Open Letter to Patrick Stewart & Rangers FC Board Members:
In response to your statement please refer to the following:
The stance taken by Union Bears by unveiling a banner which, and I need to stress this in the utmost, that was ONLY an opinion was hugely popular. Which by inference, the alternative, Everyone Anyone, is not. The unpopularity of the Everyone Anyone campaign is not due to extremism, it's because of reality. We were told for decades to keep religion and politics out of football, the reality now is that it is being jackhammered back into Ibrox in a shape and form that the vast majority of people do not want or oppose. Everyone Anyone is genuinely dishonest, because it's being used as a battering ram to dismantle what is left of our origins at Ibrox and to get them to a point that it is just another strand in a diverse monoculture within Ibrox.
Of all the self-serving, self-flagellating campaigns in football Everyone Anyone is by far the most incoherent and impossible to aspire to, never mind deliver. It is also ridiculous as it serves your client notice and the life blood of the club. The board pontificates on high with smug faces, condescending, with donor class arrogance. Like modern day sheriffs the board privately discuss what the support needs, promising to heal us from a history, culture and past. And deliver us (from evil) into the new progressive paradoxical oxymoron of Everyone Anyone. Their plan is based on replacing us with public shaming. The genuine fools at Ibrox are staring back at themselves in the mirror as they try and figure out how they can carry out the threat of removal for expressing an opinion. That is quite the self-inflicted doctrine to oversee. No one at Ibrox asked for this and it has become embarrassingly problematic for the board to see it through. After 150 years of great times with the odd bump in the road here and there along the way, the new gods of Ibrox decide to raise the stakes to existential levels.
The supporters are following in their families’ footsteps and heritage, the board would prefer if you didn't come back. What has changed? Ibrox looks the same, the support has been ever thus and resolute to a man and woman (yes board members, there are only two genders), the trophy room grows albeit a little slower than we would like and the main stand is still the iconic piece of masonry that dominates the skyline. Now I have almost exhausted the list, we know the answer.
We are not the problem at Ibrox. Like many institutions, it has been gutted from within. The board has forgotten its purpose: to guide a winning team on and off the park. An Everyone Anyone embracing board is a regime change. Like all regime change the majority, the indigenous and the true owners of a culture do not count. The board has implemented a strategy that will result in supporters at Ibrox being potentially arrested for expressing an opinion and not a controversial or unpopular one, based on the example. Let me repeat, the board at Ibrox are now going to end your time at Ibrox because some of the supporters express an opinion. Who is the extremist in this scenario?
To enable this imposition the board now feel they are ready to openly practise what they formerly discussed behind closed doors - coordinated suppression of the core support and censorship to the point of arrest or expulsion. The response of the fawning liberals in charge of the club to opinions that are not sanctioned and are deemed dissent is to make our time at Ibrox a misery. Add to this, the threat of expulsion and when you object to your time at Ibrox being marshalled to the point of ruin and you complain, they will ruin your time at Ibrox and may well end it. The board expect us all to be silent and accept their will, as they get ready to metaphorically turn Ibrox into a crematorium of shame and doubt.
The board is turning Ibrox into a monoculture of consumerism, compliance and consensus. We have no higher purpose at Ibrox than to be compliant consumers foregoing everything the club stands for and its natural heritage. By demanding that ALL supporters follow the mantra of Everyone Anyone, the board is demonstrably becoming more repressive and openly repressive of anyone who criticises them. Demanding that supporters disassociate themselves from Ibrox due to a structured and highly orchestrated campaign that is arbitrarily imposed is quite the predicament. Why are we being told it is a moral virtue to eradicate everything that is unique about Rangers FC and accept (via threatening language and actions) the progressive campaigns that now pepper not just Ibrox but football across Europe. Why can't we celebrate who founded Rangers FC?
Why are we being made to accept Everyone Anyone under duress? Why is Ibrox full of fake virtue signalling? Why are the board promoting a campaign that effectively abolishes our Protestant and Christian heritage which gave the board the literal foundations from which they lecture us?
This is not a racist or bigoted position, it's a simple fact - our culture is being eroded before our very eyes, in real time. Ibrox was founded by the origins of Scottish identity and culture and with Everyone Anyone, the board is trying to eliminate them, then Ibrox ceases to be what it was and still (just) is - who is the extremist here? That's just a fact, not a condition of prejudice. Why is this such an extreme position? It is not, it is only deemed so by an uppity sneering class who have told us this is the case for decades now. It's indoctrination. The board has given agency and legitimacy to the largest tribal group on the planet, yet when we object, we are the lunatics, the fringe, the bigots, to be controlled, silenced and ultimately ejected and replaced - who is the extremist here?
It's only in western society that this happens, while we are told to celebrate the privilege of all other groups at our expense. This obvious nonsense cannot be sustained. The board must be held to account for the disaster it has created with Everyone Anyone. In theory we could have 50,000 individual campaigns - this is insanity and incoherent. An example being this: The support is being drenched in the denial of the roots of Rangers FC, marinated in mandatory promotion of sodomy and witness a board appeasing a religion that is misogynist, hangs and stones gays. There's nothing more serious than a liberal who not only knows better than you, but when they want your opinion, they'll tell you it.
The board is using its power to sponsor a culture, ideology and political movement to hijack Ibrox. To save us from ourselves, because the ingrates who managed to support the club for over 150 years don't appreciate what they have built and it was just luck and an accident lasting a century and a half. According to them, we don't know what we stand for anymore. The Everyone Anyone campaign amounts to footballing and cultural suicide. There is no escaping this and the realisation of this is slowly dawning for some and has hit home hard for others. When this happens, there is no way back from this. No amount of threats, statements, advertising, bribery, lies and name calling that will change this.
Now politics is 'popular' again, we find there is an acceptable list of progressive liberal politics being rammed down our throats - you will like and you will accept BLM, Pride month, Ramadan, all this from a board that was willing to charter a plane to fly halfway around the world to play a game against a club that covered up paedophilia for over 50 years - and they are calling us, the support, embarrassing and the board ensure us that they have the moral high ground. This is laughable and to be mocked, but we can't. We need to take these people seriously because they are deadly serious.
The things they take seriously are dissent and opinions they don't like, they also take seriously people who feel the need to insert things in their anus and men with beards who wear frocks, sit on carpets inside Ibrox and eat halal chicken with their fingers. The board will congratulate themselves by breaking new ground, Rangers is now the first footballing NGO.
Of the board, I ask just one thing. Next time you are dreaming up progressive campaigns to shove down our throats, put your smug unassailable confidence and arrogance to the test. Prove to us how righteous you are - ask the support what we think. Put it to a vote. The loser disassociates themselves from Ibrox, just as you suggest. We will then see who has the power, influence and the consequences of arrogance and the embarrassment of disassociation.