$600,000 taxpayers' money being spent to hide "swastika"

[Contrary1]

"CORONADO, Calif., -- The U.S. Navy has decided to spend as much as $600,000 for landscaping and architectural modifications to obscure the fact that one its building complexes looks like a swastika from the air.

The four L-shaped buildings, constructed in the late 1960s, are part of the amphibious base at Coronado and serve as barracks for Seabees.

From the ground and from inside nearby buildings, the controversial shape cannot be seen. Nor are there any civilian or military landing patterns that provide such a view to airline passengers.

But once people began looking at satellite images from Google Earth, they started commenting about on blogs and websites about how much the buildings resembled the symbol used by the Nazis..."

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-swastika26sep26,0,2973328.story?coll=la-home-center

[burythehatchet]

1. that's filthy.

:puke:

[Rhythm and Blue]

2. Yes, that money could have been put to a good use. nt

[burythehatchet]

5. I was referring to the building design.

[Rhythm and Blue]

9. I know. nt

[Megahurtz]

3. Completely Fucking Ridiculous.

This probably had Fuck All to do with Nazism and is only a building design that no one can see. Completely fucking ridiculous and a complete waste of Taxpayer money!
Good God people can be so stupid they bitch and whine:nopity: about the stupidest things! :eyes:

[Rhythm and Blue]

10. It's actually not one building; it's four L-shaped buildings.

Nobody noticed what they looked like together until the groundbreaking occurred in the 60s; by then, they figured it didn't matter, since people weren't allowed to fly over it anyway.

[WCGreen]

4. Hitler lives there....

[Bluestar]

6. My husband is outraged over this--says he can fix it for $100 or less n/t

[Trillo]

7. Don't zoom out!

If you do, you might see the "two bombers" attacking it!

[Bitwit1234]

8. That's been posted about before but what I can't understand

is::: how many Americans are going to fly over this building and be subjected to it every day.. just another attempt to display phony patriotism. That money could be spent on something serious.

[Rhythm and Blue]

11. Zero.

Commercial airliners are not allowed to fly over military bases.

[slackmaster]

12. Shoot, I could obscure that for about $10K

Connect the building with some nice lath and shade cloth structures, put in some subtropical gardens.

[MedleyMisty]

13. Always symbols, never substance

Have you ever noticed that? You'd better not fly another nation's flag over ours or have buildings that look like a swastika from the air, but you can stomp all over the Constitution and make it pretty clear that you're a big fan of Hitler's style of government and no one will care.

Besides, the swastika is also a Buddhist and Hindu symbol.

http://www.religionfacts.com/buddhism/symbols/swastika.htm

[blondeatlast]

14. You can't even fly a commercial or private plane over it--it's a military building.

No one saw this at all until Google Earth.

The swastika was also used by indigenous North Americans.

[maxsolomon]

15. buddhist or nazi depends on which way it spins

this one spins the nazi way. blow it up. that's quite a boner, mr. military architect.