Wow... Didn't expect that.

When you post comments on fringe, third party websites you don't usualy expect a response... But when I signed the guestbook of the CFPA's website, I got quite a response. It was Sean's idea to sign it so I take no responsibility.

Here was what I posted:

I'm a devout Roman Catholic and I appreciate your appearent devotion to traditional christian values. However, I object to your missuse ofthe Cross of Jerusalem as a nationalist symbol.

The Knights of the Holy Sepulchre defended Jerusalem for the sake of keeping pilgrimages to Jerusalem open to all Christians. They took a vow to the Holy Church which transcends nationality (hence the term 'Catholic' which means universal.) In your descriptive pages you espouse a nationalist patriotism to the United States which, while commendable, is seperate from the charism of the Knights whoes symbol you use. To honor these great knights, whoes order still exists, I would ask that you reconcider your primary symbol.

Thank you.

And here's what I got:

Dear illuminati11_13,

We are sorry to disappoint you but the CFPA will never give this symbol up, we've had it for too many years. The Knights of the Holy Sepulchre use a Jerusalem cross with four smaller crosses inside of it, we do not, also the Knights do not have a monopoly on the Jerusalem cross and neither does the Catholic church.

Our Cross was used by Engelbert Dollfuss a Catholic and an Austrian Nationalist
(www.dollfuss.org) and it was used by the Crusaders who fought the Moslems who are still our enemies. Our Party envisions a day when there are Christian Falangist Parties throughout the World and all concerned Christians, regardless of race and nationality, are united under the crutch cross to defend our civilization against the Islamic hordes who seek to destroy us.

We do not misuse the crutch cross but there are others who do (www.falange1.com/misuse.htm) but that will not stop us from using it either. You are not the first person to try and get us to drop that cross as our symbol....they say "it looks too much like a swastika" or "it looks like a neo-Fascist or a neo-Nazi symbol" etc. It sure seems like a lot of people don't like us using it, that's good, it'll make them remember us. Thank you for signing our guestbook but we'll keep our cross just the same.

Patricio Bridges, Director, CFPA.

Below are the spelling errors you left in our guestbook:

appearent is spelled apparent
borring is spelled boring
missuse is spelled misuse
reconcider is spelled reconsider
seperate is spelled separate
whoes is spelled whose

Wow. I got the director. There's a picture of him on their website in what appears to be paramilitary garb. I'm glad he can spell because I had no idea that 'whoes' was really spelled 'whose.' In my defense, I've been sleep deprived for the past week studying for midterms. Spelling errors are a part of life for me. I'm not going to fight them on their use of the Jerusalem Cross; I don't have the time or will. Besides, I have little real fear that they will be able to corrupt it's meaning in the public mindset. I think I'll go to bed instead. I have a splitting headache...