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September 16, 2008 at 9:14 pm

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Dear Sirs

I bought your paper from a stall in Manchester upon reading your petition against post office closures. It is not usually something I’d read as I’m not traditionally Socialist.
I’m replying as to the letter concerning the WWII renactments and I couldn’t agree more. My small Northern town is annually subjected to the annual ‘Yanks’ weekend where we are invaded by American army trucks, tanks and jeeps. Not only this but British and German militaria the later is not the German Wehrmacht/Army offering but is of the full on SS kind. This sickens me and has sinister connotations. What would people say if I was to dress up in striped panamas, shave my head and stencil a number on my arm and offer this as my contribution to renacting WWII? I’d probably be accused of ruining the weekend or arrested for some public order offence.
Why don’t we go the whole hog and smash the town up and say we’re renacting the British bombing of Dresden that these Allied actors seem to forget in there romantic illusion of WWII.
It seems funny that all this war material is floating around when our government is sending British youths there deaths in there trumped up war without the proper equipment. Someone should remind these re-enactors of this while they do there jive dancing round my local pubs each summer.
September 17, 2008 at 8:42 am

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Fair play for actually protesting this, particularly as someone from our generation

I find the fact such “reenactments” of war within living memory are allowed to happen rather chilling TBH, especially as being a antiques dealer you know your stuff when it comes to military uniforms and what you mention shows a glorification of the Nazi imagery (try that in todays Germany and they would get arrested within seconds, despite otherwise having similar free speech laws to the UK!)

although as you would expect round here in EA there are many veterans’ reunions and displays of old equuipment I don’t think our councils would allow a actual reenactment of a WW II battle, especially as a lot of actual veterans still live here.

many are in fact suffering from serious mental health problems like dementia and although I’m no doctor I would say that exposing them to this imagery could trigger off flashbacks so I don’t think its acceptable or respectful to do these things

I find these things more a glorification of war by those centre-right types who may stop short of wanting a “New Hitler” but they certainly want Britain to go back to the 1940s or 1950s before the permissive and multicultural society of today..
September 17, 2008 at 9:38 am

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were not talkin about vetrans here its these idiots who drive round in 1940s trucks and dressing up as soldiers. vetrans have a right to march in memory of falen comrades from all sides.
these re-enactors look at the war through rose tinted glasses and seem to forget what actualy happens in war. or maybe some of these that dress upp as gestapo or ss troops actualy do know and get some sick thrill out of it.

theres one thing preserving the past as history with antiques from the war but dressing up and bringing it back to life is not right. theres enough war going on in this word without people acting it out, were not 6 yearolds with sticks as rifels.

ps i’m not an antiques dealer no more i went bankrupt on monday.
September 17, 2008 at 10:00 am

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MrAHC;236174 wrote:

these re-enactors look at the war through rose tinted glasses and seem to forget what actualy happens in war. or maybe some of these that dress upp as gestapo or ss troops actualy do know and get some sick thrill out of it.

TBH I suspect there is a element of that, its middle englands snide way of showing their anger with todays permissive multicultural society, and using our “right to free speech and expression” to get away with crap like this.

most of the people doing this are 40-60 and mostly well off (the militaria is fairly expensive these days) but just slightly too young to remember the actual war.

most real WW II veterans are mostly too old to drive let alone run about re-enacting stuff they would rather forget – one of the places I do IT work for is a nursing home and the staff there have to deal with the older clients having these flashbacks from the wartime., waking up screaming in the night thinking they are being bombed etc..
September 17, 2008 at 10:43 am

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General Lighting;236185 wrote:

TBH I suspect there is a element of that, its middle englands snide way of showing their anger with todays permissive multicultural society, and using our “right to free speech and expression” to get away with crap like this.

I’m anti permissive culture, well i’m anti the way people go round shagging eachother randomly and other sutch perversions. I’ve nothing against multi cutralism and am troditionaly an anachist so i’m anti capitalist.

I’m saddend by the way people have no respect for themselvs and there partners by the way permisive sex, porn, cheeting and all its asosiated perversions is undermining society. It shows selfishness, mistrust and lack of self respect. I wish people had more morals it reflects our selfish society and the way we are going in the world. As berlin was surounded and the last days of nazi germany came to an end huge drunken orgies were held where masive amounts of alcahol were drunk and everyone had a huge swingers party every inhabition was droped. It goes to show that if people behave like this were coming to the end……………
September 17, 2008 at 10:55 am

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MrAHC;236195 wrote:

I’m anti permissive culture, well i’m anti the way people go round shagging eachother randomly and other sutch perversions. I’ve nothing against multi cutralism and am troditionaly an anachist so i’m anti capitalist.

with “permissive society” there needs to be a balance between respect and freedom and perhaps in this context tolerance is a better term than “permissiveness”.

I don’t like the breakdown of stable relationships and friendships either (came from a family where my mum and dad stayed together until my dad passed on, and that was rare even in the 80s)

It was only recently though (the 1980s) that people were able to freely discuss sex and sexual matters in Britain on the media or even in public.

There are a lot of threads on here of bizzare sexual practices which I don’t partake in nor have any desire to do so – I also concerned over the image they must give to coppers/journos etc of the party scene..

“free speech” always has a price…

One big worry of mine is how if Middle England “wins”, Britain could easily become a multicultural but authoritarian society, in a similar fashion to many of its former colonies.. its only tolerant societies that allow websites like this [discussing many controversial subjects in legal grey areas] to even exist…
September 17, 2008 at 2:14 pm

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AHC, you should wear your stripped pyjamas, shave your head and put a fake tattoo on your arm. I’t would be well funny and be a more powerful statement than 10,000 words could achieve.
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