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galloway attacked.http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm...name_page.htmlMP GEORGE BEATEN UP BY AIRPORT YOBS EXCLUSIVE Thugs hurl sectarian abuse By Mark Mcgivern MAVERICK MP George Galloway was kicked and shoved by a jeering sectarian mob yesterday. He was threatened and taunted by six men and almost pushed on to a luggage carousel as he arrived at Glasgow Airport. Respect MP Galloway said: "It was a terrifying experience and quite disgraceful for these people to behave like this. There was one guy I would describe as a ringleader who said, 'I don't like your radio talk, I don't like your newspaper talk, I have a religious duty to knock you down.' " Former Celebrity Big Brother star Galloway was called a "Fenian b******" and believes he was targeted for being a known Celtic supporter. Last night, police were investigating the sickening ordeal and studying CCTV footage. The MP had arrived from London on a British Midland flight to give a talk at Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall. Though shaken, he went ahead with his one-man show last night. The MP hosts a TalkSport radio phone-in and regularly gets involved in heated discussions with both sides of the sectarian divide, particularly over Ireland. He said: "A group of men on the plane recognised me and the problem started right away. "They were taunting me and threatening me during the flight and I should probably have arranged for police in Glasgow to be notified in advance. "They were referring tome as a 'Fenian b******' and 'f****** Fenian scumbag' and other vile names and threatening to attack me when I got to Glasgow. "They were shouting at me, 'Were you down for the walk?' The rest of the passengers were dumbfounded. "I gather there was some Orange march in London over the weekend and people from Glasgow had travelled down for it. "I had a feeling of dread. I hurried off the plane and got to the luggage carousel as quickly as possible and prayed my bag would come first but, of course, it didn't "The group came up behind me and they were straight in with the sectarian insults and threats. "I felt one man kick me on one ankle and I was then kicked on the other ankle. "The next thing I knew, I was bounced in the back by someone's belly and virtually knocked on to the carousel itself." Galloway tried to make his way past the ringleader but was continually blocked by his stomach. He said: "I tried to get round him on one side and then the other and he blocked me with his belly. "By the time I made a complaint to police, a separate complaint had been made by a traffic warden over the conduct of a group of men shouting sectarian slogans outside. "I'm amazed they would behave like this in an airport, where every angle is covered by CCTV.I gather the police were given the tapes." Last night, a police spokeswoman said: "We were made aware of allegations arising from an incident at Glasgow Airport. These are being investigated." Galloway is set to be the keynote speaker at a summer youth camp run by Irish Republicans. He is billed as the "main event" at this year's Campa Naisiunta Oige - National Youth Camp - in Ballintoy, County Antrim. |
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| gordon899 |
i'm not one to condone violence but if ever there was a man who deserved to get walloped for his inane and attention seeking bletherings then it is him.
http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s1i20149 the link is actually better than anything the daily record could muster. i'm also a wee bit cynical here cos only a few days ago george took a pounding of the media due to the financial arrangemnets of his charity work, what better way to defelct than being attackked by 6 huns/bigots/proddys at glasgow airport.............. pity it wisnae mossad waiting at the carousel. |
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| Rinty |
For someone who claims to deplore sectarian violence that is a surprising statement. | ||||||
| parkhead_rfb |
i wouldnt be surprised to be honest. |
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| gordon899 |
i do not condone any violence, i really do, but that stupid attention seeker is a media whore and says daft things for publicity. ye cannae blame a tiger for killing a gazelle. | ||||||
| Dave Coull |
Gordon wrote "ye cannae blame a tiger for killing a gazelle".
