Navy to spend $0,6M to mask 'hateful' swastika

[chattanova]

Navy to spend $600,000 to mask 'hateful' swastika-shaped barracks

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The U.S. Navy has decided to spend as much as $600,000 for landscaping and architectural modifications to obscure the fact that one its building complexes looks like a swastika from the air," Tony Perry reports in Monday's edition of the LA Times.

An accidental design? Not a chance.

The four L-shaped buildings, constructed in the late 1960s, are part of the amphibious base at Coronado and serve as barracks for Seabees."

The article continues, "But once people began looking at satellite images from Google Earth, they started commenting about on blogs and websites about how much the buildings resembled the symbol used by the Nazis."

The shape of the barracks was first noticed and commented upon at a Google Earth Community bulletin board as early as February 2005. As the oddity became more widely known, however, calls arose for the Navy to do something about it. Now the prevailing tone in blog comments is one of scorn for the waste of $600,000 on something that can only be seen from space.

Excerpts from LA Times article:
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When contacted by a Missouri-based radio talk-show host last year, Navy officials gave no indication they would make changes. But early this year, the issue was quietly taken up by Morris Casuto, the Anti-Defamation League's regional director in San Diego, and U.S. Rep. Susan Davis (D-San Diego).

As a result, in the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, the Navy has budgeted up to $600,000 for changes in walkways, "camouflage" landscaping and rooftop photovoltaic cells.

The goal is to mask the shape. "We don't want to be associated with something as symbolic and hateful as a swastika," said Scott Sutherland, deputy public affairs officer for Navy Region Southwest, the command that is responsible for maintaining buildings on local bases.
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[synak]

Thx for the article, these beasts are really becoming careless with the symbolism aren't they?

[megafish33]

Do we have an architect or civil engineer on the forum? Is there any reason that the builds were placed like that? Is it structurally superior?

I used to live in souther California, and in LA there are these two buildings, triangular shaped . While the buildings are separate, you can mentally "take" them and superimpose(is that the right word guys?) them and shift your "view" top-down, the shape you'll get is the Star of David.

Ironically, what are both considered Swastikas and Stars of David were used in much more ancient Eastern cultures/religions were they not?

[eternal_spirit]

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Swastika on the robe of Phoenician High Priestess

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Swastika the Phoneician sun symbol on the Phoenician Craig-Narget Stone in Scotland

[eternal_spirit]

Because of its geometric symmetry, the hexagram has been a popular symbol in many cultures from earliest times. Anthropologists claim that the triangle pointing downward represents female sexuality, and the triangle pointing upward, male sexuality; thus, their combination symbolizes unity and harmony. In alchemy, the two triangles symbolize *"fire" and *"water"; together, they represent the reconciliation of opposites. Some medieval alchemists even borrowed the talmudic pun - ish mayim, fiery water, and shamayim , heaven - to demonstrate the interpenetration of the two realms. 1 Because if this symbolism, the hexagram was even used occasionally as the emblem displayed above a brandy shop. The earliest known Jewish use of the hexagram was as a seal in ancient Israel (6th century B.C.E.) and then eight centuries later in a *synagogue frieze in Capernaum. But these early hexagrams may have been only ornamental designs; ironically, a swastika, another popular ancient motif, appears alongside the hexagram on the Capernaum synagogue wall. In the Middle Ages, hexagrams appear frequently on churches, but rarely in synagogues or on Jewish ritual objects. It was the *menorah that served as the primary Jewish symbol from antiquity until the post-Renaissance period, not the " Jewish star."


More at this link below

http://www.menorah.org/starofdavid.html

[megafish33]

Anthropologists claim that the triangle pointing downward represents female sexuality, and the triangle pointing upward, male sexuality; thus, their combination symbolizes unity and harmony. In alchemy, the two triangles symbolize *"fire" and *"water"; together, they represent the reconciliation of opposites.

Yeah I know that so far. Must be more to it though. Doesn't the Bible say that the god "G-d" has this lake of water/fire in front of "him?" I think it's somewhere in there just don't know where anymore.

[damagedbrainn]

Were these buildings added to the complex over time, or were they all designed and constructed at the same time?

Because if they were designed and put up at the same time, then wouldn't have somebody noticed? I'm sure there had to have been a top view in the blueprints.

This is one thing that's difficult to just right off.

[synak]

Were these buildings added to the complex over time, or were they all designed and constructed at the same time?

Because if they were designed and put up at the same time, then wouldn't have somebody noticed? I'm sure there had to have been a top view in the blueprints.

This is one thing that's difficult to just right off.

Yeah your right. I mean if they really wanted to couldn't they have simply constructed each of the four buildings in a more traditional square shape? Surely it must be an intentional design and it isn't the first time we've seen them build symbols in the form of architecture so not at all surprising to me.

[chattanova]

Yeah your right. I mean if they really wanted to couldn't they have simply constructed each of the four buildings in a more traditional square shape? Surely it must be an intentional design and it isn't the first time we've seen them build symbols in the form of architecture so not at all surprising to me.

Here's two other pretty obvious ones

Hampton Court outside London, England (pyramide with all seeing eye)

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Rome, Italy (pyramide with all seeing eye, at the right in the picture)

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[chattanova]

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