Opinion Editorials

January 23, 2007

Swastikas & Nazis exposed by British Group, Wikipedia, FOTW & Dr. Rex Curry

Rex Curry

A British Union is helping to expose the swastika's modern use as overlapping S-shapes for "Socialism." The BUF (British Union of Fascists) used a flag that looks odd at first glance, but a closer view reveals a dark story from Britain's past.

From 1932 to 1935, the BUF flag bore a fasces. In 1935, the movement was renamed "British Union of Fascists and National Socialists" (BUFNS) in order to align itself more with German National Socialism, and the fasces was replaced by an S-shaped lightning bolt symbol.

The BUF is more proof that the swastika, although ancient, was used as alphabetic symbolism for socialism under the National Socialist German Workers' Party. It is changing the way people think about the swastika. Similar stylized lettering was common under German socialism and in the bizarre signature of the NSGWP's leader, in his SS Division, on the Trabant car logo, and similar alphabetic symbolism still shows on Volkswagens. The BUF adopted a similar version of the same stylized alphabet and lightning bolt letters used by German socialists for "Socialism."

The research behind the new discoveries by the cryptologist Dr. Rex Curry (author of "Swastika Secrets") is referenced on Wikipedia and in the vexillological group Flags Of The World (FOTW). Recent articles at opinioneditorials.com report on the many references to Dr. Curry's research on Wikipedia. Some Wikipedia writers use Dr. Curry's work without attribution in apparent attempts to bolster their own credibility. http://rexcurry.net/british-union-of-fascists-sir-oswald-mosley.html

Wikipedia changes by the millisecond and that is why it is known as "wakipedia" and some wakipedia writers are known as "wikilings." In a recent view, wakipedia's article referred to the British Union as the "British Union of Fascists" (BUF) only and hid the fact that the name changed to the British Union of Fascists and National Socialists (BUFNS). The cover-up ties into wikilings who promote widespread public ignorance that the Nazis did not call themselves Nazis (they called themselves socialists, just as their name indicates). Wikilings don't want you to know that the BUF started calling themselves "socialists," too.

In a similar vein, wikilings won't write that the BUF logo started as a fasces, but was updated when the BUF became BUFNS and the group adopted the label "socialist" with an S-shaped lightning bolt symbol, mimicking the swastika's S-shape for "socialist" in the National Socialist German Workers' Party. In a recent view, wakipedia did not even note the "S" shape for the "BUF" symbol (why would wakipedia note the reason for the symbol's change when wakipedia does not even mention the BUFNS' name change?).

As the BUFNS leader said "The alternative name for the modern Movement is the National Socialism used in Germany. But the German Movement also is known throughout the outside world as Fascist, which is the name commonly used to describe the phenomenon of the modern Movement whether in Britain, Germany or Italy. National Socialism and Fascism in my view are the same Movement, finding different expressions in different countries in accord with different national and racial characteristics. For seven years in the Labour Party before founding Fascism in Britain, I fought for a National Socialist Policy in contradistinction to the International Socialism of that Party." (1936 BUFNS publication which answers 100 questions about Oswald Mosley)

Wakipedia is often copied brainlessly by other wannabe encyclopedias. It is fortunate that the lack of information in wakipedia's BUF article has not been repeated much.....yet. Any improvements to the BUF article risk deletion.

All of the above is why schools, colleges, and news media warn writers not to cite wikipedia as a source. A google search for "DO NOT CITE WIKIPEDIA" provides many examples. Rather than a scholarly source, it is an anonymous bulletin board where anyone can delete truthful information, and people who want to re-post the truth can be blocked to prevent future corrections.

The National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSGWP) had followed a similar path to that of the BUFNS. The NSGWP was originally named the "German Workers' Party." Later, the name was changed to add "National Socialist" and the swastika was adopted and came to represent "S" letters for "Socialist."

The BUFNS and the NSGWP had clear roots in National Socialism promoted by socialists in the USA and in the "Military Socialism" touted by the American socialists Edward Bellamy and Francis Bellamy during the three decades before the NSGWP existed. The American socialists touted regimentation and efforts to ape the military.

The BUFNS's and NSGWP's use of the swastika as "S" symbolism for socialism originated in the United States, along with robotic group-chanting to flags, Nazism and Nazi salutes. The bizarre acts in the USA began as early as 1875 and continued through the creation of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
http://rexcurry.net/theosophy-madame-blavatsky-theosophical-society.html

A Harvard graduate, Ernst Hanfstaengl, personally assisted the leader of the NSGWP in promoting national socialism with more ideas from America.

The dogma behind the American socialists and their pledge was the same dogma that influenced people in the socialist Wholecaust (of which the Holocaust was a part): 62 million slaughtered under the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; 49 million slaughtered under the Peoples' Republic of China; 21 million slaughtered under the National Socialist German Workers' Party.

The BUFNS dissolved shortly after the National Socialist German Workers' Party joined as allies with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1939 to invade Poland in a pact to divide up Europe, spreading WWII.

The American Pledge and salute from American socialists was the origin of the salutes of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the Peoples' Republic of China, and the National Socialist German Workers' Party, and it inspired their robotic chanting and worship of government and flags and symbols in their government schools (socialist schools). http://rexcurry.net/ussr-socialist-swastika-cccp-sssr.html

The USA is still the worst example in the world of bizarre laws that require robotic chanting of a socialist's pledge to a national flag in government schools (socialist schools) every day for 12 years.

