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  1. Rustie bugmuncher

    Rustie bugmuncher Well-Known Member

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  2. Mick

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    The group did not obtain permission to march therefore the group were prevented from walking. It is very simple. I believe there are perfectly legal ways for any group of people to organise a march through any street, but no permission was applied for in this case. If Strathclyde Police let this group take over a street and march down the road, without permission, then they have to apply the same standards elsewhere - and as we've seen in Belfast as soon as one group gets away with this behaviour, another group starts pointing fingers saying 'why are we treated different?'.
     
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    Angela Haggerty is Phil's cheerleeder.
     
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  4. EspaniaCelt

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    Mick, you astound me. I've read other threads where you've given insight into your background and seemingly been very open about the contradictions which we all battle with at times from our past. No doubt you are factually correct but the above limited comment is so subservient and obnoxiously pro-establishment that you give the impression of having been wholly converted to middle-age conservatism. I sometimes despair at the blandness of today's youth in general. Whatever happened to the university students' healthy anarchistic approach to the establishment - idealistically protesting and non-violently reminding everyone of the things that are blatantly wrong with society? I welcome the GB's youthful enthusiasm, whether misguided or not. It seems to me that the most rebellious action of today's youth in general would be to huff about not being able to watch the latest banal, mind-numbing, reality show on TV because the rest of the family or flatmates insist on watching some other mind-numbing reality show on the same TV.
     
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  5. rogueleader

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    so if the ku klux klan wanted to march down your street they should just arrange it among themselves for when suits them, not let anyone else know and march merrily to their hearts content despite any inconvenience or disruption to anyone else ?

    And just what is it they are rebelling against with their youthful enthusiasm ? The right to neck a bottle of buckfast before a game and act like a tit ? The right to block the passageways and emergency exits that then causes trouble for the club ? The right to sing songs that are quite reasonably prohibited by law and could get the club fined or banned from europe ?

    Hardly the stuff of Malcolm X is it.
     
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  6. VenomPD

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    I personally thought what Mick said was dispassionately fair when considering his background.

    The Green Brigade are not a political organisation, they are a collection of football fans.
     
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    Jailt gadgee.
     
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    A collection of football fans with a disproportionately high level of police attention. One need only look at how Strathclyde's finest have dealt with other football fans holding considerably larger illegal marches to see that the GB are being treated differently. Unless they are saying that now thereis a line being drawn in the sand and there is absolutely zero tolerance to anything any football supporter does, in which case what is the ****ing point of it all.

    200 tooled up cops for 200 fans walking to a stadium is neither necessary or proportionate. I am certain this could be dealt with in a better manner. There was an easy compromise here. I wonder if the police offered it before kettling and beating football fans.
     
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    Agree Mick...

    If you want to hold a protest march, get it organised and get the appropriate permissions.

    Protest march <doh> they're as bad as fleg protesters.
     
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    Aye, but rangers but aye eh?
     
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    Middle-Aged Conservatism may be a by-product of experience. I've had four months of street protests at my door to ponder the question of whether or not someone's right to freely organise a protest or march ad-hoc supersedes my right to go about my daily business without impediment. And as I mentioned as soon as you go soft on one group of people who feel they have a right to march down a street, blocking traffic, without permission, then you get another group jumping up and down like a bunch of moronic children stating "well if they do this, then we're going to do it too" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-21531736

    As for the Green Brigade I would not be at all surprised if they had intended to cause a run-in with Police, in order to further their 'rebel' credentials. I like the group in terms of the colour and atmosphere they bring to the stadium - but I get the feeling that that they hold a very high opinion of themselves - and like busy-body old ladies they like to create a bit of drama just for the sake of it.
     
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  12. DevAdvocate

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    They are a bunch of fannies.

    "The crowd were instructed that any procession on the road was illegal but that officers would facilitate a safe and orderly procession on the pavements toward their intended destination at Celtic Park," said a statement.

    More officers were deployed as the crowd became increasingly confrontational and aggressive&#8221;


    "However, this was ignored and more officers were deployed as the crowd became increasingly confrontational and aggressive.
     
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    Sounds to me, from this story, and pictures of "march" that the GB were hoping for/looking for trouble".
     
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    Chill oot boys eh?

    Hae some feev aleev eh?

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    Now that they have had it they want the "Celtic family" to cuddle them.

    They told Angela Haggerty to be there with her camera and dictaphone, I wonder why?
     
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    That answers one question.
     
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    Mick, you and your nonsensical long ramblings are a ****ing bore.
     
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    That's harsh Tina. The only reason I put the effort in is to try and impress you :sad:
     
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    Baldy
     
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    I'm no fan of the GB and I've criticised them many times. But it genuinely depresses me that so many Celtic fans seem to think that the police response yesterday was anything other than ridiculously disproportionate and arguably (deliberately?) inflammatory. The GB were going to "march" along the Gallowgate to CP. So ****? So do tens of thousands of Celtic fans every other weekend. Massively OTT response from the police. This QC's twitter feed makes that absolutely clear:

    https://twitter.com/BMcconnachieQC
     
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