Burocrats gone mad!!!!!!

[hoplite14gr]

On 25th of March its a national holyday in my country in commemoration of the Greek Revolution and the liberation from the Ottoman Empire.
Our club Spartiatikes Mores (re-enacting classical era hoplites) paraded in Piraeus last year as you can se in this photos:
http://s254.photobucket.com/albums/hh84 ... 5Mart2008/

This year our secretary went to the Prefecture of Piraeus to submit our papers so that we parade again. I total shock we were informed by same nameless civil servant that our application was turned down on the grounds that Ancient Spartans are not related to the Greek Revolution of 1821!

To make it plane: imagine that in the U.S a group re-enacting the 1812 War is turned down because the are not related to the 1776 revolution or in the UK a group re-enacting the Elizabetan Army of 1588 is banned from parading in the armstice day because the are not related to the britdh armed forces of the time.

Are we to think that sacrifices of our ancestors over the time -whatever our heritage-are not related so that all of us can be here?

I consider it a blow to living history worldwide.

Thank you all for enduring my rant

Kind regards

Stefanos