CHRIS BUNGARD / This is ACSOM Celtic State of Mind / Why The Bad Guy of MMA is one of the good guys

[@jamesmcnally5838]

Brill Good Luck in March Chris. Celtic will be Champions by then. Hail Hail

[@StrangeloveTheDoctor]

Brilliant Interview, I really like Chris he's a humble & down to earth fella outside the octagon, inside he's a Celtic Warrior.☘☘☘

[@MyBall2442]

Great listen…..Tommy and PJ are wonderful hosts.

[@AgainstTheGrainnnn]

Big Tommy Sheridan fighting in the pentagon 😂😂

[@alanknotts1844]

Pure phoney 😂

[@johnmccafferty6276]

Brilliant !

[@ClareMenary]

Snap Chris, I've done my humerous too, after an ACSOM event

[@fugeestonner1321]

Another Cracking Interview 🍀👍

[@tomcourtney8986]

Great show 👏 👏 👏

[@johncarroll772]

Dick Mc Taggart also won the gold medal.

[@kirkchilas]

I am a die-hard Celtic fan. I am also an American by birth. Until the night of November 19, I worked in pediatric infectious disease research at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, New York. It is an exceptional institution for medical research and instruction, ranked in these areas among the very best in the world. There is also a small liberal arts college (university, I know...) tucked into a wooded area and bound by a curve of the Genesee River. This is the same river that Kodak dumped toxic sludge into for decades before federal regulations and their own business failures made them stop--although everybody in Rochester knows that they still dump "secretly" in the middle of the night. It's just one of those little liberties big corporations take for the benefit of profit, not people. "It's the industry and history of our city!" or "my grand-father worked there" people say, smiling and looking away. It's just one of those big lies that little people tell themselves for the sake of sanity, not justice. From rolling farmlands it descends. Bound by deep gorges and adorned with many tall waterfalls, it at last flows into Lake Ontario, the last of the North American Great Lakes, natural wonders of the world. The University of Rochester Medical Center, like the Genesee, is an example of a thing that is both beautiful and poisoned... This week, students organized a protest. They designed and posted several hundred posters. Each unique design was a "wanted" poster with the face, name, and description of actions that the individuals have personally taken in support of the genocidal state of Israel. The response of the University has been to remove the posters and suppress all evidence of what was written on them. Instantly, they branded the posters "antisemitic," used video surveillance to identify each student seen hanging the posters, and worked with the police, who arrested and charged these children with criminal felonies. This is the most serious class of charge in the American judicial system. A guilty verdict would result in multi-year prison sentences, revocation of the Constitutional right to vote for the remainder of their lives, and, if in any case the children are foreign or dual-citizens, possible deportation. All of this for their act of free speech and truth. The University of Rochester has also declared their intention to involve federal authorities (FBI, CIA, Homeland Security, etc.) and to seek an elevation of charges from criminal felonies to "hate-crimes". I believe that if they succeed in this effort to charge these students with "hate-crimes" there is a forfeiture of judicial rights--a horrifying concept that exposes the inseparable nature of the United States of America as a fundamentally fascist state. In response to this I have resigned my position at the University of Rochester. I cannot and will not be complicit in a culture of hatred, bigotry, and lies. In doing this, I have lost my personal source of income. I resigned and would resign again (in a wave of thoughtless passion) because I know that my values are based in freedom, liberation, justice, and truth--all values that I see shared in Celtic. I did not consult with my girlfriend before I resigned, and was a little terrified to tell her that until I find another job I would be less capable of helping her with the bills we share for our rented apartment and our five pets. But she looked at me and smiled, "I am so proud of you and love you so so much!" My brother, the same. It's him who deserves credit for radicalizing me in my youth (I'm now 35), and for teaching me the truth about American imperialism, foreign intervention, and ignorance. I am not asking you or any channel members or non-members for donations to personally benefit me. However, I wrote a two page resignation email last night to my boss that I intentionally wrote in the style of an open-letter. I have removed personal details (of the recipient) and attached it to this email. If you read it and think the message is one that should be heard, I urge you, I almost beg you, to read the letter on your channel and to ask for donations: every penny of which will be given to help fund the legal defense of the students being heinously charged and slandered. I know your channel is a football channel, but this is what makes us Celtic. Kirk Chilas November 19, 2024 Dr. [name removed], I greatly respect you as a scientist and as a human being. I have enjoyed our conversations, and I personally appreciate your mind and your brilliance. Thank you for working so hard in this life to help the future of all children. I truly believe that the work you do is of such high importance. However, for all my intelligence, my mind physically cannot fathom how in 2024 we are still forced to accept that not supporting the modern political State of Israel is antisemitism. Many diverse populations live in the State of Israel-different skin colors, different religions, different languages, different complex histories… I myself am a vehement anti-fascist. I despise Nazism. I venerate many glorious political heroes, such as Lyudmila Pavlichenko-a female Soviet sniper who put over 300 German Nazis in the dust with her steady hand and eye. I often blast the American working-class folk-music hero Woody Guthrie’s song about her, singing at the top of my lungs, celebrating her achievements. I fully believe that any person who denies the Holocaust should be imprisoned for life. I despise genocide with every miniscule and microscopic particle of my being. For what it’s worth: my great-grandparents on my father’s side came to America from Chios, a small Greek island in the Aegean Sea and from Çeşme, a small village in what is now Türkiye. Their parents died in a forced death-march during the Armenian Genocide. For millennia, communities of Greeks had lived alongside Turks and many other Ethnic groups (Armenians, for example) all down the Western sea-coast of Asia Minor. They all spoke different languages, practiced different religions, and in many ways were different. But it was not Turks who murdered my ancestors, it was the Ottoman State, the Ottoman Empire. Even though the soldiers who carried out the deed-guarded the prisoners who were already dropping like flies, or shot them in their backs as they ran, vainly and weakly trying to escape-were almost certainly Turks, I say again, more firmly and with more certainty: it was not Turks who killed them. It was the Ottoman State. There is a generation of Greeks who do resent and hate Turks for these distant crimes, bigots all of them, my loving yia-yia and papou... I am not one of them. I will never utter an anti-Turkish ethnic sentiment, or refer with unkind words calling the Turks who live in Asia Minor they or them with hatred trembling my voice. That is even why politics in football can be beautiful. Fenerbahçe, for instance, is a club that I love-Turkish, but founded in Istanbul by Greek refugees and victims of the Armenian Genocide. The club fosters progressive ideals and a culture of love, acceptance, and healing. I think this is beautiful. Maybe there are even some people who feel this ability to heal as a kind of justice, a glorious alternative to hatred passing down, long generation after long generation. They choose love and progress over lies and fear. I think they are beautiful for that. I do not know what information was contained in the “wanted” posters that we have all heard so much about but not seen. This suppression of the evidence scares me. I can only believe, based on my common-sense, intelligence, and cumulative life experience, that any individuals represented on the posters were selected for their political beliefs and vocal support of the modern political State of Israel, not for their ethnic heritage or for being Jewish. This is obvious in the context of world events. I also know that being Jewish and supporting the State of Israel are not mutually exclusive. I have close Jewish friends who share my anti-fascist political ideology and likewise oppose any military, imperialist, or apartheid state. The suppression of all evidence, the branding of the posters as antisemitic when they are probably anti-Israel in the context of a war, the arrest of the students who posted them as an act of free speech and protest, the intention to bring charges of hate-crimes against them, the intent to destroy their lives, futures, and reputations, and this continued narrative from the administration of the University of Rochester is injustice. These are not posters with cross-hairs of a rifle scope implying the call for execution, they are “wanted” posters-a cartoon notion of the wild west, non-violent and non-threatening. In the face of this wild injustice committed by the University of Rochester and their devotion to prehistoric rhetoric and lies I therefore resign from my position at the University of Rochester, effective immediately. In Bitterness, Enduring Integrity, and Knowledge of Myself, Kirk Chilas Post-script 11/21/24 I have now seen the posters in question. Every word of the above letter is vindicated. The posters call for no threatening actions, do not use antisemitic language, and do not provide any personal information of those depicted. All of those depicted are public figures for whom this information is widely available, anyway. It is now clear that the University of Rochester is suppressing evidence and taking the actions it has chosen to take in an effort to assert power and deny truth. This is an act of authoritarianism and Fascism. In the immortal words of Bobby Sands: Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal. Kirk Chilas

