The British army burned cork looking for 140 IRA men some of which wore Broad Black Brimmers. The people of the city claimed they didn't know who the Army were looking for so the army set about torching building after building causing millions pounds worth damage as well as indiscriminately beating lumps out of people that complained. For years the british high command denied it gave the order or even it was british that had destroyed the place. Instead saying it was the 140 guys they were looking for who did it. Later the truth came out. No-one was prosecuted. Allegedly it was Oked by Churchill who was London controller and authority at time.
Now if thats true should Churchill be an offensive word and downgraded from hero to sadist. Im sure the innocent people torched in Dresden in 2nd world war by churhills command after peace was signed. That also offends me. And no-one in the army or air force or government was prosecuted.
Now i have absolutely no objection to anyone wearing a poppy although it deeply offends me to think what a poppy actually !represents. Is that another hidden in plain sight Masonic Symbol. Was 2nd world war partly about who would control the poppy fields, and hence the opium trade. Britain again has a dark history of opium trade, destroying food fields in India to make opium to sell to chinese at gunboat point. Maybe just maybe afghanistan taliban burning the poppy fields had some bearing on the wars to find the bogey man.
War offends me. Remembering dead does not. But poppy is a weird symbol to remember people who gave their life for freedom. Poppy represents anything but freedom.
Anyway here a an old clip from footage of the cork destruction by some heros against some terrorists, or did i get that wrong way round.
Broad black Brimmer of the old IRA is equivalent to headwear of Belgian and french and polish resistance. Would Germans have the right to be offended if the ww2 resistance against nazi germany sang songs about atrocities against them at hands of an invading oppressive unwelcome occupying force. MSM and British propaganda will tell you IRA are terrorists. And the actions of the PIRA were not my cup of tea. But the broad black trimmer of IRA fills my heart with hope. Hope that good people are willing to stand up for their rights under extreme duress even when the propaganda machine of the empire oppressing them tries to justify their war crimes against people seeking their own freedom in their ancient homeland that had been invaded and imposed under military monopoly of violence.