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Celtic Fans Against the N11 "Bloodstained Poppy"

category international | anti-war / imperialism | other press author Tuesday November 09, 2010 06:16author by 9-0 Report this post to the editors

PHOTO (last Saturday Nov 6th 2010)
Celtic Fans Against the "Bloodstained Poppy" (Nov 11th)
-Ireland, Iraq and Afghanistan
http://willievass.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/061110...7Iink

(the bhoys hammered Aberdeen 9-0 on the day!)

Poppy Day is the opium of the people

Posted by Laurie Penny - 07 November 2010 09:31

A million cardboard flowers will never be enough to mop up the carnage of war.

On a rainy Thursday in Cheshire, at a base belonging to Europe's largest arms dealer, veterans lay down paper poppies in memory of fallen soldiers. This was no protest, however: BAE systems, a prominent supporter of the Royal British Legion's annual Poppy Appeal, cheerfully hosted the solemn ceremony to mark the beginning of the Appeal at its Radway Green facility.

Officials from the arms and munitions company, which rakes in billions from international wars and is subsidised by the British government, watched as servicemen and schoolchildren planted crosses in front of the base. The awkwardness of their presence passed unnoticed in a country that seems to have fundamentally misunderstood the nature of remembrance.

It might seem a little disrespectful to describe Remembrance Sunday and the rash of poppies that precedes it as "just show business", but that is precisely how Harry Patch, the final survivor of the 1914-1918 war, characterised the ceremonies in his memoir The Last Fighting Tommy. Patch died last year at the age of 111; there is now nobody left living who truly remembers the futility of the war that sustains our patriotic imagination. Remembrance day has been expanded to commemorate all fallen British servicemen and women, but in practice the events of the day focus on the two world wars- and no wonder.
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http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/laurie-penny/2010/11/...rnage

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Fight War not Wars     Viola Wilkins    Tue Nov 09, 2010 09:03 
   further discussions on the poppy here     Feudal Castrato    Tue Nov 09, 2010 11:21 
   More     pat c    Tue Nov 09, 2010 11:35 
   green brigade     danny    Tue Nov 09, 2010 12:53 
   Celtic poppy banner angers DUP MP Gregory Campbell     pat c    Tue Nov 09, 2010 13:23 
   No blood poppies in Ireland     Paddy    Tue Nov 09, 2010 18:41 
   Meantime, over beyond...     opus diablos    Wed Nov 10, 2010 11:44 
   Symbolism of poppy in Britain     John Lancashire    Thu Nov 11, 2010 21:33 
   fair enough,     opus diablos    Fri Nov 12, 2010 14:25 
 10   Clarification ...     John Lancashire    Fri Nov 12, 2010 19:15 
 11   @ Nuremburg     Damien M    Sat Nov 13, 2010 21:18 
 12   @ Nuremberg     Auntiewar    Sun Nov 14, 2010 06:00 
 13   A Poppy to Remember all     Laobhán    Sun Nov 14, 2010 13:52 
 14   Dresden..............     Ciaron    Tue Nov 16, 2010 09:00 
 15   I thought Nurnberg..     opus diablos    Tue Nov 16, 2010 14:48 
 16   Celtic Fans Against the N11 "Bloodstained Poppy" (image)     barrowlands bhoy    Thu Nov 18, 2010 09:15 
 17   opus     joe mcivor    Thu Nov 18, 2010 12:26 
 18   Poppy     Johnny no name    Thu Nov 18, 2010 13:04 
 19   @ johnny     Auntiewar    Fri Nov 19, 2010 07:15 
 20   Do something for a war veteran - get this one out of jail!     Ciaron    Sat Nov 20, 2010 08:41 


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