I pass by your place every morning and every afternoon. When I see you in your uniform - black jacket, boots and pants, skin-head, I feel sorry for you and wonder what brings someone to such a sad and pathetic state.
I caught sight of you through your open front door one day, as I was waiting for the light to change and traffic to move. I thought it amusing that you, as always in your uniform, were on the telephone, probably planning some horrid behavior, but also absentmindedly staring at your feet as you walked around the floor. I imagined you might be doing the same sort of stupid heel-toe following of the pattern on the floor that I might do while ordering dinner, or chatting with a friend. Of course, I don’t have a skinhead. Or the combat boots. Or the inclination to follow Hitler.
But I cannot muster any sympathy or commonality when you fly your swastika on Wednesday mornings, hung outside in the same fashion that others fly Winnie the Pooh banners or “WWJD?” flags. I am angered and forget my first amendment, if only momentarily. I am sadded at the image of your duplex neighbor’s American flag flying side by side with your symbol of hatred, and wonder whether the story is behind the “For Sale” sign in front of your neighbor’s half of the building is as simple as it would seem.
Your White Power banner today elicited similar feelings from me. I wondered how the black schoolchildren in your mixed ethnicity, generally poorer neighborhood feel as they pass by your house on the way to and from school.
So, I shout with impotent rage, fuck you! Fuck you asshole! Eat shit and die, Nazi of Maytide Street.
Yeah, I’m also a little curious as to why Wednesday’s? Could it be because the name Wednesday comes form the Norse god “Wotan”, AKA “Odin”? Or was Adolf born on a Wednesday (heck if I know)? As far as I know (and my grandpa was genuine Nazi, not one of these Neo-Nazi wannabe’s) Wednesday was not considered some kind of special Nazi Sabbath.
Please note that my grandfather was indeed a Nazi and member of the Waffen SS, but the entire post above was meant to be ironic
I have no idea. I assumed Wednesday was der meetin’ day. When it was warmer, I would see him out on the porch with a nice fresh cup o’ joe under his swastika on Wednesdays. I presumed he was waiting. I thought it somewhat less than fully committed that he didn’t have it out every other day, all day.
One Wednesday during the winter, in the snow, I had to wait while he helped push a friend’s car into the driveway.
I’m sure Wednesday is the day they get together and plan the charitable works that the organization is going to participate in during the next week.
I guess they just put the flag out to advertise for new members every Wednesday. Hentor, maybe the next time you see him, you should say in a very menacing voice: “You are beeeeink fery foolish! We have vays of making you tok!”. All joking aside though, it is kind of sad that this kind of behaviour exists. I guess the fight against ignorance really is a long uphill struggle. In Germany he would be arrested on the spot for hanging a swastika outside. At least we know how to handle our Nazis now. And as one last aside… This Maytide Street wouldn’t happen to be somewhere in Illinois would it? Because I hate Illinois Nazis :D.
His narrow mindedness (have actually talked to him? will catch up with him eventually.
Funny anecdote. My high school allowed the local KKK chapter to recruit and hold meetings. (this was late 70s). About 10 or so guys signed up. But 4 or 5 of them backed out of it later. Why? Because the Klan didn’t fit in with their own notions of racial purity. I wonder how hardcore supremecist you have to be to look down on the Klan?
Just out of curiousity…you do know that the swastika is an ancient pagan symbol of good fortune, right? I mean, are you taking context into account here? Just Checking.
Hmm. And what do you make of the “White Power” banner that I mentioned. Is this simply an expression of good fortune, you know, for white people? What context should I place that in?
Apart from that, what is the likelihood of a pagan symbol being presented in black, in a white circle, on a red background? What context do you make of that, out of curiousity?
Good luck trying to explain that to a German court after you get your ass arrested for displaying a “pagan symbol of good fortune”. And there’s no jury system in Germany, so you will not be judged by your peers, meaning that the final decision might actually resemble an intelligent one.
And like Hentor said, this guy also hung out White Power banners and is a skinhead. I don’t think this is a pagan wishing good luck to all passersby. Next thing you know someone is going to say that the Nazi salute was actually invented by the romans and was used to greet Ceasar, so it can’t be all that bad… Wait a minute…
P.S.: in Germany you can also be arrested for doing a nazi salute on the street. this is why all the Neo-Nazi groups in Germany have actually modified the original salute by crooking their elbow, or doing some other weird crap with their arm and body. Makes me think of the “Ministry of Silly Walks” everytime I see them goosestepping.
Sometimes it is really sad how stupid and gullible some people are, and my sympathies are also with the poor neighbor trying to sell his half of the duplex. It must be really hard: “Yes, it’s a lovely house. Well, if you ignore the neo-Nazi next door”
