Why I No Longer Feel Comfortable Wearing a Poppy

[Geckos48]

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/madeleine-fry/poppy-day_b_4169581.html

very eloquently put. Exactly how I feel about the whole debacle.

November 11th should be for those who selflessly gave their lives in the World Wars, not those who chose to fight dubious campaigns abroad.

satin did you read her last thread lambasting the military under the guise of threatening to leave mn because of a failed aarse thread.

Her opening line about poppy wearing was a way to lure people in, she then reveals her loathing of all people military.

She has a posting style that's hard to miss.

She wad also vitriolic on a deleted mn thread.

*mm thread, not mn.

No more childish than picking and choosing which wars are worth commemorating based on unsubstantiated opinion and an at best naive understanding of 20thC history.

Im not as experienced as other posters...Gecko has form I take it?

limited

Yes it would be childish,you're right.

"Am I thick? What is a 'Roman thought' and why are Romans singled out, another of my questions she has never answered."

I read that comment. I think she means Roman Empire i.e. militaristic, imperial etc

youstayclassysandiego

yes, if that's what you really mean. It's hard to tell. I don't agree with the OP. I think she's stupid, and I'm going no further than that. That's quite a way, isn't it

But I do mean what I said in my last couple of posts. I think you do.

So, if I've got it right, peace.

Gecko - You may be interested in a border poll run by BBC Spotlight, which showed cross-community support for Northern Ireland to remain part of the UK: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-21345997 It's panel 8/16 on the slideshow

You are right claig I thought it was quite obvious really.

Divide and conquer, glorifying war and death in war. Its what the whole Jesus thing was about really, how marvellous death can be. How we should all aspire to die a glorious death.

limited

Yes I won't try to intentionally fill up the remainder if thread for no reason.

You are right.

Peace and love

Jesus was not about glorifying death and poppies are not about glorifying death.

Yes she did wiki

She's back folks, roll up

I tend not to read wikipedia actually.

I've been at work all day for the devil

I've stopped understanding this thread...

Is the OP going to come back tomorrow?

I think we need to live in a world where we realise that economic stability = relative peace and actually work together to make that happen.

XPost!

You are right

I usually am youstayclassy

Oh bugger! I've taken up one post.

Exactly. The question is whether you think war creates economic stability. I would say there is absolutely no examples that it does, except perhaps the war-mongering of America and Britain.

Even that is coming toppling down now, I would say. Thankfully we are reaching a time when it has stopped being profitable to wage war, it didn't pay off, we spent billions fighting Iraq and the money was not recouped as we expected.

Time to put money in renewable energies, making economies stable and working out what each nation can do to support each other, that is how we make the world safe. Not by foreign wars that do not improve stability and in fact bomb countries back into the dark ages.

No, I can't. I probably could if it were about the WW's, but its not. I cannot respect people that join the army in these times. I just can't do it. I've seen what we leave behind and its hideous.

I've seen what people think of us and it scares me.

"What we really need is for the world to be attacked by aliens. Then we can unite together and live in a new world where the systems have all been destroyed and we have to learn to co-operate."

kim147, no, this is the New World Order blueprint and the thoughts of the elite as in the alleged quote of Kissinger

“Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government.” – Dr. Henry Kissinger, Bilderberger Conference, Evians, France, 1991