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.
Intimidation by the PC lobby. Give them an inch (Confederate flag in SC)and they take a mile.
“Moore says he supports the caller who dialed up police “
This statement does not fit the rest of the story.
I agree.
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The person who called this in needs to be arrested for filing a false police report. Or whatever the local terminology is for intentionally doing something that results in the police being called out for a frivolous matter.
I’ve taken part in WWII reenactments. I’ve gone to the big WWII weekend in Reading PA, and going up to the annual Battle of the Bulge Reenactment in PA is on my bucket list. Preferably riding around in a restored Sherman :-)
You can’t have decent reenactments WITHOUT THE BAD GUYS. And for a lot of WWII reenactments, if you want any accuracy at all, that’s going to involve people playing the roles of SS (specifically Waffen SS).
Which means they need to be outfitted as SS. Which means, yes, lots of “uncomfortable” and “offensive” things like the double lightning bolts, the Nazi swastika, and the like.
Stuff like that is going to be bought and sold at things like flea markets. The flea market at the Reading WWII weekend is incredibly impressive, and they sell a heck of a lot of Nazi stuff. And funny enough, the folks selling it and buying it were reenactors, with nary a skinhead or NeoNazi to be seen. Probably because any who showed up would have gotten their a**es kicked.
Law darts are dangerous....lawn darts are fun!
heheheheh ... unintentional typo, but it worked!
The police are now routinely called to enforce political correctness horse$h!t.
While they’re looking for an illegal way to arrest someone guilty of no crime, murderers and rapists are attacking Whites.
“War is Hell”
If you don’t know you are in a war...
things like 9-11, Homo “marriage” happen.
You can catch up...but it is difficult.
Win big enough and one can put the losers on trial — and skate on one’s own malfeasance.
Sir, you put your statement in Quotes, can I get the citation for that quote? I am in complete sympathy with you and I would like to pursue some changes in our legal system whereby anyone who complains must be the “witness” or no complaint goes forward. It would stop most busybodies in their tracks.
It’s called the sixth amendment to our (US of A) Constitution.
The person who called should be charged with something
There was a story earlier this week about some female who called 911 because she felt that there was something wrong with her fast-food order (I kid you not). The cops did arrest her. I guess it’s a discretionary thing (I’d bust them, too).
Gross & Public Stupidity should be illegal. lol
Well, yeah, that’s something different entirely. My great uncle Bobby brought home several nifty souvenirs “donated” by some of the Japanese he fought on Saipan. I totally get what you’re saying.
I was thinking more in terms of the sort of replica stuff neonazi trash buy these days - imitation Hitler youth knives, etc. But, it could well be that the stuff this dealer was selling were things taken off of dead Nazis. So, fair point.
The founders forgot to put that in. Justices Kennedy and Roberts will correct that oversight with the hearty concurrence of Breyer,Sotomayor, and Ginsburg and the mean spirited dissents by Scalia, Alioto, and Thomas who are Fascists and racist haters.
If that was the case, half the country would be in jail, and most of the population of Massachusetts, New York and California.
More tidbits:
A shopper perusing the merchandise at the Redwood Country Flea Market was so offended by a vendor selling Confederate and Nazi historical memorabilia, the person actually called 911.
Wallingford, Connecticut police were dispatched to the flea market to investigate.
Confederate memorabilia. (Example)
The police chief William Wright tells News 8 “the reason no one was arrested was because the items were being sold on private property” — not to mention no laws were broken.
“There was a table set up with this material,” Wright says, according to Journal-Record. “It’s not criminally illegal, but obviously it offended this person. It causes some people a sense of being uncomfortable. Certainly the owner could preclude this merchandise.”
The town resident who called 911 said there were helmets with swastikas, images of Hitler and other historical Nazi items.
“I was shaking and almost vomiting,” he tells the paper. “I had to run. My grandmother had numbers,” referring to the digits the Nazis would tattoo on prisoners.
The caller complained that the Confederate items were “not authentic” and were replicas of flags and weapons.
He says the seller told him “he was selling so much he can’t keep it in stock.”
Jason Teal, president of the Meriden-Wallingford NAACP, was contacted to see what he thought.
“It’s difficult because it’s on private property and it’s considered free speech,” Teal says.
According to the paper, the complainant also called Mayor William W. Dickinson Jr., who promptly called Chief Wright.
“I had to check with the chief over what is actionable and what isn’t,” according to the mayor. “Unless something violates state or federal law, there’s no jurisdiction for government to do anything. We had to ask, is it something controlled by law?”
And the assistant regional director of the Anti-Defamation League in Connecticut sees a difference between authentic memorabilia and “cheap replicas” “used as symbols of hate.”
“It’s unfortunate that under the law people have the right to sell these things; but it doesn’t mean they should sell these things,” Joshua Sayles says.
“It’s not a crime but I would call it hate. People look at the situation in Charleston and say it’s down in the South. But this stuff is here in Connecticut.”
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