hjmick
09-26-2007, 09:42 PM
...that EVERYONE acknowledges is invisible unless you are in a helicopter or looking through a satellite from space, and which was created with no ill intent. That's $600,000 of taxpayer money, our money, that I am sure could be put to much better use.
Couldn't we find a Jew who, for say $150,000, could give the DoD/Navy a certificate saying that they are officially unoffended and waive the need for any Gentile guilt?
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y113/hjmc3rd/1550669.jpg
Photo by Google Earth
Swastika Barracks in Coronado
CORONADO, Calif. (AP) - The U.S. Navy will spend as much as $600,000 to modify the appearance of a barracks complex that resembles a swastika from the air, officials said.
The Navy approved the spending for changes to the four L-shaped buildings' walkways, landscaping and rooftop solar panels after satellite images from Google Earth revealed the swastika-like shape, officials said.
"We don't want to be associated with something as symbolic and hateful as a swastika,'' Scott Sutherland, deputy public affairs officer for Navy Region Southwest, told the Los Angeles Times.
Navy officials said the buildings' shape was not noted until after the groundbreaking in 1967. Since it was not visible from the ground, officials decided not to make any changes.
But aerial photos made available on Google Earth in recent years revealed the buildings' shape to a wide audience of computer users.
Online commentators remarked widely about the buildings' resemblance to the symbol used by the Nazis.
Dave vonKleist, host of "The Power Hour,'' a Missouri-based radio-talk show, said he wrote to military officials calling for action.
"I'm concerned about symbolism,'' he said. "This is not the type of message America needs to be sending to the world.''
The Navy decided to alter the buildings' shape following requests this year by Anti-Defamation League regional director Morris Casuto and U.S. Rep. Susan Davis.
"I don't ascribe any intentionally evil motives to this,'' Casuto said of the design. "It just happened. The Navy has been very good about recognizing the problem. The issue is over.''
The funds to change the buildings' appearance were budgeted for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, officials said.
Swastika Barracks (http://www.knx1070.com/Swastika-Barracks-in-Coronado/1005022)
Maybe it's just me, but is this not only an incredible waste of taxpayer $$ as well as a case of political correctness run amok?
Couldn't we find a Jew who, for say $150,000, could give the DoD/Navy a certificate saying that they are officially unoffended and waive the need for any Gentile guilt?
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y113/hjmc3rd/1550669.jpg
Photo by Google Earth
Swastika Barracks in Coronado
CORONADO, Calif. (AP) - The U.S. Navy will spend as much as $600,000 to modify the appearance of a barracks complex that resembles a swastika from the air, officials said.
The Navy approved the spending for changes to the four L-shaped buildings' walkways, landscaping and rooftop solar panels after satellite images from Google Earth revealed the swastika-like shape, officials said.
"We don't want to be associated with something as symbolic and hateful as a swastika,'' Scott Sutherland, deputy public affairs officer for Navy Region Southwest, told the Los Angeles Times.
Navy officials said the buildings' shape was not noted until after the groundbreaking in 1967. Since it was not visible from the ground, officials decided not to make any changes.
But aerial photos made available on Google Earth in recent years revealed the buildings' shape to a wide audience of computer users.
Online commentators remarked widely about the buildings' resemblance to the symbol used by the Nazis.
Dave vonKleist, host of "The Power Hour,'' a Missouri-based radio-talk show, said he wrote to military officials calling for action.
"I'm concerned about symbolism,'' he said. "This is not the type of message America needs to be sending to the world.''
The Navy decided to alter the buildings' shape following requests this year by Anti-Defamation League regional director Morris Casuto and U.S. Rep. Susan Davis.
"I don't ascribe any intentionally evil motives to this,'' Casuto said of the design. "It just happened. The Navy has been very good about recognizing the problem. The issue is over.''
The funds to change the buildings' appearance were budgeted for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, officials said.
Swastika Barracks (http://www.knx1070.com/Swastika-Barracks-in-Coronado/1005022)
Maybe it's just me, but is this not only an incredible waste of taxpayer $$ as well as a case of political correctness run amok?