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Oh, beauty.

   

Remind me again, who won the last world war? It's hard to figure it out sometimes.

   

Really? What do you think you're doing when you run around with a white poppy on saying that killing strangers is wrong (which is precisely what your grandfathers did) and that being a coffee-sipping schmutz who sits around and passes judgment on people sixty-two years after the fact is somehow better than being someone who risked life and limb to protect his country?



Why is it uptight of them to object to simpering peaceniks pissing all over a day that was set aside to honour men of honour?

There's 365 days in the year. Go befoul one of the other days in the year instead of trying to hijack someone else's day in order to insult and malign the men that everyone else is trying to honour.

Like as was suggested, have your white poppies in September and the rest of us will ignore you and ridicule you but we'll also leave you alone to praise the glories of pacifism and collaboration.

But to insist on interjecting your views into a day set aside for Remembrance makes you no better than Fred Phelps protesting at military funerals.

You say whatever you want, but by insisting on making your silly little point on this day, of all days, you are inviting negative attention and no one is going to think you're a victim of anything other than your own bad manners and bad judgment.

   

Explain this attitude to me. You're always going on about nazis and militant Muslims, but when someone suggests that killing people is a bad way to solve problems, you disagree? This doesn't make any sense.

   

On the day those men are honoured yes. Let them have that day, let them know we are proud of them, and we thank them for what they did.

Save the white poppy and it's meaning for another day.

   

I don't understand this, either. Is Rememberance Day not also supposed to be a day in which we remember why war is a terrible thing and that we hope more people don't have to die fighting in wars?

   

Where did I ever say that I believe white poppy wearers should be roughed up, AND where did I ever imply the use of violence on you?

   

Nice try, but playing dumb now won't help, and don't assume that people are going to fall for the "I'm just an innocent little putz" routine. Aurora_Janus had no trouble whatsoever seeing what you meant.

   

   

Ain't that the truth!

   

I don't mind the suggestion but can it be made on a different day than on a day set aside to remember and honour the memory of those who sacrificed for their country?

   

Well then I guess if confronting someone about being brave enough to stand up to their statements is a threat of violence then I guess I'm guilty. Just because someone spins what I said doesn't mean thats what the purpose was.

   

Why? Those people fought those wars under the impression that nobody would ever have to do such a thing again. That's what the sacrifice was supposed to be for, and now you want us to ignore it?

Let me tell you something that's been happening recently at the National War Museum here in Ottawa. A group of veterans has complained that they've been made to look like war criminals because the War Museum dared to tell history with the least amount of bias possible, including acknowledging that bombing Dresden mostly killed thousands of civilians, regardless of how necessary or unnecessary anyone thought that mission was. They've demanded and pressured the museum to remove this fact from the museum's display on the subject, and the museum has bowed to the pressure.

So, I don't understand this at all. We have this day to remember that war is a terrible part of human experience, no matter who is doing the fighting and regardless of who is considered the good guys or the bad guys, and it seems there are quite a lot of people who treat it like it's Christmas or Easter, which is not only completely missing the point, but rather horrifying in itself.

   

You don't know my grandfathers, Bart.

They'd have had no problem with white poppies, but they'd cringe at the responses of people such as yourself on this thread.

They were men who knew how to carry themselves with some dignity, unlike some.



Until the Legion succeeds in establishing the fascist state it apparently dreams of, I'm free to wear the white poppy whenever I want, and I will exercise that right - on Remembrance Day, too.

If the Legion is insulted by that that's their tough.



This is contemptible. Pathetic.



You're no person to be lecturing anyone about manners, Bart.

   

I dare Streaker to go to the legion with his white poppy on. Lets see how the vets really feel.

   

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