Comments on: Poppies and public consent http://blog.localdemocracy.org.uk/2009/11/10/poppies-and-public-consent/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Promoting innovation and a conversational local politics Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:42:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Paul Evans http://blog.localdemocracy.org.uk/2009/11/10/poppies-and-public-consent/comment-page-1/#comment-837 Paul Evans Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:28:23 +0000 http://blog.localdemocracy.org.uk/?p=1767#comment-837 The comments on that thread that I've pointed to are burgeoning, and I think most of these comments have also been covered there. One thing though: You used to wear a poppy but don't any more? You regard the first world war as a legitmate one then? The comments on that thread that I’ve pointed to are burgeoning, and I think most of these comments have also been covered there.

One thing though: You used to wear a poppy but don’t any more? You regard the first world war as a legitmate one then?

]]> By: airmarshall http://blog.localdemocracy.org.uk/2009/11/10/poppies-and-public-consent/comment-page-1/#comment-832 airmarshall Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:34:50 +0000 http://blog.localdemocracy.org.uk/?p=1767#comment-832 Perhaps Mr Chris Donnelly and others alike, would better profit in the remembrance of accept: that all nations as individuals walk the path of vanity for how else might we live with ourselves? Perhaps Mr Chris Donnelly and others alike, would better profit in the remembrance of accept: that all nations as individuals walk the path of vanity for how else might we live with ourselves?

]]> By: mick_collo http://blog.localdemocracy.org.uk/2009/11/10/poppies-and-public-consent/comment-page-1/#comment-831 mick_collo Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:36:41 +0000 http://blog.localdemocracy.org.uk/?p=1767#comment-831 I think the wearing of poppies should be down to an individuals own volition. I won't wear one again until this country pulls out of Afghanistan and Iraq, asI regard both of these occupations of sovereign countries as illegal and barbaric. I think the difference between WW1 and WW2, is that those wars were fought against an Ideal [ Nazism ]and that Germany, ostensibly,wanted to enslave ourselves and the rest of the world. These obscene actions in Afghanistan and Iraq, are purely based on US intervention to protect western oil interests in the Middle East. I have every pity for the soldiers who are dying abroad at the moment, and for thier families, but these invasions were both undertaken without a smidgeon of consent from ordinary people in this country, and therefore, they are both WRONG. I think the wearing of poppies should be down to an individuals own volition. I won’t wear one again until this country pulls out of Afghanistan and Iraq, asI regard both of these occupations of sovereign countries as illegal and barbaric.
I think the difference between WW1 and WW2, is that those wars were fought against an Ideal [ Nazism ]and that Germany, ostensibly,wanted to enslave ourselves and the rest of the world. These obscene actions in Afghanistan and Iraq, are purely based on US intervention to protect western oil interests in the Middle East.
I have every pity for the soldiers who are dying abroad at the moment, and for thier families, but these invasions were both undertaken without a smidgeon of consent from ordinary people in this country, and therefore, they are both WRONG.

]]> By: sue http://blog.localdemocracy.org.uk/2009/11/10/poppies-and-public-consent/comment-page-1/#comment-830 sue Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:56:19 +0000 http://blog.localdemocracy.org.uk/?p=1767#comment-830 Man's inhumanity to man is not confined to the Brits. I wear a poppy in remembrance of the innocent dead of all wars. Man’s inhumanity to man is not confined to the Brits. I wear a poppy in remembrance of the innocent dead of all wars.

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