Cali Cartographer 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @Bermrunner

She’ll stab absolutely anyone in the back it seems, even her redactor in chief.

Mark McLaughlin @MarkMcLaugh1in

3 weeks ago

Read exclusive extracts from the new 6,000 word foreword to the paperback edition of Nicola Sturgeon's memoir Frankly in the @ScottishSun this evening The revised edition will be published on Thursday thescottishsun.co.uk/news/16634025/…

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Once a treacherous backstabbing snake, always a treacherous backstabbing snake. archive.ph/X5KAI

It could not be clearer that domestic law is not going to provide the route to independence for Scotland. Why would any sane UK PM sanction another S30 as they have nothing to gain and everything to lose? Fortunately independence is a matter for International law and you can show your support for Liberation Scotland's international efforts here, surveymonkey.com/r/KBLSWVT

Sara Salyers @SSalyers2

3 weeks ago

1. Scotland will never be free via Westminster agreement and that has been made crystal clear. 2. The constitutional arrangement between the nations of England and Scotland is a matter of international and not domestic law. That so many figures in the Scottish political

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Fantastic work by Sara & her team,She is doing what the SNP should be doing,The SNP fail 5 times requesting a S30 after duping thousands of INDY Voters again,While Swinney has NO PLAN B,Sara & her team are our only means of getting INDY,Liberation Scotland for INDY,No to DEVOMAX

Sara Salyers @SSalyers2

3 weeks ago

Thank you for the question and the opportunity to explain; The UK Supreme Court’s ruling applies only to internal UK/British law because it is a domestic court. The UK Parliament, however, considers itself sovereign even over international law. Something of a hangover from the

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“We have three grounds, under international law, on which we can claim a right to what’s called ‘External Self-Determination’…” @l_n_n_26 interview with @SSalyers2 of @ScotSalvo #decoloniseScotland

Liberation News Network @l_n_n_26

3 weeks ago

What if the entire legal basis for the British state was a fiction? In this programme I discuss the fraud of the 1707 act of union with @SSalyers2 as well as the highland clearances and the English military occupation of Scotland. substack.com/@liberationnew…

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A Scottish guy asking an English guy why no Scottish fishermen got a licence to fish in Scotland, but English fishermen did. . what a fucking country.

🤣🤣🤣🤣 About time you started to learn some of that ‘shared history’. Oh it goes deep all right: - English state treachery, genocide, use of the population as cannon fodder or empire administrators, extraction of wealth (continuing), enrichment of a tiny native elite whose ‘largesse’ to cities like Glasgow and Dundee is celebrated as evidence of the prosperity bought by empire 🤮 and the story of a desperate population forced to seek survival elsewhere (biggest loss of population to outward emigration continuing for 200 years) repackaged as a joyful embrace of the English empire. Call it british if you want it was wholly English, employing Scots as it employed Irish and hundreds of thousands of Indians to maintain and spread its empire ( as all empires do). And hope no one noticed that the major arm of the Empire was the English East India Company whose charter was given by and delegated the sovereignty specifically and only of the *English* Crown and Senate from its inception to its end in the 19th century. The cultural genocide by which our histories have been rewritten or buried to serve a colonising narrative while our languages were suppressed, the deliberate destruction of competitive trading and commerce on which local industry and wealth depended, the recruitment of the greedy and the unprincipled to crush their own people for profit presented as proof that Scots destroyed Scots and so much more all represent the reality of our ‘shared deep history.’ All colonisers rewrite and repackage their criminal history as one of shared history, collaboration and prosperity. These lies add insult to profound injury. We carry the wounds in put DNA but we shall heal as they are unburied, acknowledged and transformed into the fuel for the only thing that saves a historic and distinct people from perishing entirely through assimilation into a non/existent identity (British). Independence.

Prof Alf Baird: “A few fundamentals of colonial rule, applicable to Scotland: – the under-development of the colony is due to decades or in our case centuries ‘of decline’ and lack of investment; – the colonized suffers cultural obliteration due to imposed culture/language and cannot ‘enforce indigenous cultural mores’ on anyone; – the colonized has no say in matters of migration; – the colonized has no say on matters of industry or production; – the colonized has no say on matters of taxation or energy; – the colonized has no say on matters of war and peace; – the colonized has no say on territorial matters. Hence it matters little what ‘Scotland’s chattering classes’ utter because the fact remains, and as Fanon said, a colonized people are ‘out of the game’ in all meaningful respects until they recover their sovereignty, until colonial rule is ended, and until self-recovery of national culture.”

