A number of people have been arrested in the Coleraine area after a social networking site published a photo which appears to show two youths burning a poppy. The police say they are investigating the image on Facebook. Royal British Legion member Stephen Phillips, who reported the image to the police, said he was shocked when he saw it. "I couldn't believe what I was seeing," he said. He said those responsible for such incidents should realise "it wasn't just Protestants, there was Catholics, there was Muslims, there was Hindu people, who laid their lives down in both world wars". http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-15563139 Comment - Although the rememberence of the dead should always be respected why are the British Legion allowed to peddle the myth that the Poppy is for those who died in the two world wars?
That ain't quite how you get opium. I wonder why Stephen Phillips gave such an utterly irrelevant quote?
