Dave Edwards offends everyone, by making the symbolism on a 97 year old object a “me” thing.  I rember seeing John Otto’s rock outside the museum when I was a child and understand the “swastika” preceded nazism and was never intended to reflect that vile movement.  Mr. Edwards is not fit for public office if he intends to use it for his own narrow minded agenda.

A little more history needed here?  How about educating those who care to learn if they will just take the blinders off and forget their personal agendas.

This from Wikipedia:
The swastika shape was used by some Native Americans. It has been found in excavations of Mississippian-era sites in the Ohio and Mississippi River valleys. It is frequently used as a motif on objects associated with the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (S.E.C.C.). It was also widely used by many southwestern tribes, most notably the Navajo. Among various tribes, the swastika carried different meanings. To the Hopi it represented the wandering Hopi clan; to the Navajo it was one symbol for a whirling log (tsil no’oli), a sacred image representing a legend that was used in healing rituals.[28] A brightly colored First Nations saddle featuring swastika designs is on display at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum in Canada.[29]

A swastika shape is a symbol in the culture of the Kuna people of Kuna Yala, Panama. In Kuna tradition it symbolizes the octopus that created the world, its tentacles pointing to the four cardinal points.[30]

In February 1925 the Kuna revolted vigorously against Panamanian suppression of their culture, and in 1930 they assumed autonomy. The flag they adopted at that time is based on the swastika shape, and remains the official flag of Kuna Yala. A number of variations on the flag have been used over the years: red top and bottom bands instead of orange were previously used, and in 1942 a ring (representing the traditional Kuna nose-ring) was added to the center of the flag to distance it from the symbol of the Nazi party.[31]

This symbol has been dated back to 10,000 BC..and used through the ages by many different cultures,as Mr. Patton pointed out. The Nazis took that symbol, the swastika, the same as the Gay movement has chosen to use the rainbow as their symbol.  I find that choice to be as offensive as the Nazi’s using the Swastika. The rainbow, as written in Genesis 9:15, is the sign of a covenant between Him and earth that he would not bring a deluge of water (flood) to destroy evil on earth.