From Prof Alf Baird: Recent articles in The National questioning “Why are SNP figures not making a compelling case for independence?” It seems as if intellectuals on the left, including Shafi, Riddoch etc, still ignore postcolonial theory, which tells us the answer, as Fanon explained: – the dominant national party ‘makes an accommodation with colonialism’; – the party becomes ‘infiltrated’ by colonial actors; – the party elite ‘feathers its nest’ and ‘builds up its pensions’; – it ‘takes the movement up a blind alley’; – the party elite refuse to act on the most urgent matter of ‘freeing the people’ because they ‘fear the colonizers tanks and planes’; – it ‘attacks the radicals in the party’ also ‘using colonial forces’ to punish them; – it ‘behaves like a gang’ and appoints its friends to key positions; – the party ‘depends on slogans’ and leaves the matter of independence’ to future events’; – the party ‘becomes calcified’, immobile, unable to move forward; – it lacks any ‘innovation’ on the cause; – it ‘delays independence’ which is what leads ‘to conflict’; – it ‘ruptures the movement’; – it works ‘to keep the racket going; – the elite become ‘colonial watchdogs’; – and, finally, once the people figure out they have been duped, ‘the national party disintegrates’, which is what we are seeing now.

No meaningful industrial benefit, not much tax, not many jobs, higher electricity prices, destruction of our countryside. What's not to like about Milliband's plan for extracting Scotland's wealth & handing it to international corporations. It's worse than O&G. We're such mugs.

FROM 'SABOTAGING SCOTLAND' "Gareth, successive UK governments and their civil servants running Scotland have blocked a whole series of international port and shipping developments that would have placed Scotland firmly on the global map, doubling our trade and current ‘colonial level GDP’ too. They include: Ardersier port, Scapa Flow container port, Hunterston container port, European Gateway Port for ferries and cruise ships at Cockenzie, building of 50+ proven design catamaran ferries under license on the Clyde, plus starting extensive multi-vessel riverbus operations on Forth, Clyde and elsewhere. All these initiatives and more were blocked one way or another by our colonizer and their ‘little helpers’." Prof Alfred Baird

“Because no united crown was ever created, no ‘British’ crown exists. “The crown of Scotland remains as a legal and constitutional reality. “In most monarchies, the crown is the monarch. “In Scotland, it is not. “In Scotland, the crown, the sovereign authority, is the Community of the Realm or the people.” @SSalyers2 @Broonpot @thomsonchris @SymbolStones @PAlanMcMahon @citizentommy @HazelLyon16 @PhilBoswellSNP @CraigMurrayOrg @IndyScotParty @LiberateScot

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Sara Salyers @SSalyers2

3 months ago

We have yet to have a first. Opinion polls that fail to meet international standards and which break their own rules cannot be considered an expression of popular will nor must they be permitted to be imposed on a population seeking a genuine expression of self-determination.

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A formal salvo jure cujuslibet invocation has today been served upon John Swinney in his capacity as Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland, delivered today at the Scottish Parliament and issued to Bute House. Now on permanent public record: archive.org/details/sovere… #SovereigntyScotland #ClaimOfRight1689 #SalvoJureCujuslibet #ConstitutionalLaw

@itsajourney13 @LiberateScot @theSNP What an unnecessarily disrespectful attitude. People like my parents and me built the SNP before others like you settled down. You and your sycophants are the reason why 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿isn’t independent yet.

SNP 1 & 2 under the D’Hondt system gets you SNP 1 unionist party 2. This has been carefully explained by many people many times. And the utter treachery of the SNP leadership pushing this anti-indy strategy is why, for the first time in my adult life, I will not now be voting SNP 1 *or* 2. With apologies to my SNP friends and supporters. This is a personal decision and a matter of principle.

