I have just read something that really made me have to write a blog entry.
It made me rather sad to read that a minority of protestors took to burning poppies in a protest to the UK forces being present in Afghanistan.
As the nation paid its respects at 11am remembrance events in London were marred by groups of protestors, members of self-styled Muslims Against Crusades burning the symbol of the country’s debt to its brave service men and women killed in action.
I remember back in 2009 when a student was caught urinating on a poppy wreath after a drunken night out, rightly so there was a national outcry and the student was named and shamed and will always have that one moment of drunken madness around his neck.
Yet today’s scenario was much worse, this was no drunken student night this was a blatant organised protest against the memory of millions of brave young servicemen and service women who have laid down their lives for the protection and freedom of people worldwide The protestors chanted “British soldiers burn in hell” and held banners saying “Islam will dominate” and “Our dead are in paradise, your dead are in hell”.
Everyone has the right to an opinion, everyone has the right to disagree with the actions of a government but today’s actions crossed the line. Today is not about a protest of the brave forces trying to make the lives of ordinary Afghanistan people better by liberating the country of its tyrannical army, nor is about the loss of lives on both sides.
These actions were an insult to the memories of the millions that perished in wars before. It was a direct attack on the very few that allowed people to have a free life in the United Kingdom, but above all it was a direct attack on the very weak laws that seem to exist in the UK these days.
Police attempted to keep the two sides apart. Three members of the protest group were arrested – two for alleged public order offences and one over claims he assaulted a police officer.
As the clock struck 11am on the eleventh day of the eleventh month the nation paused to remember the moment peace returned to Europe at the end of the First World War.
The deal between Germany and the Allies in 1918 brought to an end four years of bloody fighting.
Defence Secretary Liam Fox and the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams joined war heroes, service personnel, veterans, military associations and school children for a service at the Cenotaph in London’s Whitehall.
The road was closed and crowds lined the street for the wreath laying amid applause as Victoria and George Cross ho
lders took their places around the monument.
The UK government has said that it will force a harder line on political marches such as these but I’ve yet to see any strong action taken. It’s only a matter of time before someone gets seriously hurt.
Why can’t we just co-exist in a country that seems to have lost its way in life?
Maybe that’s why I’ve moved overseas to Sweden.
some of the above quoted from The Sun
