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Think daft Dudey is more a VB hater than your average Bheast - which is nice.

Jeez! Just when we thought there was only 1 handwringer on the thread.

Rangers AGM was all about the well being of our club. No mention of other clubs and no snide digs. There lies the difference between us and others.

In times of need, make sure you mention Rangers. The bheasts lap it up.

Haggerty should be very careful. I believe some know of her dirty little secrets with Island coppers and Asian lawyers.

Today The Herald newspaper has appointed a new journalist (HND) by the name of Angela Haggerty. I'm told many of the Rangers supporting staff are deeply unhappy and concerned that such a Rangers hating bigot is working among them. If you do buy this newspaper, it may be worth emailing them and explaining your reasons for no longer doing so.

Gilligan: "When you get people in foreign countries writing lies about you, it's very disturbing." Instead of fighting each other, just think of the power we could unleash on bastards like 4names.

Delighted Ashley is be paid. However, the cynic in me wonders why this was left until now and announced at the AGM? Getting Ashley out of Rangers is a must, but why didn't we just pay him immediately and save all this crap?

There's a big difference with this AGM compared to the recent shambles and cringeworthy efforts. Looks professional and conducted in the correct manner. Just a pity the paid hands pipe up and talk shite as usual.

That's great news. Pay him back and get him out of Rangers.

How utterly embarrassing.

Just about covers it. A club steeped in child abuse and terrorism, should think twice about lecturing us on morality.

VB know articles are spot on when the resident hater criticises.

That's more like it Mr King. If Rangers keep on running, the haters will keep on chasing. If our enemies want a fight- let's meet them head on.

This week has seen an explosion of moral hypocrisy in Scottish football; a moral hypocrisy which sadly has become rather common place in the last five or so years. The catalyst for the latest explosion was HMRC winning its appeal against oldco. Predictably, this ruling has brought fresh calls from various media pundits and high-profile fans to strip Rangers of titles won during years in which EBT’s were used. The call for title stripping is both morally and legally absurd, and is supported by the weakest of arguments. On the legal side, nothing in the latest appeal had any bearing upon previous rulings regarding sporting advantage, as anyone who has kept up with the facts and doesn’t have a pre-established agenda against the club will admit. The moral argument is also completely flawed, as I will show here. Some, like Jim Spence, Alex Thomson and Graham Spiers, have argued as follows. Despite being legal at the time of use, because EBT’s took advantage of a loophole Rangers exploited Scottish football for their own benefit, and also exploited the taxpayer. Thus, morally speaking, they “cheated” (Spence, Spiers) and won titles “fraudulently” (Thomson). However, this argument is an extremely bad one for the following reason. Many clubs, in Scotland and elsewhere, have taken advantage of various tax loopholes. So the conclusion generalizes: if Rangers are guilty for the aforementioned reasons, so are the other clubs. Thus, by parity of reasoning, every club which has ever exploited tax loopholes should be title stripped. I suspect that Spiers, Thomson, Spence et al. would reject this. But they have given us no principle reason to do so – if Rangers should be title stripped, then so should Celtic, who used EBT’s in 2004-05, and another loophole involving film companies between 2001-2006. So should Arsenal, who used EBT’s between 2001-2006. When the target is Rangers, principle goes out the window – title stripping is discussed with regards to this club by these individuals because they treat it as a special case – a club which they hate. I have seen no arguments by any of these individuals to refute this point. At base, then, we have journalists quick to moralize on one instance (Rangers) but choose to ignore violations of the same moral principle when it comes to other clubs (Celtic, Arsenal, etc). That is clear moral hypocrisy. To highlight this, I want to look more closely at Celtic’s own tax avoidance scheme. In the early 2000’s, the British government, in an attempt to incentivize domestic film production, provided tax breaks to film companies. Many Celtic players and staff, including CEO Peter Lawwell, director Eric Riley, Neil Lennon, Johan Mjallby and John Hartson established film companies; companies where they would subsequently put money earned from their Celtic contracts. Why did they do this? Simple, because they would avoid taxation on that income (roughly, by spurious ‘investment’ in film technologies). The following displays the various companies, and their beneficiaries: Bobby Petta - The Film Develpment Partnership II LLP - Feb '04 Chris Sutton - WRP Dryvac LLP - Aug '04 John Hartson - The Mamjam Technology Platform Partnership LLP - Apr '03 Neil Lennon - The Mamjam Technology Platform Partnership LLP - Apr '03 John Harston - The Casedirector Technology Partnership LLP - Apr '03 Neil Lennon - The Casedirector Technology Partnership LLP - Apr '03 Neil Lennon - Ingenious Film Partners 2 LLP - Apr '03 Momo Sylla - Inside Track 1 LLP - Dec '03 Momo Sylla - Ingenious Film Partners LLP - Mar '05 Eric Riley - Inside Track 3 LLP - Jul '03 Johan Mjallby - Malvern Media LLP - Dec '02 Johan Mjallby - Jubilee Film Partnership LLP - Mar '05 Martin O'Neill - Inside Track 2 LLP - Dec '03 Martin O'Neill - Inside Track 3 LLP - Dec '03 Peter Lawwell - Inside Track 3 LLP - Dec '03 Alan Thompson - Owen Film Partnership LLP - Apr '06 Alan Thompson - The Film Development Partnership II - Sep '03 Alan Thompson - D IV LLP - Sep '03 Stan Varga - The Gala Film Partners LLP - Feb '04 Stan Varga - Innvotec 3 LLP - Mar '05 Stan Varga - Innvotec 6 LLP - Mar '05 Stan Varga - The Invicta Film Partnership No 23 LLP - Mar '06 Craig Bellamy - Cherwell Films LLP - Mar '05 Craig Bellamy - Orwell Films LLP - Mar '05For my purposes, the technical details about how this tax-avoidance scheme works are irrelevant; what matters is the fact that employees of Celtic FC used a loophole to avoid filling the HMRC coffers. This is indisputable. For more on the technical details, see: http://williampoole.blogspot.ca/2013/02/wp-archives-jun-04-2012-celtic.html http://www.<No links to this website>/news/neil-lennon-tax-scheme-blow-1173612 So why, if morality and doing the right thing are so important to Spiers, Thomson, Spence and a host of other bloggers, journalists, etc., then why are these individuals, and their employer, Celtic FC, not being chastised and denigrated as “tax cheats”? For there is no principled reason for the moral argument, as I have called it, to be applied in the case of Rangers but not Celtic (and others). The reason, as you have guessed it, is moral hypocrisy – Rangers are to be held to a different moral standard than Celtic; presumably because these individuals are partial to the latter. Thus, as my analysis demonstrates, the moral argument against Rangers is just bigotry in disguise; a convenient excuse to further kick around a club which has been, since 2012, subjected to all sorts of illegal punishments. This is demagoguery at its worst: faulty arguments and poorly constructed justifications such as these are part of the press-gang tactics being used by various factions in Scotland to cow the SFA into further, unjustified punishment of Rangers. It happened in 2012, and is potentially happening as we speak.

