Posted on 07/11/2015 11:22:11 AM PDT by markomalley
Over the weekend, Wallingford police were dispatched after someone called them to say there was a merchant selling Nazi and Confederate memorabilia at flea market, which some had found deeply offensive. The police chief says no one was arrested because no laws were broken; the items were being sold on private property.
It’s not clear if the items that were being sold were authentic, but they’re easy to find in Connecticut. Military Specialties, Inc. in Newington sells a variety of historical military objects, including those produced by the Third Reich and Confederate reproductions.
“It’s here and you’re likely to see it,” said co-owner William Moore. “If you want, we’ll talk to you about it and give you the history about it.”
Moore says he supports the caller who dialed up police and is sympathetic to what they felt. As a dealer of commodities with a controversial past, he can see both sides.
“This is America, you can buy and sell whatever you care to,” said Moore.
Police say the mayor’s office is looking into a complaint made over the incident.
Police dispatchers need to be given authority in some cases to simply say “no, we’re not sending police because that’s not illegal”.
Really stupid.
I lived 6 years in Connecticut and since they only used back license plates, had a confederate license plate on the front of my red truck. Drove it every day to downstate NY, even through the Bronx to JFK sometimes.
Never had a thought of it being a racist symbol, but the symbol of a proud people seeking freedom from the oppressive government.
In my town someone called the police on a guy because he was driving a jeep with no doors on it, and they actually sent an officer out.
The 11th amendment which was lost Freedom from offense
“after someone called them to say there was a merchant selling Nazi and Confederate memorabilia at flea market, which some had found deeply offensive.”
I’ve no love for anything Nazi-related, obviously. There is a certain hypocrisy, however, in taking offense at that ,and then informing the authorities about a fellow citizen who is doing something (completely legal) you don’t like.
I saw civil war era firearms at a gunshow. Should I have called the police?
Yet Holder and Gutierrez’s peeps rape and kill with impunity and nothing is done about it....
Selling & buying Nazi/Confederate memorabilia is now probably considered a heavier offense than murder—just ask the idiot Sheriff of SF.
"In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence."
Who called the cops and does the victim have a harassment case against them.
Point number two:
Is the government guilty of official oppression for even going out on this call?
That's coming.
Pajama Boy.
Can anyone show me a law that says it’s illegal to “offend” some ***hole.
The American Gestapo at work.
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Even more ominously, it will be used in reverse to justify crime.
Think about if a guy wore a confederate hat and some blacks came down on him and beat him up.
Do you not think that would be ‘justifiable’ although it should be a hate crime?
"But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters." 1 Peter 4:15
Not Gestapo...Stasi.
Simon Weisenthal,the famous Nazi hunter (and concentration camp survivor) said in the Introduction of the book "Stasi" that they were *worse* than the Gestapo.
I knew a guy once who owned a German pistol which he took off the body of a slain enemy. Possessing the enemy's stuff is one of the benefits of being the victor and not the vanquished.
We're not going to do as well in the next world war as we did in the last one.
So should the dispatcher who actually took the call serious.
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