The Bellamys and other American socialists promoted a government takeover of schools, the placement of flags at schools, and robotic chanting of the pledge to the flag with the old notorious gesture. When the government granted their wishes, the government schools imposed segregation by law and taught racism as official government policy. The schools mandated the robotic chanting of the pledge with the straight-arm salute and persecuted and expelled children who would not comply, arrested parents, and even took children from parents on allegations of "unfit parenting." There were acts of violence and lynchings.

The USA still follows similar anti libertarian policies promoted by the Bellamys. Many socialist policies caused the USA's big, expensive, oppressive government, its aggressive military socialism, and its growing police state. It caused the Great Socialist Depression (from the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act 1930 etc) that persisted and even lasted through U.S. involvement in WWII. The Pledge still exists along with laws mandating that teachers lead the robotic chanting every day for twelve years of each child's life (though the salute was altered). The government still owns and operates schools, including the same schools that imposed segregation by law and taught racism as official government policy. That policy even outlasted the National Socialist German Workers' Party by over 15 years. After segregation in government's schools ended, the Bellamy legacy caused more police-state racism of forced busing that destroyed communities and neighborhoods and deepened hostilities. Those schools still exist. Infants are given social security numbers (socialist slave numbers from 1935 during the NSGWP) that track and tax everyone for life. Government schools (socialist schools) demand the numbers for enrollment.

The pledge and the flag have become examples of how dangerous government schools are (and how dangerous government is in general). The brainwashing ritual has indoctrinated most students of government schools with the national socialist propaganda.

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Wikipedia has also helped to spread the news about Dr. Curry's discovery that the USA's early Pledge of Allegiance to the flag (1892) used the straight-arm salute for three decades before it was adopted by the monstrous National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSGWP). http://rexcurry.net/wikipedia-the-free-encyclopedia.html

Wikipedia has previously informed its readers about Dr. Curry's work in an Opinion Editorials article showing that the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics may have preceded the National Socialist German Workers' Party in using the swastika as overlapping "S" letters for "Socialism."
http://www.opinioneditorials.com/guestcontributors/rcurry_20060929.html

Wikipedia is known as an online encyclopedia. The Wiki article repeats information from the Opinion Editorials article by Dr. Curry under the title "Swastika," with the sub heading "Russia." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika#Russia

The British Union of Fascists and National Socialists is often compared with the American First Committee that was operated contemporaneously in the USA by Charles Lindbergh. The BUFNS is sometimes called the "Britain First Committee."

Another Wikipedia article on the "Bellamy salute" references Dr. Curry's work showing that Charles Lindbergh and other Americans were photographed performing the early straight-arm salute to the U.S. flag, and that those photographs were used later to imply cooperation with German National Socialists.
http://rexcurry.net/america-first-committee-charles-lindbergh-wikipedia-org-wiki.html

A photograph of Lindbergh performing the salute is at http://rexcurry.net/america-first-committee-charles-lindbergh.JPG

In his Pulitzer prize winning biography "Lindbergh," author A. Scott Berg also agrees with Dr. Curry's assertion that photographs of Americans performing the early Pledge salute were used to imply cooperation with the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSGWP). It is interesting to note that when the "Lindbergh" biography was written, the author Berg failed to make Dr. Curry's discovery that the American salute was the origin of the German Socialist salute.

Amazon.com adopted as its policies recommendations advocated by Dr. Curry and reported in Opinion Editorials.
http://www.opinioneditorials.com/guestcontributors/rcurry_20061027.html

For a long time, Dr. Curry has exposed widespread ignorance in the media and in the general public about what the 4-letter abbreviation abbreviates. That etymological ignorance has grown through overuse of the hackneyed shorthand term in print and in government schools (socialist schools). Dr. Curry advocated that the shorthand term should be avoided, unless it is used in conjunction with the full actual name of the Party. Amazon is helping Dr. Curry to reverse the ignorant habit within the media and the public. http://rexcurry.net/amazon-com-book-reviews-tags-discussions.html

Support for Dr. Curry's discoveries also comes from the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). http://rexcurry.net/roman-salute-oxford-english-dictionary.html

Support also comes from the web site of the American Philological Association. http://rexcurry.net/american-philological-association-apa.html

Dr. Curry's work has been recognized in the vexillological group Flags Of The World (FOTW). http://rexcurry.net/fotw-flags-of-the-world-vexillology.html

Similar recognition occurred in the flag group North American Vexillological Association (NAVA). http://rexcurry.net/north-american-vexillological-association-nava.html

Dr. Curry's news-making work is discussed on Odeo Radio. http://odeo.com/audio/1747108/view

The discoveries are on Radio Indymedia. http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/08/10827.php

And also covered at Opinion Editorials at http://www.opinioneditorials.com/writer.php?id=rcurry
With more at OpinionEditorials at http://www.opinioneditorials.com/guestcontributors/rcurry_20050826.html

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Rex Curry is published worldwide as a libertarian and a lawyer with a degree in journalism. http://RexCurry.net is the only site on the internet that collects and displays historic photographs of the original Pledge of Allegiance. Rex collects historic photos that show how socialism has harmed the U.S., and his hobby is also photography and graphic art, displayed on the website. His predecessors helped settle Key West back when Florida's government was virtually non-existent. The Curry Mansion (historic home of Florida's first capitalist millionaire) is still on the local tour.

Rexy@ij.net


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