To post this for the anti Poppy brigade?

[Jakebullet]

Just posted on Facebook by a poet friend of mine

The whistles could be heard
Along the trenches below
The young men weren't ready
But they had to go
Some held photos
Of loved ones back home
They charged together
Yet died alone
The bulkets n bombs
rang loud in their heads
Yet forward they ran
Running over the dead
A war against tyranny and for freedom they fought
A price was to be paid
Yet could never be bought
But their actions
Should be remembered
Even tho with regret
By wearing The Poppy
LEST WE FORGET

By Billy Isherwood

Love this poem......it's been in his head several days and this morning was finally written down.

YABU, and that "poem" is mawkish doggerel.

Little did I know when clicking onto this thread I would stumble across an active terrorists cell. You naughty people!

Personally I prefer to remember all people who've been touched by war at this time. I just don't feel comfortable limiting my compassion to one area.

As others have said, this occasion is really just for the British armed forces. I don't have an issue with that and would never do anything disrespectful. I always used to wear a poppy but somehow it doesn't sit right with me.

So it turns out the 'anti-poppy brigade' are the enemy within - good work Trish.

We had better make sure the government keeps anyone not sporting the necessary symbol under close surveillance. Or perhaps round them up, just to be sure. We could keep them all in one place, so the government could keep a close eye on them, for national security reasons. Some sort of a camp, maybe?

do you work for national security trish? if you can ferret out terrorists on mumsnet so quickly with so little to go on maybe you should apply

lol! I have gone from being an anti-war protester who is hated on Mumsnet for not respecting people who choose to go to war (on either side might I add) to a terrorist!

Well I have harboured people from different places, though mostly hippies... I did read a bit of the anarchists cookbook when I was about 12 and me and my brother used to put fire crackers in rotten apples and throw them into the field (and occasionally at washing on the line) but these days my mixing is generally limited to milk and water and the only odd thing I've made recently is some cauliflower cheese that went a bit wrong!

I still protest war though, whenever I can.

Carrie Matterson eat your heart out, Trish is on the case

Definitely, we should all be very pleased that Trish is keeping the dangerous streets of Mumsnet safe

Geckos48. You do not want Britain defended.
You are a bright person, so you are aware that if we have no defence, we can easily be attacked. And this does not bother you.

Maybe you do not live in the UK
Maybe you think you are immune, but I doubt you would think that
Maybe you are not British citizen

The Anarchists Cookbook, according to wikipedia, is a book that contains instructions for the manufacture of explosives.

At no point have I said I do not want Britain defended. Infact I have said the total opposite, in a post that has been reported THREE times.

The real question here is whether, if Britain had of been less 'gung ho' about war after the Second World War, would we NEED so much 'defence' and I believe the answer is no. I think that it is a great insult to those men and women and children who died in the great wars that we are continuing to send people off to be killed and to kill in the name of 'freedom'. Far better justice would be given to their memory had we of used our power and communications after the Second World War for peace.

I wondered how long it would be before you appeared on this thread after your other one got closed geckos48. This time I am not even going to waste my breath.

I posted on this thread before the thread about the marine was closed, please keep up.

In fairness to Gecko, I don't think they win the bonkers poster award on this particular thread.

I am a woman by the way, if that makes contextualising a bit easier.

mig
You are way too invested in me.

Why on earth does it bother you so much?

I could continue this conversation with you about my career and where it is at currently but I choose not to, not because I don't have anything to say to you, but because I really, really couldn't give a monkeys arsehole how you feel about me.

Please see above.

I am happy to answer any posts directed at me about the thread we are on.

Well that'll be a first then.

Come on down folks- Gecko is finally going to give a straight answer instead of a slippery one.

A few years back I'd buy a poppy if the vendor was an old soldier, like most who have posted on here I remember the sacrifice the conscripted soldiers made in WW1 & 2. I have considerable unease about teh bombing of civillian populations in WW2 but that didn't come too much to the fore to stop me. Now all teh WW1 veterans are long since gone and the elderly gentlemen have been replaced by groups of young arms/airforce cadets around here, selling the poppys.

I'm afraid I don't buy one now. Those who signd up to fight in Afghanistan and other recent conflicts may havebeen used as pawns by our government but they did sign up, they did say "yes, I'll do a job that means killing people" and so they have become brutalised, committed atrocities against the populations they have gone to support and it sickens me to the core to hear them referred to as heroes. The state broke them and the state should mend them.

Mig, hunting posters from thread to thread is not on. I've reported your posts.

Fine. In this case and in the light of Gecko repeating the same comments and referring to that thread herself on this thread It is justified. Report away. My point is made.

Well said Higgle. Mig, you sound rather angry and obsessed yourself , and showing posts on here to your colleagues' wtf...
Also what wilson said about you hunting posters!