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4 months for that is actually pretty scary, this country is fucked.

Not taking into account it's TBB but i mean imagine actually jailing someone for singing a song, it's absolute madness.

Just came in to post exactly this. Utter charade.

Meanwhile, as others say, the paedophile rings of councils and Westminster and the rest are allowed to rape children and run free.

People should be revolting in the streets... But in this part of the world they will probably just try and blame it on the other lot and laugh up their sleeves at such ludicrous sentences being handed out for singing a song... Singing a fucking song. Absolute absurdity.

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Just came in to post exactly this. Utter charade.

Meanwhile, as others say, the paedophile rings of councils and Westminster and the rest are allowed to rape children and run free.

People should be revolting in the streets... But in this part of the world they will probably just try and blame it on the other lot and laugh up their sleeves at such ludicrous sentences being handed out for singing a song... Singing a fucking song. Absolute absurdity.

That's exactly it, most will look at this as a tit for tat victory rather than looking at the utter lunacy of law being able to imprison someone for this.

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Does the boy not get a chance to appeal!?..The Sheriff is a Bigot!!...and it is indeed a very sad state of affairs that this boy has "singing a song" as a criminal record. But as has been posted earlier we have allowed this to happen. Our Protestant Work Ethic of getting a trade and making our way in the world has come back to bite us on the arse!!...The minority have the positions of power and it's not going to get any better any time soon..

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The Sheriff's Father who was also a Sheriff

These people should be vetted to see what their background is before being allowed to judge on cases like this.....on both sides of the divide! (Though we know what would have happened if it had been one of them)

Born April 20, 1926; Died September 11, 2007. Sheriff George Crozier, who has died aged 80, was a leading Roman Catholic layman and one of Scotland's best-known legal practitioners for more than half a century.

He became renowned both as an eloquent pleader and a feared prosecutor in the criminal courts, working mainly in Glasgow and West Dunbartonshire. He was also a skilled advocate in civil matters, an astute judge and a powerful political lobbyist for the Pro-Life movement.

George Crozier was a formidable anti-abortion campaigner. He drafted and redrafted amendments for opponents of the 1967 Abortion Act and he opposed all subsequent attempts to persuade the Westminster parliament to extend that legislation and to sanction the use of embryos and human tissue in scientific research.

A trusted friend and adviser of Cardinal Thomas J Winning, he worked closely with the controversial churchman on high-profile campaigns which included paying mothers considering abortion to keep their babies and on the retention of separate Catholic schools and the rehabilitation of drug addicts.

He helped the late cardinal to found Flourish, the diocesan newspaper, and worked hard to strengthen the media relations office of the Archdiocese of Glasgow, particularly prior to the papal visit to Scotland in 1982.

The following year, in October 1983, he was made a Knight of St Gregory, one of the highest honours the church can bestow on a Catholic layperson. This honour, from Pope John Paul II, he prized more than any that came his way in the secular world, where recognition of his sharp legal mind and courtroom eloquence appeared almost grudging.

He was made a temporary sheriff in 1970, serving courts throughout Scotland until he retired in 1998. Despite wise and weighty - and sometimes controversial - judgments, George Crozier was never made a permanent sheriff, which would have entitled him to the privileges which attach themselves to that prestigious position, including a pension relating to his time on the Bench.

His "temporary" appointment must have been one of the longest in Scottish legal history. The fact that he was seen as a maverick whose relationship with the legal and political establishment was often fraught may have contributed to the decision never to offer him a permanent post. On his retirement he was made an honorary sheriff at Dumbarton. The honour was bestowed by Sheriff Principal Robert Hay on the recommendation of the local faculty of solicitors.

During his pleading days, Crozier was as much sought-after by accused persons at Dumbarton Sheriff Court as were his contemporaries, Laurence Dowdell and Joseph Beltrami, in Glasgow. He was every bit as colourful as either in court and his company was much sought-after socially as a humorous raconteur and after-dinner speaker.

One of the many memorable and highly publicised cases he defended successfully included the "dolly mixture case", where his client was charged with drink driving. Crozier produced evidence which showed the man's condition was not due to drink but to the fact that he had been eating dolly mixtures.

The sweets had become mixed up with medication which had fallen from a woman's pocket on the packaging line of the factory where the sweets were made. Crozier produced a letter from the manufacturer admitting this, along with a substantial cheque by way of compensation for his client.

In another case, where his client was accused of giving short measure in a public house, Crozier's plea that the head on a pint of beer was part of the legal measure was accepted by the court.

George Crozier liked football and loved golf. He was a familiar figure at Cardross and Dumbarton golf clubs and was chairman of Dumbarton Football Club when it came into the ownership of the late Sir Hugh Fraser, the millionaire stores and newspaper magnate in 1985. These two characters teamed up to make this one of the most colourful periods in the club's off-the-park history until Sir Hugh's untimely death in 1987.

George Crozier was born in Govan and went to school at St Aloysius College in Glasgow. He was a Boy Scout who won the coveted King's Badge for bravely diving into a fast-flowing river during an annual camp to rescue a fellow Scout. He joined the Royal Air Force for the last two years of the Second World War and then went to Glasgow University, where he graduated in law.

During his retirement he acted as a consultant for his son Paul's firm, Croziers, whose offices are not far from 53 High Street, Dumbarton, where he first went into partnership in the firm of Gibson, Crozier more than 50 years ago.

George Crozier's greatest love was his wife, Mary Rose, and his family of eight children, John, William, Joseph, George, Edward, Paul, Mary and Dorothy. He was a grandfather of 15 and had one great-grandchild.

The large turnout at his funeral in St Patrick's Church, Dumbarton, on Monday of family and friends, many of them from the legal profession, was sound testimony to the high esteem in which he was held.

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That's exactly it, most will look at this as a tit for tat victory rather than looking at the utter lunacy of law being able to imprison someone for this.

Exactly, mate. Like two proles fighting over a chocolate teapot at the bottom of a dystopian pyramid system.

It just took a bit longer than 1984... but it's here. It's all come to pass.

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I wonder, how long will Guidetti be getting then? :rolleyes:

Offensive Behaviour

This offence will cover sectarian and other offensive chanting and threatening behaviour related to football which is likely to cause public disorder. It covers:

expressing or inciting religious, racial or other forms of hatred;

threatening or offensive behaviour;

will also cover behaviour of players and managers;

http://www.gov.scot/Topics/archive/law-order/sectarianism-action-1/football-violence/bill

If a Rangers player was recorded singing TBB he would be brought up on this...

The fact this Bill is designed and being applied to only one side is in fact Sectarian. They're discriminating against Protestants.

You can sing whatever you want if you're a Catholic, Irish Republican, terrorist sympathiser....

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I wonder, how long will Guidetti be getting then? :rolleyes:

(tu) Yep time to make a stand on cunts like Guidetti for me its a derogority term and should be challenged at every turn

Theres nothing worse than hearing another Bear say it..... Straight off boot in the baws.......

I hope to fk the boy appeals

No Surrender

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