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If Hollywood was making a WWII film in your neighborhood, set in Nazi Germany, what kind of props do you think they would need to put up around the place to make it actually resemble the Third Reich? That’s correct, Nazi-related ones. Waltham Forest Council in London did not appear to realize this simple and obvious fact, however, and last summer withdrew prior implied permission for the new Nicholas Cage spy drama Fortitude to film at its Town Hall, which was deemed to possess the correct Albert Speer-esque period architectural style, once they discovered this would involve draping the place with swastika flags.
The reasoning for this pitiful decision has just been revealed. Fortitude’s filming schedule occurred right in the middle of something called “Operation Raise the Colors” (ORC), a nationwide British campaign of mainly white and working-class citizens raising Union Jacks and Crosses of St George upon lampposts to signal public opposition to mass immigration. (more…)