by Hugh Manatee Wins » Thu Apr 06, 2006 4:33 am
Is there a neo-Nazi reference in DD? Try this on.<br><br>Thoughtographer wrote-"Here's an interesting bit":<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Jim Cunningham's hypocrisy is displayed on two levels during Donnie Darko. In the Tangent Universe, Frank instructs Donnie Darko to burn Cunningham's house. Donnie obeys, and the fire reveals a secret stash of child pornography, dubbed by the media as the "Kiddie Porn Dungeon". Cunningham's career is destroyed, and faces court charges (allowing Donnie to take revenge for what Jim had done to him earlier). Alternatively, in the Primary Universe, ten days after Donnie's <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>jet engine death,</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> Cunningham is <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>found dead on hole fourteen</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> by a group of golfers at the Saratosa Heights Country Club golf course, on <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>October 12, 1988.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> His body has an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound. Strangely, the police search his Middlesex compound for a suicide note, only to find the interior of the house completely bare. His corporate successor, Linda Connie, issues a statement saying<br><br> "We are shocked and devastated by the loss of our dear friend, Jim Cunningham. He was an example of excellence in life. His vision of love will live on for ages, and we will not allow another survivor to succumb to the path of fear." (Transcript from the Middlesex Times - Dispatch, October 12, 1988, Donnie Darko Official Website)<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Someone upthread wrote that "there were lots of '8's and '88's."<br><br>'88' is a white supremecist code for 'Heil Hitler' (10/12/88) and '14 words' is also a white supremecist code (14th hole). These are related to 'The Order,' a neo-Nazi group run by William Pierce who once worked on jet propulsion at Pratt and Whitney (jet engine death.)<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.tolerance.org/rthas/section4_1_2.jsp">www.tolerance.org/rthas/section4_1_2.jsp</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Symbols of Hate<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>88</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br>This number, widely used by neo-Nazis and others, is shorthand for "Heil Hitler." H is the eighth letter of the alphabet, and so the abbreviation H.H. is translated as 88.<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>14 Words</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br>Shorthand for a slogan coined by David Lane, an imprisoned member of the Order, or Silent Brotherhood: "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for White children." The Order was a revolutionary neo-Nazi group responsible for the theft of millions of dollars in armored car heists and the murder of a Jewish radio talk show host in the 1980s.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4468047-103684,00.html">www.guardian.co.uk/print/...84,00.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>William Pierce, the leading ideologue of America's neo-Nazi movement,</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> who published a book that inspired the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995, has died of cancer aged 68. A trained physicist, Pierce founded the National Alliance, the most successful, wealthiest and best-organised hate group in the US, which he ran from a building on his 400 acres of grounds near Hillsboro, West Virginia. The movement never had more than about 1,500 members, but Pierce's influence extended well beyond his membership.<br>....<br>Pierce inspired other hate crimes, including a wave of <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>violent robberies and murders during the 1980s carried out by the Order, another white supremacist splinter group, and the machine-gun murder of the Jewish radio talk show host Alan Berg in Denver in 1984. </strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br>....<br>Pierce was also a shrewd manipulator of his potential public. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>He formed a group called the National Youth Alliance in 1970 and believed in recruiting from the young. </strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br>....<br>After teaching physics at Oregon State University, and <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>working briefly in jet propulsion at a Pratt & Whitney laboratory</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->, he turned to extremist politics in the mid-1960s...<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <p></p><i></i>