Legion's homage to the Christ of the Good Death in Malaga each Holy Thursday has become a traditional images of the Andalusian Holy Week. Scurfy reactionary union of religion and the military which, oddly, despite that fascinates thousands People, that captures the attention each year hundreds of media, and that this time has raised controversy because of a photograph distributed by the agency Efe.
One of the twelve Legionnaires pulse lifted the image of Christ showed a swastika tattooed on his left arm along with other symbols. The detail went unnoticed in the eyes of the general public but can be seen perfectly in the images broadcast by the media of military celebration. Some of these means, including, according to elconfidencial.com, opted to remove the swastika with Photoshop. Entire sample of how some media, always the service of National Catholicism.
The legionnaire in question, which was part of a select group of soldiers who raised the popularly known as Cristo de Mena, appears in the images with his left arm, the same as that used to carry the stature, heavily tattooed, including swastika. Something that is considered taboo in the world and, for example in Germany is prohibited and punishable by law.
The use of Nazi symbols is punished in other European armies. In 2009, the Czech Defense Minister Martin Bartak, dismissed two officers of his army to put Nazi symbols on their helmets during their mission in Afghanistan. Bartak said then that there was "no place in the army for people to take ideas like that." In 2006, another similar controversy affected the German army, for the KSK soldiers displayed Nazi symbols during a mission in Afghanistan. The Defense Ministry opened an investigation to clarify the facts.
The Legion, which due to new regulations issued by the Ministry of Defense, can only participate in such religious activities on a voluntary basis, has also tattooed on his elbow a spider, other symbols associated with neo-Nazi bands. Beyond
how outrageous it is to see in any context Nazi symbol, the truly shocking is knowing complicity that exists in English law with that symbolism. The English penal code punishment and blasphemy and other related Memec religious feelings, however, allows impunity that may expose the Nazi symbols freely.
But if such an act is outrageous and much more is still to know that the English armed forces allow their soldiers displayed such symbols, when, presumably, according to the English constitution, are guarantors of the constitutional order. Little democracy advocate who has a swastika tattooed on his arm, an image that recalls, not coincidentally, other times not so past. Fascism has become strong in the bodies and state security forces, as in the armed forces, as evidenced by events like this. Not by chance nor the murderer of Carlos Palomino was a soldier of the English armed forces.
A state that allows to install fascism in its army, shows perfectly clear what the state feels that the respect for democracy. Then, normal, democracy just to shine by their absence in this state, and is imposing an authoritarian enforcement. What we will miss him by now. A further demonstration that the English state is anything but a truly democratic state.
Kaos. Anti-fascism. With
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The newspaper La Gaceta has blurred the young legionary swastika appears in a photograph raising the image of Christ of the Good Death last Thursday during a procession in Malaga.
The cover photo diary of 22 and 23 shows a group of legionaries and superimposed by the following headline: "Proud of our Holy Week." In the original photograph, sent by the EFE can be seen in detail the Nazi symbol tattooed on the arm of one of the soldiers of the Legion.
From The Gazette have failed to explain to the public why they have published it without the swastika. For its part, the EFE news agency denies having manipulated the image before sending it to the newspaper as well as to other media.
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