Thread:John Breasly/@comment-1999071-20120821234344/@comment-3242795-20120822201937

Sorry, Joshua. But I have a few problems. My avatar is not "offensive," in any way. My avatar is the previous logo on the infamous griefing team featured on YouTube, known as Team Avolition. The team chose this logo, not to offend anyone, but to make a statement. The Star of David is obviously the bigger symbol on this logo, but the logo inside is clearly the Nazi Swastika. This is left as a message. The Nazis are considered evil, but they had a purpose behind everything they did. And they fought hard and long for it. There's something to be said for that. The Star of David is also featured because in the Holocaust, the Jews who were taken and sent to the concentration/death camps were innocent of the crimes the Nazis accused them of. The symbol simply states "I am not good, but I have innocence." Team Avolition chose this because while they are a griefing team, they only grief servers with harsh/abusive administrators, though others may get damaged in the process. This is a statement towards what I am in Pirates Online. I am a powerful man, and though my actions may not pride me, nor will they be favorable to everyone, I fight for a cause. And that in itself should deem a man with some form of innocence in the face of prosecution. I understand at first glance I am considered "wretched" for having the Swastika, a "symbol" of evil inside the Star of David, the symbol of those persecuted by the Nazis, but it has an underlying meaning that I feel should not cause anyone to have comments deleted simply because of said logo.

--  John Breasly ,  |  Historian of the POTCOPW  20:19, August 22, 2012 (UTC)