EU Swastika ban?

Here’s an item from the Associated Press…
“BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union may consider banning Nazi symbols in its 25 member nations after Britain’s Prince Harry wore a swastika armband to a costume party, the bloc’s top justice official said Monday.
Photos of Prince Harry printed newspapers worldwide has urged EU ministers to discuss a Europe-wide swastika ban.
Franco Frattini, the EU’s justice and home affairs commissioner, said he was open to discussing the issue at a Jan. 27 meeting of EU justice ministers.
“It may be worth looking into the possibility of a total ban, a Europe-wide ban,” his spokesman, Friso Roscam Abbing, told reporters Monday. “Commissioner Frattini shares the general feeling of opprobrium on the use of the swastika and other Nazi symbols.”
The call came after several German conservatives, socialists and liberal democrats in the European Parliament urged a European ban following a scandal last week over photos published worldwide of Harry, third in line to the British throne, wearing the Nazi outfit.
German Socialist Helmut Kuhne called Harry a “royal idiot” for not knowing the consequences and World War II history linked to the Nazi swastika.
Germany already bans such symbols.
But British Liberal Democrat Chris Davies questioned the need to ban the swastika.
“I understand how the burden of history weighs upon my German colleagues’ view,” he said. “However, banning symbols cannot ban evil and risks playing into the hands of those who would seek to subvert the very liberties we most champion.” “

What do you think?
I don’t have a firm opinion, but I’m not sure it would do much except to appease the PC-types who seemingly want to sanitize history.