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Poppies and public consent
Not directly related to local democracy, I know, but I’ve written a post here on Slugger O’Toole responding to an Irish republican about how far the wearing of a poppy can be seen as an endorsement for the actions of the British state.
It raises important questions about the legitimacy of democracy and I hope you find it interesting.
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Man’s inhumanity to man is not confined to the Brits. I wear a poppy in remembrance of the innocent dead of all wars.
I think the wearing of poppies should be down to an individuals own volition. I won’t wear one again until this country pulls out of Afghanistan and Iraq, asI regard both of these occupations of sovereign countries as illegal and barbaric.
I think the difference between WW1 and WW2, is that those wars were fought against an Ideal [ Nazism ]and that Germany, ostensibly,wanted to enslave ourselves and the rest of the world. These obscene actions in Afghanistan and Iraq, are purely based on US intervention to protect western oil interests in the Middle East.
I have every pity for the soldiers who are dying abroad at the moment, and for thier families, but these invasions were both undertaken without a smidgeon of consent from ordinary people in this country, and therefore, they are both WRONG.
Perhaps Mr Chris Donnelly and others alike, would better profit in the remembrance of accept: that all nations as individuals walk the path of vanity for how else might we live with ourselves?
The comments on that thread that I’ve pointed to are burgeoning, and I think most of these comments have also been covered there.
One thing though: You used to wear a poppy but don’t any more? You regard the first world war as a legitmate one then?