36. Weldonkrieg Daily Talking Point #36: Flags, restaurants and German uniforms Unless you have been living in a hole for the last week in the reenacting community, you have probably heard of the Minneapolis restaurant fiasco. Having a WWII reenactor dinner with swastika flags on the walls, and on Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend….hmm…what could go wrong with this plan? We have zero tolerance for that stuff at Weldon. No swastika flags will be flown, and no German tunics worn off the installation. We don’t want to be a cover story in the Riverfront Times in conjunction with the Minneapolis paper. Here are some expected responses for those who might be upset: 1. This infringes on our First Ammendment Rights! No…by coming to our event you agree to playing by our rules. If you don’t like it, then you don’t have to attend. There is a difference between a campsite at an event you are invited to attend and standing on a public street corner. Go talk to the ACLU…our Weldonkrieg legal department will get back to them. They are Dewey, Cheatam and Howe in Cambridge, MA. 2. This isn’t fair…..the Allies get to do it! That’s right they do, but this is also the country of the veterans who won the war. Yep..its unfair. So what. It’s pretty simple…we won’t put up with it. If someone is going to be that way and push the issue on us, don’t attend. If you do something stupid like happened in Minnesota, we won’t tolerate it, and make excuses for it. We hope the gate hits you on the butt as you roll out of the site.
Posted on: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 00:05:50 +0000
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