Gazelles are animals that eat grass. Tigers are animals that eat animals that eat grass. Tigers are actually very boring creatures. Their only topic of conversation when they talk to each other is the weather. This is because if not enough rain falls, then not enough grass grows, and if not enough grass grows then not enough gazelles grow big, and if not enough gazelles grow big then a lot of tigers starve to death. Oh, they could try to find an alternative food source, but if that alternative food source happens to be human then a lot of tigers will get shot. Either way, small changes in the weather can leave a lot of tigers dead. Human beings are omnivores. This means that human beings can eat almost anything, animal or vegetable, on land or under the sea. We are not gazelles, and we are a lot more dangerous to every species on the planet than tigers. Apart from being the most omnivorous species on the planet, the other main difference between us and most other animals is our brains. We really are more brainy than most other things. But even brainy people can act stupid. George Galloway's recent behaviour was stupid. So was the behaviour of those who attacked him. Neither Galloway nor any of his attackers can be classed as either a tiger or a gazelle. Just as a human being not using the brains they've got. |
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| gordon899 |
the point i was making was that a tiger will go in for the kill when given the opportunity or when pissed up and face to face with his enemy. | ||||||
| Holebender |
Do tigers get pissed up very often? Do they drink Tiger Beer?
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| gordon899 |
buckfast. |
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| Cymro |
I can't stand Galloway, he's bad news as far as I'm concerned.
Don't care about him going on Big Brother, visiting Iraq, being best buddies with Saddam (I'm being tongue in cheek here) etc. He just comes across to me as a complete arse. I wouldn't be at all suprised that someone had a go at him for nothing more sinister than him being him and he's decided to make some political issue out of it in order to get his name in the news yet again. |
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| parkhead_rfb |
it is an issue of they have called him a fenian b****rd and attacked him though. on the other hand maybe they just didnt like cats. |
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| Cymro |
Galloway said this. As far as I'm concerned that is as trustworthy as the famous Comical Ali! Now if I was walking through Glasgow and heard a few neds shouting at Galloway calling him a Feenian b****rd etc, I'd have a go at them for making such stupid comments, and give them and endless list of insults they could throw at the prick, none of which would be secterian in any way shape or form! 
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| gordon899 |
or bigots. |
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| Aventinian |
After that segment posted here of him on the radio, I think he rather had it coming to him. | ||||||
| parkhead_rfb |
cue welshman stabbed by neds headline in evening times. |
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| parkhead_rfb |
I thought you were for free speech. of course imo thatcher had brighton coming for saying the ira had played its last card....bad call maggie love
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| Aventinian |
I am, but I also realise that when you say something you're provoking others. If I walked into a pub and started informing everyone else that their mothers where whores, then I'd expect nothing less than a punch in the face.
The difference being Margaret Thatcher was right in her stance with the IRA while in the one radio broadcast I've heard on the matter, Galloway expressed ridiculously bigoted views towards fans of a certain football club in Glasgow. |
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| gordon899 |
you just tool the words right out of my keyboard. and when it came to maggie and good calls, she made many with the ira
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| parkhead_rfb |
only in your opinion, certainly not for the majority of scotland. personally am on a weeks holiday from work when she croaks it and having a party. |
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| Dave Coull |
It is not true, as some people appear to believe, that "my enemy's enemy is my friend". I was a very active participant in the anti-poll-tax movement, and it is obvious who our number one opponent was. But that doesn't make me side with the IRA any more than it made me side with the military junta in Argentina. However, the passing of Maggie might cause sorrow to some people, but not, I suspect, to the vast majority of folk here in Scotland. I wonder what the most appropriate music to mark the occasion might be? The Halleluja Chorus might be a bit much, but how about "Ding Dong The Witch is Dead" (as sung by the munchkins in the "Wizard of Oz") ? | ||||||
| parkhead_rfb |
would you have chuckled had the ra got her though? come on now be honest...... |
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| RadgeJougal |
Galloway has always been a Brit to the core so it's ironic seeing this happening to him. Like the Brit left who follow him, his idea of national liberation is "anywhere but here" (i.e. Chiapas, Palestine etc etc, but not Scotland). | ||||||
| Aventinian |
The difference of course being Scotland is part of a free country already. Palestine is an occupied territory, and I've never once heard Galloway refer to the Chiapas... |
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| Aventinian |
You don't think the majority of Scotland supported Margaret Thatcher's tough line against the IRA? Ha. |
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| parkhead_rfb |
maybe not. but they certainly didnt like thatcher. |
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| gordon899 |
i thought we agreed he was a tit. | ||||||