There are better ways to resolve conflicts than killing strangers.
Yet one should not consider walking around Glasgow wearing a White Poppy...
Of course Death has a consumerist role to play and BSkyB were good enough to make this point as explicitly as possible: "Sky, Standing Shoulder to Shoulder with Those Who Serve... (Murdoch, one assumes)".
Yet Sky was still able to delay the minute of silence to fit in with their advertising schedule (primetime, boys and girls) - Death should not get in the way of consumerism...
But why oh why oh why is it not okay to protest against the Celtic shirt being emblazoned with a Red Poppy, when it is okay for the club to sanction the wearing of the said Poppy?
Who, in the right mind, is going to think that it is valid to celebrate the killing of one's ancestors with a minute of silence?
The wearing of the Red Poppy is not a neutral position.
It is an aggressive statement, so it is...
So Celtic fans, in opposition to The Branded Entity that was once their club, displayed a banner using words from "James Connolly" in protest.
"Your deeds would shame all the devils in hell - Ireland, Iraq, Afghanistan - No Bloodstained Poppy On Our Hoops".
The Branded Entity committed to banning the culprits "with immediate effect" as soon as they were identified.
Meanwhile Hugh Dallas clings by his claws to his role as SFA Head of Referees after a window where he has been shown in public to be what everybody knew he was all the way along - a lying, cheating, bigoted, offensive little man who will, if his claws lose their grasp, no doubt be shuffled off to an executive role at Guernica Rangers for services rendered.
On Wednesday the Catholic Church called for the SFA to sack Dallas if it was proved he passed on a "tasteless message" relating to the Pope's visit to Scotland in September.
Gerry Coogan prompted me in the direction of Phil Mac Giolla Bhain's website (http://www.philmacgiollabhain.com/hugh-dallas-offered-to-call-off-strike-if-his-case-dropped/) where the following was blogged:
"Hugh Dallas offered to call off strike if his case dropped!"
By: Phil Mac Giolla Bhain
Exclusive.
"Hugh Dallas and Stewart Regan had a blazing row on Monday at the SFA headquarters in Glasgow.
Hugh Dallas offered to call off the referees strike if his disciplinary hearing into the Pope email was called off.
On hearing this ultimatum an SFA insider said:
“Regan went ballistic!”
Regan’s exact words, overheard by many in the office were:
“How effing dare you! Don’t ever raise that again! Those two matters are totally unrelated!”
Hugh Dallas will hear his fate at 17.00hrs today in Glasgow.
In total eight people will be the subject of disciplinary hearings today.
I have learned that the Scottish Football Association has a very clear IT policy.
The passing on this email is clearly considered by Mr.Regan to be a “breach of the organisation’s IT policy.”
In recent weeks several staff were reminded of this policy of forwarding on offensive emails.
It was established inside the SFA that receiving such an email and opening it was no offence.
However forwarding it on would be considered an offence punishable from anything from a reprimand to dismissal.
I have also learned that if any of the other seven staff are dismissed for passing on this email then Mr.Dallas will also be dismissed."
Looks like a "with immediate effect" situation from where I stand!
Anyway, where was I?
Ah yes, the Poppy...
Imperial ventures...
The Busby at Chelsea...
Extraordinary Rendition...
The EDF squaring up to the Muslims Against Crusades...
The killing of David Kelly...
Blair peddling "Peace"...
The memoir-legitimisation of waterboarding...
Why not have splattered Iraqi children on the pitch at Stamford Bridge instead?
The repeated slaughter of the Working Class and the Disenfranchised of this and every other country is a tragedy.
There are better ways to resolve conflicts than killing strangers.
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