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I’m no fan of the swastika — at least as the symbol of the Nazis and their heirs — but obviously the EU’s justice ministers have never raised kids, since otherwise they’d know that if you forbid something, you must make it all the more attractive<\/a>.<\/p>\n

EU justice ministers meet later this month — and the union’s justice and home affairs commissioner says he’s open to discussing the issue.<\/p>\n

The scandal erupted last week over photos of Harry, third in line to the British throne, wearing a Nazi outfit at a costume party. Several German conservatives, socialists and liberal democrats in the European Parliament have urged a European ban on Nazi symbols. Germany already bans them. An EU proposal was introduced two years ago but failed to make headway.<\/p>\n

Harry was an idiot for wearing an Afrika Korps outfit to a costume party, but I think the best way to combat that is to call <\/em>him an idiot, not to make swastikas the cool underground symbol for those who want to defy the System.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m no fan of the swastika — at least as the symbol of the Nazis and their heirs — but obviously the EU’s justice ministers have never raised kids, since…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zt-pc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3573,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/10\/24\/europe_and_sanc.html","url_meta":{"origin":7692,"position":0},"title":"Europe and sanctions","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 24-Oct-02 1:52pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The Europeans have recently changed their tune on sanctions against Iraq. 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