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‘Offended’ flea market shopper calls 911 over Confederate merchandise
The American Mirror ^ | 7-12-2015 | Kyle Olsen

Posted on 07/12/2015 12:29:17 PM PDT by tcrlaf

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.

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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at theamericanmirror.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1984; again; confederate; dixie; emergency911; orwell; propaganda
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To: Teacher317

I recall all those artists arrested when they called a crucifix in a jar of urine art....NOT!


41 posted on 07/12/2015 1:44:02 PM PDT by tioga
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To: Teacher317
Huffington post quote: "This year, in honor of Christmas and the age old art world tradition of pissing people off..."

When they do it, it is tradition. When anyone else does it, it must be banned.

42 posted on 07/12/2015 1:44:23 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: tcrlaf
Selling Confederate and Nazi merchandise in Connecticut? Does Danel Malloy know about the guy?? He needs to be jailed... or at least have his income taxed at 1,000%.

Ooops, I better not give the MORONS in Connecticut any ideas..

43 posted on 07/12/2015 1:46:05 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: tcrlaf
Its not Nazi imagery that starts to make you a Nazi... its acting like a Nazi that starts to make you a Nazi

Its not the book “Mein Kampf” that starts to make a Nazi ...its burning the book “Mein Kampf” that starts to make a Nazi....

it's just one of those paradoxes of life

44 posted on 07/12/2015 1:46:45 PM PDT by tophat9000 (SCOTUS=Newspeak)
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To: tcrlaf
“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 fact that this weenie was not PROMPTLY ARRESTED FOR MISUSING AN EMERGENCY NUMBER is very indicative that our nation is quite through.

45 posted on 07/12/2015 1:47:43 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Love me like there's no tomorrow... because, hey, in New Vegas, you never know.)
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To: tcrlaf
[Weenie] says the seller told [weenie] “he was selling so much he can’t keep it in stock."

Wait.

Now this story pleases me.

Greatly.

AAAAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAH

46 posted on 07/12/2015 1:49:08 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Love me like there's no tomorrow... because, hey, in New Vegas, you never know.)
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To: Jack Hammer
That's why the shopper went to the FLEA MARKET, to buy a used brain -- from a flea!!

Flea Markets here are strange... There are a few in Tampa. One of them has a DENTIST OFFICE. I'm not sure about you, but I wouldn't get my teeth cleaned in a FLEA MARKET...

47 posted on 07/12/2015 1:52:26 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: DH

School teachers would love to have boarding schools and no parental involvement.


48 posted on 07/12/2015 2:00:12 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: tcrlaf

A product of “Government Education”.


49 posted on 07/12/2015 2:00:52 PM PDT by Original Lurker
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To: Dr. Sivana

Where is the Redwood? Is it near the Yankee Silversmith Restaurant??


50 posted on 07/12/2015 2:01:37 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: ExCTCitizen
Where is the Redwood? Is it near the Yankee Silversmith Restaurant??

The Yankee Silversmith burned down and is now a Sonic Restaurant.

Redwood is on the Hartford Turnpike (Route 150, NOT the Center Street part), and is about a mile off of one of the Wilbercross Parkway exits (Route 15). It is also near the Oakdale Theatre.
51 posted on 07/12/2015 2:05:33 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: tcrlaf

If you don’t like Confederate Flags, then I’d advise them against going to Flea Markets.

This is obviously some attention whore, someone trolling for a lawsuit, or both.

So much of our country have become similar to the Islamic fanatics or Nazis. They want to destroy symbols and even the people that contradict their beliefs.


52 posted on 07/12/2015 2:09:30 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: tcrlaf

If this man was actually having that kind of meltdown, he is completely insane.


53 posted on 07/12/2015 2:20:05 PM PDT by odawg
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To: tcrlaf

Why wasn’t the whining pussy arrested for placing a false emergency call to 911?


54 posted on 07/12/2015 2:22:10 PM PDT by Iron Munro (We may be paranoid but that doesn't mean they aren't really after us)
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To: tcrlaf

Dear Prudence - Advice on manners and morals: Confederate Flag Dilemma; Someone in my apartment complex flies a Confederate flag. What can I do?
http://www.slate.com/articles/video/dear_prudence/2015/07/dear_prudence_video_confederate_flag_dilemma.html


55 posted on 07/12/2015 2:25:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: GOYAKLA

Exactly, same behavior.


56 posted on 07/12/2015 2:53:53 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: tcrlaf

Fascism: some thoughts....

1922, originally used in English 1920 in its Italian form (see fascist). Applied to similar groups in Germany from 1923; applied to everyone since the rise of the Internet.

A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion. [Robert O. Paxton, “The Anatomy of Fascism,” 2004]


57 posted on 07/12/2015 2:54:50 PM PDT by B212
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To: tenthirteen
"George Patton would have slapped the hell out of this guy.

General Patton wouldn't know America as it exists today. The 'Progressives' have been hard at work in every meaningful place where they can....

58 posted on 07/12/2015 3:28:05 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: tcrlaf

“”The caller complained that the Confederate items were “not authentic” and were replicas of flags and weapons.””

The caller was offended and then complained that the items were only replicas - not the real thing????


59 posted on 07/12/2015 3:56:19 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Dr. Sivana

When did the Yankee Silversmith burned down?? IIRC they had a nice dining car there....what happened to the car...


60 posted on 07/12/2015 4:05:40 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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