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Double-Take: EU ‘Tolerance’ Poster Includes the Cross, the Star of David, And … Wait, What Is That?

Oct. 19, 2012 6:31pm Becket Adams

Journalist and Conservative MEP for South East England Daniel Hannan on Friday posted to his blog the following picture of a Europe4All poster currently on display at the European Commission:

Daniel Hannan Posts a Photo of Europe 4 Alls Soviet Inclusive Tolerance Poster

Courtesy The Telegraph

Oh, that’s nice. Tolerance and inclusion? It’s like one of those “coexist” bumper stickers you see in the U.S. (usually right next to the sticker that says “My other car is a broom”):

You know, it’s this sort of magnanimous inclusivity that won the European Union the Nobel Peace Prize. As this poster clearly illustrates, people of all — Wait, what is that?

Seriously? The hammer and sickle symbol made infamous by the Soviet Union made its way onto a poster promoting inclusion and tolerance? We could go on about the irony of placing a symbol that’s as closely tied to communism as the swastika is to Nazism next to the symbols of Christianity, Judaism, and Hinduism, but Hannan says it best:

For three generations, the badge of the Soviet revolution meant poverty, slavery, torture and death. It adorned the caps of the chekas who came in the night. It opened and closed the propaganda films which hid the famines. It advertised the people’s courts where victims of purges and show-trials were condemned. It fluttered over the re-education camps and the gulags. For hundreds of millions of Europeans, it was a symbol of foreign occupation. Hungary, Lithuania and Moldova have banned its use, and various former communist countries want it to be treated in the same way as Nazi insignia.

Yet here it sits on a poster in the European Commission, advertising the moral deafness of its author (I hope that’s what it is, rather than lingering nostalgia). The Bolshevist sigil celebrates the ideology which, in strict numerical terms, must be reckoned the most murderous ever devised by our species. That it can be passed unremarked day after day in the corridors of Brussels is nauseating.

Final Thought: If Europe4All’s idea of “tolerance” includes embracing the same regime responsible for the Ukrainian famine, then this author is the least tolerant person in the world.

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Oneirishman
Posted on October 19, 2012 at 8:17pm
Europeans would be willing to “get together” to burn this Flag after they wrap it around the maker.

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- oldguy49
  Posted on October 19, 2012 at 9:46pm
  this is all bs……in 20 years or less europe will be muslim…….look up the demographics
  
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- WATER-THE-TREE
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 12:58am
  Actually the Bible prophecys that the holy roman empire will rise again, the king of the north that will be the great beast with iron teeth that tears the world apart. And the king of the south is forming now from your Arab spring. AND THIS REGIME IS NOW HANDING THE SOVERIENITY OF THE US OVER TO THE UN, AND WE WILL ALL BE TAKEN CAPTIVE ONCE AGAIN, THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS ARE READY AS I TYPE!
  
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- SacredHonor1776
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 2:53am
  water-The-Tree, that sounds alot like this guy’s interpretation of Daniel 11;
  
  http://www.islamandchristianity.org/
  
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- sillyfreshness
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 3:51am
  Europe, and all its political correctness, deserves to be destroyed.
  
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- Brasil2520
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 6:37am
  This is what Europe gets for losing the 1945 war
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfSwodC_vR8
  
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- D-Fence
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 9:08am
  What amazes me is that they gave themseleves the Noble Peace prize, “for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe”. What a joke. Since 1950 huh. What was the Bosnian conflict? Who had to enter that theatre and use its firepower to stop a genocide from occuring? I’m not giving Clinton credit, because he let Rwanda happen. Unbelievable. The narcissism.
  
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- Pigpen
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 10:25am
  And the “elites” wonder why the BNP and Le Pen are becoming noticably relevant in both the UK and France respectively. Elites stand for NOTHING. Elites live only FOR THEMSELVES. So they truly have no real understanding of just how OFFENSIVE that abominable star is to those with character, and I include ALL of the faiths represented there. I am tolerant if they stay in their OWN COUNTRIES. I am even willing to put my career and life on hold to GO to their countries and help them to have what the USA has both spiritually and temporally. The elites do NOT WANT PEACE. The elites want CHEAP LABOR for Dad and SOCIAL WORK VICTIMS for Mom.
  
