There are loads of stupid laws Pud. These laws tend to fail when tested. Maybe that is why I used the form of words I did.
Nearly as pointless giving a liquidated club a transfer ban as it was giving them a fine they will never pay?
He can only do what the law allows. Damn them rules and regulations that allowed them huns to escape punishment for not breaking them
This ****er rips off his own punters. Almost entirely Celtic support because it is a Sellic boozer. He disny discriminate though, there's that to be said for him.
A true instant classic [h=2]Tuesday, 19 March 2013[/h][h=3]THE GREEN BRIGADE AND THE HERALD[/h] THE Herald now looks as though it has placed itself right in the vanguard of the defence of the Green Brigade. A strange place for a newspaper to apparently be. It is difficult to predict just how damaging to the already in trouble Herald’s sales, the newspaper taking such a position firmly, fully and indisputably behind the lawbreakers of the IRA supporting Green Brigade, will be. The way its local government reporter, Gerry Braiden reported events on the streets of Glasgow on Saturday involving around 300 – many of them masked in IRA style –members of the Green Brigade, seemed slanted to suggest that the lawbreakers were in the right and the police in the wrong. Let us get this muddying of the waters cleared up right here and now. The Green Brigade asked for permission to make a march in the style of the Fascist Ultras who have turned football in many countries across Europe into breeding grounds for racism and hard right Fascism. Their request was denied. Then, early on Saturday afternoon, a group of this Fascist Green Brigade formed menacingly just off Glasgow Cross, causing fear and alarm among many of the families, peaceful law abiding woman and children out shopping in and around the Trongate, Gallowgate and Barras areas, places which are always busy on a Saturday afternoon. Police were willing, as a gesture, to escort the Green Brigade to Parkhead for the Celtic match, by walking them along the pavement. But the hard line Fascist IRA supporting Green Brigade were having none of it. They were determined to break the law. Strathclyde Police then used the tried and trusted modern method of policing such a dangerous, disruptive and lawless crowd, the entirely legal kettling. It was at this point that, as angry and violently aggressive members of the Fascist IRA supporting Green Brigade fought their way through police ranks, that officers quite properly drew batons in order that they could protect themselves as they strove to protect innocent members of the public on the streets of Glasgow whose innocent Saturday shopping expeditions were in danger of being turned into terror by these terrorist supporting Celtic fans. Yet, by Monday morning, Gerry Braiden, the Herald’s local government reporter had, not for the first time, rounded up a posse to question the police upholding the law where the Green Brigade was concerned, with Brian McConnachie QC in the vanguard of those seemingly defending the Green Brigade’s right to break the law, and attacking the right of Strathclyde Police to uphold it and keep people dressed in IRA style masks from bringing terror to the streets of Glasgow. That is what Strathclyde Police Chief Constable Campbell Corrigan is paid to do. That is Strathclyde Chief Constable Campbell Corrigan’s sworn duty. I find it surprising that his actions should be questioned by Brian McConnachie QC. After all, for seven years, beginning in 2002, McConnachie QC was one of the most powerful men in the Crown Office, first as Advocate Depute, then Senior Advocate Depute and finally Principle Advocate Depute, the man responsible for criminal prosecutions. For a man with such high level experience of being on the right side of the law, to talk about a disproportionate police response in one breath and then a police state in the other is, well, perhaps just a wee bit more than merely disproportionate of McConnachie QC. Surely he would have been better advised waiting for the evidence to be presented to him before making such stark allegations aimed at the way the streets of Glasgow are policed when hundreds of the IRA supporting Fascists of the Green Brigade take to those streets with the sole intention of breaking the law? But the events involving the Green Brigade this weekend was not the first time this style of sympathetic reporting towards these Fascists has appeared in the pages of the Herald under its local government reporter Gerry Braiden’s by line, who incidentally recently wrote a lengthy and knowledgeable piece in the Herald about the IRA The first major defence of the Green Brigade appeared under Braiden’s by line in the Herald recently when a number of legal eagles, some may say the usual suspects, were critical of the way the Green Brigade’s lawlessness was being policed. There may be some folk out there who are suspicious of just how quickly the reaction this time kicked in from those only too willing to defend the Green Brigade’s latest lawbreaking. A cynic may even say it was all a put up job. Though I must make it clear, I am not suggesting that the Herald’s Gerry Braiden was in on any conspiracy. Or that McConnachie QC knew in advance what was going to happen. As an officer of the court he would have been bound to report that to the police. However, the truth of the matter is, that by aligning itself with the Green Brigade, a secretive organisation which clothes itself in IRA style uniforms and seeks to bring the same sort of Fascist terror to the streets of Glasgow which the hard line racist bigots of the Ultras, who they seek to emulate, pollute Europe with, the Herald has placed itself in a dangerous position. There now appear to be moves to identify those normally secretive Green Brigade members who attempted to take control of the streets of Glasgow on Saturday. That would give reporters such as Gerry Braiden the opportunity to search the Herald archives for any stories about them, which perhaps link them to previous court appearances and actual convictions - an impportant distiction - in order to help paint an accurate picture of just what sort of people they are. Of course, not all court cases and their outcomes are carried by the Herald and with the current climate cracking down on association between journalists and the police, it would be desperately dangerous for any Herald journalist to try and find a back door way into the Criminal Records Office where electronic fingerprints of the culprit would be left. Dangerous, not just for any police officer or civilian employee, but also for any journalist and his newspaper. Or at least, so a senior media lawyer has privately told me. As it continues to appear to take the lead in this campaign to defend the Green Brigade and place it above the law of the land, the Herald is in a bad place. However, what it does, is present a defining moment early in the reign of new editor Magnus Llewellyn. At the moment it looks as though Llewellyn is allowing his paper to hurtle out of his control towards a dangerous precipice by allowing it to apparently slant its reporting towards defending those who seek to bring lawlessness to the streets of Glasgow and attack those whose job it is to preserve the peace. A curious stance for any responsible newspaper to adopt and one which new and as yet untried Herald editor Magnus Llewellyn would do well to ponder the wisdom of taking.
