THE MYTH OF THE REFERENDUM
By Ian Hamilton
Of the millions of words spoken by Charles Stewart Parnell
less than twenty matter.
These are the words.
No man has a right to say to his country,
……….
Thus far shalt thou go and no further.
The referendum is only one day’s opinion of those who bother to vote.
It cannot bind our children.
In 1942 the membership of the Glasgow Young Nationalists was three. I was one. We were told we were daft.
Look at Scotland now.
The march of the nation continued. It continues today.
We do not seek isolation.
There is no such thing as separatism. There is only the right to
choose our friends.
England will always be one of them. But we seek the right to change the terms of our friendship.
If we don’t our children will.
In our long history the referendum is only an incident.
No man has a right to say to his country, ‘Thus far shalt thou go and no further.’
July 16th, 2012 at 7:57 am
The referendum offers Scots the chance to put in place what is, constitutionally and legally, Dominion Status… it will be for our children to deliver the full independence that comes with establishing our nation as a free and democratic republic. I am optimistic that can be achieved. Since the current monarch came to the throne, half of the nations that then had her as Head of State have moved to become fully independent republics. Dominion Status will impose on Scotland a Governor General, the Queen’s representative and overseer with the power to veto any legislation deemed to be against Mother England’s best interests. Governor General’s elsewhere in the “Commonwealth” have already set the precedent for using such power. Mr Salmond has a track record in quoting the words of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, the icon of resistance in the last Scottish Parliament against the Act of Union. The First Minister, an enthusiastic Royalist, perhaps isn’t aware of Fletcher’s position and hostility to the Union of the Crowns itself. It serves as a reminder of the on-going interference English Ministers could still have under a Dominion Status outcome. Fletcher said: “All of our affairs since the Union of the Crowns have been managed with the advice of English Ministers. This means that we have appeared to the rest of the world more like a conquered nation, rather than a free and independent people.”
The referendum is but a stepping stone to our nation’s ultimate freedom but no man, not even Royalists like Alex Salmond, has the right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation.
July 16th, 2012 at 8:39 pm
the Referendum must pass in order to make each has his true identity ecossai your peoples and free nation and we need other nations sign the reunification of the general Scottish Nation.
July 17th, 2012 at 8:54 am
I hope the referendum will ask the right questions. I have always thought that is freedom from Westminster that we need, not England!