Now Pa Bureaucrats Ban History’s Battles?

Now Pennsylvania’s woke bureaucrats are banning Re-enactors from staging battles, partly cause of possible hysterics over their political correctness as violence grips our modern culture after marring its history.

According to WSJ, “The Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission said it will no longer permit re-enactments on the 23 sites it owns in the state that involve the exchange of fire from weapons, the taking of casualties & hand-to-hand combat, ‘or any other form of simulated warfare or violence between opposing forces.’” Would it pass muster if the soldiers & warriors just shook their fists at one another? Just askin’. The commissioners insist they made the tweak to their rules to “align” with National Park Service policy that tries to address one & all’s natural sensitivities to graphic violence. Sure. If you believe that is the only reason, you believe the re-enactors can capture the true gore of any past battle … although more than a few have gotten badly injured doing their best to give a sense of reality.

WSJ piece centered on a dispute with Bushy Run Battlefield Heritage Society, which said it would have to cancel a battlefield re-enactment it has put on every August for past 40 yrs to commemorate the battle between British troops & Native Americans that took place during Pontiac’s Rebellion 25 miles east of Pittsburgh, just after the French & Indian War. It wasn’t pretty as real history tends not to be. The story goes on to remind National Park Service has long barred “force-on-force” re-enactments on federal land so that those Gettysburg battles you might’ve seen are on private property. But, it suggests that if the anti-enactment trend takes root nationwide based on political agendas, it could even wipe out those “Little Big Horn” re-enactments in Montana showing Custer’s Last Stand from the Native Americans’ perspective. Makes one wonder if this is aboutanyone’s “sensitivities” or just party poopers pooping on anyone else’s passions.

Davd Soul