That's cool.
You understand why I am making the point so strongly in relation to the Act and it's application.
You might find it offensive and i have no problem with that but it isn't inherently so in the same way that "Go on Home" might be.
I don't think any of them should be illegal but certainly not this one where, as Pud says, you have to join up dots.
As I said all along, the major or minor details don't matter to people. When Celtic fans are singing about BOTOB it is not about the PIRA, but that's the perception. They hear a song about the troubles they think, IRA/PIRA/INLA or UDA/UVF/UFF Supporter = Bigot.
That's it in a nutshell, changing the law in Scotland will not make any difference (Not that it will be changed). Most People when they hear these songs being sung are offended by the perceived
bigotry of the singer and in the wrong place trouble will start. That's why they are banned. It may be totally unjust but trouble erupts when certain opinions are aired in Scotland as I alluded to the other day.
People have the right to free speech but there is a time and a place and people who openly sing Loyalist ditties or Rebel songs in public in Scotland, especially Glasgow, Lanarkshire and Ayrshire, know full well the emotions songs such as RoH will invoke. If they are doing it to rile people, or offend their sensibilities then that is
offensive.
If people sing RoH in an Irish Pub or Club they will have support, no one will be offended in all probability, rather the reverse would be true. Same goes for The Sash and others. As far as i'm aware the Police in Scotland have never raided a club of Pub, or someone's house (Unless they had speakers in the windows) for playing Rebel songs, because there is little danger of trouble starting as long as cognisance is paid to the arena where it is being
performed. No one goes to an Irish folk night and walks out because they are offended, but the Police and the Government know that to allow people to sing whjatever they want in "Public", is to invite trouble.
