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USA's Pledge of Allegiance Banned By Ebay, France, Germany?
From a reader.....
A photograph of the original pledge of allegiance to the
flag of the USA was
banned in a sale on Ebay. As explanation for the ban of America's heritage,
Ebay cited it's policy against items related to Nazism. The eye-popping
photo and the Ebay letter are at http://rexcurry.net/pledgeban.html
Questions raised by Ebay's actions include the following
(and any answers
are not clear from Ebay's letter):
Is Ebay acknowledging that the USA's original pledge of
allegiance (which
used a straight-arm salute) was the origin of the Nazi salute? That
historic discovery was exposed by the historian Rex Curry at
http://rexcurry.net/pledgesalute.html
Additional eye-popping photos are at http://rexcurry.net/pledge2.html
Does Ebay believe that historic
photographs of America's original pledge
violate laws in countries that ban Nazi depictions? (Selling or displaying
Nazi artifacts is illegal in France. Germany is similar. In other words,
is
the U.S. pledge a Nazi artifact? Is it illegal to display / sell historic
photographs of the original USA pledge in France and/or Germany?)