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Thread #110240   Message #2521437
Posted By: bobad
21-Dec-08 - 12:07 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Peace sign
Subject: RE: BS: The Peace sign
Sigh.........if you would have read the previous posts Froggy, you would have seen that this satanic symbolism stuff is a bunch of fundie nonsense, no doubt cooked up by religious zealots to foster the righteous vs. the unsaved dichotomy they employ in order to maintain their flock safely penned.

"It was designed and completed February 21, 1958 by Gerald Holtom, a professional designer and artist in Britain for the April 4 march planned by DAC from Trafalgar Square, London to the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston in England


A conscientious objector who had worked on a farm in Norfolk during the Second World War, Holtom later wrote to Hugh Brock, editor of Peace News, explaining the genesis of his idea in greater depth: "I was in despair. Deep despair. I drew myself: the representative of an individual in despair, with hands palm outstretched outwards and downwards in the manner of Goya's Peasant Before A Firing Squad. I formalised the drawing into a line and put a circle round it."