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Vote “Yes” for Scotland’s Independence!

I have been following the debates that are being launched by both the British and Scottish Governments [i.e. Representatives] regarding the benefits and dis-incentives for Scotland to secede from the British Union.  Scotland is a land and culture that has long influenced me since childhood,  from the fanciful writings of Robert Burns to the more serious considerations of the physician/writer A.J. Cronin, an outcast from the British Royal Academy of Medicine, Scotland has imparted me with an elan vital of writing esthetics that Shakespeare was not able to produce.  Of course, I have nothing against the writers of England,  Dr Somerset Maugham, also a physician/intelligence operative and playwright was an absolute genius.  Yet writers do not determine the final outcome of a nation’s destiny.  They do, however, indicate the underflow of courage, fortitude and determination that each of their respective nations possessed.

During WWII,  the Brits were a formidable force of restraint again the Nazi encroachment of Europe while France fell ungracefully down the steps of collaboration and sheer cowardice.  For me, the Scots have always been in the spearhead of the British Army,  be it in the Crimean Wars against Russia; or in WWI against the Germans; and even in WWII against the Fascists.  Remember that the infamous Black and Tan fighters? The core of any so-called British invasion or counter attack was always led by the Scottish Highlanders who were sacrifices ad nauseum in order to allow the proper British citizen a better chance of survival during combat.  I bring this point up only to demonstrate that for all of its supposed strength,  Britain has always relied on the ferocity of the Scottish people to ‘do the dirty work’.

Now Scotland is confronted with one simple question.

Are they a nation in and onto themselves?
Or are they part of a British Empire, to which, we Americans rebelled over hundreds of years ago?

My belief is that Scotland has it’s own natural resources—North Sea oil [how much is not yet determined] ; and they have the labor pool and entrepreneurial capacity to determine for once and all time that they are truly independent. Yet my insistence on their independence must go with one SERIOUS CAVEAT!! Scotland can no longer be part Financial British Commonwealth fund,  meaning that if they are to be independent, then Scotland must create its own currency which can be pegged to the euro or the british pound or the Libor. Scotland must have it’s own PRINTING PRESS, like America or England, in order to determine both it’s fiscal and monetary future irrespective of the EU or Britain’s financial future. That is a very difficult but yet very attainable position to achieve through serious negotiations with David Cameron, Prime Minister of England.

I would probably add that the British are in no way prepared for the imminent secession of Scotland.  They are too arrogant and complacent in their longstanding attitude toward Scotland as an appendage to England…. Which it is not! Next to consider,  there will immense ramifications for the secession of other parts of Europe which I find will be extremely helpful and beneficial to those countries or parts of countries that would want to secede from a corrupt, dysfunctional central control. 

In particular, I am talking about Catalonia.  From the very first blog that I had written two years ago,  I have always supported Catalonian Independence from the capital of Spain [an ersatz country created by French Kings], Madrid, because between a dynastic Royalty that has robbed the country of a rich heritage and an incompetent managerial bureaucracy which has given Spain the untenable 25% unemployment rate, Catalonia does not belong in this miscreant company of laggards and thieves.

Accordingly,  Belgium,  a country that has never been effectively integrated between the French Walloons and the Flemish Dutch, has not had an effective history of leadership in the past decade.  In one year alone, Belgium has had no less than five Prime Ministers.  Belgium, with its brutal royal lineage of decapitations and barbaric treatment of the Congolese,  is nothing more than a compilation of misbegotten French and Dutch citizens congregated on the doorsteps of Antwerp, the diamond center of Europe.

The next country that must disintegrate is Romania, a completely concocted amalgamation of Hungarians who have been displaced from their rightful heritage in Transylvania.  What we are witnessing today, is the undoing of the Paris Peace Conference of 1918-19 initiated by Woodrow Wilson, a Princeton Professor who with Puritan certainty and American arrogance insisted on creating nations along the line of language affinities which were at best faulty if nonexistent.  Therefore the 21st century brings us not chaos but a renewal of national culture which insists that their determinants of existence do not belong anymore to a central government, be it London, or Frankfurt, the heart of the EU.

Now Germany must face the hard realization that the EU will no longer provide it with cheap labor and foolish consumers who will buy only German products at an  exorbitantly high price which has been artificially created by German flooding of the EU market with cheap debt. We Americans and the world are witnessed to a new type of World War, not one where bodies will be slaughtered but artificial Royalties like England [born of German, not English blood], Belgium [pathetic royalty] and Spain[ no country whatsoever] will eventually evaporate in the long awaited ether of SECESSION.

Scotland step up and show the world what a true Scotsperson is like!

Catalonia, remember you are not Spanish!
Belgium, you are not Flemish/French. You are not a country!

Romania—dissolve yourself to the greater forces of the Magyars!!

Oh, lest I forget, the north of Italy should also secede.

WWIII will begin, not in combat but in the referendum votes,  in street protests and civic action.  May the strongest secessionist gain independence, for once,  and for all time!!!