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To: Scotsman will be Free
They may be a "bunch of leftist asshats". However, that is no reason for Scotland to remain in the UK.

From the Declaration of Arbroath, 1320:

"But from these countless evils we have been set free, by the help of Him Who though He afflicts yet heals and restores, by our most tireless Prince, King and Lord, the Lord Robert. He, that his people and his heritage might be delivered out of the hands of our enemies, met toil and fatigue, hunger and peril, like another Macabaeus or Joshua and bore them cheerfully. Him, too, divine providence, his right of succession according to or laws and customs which we shall maintain to the death, and the due consent and assent of us all have made our Prince and King. To him, as to the man by whom salvation has been wrought unto our people, we are bound both by law and by his merits that our freedom may be still maintained, and by him, come what may, we mean to stand. Yet if he should give up what he has begun, and agree to make us or our kingdom subject to the King of England or the English, we should exert ourselves at once to drive him out as our enemy and a subverter of his own rights and ours, and make some other man who was well able to defend us our King; for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom — for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself."

22 posted on 05/30/2011 1:01:14 PM PDT by sauropod (The truth shall make you free but first it will make you miserable.)
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To: sauropod

As soon as the Scots figure out that the state teat is going to be much smaller without England forking over a bunch they will change their leftist asshat minds.
If they were a bunch of conservatives wanting to get away from England because of England’s liberal policies I’d cheer them on.


23 posted on 05/30/2011 1:08:55 PM PDT by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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