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The “SS” trademark is instantly recognizable for what it is, because it’s so different from the Sig rune.

Swastikas, on the other hand, are quite similar, whether in their original use, or how the Nazis drew them.

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Sorry, but that logic ain’t going to clean the sig rune up any more than the swastica.

This was still astoundingly bad judgement.

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A “sig” is one thing but the Nazi SS symbol seems to be exactly what is displayed on the flag in the photo at Ogre’s link.

Hell, there’s already a Wiki page on this topic:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sig_(rune)

I haven’t earned the right to mouth off about this, but the marks on the flag in the photo appear to be an exact copy of the Nazi Schutzstaffel ensignia.

I think I am bothered by this. I would never be anything but proud of the Marines who have earned the title Scout Sniper, but the symbology is disturbing. To me and others.

Still, if I had to fight, I’d take any one of those guys to have my back in a heartbeat. I’m not PC, so I don’t think my feeling on this is related to anything but my gut reaction to what I have seen in a hundred war films.

Y’all are the war fighters here, I’m just a guy with a keyboard. And as always, my opinion is worth exactly what you just paid for it.

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The Marines could have chosen anything as their symbol. Choosing this shows poor judgment.

But it is just a symbol, a symbol is a representation of a thing, and not the thing itself. I don’t believe this constitutes an endorsement of the Nazi SS on the part of the Scout Snipers.

That being said, were I a Marine, I’d have a hell of a time showing up at the VA wearing that symbol…

More importantly. The argument, if you are not an X you cannot criticize x’s is poor reasoning.

If that were valid, then couldn’t you argue that you have no right to criticize the Nazi’s unless you are a Nazi?

Your logic tree has fallen down :-P

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A “Sig” is drawn with two vertical lines, and an inclined connecting bar. The trademark (literally – Heck designed it, then sold it to the SS) used by the SS had two inclined lines, and no connecting bar – the likes merely meet, forming the connection directly.

If the lines are directly touching, and inlcined, then what’s being displayed is not “Sig-Sig,” it’s the trademark of the SS. And that’s what’s on that flag. It may have been intentional, or it may have been some misunderstanding by someone who’d heard that “Sig-Sig” was not a Nazi symbol, and took that to mean that the SS trademark was not, either, without realizing the important differences between the two.

Having a hammer and a sickle hanging on the wall in your toolshed does not make you a communist. Displaying the specific overlapping hammer and sickel symbol used by the USSR, on the other hand…

I have no doubt that some Scout Snipers have caught undeserved shit for displaying Sig runes. But that’s not what these particular Marines were doing; they were displaying a direct copy of the Nazi SS trademark. Regardless of whether it was intentional or not, it is either inexcusable worship of the Nazis, or inexcusable failure to do due diligence in choosing the artwork. Obviously, one is more severe than the other. But, in either case, it needs to be dealt with properly, and the difference betweel the “Sig” and the SS trademark needs to be explained publicly, so those who have the real “Sig-Sig” won’t suffer undue scorn, and those with the SS trademark will either correct the error, or be righteously scorned for supporting the Nazis, in the (hopefully-rare) cases where that is the case.

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” If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace” – Thomas Paine

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