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Glasgow, United Kingdom
Orange Walks are damaging to the city of Glasgow for a number of reasons.
They are a practice representative of sectarian attitudes, and do not reflect the beliefs of the majority of city residents.
They promote an atmosphere of alienation and intimidation.
They make travel around the city centre unnecessarily difficult.
They waste the time of emergency services, preventing them from reaching the people who may have a real need for them and wasting taxpayers' money.
They are detrimental to tourism and promote a poor image of the city.
They are a considerable noise disturbance to local residents.
Glasgow City Council should not be allowing this walks to continue, when they are only warranted by the bullying and pressure from a very vocal minority of our population.
Sincerely,
[Your name]
It's time to end this open display of bigotry.
i live in the area next to glasgow green and the mess thats left is not acceptable anymore. i dont have a problem with these people wanting to walk for there beliefs but theres a big park there where they can do it all day long and not bother residents..they march then go on there way and leave the people out to cause trouble behind and we have to deal with the mess.theres always something on in the green and its great for people to get together but not when its to cause bother..and hatred amongst communities
It's plain and simple bigotry
In a free society, no-one denies these bigots have a right to walk the streets. There is absolutely no need for this to be more than once a year. It's the frequency of these morons polluting our streets is the problem.
It helps perpetuate bigotry. These marches belong to another era. Orange walks are more about hatred and bigotry than anything else, but they are carried outunder the guise of politics and "cultural celebration.
Signallers
Because these marches serve no purpose other than to perpetuate bigotry and sectarianism.
Being from Glasgow (currently in Australia) I know the effect these walks have had on myself and many of my friends in the past. A lot of people argue that it is tradition to have these prosessions in the streets but its the tradition that has now got to the point where there is very little mention of when they occur and how frequently they occur. Disruption of traffic is the biggest issue, not to mention the noise factor also. With each one, less and less people attend to watch and the majority now just boo and heckle it to stop. I think to address the public and retire the event will at least be a send of with dignity to those who still believe in its purpose.
We're in 2013, it's time these people moved on from marching to "celebrate" an incident that took place over 300 years ago.
It does nothing but promote a poor & backward image of Scotland at a time when the country is trying to define it's own image
These people are not walking to remember or pay tribute to anything, half of then that march with the orange walks have no idea what the marches are for & it is just an excuse for them to go out get a drink and act like complete and utter bigots. They show nothing but disrespect to every community they march in right down to playing louder going past our chapels!