10-10-2010, 01:20 PM
davester wrote:
I don't have a problem with it. Unless this guy was a completely gung-ho "we must dress up as SS men because they were so cool" ringleader, I'd give him a pass.
I'll confess that I only posted this because things were kind of slow in the forum and I found it to be interesting. There is a fair chance that his decision to dress up as an SS man is innocent enough (though perhaps not), but it was an odd choice for someone who probably has had ambition to run for a federal office as a strong conservative. If a liberal candidate for federal office had dressed up as a Jihadist to do reenactments of the war in Iraq, you can be sure that many conservative groups would go apoplectic about it. Of course, what the Jihadists' have done is more recent than what the SS did and emotions are more raw. But what the SS did is still pretty raw for quite a few people.