The Poppy is Offensive – BAN IT!
December 12, 2007 · By Shane Edwards
Hat tip to the magical small dead animal – Judge bans the poppy from her courtroom.
“However much you may think that’s a totally acceptable symbol, and that is totally neutral, that might not be entirely the case for everybody who comes to court,” Woolcott told the Waterloo regional police officer.
You must not wear the poppy. The poppy represents the remembrance of sacrifice. That sacrifice was for freedom. Some people in Canada do not like freedom. In fact, they oppose it. We, as a free society, do not wish to offend anyone – especially those who oppose freedom. We must not wear flowers representing freedom in their presence.
Lest they be offended.
Catchy.
What a bizarre ruling. Who the hell is offended by the poppy?
Hope she never sets foot in a Canadian Legion while a dart game is goin on.What a liberal idiot.
Who is the boss here?
[First, I want to start with a disclaimer: I used to wear red poppies, you know, when I was a kid and we all marched to the same tune at Rememberance Day ceremonies but not anymore. Now, I wear a white poppy as a form of protest and I adamantly refuse to ever wear a red poppy again.]
I do not care if somebody wants to wear a poppy or not. Sure, the poppy can be quite controversial — to be frank, I honestly think that we have been fooled about our military history, for the most part — but most people just wear it out of genuine respect for soldiers who were sent out to do horrible things. That is good enough for me. I find overbearing perfume a lot more objectionable.
I found this excerpt from the cited article very troubling:
I am not too sure that it is not the judge’s court room.
The judge is a civil servant and hired by the government to arbitrate disputes. He should just stick to his job. We are paying his time so he should stop wasting it.
Margaret Woolcott’s court, formerly the people’s.
Too bad the local legion didn’t organize a bunch of poppy-wearing vets to go sit in the learned Justice Woolcott’s courtroom in response.