[@finhq018]

You've never drunk the wine up the graveyard though

[@finhq018]

Seriously mate. Celtic is about playing football the way it should be played. Its about family and history. About the glory in one hand and remembering our roots on another. Im sick of people crosslining the club to advance whatever cause. When the fans are giving the decibels at UCL anthem, we're not thinking of poltics. We're here despite politics. All that and Im talking to a robot. Love ACSOM John Paul.

[@kirkchilas]

@@finhq018 who's a robot? Was there another comment that has been deleted? Of course we all love football and yes, there might be a time and place to forget politics. But this isn't "whatever cause," this is a cause that Celtic and fans of Celtic have cared passionately about and felt empathy for for years. We are Celtic and we need to come together in support of vulnerable and powerless people who are the subjects of injustice 🍀🍀🤘🏼 In Solidarity and Strength...

[@shoozyshoos7462]

Sorry can ye say that again mate..

[@kirkchilas]

@@finhq018 if you’re referring to Buckfast, I have though… I also lived and studied in Glasgow for years and my mother’s family name is MacRobbie 🍀🍀🤘🏽 in Solidarity, brother.

[@moeszyslak7304]

Did he lose the civil case ?

[@markobhoy5110]

Yes guilty 250k damages

[@markobhoy5110]

To many players downed tools for the ten

[@Cfcgla]

Sheridan brings all of these episodes down. Have you signed him up to a contract so he always has to be there? This is supposed to be a Celtic state of mind no a socilaist sheridan state of mind. Guys sitting wae a heavy faker of a top on ranting about bullshit and still wantinf to lick lennons arse. Embarrassing

[@jamesmcnally5838]

Guys like you fail to see the downtoolers that let Lenny and all Celtic minded down. Karma means none of them will win another trophy, the’ve become losers to a man

[@WeeJimmy82]

That’s no very nice sir

[@steviekenny581]

Brilliant blether bhoys 👏👏👏🇮🇪