01-22-2009, 01:14 PM
Quote:Is it illegal to display a swastika, or have a swastika tattoo? Is being hated grounds for having your children taken from you?
In The Netherlands: Yes it's illegal to have Nazi symbols, Yes, it's illegal to have a swastika tattoo but only if you display it (but good luck finding a tattooer willing to risk his licence), Sometimes being hated is ground enough to have the children taken, but only if the child suffers enough as a consequence. (for instanc,e is threatened physically). And since judges here are quite politically left oriented (American left is still our right winged equivalent), it has to be preeeetty bad before a child can be taken. A source of much frustration in our society, because some children have died as a result in order to 'protect the rights of the parents'
And yes, the use of Nazi symbolism is outlawed in most of Europe. Maybe even all of it. But the Dutch were occupied and victimized by the nazis, so we're especially unfond of Nazi sypathisers even today. As a result they're also quite rare here. Plenty of extreme-right-winged skinheads, but very few neo-nazis. Especially since the proof of their crimes is still here on our soil for all to see and recollections of their crimes were passed on from generation to generation and the second world war is still an important subject in high school. some Dutch even revile current generation Germans for the crimes of their (grand-)parents. WWII is still alive in the collective memory.
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When beset by doubt,
Run in little circles,
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