Poppy Desecration.

[Geordie_Rob]

My take of the events is its worrying for what he was arrested for (malicious communications act or something) rather than just being an arse. That's the problem for me. He wasn't arrested for burning the poppy, but because he posted the picture & someone (quite rightly) was offended by it.

It's the same law (or act - whichever it is) that the guy got sent to prison for & lost his career for joking on twitter that he was gonna blow an airport up if they didn't clear the snow away so he could go away with his mates.

The poppy guy should've been done for inciting hatred rather than malicious communications. It's a scary law/act. Someone could be offended by what you write on here or Facebook & you get arrested. It's going further down the route of limiting our freedom of speech.

Sometimes fighting for free speech & the right to express our opinion brings fools like him to the forefront & for the sake our rights, we still need to fight against abuse of those rights.

It's like the old saying, if you stay silent while they take everyone else away, there is going to be no-one left to speak out when they eventually come for you.

To sum it up, he was rightfully arrested, but on the wrong charge.

As for Mr Pink, they should've let the crowd get him.