The Council received a request earlier this year from a resident who has proposed siting a memorial stone outside Salisbury Pub in memory of our local conscientious objectors
Your views and suggestions are being sought by the Council.
Please contact Greville.Percival@haringey.gov.uk
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I have a genuinely conscientious objection to yet another stone erection outside the Salisbury. I mean, some may mistake it for yet another sign of regeneration. I may feel the urge to blow it up - I mean the stone of course, at least for starters. Sorry Liz!
I am going to call the Met's anti-terrorism hotline and report this threat to blow things up. Or seeing as you're being so childish, should I call the nationwide "Prevent" hotline? According to a solicitor, the latter has more teeth. :)
By "conscientious objector" is it meant someone who did not serve in the military at all or someone who did serve but, e.g,, would not carry a weapon? If it's the former (cowards) our government on down is a living memorial to them as they are similarly hiding heads in the sand with Islamic terrorism; if the latter, then I would support it if we are talking about people like Desmond Doss, who saved 75 lives and received the medal of honor. The recent film Hacksaw Ridge was about him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Doss
Otherwise, no thanks, I'd rather pay eternal respect and gratitude to the millions who gave their lives especially in World War I.
I sing of Olaf glad and big - true story
Just to clarify, Haringey First World War Peace Forum, see our website, https://hfwwpf.wordpress.com, has carried out a number of activities commemorating the 350 First World War conscientious objectors who lived in what is now the London Borough of Haringey (see related posts on this site). We are hoping to install a simple plaque outside the Salisbury and have the support of Harringay Traders as well as local councillors and other local organisations in our bid for funding. This area of north London stood out for the large number of COs with religious or political convictions and their stories are an intrinsic part of the history of the First World War. The Salisbury 'corner' was the location of an anti war meeting in August 1914, hence the choice of location.
Thanks to the Haringey First World War Peace Forum for pursuing this. I would be very much in favour of a memorial to conscientious objectors. When we are increasingly seeing the urge to bomb those we disagree with and solve complex international problems through armed intervention, the commemoration of people who were prepared to stand up against this approach is a great idea. It may even help people now to question the willingness of governments to send young people to their deaths on the basis of flimsy evidence at best and to increase profits at worst.
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