Originally Posted by
pr00ne
cynaclint,
“hijacking” Oh Come on The White Poppy has been around for over 70 years. It is nearly as old as the Red Poppy.
Blacksheep,
The Red Poppy was inspired by the First World War. A War that had NOTHING to do with defending freedom, democracy or free speech.
Why do you get so agitated by the White Poppy?
A Red Poppy to remember the fallen and support charity is a terrific idea, when people start linking it to defending freedom and democracy then I have a real problem with it. The vast majority of those folk the Poppy remembers were NOT defending anyone’s freedom!
The people who fell believed they were.
The campaign is about them, not as support of government policy of the time. I find it appalling that people want to turn a traditional time of remembrance such as this into a political statement.