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Title: KILL THOSE REBEL BA$TARD$ - Shopper Calls 911 to Report Confederate Merchandise
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URL Source: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/shop ... confederate-merchandise_072015
Published: Jul 13, 2015
Author: Joshua Krause
Post Date: 2015-07-13 19:38:37 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
Keywords: FIRST AMENDMENT, FREE SPEECH, CONFEDERATE, CONFEDERATE FLAG
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The politically correct mania over historical symbols has officially reached a fever pitch. Last weekend, a shopper was examining the wares of a vendor at the Redwood County Flea Market in Connecticut. There he found (gasp) Confederate and Nazi memorabilia. So what did he do? He called the cops of course. He later told the newspapers that “I was shaking and almost vomiting…I had to run. My grandmother had numbers.” He said in reference to the numbers tattooed on concentration camp victims. He also complained that the items were replicas, and not genuine historical artifacts. Of course, none of this was illegal. The local police chief told the news that “the reason no one was arrested was because the items were being sold on private property” — not to mention no laws were broken.” But that hasn’t stopped various organizations from questioning the ethics of the seller. NAACP spokesman Jason Teal said “It’s difficult because it’s on private property and it’s considered free speech,” And the regional director of the Anti-Defamation League added “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.” The mayor went so far as to see if there was anything that could be done to the seller “I had to check with the chief over what is actionable and what isn’t…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?” It seems that nobody considered whether or not selling historical memorabilia should ever be questioned in the first place. This is still a free country right? 
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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.” http://www.theamericanmirror.com/offended-flea-market-shopper-calls-911-over-confederate-merchandise/ U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
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