Jesse James found himself in a good bit of hot water after the heavily-tattooed Michelle Bombshell McGee announced in In Touch Weekly that she had an affair with the chopper-building husband of Sandra Bullock while the actress was filming her award-winning movie Blind Side in Atlanta last year.
The temperature got turned up a notch when photos surfaced earlier this week of Michelle wearing a Nazi-themed costume complete with swastika armband and a World War II German officer’s hat. Soon after that documents from her divorce surfaced which revealed that her ex-husband Ronald Shane Modica had stated she is a white supremacist, mentally ill, abuses pills and chose a stripper name that’s the same as her son. And now TMZ is claiming they have a photo of Jesse in a similar Nazi hat to the one Michelle was wearing in her pictures, and that he is giving a Nazi salute! (UPDATE – CLICK HERE to see the photo!)
I guess I’d like to throw another log on the fire under the pot that Jesse James is boiling in with the observation that Nazi-themed elements play very heavily in the marketing of Jesse’s company West Coast Choppers. First there is the German Iron Cross logo that is on just about everything West Coast Choppers sells – here it is side-by-side with a German Iron cross from World War II:
That could be written off as coincidence, but I ran across this poster online and I immediately thought of the Nazi eagle. I did a little surfing and found this eagle from the Nuremberg Rallies:
That is just plain creepy. And most of the Nazi symbols from the World War II era had the swastika turned 45 degrees, just like the West Coast Choppers Iron Cross in the poster. Here is an authentic sign from that era:
I understand that the custom bike world is all about rebellion, but you have to draw the line at this kind of stuff. Whether Jesse was just using the taboo as a marketing ploy or he actually supports some sort of white supremacist philosophy, he should be ashamed.
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It’s not nazi, it’s an iron cross, look carefully and ya will see the Pope with the same cross on his hat.
the more people complain about jesse the more i like him. the only thing he should be ashamed of is marrying sandra bullock!
Let’s start from the beginning.. At least my country was occupied by the Nazi’s. My Grand dad was a freedom fighter and was caught and put in a contration camp.. I know the story!
First The Iron Cross.. This Cross was not invented by the Nazi’s, it was an order given to soldiers in the German Army as far back as WWI.
The Eagle was a symbol that Hitler stole from the old Roman legions.
The swastika is original a 3000 year old symbol used in many old cultures such as India, Budishm, even in Greece and England.. The name of the symbol means good to be..
Hitler copied everything!!
There’s nothing wrong in using the symbols today.. If they referre to their original meaning..
Sorry if my spelling is bad.. My english writing is a bit rusty..
Greetings from DENMARK (THE OLDEST KINGDOM IN THE WORLD!!)
MOVE ON, SS Army was terminated 800 years ago!
the one who should be ashamed is the one who make this stupid comparison!
this is just stupid attempt of study.
west coast choppers like germanic roots they like also beers…
the iron cross and the eagle symbolism were used long ago before the nazi era which last only a decade+. you can also compare german symbol pre wwII or pre wwI and you would find also iron cross and eagle. this symbol come from middle ages or even earlier. the fact that nazi used them is that their ideas came from the root of the germanic which include those symbol. nazi didn’t create them over night during their period. So this comparison is futile unless they use the true nazi symbol which is the clockwise tilted swastika. (which is even not so nazi after all…)
The cross in the WCC is not at a 45 degree angle like the cross in the Nazi Eagle.
Also the Nazi Iron Cross you speak of was used during the Crusades as the Templar Knights symbol. They planted them in the cities the protected and Marched with them on their banners and on on there uniforms and shields.
Sorry but I have to say your wrong in posting this against Jesse G. James.
are you guys for real??? i think your digging for material. jesse was the first guy to have a black man in a advertisement for easyrider. the warbird also has been used before. its a tabboo and i agree with rm badas* symbols supporting the anti everything movement.
The iron cross, predates the nazi. These are all prussian military symbols. The nazi incorporated them when they came into power. Both, Biker and Heavy Metal culture have a fascination with them, maybe because they are badas* symbols