Bases and Instincts

A comrade of mine, Red Larry (http://spaces.msn.com/celticphoenix/) has contacted me about the dotSCO campaign and told me he has sent letters to:

Shona Robinson, Dundee East (SNP)
John Swinney, North Tayside (SNP)
Mr Andrew Welsh, Angus (SNP)
Kate MacLean, Dundee West (Labour)
Roseanna Cunningham, Perth (SNP)
Shiona Baird, Party List MSP (Greens)
Richard Lochhead, Party List MSP (SNP)
Stewart Stevenson Banff & Buchan (SNP)

He is sticking to MSPs in North East and Mid Scotland & Fife. Go here for more info about dotSCO and the campaign to get Scotland it’s own Top Level Domain.

Larry told me he’s putting the letter template I sent him on his Blog (URL above and immediate left).

Your narrator, the morra, is off to the Scottish Parliament to attend a Rally against placing Electricity Pylons on Sheriffmuir. A Siol member called Black Devon had been sending the e-mail round, and so briefly I’ll insert the comments of what’s happening tomorrow:

Guest Speakers:
Prince Michael of Albany
Fraser Macrae of Clan Macrae Ken Shirra, Grand Prior Scottish Knights Templar
Carol Paterson, Stirling Before Pylons
Songs o' Sherramuir sung by Barbrahann (of the Folk group Scotia)

When? 1pm on 4th February 2006
Where? Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh
Why?

Now, this rant is mine not theirs. (because when I go off on one, I tend to be in Mr. Kenny’s own little world…)

In 1715, in one of the more inconclusive battles of the First Jacobite War, why should a Republican care about the Pylons being on that particular Battlefield? Firstly, before Thomas Muir of Huntershill there wasn’t a Republican movement in Scotland to speak of. People have argued about proto-Republicans and etcetera, but for a definite lineage to the present, I, as a Republican have to look to Thomas Muir. To me that means that all Scottish History prior to that date has a relevance to the present, because it shaped the Scotland I live in. Thomas Muir and his political descendants contribute to the Scotland that I want to shape. It’s an ongoing process whereas the Jacobites of 1715 where one of the forces who made Scotland the culture and nation it is today. Nothing can change the sacrifice those men made on that field, on that day. No one, inevitably, must take that away.

Brenda Windsor, the uppity and last Elizabeth on the throne of Scotland would undoubtedly not let me piss on Edward the First’s grave in Westminster Abbey. Why should I let her piss on the grave of MY ancestors?

Culture and History makes us as we are today. The Muslims raging about misunderstanding pathetic European Taunts about cartoons about the Prophet Mohammad are clear examples of this.

Since the Crusades, our misunderstanding of Arabic and Muslim Culture has created a military decadence that has enslaved everyone in Europe afflicted by former Norman Culture. And their understanding blames everyone who is white. Fuck.

So we don’t commemorate ALL our dead and ALL our history, we are supposed to pick and choose and make ourselves slaves to a Norman Dynasty who think us Slaves to their wretched empire-guilt and supposed “War on Terror”. The dead of Sheriffmuir ARE our history and should be left untouched by the Capitalist Cultural Oppression of some power company that wants to build over it.

Fuck them. Fuck the Executive for doing nothing despite Jack “Toom Tabard” McConnell’s current Chameleon Nationalism. Fuck Westminster.

Why? Because with history we aren’t just commemorating the dead, but commemorating the living.