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.

[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:

However, over at Old City Hall, one court security guard shrugged when asked if he’d ever heard about anyone being asked to remove a poppy.

“It’s the judge’s courtroom. He can do what he wants.”

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.