[GeoStL] Re: Opinions, please...would a swastika be offensive to you, even if it's part of the cache's theme?

  • From: "Mike Griffin" <griff@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:40:01 -0500

Without getting too political, I just feel that this is where we have lost 
backbone. People cannot do anything anymore if it offends only one person. 
I fly the Irish flag under the US Flag and was told by someone it was offensive 
to do that. I just don't understand what this world is coming to. They are 
erasing the civil war leaders of the South because it is offensive. When will 
it end?
I can no longer say, "Proud to be an American" because someone somewhere will 
get offended.

Mike



----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Gary Braman 
  To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 9:33 PM
  Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Opinions, please...would a swastika be offensive to 
you, even if it's part of the cache's theme?


  I think you may have answered your own question. 

   

  If you have to ask - I wouldn't.

   

  Fried Okra.

   

  From: geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Rogers
  Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 9:28 PM
  To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject: [GeoStL] Opinions, please...would a swastika be offensive to you, 
even if it's part of the cache's theme?

   

  Hello, all...

  I have a question...I am currently creating a puzzle cache. The basic premise 
is that some disgruntled ex-Nazis plan to kidnap Sir Winston Churchill after 
delivering his "Sinews of Peace" (Iron Curtain) speech in Fulton, MO. 
Basically, it's up to the cacher to decipher the clues to get to a container 
left for the ex-Nazis to enact their plan before they do. The container is the 
final cache location. 

  To keep with the theme, I found an eagle/swastika stencil kind of like the 
one used in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and was planning on using it to decorate 
the final cache container. The final container will be inside another container 
that will be locked by a combination lock, so it will not be seen by anyone 
that is not meant to find it.

  So I ask...would such markings be offensive to you if you were to find the 
cache?

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