“However much you may think that’s a totally acceptable symbol, and that is totally neutral, that might not be entirely the case for everybody who comes to court,” Woolcott told the Waterloo regional police officer.”
h/t Mississauga Matt
“However much you may think that’s a totally acceptable symbol, and that is totally neutral, that might not be entirely the case for everybody who comes to court,” Woolcott told the Waterloo regional police officer.”
h/t Mississauga Matt
Everyone has a choice to wear it or not (except for those of us in uniform: it is part of it). Perhaps the judge thought there was a valid reason for the order to remove the poppy, though nothing I can think of could possibly be reason enough. As much as ‘Pissedoff’s comments were totally unacceptable; the adage ‘two wrongs don’t make a right’ applies here. There was no need to belittle the Poppy to make your point.
You have the right not to wear the poppy, and to remember in your own way, just as I have the right (and in my case the duty) to wear it.
You may not have meant to be disrespectful to veterans, but you were.
Regards,
ABG