"Nazis' put "swastikas" on headstones

[sarah FAILIN]

I'm seeing this story and I want to warn everyone else before we get full of anger over it, something isn't right. The swastikas are backwards. Most Nazis know how to make one which makes me think this is someone wanting to blame them and start more trouble.

So heads up, this could be faked.

https://washingtonpress.com/2018/05/26/american-neo-nazi-just-desecrated-hundreds-of-gravestones-at-memorial-day-ceremony-site/

[oberliner]

1. Police say man in custody in connection with defacement of Glen Carbon cemetery

GLEN CARBON • Edwardsville police said Saturday they have a suspect in custody in connection with the defacement of headstones and grave markers at Sunset Hill Cemetery.

Details about the 34-year-old man will be released once he is charged, police said in a post on the department’s Facebook page.

Employees at the Glen Carbon cemetery said swastikas were spray-painted on 150 to 200 headstones and markers.

Mark Johnson, grounds superintendent at the nondenominational cemetery at 50 Fountain Drive, said the defaced stones were discovered about 7:15 a.m. Saturday.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/police-say-man-in-custody-in-connection-with-defacement-of/article_826483b6-0cb9-5272-a445-4c86f2fb0a61.html?

[sarah FAILIN]

3. Right.

But if he is so dumb as to draw the thing backwards, he might not be a nazi.
It reminds me of that woman that claimed a black person carved Obama on her cheek, but truth was she did it herself looking in the mirror. I'm worried he might be a dem trying to make trouble for Nazis so I'm waiting to get mad about it till we know.

[saidsimplesimon]

2. sarah

I did a search, Washington Press appears to be a credible source. Why do you think "something isn't right"? "Faked" by whom?

[sarah FAILIN]

4. The legs are backwards

As in drawn the wrong way.

[sarah FAILIN]

5. This is the right way

[link:https://goo.gl/images/kGvEsf|]

[msongs]

6. it can face either way depending on the tradition using it...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauwastika

[sarah FAILIN]

7. But..

This is the way it is used by Hindus and Buddhists in their religions according to the link.

I'm still betting it was drawn wrong because they didn't know how.

[regnaD kciN]

8. You're correct, but...

...I'm amazed by how many homegrown Amurrican neo-Nazis draw it backwards, too.

[sarah FAILIN]

9. Well..

We already know they're stupid.

One was carved into my door once. They turned it the right direction