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[Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)]

Marc:

 > to serve as the king of the real Scotland, and let us....

What's this?  I can't begin to count the times that you've claimed to be 
an anarchist. ;-)

Jim

Marc James Small wrote:

> At 06:02 PM 12/16/05 -0500, lrzeitlin@optonline.net wrote:
> 
> 
>>As a recently repatriated former long term resident of the UK I found it
> 
> hard to underestimate the mutual antipathy between the English Anglo-Saxons
> and the Celtic Welsh, Scots, and Irish. To a foreigner, all Brits seem
> alike, but that's not the way they see it. The English regard the Scots as
> clannish dour folk, living in a cold forbidding country, who spend all
> their time fighting, drinking, doing sports that involve throwing heavy
> objects, and inventing practical things like steam engines, television, and
> penicillin. Whatever language they speak, it certainly isn't English. 
> 
>>The Scots view the English as lazy wimps who cheated their way to the
> 
> Scottish throne and are incapable of running their own country. They regard
> helping the English manage their affairs as a form of missionary outreach
> work. Scots point to 
> 
>>the fact that if the British Cabinet were not 2/3 Scottish, England would
> 
> slip slowly into the sea. 
> 
> Argh.  There are truely two Scotlands, the Highlands and the Lowlands, and
> they are vastly distinct.  The Highlands are Gaelic -- a misxture of the
> Irish intrusion on the West side and the Picts on the East, with a lot of
> Norse intrusions into the Islands.  The Highlands seized the Lowlands from
> the British more than a millenium ago, but the folks there remained a
> mixture of Briton, Saxon, and Viking and had little nexus with the Gaelic
> Highlanders, though they soon corrupted the Highland leaders through sheer
> graft to become one with them.
> 
> Me?  I want Highland Devolution.  The current system simply transfers the
> Highlands from being an appendage of Westminster to being an appendage of
> Edinburgh.  Fie on that.  Let the Highlands go -- the current holder to the
> Stuart claims is a Wittelsbach prince in Germany, but let us haul him over
> to serve as the king of the real Scotland, and let us allow the Lallans go
> their own way.  Can the Highlands surive econmically?  Ah, there is the
> rub, as they properly own all of that oil money the guys in London have
> been glubbing up for decades.  
> 
> Free the Highlands.  Ted Grant for Prime Minister!
> 
> Marc
>