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Hi,

   I have news for all Scots and our friends throughout the world.

   (1) A world premiere of a new human rights film titled "The New Ten
Commandments' to be shown at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, 28th
June - and I appear in it, so I am told!

   (2) A video report of the Tartan Day festival in New York this year, and my
rather explicit love letter to Nancy Pelosi!

   (3) TV news reports of a Stop the Cuts demo in Aberdeen as essential services
for some of the most disadvantaged citizens in the city are being pushed
through.

   All these 3 stories appear on my Scottish Republican News page -
   http://scot.f-sw.com/scottishrepublicannews.htm

   (4) Now of course the latest development in Scottish politics is the new
leader of the Scottish Labour party challenging the SNP government to "bring it
on" - that is to say, to bring on a fair referendum on the question of Scottish
independence.

   I have a BBC video about all that plus my own comments on how I think Wendy is
shaping up as Labour leader.

   That can be found on my Scottish Labour Failings page -
   http://scot.f-sw.com/scottishlabourfailings.htm

   (5) As I mentioned in February I have done a lot of work on getting my For
Freedom Forums - Forums for robust political debate, Inspired by Scots, open to
all -  ready and I'm inviting everyone to check the forums out, register and say
hello - introduce yourself.

   I think it is a good forum with loads of features but the only thing it lacks
just now is people to use it. So come along and get the debate going!

   My For Freedom Forum is at -
   http://scot.bravehost.com/forfreedomforums.htm



   So that's what's new folks - of course I have a whole load of stuff on my
website about Scottish politics and so if you haven't seen the website before,
then please do check it out.

   The Scottish National Standard Bearer website
   http://scot.bravehost.com

   I joined some new Yahoo Groups recently and I left a link or two in the groups
links sections so you might want to check those out too.

   Well that's the summary version with links over, what follows now is a quote
of the new pages for the record in case you want to skim read it without going
to my website.

   Thanks for your interest in and support for the people of Scotland.

   - Peter Dow

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     Scottish Republican News

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   The New Ten Commandments
The Edinburgh International Film Festival will show the world premiere of a
Scottish -produced documentary about human rights.
Saturday 28 June 2008.


     Anyway the particular interest to my Scottish Republican News webpage is
that one of the 10 Scottish filmmakers contributing to the documentary, David
Graham Scott featured my protests and so on with regard to highlighting the
human right of freedom of assembly in Scotland, which was very nice.
   I haven't seen the film yet myself and because hours of original footage has
been edited down to David's 10 minute slot for the documentary, I'm not
precisely sure what has been left in and I'm looking forward to the premiere. I
wonder if they will have a red carpet out?

Production team: left - my house, Aberdeen; right - Cardonald College, Glasgow


David Graham Scott, left. James Allcock, right




Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights



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   Smart Alex
Two-timing Salmond kisses our new American sweetheart Nancy Pelosi before
rushing back to his Queen Elizabeth.
House Speaker & 3rd in line to the US Presidency, Nancy Pelosi


Salmond kisses top American woman. No passion though.
   Dearest Nancy,
   That Alex Salmond doesn't really love you as he should Nancy. You deserve to
have a better Scotsman than him to come a wooing you on Capitol Hill too. I'd
try to chat you up myself but I'm so busy trying to woo Condi from afar at the
moment that I have very little time left for other women in America. Of course,
that would all change if you were to visit Scotland when you'd become my number
one woman while you were here. Fair enough?
   You wait Nancy. Turn your back on the wee fat git for one moment and
Salmond'll be back over here tickling his Grim Reaper Queen Elizabeth again like
there was no Scottish independence, which with him as Scotland's First Minister,
there isn't. He'll betray you Nancy just like he betrays the Scots.
   Was he even hard for you Nancy? I'm so sorry that he wasn't. What a limped
dick disappointment for you! No "Shagger" he. Not that you'd even know, Nancy,
when the chubby chappie cuddled you standing up because his pot belly got in the
way, right? Oh the shame of it. To think that that flaccid flop is supposed to
be Scotland's "First Minister". "I will stand up for Scotland", Salmond has
boasted. Well, Nancy, now we both know that although he can stand up, that is
all he can get up when it matters in international diplomacy.
   You Americans were generous enough to invite the Scots to a tartan festooned
fuck festival and the most Salmond had to offer you was oral. Did you take him
for a private meeting to see if he was even gentleman enough to get down on his
knees and offer to lick you out Nancy?
   We Scots can't take Salmond anywhere without him embarrassing us by being
cold, stand-offish and disinterested to our most dearly beloved friends. The cad
has no manners and has no concept of the Scottish-American "special
relationship" so if you did ever get him alone then I guess he'd most likely
want to bore you with talk all about generating power from waves or some such
small talk when the only waves he should have been interested in was wave after
wave of your multiple-orgasms.
   Nancy, Americans shouldn't ever take that kind of disrespect from Alex
Salmond. You should tell the President that if he has to waterboard anyone then
it makes more sense to start with that wee shit Salmond until he learns proper
respect for top American women.
   I am so sorry Nancy. The truth is that the people of Scotland love the people
of America very much and so it is because Salmond is inadequate in the extreme
in showing our love for you all, even on Tartan Day, that it is my duty to write
an open letter to you in such explicit terms.
   Lots of love from Peter Dow and the people of Scotland.

