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I've read some amount of nonsense over the years on various Rangers websites, especially their favourite, you know the one.. The sectarian hate site that claims to be non-sectarian while polluting nearly every thread with 'Fenian this', 'Taig scum that' and of course one of their favourites 'Tarriers'. All this while decrying the Pope of Rome, Catholic City Council and Blatantly Broadcasting Catholicism. They are obsessed.

This week we've had the usual mock-shock at some jibes made about Karma and Kevin Thompson. Apparently we're all scum, vermin, filth and all the rest of the perma-rage adjectives they can vomit up. These are the same people who repeatedly posted up images and videos of Larsson when he broke his leg, finding the whole thing rib-ticklingly hilarious.



These 'people' actually had the audacity to make up a song about their own Ibrox disaster, claiming Celtic fans were singing it, when it couldn't be further from the truth. This dignity we keep hearing about surely cannot stretch so far as to make up lies about something so tragic in their own history in order to point score over your rival football fans, can it?



Of course it can, look at their lies about Big Jock, a man who helped out on the pitch at the Ibrox disaster himself, a fact which is allowed to be denied on certain websites, to the degree where posting the image is instantly deleted by their admin. You have to laugh at their confusionism, right enough – This week they were using the fact their fans observed a minutes silence when Big Jock passed away as proof that Celtic should have held a minutes silence for the war dead, rather than an applause. This may startle them, but in the real world, away from nasty, hate filled on-line smear campaigns, Big Jock remains a Scottish and Celtic legend who commands respect from everyone within the game. Normal people are disgusted at their fans for using child sex abuse to point score over your rivals, and their entire support chanting 'There's only one Gary Glitter' was a new low. But we've already shown that you have no shame in that department with the lies about songs about your own tragedy at the Ibrox Disaster.



Have huns no shame? It would seem not. Most recently they have also prostituted the Poppy in an effort to bring Celtic fans down to their own gutter level. Surely such an important symbol which they claim to harbour nothing but respect for, is beyond their hate? No, you'd be wrong. Once Again. Most reasonable people see the Poppy and Armistice day as a time for reflection, to show their respects for the war dead. Not for these 'people'. No they have to flaunt it. They have to make up more stories about wearing one, much to the antipathy of 'Timmy', who duly is then put in their place by the 'bear'. They write letters of complaint to everyone from Satan to Santa Claus, begging, absolutely begging them to decry Celtic fans for having the audacity to applaud, to show their respects. Yes, at that point, instead of getting on with showing your own respects you write to every MP, and Journalist they can think of and en masse (possibly the wrong word!) with their usual 'bluemail' tactics. It is entirely to their shame that they have been allowed to use the Poppy to become a divisive symbol, in an effort to turn it into a competition about who is grieving more. It demeans the very memory they claim to hold dear, for the inanity of getting another cyberstick they can use to promote their on-line campaigns of hatred.



But it's always the same, with huns. Take the recent controversy over their newest, racist ditty, 'The Famine Song'. They claimed it was banter, hell, even their discredited Rangers Supporters Trust put out an edict to that effect. On websites all over cyberspace these racists claimed that they would continue to chant the song, no matter. Much as they claimed at the time about their other horrible anthem 'The Billy Boys'. Both times there were bold claims... They wou

I am appalled at the policy of the Celtic Football Club board in the manner in which you have attacked the song traditions of Ireland. Allow me to point out that Irish song and the story it carries is not one of bigotry or hate, but one of survival, of a fight for freedom against tyranny of a fight against racialism and against bigoted legislators and despotic governments. It’s a story of a people fleeing hunger and disease and of a people evicted from their homelands by ruthless landlords.


By banning or outlawing a song is morally wrong and really is just a cosmetic exercise to pacify bigots. It ignores the real problem, which lies at the heart of the society that feels a need of this oppressive action, sectarianism and racial discrimination are the main problem. Ask any Catholic who has sought a house or position of employment over the years and he will tell you about discrimination it is nothing to do with music or song which is just a reaction to the problem.

Study the music of the world and you will understand its beginnings its reasons and inspiration. Did America ban the music of the civil rights movement, which drew its energy from the suppressed black community there. What spawned the musical protests in South Africa that gave a voice and hope to a down trodden

victims of apartoid. Get rid of sectarianism and injustice in the society and the song is just a song it’s a harmless story. WHAT ARE THE REASONS WE REQUIRE TO BAN A SONG, DOES IT JUST HAVE TO BE IRISH. WILL WE GO AS FAR AS BANING THE FLOWER OF SCOTLAND OR SONGS ABOUT BONNIE PRINCE CHARLIE or the JACOBITES ARE THEY REBEL SONGS.

I think not, try it and you will meet with opposition. Will we ban Braveheart from the cinemas because William Wallace fought against the English is it a rebel movie.

I think you are treating your loyal supporters with less than respect and as immature brainless people who cannot make a decision for themselves, who don't care about the society they live in, who cannot make a choice as to what song to sing. Ask yourself the question, what were the origins of the great club Glasgow Celtic and I believe you will find all the answers.

Celtic have the best supporters in the world and their traditions history or ethnic background should not be insulted. Surely our supporters have the right of expression just as the national rugby supporters have the right to sing the flower of Scotland.

The policy you have now embarked upon is unjust and oppressive and if you study history it was counter productive in the past. There is a history of outlawing and banning songs and songsters against the Irish and the Scots , Yet there is more so called seditious music surviving from these traditions than from any other country in Europe.

Many harpers and bards were beheaded, many minstrels were exiled or imprisoned for carrying the story of their people. STILL THEIR MUSIC LIVES ON TO THIS DAY. These were the policies of power hungry oppressive governments who needed to suppress opposing opinions in order to maintain power.

Are these policies to persist into the 21st century are they not out dated. It is a shame upon a society that needs to suppress a song, the symptom of the problem while ignoring the cause. Why is it that the Irish song tradition is attacked as a problem, they are not sectarian or bigoted in words or expression but carry the story of the Irish peoples struggle against oppression, hunger and injustice. It’s the story of human misery and suffering of a fight against famine and disease and then a fight for freedom and human dignity.

This story has as much right to be told as the story of Scotland or any other land. Are we to ban the songs of the great heroes of Scotland like Rob Roy or the great highland chieftains, no, It would not be just and I would oppose it.

When England ruled Ireland she attacked the freedom of the press on many occasions across the centuries, they closed down newspapers who spoke o