(23-10-2014, 02:02)Trusevich Wrote:

(22-10-2014, 20:38)struth Wrote: Every customer has a right to state their grievances to a company and their misrunning of it. It is not dictating, just because they threaten to withhold their custom. It is what you do if you are dissatisfied. It is how you get change, or at least attempt to.

It certainly is dictating. In fact it's holding the business to ransom, especially when it's already common knowledge that the finances are in difficulty.

By all means, they can wave their banners, hold up their cards and chant 'Spivs oot!' all they want. But actively campaigning to starve the club of revenue, and actively campaigning to starve the businesses of the people involved - no matter how tenuous the involvement actually is - is no more than an attempt to blackmail.

These people are not Rangers fans, no matter what they think.

Now, I'm no fan of King - I believe he's no better than those same blackmailers and is about as trustworthy as a 1970s radio DJ at a girl guides camp - but if he gains control of the club I'd never ever think of boycotting my team. I'd never ever think of pursuing a campaign of scaremongering, lies and veiled threats like the SoS are happily conducting. That they're happy to promote rumour and blatant lies as fact to fellow Rangers fans in an effort to garner support is particularly propagandist and seedy.

No doubt apologists would say 'Ah, but the means justify the ends'. That's horseshit, though. What it has inevitably done is create a huge rift among the fan base, a chasm that will never be able to heal properly. Do they give a **** about that though?