WTF!?!

Re-enactments are not compatible with their role? Fuck me!

Look, if you are into military history and take part in re-enactments, you dress up according to the military history of the period – whether it is Azincourt, English Civil War, American Civil War or, as in this case, WWII. So they dressed up as the Boche. So fucking what? It’s a perfectly reasonable leisure  activity. Plenty of people do it.

Two serving policemen and a Ministry of Defence employee have been pictured dressing up as Nazi soldiers for a Second World War re-enactment.

MoD staffer Aaron Buckingham, 50, assumed the character of a Nazi corporal.

Yes? And? So? It’s a fucking re-enactment. So fucking what?

While Sergeant Andy Dunlop, 48, of Devon and Cornwall Police and Hampshire Police Constable Simon Merritt, 43, took on the role of German soldiers.

Again, so fucking what? It’s play acting.

But only two of the trio had permission from their employers, according to the Sun on Sunday.

WTF!?! Why on earth would they need permission to partake in a perfectly harmless activity? Seriously? Yes, yes, Plod and all that. But if they need to get permission to take part in this kind of activity, then the police force is taking itself too damned seriously. They were off duty. They were taking part in a perfectly reasonable and harmless activity. So, again, so fucking what? Some snowflakes got offended because Nazis? Was that it?

Sgt Dunlop’s employers Devon and Cornwall Police were unimpressed, stating such activities were ‘not compatible’ with the role of constables.

Bullshit!

PC Buckingham told The Sun: ‘I can understand why people are offended.’ But added that they weren’t ‘closet Nazis or anything’.

Anyone who was offended does not need understanding, they need to be offended good and hard on a regular basis until they learn to develop a sense of perspective. And the police force concerned needs to learn to stop enabling this offendatory.

A spokesman for the MoD said it was satisfied the uniform was needed for accuracy purposes and did not interfere with Mr Buckingham’s work.

Quite. So the MoD are off the hook. Because it doesn’t interfere with his work – it being a leisure activity in his leisure time and is therefore none of his employer’s business.

Devon and Cornwall Police however, issued a statement saying ‘such activities are not compatible with the role of a PC’.

Fucking idiots.

Hampshire Police said officers are entitled to a ‘private life’.

Precisely – whether that means driving around in a little tank adorned with swastikas or drawing a longbow against the French. And if anyone is offended, they can fuck right off. So two of the employers are behaving sensibly. That leaves Devon and Cornwall Police…

The most worrying aspect of this is that someone, somewhere, thought that it was a good idea to dob these guys in. We have become a nation of censorious creeps and snitches.

Fucking hellski!

14 Comments

  1. Most of us would regard what goes on in the bedroom as being part of ‘private life’, yet painting police cars in ‘gay’ colours is part of the police’s working life now it seems and is very much a political act.
    Dressing up in a uniform does not a Nazi or Fascist make. (Being a thug and calling yourself anti-fascist doesn’t make you morally right, but that is another topic).

  2. “they need to be offended good and hard on a regular basis until they learn to develop a sense of perspective”

    Simply brilliant analysis… I don’t comment often but that one phrase deserves to be highlighted. Made my day!

  3. Better not get involved in Napoleonic re enactment. After it would be cultural appropriation and entirely inappropriate to dress as an Imperial Guard. It also contains the word Imperial suggesting empire and thus racism, oppression blah, blah, blahdy blah. Snore zzzzzz

  4. Dear God. Are people who’re thinking of becoming scout leaders now to be reported as perhaps having dodgy motives or bikers who belong to a Hells Angels chapter now to be thought of as having dubious character? Soon it won’t be safe to do anything except go on an Antifa march.

  5. There were few Nazi soldiers outside of the SS who had to be party members. Most of the Wermacht were German soldiers. That’s GERMANS not Nazis. Why should a cop or anyone off duty require permission to dress up for a 1940s re-enactment? Ludicrous.

    • Possibly, but you can equally argue that the vast majority of the wehrmacht was to some extent complicit in nazi crimes especially in Russia, where the majority of them fought and died (mostly with great courage it must be said, when they weren’t brutalising civilians or prisoners).

  6. I have to disagree that we are a nation of snitches, the presence of snitches among us doesn’t mean that we all are.

    For quite a few years my family went along to the Festival of History which was a massive get together of re-enactment types. It was always both visually entertaining and educational. Obviously the WW2 area had people dressed as Nazis and Nazi memorabilia, what kind of halfwit would expect anything different?

    One interesting aspect of the event was the complete lack of litter. The kind of people that go to the Festival of History always use the litter bins. I think that there might be some kind of social commentary contained in that fact.

  7. This would be unbelievable if it weren’t for the many instances of sheer idiocy since Common Purpose graduates began to be placed in the higher echelons of our establishment. A plague on them all and a pox on all their houses.

  8. As part of a production at the Edinburgh fringe many years ago I played the part of a nazi bully boy is ss uniform and as publicity for the show walked through the streets accompanying my gay prisoner in his pyjamas.

    I was staggered by the amount of opprobrium including insults and spitting that I got. And this was nearly 30 years ago.

    Nowadays I’d likely have been lynched.

    Lots of people don’t seem to understand the concept of acting.

  9. A thought occurred to me, isn’t anyone who drives a VW basically driving a Nazi car? I think that there needs to be protests organised against a car company that was Hitler’s idea. Full disclosure, I used to have a VW Polo. It was a great little car, it only cost a couple of hundred quid as it was pretty clapped out, but it got me from A to B for quite a while at a time when I was a bit short of cash.

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