On 3 May 2007 at 9:24, Mark Humphries wrote: > sickening aspect to all this was the defence put forward by the murderers, > that being they were incited to such action because Leeds fans were > allegedly doing nasty things to their national flag. > > Extrapolate that argument and their legal system clearly thinks that such > actions can, if not justify murder, incite otherwise sane, law abiding > citizens into some mindless frenzied defence of their nations honour.
agreed, sadly though not the only country to have that attitude to their national flag. currently the only world superpower that likes to think itself as the saviour of democracy, the guardian of all that's good, the upholder of freedom and bastion against tyranny in the world has desecration of it's flag written in it's penal code as a criminal offence. you only have to do a google to find out over the years the number of people who have been fined, inprisoned by the state, beaten up and even killed by 'upright citizens' taking offence at someone burning the stars and stripes, stiching it on the back of their jeans, etc. and if they should be brought to court for taking the law into their own hands they usually get put a slap on the wrist while the perpetrator of the action (presuming said person survived) gets much worse. and yes the actions of Galatasaray are despicable the way they condone and sanction such activities but equally despicable, maybe even more so, is the spineless UEFA in effect turning a blind eye to such things, in any case not taking any real action apart from that proverbial smack on the wrist. interesting in on the ropes yesterday one of the things risible said was that on reflection whatever uefa said leeds should never have played the second leg against Galatasaray. guy _______________________________________________ the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list administrators accept no liability for the personal views and opinions of contributors. Leedslist mailing list [email protected] http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist it's a God awful small affair