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- muffythetuffy
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 10:30am
  More innocent people on Earth were executed under the waving Communist Hammer and Sickle than were executed under the Nazi Swastika. Communism and communists in and of themselves are War Criminals who must be dealt with to save mankind.
  
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- Pigpen
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 10:47am
  MUFFYTHETUFFY posted: “More innocent people on Earth were executed under the waving Communist Hammer and Sickle than were executed under the Nazi Swastika.”
  
  And yet the ONLY American museums dedicated to WWII atrocities are all focused on the Shoah, not the Reds! If you wonder WHY that is, read “Culture of Critique” by Dr Kevin MacDonald.
  
  (Oh, no! And I was doing so well. Now theBlaze will CENSOR me for my IDEAS and citation of a PhD who is currently a sitting Professor of Psychology! Oh, well, free speech apparently means being outraged at NAZIS who burn books. Anything else isn’t CENSORSHIP, it is SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY! ‘And thus the empire ends, not with a bang, but a [censor]‘ !!!)
  
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- SocialistSlayer
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 11:27am
  They forgot the Swastika !
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 11:34am
  Hi SocialistSlayer,
  
  I read your post on the Biden/cancer story. Read the book “The Burzynski Breakthrough” second edition and check out this website.
  
  http://www.burzynskiclinic.com/
  
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- Popp40
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 12:08pm
  Did anyone notice that at the very top of the picture is the Hammer and Sickle symbol? Very symbolic…
  
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- SocialistSlayer
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 12:12pm
  Thanks Monk,
  
  I’ll have my wife check into it, looks promising !
  
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- Wat Tyler
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 2:51pm
  This “star” symbolizes the demise of the gutless, feminized vermin called Europe.
  
  May they rest in conflict.
  
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- brasasman
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 3:13pm
  Where’s the birdie on that hand?
  
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barber2
Posted on October 19, 2012 at 7:51pm
Considering that our White House is currently Occupied by Mr. ” Redistribution ” Obama , guess that old hammer and sickle are pretty appropriate. Think I just heard ALL previous departed American presidents roll over in their graves . UNBELIEVABLE . Yeah, sure : Just one big happy world…the Big Brother Communists , the Islamic Shariah fanatics and the brainwashed American college kids.. just one big happy world… smiling …hand in hand…peace sign… burkas..bombs…

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- arty6164
  Posted on October 19, 2012 at 8:24pm
  …and to think of the untold thousands of our American soldiers who gave their lives to liberate these now ungrateful a**holes from facism. Unbelievable!
  
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- barber2
  Posted on October 19, 2012 at 9:04pm
  ARTY: I can not imagine how the families who lost loved ones before Mr. ” Run Away / Who Cares About the Consequences to America ” Obama started to Occupy the White House : Spit in their faces. Stick it to Bush. Stick it to American capitalism. Stick it to American specialness. Stick it to America. ( where are the trolls ?? are even they getting smart to the lies of Obama ?? )
  
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- kfalcon77
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 4:40am
  well put
  
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- kat747
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 8:36am
  It is enough to make you sick just thinking about the men and women who have lost their lives and
  limbs and health for the USA to end up a communist, marxist, liberal, muslim hell hole.
  Sure hope those Hollywood types and those high paid media types are getting ready to hand over
  their money to the fraud currently in the White House.
  The other scenerio is that those FEMA camps are ready for the traitors of the USA.
  
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- phillycornerboy
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 8:40am
  most of europe are social democracies. they are already semi-communist. why the surprise that they are failing? name any communist/socialist system with a sound economy. communism/socialism has only one goal…tyranny.
  
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- Pigpen
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 10:36am
  KAT747 posted: “It is enough to make you sick just thinking about the men and women who have lost their lives and limbs and health for the USA to end up a communist, marxist, liberal, muslim hell hole.”
  