Hating Rangers gets Spiers, Spence and English cash from the BBC. Of all the journalists in Scotland, the BBC have employed these 3 haters along with the likes of McLaughlan etc. They have no moral compass, only a compass for hating Rangers. They can have no complaints if Bears expose any wrongdoings they've taken part in.

Facts are the Bheasts biggest enemy. The likes of Spiers etc, should be very careful. It may emerge they have set up limited companies etc to evade paying the maximum tax on money earned. Certain journalists have no morals, they are employed by the BBC because of their hatred and bias. They constantly attack our club and fans on social media and newspapers, thus making themselves a few bob at the same time. Wouldn't it be awful if their details on tax payments ever made the media? Spiers pennned this today http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/14024724.Spiers_on_Sport__Scottish_football_has_become_a_cesspit_of_venom_and_hate/ Yet just 24 hours ago, he wrote the following. There is an argument that further punishment of the club is futile and even vindictive. What's made Graham change his mind over the last 24 hours?

You can read them like a book. Bheasts in Dingwall shame Scotland - time to find an anti Rangers story. Deny and deflect, it's what they do.

When they try to take our titles and they will, Rangers fans will rise up and the shit will hit the fan.

Building bridges can only happen when two parties agree. Those who hate Rangers and obsess about our every move cannot be met in the middle. They despise our club and support and seek to see us finished. They will never see their dream come true. WATP

If we are not being singled out, why are the HMRC not going after all the English clubs who used the same EBT's?

Why are Rangers the only club in the entire UK being taken to court when every big club in England has used EBT's? Labour when in government, had some big hitters who were Yahoos.

Daily Record ramping up the Bheasts obsession with all this nonsense. Rangers FC sells newspapers

BP9 I usually just disregard anything you say ( no offence ) However, if you seriously think Rangers are being singled out for no reason other than reclaiming tax owed, then you really do live on another planet.