Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Free Scotland!

Via Red



Scotland votes on independence from the United Kingdom tomorrow. I’ll be rooting very hard for a yes vote.

The primary reason I strongly support Scottish independence is because it will serve as a beautiful illustration of how civilized unions respond when a geographic territory votes to secede. During all the debate leading up to the vote, no one has suggested that England should or will invade Scotland to keep them in the United Kingdom. A military invasion is, in fact, unthinkable.

Hmmm… How are all the neo”cons,” Straussians, Jaffaites, American nationalists, Declarationists (there is much overlap among these) and assorted other Lincoln idolaters going to explain this away? The clear demonstration that territorial secession can happen without bloodshed will serve as a stark reminder to modern day Unionists that our own bloody clash didn’t have to be that way.

Some may think this a petty and spiteful reason to support Scottish independence, but as a long time veteran of the intra-conservative internet Lincoln wars, I relish the opportunity to give the other side a great big “Uh! In ya face!”

But beyond my possible spitefulness, there are good reasons for conservatives to support ethnic independence movements, Scotland and beyond. Smaller ethnically based states represent a more authentic basis for shared governance vs. the modern nation state which is supposedly organized around some proposition or largely imagined bond, such as the largely imagined bond that says Sunnis, Shiites, Chaldeans, Kurds, etc. all belong together in some figment on a map called Iraq.

12 comments:

  1. I too support this cause. It may help get England out of the EU. This organization is blessing them with unlimited supply of muslims which is destroying their western culture.
    Additionally, without the massive socialist votes from Scotland maybe England may be able to turn more conservative.

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    1. First on the agenda is to remove all Muslims who aren't already citizens. I'd like to every one, but .......

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  2. Heh, the only reason England is letting them go is because they are such wusses anymore, they couldn't fight to keep Scotland. Scotland has wanted freedom for what?, three hundred or so years, at least. England kept her thumb on the Scots all the time they had the military to do so.

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    1. I imagine you'd have an argument from a few on this. :)

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    2. I'm not saying Scotland shouldn't have their freedom, I'm just saying England doesn't have the will to crush them anymore.

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    3. England doesn't have the will to crush them anymore.

      Absolutely, can't even control the Muslims there.

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  3. +1 agree on Scotland. Spain, though, has already warned Catalonia not to follow Scotland's example.

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    1. We''ll have to raise a Confederate contingent to go help them. :)

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  4. Go, Bravehearts !!!! Freedom Now - and then worry about the welfare state later...

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  5. Much ado about nothing. Great Brittan let Australia, New Zealand and Canada go with almost no argument. The only difference in Scotland is it's a bit closer to London.
    I say if they want out, let them out. It sets a good precedent. Maybe it's time for us to try it again! CH

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    1. Maybe it's time for us to try it again!

      Maybe....? ! :)

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