  The “the men AND women”, KAT? Sorry, but the gender neutral language, the mainstreaming of women into the military, those are all communist, marxist, liberal, h3ll h0le ideals. America’s sad devotion to liberal newspeak such as he is a good “person” instead of he is a good “man”, the widespread availability of pot and other recreational drugs, and good ol’ porno are all from the same bucket of bait that the commies used to seduce your “tolerant” grand-parents, and now you too! Sorry America, but being mad at the devil for hurting your small business opportunities and taxing your paycheck won’t be near enough to liberate either you or your country from the H3LL H0LE it is currently wallowing. Only by repenting and accepting Jesus Christ in humility will bring either you or your family or even your finances anywhere near to the salvation you are all craving here on theBlaze!
  
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Metallicat
Posted on October 19, 2012 at 7:49pm
Looks like Christians are less welcome than anyone else. Including the former Soviet Union.

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demorepublicrap
Posted on October 19, 2012 at 7:42pm
Yes that why we have so many ghetto… Have you been in New York, Paris, MOntreal?

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- PaxInVeritate
  Posted on October 19, 2012 at 11:36pm
  Better than having a whole nation as one ghetto (aka USSR).
  
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tgimacb
Posted on October 19, 2012 at 7:27pm
Next, posters celebrating “art” – a cross and quran peed on, both prophets Jesus and allah milkbar dressed in lingerie? All religions ask tolerance – the proverbial turn the other cheek, BUT ONE. Only one. Can you say jihad?

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The Gooch
Posted on October 19, 2012 at 7:22pm
Can’t we all just get along?

Probably not….

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- starman70
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 7:27am
  America needs a few Daniel Hannans here.
  
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tgimacb
Posted on October 19, 2012 at 7:21pm
Next, art will follow portraying the cross and quran peed on, both prophets in lingerie, and such. Nope, not gonna happen. All religions turn a cheek but one. only one.

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realdata
Posted on October 19, 2012 at 7:19pm
Where is the Swastika ?

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- Brasil2520
  Posted on October 19, 2012 at 8:11pm
  In our hearts
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 9:57am
  LOL, that was priceless Brasil.
  
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- Brasil2520
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 3:31am
  GONZO
  
  Priceless and true, ask most people about who fought on the German side and most people will only name Italy, this is what they are told, the truth is many countries wanted Europe to win the 1945 war, the Waffen SS had men from 30+ countries, they even had 100 from England.
  Us Portuguese joined with the Spanish in the Blue Division 250th, we even had men from Brasil like Egon Albrecht of Curitiba, Brasil, he was the only Brasilian to get the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross.
  The SS had many French volunteer’s
  In the last days of Berlin the Russians found SS volunteers from France, Norway, Romania, Spain and other countries.
  Henri Fenet – A French volunteer with the 33rd French Waffen SS “Charlemagne” Waffen Grenadier Division, once said, when asked about the war with Russia “Now I have only one regret I wished an earlier involvenment”
  
  Yes my friend many of us have it in our hearts, we just can’t say it in public.
  
  http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?177986-Spanish-Blue-Division-WWII-Volunteers
  
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Big Media Bias
Posted on October 19, 2012 at 7:09pm
Daniel Hannan has been making up for his initial SUPPORT of Barack Hussein Obama in 2008. But only with scathing references to HIS OWN British socialist policies and European socialist failures. No real eye opening remarks to our American progressive politicians. Why and how he supported that Kenyan blood sucking chupacabra is beyond me. All the evidence was laid out against that demonic monster over a year prior to the election. Mr Hannan fell for a man by the color of his skin and platitude b.s. He is still on my **** list until further notice.

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F_Obama
Posted on October 19, 2012 at 7:01pm
What a load of garbage.

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JayVee
Posted on October 19, 2012 at 6:59pm
Three Christian crosses, four stars of David, five hammer-and-sickles…

yep, sounds about right.

