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Originally Posted by gynn

I recently went on a 3 day trip to Belgium and France , visiting where my two great uncles are buried.

The most memorable part of the trip was at the Menin Gate in Ypres, where at 8pm every night of the year, 365 days, the traffic is stopped, and the local brass band play the Last Post. It is a ceremony that is stark in its simplicity, but yet one of the most haunting and moving sights I've ever seen in my life. The ceremony remembers the sacrifice made by the thousands of soldiers, English, Scottish, Irish and many other nationalities, who gave their lives so that we can live in freedom.

It strikes me that one of the liberties that they were fighting for was freedom of speech - the very right that those football fans were using in displaying their posters at the Celtic match.

Who was it who said that I disagree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it?

The only crime they are guilty of is crass ignorance.

And the neanderthals wouldn't wouldn't understand that anyway