THE MOMENT WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR

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THE MOMENT WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR!

In the coming weeks, Liberation Scotland will be holding national elections to its Committee. This is a truly exciting, and important moment. For the first time Scotland will have a movement that exists to challenge, directly, the legitimacy of the Anglo-British state in Scotland. 

A liberation movement is an organization or political movement leading a rebellion or a non-violent social movement, against a colonial power or national government, often seeking independence based on a nationalist identity and an anti-imperialist outlook. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_movement

Scotland’s first Liberation Movement will challenge the unlawful annexation of Scotland by England. It will challenge the ‘UK’ assertion that Scotland is a voluntary partner in a union. It will challenge the representation of Scotland, internationally, as having exercised its right to self-determination by: a. being voluntarily integrated into a larger state and b. being offered a genuinely free, fair referendum conducted along internationally accepted principles. It will seek international recognition that Scotland is a dependency, a colony, and will seek international assistance to decolonise. It will work with willing partners across Scottish civic or political society for the restoration of our constitutional and international rights now, not through any single, political party or after a successful referendum or plebiscite. The most important of these rights is the inalienable sovereignty of ‘the commonality’ (Declaration of the Clergy and People 1310), the people of Scotland, over their governments.

This is the Scottish people’s movement and your opportunity to be part of it.Application forms will follow soon! 

Iain Lawson, Chair, Scottish National Council steering group (interim Liberation Scotland committee)

Sara Salyers, Salvo Director and SNC Committee member

Please watch this short video which offers more information

33 thoughts on “THE MOMENT WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR”

  2. I’m trying to unsubscribe but am told that my attempt to manage my subs is “invalid”. Talk of colonial power is unacceptable

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      1. I think it’s you who are confused – your site may be free but I don’t want to receive its posts any more. I WAS simply trying to stop receiving the posts

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    4. I think you should take a wander in the Highlands and Islands. The economic colonisation is ripping the heart out of the Gàidhealtachd.
      Colonial power is at the heart of this issue.

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      1. Yes Alistair, ‘economic colonisation’ most ably assisted and abetted, certainly by the SNP MP and MSP representing TOURISM on the Isle of Skye. The fragile ecosystem on this Island is being systematically degraded on a grand scale while at the same time insufficient attention is being given to a deteriorating social infrastructure not fit to service the resident population far less the tens of thousands who flock here year round! #END THE UNION!

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  3. Good news but still unsure if I am signed up or not as have heard nothing from Liberation. Tried the site today and got an oops that email is already in use message when I tried to sign the declaration so assume that means I have signed but not sure. Liberation needs to work on its communication as Salvo seems to manage just fine.

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    1. You need to sign in again to Liberation renew and confirm your password either by email of phone. This is because of the myriad of ghost sites and interference we experienced before. These new measures on the site cure these problems

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  4. This is the result of a huge amount of research and work by many people from different backgrounds, different areas of Scotland and from our diaspora. Most importantly, from different parties and none.

    Of course, everyone has their own ideas about what kind of Scotland we and our children want to live in but they came together with one objective. From what was an idea, it has developed into Salvo / Liberation and is now ready to offer the opportunity to apply for membership of the Liberation Scotland Committee that will take the work forward.

    I’m not pretending that the work of the Liberation Scotland Committee will be easy, far from it, but it will be rewarding, not in monetary terms, but in the satisfaction that you were there at the beginning of the Committee.

    I have learned a great deal from my colleagues here in Scotland and from many countries including Switzerland, USA, Denmark and Sweden and from my research into our history and the way forward. I believe that those selected for membership of the Committee will have an intense but very satisfying time during their tenure.

    As has been said on the introductory video, the Committee requires people from all parts of Scottish society and the only qualification is to bring your ideas, your commitment and be able to work as a team with people who have a similar vision. There is an exciting time ahead of us and I am looking forward to the development of the Committee and the realisation of our Right to Self-determination and as an independent State.

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  6. look at the fate of the Native American, of the Aboriginal People of Australia and New Zealand and tell me that Culture, language and values are protected by the Coloniser.

    That Cabot merely landed on the uninhabitable shore of Labrador gave the English no just title to New England, or to the United States generally, any more than to Patagonia.

    In India, as we saw, the Sepoy Mutiny led to a vast reorganization of British colonialism in the area, sending out a viceroy from London and before too long, Queen Victoria was proclaimed “Empress of India,” with this great empire, ruling over maharajahs and other local potentates.

    Wales, Ireland and Scotland were the training grounds to build an Empire. Steal the wealth and create poverty to ensure cannon fodder was available for phase2. Select from your first “Colonies” those greedy merchants and investors delighted to accept the opportunity to exploit others…..even their own countrymen.