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Brasil2520
Posted on October 19, 2012 at 6:57pm
Unser Fuhrer is looking down from heaven in disbelief

Europe 50,000BC – 2012 RIP

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- Ghostrider8850
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 5:01am
  Looks as though the EU has turned into 1940 France
  
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normbal
Posted on October 19, 2012 at 6:55pm
I got your “coexist” right here:
http://www.everydaynodaysoff.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/coexist-firearm-gun-manufacturer-logo-sticker.jpg

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- 65Mustang
  Posted on October 19, 2012 at 7:35pm
  Loved it, agree with you, NORMBAL
  
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- KHM
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 1:43pm
  @Normbal,
  That was a great “Coexist” link. Thanks for the laugh. The Europeans deserve what they are getiing in social unrest. They do NOT deserve the Nobel “Peace” Prize. But then, we know that this has come to be a meaningless prize to people like Arafat and the current occupier of the White House.
  One post pointed out that Europe’s demographics are such that the native citizens (European/Aryan) are not replacing themselves while the immigrant Muslim populations are growing exponentially (6-8 children in many familes). So the future for Europe and their”multi-culturalism” experiment doesn’t look bright.
  
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- Punderous
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 1:17am
  I love it…. God made all men. Sam Colt made them equal.
  
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hi
Posted on October 19, 2012 at 6:55pm
My son was joking around with his other teen friends about the “Coexist” sticker on a car they walked by.”Look, that just means they can’t stand Christians.”
When he looked up the owner of the car appeared out of nowhere and gave him a look.

Guess you had to be there. BUt, it was pretty funny. It’s usually a liberal nut with a sticker like that on her Prius along with “Well behaved women seldom make history.”

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- GlennaBeckski
  Posted on October 19, 2012 at 7:00pm
  Funny .. smart boy tho!
  
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- Git-R-Done
  Posted on October 19, 2012 at 7:24pm
  Your son is a smart kid. I wish I’d been around to see that event. I would have laughed my **** off.
  
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- Exrepublisheep
  Posted on October 19, 2012 at 8:06pm
  Bunch of teenagers standing around laughing about someone’s bumper sticker. If the driver were a repub you’d be here reading about dangerous teens threatening someones free speech.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on October 19, 2012 at 9:01pm
  Baaah sheepy, the point went right on by you. Whirled peas please? Your other ride is a pink Vespa sheepy?
  
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SonOfThunder
Posted on October 19, 2012 at 6:54pm
This is all blasphemy to God. The Star of David is not biblical. The real Jews were against the satanic inverted triangle hexagram as their flag. The real Jews in 1948 wanted to use the minora on the flag. The rest is just the EU bringing us the new world order. Prophecy is being fulfilled. Come quickly Lord Jesus.

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- Americangimmick
  Posted on October 19, 2012 at 7:23pm
  Amen brother!
  
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- SPIN_MD
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 1:25am
  Prophecy is indeed being revealed daily when one tunes into the news.According to the Bible, Europe is going to be the main player in end-time politics. The hammer and sickle are just a symbol of what is to come. O, by the way, Russia is destroyed in the Ezekiel 38 war which will proceed the tribulation, as are the remaining children of the bondwoman. The first batch are destroyed in the Psalm 83 war. It is very clear that God destroys the children which are not of the covenant. He does this because He is God and He is sovereign.
  
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woodyee
Posted on October 19, 2012 at 6:50pm
Tri-Ox is correct. Why beef about the Soviet symbol (international “workers” symbol) if you’re not going to complain about a symbol that’s slapping us in the face our every waking hour, the symbol of the cult of death?

You know, somewhere on Earth, at this very moment, is an angry islamist preparing for martyrdom over having nothing to be angry about.

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- PilgrimStuckInBizarroWorld
  Posted on October 19, 2012 at 7:41pm
  Watched this video today and learn some things I didn’t know before about the rise of Islam.
  http://youtu.be/t_Qpy0mXg8Y
  
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- Meyvn1
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 9:19am
  @PilgrimStuckInBizarroWorld: Great video.
  
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2MINUTESTOMIDNIGHT
Posted on October 19, 2012 at 6:49pm
I’m sure they included the hammer and sickle so our POS Kenyan sock monkey would feel welcome, but wouldn’t a “666″ be more appropriate for him?

