Anti-sectarian authoritarianism
We believe that introducing a law to imprison people for up to five years because of offensive sectarian chanting or online comments is extreme and illiberal. continue reading »
"obviously bored in parliament to be coming up with this nonsense."
"Get Salmon out before he insists on basing the Country of Scottish industry on Pies"
"Utterly ludicrous legislation that needs to be binned now.What about real crime..........or have the politicians forgotten about that in order to pander to a few agenda driven individuals ?"
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"Nobody has the right to not be offended."
"songs of freedom freedom of expression"
"Good to see MSPs dealing with the real issues..."
"I feel that this legislation is an unworkable, knee-jerk reaction to what have obviously been some disturbing scenes in Scottish football this season. However, despite these problems, I feel that any attempts to legislate against songs being sung, are sim"
"this bill is a further breach on the magna carta"
"We Scots only have ourselves to blame by allowing the SNP to have gained such power within the Scottish Parliament which has no Upper House to question in depth such legislation. The Committee System has and will always be loaded in favour of the Party in"
"stop using working class supporters as a political football. Cultural pride is not hate"
"As an SNP member and supporter I am absolutely horrified at this proposed legislation. If this sort of "thought-police" culture is part of their plan for an independent Scotland then I don't want to be a part of it. Reactionary, unnecessary and illiberal "