Posted on 04/11/2008 7:06:24 AM PDT by Tatze
Indeed Sir, Indeed.
Until Mr.Connery decides to acknowledge the huge influx of "immigrants" flooding the shores of Britain, I have no respect.
Thanks for the ping! I had no idea; this is nicely written, too, but you know I thought he was Welsh!
"I hate being Scottish. We're the lowest of the fucking low, the scum of the earth, the most wretched, servile, miserable, pathetic trash that was ever shat into civilization. Some people hate the English, but I don't. They're just wankers. We, on the other hand, are colonized by wankers. We can't even pick a decent culture to be colonized by. We are ruled by effete arseholes. It's a shite state of affairs and all the fresh air in the world will not make any fucking difference."
Actually, I hope the Scots get their independence (As long as any referendum has a real majority of more than 0.1 per cent) but I couldn't resist this quote...
Alba gu brath!
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Ah, that’s the rub and what’s behind all this: Scottland does not want to be part of the EU.
Connery: Scots independence close
BBC | 24 February 2008
Posted on 02/24/2008 7:08:31 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1975725/posts
I have read what Southerners wrote. Here are links to two secession authoritative documents:
Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/csa/scarsec.htm
Georgia Secession
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/csa/geosec.htm
Both explicitly state that the issues of slavery caused secession.
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Tibet was a free and sovereign nation , until overrun by the communist Chinese
That is so far from an accurate description of the political history of Tibet that it is idiotic. Tibet has been occaisianaly sovereign; rarely free. They've been a part of China, Mongolia, Britain, divided, united, theocratic, etc.
My point (or as you call it: Obillary double speak) was that independence wasn't a founding PRINCPLE of our country. It was a means for establishing other principles (life, liberty, pursuit of happiness etc.) Scotland already has those principles established (for the most part) and the leadership of Tibet is attempting to use independence as a means to some other principles (marxism apparently).
It's a tribute to the founding fathers that they made the establishment of a free republic look easy. Had they had an viscous or uneducated population like Iraq or Tibet or China or most of Africa, even they would have admitted it was not prudent to try.
China is in the wrong, so are you and anyone else who thinks it is ok for China to kill these people for protesting China's heavy handed brand of government. Mao was worse than Hitler, worse than Stalin even but you seem to think it is ok for China to be Marxist dictators but not ok for the Dali Lama.
How can any American President criticize either China or Saudi Arabia, considering the amount of our currency they own?
And look at the negative and derisive attitude of the MSM and the elitists toward anyone who is a Christian...it's OK for any other “religion”to have their symbols, holidays etc. but dare we mention God or.....Heavan forbid, the name of Jesus?...That really presses their button and they go to great lengths to shut down any mention of the Christian faith that they can....the same restrictions that apply to Christians sure don't apply to others. I'm particularly thinking of how some communities have sat silently by while their schools scramble to bow down to Islamic, Muslim demands for 5 times a day prayer...and even figure out how to put demanded foot baths in schools....YET, there's a fuss and outrage if a group of Christian kids want to have a Bible Study at noontime OUTSIDE on school grounds.....where's the outrage??
Montesquieu in his "Spirit of the Laws" (the most widely quoted political work of our founding generation) teaches that a Republic's freedom is dependent on a virtuous and educated citizenry. Iraq, China, Tibet, or most of Africa do not have that preconditions necessary for freedom and self government. In light of the public education system in this country, I, like most on this website, fear for our countries political institutions. When someone like Sean Connery spouts off some nonsensical misunderstanding of America's true political foundations (i.e. the Declaration of Independence) I'm calling him on it.
If I could wave my magic wand and rid Tibet of their Chinese overseers it would matter not. Some erstwhile petit dictator demagogue, a la Dali Lama will have their citizens back on the plantation post haste. Similarly in Iraq, just like Viet Nam, if the U.S. departs a blood bath followed by tyranny will ensue. Not that I'm a huge fan of John McCain, but he's right that it may take 100 years of America in Iraq to get the job done; philosophical victories are much tougher and more important than the military ones that precede them.
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