Tartan Day: Proclaiming the march to a Scottish Republic


   Attention Americans!     Who are your true friends? Not the Windsors!
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     Stop the Cuts demo Aberdeen  5th April 2008. Thousands march along Union
Street, Aberdeen to demonstrate opposition to the City Council's heartless cuts
to essential services for the city's most vulnerable groups of people.





Stop the cuts Demo. TV News reports   I, Peter Dow, was on that Aberdeen
stop-the-cuts demonstration too carrying the Scottish National Standard, the
Lion Rampant, and it was very well attended considering the dreadful cold, wet
and windy weather for April. (What happened to that "global warming" we were
promised?)
   Although there was a rally at the end of the march, the public address system
was poor and it was impossible to hear most of the speeches from the speakers
from the various services being cut unless you were at the front right next to
the speakers. Most of the crowd could not hear so it was no wonder that most of
them drifted away.

Councillor Kate Dean, ACC Leader
Cllr. Kevin Stewart, ACC Deputy Leader
Douglas Paterson, ACC Chief Executive  The elected politicians responsible for
this financial chaos cheekily turned up and got a hearing too and they were ever
so keen to blame the other parties as per usual without pausing to consider that
their own party's support for the Queen's state misruling Scotland for so many
years, has left Aberdeen in such a budget mess.
   At least I couldn't blame one of the speakers for supporting the Queen's state
- Neil from Sheridan's Solidarity - as I guess that Solidarity may be falling
out (and not before time for a Scottish republican socialist) with the Queen's
courts now that Sheridan is up in court on perjury charges arising from the most
unwise court action he initiated before the Queen's judges in Edinburgh?
   It was particularly surprising that the Chief Executive of Aberdeen City
Council Douglas Paterson got away so lightly, with few calls for him to go,
after mismanaging the city for so many years and being utterly unable to advise
the councillors competently.
   Now since it does seem to be an emergency situation for my home city of
Aberdeen, if the Council does get round to sacking the Chief Executive, I would
be prepared to step in to serve the city on a voluntary, temporary basis as a
stand-in Chief Executive in place of Paterson until such time as these essential
city services were re-instated. Not that the Councillors are at all likely to
ask me to take over or anything but I feel it is my duty to offer anyway.





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     Scottish Labour FailingsWendy's House


   Queen OR Country, Wendy?

Jack chose Queen; that was his big mistake.

Can you choose Scotland?  Wendy's "Bring it on" to a Scottish independence
referendum    So Wendy Alexander has challenged Alex Salmond to bring on a
referendum with a fair question on Scottish independence. Interesting.
   Or else what, Wendy? If Salmond doesn't bring on a fair referendum in good
time and wants to delay until 2010/11 or wants to rig the question so that Scots
can't vote for the independence we want without being seen perhaps to vote at
the same time for the Salmond and the Queen that we don't want, then what will
Wendy do, what will she say?

    Will Wendy now finally find the courage actually to oppose the Salmond-led
royalist, fascist state misrule in Scotland? Will she finally lead Scottish
Labour to vote Salmond down in a vote of no confidence?
    Has Wendy got the courage to bring on an early general election?
    Or will Wendy do nothing, as per usual? Will she wait until Salmond is ready?
Will she wait until the statutory 4 year term of the Scottish parliament is up -
giving Salmond a free ride until then just to keep the existing Scottish Labour
MSPs safe with their seats in parliament?


    Will Wendy now even oppose Salmond's budgets? Will she become a real
opposition leader at last?
    Or will Wendy do the same nothing as now when Salmond's no-strings budget
allows Scottish officialdom to misrule Scotland with the same cruelty and
incompetence as before? After all, for example, the universities and the
dentists are still not open to some Scots who need them.
   So it is nice that Wendy is supporting the principle of a referendum on the
question of Scottish independence. What is not so nice is that Wendy has yet to
oppose Salmond 100% and yet to try to oust him as First Minister.
   Wendy has made people sit up and take notice with her "bring it on" remarks.
Speaking as a Scotsman, I imagine that Wendy's pussy may taste that wee bit
sweeter tonight but what now Wendy? A political honeymoon can only last so long.
   Since Wendy seems to be so keen on abstaining on important votes, maybe she
can be persuaded to campaign for Labour supporters to ABSTAIN on the
independence referendum, rather than oppose independence? That might work out OK
so long as there is no daft 40%-of-the-electorate-must-vote rule like there was
in the Scottish Assembly referendum.