    Unfortunately far too many Scots do not see that they live in a Colony. They do not see that a Language and Culture was imposed on them while their own was crushed. They do not see the stripping of Assets as theft. They will accept the Water being taken as they now accept the Renewable Energy being sent South. Billions of Pounds taken in Oil & Gas by another Nation who had no valid claim over it. The wealthy with Lawyers once walked on to Clan land, hammered in a stake and said….”this is mine” ( The Poor had no Lawyers, Andy Wightman)

    A Thousand years ago our Lairds would leave the Battle Field after securing Land and title in England.

    A quote from the Matrix Movie…..summing up the task of Liberation Scotland.

    “I’m trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You’re the one that has to walk through it.”

    Morpheus

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  7. I hope that this becomes something real. It will not work to secure independence.

    However it may do enough to make the status of Scotland much clearer.

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  8. @nomadron

    As you would appear to be still with us, a personal assessment regarding why “Talk of colonial power is unacceptable” would be appreciated by many, I’m sure.

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  9. This is very exciting, and hopefully the start of the end game for the union, as well as the start of a new, brighter future for Scotland and her people.

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    1. Yes indeed ,but i am still reeling, mataphorically from the news in Iain’s last post about the problems with the recent Alba Elections and the fact that Alex Salmond was aware of this.

      Not good for my blood pressure to be dropped suddenly to the bottom of the roller coaster and now rising again.

      Is there any guarantee there will not be another sudden drop? We need a way to make sure that future leaders do not abuse our trust and that those who negotiate out future Constitution as an Independent country are able to iclude the necessary checks and balances to ensure the voice of the people must always be paramount,

      That is wht being a Sovereign People meas and we could do worse than look at the Swiss example.

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  14. Great news Iain!

    A song from the great poet and visionary Dylan comes to mind, written as a deliberate attempt to create an anthem of change for the time, influenced by Irish and Scottish ballads.

    Every line has real meaning, and so…..

    “🎼COME GATHER ‘ROUND PEOPLE
    Wherever you roam
    And admit that the waters
    Around you have grown
    And accept it that soon
    You’ll be drenched to the bone
    If your time to you is worth savin’
    And you better start swimmin’
    Or you’ll sink like a stone
    For the times they are a-changin’

    Come writers and critics
    Who prophesize with your pen
    And keep your eyes wide
    The chance won’t come again
    And don’t speak too soon
    For the wheel’s still in spin
    And there’s no tellin’ who
    That it’s namin’
    For the loser now
    Will be later to win
    For the times they are a-changin’

    Come senators, congressmen
    Please heed the call
    Don’t stand in the doorway
    Don’t block up the hall
    For he that gets hurt
    Will be he who has stalled
    The battle outside ragin’
    Will soon shake your windows
    And rattle your walls
    For the times they are a-changin’

    Come mothers and fathers
    Throughout the land
    And don’t criticize
    What you can’t understand
    Your sons and your daughters
    Are beyond your command
    Your old road is rapidly agin’
    Please get out of the new one
    If you can’t lend your hand
    For the times they are a-changin’

    The line it is drawn
    The curse it is cast
    The slow one now
    Will later be fast
    As the present now
    Will later be past
    The order is rapidly fadin’
    And the first one now
    Will later be last
    For the times they are a-changin’🎵🎶”

    A good day to make a donation to Salvo/Liberation Scotland!

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  15. watched the video last night. Good luck in your elections. If there’s anything Schemes for indy can do to help while we are on our stalls to help Salvo let me ken. Sign folk up to liberation.scot, or some literature to pass onto anyone who comes for a blether/voter registration. As long as it doesn’t hold us up then happy tae help

    P

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  16. I would like to sign up but I’m wrestling with my belief that in International Law we are not a colony. We may have been treated like one, but the fact that we are in a Union formed by an international treaty provides us with the simplest legal route to dissolve it and recreate the Scottish State. This is not the proposed path of the current SNP leadership, but their ignorance and lack of willingness to seek advice shoudl to be a reason to close the door on DIssolution .

    I think for the time being I shall resist the temptation to sign the Edinburgh Declaration in its present form. I think it should have been possible to frame it so that the Dissolution route was recognised and not ignored.

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    1. Graeme we have a huge amount of documented proof that neither the Union-of the Crowns or indeed the Treaty and Acts of Union actually happened as presented. We shall be rolling out that proof in the near future, our research team are doing great work.

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      1. For the former, what do you mean?

        Surely everyone knows that the term Union of the Crowns simply refers to a formation of a Personal Union whereby the one monarch was “wearing both hats”, and nothing more.

        So it would be better termed as the “Merging of the Monarchs”.

        To the extent that extent that the Crown (institution) of England is viewed as a “Corporation Sole” with the Monarch operating it, and the Crown (institution) of Scotland with its distinct character have persisted, those two institutions have never merged.

        Surely this is common knowledge?

