A word about Swastikas

Speaking of spineless fucking third Reich rip off scum, here is an interesting tidbit. Last year some spineless jellyfish alemán decided it would be OK to pirate the God Says Fuck You CD and press it as an LP in Germany. He not only ripped off my artwork and our songs (see below) but didn't even give me credit. Here is what I believe is the swastika clincher. Because, and once again I am surmising, it is illegal to print the swastika in Germany (and oh what a comfort that must be to the surviving members of the six-million, I know it would sure as heck-fire make up for just everything if it was me) in any event, Herr Rudolf copied my eel's logo (which is, along with the electric eels® name, the only trademarked thing I own) sans swastika and kind of tried to make up for it by throwing in a couple of cojoneless iron-crosses at the bottom. You know sir, I am sure glad that the Israeli Philharmonic don't play no fucking Wagner yes sir ! ! It really helps bring back the dead !


	swas•ti•ka
n (swos´ti k or, esp. Brit .,swas´-) 1. a figure used as a symbol or an ornament in the Old World and in America since prehistoric times, consisting of a cross with arms of equal length, each arm having a continuation at right angles. 2. this figure as the official emblem of the Nazi party and the Third Reich. [1850-55; < Skt svastika, equiv. to su- good, well (c. Gk eu-EU-) + as- be (see IS ) + - ti- abstract n. suffix + - ka secondary n. suffix ] swas´ti•kaed , adj.
" In 1974, they were wearing safety pins and ripped-up shirts, T-shirts with insulting things on them, White Power logos and swastikas: it was offensive and they meant to be offensive.They meant to distract people, but I don't think they were exceptionally racist: they were being obnoxious and outrageous. " Mike Weldon quoted in "England's Dreaming" written by Jon Savage. (italics are mine)

The individual eels usurped the "swastika" for disparate reasons. Paul's brother Mickey, who held some sway with both Paul and I, spouted a lot of ? ? (claptrap is perhaps the word I am looking for)about the harmonious meeting of the far-right and the far-left in the glorious polemic political nirvana.

Paul was rather incensed with Kiss's gratuitous use of the SS symbol in their name and wished to satirize them with a preemptive attack. On the other hand erstwhilely-like-wise,
I had always been interested in semantics. About what characteristics people emotionally invest,infuse and confuse in "things"and "words" that have no inherent objective value, A swastika is, in reality, an ancient inverted good luck symbol. But I freely admit that I was also interested in shock value. And a swastika's value to shock Fritzi me boy, gives you a whole lot of she-bang for your fucking buck-a-roo-ski ! ! Dave E., and I can only surmise, perhaps thought the swastika an inherently evil thing and thusly hilarious and exquisitely german, I mean germane, to the eels. Brian was totally uninvolved with the swastika issue, he did however, rather circumspectly suggest putting up a barrier of barb wire as stage accouterment/protection.

Well friends, the eels love and involvement with swastikas has lost us jobs and record deals (though the likelihood of those events was best unlikely) and it *still* gets us ( at least me) in trouble. I just got booted off my ISP for being a "Hate" site. (they also accused me of being a pornographer !! way-gnarly-cool huh ??) Want to find out the inside pooperooni? then click the fuck here
Speaking of spineless fucking third Reich rip off scum, here is an interesting tidbit. Last year some spineless jellyfish alemán decided it would be OK to pirate the God Says Fuck You CD and press it as an LP in Germany. He not only ripped off my artwork and our songs (see below) but didn't even give me credit. Here is what I believe is the swastika clincher. Because, and once again I am surmising, it is illegal to print the swastika in Germany (and oh what a comfort that must be to the surviving members of the six-million, I know it would sure as heck-fire make up for just everything if it was me) in any event, Herr Rudolf copied my eel's logo (which is, along with the electric eels® name, the only trademarked thing I own) sans swastika and kind of tried to make up for it by throwing in a couple of cojoneless iron-crosses at the bottom. You know sir, I am sure glad that the Israeli Philharmonic don't play no fucking Wagner yes sir ! ! It really helps bring back the dead !

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