In fact it was clearly criminal and eventually Police Scotland were able to act when\u00a0Channel 4 News<\/strong>\u00a0gave them evidence they couldn\u2019t refuse. And now one at least of the Ibrox Underclass is awaiting sentence for racially and religiously aggravated online intimidation. Yes \u2013 racially.<\/p>\n The victim here is not black, she\u2019s of Irish descent<\/a>. But racism is racism in fact, in reality, in law \u2013 however blind important sections of Glasgow remain to this reality.<\/p>\n So the racial element makes it obviously a landmark, groundbreaking prosecution.<\/p>\n So groundbreaking in fact that it was all but ignored by the Glasgow-dominated Scottish media. You really do have to wonder why? They\u2019ll have another chance this week when Limond is sentenced in Ayr. Will they take it? “”<\/p>\n Excellent-he’s putting pressure on the media to shake off \u00a0their shameful shackles and tell it like it is.<\/p>\n “So quite rightly Police Scotland are on a roll here. They\u2019ve successfully taken the law to online criminality. It\u2019s a significant step. But there\u2019s more to be done. A lot more. Right now, for instance, the police should be very interested in Celtic\u2019s underclass doing much the same thing as Limond. I know for certain at least one key detective involved in the Limond case already has evidence.<\/p>\n Eh ? Celtics underclass ? Pray tell…<\/p>\n ” Take, for example, the site known as\u00a0the Huddleboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n This purports to be a fans\u2019 forum where people come and sound off from behind their keyboards in relative anonymity, brave men that they are \u2013 and they are mostly men it seems. Fair enough, passion and free speech and all that.<\/p>\n Except that those running this site either don\u2019t seem to know or care that comment is one thing, crime is another.<\/p>\n Hot on the success of prosecuting Limond the excellent detectives of Police Scotland may well now be taking a close interest in Huddleboard and those who run it.<\/p>\n In reality Huddleboard is just another facet of the increasingly toxic public image of Celtic. The Seville days are ancient history. Like a bully with no natural competitors (though Rangers are on their way back), the Celtic of today is rightly gaining a reputation for the most consistently violent fans in the UK who attack stadiums as if we\u2019re living in 1974. ”<\/p>\n Like this rogue, presumably.<\/p>\n ” They are Scotland\u2019s modern Millwall: an underclass of extreme politics and mindless violence \u2013 the same old toxic brew.<\/p>\n That\u2019s the Celtic Underclass on tour ”<\/p>\n Right. Own up. Who let their dug pee against his car ?<\/p>\n So, whats he going on about ?<\/p>\n Well, over on the Huddleboard, a Celtic fans website where you can’t really take anything seriously, largely because it doesn’t take itself seriously ;<\/p>\n “” \u00a0so-called Celtic \u201csupporters\u201d openly threaten precisely the same journalist as Limond did. They threaten her with blatant physical and sexual assault for doing her job. It\u2019s disgusting and laughably stupid \u2013 and yes guys \u2013 deleting any of it now is far far too late.<\/p>\n Even in the unlikely case of it being Rangers \u2018fans\u2019 on the stir, it is apparently being tolerated by the people moderating and running the site who bear responsibility in law. The details of the criminals engaged in this vile, inadequate idiocy will be known to those running the site. Their details are logged. And no, you can\u2019t delete them either. Should they wish not to give such information to Police Scotland they will place themselves in an interesting position legally.<\/p>\n I have good reason to suppose the police may well soon require such information and rightly so.<\/p>\n Hiding behind having a server in the US is unlikely to hold up before a determined and professional police force. Hiding and huddling \u2013 not exactly heroic. I would advise the Huddleboard moderators to start moderating, publicly apologise for the criminality that has been published by fans and wipe this stuff from their output forever in future \u2013 though it may well be too late for that, legally speaking. ”<\/p>\n So, whats all the fuss about. Where are these threats, and what were they ?<\/p>\n Although it may have been upsetting for the lass, there are no actual threats here. Just a few opinions that are , granted, a little strong, but no threats.<\/p>\n But that hasn’t altered Thomsons tirade;<\/p>\n ” Yet again, alongside Limond the obvious criminality on this site is startlingly clear to an outsider yet around Glasgow of course few even appear to notice.<\/p>\n But this is now. New Year. 21st Century. Post-Limond. Police aware. If Glasgow culture\u2019s still stuck in early twentieth century tolerance of this filth, there are many outwith Clydeside who are not, and are calling time on you, here and now.<\/p>\n There are many well-moderated Scottish football sites run by grown-ups who can distinguish between a comment and a crime \u2013 The Scottish Football Monitor is one. ”<\/p>\n The Scottish Football Monitor-the magazine that recently assassinated the character of Jeannette Findlay ?<\/p>\n Alex Thomson has made a name for himself with some excellent reporting, often from areas around the world where he has put his life in danger.<\/p>\n Yet a couple of months in Scotland and he’s relegated himself to the standard and style of the idiots \u00a0that he spent so much time ridiculing while he was up here.<\/p>\n Something up there is toxic, and contagious, but its not the Celtic Underclass. Whatever that might be.<\/p>\n It may be that one or two posters have upset Miss Haggerty, the victim in this case, but surely thats between her and the police, and the posters ? If she has a complaint, then make it to the relevant authorities, if shes not happy about the outcome, then she could turn to her pals in the press.<\/p>\n I was going to complain when those on the Huddleboard said I had a boring voice, after they “reviewed ” one of our podcasts, \u00a0but when I tried to tell someone they would invariably fall asleep.<\/p>\n Miss Haggerty has every right to complain if she’s offended, but its not quite proportionate to refer to Celtic as “Scotlands Modern Millwall. ” . Not proportionate at all. Last night Thomson tweeted this;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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