A man has been fined for burning poppies on Remembrance Sunday, do you think this was the correct judgement.

If you are not aware of the story it’s here

Basically a protest on Remembrance Sunday by some Muslim men ended with them burning some Poppies

Now as distasteful as I find their behaviour, I can’t see that they actually broke any laws, apart from maybe lighting an unlicensed fire in a public place. There has been a bit of an uproar here that the man was only fined £50 and he himself commented that he gets a larger fine for illegal parking but are we to now convict people for free speech when we find that speech distasteful. As far as I can tell they weren’t inciting others to violence. Having said that I’m still not sure how I feel on the subject, maybe I would have fined him 10 times as much?