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December 13, 2007
Swedish Lion Castrated by Political Correctness
The heraldic lion on the Nordic Battlegroup's coat of arms has been castrated because a group of female soldiers lodged a complaint with the European Court of Justice.
Vladimir Sagerlund, who designed the insignia, is rightfully enraged:
A heraldic lion is a powerful and stately figure with its genitalia intact and I cannot approve an edited image. The army lacks knowledge about heraldry. Once upon a time coats of arms containing lions without genitalia were given to those who betrayed the Crown.
The Swedish Crown isn't the only thing that has been betrayed by our willingness to castrate ourselves in the name of political correctness.

On a tip from Bill.
Posted by Van Helsing at December 13, 2007 7:24 PM
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The battle for Sweden is basically lost. The best bet is to forget Europe altogether, regroup, and focus on stopping America's slippery slide into PC domination/socialism. As far as Europe, the pendulum will have to swing as far into lunacy as it can, then it will inevitably return.
Will it be in our lifetimes? I don't know.
Posted by: Harris at December 13, 2007 9:37 PM
The bigger story here perhaps is that these toy soldiers are part of not the Swedish army but the EUSSR's army, euphemistically called the "Rapid Reaction Force" at the moment. The national armed forces will fade away. The British armed forces are rightly respected throughout the world. They will be gone soon.
Yesterday our traitorous governments swept away the last vestiges of the nation states in Lisbon, ending (in my case as a Brit) hundreds of proud years of the existence of my nation. Our traitorous prime minister, ashamed even to be at the main ceremony, crept in late to sign in private (and presumably to collect a little baggie full of pieces of silver). He is our last national leader and our first EU gauleiter. I hope he's pleased.
The term Britain now has no official meaning, except as an informal historical group noun for a group of Euro-regions. It makes one wonder if we should have just left the continent to suffer under the Nazi empire.
Why our leaders have committed this treason is not easy to answer, but it has been done over decades under both socialists and supposed conservatives. We berate ourselves for not rising up and demanding our nation back; but when a population has been confused and betrayed by its own government, when conditions are still tolerable (there is no Stasi, yet), when dissenters are cowed by accusations of racism and xenophobia, and when the entire ruling class is of one mind and there is no core for dissent and protest to nucleate around, and when so many of the population itself are misguided collectivists, that's an unrealistic proposition. If we look at other examples, we see that only when Soviet populations thronged the streets in their millions and refused to go home was a change effected; and even then they could only do that when their ruling class was collapsing from the inside, after many decades of intolerable suffering.
In Europe, the autumn is over. Our winter has arrived.
Posted by: Ian from the EUSSR at December 14, 2007 1:55 AM
this is symbolic of what women have been endeavouring to do for the last 40+ years in the name of womens' rights!
frankly, it is my firm belief that without men there would be no women and of course the opposite is true.
WE NEED EACH OTHER PEOPLE! (not to be confused with the whiny streisand song about people needing people...)
Posted by: nanc at December 14, 2007 9:04 AM
buy guy fawks masks and do something already.
Posted by: furballz at December 14, 2007 11:11 AM
Perhaps replacing the logo with a cute, cuddly, pink Care Bare(tm) would better assuage the too-easily offended sensibilities of these ersatz Amazon Warriors. One hopes any true enemies wiil offend them and elicit at least half a vigorous response.
...sheesh.....
Posted by: Chris at December 14, 2007 1:52 PM
Cripes. What a lot of wankers. Friday night pub-heros.
Posted by: Eideard at December 15, 2007 10:28 PM
Oh Dear!
What would Freud say? You see what you suppose to see.
The reality is something else. The "penis" is just a heraldic sud of hair on the knee of the lion. Cf. pictures of any European coat of arms. Take a look at: http://virtual.finland.fi/netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=27079
Posted by: Eimer at December 27, 2007 9:53 AM

