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free thinker
21-10-2009, 04:47 PM
Why do they think they have the right to interfere?
konik
21-10-2009, 04:54 PM
Why do they think they have the right to interfere?
are you saying they have no right to express themselves ?
would it be different if they said the ' right' thing ?
djhooker
21-10-2009, 04:57 PM
what's this all about? link?
redskywalker
21-10-2009, 05:00 PM
Everyone has the right to hold and speak their opinion. So I shall. Shame they don't do it more, like before marching 17 year olds to their death!
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpJy46o_7b0
free thinker
21-10-2009, 05:12 PM
http://www.charityfinance.co.uk/home/content.php?id=3253&pg=15&cat=58
The Charity Commission has been urged to clamp down on “BNP organisations masquerading as veterans charities” by a group of former senior army generals.
The call came in a letter signed by General Sir Mike Jackson and General Sir Richard Dannatt, former heads of the army; Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank, former chief of defence staff, and Major-General Patrick Cordingley, commander of the Desert Rats in the Gulf War.
The letter, widely reported in the national press, warns that the armed forces are in danger of being hijacked by far-right extremists “for their own dubious ends”.
It is the start of a campaign launched this week to highlight the British National Party’s strategy of cloaking itself in the military
free thinker
21-10-2009, 05:18 PM
are you saying they have no right to express themselves ?
would it be different if they said the ' right' thing ?
They have a right to express themselves from a personal point of view, of course, but they are using their military background in politics, IMO the two conflict, why did they not voice concern over the illegal wars in the middle east?
konik
21-10-2009, 06:44 PM
They have a right to express themselves from a personal point of view, of course, but they are using their military background in politics, IMO the two conflict, why did they not voice concern over the illegal wars in the middle east?
thank you for clarifying because the OP suggests they have no right to comment . . . . as to the second part my memory s a bit hazy but at the time of the invasion of iraq questioning the legality of it would earn you the reputation of being an unpatriotic, terrorist loving traitorous yoghurt weaving hippy from those of a right wing persuasion of course this was the era of shock and awe and dropping megatons of high explosive on cities.