Poppy Burners Banned

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15688513

Finally. The bloody extremists should either quieten down or leave the country.

Good idea. They should be banned, so disrespectful..

makes me so mad, they just want to take over and make it there country!!

Deport those idiots.

probably the same ******s that burnt our police cars during the riots...

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Thank god, I can't believe these people can't show an ounce of respect.

The individuals are clearly stupid and mentally disturbed. I think they have the right to protest, but they're destroying symbols like the Poppy and protesting on days that have barely anything to do with the cause they're supporting. If they want to moan about the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars, do it another day - not one that still emcompasses two World Wars which gave them the freedom to protest.

What day they choose to protest, what they choose to protest about, what they choose to use as a symbol of their protest and what we think of their protest - none of this matters because the whole point in freedom of speech and freedom of expression is freedom. We have freedom of speech and freedom of expression (or we used to have) in order to protect unpopular speech because popular speech doesn't need protecting.

As much as I disagree with the protestors, they should have that right always in a free society.

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Originally Posted by -:Undertaker:-

As much as I disagree with the protestors, they should have that right always in a free society.

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Perhaps I would have agreed with you here a few years ago, but this is like becoming a UKIP MP and voting against EU membership. What's the point if you're going to get UK citizenship if you're then going to moan about the UK.

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Originally Posted by Chippiewill

Perhaps I would have agreed with you here a few years ago, but this is like becoming a UKIP MP and voting against EU membership. What's the point if you're going to get UK citizenship if you're then going to moan about the UK.

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UKIP is a libertarian party (or with libertarian elements within) - now as a conservative I disagree with what these people say and believe that as they are wrong, but as a libertarian also I believe that they should be debated and proved wrong but under no circumstances should they be silenced by force. As for British citizenship - I care not for peoples political opinions who arrive on these shores just as I care not for the colour of their skin, I do however care about the culture of the numbers who arrive which in turn prevents them integrating into British society.

Why don't we simply invite them onto Question Time and then we can all rationally debate their points and come to our own conclusions? isn't that much more grown up and sensible rather than having the government decide what we all think or should think?

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First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.

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I don't want to silence these protestors by force just as I would never want to silence EU federalists, left wingers, the green movement etc by force.