I nominate myself in the category of “Most Fascist Avatar.”
raincoaster’s avatar is, in a sense, not unique, yet in another sense it is utterly unique Why? Because the Department of Homeland Security, Total Information Awareness Unit which originated the avatar almost immediately foreswore it once the blowback hit. It may be the most Masonic, New World Orderish, Aleistar Crowleyian logo the world has ever seen, and raincoaster doubts very much if the US government would dispute her use of this image, for fear of having to admit they designed it.
thememoryhole.org/policestate/iao-logo.htm
Scientia est Potentia means “Knowledge is Power“
raincoaster 
Wow. I came over here to get a closer look and now I’m just really scared! That’s a very creepy logo, although for a moment I thought the little phrase on the bottom said something like “science is polenta” but then I looked closer and saw that couldn’t possibly be true.
Best, BL
Hey, the category should have warned you! What’s really scary is that the programs that this logo was meant to represent are still going on; that whole “wiretap without a warrant” thing is a part of it.
“Science is polenta” would be a good Monty Python line though.
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I didn’t know the story behind that logo since I joined WordPress almost a year later, but thanks to the Avatar forum thread, now I know. It figures our government would come up with that Orwellian logo. My “It’s a new year” entry actually touches on the privacy and rights issue (although I don’t name anything specifically other than the Patriot Act).
That’s all you NEED to say.