On Sunday, I came across an Orange Order (based on ultra-right "loyalists" in Northern Ireland) parade from Glasgow's West End (which I knew was a Protestant stronghold) to the City Centre. I was wearing a pro-Palestine T-shirt (from the previous day's demo in Edinburgh against the brutal Israeli attack on the "Freedom Flotilla" of aid activists bringing supplies to Gaza) and decided to disrupt it.
I started by chanting "Viva Palestina" and "Freedom to Palestine". The agenda of divide-and-rule whipped up by the Orange Order is similar to the strategy of the Israeli regime so it seemed appropriate to switch to chanting "Catholics and Protestants unite" and "Celtic and Rangers fans unite". [Celtic players used to have to be Catholics and Rangers players used to have to be Protestants, and there is still a strong correlation among the fans by followers of the two religions although the clubs have acted against such sectarianism somewhat.] I moved on to my "Manchester Shitty FC" song (which you can hear on my MySpace page http://myspace.com/stephenkimwallis, guessing that they were the sort of people who like the domination of football by big business. Rangers have had a very good season compared to Celtic (largely due to hard man and former home secretary John Reid taking over as Celtic chairman and the end of Gordon Strachan's reign as manager - in my Galaxia song "Things Can Only Get Bitter", see http://myspace.com/galaxiamusic, I commented about his "1984-style dirty tricks" and "retiring from politics" but it is clear that he is continuing to play an odious role), so the Orange Order were probably in a good mood, but Man City missed out again on a Champions League spot (narrowly defeated by Tottenham Hotspur).
So I sang about Man City being "by far the richest team the world has ever seen" and being "shit". I varied the lyrics when it got to "if you'r shit and you know it clap your hands", to say "bang your drums". Far more serious, and much more of a threat to the powers that be was the "9/11 Inside Job" song by my band "Red Day", again about divide-and-rule (this time the strategy of George W Bush and the Project for a New American Century of dividing Muslims from Christians and Jews) and police officers moved to arrest me when I approached the end of that song. [Listen to it at http://myspace.com/reddayband or download it for free from http://www.red-day.org.]
A police officer accused me of "frightening children", but there was a girl (aged about 12) with some cymbols on the parade who held them completely motionless once I'd sung about "banging your drums" if you're shit and you know it". Instead of "frightening" her, I'd won her over from the odious clutches of the Orange Order. Once it was obvious that I was going to be arrested, I wanted to be recognised as a political prisoner and compounded the catch-all charge of "breach of the police" by assaulting an (ugly) police officer, resisting arrest and failing to provide details of my address (although I said where I worked and wanted to test out the extent of the surveillance state and let them work it out themselves). The police lied by saying I'd be in Barlinnie Prison permanently until I gave my address. In the police station cell, I commented that if that was the case I'd ask Green Party MSP Patrick Harvie to get a bill passed in the Scottish Parliament to change such an appalling law!!!
What happened next will form part of my on-going on-line autobiography, published for free at http://www.revolutiondestroyed.net.
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For your information regarding some of the bullshit you think you know.
ReplyDelete1. The Orange Order is not a Ultra Right Loyalist Based organisation, it is a Protestant fraternity.
2. The west end of glasgow is not a Protestant stronghold it is a multi-cultural hell hole full of students and left wing scum.
3.Why did you feel the need to shout Viva Palestine and Freedom for Palestine? These people where on a church parade not some pro-israel rally.
4.Catholics and Protestants Unite? Why? we are two different religions, why should we unite we have the democratic freedom to practice our religion which ever way we choose.
5.Celtic players used to have to be Catholics and Rangers players used to have to be Protestants. No they didn't Celtic were founded by Irish Catholic Immigrants to Scotland. It is widley reported that rangers didn't sign there first catholic player until Mo Johnstone in 1989, this is lies Rangers had signed catholics before this.
6. To be honest the rest of the post is shite, and i can't be bothered teaching someone who thinks they are right.
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