05-12-14, 07:34 PM
Quote:VNA. I really do admire your faith in human nature, you obviously believe passionately in your campaign.
This thread gets more bizarre by the post.
What is this pish? Ideally I would be an Internationalist, I should ideally have nothing to do with creating more borders, but the reality is quite different. The UK is going to the dogs, but we have in Scotland an opportunity to break with the corporate welfare state and the race to the bottom, which in turn can only be good for our brothers and sisters in the rest of the UK.
Quote:If you honestly believe that the so called loyalists are going to just stand quietly by and let the yes campaigners bulldoze there way to Scottish indepndence you must be wearing rose tinted glasses.
We have just been through a democratic process Lew, we almost did it, and probably would have made it home if it was not for Westminster tearing up The Edinburgh Agreement in the closing stages.
How much trouble was there Lew? A few hours of pissed up Loyalist Neds in George Square on the day of the result. That was it. Yup, not much else to report, umm nothing, nope, now't - zip.
Quote:The Republican movement infitrated the civil rights movement in N Ireland back in the 60's the result of that has been mentioned in a previous thread
It's a lot more complicated than that Lew, and as I already pointed out there is no parallel. And have you forgotten that the paramilitaries tried to kick it all off over here in Scotland too? But guess what they fell flat on their faces.
Quote:It also led to the deployment of over 25,000 troops on the streets along with an increase in the size of the police force making the RUC at that time the second largest police force in the UK after the London met.
Yes and if there is a little trouble on our streets it will be our Police, our Army with our support recruited from our population that round up the pissed up neds. You know Lew 45% of the police force voted YES! too.
Quote:By all means campaign for what you believe in but do not be surprised if it all turns nasty.
If people vote for Nigel Farage and UKIP in the upcoming General Election, don't be surprised if things turn nasty Lew. But what do you think we should, bring an end to democracy, or set up a ruling committee to decide what bits of our country(s) process that we can decide on democratically?