer is obvious; wearing items like these on
one’s clothing is a sign of oafish, thuggish behavior. Sporting these
types of accessories tells people around you that you are not
intelligentsia, that you are probably a right-winged nutcase and
therefore, you have a poor education and don’t read. Admit it. I’m
absolutely correct on this one, right? If you saw some Japanese guy or
some German guy wearing one of these things, you’d think he were some
sort of psychotic living in the past.

In
fact, in Japan, this sort of bizarre behavior works great for some
things: You don’t want any salesmen coming to your door? No visitors?
You want everyone to be afraid of you so that no one would dare break
into your apartment and rip you off? No problem. Just put a Hinomaru
and a Nishoka on your door and mailbox. No one will even want
to talk to you; including your own neighbors. Everyone will think you
are some sort of fascist, and they will leave you alone. Because, you
see, sporting these kinds of fashion accessories in a normal country
full of normal people (like Japan) is a sign that you indeed are a
right-winged nut and need to be left alone; if not institutionalized
for your own safety. 

It’s
a sure bet that back in Nazi Germany there were lots of them too. It
didn’t matter what was going on, they were there. Heck, what are a few
dozen lost freedoms and a few major setbacks on the front to a true
patriot, right? If you aren’t doing anything wrong, then what’s to fear
from the Gestapo taping your phones? So what if it’s 2,500 kilometers
lost on the Russian front, or a firebombing of Dresden? So what if it’s
Russian troops entering Berlin? You’ve got to support the troops,
right? My country right or wrong. These colors don’t run. To question
the leadership is a cowardly and despicable act and truly
anti-patriotic.

Am I
confusing you? I shouldn’t be if you’d just stop to think about this
for a moment. I must admit though, most probably a war veteran of any
country should have the right to wear these types of "pledge pins."
Other’s do not. So whenever you see a Billy O’Reilly or Rush Limbaugh
wearing their US Flag lapel pin, you can bet that you are actually
witnessing a "rocket scientist" with intelligence on par to the level
of the of a thug in the S.A. (Think Curly from the Three Stooges
dressed up as a Nazi). I’m absolutely serious here folks, you can’t
just make up stuff like this:

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border="0" height="200" hspace="15" vspace="7" width="130">Nazi
'Chic'?: Fashioning Women in the Third Reich (Dress, Body, Culture) by
Irene Guenther

List
Price: $28.95

 We
are all familiar with the stereotype of the German woman as either a
Brunhilde in uniform or a chubby farmer's wife. However, throughout
the interwar period fashion was one of Germany's largest industries and
German women ranked among the most elegantly dressed in all of Europe.
This book explores the failed attempt by the Nazi state to construct a
female image that would mirror official gender policies, instill
feelings of national pride, promote a German victory on the fashion
runways of Europe, and support a Nazi-controlled European fashion
industry. How did the few women with power maintain style and elegance?
How did the majority experience the increased standardization of
clothing characteristic of the Nazi years? How did women deal with the
severe clothing restrictions brought about by Nazi policies and the
exigencies of war? Nazi 'Chic'? addresses these questions and many
others, including the role of anti-Semitism, "aryanization," and the
hypocrisy of Nazi policies (emphasis mine).

What
did I tell you? You just can’t make up stuff like this… Unless, of
course, you are living under a fascist regime like Nazi Germany or
today’s United States. Let’s face it, what’s more important: the truth
or the nation? The nation, right? It doesn’t matter if the leader took
the nation into a war on false pretenses – it’s safer and more
fashionable to toe the party line. Those women and children were being
discriminated against and savaged by those Poles in the Danzig
Corridor. Saddam was an evil man. We had to go after them. The world is
better off today. The revisionists can say all they want, but the
leader had to act before the proof came in some terrible form like a
mushroom cloud. Take it to them I say. Kill them all then let God sort
them out.

We’ve
got these Neanderthals in Japan too, but not very many. They are a
rarity. Most people would be too embarrassed to walk around with flag
pins on their lapels and idiotic bumper stickers on the cars that show
everyone just how ill-educated and how low their I.Q.’s are. I mean,
really, when you stop and think about it, if you went to any country in
the world and saw some guy wearing his countries’ flag pin on their
lapel and bumper stickers all over his car saying how his country is
"God’s Country," you’d think he was a buffoon and had more than just a
few screws loose, right? So what makes you think that Americans who do
this aren’t anymore nuts than, say, a Nazi cheerleader or someone who
cheers on Imperial Japan?

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height="173" hspace="15" vspace="7" width="130">"Oh, but that’s
different." You say? "Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan did lots of bad
things like genocide, mass murder, and waging war of aggression." If
you seriously thought this, even for a moment, then consider that you
just may have some Neanderthal blood in you. Intelligent people
recognize and admit that America has waged many wars of aggression and
has committed genocide more than once. The only people who don’t agree
with me here are the ill-educated Neanderthals…. You’ve seen them, they
are everywhere in America: they are usually sporting a flag pin on
their lapel.

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border="0" height="221" hspace="15" vspace="7" width="150">"Oh,
but America is different than Japan!" You say? It sure is brother. It
sure is. Very few here are willing to show off how low their
intelligence is by running around sporting nationalist fashions like
morons.

Amen
to that.

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size="3">Mike (in Tokyo) Rogers [ href="mailto:">send him mail] was born
and raised in the USA and moved to Japan in 1984. He has the
distinction of being fired from every FM radio station in Tokyo – one
of them three times. His first book, href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0595346626/lewrockwell/">Schizophrenic
in Japan, is now on sale.

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