Mark of Disrespect anti war protesters

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newsHome News Sport TV&Showbiz Femail Health Science&Tech Money Debate Coffee Break Property Motoring Travel News Home World news Headlines Pictures Most read News Board My Profile Logout Login Find a Job Dating Wine E-Editions Feedback My Stories Thursday, Oct 29 2009 This Morning 16°C This Afternoon 17°C 5-Day Forecast Mark of disrespect: Anti-war protesters vandalise poppy poster with urge to 'prosecute Blair'
By Christian Gysin
Last updated at 9:25 AM on 29th October 2009
Comments (-) Add to My Stories Anti-war protesters have vandalised billboards for the Royal British Legion's Poppy Appeal.
They have changed the wording on a poster showing the widow and young son of a soldier killed in Afghanistan.
The poster, which will be appearing nationwide, says: 'For their sake wear a poppy.'
But protesters in Gillingham, Kent, changed one poster to 'For their sake, prosecute Blair' and a second to 'For their sake, bring 'em home'.
Enlarge Defaced: One of the posters changed by anti-war vandals and, inset, the official British Legion wording
One resident said: 'It was so cleverly done I thought for a moment the British Legion had suddenly become political'.
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The vandalism has horrified friends and family of Private Damian Wright, who was 23 when he was killed by a roadside bomb in 2007.

The poster shows his widow Hester, 22, and her son Joshua, six, from Mansfield, proudly displaying his picture.
Pte Wright's mother Debbie Smalley, 45, called the vandalism 'plain wrong'.
She said: 'The British Legion do a great deal for ex- servicemen and widows and they are not political. Whoever did it should be ashamed.'
The British Legion said: 'We would say to whoever did this that we hope they feel they have had their bit of fun. We would never discuss the rights or wrongs of conflicts.'

Police are investigating.


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[tzlr_17]

I applaud the artist.

Need more of this!

Here's one I found local to me:

http://www.publicadcampaign.com/uploaded_images/billboard_london-744548.jpg

[brainfreeze]

I'm sorry for the family for the loss of their son, but why should we only look at/read/accept government properganda?

Those "vandels" are stating an opinion which many agree with. Why is their opinion not valid to a government who doesn't listen to it's people, enters into illegal wars and rips the tax payer off with trumpet up expences?

The british government was caught fucking the tax payer pants down, but what these anti war protestors did is a crime?

How off balance is that?!

When do they start listening to what the people are saying as appose to simply expecting the public to do as they're told?!

[godspeed]

good one......nice tidy work........oh the shame is on blair liar....:D

[icarus]

Wearing a poppy has nothing to do with remembering soldiers past or present, it's simply been hijacked by this criminal government as part of the co-ordinated campaign to convince the British public to support the troops.

The simple fact is, however, that they are in an illegal war and they are serving fascists. They are effectively war criminals, as the Nuremberg War Trials made it clear that soldiers do not have to follow illegal orders, in fact they are required to disobey illegal orders. The Afghanistan war is illegal and so those serving out there are war criminals.

History will show this to be fact one day, when these fithy creatures are finally defeated.

There is a massive and co-ordinated campaign constantly running in the UK to sway the public towards the military. We see them appear in television shows in uniform, hear them on the radio, and meet them in person at fetes and public events, where they wander around talking to little kids and explaining how great the military is, and how we should all be thankful to them.

Creatures like Ross Kemp do their bit to use their celebrity to throw positive light on child killers. Ross Kemp's children, if he has any, will not be joining the military, nor will any of those of the celebrities who lend themselves to this despicable work. But our children may find themselves in the military.

The recent rememberance ceremony for D Day was carefully choreographed so as to be positively associated with current illegal wars, and real veterans were edged out to the extremities by serving soldiers. Any veterans who voiced anti war sentiments were not given air time.

When a country starts to swing towards outright fascism and police statism, as the UK is, it needs the public to at least initially hero worship the military. Later, should they take to the streets, they will see what the military really is; a sharp stick for the elite to keep control.

There are videos online showing what British soldiers really get up to in places like Iraq. It's not sust the Americans or South American Juntas that do these things. Soldiers in uniform follow orders, or most of them do.

"Wear a poppy for their sake", and all of the other clever mechanisms we are now seeing appear in daily life, are yet more despicable conditioning so that the general public do not ask the only pertinent question about why we are in these countries at all.

And to go deeper still, it may be part of the elite's ridiculing of the public, Poppies being part of the Heroin trade which is flourishing under the allied protection of the industry in Afghanistan. By wearing a poppy, people may be unknowingly mocking themselves by unwittingly wearing the symbol of the trade that was partly responsible for invading in the first place.

[haukipesukone]

I think going to war against someone is more disrespectful than writing political opinions on a few posters. Sending you to die in a foreign land could be seen as a sign of disrespect as well. "I respect the hell out of you. Now take this gun and get the fuck out to that barren desert where you are likely to get shot, while I sit behind this desk sipping brandy! Mmm... respect..."

[spiraltrance]

I can't see what's so disrespectful about what they've done. I think it's more disrespectful that our politicans send naive young men to die and get there arms and legs blown off in wars they haven't got the balls to fight themselves.

I guarentee you that if the politcians/daily mail journalists who keep telling us it's in a national interests to stay in Afghanistan had to go on the frontline and risk there own lives they'd soon change there minds about whether its in the nations interest.

this sums it up :-

They should have put :

"War sucks, but at least we're going to have a ****ing good Paralympic team in 2012."