Posted on 01/06/2018 12:56:20 PM PST by Simon Green
Shelton shopkeeper Janice Danker said she’s receiving death threats.
The reason?
She accepted an antique German Nazi flag on consignment and hung it near a collection of World War II items in her store.
A few days ago, someone took a photo of the flag at her shop, Games and Needful Things, and posted it on Facebook. Danker said the phone at her antique and secondhand store has been ringing nonstop ever since, and she’s received hundreds of phone calls, emails and social media messages.
Many of the people are angry that a Nazi flag was displayed in and being sold by her shop, saying it’s a symbol of hate.
“They called me a Nazi, racist bigot,” Danker said. “One guy … said he was going to burn my shop down. Another said he was going to come down and put a bullet through my head.”
One Shelton mother said it was upsetting that Danker was getting threats, but she didn’t want to take her children into the shop if the Nazi flag was on display.
“It’s hurtful to people,” Laura, who didn’t want her last name published, told KING-5 News. “You don’t want to walk in and see that. It’s like it hits you in the side of the face.”
Shelton Police detectives contacted Danker after they heard about the threats, but Danker declined to file a formal complaint, said Andy Arnes, a spokesman for the city of Shelton.
Still others have supported of Danker’s choice to sell the Nazi flag. Danker said a World War II veteran told her she should keep it up because a lot of people lost their lives for it.
Another woman told her that her mom lived in Germany during World War II. “She said, ‘People need to not forget, so this never happens again,’ ” Danker said. “She literally begged me to keep this up.”
But it won’t likely stay up. Danker said she was contacted Thursday by someone who wants to pay $375 for it.
She said she plans to continue to carry antique items in her shop, even if they draw criticism.
Over the past 11 years, she said, she’s sold many items that could be found offensive. For example, she’s sold slave shackles that were on consignment. And right now she has a Confederate flag in the shop.
She also has a communion plate.
Danker said she thinks the drama created by the Nazi flag is ridiculous.
“I just think that people need to wake up and realize that these are pieces of history,” Danker said. “And, yes, it was in a bad time of history. But it is part of our history.”
On the other hand, if she had hung up a picture of Mao or Stalin she’d be the darling of liberals everywhere.
“History is bunk”.....Brave New World
It’d be really nice if you’d give us a hint where this is happening.
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Shelton, WA per link
Why wou anybody threaten to shoot her when they could have just bought the flag for $375 and burned it?
Who shoots somebody over $375?
Evidently the State of Washington.
Is that in communist WA or American WA?
Not having read the whole thing all I can say is that I hope and *pray* that she’s a progressive “Impeach Trump For Treason” kind of gal!
KING is a Seattle TV station...so probably somewhere in their viewing area.
The bullet threats are the work of anifa type psychos. Jews express themselves through ADL.
I see Nazi stuff at gun shows all the time. It’s not to make a statement as much as to make a buck. Probably mostly counterfeit. Big deal.
Can’t tell from here.
Pretty much sums up how you dumb ass liberals think my guns are going to act, too, right, snowflake?
Fookin' liberals need to get a life.
Get all loosy-bowel over a damned piece of cloth.
How 'bout bringing your worthless kids in and showing them the symbol of something that was fought over, that destroyed lives, that caused man to do things to humankind that was unheard of...and teaching them why we never want to allow the actions of such people that act under such symbols...and to make them understand that a damned symbol is not going to hurt them...but the asshole that acts upon that symbol will.
No, scream senselessly and clap your hands over your ears, run around with your hair on fire...and go vote for a damned Bernie or a Hillary, who would take your right to defend yourself against such horror.
Stupid asses.
And did so without a trace of the hypocrisy involved.
I had to ask. :-)
Pfl
Google is your friend:
http://gamesandneedfulthings.webstarts.com/
and
https://www.google.com/search?q=Games+and+Needful+Things%2C+shelton%2Cwa&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
I have a Nazi dagger. It’s a war trophy brought back by a relative who was in the victorious American Army. Victors often bring back war trophies of this nature, and said trophies get passed down. I am damn sure not a Nazi, or a Communist, or believer in any other totalitarian ideology. Though those issuing death threats to this antique shop owner may well be.
Shelton is a sleepy little town 20 miles from Olympia, the state’s capitol. It’s also in range of the uber-lefty denizens of Evergreen College where communists are considered too far to the right.
Probably one of the aunty-fags passing through.
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