Who is burning poppies

They may find themselves trying to please everyone but ultimately pleasing no one. I think to many of us, you look at something like that and feel that as a country, we should be making a stronger statement that that sort of behaviour is completely out of order and has no place in a tolerant society.

Well from the above comments I see our nations tradition of tolerance and free speech is alive and well! Thats the way its coming across to me and i am sure mostly everyone else to, the old bill have been given the order to crack down on the EDL to save their jobs, and the police wolfhounds also have to show that they are of use, by being allowed and enticed by their moronic handlers to deliberatly bite and maul peacefull members of the WHITE demonstrating public,including pregnant women!

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The judge reminded himself of the balancing exercise which must always be struck between freedom of speech and public protection: there is a clear inference that the MAC demonstration was intended to make a political point. And following on from that, if the memory of dead soldiers is publicly insulted, at a time and place where are likely to be gathered people who have expressly attended to honour those soldiers, then the threat to public order is obvious.

Like this: Like Loading Log in to Reply. Keith says:. Is it Hitlers birthday yet? A man who was arrested for allegedly posting a picture of a burning poppy online on Remembrance Sunday has been released on bail, amid condemnation by civil liberties activists and growing concern about threats to freedom of speech.

The year-old from Canterbury, who has been named locally as Linford House, is being questioned by Kent Police on suspicion of an offence under the the Malicious Communications Act.

Freedom-of-speech campaigners accused the police of using the law to effectively arrest a man for causing offence. Leading human rights lawyer John Cooper QC offered to represent the teenager free of charge should the matter come to court. Daniel Breger, defending, said Choudhury was a married man who worked part-time. Two men deny poppy burning charge. Pair charged over poppy burning. HM Courts Service. Mohammad Haque left and Emdadur Choudhury denied the charges.

Veterans' families felt said they felt physically sick at the act. Tony Kibble, the grandson of a second world war soldier, told the court that he felt "sick inside" when he witnessed the poppy-burning. Riddle said the ceasefire at 11am on 11 November, had "huge significance" for people in Britain and was seen as marking the end of a "terrible war" in which millions died.