If it weren't for the Isaraeli Sasquatches, this would be the stupidest Internet post ever.
Note also how when the “leaders” put the symbol on their sleeves (as in the first and third photos), it is rotated 45 degrees just like the Nazi swastika was.
Don’t these people see an echo of the swastika in their new power symbol? Don’t they realize that the early Nazi Party was (among other things, obviously) also overtly anti-capitalist? (“Hitler began to make the [Nazi] party much more public, and he organised the party’s biggest meeting yet of two thousand people, for 24 February 1920 in the Staatliches Hofbräuhaus in München. … It was in this speech that Hitler, for the first time, enunciated the twenty-five points of the German Worker’s Party’s manifesto… In general, the manifesto was anti-Semitic, anti-capitalist, anti-democratic, anti-Marxist, and anti-liberal.”) Don’t they know that the early Nazis tried to garner sympathy with street rallies and marches?
The human fascination with not just power but also the symbols of power is well-documented — as are the many times that new attempts at populist movements get co-opted and sidetracked into totalitarianism. The OWS’ endless obsession with unanimity and 100% “consensus” in their organizational meetings only adds to my concern.
The very first commenter tells "Zombie," whose brain was self-consumed long ago, that this wicked symbol is a hashtag, otherwise popuarly known on your telephone as the "pound key." The commenter could also have mentioned that a hashtag doesn't fucking look like a swastika, unless perhaps you're Ann Althouse, for whom it perhaps resembles a penis chasing a vagina into a train tunnel, followed by, who knows, Papa Smurf or Hillary Clinton or Flava Flav or some shit.