Smoky Mountain Knife Works

hotrodKelley said:
No, but chase has it as their logo.

How is selling a cheap knife funding anyone?
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The swastika meant alot more before Hitler adopted it.Until the Nazis used this symbol, the swastika was used by many cultures throughout the past 3,000 years to represent life, sun, power, strength, and good luck.

Doubt they are celebrating naked aggression with theirs.

I didnt say it was. Tell me who these are marketed twoards?
 
j williams said:
The swastika meant alot more before Hitler adopted it.
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Yes, but do you actually believe that when people look at that symbol today it could go back to that original meaning? Doubtful.

It was a buddist symbol for prosperity and good luck-the original meaning, in case you didn't know.
 
j williams said:
The swastika meant alot more before Hitler adopted it.Until the Nazis used this symbol, the swastika was used by many cultures throughout the past 3,000 years to represent life, sun, power, strength, and good luck.

Doubt they are celebrating naked aggression with theirs.

I didnt say it was. Tell me who these are marketed twoards?
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Do you bank with chase? Are you out protesting them?
 
Yeah I edited my post. Realized I should probably include what it meant. Didnt think you didnt know, but thought it pertinant.

You are right, to the majority of the public, that stands for hate. I dont think that it is right, however its not the same as a weapon obviously geared twoards ignorant groups.

And theirs is percieved by some to majically turn into a swastika. Its not a blatent swastika.

Not meaning to com across as confrontational bro, I do respect your opinions, and see where you are coming from.
 
hotrodKelley said:
Do you bank with chase? Are you out protesting them?
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Nope dont bank with them, and no I am not protesting them, or anyone else, I just made a decision to not buy from a company thatsells something that I dont agree with. My right as an American. I fought for those rights, and I can exersize them to whatever extent I see fit.
 
j williams said:
Truth is most companies have blood on their hands to some extent historically.
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Whats even worse is the companies that tried to over throw the U.S. Govt., that are still in business thriving in the USA

Read the book "The Maverick Marine" or the research done by John Buchanan.
 
j williams said:
And theirs is percieved by some to majically turn into a swastika. Its not a blatent swastika.

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Actually chases logo is. Not too long ago, just before their credit card commercials would start, their logo would come together and cant at a 90 degree angle, just like hitlers. This happened on several commercials, including one where a person was using their card at a gas station. I tried to get these commercials recorded, but that is next to impossible. Now when you watch a chase commercial, they have all those little swastika logos at the end. The bottom line is this: Jpmorgan chase, funded hitler, uses a swastika as their logo, (they paid someone to draft that logo) and is behind the 700 billion dollar takeover of our tax money.
 
There seems to be some confusion here. It may help clarify the discussion if we all know what we're discussing -- not books, not Nazi knives, not reproductions of Nazi knives. We're talking about modern knives, modern designs and materials, bearing no resemblance to anything used by Nazis in or before WWII, with Nazi insignia on them.

Searching Smoky Mountain Knife Works for "Nazi" gives 197 hits, such as this liner lock:
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That bears no resemblance to anything used by the SS. It's a modern junk-grade knife with SS insignia on it. Presumably made in China....

The blurb for this pantograph knife says "Nazi Paratrooper Knife The insignia on the handle is reversed but otherwise this knife is an authentic replica." Of course that's nonsense; pantograph knives didn't appear until long after WWII (and have never been issued to paratroopers of any country).
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There are 195 more....
 
Yeah dont get me started on corruption on wall street. Not a fan.

I do understand what your saying, but isnt that a bit of speculation or coincidence? If it isnt, then I agree that is a problem, but I dont bank with them, and dont see many commercials cause im not a TV kinda guy, and I am not savvy on their history or policy.
 
Thank you cougar! Those are exactly the ones I am talking about. Their is some links in the OPs post, but its nice to see what we are talking about.
 
j williams said:
Yeah dont get me started on corruption on wall street. Not a fan.

I do understand what your saying, but isnt that a bit of speculation or coincidence? If it isnt, then I agree that is a problem, but I dont bank with them, and dont see many commercials cause im not a TV kinda guy, and I am not savvy on their history or policy.
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I've researched this type of info for a few years now. Its quite disturbing. And when you try to tell people, especially Americans, (not you) because of there arrogance, or stupidity, or both, they just refuse to believe anything like this. Its quite sad actually.

Those who refuse to understand history, are doomed to repeat it. I think this is how the quote goes....:eek:
 
these kind of items are offensive to many people. nazi symbols represent one of the darkest and most evil times in human history.

modern uses of nazi themes in items like the knives in question here appeal primarily to bigots and racial/hate groups. they have no historical value. a legitimate use of a nazi symbol might be in a book about the history of the era or a scale model used in a display about WWII. these items do not in any way qualify as such

the original poster is not calling for the ban on such items (a ban which exists in modern germany and many parts of the EU, although a EU wide ban was voted down) but for a boycott on a retailer who sells such items

this is a legitimate request and one that i think some people are heeding. one does not have to fight/oppose all past or present inequities to take action on an issue. that is an impossible task.

any retailer can sell any legal item they want to. however, they must contemplate the negative publicity and effects on their reputation if they sell something that is known to be offensive.

SMKW sells such items for profit but it does so at the cost of its reputation
 
Stringfellow Hawke said:
hahaha

The Super Sport didn't appear till 1961.

Fund Hitlers war machine??
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G.M. has been around a little longer than 61.

Bradford Snell told the Washington Post in 1998 that nazi armaments minister Albert Speer once told him that hitler would never have considered invading Poland without the synthetic fuel technology provided by General Motors.
 
Was it only provided to the Nazis by GM? Or was it available to everyone?

Im not gonna boycott Jansport if a suicide bomber put his bomb in one of their backpacks.
 
hotrodKelley said:
G.M. has been around a little longer than 61.

Bradford Snell told the Washington Post in 1998 that nazi armaments minister Albert Speer once told him that hitler would never have considered invading Poland without the synthetic fuel technology provided by General Motors.
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By provided, do you mean they did business on a global scale, pre-war?

Anyways, I'm just pointing out that a SS Chevelle has about as much to do with the Nazis as the SS Minnow.
 
Stringfellow Hawke said:
By provided, do you mean they did business on a global scale, pre-war?
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NAFTA and CAFTA didnt exist then. GM had the rights to it, along with tetraethyl lead which is an additive used in avaition gasoline that hilters planes needed to fly. Why do business with someone like hilter of all people. Greed, possibly? GM believed in what hitler stood for?
 
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