thanks guys for the info
I just regard a poppy as for all the war dead. Why people need to make any disciminations is beyond me - colour creed nationality sex age - lets just remember and respect all who gave their everything.
to answer that is because we live in a society with no backbone and allow everyone to make a joke out of us, complain about us, demonstrate about us and live at our expense but do it to these people we are discriminating and being racist.....
The police changed todays parade in glasgow (same route since......1970's) the reason:
they got information that certain groups were intending to set fire to poppy reefs and throw them at the parade and that there was a planned demonstration
for the normal assembly area against the armed forces......