||| FROM THE OFFICE OF U.S. REP. RICK LARSEN |||
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representative Rick Larsen (WA-02), Ranking Member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, released the following statement after the Washington Post reported that the United States Coast Guard plans to stop classifying the swastika, nooses, Confederate flags and other harmful iconography as a hate symbol:
“Lynching is a federal hate crime. The world defeated the Nazis in 1945. The debate on these symbols is over. They symbolize hate,” Rep. Larsen said. “Coast Guard: be better.”
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The policy from the Coast Guard states:
“Divisive or hate symbols and flags are prohibited. These symbols and flags include, but
are not limited to, the following: a noose, a swastika, and any symbols or flags co-opted or
adopted by hate-based groups as representations of supremacy, racial or religious intolerance,
anti-semitism, or any other improper bias.”
Seems pretty clear to me. What I would like is for Rick to get to work on actually fixing things instead of trying to score political points. Again. term limits would help retire this tiresome fiddling while Rome burns.