Quote Originally Posted by Rhyfelwyr View Post
I don't think there is, often when there is violence surrounding them, the fans of a certain two footbal teams are heavily involved.

But yeah, you won't see people flying UDA/UFF/UVF/YCV/whatever flags from their house, the parades are a lot smaller and more toned down in general.

Or at least they have been, until all this needless hype was generated.

This rant is aimed not really at Catholics, but at the MP's (particularly of the SNP variety) who are on an agenda to enforce a fake sense of Scottishness on everyone, regardless of their roots. To show any sort of affinity with Britain/Ulster/Ireland is just not on. I've been told I'm bigoted just for supporting the flying of the Union Jack at Rangers games, as opposed to the Saltire. It's really funny, I wonder if our SNP multicultural civil nationalist friends would tell one of their Muslim voters to stop living in the past an integrate... of course, they won't. That's the worst thing about all this... the SNP are their incredibly narrow (and historically bollox) view of Scottish culture is seen as a progressive force. If any other country tried to enfore a national culture on a people that didn't identify with it, then it would be seen as fascist... the only reason it isn't in this case is because the 'why can't we all get along' brigade want rid of the traditional Irish/British hostility. The SNP history of Scotland goes something like:

1. King Fergus I united the Scots in 330 BC, making us the oldest country in the world
2. Mel Gibson defeats the English and guarantees Scottish independence
3. ----- nothing happens here ------ (that's right, there was no Reformation, the Covenanters didn't exist, the Ulster plantation never happened, Cromwell was our enemy (even though he was our ally since 1643), Charles II and his Scottish Stuart dynasty were really great (even though he hired Catholic Highlanders to plunder the lowlands and helped a famine which killed 1/5 of the population))
4. The poor Scots lose to the evil English empire at Culloden (even though there were more Scots on the Hanoverian side, and the Jacobites wanted to retake the throne at London, not Scottish independece)
5. 300 years of oppression (even though Scotland flourished in the union, recovered from devastating famine, modernised, industrialised, and developed the most advanced educational estblishment in the world)

They can rewrite the history books, but they can't change what really happened!
While agree with what you're saying, I still think the marches should be banned. They are not actually about "Protestantism", but about the Triumph of a specifically Calvinistic Dutch King. They are routed through Catholic areas for the express purpose of the rubbing of noses.

To suggest otherwise is to apply a similar filter as the SNP.