Once again for the benefit of the colonial apologists. The union of the crowns in 1603 just meant that the Scottish king became king of England also. One monarch wore two crowns. Two crowns = two kingdoms. That is what the ‘union’ of 1707 was supposed to ‘fix’. One kingdom = one crown. Except it didn’t happen. England wasn’t about to give up its feudal crown and the social and political system built around it. So it forced through a treaty for a single kingdom … then put Scotland under the English crown, a kind of vassal relationship for which no treaty exists. A Bit of Extra Background Back in the 1700’s everyone knew it was treachery. In 1708, Robert Harley, Anne’s first minister laughed about the way even England’s allies called England ‘perfidious’ (treacherous) because they had violated the treaty and laughed at the idea of binding treaty articles. Today England, pretending to be a unitary state, is still screeching about a voluntary partnership, (a concept started at the time of the Irish home rule movement), and about being a ‘new state’ created by treaty (total nonsense), because it stands to lose its Scottish colony if this comes under the scrutiny of international law. Liberation Scotland intends to see that this is exactly what happens. The thing so many of us are still catching up with is that the union is not only a legal nullity today but was always intended - by the English state - to consist of the English state, unaltered, with the Scottish state dismantled and Scotland added to its domains. It was, from the first a con and a fraud carried out through:- 1. threatening invasion, blackmail or bribe MP’s and forcing through a treaty/partnership for a new, single state with full pomp and ceremony, commissioners, intense negotiations, articles and conditions to satisfy the Scots in favour of a union but uneasy about what it will mean for Scotland 2. Breaking Scots law by dissolving the parliament and imposing the new GB Parliament (England’s renamed) as the only legitimate parliament for the new state *before* that state has come into existence. (It never did!) 3. Preventing the Act of Salvo by the Three Estates and blocking the senior parliament, with tax, oversight and treaty responsibility, from sitting 4. Dismantling the Scottish state and placing Scotland under the English Crown 5. Renaming England with Scotland added to its dominion (dependency or colony in international law). England continues without interruption or alteration in the slightest degree. 6. Then tell a world rejecting colonialism that the new state and single kingdom of the treaty are a reality because an Act of ratification is on the UK statute books. Convince the entire legal, political and academic establishment to “ignore the evidence of their own eyes, (to quote Orwell). 7. Create an ‘orthodoxy’, internalised by even the brightest minds. This orthodoxy achieves a condition akin to the emperor’s new clothes’ whose reasoning is that if the Act of Union is law, then what it says should exist *must* be what exists. Fact, evidence, substance and the impossible contradictions between the terms, conditions and effects of the treaty/acts and reality can only be examined on the basis that the union is real as per the Act! i.e. From the p.o.v. that you must start from the premise that the naked king is wearing clothes. Our colonial reality is thus systematically ignored in favour of the lie of the union. In the story of the emperor’s new clothes it took one child not afraid to look stupid to point out the truth .

This is big, folks.

Not everyone has yet confronted the constitutional truth of the rigged 2014 referendum. It was not legally binding. Not in any meaningful sense. A vote for independence, even if decisive, would not have dissolved the colonial Union in law. Scotland could have voted Yes and remained under English colonial domination, because sovereignty never left the colonial English renamed UK Parliament. The entire process, authorised through a temporary Section 30 Order, did not transfer power. It permitted consultation without surrendering control. This is not a minor technicality. In most genuine exercises of self-determination, the vote is constitutive. Here, the vote was advisory. Yes, advisory. A people invited to decide, without the legal capacity to decide. A mandate expressed, yet subject to the discretion of the very authority whose rule is being questioned. This inversion reveals the structure with unsettling clarity. Rules for the colonised, discretion for the coloniser. The electorate was mobilised, the debate amplified, the world invited to watch. Yet, the juridical core remained untouched. The colonial centre retained the ability to accept, delay, dilute, or deny. Democratic language was deployed, but sovereignty was withheld. Participation became conditional, contingent on the goodwill of a colonial power that stands to lose from the outcome. What took place was not the full exercise of self-determination, but its simulation. A democratic performance and scam elevated to spectacle, where the ritual of choice obscured the absence of binding consequence. The appearance of emancipation, carefully staged, while the architecture of colonial subjugation remained intact.

Christophe Dorigné-Thomson @thomsonchris

a year ago

Unmasking the Manipulation of Scotland’s 2014 Referendum. The @UN through its decolonisation mechanisms will prevent such manipulation. The 2014 Scottish independence referendum has often been hailed by the English establishment as a triumph of democratic expression, a peaceful,

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