"New stats from the Crown Office will condemn us, who is to blame for that?"

[Joe O'Rourke]

[COLOR=#000000:a24d9ae2]The latest information from the Scottish Government which will be published tomorrow would appear to suggest that the majority of sectarian offences in Scotland happen at a particular football stadium; and that stadium would be Celtic Park.[COLOR=#000000:a24d9ae2]Apparently this report will again support the Scottish Governments drive towards the new legislation for offensive behaviour at football matches, and will infer that we are the reason for the need for the new legislation.[COLOR=#000000:a24d9ae2]This seems rather strange, in terms of the request for information regarding sectarian offences from 2003; I am informed that the statistics for the period covering 2003 to 2010 were destroyed by the Crown Office; these statistics pointed to the fact that the majority of sectarian offences were against Roman Catholics; and they happened around Orange parades.[COLOR=#000000:a24d9ae2]So we have to ask ourselves; who is responsible for deleting the previous information? And who is responsible for amassing the new information?[COLOR=#000000:a24d9ae2]We, as part of the FAC group were asked to attend a meeting tomorrow morning with Assistant Chief Constable Campbell Corrigan; but following his comments in the Daily Record; the groups representing the Celtic Supporters felt it was inappropriate for us to attend the meeting.[COLOR=#000000:a24d9ae2]Mr Corrigan was reported to be summoning us for a slap on the wrist, well he obviously doesn’t know who he is dealing with; it was us who asked for a meeting with the Police over their heavy handed policing of the Green brigade in the match against Hibs on October 29th.[COLOR=#000000:a24d9ae2]This occurred after a well-attended and well behaved Demonstration in George Square, we were then subjected to behaviour by the Police which might have been more appropriate for China or North Korea.[COLOR=#000000:a24d9ae2]Let us say this, we have always been happy in the past to have dialogue with the Police; but we will not be criminalised for doing nothing more than supporting our team, we will not be bulied by the Goverment, the Police, or anyone else.[/COLOR:a24d9ae2]

[Guest]

Hail Hail

[Guest]

[COLOR=#000000:58a08aa2]The latest information from the Scottish Government which will be published tomorrow would appear to suggest that the majority of sectarian offences in Scotland happen at a particular football stadium; and that stadium would be Celtic Park.[COLOR=#000000:58a08aa2]Apparently this report will again support the Scottish Governments drive towards the new legislation for offensive behaviour at football matches, and will infer that we are the reason for the need for the new legislation.[COLOR=#000000:58a08aa2]This seems rather strange, in terms of the request for information regarding sectarian offences from 2003; I am informed that the statistics for the period covering 2003 to 2010 were destroyed by the Crown Office; these statistics pointed to the fact that the majority of sectarian offences were against Roman Catholics; and they happened around Orange parades.[COLOR=#000000:58a08aa2]So we have to ask ourselves; who is responsible for deleting the previous information? And who is responsible for amassing the new information?[COLOR=#000000:58a08aa2]We, as part of the FAC group were asked to attend a meeting tomorrow morning with Assistant Chief Constable Campbell Corrigan; but following his comments in the Daily Record; the groups representing the Celtic Supporters felt it was inappropriate for us to attend the meeting.[COLOR=#000000:58a08aa2]Mr Corrigan was reported to be summoning us for a slap on the wrist, well he obviously doesn’t know who he is dealing with; it was us who asked for a meeting with the Police over their heavy handed policing of the Green brigade in the match against Hibs on October 29th.[COLOR=#000000:58a08aa2]This occurred after a well-attended and well behaved Demonstration in George Square, we were then subjected to behaviour by the Police which might have been more appropriate for China or North Korea.[COLOR=#000000:58a08aa2]Let us say this, we have always been happy in the past to have dialogue with the Police; but we will not be criminalised for doing nothing more than supporting our team, we will not be bulied by the Goverment, the Police, or anyone else.[/COLOR:58a08aa2]

well said

[Guest]

Well done Joe. I am totally sick of the double standards in this country.

[Steviec]

Well said Joe.
No wonder we have a sectarian problem in this country with people like these in charge.
If only we had an honest media or junrnolist we might get somewhere.