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- 2MINUTESTOMIDNIGHT
  Posted on October 19, 2012 at 7:19pm
  50% funny? That hurts.
  
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- GlennaBeckski
  Posted on October 19, 2012 at 7:59pm
  Sorry … how bout 50% funny, 100 % accurate!!
  
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kickagrandma
Posted on October 19, 2012 at 6:48pm
Np, you can’t.

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intercepter
Posted on October 19, 2012 at 6:46pm
brought to you by people that know no history ,euorpe 4 all indeed ,they will be eating their own soon

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neiman1
Posted on October 19, 2012 at 6:45pm
Try putting a Swastika on that map and watch the European go nuts…..not always so tolerant?

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- barber2
  Posted on October 19, 2012 at 7:56pm
  NEIMAN: Good one ! And don’t forget the peaked hat of the KKK..and the raised , clenched fist of the Black Panthers ….I mean, if we are going to be PC ” inclusive”……oh, brother….
  
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- MarkL
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 1:22am
  Or a cigerette…
  
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Psychosis
Posted on October 19, 2012 at 6:44pm
I just got gas at 1.84 a gallon ……thanks Americans for prosperity!!!!!!

Narberth pa

Ps I might be on algazera English ….the only news station to show though channel 6&10 are right around the corner

Grey Nissan titan. Woot

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- woodyee
  Posted on October 19, 2012 at 6:51pm
  Psychosis! Grab that Al-jezeera reporter and ask him if he’s heard of Bill Maher’s Religulous movie!!!!
  
  Then run before he blows himself up!
  
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David, the Constitutional Libertarian
Posted on October 19, 2012 at 6:44pm
Oleg Atbashian of The Peoples Cube, where weak liberalism is defeated by strong Stalinism, had a great article on inclusiveness. If all cultures are equal, why is cannibalism not celebrated?

The end goal of socialism is communism. I think this time, we let Europe completely destroy itself.

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- AZfreeman
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 10:48am
  “..If all cultures are equal, why is cannibalism not celebrated?..”
  
  And there we have the perfect argument. So, as in most things, it’s just a question of where you draw the line. But surely, it is getting harder to find real men willing to stand for liberty and freedom. Societies always evolve in the direction of the path of least resistance – the path of non-confrontation – the path of ‘perceived political correctness’. So where does that put Free Men?… if you want freedom, you have to be willing to fight for it, not just on the battlefield, but in politics, schools, and in the grocery store…where ever tolerance seeks to make a moral equivalency between Freedom and oppression.
  
  “Zero tolerance for tolerance” …rf
  
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Impenitent
Posted on October 19, 2012 at 6:42pm
Who needs religion when you can be a slave to the government… eh a good citizen that is…

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TOPOFTHEGAME
Posted on October 19, 2012 at 6:42pm
People of America, your looking at the beginnings of the NWO that Revelation calls ”Jacob’s Trouble” The Anti Christ comes out of the E.U. He will be a counterfit of Christ and be around Jesus Christs age , early thirties. Food for thought Princes Di boys are around that age????????

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- Wayner
  Posted on October 19, 2012 at 6:47pm
  Right on TOPOFTHEGAME
  
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- GlennaBeckski
  Posted on October 19, 2012 at 6:59pm
  I’m perplexed how we get a One World Religion out of all that tho..
  
  Also I thought the AC was going to come out of Syria.
  
  Hmm
  
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- BIGM32
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 3:46pm
  The anti-Christ already exists…lives at the Vatican.
  
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Tri-ox
Posted on October 19, 2012 at 6:38pm
Well – if they’re going to include the islamic death cult symbol, why not the hammer and sickle? There is nothing as non-inclusive and intolerant (and deadly) as the death cult of islam.

http://www.barenakedislam.com

http://www.thereligionofpeace.com

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- tipofthespear42
  Posted on October 20, 2012 at 11:25am
  Very scarey links Tri-ox!! We need to send them all back to where-ever they came from w/ NO RE-ENTRY,….EVER!!!
  
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