"Whoever you are, you've understood nothing about has happened. I'm sure you think the question is closed, too. You're in for a shock."
There you have it folks!
The Scottish people may have decisively voted in favour of staying in the United Kingdom but this geezer is not going to let a mere vote of the entire people of Scotland put him off.
Oh no!
He's going to "shock" us into an independent Scotland, whether we like it or not!
How, exactly?
By the kind of intimidation tactics that were used by some of the "Yes" campaigners in the campaign?
And yet this is from a person who claims to be an Eastern Orthodox Christian, judging by his Blogs and links.
In fact, this person does not even live in Scotland but in Hastings or Eastbourne!
Nuts!
Here are some unsavoury examples of the intimidatory tactics used by some of the more extreme "Yes" campaigners.
Huffington post had this to say:
NUJ asks to cover the Referendum story free from intimidation
And here is Bruce Ogilvie, one of the leading activists for Siol nan Gaidheal ("the Seed of the Gaels"), who stated in online postings last week that “we have been following [former Scottish Secretary Jim] Murphy” for “in-your-face confrontations”:
"Yes" campaigning racist Bruce Ogilvy of "the Seed of the Gaels" represents no-one but a tiny few like himself who do not know their own Scottish history.
Notice that this fellow claims the right to wear the blue bonnet and white cockade of the Jacobites, so besmirching the good name of Jacobitism and publishing his own ignorance.
The Daily Telegraph summed it up thus:
Anti-English terrorising the No campaign in Scotland
Campaign tactics that discredit the Yes campaign
There can be no excuse for intimidatory behaviour. Is this the shape of things to come from "Yes" campaigners? One hopes not...
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The vast majority of Scottish Catholics voted yes. The Scottish Bishops and clergy were broadly supportive of independence. Britain is a state founded on Protestant supremacy, while Scotland is an ancient Christian nation which has always been recognized as such by Mother Church. To deny Scots there God given right to nationhood means that Croatia should have remained part of Yugoslavia. Poland should have remained part of the Soviet empire. An independent Scotland is closer to the values of Catholic Social Teaching since the yes movement was all about localism and subsidiarity. It was about justice and peace. It was about the pursuit of solidarity and community. Most importantly the siege of Orleans marked the turning point in the Hundred Years War; this was Joan of Arc’s first major military victory gained with the help of thousands of Scottish Soldiers. Joan hand selected Scottish bodyguards from the Stuart, Kennedy and Hay Clans. After Orelans came Baugé where the Scots routed the English As Pope Martin V observed upon hearing the news, “the Scots are well-known as an antidote to the English”.
ReplyDeleteSt Joan of Arc loved her Scots, “Let me lead my Scots!” she said at Orleans. Even her standard, depicting God as King of Heaven, was made by Hamish Powers, a Scotsman living in the city of Tours. In addition to this, a Scottish priest called John Carmichael was amongst the victors with Joan. His first acts upon becoming bishop of Tours was to institute a Messe Ecossais for the souls of the Scottish dead St Margaret Queen of Scotland pray for us. ALL THIS CANNOT BE ERASED FROM HISTORY. WE ARE A NATION! St Andrew our patron pray for us. St John Ogilvie pray for us. St Ninian pray for us. Our Lady of Haddington pray for us
Rubbish.
ReplyDelete"The vast majority of Scottish Catholics voted yes."
No, they didn't. Stop lying. It is unchristian.
The vote was thus:
1,617,989 44.7% for Yes. 2,001,926 55.3% for No.
You lost - got thrashed, in fact. Get over it.
"The Scottish Bishops and clergy were broadly supportive of independence."
Big deal! Many of them are not very Catholic and disrespect their vows and promises.
"Britain is a state founded on Protestant supremacy."
Oh, get a life! What planet do you live on? A marginally Protestant Britain is a million times better than a secularist state of the sort that Alex Salmond had in mind for you dumb-ass Nationalist racist fanatics.
In fact, the Three Kingdoms, the ancient Constitution of these islands, were originally and thoroughly Catholic.
The Stuarts and the Jacobite movement were thoroughly Unionist, not separatist.
Fletcher of Saltoun who was a separatist was in a tiny, minuscule minority at that time.
Learn some history. And some common sense.
"while Scotland is an ancient Christian nation which has always been recognized as such by Mother Church."
Nonsense. Scotland is no more Christian than the rest of Europe i.e. largely secularist.
Get real. And come back from planet Zog.
"To deny Scots there God given right to nationhood means that Croatia should have remained part of Yugoslavia. Poland should have remained part of the Soviet empire."
Tell that to the Croats and Poles - they would tell you to stop talking out of your tooter!
And learn how to spell - it's "their" not "there".
Croatia and Poland should have remained part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire which was free, Catholic, successful and civilised.
Soviet tyranny was the result of the total mess that your nationalist racist fanatic friends created in Europe.
And, fool that you clearly are, you seem to want the same for Scotland.
"An independent Scotland is closer to the values of Catholic Social Teaching since the yes movement was all about localism and subsidiarity."
More rubbish.
The "Yes" movement was a movement of narrow-minded racists, bigots and centralist, Socialist fanatics who would have ruined Scotland for generations.
"It was about justice and peace. It was about the pursuit of solidarity and community."
Piffle.
It was about racist fanaticism and bigotry.
Joan of Arc, St Margaret Queen of Scotland, St Andrew, St John Ogilvie, St Ninian, Alasdair MacColla and, above, all, Our Lady of Haddington, would be the first to condemn this odious, racist, nationalist, bigoted hatred and fanaticism.
It is not Catholic but owes far more to the master of fanaticism and bigotry - Satan.
May Our Lady of Haddington convert you from your bigotry and hatred to Christianity and Catholicism.
At present you are a million miles away from it.
The simple fact is that Scottish nationalism owes more to that most odious form of religion, Presbyterianism, and to its bastard child, fanatical nationalism, than to anything remotely Catholic.
ReplyDeleteThe Three Kingdoms were Catholic until Protestantism and fanatical nationalism ripped them apart.
It was post-Protestant, odious, racist, bigoted nationalism that ripped Europe apart, too, and led to centuries of war culminating in the murderous blood-bath of the First World War.
And the Nationalists want more of this odious bigotry and fanaticism!
It comes straight from Satan.
Shame on you!