Gerry Hassan Praises Phil Mac Giolla Bhain

[ian1964 10,724]

Many big issues in Scotland have gone unexamined and unchallenged. The only way some breakout is when they explode into the public domain. This was the recent experience of Glasgow Rangers FC going into liquidation, or the Catholic Church’s acquiescence in decades of sexual abuse. In both of these exceptional individuals stood against the system and groupthink such as Catherine Deveney on Catholic Church abuses, or the bloggers and campaigners such as RangersTaxCase and Phil Mac Giolla Bhain who dared to put their heads above the parapet.

 

Such people faced ridicule and scorn from established voices saying they were pursuing a vendetta or were getting things out of proportion. On the Catholic Church, Professor John Haldane of St. Andrew’s University and the official Papal Adviser to the Vatican, publicly repeatedly dismissed any claims of abuse by the church, including belittling Deveney. With Glasgow Rangers, a whole host of senior football journalists and commentators including James Traynor and Archie MacPherson dismissed what was going on at Rangers. In both cases, none of these people have issued one word of recanting or apologised.

 

These are two exceptions which broke into the public: a mix of the size of the story, the abuse of power, and the bravery of a single or individual conscience. A much more common picture is silence, evasion and lack of enquiry. Scotland is littered with such stories.

 

There is Labour’s long rule of the West of Scotland and in particular, Glasgow and North Lanarkshire, a tiny amount of which has come out, but which hasn’t touched on the scale of corruption and cronyism. There is the decade of malpractice undertaken by David Murray running Glasgow Rangers FC which, since liquidation, hasn’t been the subject of investigation. There are the wider tales of corporate and financial abuse which the downing of Royal Bank of Scotland under the leadership of Fred Goodwin was only the tip of an iceberg. Finally, after Jimmy Savile where are the probing questions into our child sex abuse scandals in places which were ostensibly meant to care and protect young people – or are we really supposed to belief this just happened in England or under the tutelage of ‘Westmonster’?

 

Full article:http://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2016/04/28/shining-a-spotlight-on-power-in-the-darkness-in-scotland/

[RANGERRAB 3,677]

Mad Phil was 'pursuing a vendetta' alright to show his bigoted hatred of all things Rangers. Is Hassan too stupid to see this or does he just not want to?

 

What does he want McPherson or Traynor to apologise about? Unless I'm mistaken there is a forthcoming fraud trial a to what went on at Rangers. Again is Hassan too stupid to realise this or does he just not want to?

[boabie 230]

Hassan has wrote several blogs over the years about us and the scum. Apart from copy and paste jobs from RTC and the tarred one I don't recall Hassan bringing out any sensational news himself.

[Uilleam 5,948]

Any reasonable person who had read Gillivan's notorious "Incubator" blog, would be inclined more to bury the wretch than to praise him.

[Oleg_Mcnoleg 50]

I've met Hassan. He has (or at least had) little knowledge and even less interest in football.

[boabie 230]

I've met Hassan. He has (or at least had) little knowledge and even less interest in football.

 

West of Scotland uni says it all - it was Reid Kerr College back in my day.