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      2. i await with interest. My view is that we have a cast iron legal case to dissolve the Union and a practical means to do so. It’s clean, and puts us on an equal footing with Enwani. That act strikes at the heart of the U.K. because it dissolves it. It is no more.

        However to go along the colony route recognises that Enwani is the continuing state. That might be the de facto result at the end of the day but that assumption should not be given up at the start of the re-creation of our statehood.

        As an aside: isn’t it ironic that our MPs don’t see the irony in their adept use of Westminster parliamentary rules and procedures to expose Unionist depravity over Gaza but that if they campaigned to achieve a 50% + vote in favour of independence candidates at the GE they could use the power they would then be imbued with to dissolve the Union?

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  17. In his online essay ‘John Duns Scotus and the Idea of Independence’ Professor Alexander Broadie writes:

    “John Duns Scotus was the great philosopher of freedom in the Middle Ages. This description of him is particularly merited in view of what he has to say of freedom at the level of the individual, but there is a formidable unity in his thinking as a whole, and it is therefore not surprising that in his political theory the emphasis is on a concept that we would now identify as that of national independence, a kind of freedom that bears a strong formal resemblance to the individual sort. 

    “[…] Before moving on to the question of the relation between Scotus’s political theory and Scottish politics, I should add that Scotus, in political theory as in so much else, was his own man. None of his contemporaries and predecessors produced a theory quite like his. Some did describe a form of social contract theory, although in that feudalistic age very few endorsed one, but nevertheless Scotus’s form of the theory was unique, unlike that of any of his contemporaries and predecessors.

    “It is clear that the political doctrine in the document [Declaration of the Clergy 1310] is Scotus’s so far as it focuses repeatedly on the doctrine that legitimate rulership depends on the consent of the people; the ‘people agreed’ upon Lord Robert; it was ‘with the concurrence and consent of the said people’ that Robert was King; it was ‘by their authority’ that he was set over the people.

    “[…] In light of the fact that the political theory underlying the declaration is thoroughly Scotistic, it is of particular interest that the document was presented in the General Council of Scotland celebrated in the Church of the Friars Minor, the Franciscan Church, in Dundee. In short, Scotus’s own order provided the venue for the occasion.

    “The Declaration of Arbroath, ten years later, repeats the message that a king does not rule except by the consent of those who are ruled, for it states that Robert was made prince and king ‘by the due consent and assent of us all’. And it then adds a new element to the Scotistic story that we have extracted from the Declaration of the Clergy. I quote in full:

    ‘We are bound to him [King Robert] for the maintaining of our freedom both by his right and merits, as to him by whom salvation has been wrought unto our people, and by him, come what may, we mean to stand. Yet if he should give up what he has begun, seeking to make us or our kingdom subject to the king of England or to the English, we would strive at once to drive him out as a subverter of his own right and ours, and we would make some other man who was able to defend us our king.’

    “Nothing could more clearly encapsulate Scotus’s doctrine that the ruler justly rules his people solely by their choice and consent. From this doctrine it follows immediately that the ruler’s authority can be transferred solely by an act of the people and not at all by an act of the ruler. Of course, the people unwilling to lose their political power, which is, above all, the power to decide who will rule, are bound to replace the errant ruler by one who will work for and not against them.

    “The independence of the people resides, more than in anything else, in their freedom to determine who will rule; and having determined this, the people’s will is not followed by a period of passivity – their will is not switched off. They remain watchful, judging the quality of the job done by the person they have elected and ready to withdraw their consent to his rule if he fails them. In this collective act of self-determination lies their independence.

    “I have argued that Scotus’s theory of freedom is articulated in the two great declarations that were issued within a few years of his death [in 1308]. My conclusion is that while Wallace was fighting for Scottish independence, Scotus was developing precisely the intellectual framework that the Scots within a few years would deploy in the chief documents that defined that independence. I also believe it possible that the documents in question were compiled with Scotus in mind.”

    (Extract from essay ‘John Duns Scotus and the Idea of Independence’ in ‘The Wallace Book’, Edited by EJ Cowan, Birlinn, John Donald imprint, 2010)

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  19. Things seem to be moving as I see from Twitter our host is going to appear on Through a Scottish Prism midweek show tomorrow. I did not see that one coming but will give it a watch. I have avoided the midweek Prism show most of the time as it is often just Roddy off on one and does my head in but this will be interesting and hopefully a sign of a bit more cooperation in the wider Yes movement. Well done to all involved.

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  21. Well with a bit of luck that is my membership of Liberation sorted out thanks to the admin staff as I was losing the will to live with the website. In the best tradition of Scottish politics I will be open for bribes next week. (Joke) Looking forward to the prism show today where according to one poster on Wings our host will be appearing alongside Roddy MacDonald. I never knew Roddy had a stunt double.

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