Celtic Supporters Thread (contains GB chat)

In a nutshell.

 

I don't think people should roll over. If it bothers people so much why don't you get the numbers together in protest. Watch that documentary on how the youth in Egypt overturned their regime by gathering huge numbers at the square and want their demands met. Take a page out of that book but don't do something for political means that costs us 50 odd grand in fines from uefa.

I think that's what bothers people most, that we get bad press due to the worlds view on the subject its self and the fact our club end up paying the price for a group of fans that want to get their political point across and using a high profile match to do so.

I do want the act fought but I don't want the club to have to pay potentially a players yearly wage on unnecessary fines.

these battles against the governments dodgy bills don't need to be fought at parkhead. Where that is involved with our club where as Mandela wasn't.

imo. Mandela got the chance to redeem himself and was loved by the world, bobby sands never got the chance due to an overly conservative leader by the name of Thatcher.

the world have different opinions on both freedom fighters.

 

NO SURRENDER :thumbup:

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Why did Bobby Sands have to redeem himself?

 

really? Because padmill just says I'm spewing a load of *. So u agree that the British see them as terrorists? As do the rest of the general public. That's what they've been labeled as for ages.

you guys are acting like these are my views, I'm clearly stating the obvious.

 

Can you try and explain your opinion then?

Celtic have had minutes silences/applauses for a lot of things, including deaths of ex-players, world figures and even last year for the Sandyhook massacre... are they all political aye?

 

Silences for ex players and murdered school kids aren't political. Silences for dead politicians sure as * are.

political
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adjective
1.
of or relating to the government or public affairs of a country.

 

Just because all minutes silences are not based on a political matter, doesn't mean there haven't been any that are. The minutes silence on Saturday wasn't based on anything to do with politics, the minutes silence for Nelson Mandela most certainly was.

I don't really see what is hard to grasp about that to be honest.

 

world figures are obviously political doubt there would be one for the ex-israel pm who died last week

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Trolling imo,no one is that stupid.

It's no coincidence that it's these two again.

 

do you think if Scotland get independence the country will have different views on the the matter?

and btw , I keep hearing people giving it the big licks online but I haven't exactly heard of any groups out in the streets protesting etc recently.

I know Jeanette Findlay has the Celtic trust thing on Wednesday but I haven't heard of any active protests against it in ages. If its such a big priority for people in glesga right now, it doesn't seem like it.

people need to get petitions out, legally organize a protest like last time in glesga town square with Jeanette speaking.

banners at the game isn't exactly gonna have any real effect.

 

Leave it out ffs....

You have to toe the party line on here it seems or you're a 'troll'.

 

Put forward a reasoned argument then. Do you really expect people to take you seriously when you are seriously suggesting that forcing people to respect a dead politician and ex paramilitary leader isn't a political decision?

 

What do you mean by "the rest of the general public"?

 

I know they're aren't necessarily your views and I know what you're trying to say... I just think it's ridiculous that we should bend over backwards for people who have an opposing view about the IRA than what is the view of a lot of our fans.

I'm not saying we should chant "IRA" on a loop or even sing songs about the Provisional IRA at all... but we shouldn't have to feel guilty if someone like Bobby Sands is mention, or stop bringing him up just because some very ignorant people don't like it.

 

Goodybhoy,yourself and Spellcheck92 are three of the most glaring examples of trolling I've ever encountered on this forum.Funny how absolutely no one labels Sween or North a troll,they certainly don't 'toe the party line'.

 

People weren't really forced to applaud him.

Mandela is best known for his fight against racism and apartheid, people respected what he did for his country and indeed for the world as a whole. Acknowledging that and observing his passing isn't a controversial political statement.

Having a silence/applause for Thatcher for example would have been, that's why no one did it.

 

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Are you at the wind up? How on earth is nothing what I highlighted in green there political?

 

Again, just because people have a different opinion to you and the GB fan club as a whole doesn't make ye a 'troll'.

Sween has a putting things lets say and North who doesn't even post often seemed to support the GB, no?