What do you make of the fine of the poppy burning.?

Question

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12664346

Please read article.

I think the British people needs to stand up and ask for justice.. i was about to be charged over 150 pounds for putting a tin can on the floor ( litter ).

This man burns a poppy dilbertly breaking the armistice silence offending every British citizen and soilder, and war dead and he onlu gets a small fine ? what trickery is this.

Answer 1

Well my 1st reaction was 'shock horror', and I still say that to show such a disrespect during a 2 minute silence is not the right way to protest. If I opened up a bacon sandwich store outside a mosque during Ramadan, I would be hung drawn and quartered by young Asians wanting to kill me, and the law would come down so heavy on me that I would be locked up in prison I guess. It amounts to the same thing..... BIG disrespect! But you can bet that my punishment would be greater than there's.



But now, after thinking about it for a while, I would say to these young Asian people that if you aren't happy staying in the UK that allows you to express such free spirit, then you are free to leave at any time you like. If I were the govt, I would even put money in a fund to allow 'one' free airline ticket each - one way, to the destination of their choice. But once left, they stay left forever. I don't see many of these radical Muslims queuing up to leave Britain, yet I see plenty trying to spread hatred. If they aren't happy, then let them LEAVE!

Answer 2

Wow 2 extremes there - a £50 wonderful and execution! something in between those 2 I reckon... in line with risk a extra physically powerful wonderful and then some community provider which maintenance the wear and tear he has carried out? possibly cleansing a conflict memorial? Edit: surely definite solid thought, think of i could decide for a pair of widow smacks too, just to knock some experience into him...

Answer 3

The problem goes far beyond the idiot who burned the poppies, or his band of beardy weirdies. The real issue here is why the hell did they get police protection while insulting every decent British person alive or dead. Why was he charged with such a minor offence, and why the hell do British people keep on voting for the kind of spineless cretins who allow this sort of thing to happen?



@ Wolfie, would you be saying that if someone "excercised their democratic right" to burn a Koran outside a Mosque at the end of Ramadan?

Answer 4

Inadequate. They should have been forced to sit in on either some Lords Day Observers or Plymouth Bretheren or Penticostalist meetings. That would teach them! Or, come to think of it, a really stiff punishment, obliged to sit in with the Jehovah's Witnesses!

Answer 5

As far as I'm aware, it is not illegal to set fire to a poppy, so he shouldn't have been fined. What are we going to have next, fines for burning Thistles to upset the Scots, or Daffodils to upset the Welsh, or Shamrocks to upset the Irish, or Roses to upset the English. We may not like what he did, but the best thing to have done would have been to ignore it. Giving it publicity is just playing into the hands of people like this. He obviously set fire to it to entice people into causing trouble, the same effect is obviously being had by it being so highly publicised.

Answer 6

He infringes my rights by taking benifits from a country he detests how come the Muslim Iman,s can claim housing and jobseeker allowances when the christian churches and the jewish faiths pay there clergy make them take work or live off the mosque.





Limwhatspronuntiationwhenitsathome EH!

Answer 7

Burning Remembrance Day poppies is a horrible, heartless thing to do - but people have the right to freedom of expression. If the arey not inciting violence, then the government has no right to intervene.

Answer 8

Why would you throw a tin can down when you could simply put it in a recycle bin?



Very selfish of you.





DID YOU STATE THAT?....no, you did not. Name calling is just a sign of a weak mind. I'm sure you would have "forgotten" it and walked away.

Answer 9

I think it's a joke!



This is supposed to be a free country so why is someone prosecuted for exercising their democratic rights?



You may not like it but it's up to the individual!

Answer 10

Shouldn't have been punished because his crime, although highly disrespectful and inflammatory, did not result in a victim.

Answer 11

Apparently he couldn't afford to pay any more as he was on benefits.



No comment..

Answer 12

Down with the european union. Demand a referendum,

Answer 13

the fine doesn't bother me but the fact that he( his taliban buddies) wasn't deported really p**ses me off.