Man guilty of burning poppies at Armistice Day protest - but...

[-:Undertaker:-]

I thought you were all for the british way of life Dan, surely burning a symbol of british history is a bad thing?

The British way of life includes liberty which is founded on old English law, as opposed to continental style law such as this.

[Chippiewill]

So if a neighbour is disrespectful you over a hedge dispute for example, you think that should go through the courts and end in fines?

You can if you want to.. that's what small claims court is for.

Whilst I agree this is a horrible thing which has happened, I believe in fair justice, and frankly if they had burned something else nobody would have complained therefore it is a matter of perspective and no real crime has been committed. If you assault a person or discriminate people then it's different, but burning a poppy, just move on, sure voice that it's a bad thing but meh, this is dumb.

It probably costed the british tax payer more to actually take them to court.

[AgnesIO]

I know why he shouldn't do it, but what are they going to do with the money?

I think it is frowned upon him doing this, and whatever crime it falls under, he should be punished for. If the crime fell into the £50 bracket, he should pay £50.

Obviously I don't agree with what the man did dave, but theres no special circumstances that should be given to make him pay more.

I have a better idea.

Kick the ****** out the country.

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Gonna have to say the joke, from Sickipedia:

BBC News: Ticket touts to be fine £20,000 at Olympics.

So, if you get caught selling Olympic tickets, throw them on the floor and burn them. Then claim they are poppies.

[-:Undertaker:-]

You can if you want to.. that's what small claims court is for.

I'm not talking about the hedge, i'm talking about the fact that abuse/creating offence is now a criminal matter, which is wrong.

[Camy]

I just don't understand why people like that are in the country, and we let them away with stuff that is clearly trying to incite hatred. I don't get why they just don't go live somewhere else if they hate the way things are over here so much.