---------------------------------
     April 2008  Well it was about time I was updating this page to acknowledge
that Scottish Labour has now elected a new leader - Wendy Alexander, which was
nice.
   Wendy's political honeymoon (when people are supposed to give the new leader
the benefit of the doubt, for a wee while anyway) as Scottish Labour leader was
initially spoiled to some extent by an investigation into a political donation
to her leadership campaign; this question was also raised with me in       the
For Freedom Forums associated with this website and I defended Wendy there,
suggesting kissing up to her, as a way to encourage a more robust opposition to
the unsustainably rampant Salmond SNP-minority government.
   Anyway, I would expect my hard-on for Wendy will eventually make way in due
course for some very hard criticism against her leadership of Scottish Labour,
particularly once I have glared long enough at video or photographs of Wendy
shaking hands with the Queen, Prince Charles or other royal which I assume she
will do at some point if she has not already done so, aping previous Labour
leaders as royalist betrayers of democratic socialist principles.
   Meanwhile for the duration of her political honeymoon, Wendy can invite me
into her house and sit on my face if she wants to. If she did, I might say to
her though -
   "Wendy, dear, you do know that an opposition is supposed to oppose a
government budget (not just abstain) and an opposition is supposed to vote
against the First Minister in a vote of confidence, trying to bring down the
government?
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Salmond's budget and government then?
   When you are good and ready? OK, just checking - so you just want me to lick
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An open letter -
   Dear Members of the Scottish Parliament,

   Well I note that yet again there are moves afoot to ban an MSP from parliament
for a time - this time Wendy Alexander.

   Labour leader faces one-day ban 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7474475.stm

   Although only a one-day ban is being proposed, other MSPs have been banned
from parliament for longer periods.

Colin Fox MSP, Frances Curran MSP, Rosie Kane MSP and Carolyn Leckie MSP were
given a one-month Holyrood ban, July 2005

Mike Pringle MSP was given a five-day Holyrood ban, September 2006

Brian Monteith MSP was given a five-day Holyrood ban, March 2007.

Now, as I have explained in the webpage the text of which is appended as a PS to
this email letter - and here is the link to the webpage

   http://scot.f-sw.com/scotlandscommandauthority.htm

   these bans are wrong in democratic theory and would be held to be
unconstitutional under a democratic constitution.

I also argue in my webpage that there are very serious consequential derogations
to the democratic command authority of the officers of the state during the
period of such bans.

Even someone deemed to be a convicted murderer, who nevertheless was elected to
parliament - should be brought to parliament - with a police escort if necessary
- in order to carry out their duties in parliament.

Now I do not know if Bobby Sands, elected as an MP, but who was imprisoned for
terrorist crimes in Northern Ireland (by the UK state) would have wanted to go
to Westminster - but he should have been allowed and facilitated to attend
parliament when in session.

Now sadly and to our severe disadvantage, we Scots do not live under a
democratic constitution but democrats still should insist that there should be a
duty on the state to defend elected parliamentarians' rights to attend
parliament - therefore legal and military action to uphold those rights is very
much in order, now today and at any time, and the bans themselves are very much
"out of order" in democratic theory.

These bans and the associated suppression of elected representatives are some of
the most serious failings of the UK state rule in Scotland.

These bans are very damaging to the nation and so Scots should put their minds
to putting a stop to these bans which have hugely damaging consequences to
Scottish democracy.
_________________
Peter Dow, Scottish National Standard Bearer
   http://scot.bravehost.com


   PS Here is the text of my web-page -
   http://scot.f-sw.com/scotlandscommandauthority.htm#boxes

   SCOTTISH NATIONAL STANDARD BEARER: Peter Dow
   To identify and to flag up Scotland's current command authority.  All Ranks 1
to 13
Click for: Ranks 1 to 4 ___ Ranks 5 to 8 ___ Ranks 9 to 11 ___ Ranks 12 & 13
     The constitutional rights of the Scottish people and parliament. The
sovereignty of the people.            RANK    Flag, arms, logo, symbol or
similar    PEOPLE OR PERSON
Official websites are linked to in this column    COMMENT
Links in this column are to this website      1
Highest
Rank
National Anthem    The People of Scotland, who, as a nation, are sovereign.   
Defending the Scots' sovereign political rights and independence       2
Highest Ranking Body      The Scottish Parliament, having acting sovereignty.

See the coloured boxes below for advice on acting sovereignty and constitutional
ranks.     Worthwhile institution, mostly rubbish MSPs       3
Highest Ranking Person

View Mace    The Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament, who is ex officio
entitled to act as Scottish head of state.    Presiding Officers Failings.
Betrayal and surrender to Queen Elizabeth. Traitors!       4
2 M.S.P.s        The Deputy Presiding Officers.
       RANK    Flag, arms, logo, symbol or similar    PEOPLE OR PERSON
Official websites are linked to in this column    COMMENT
Links in this column are to this website      5
An M.S.P.         The First Minister.      First Minister's Scottish Executive
Failings
   Scottish Nationalist Failings   Scottish Green Failings

       6
An M.S.P.         The Deputy First Minister.      7
M.S.P.s         The Cabinet Secretaries of the Executive.      8
An M.S.P.        The Leader of the Opposition      Scottish Labour Failings

       RANK    Flag, arms, logo, symbol or similar    PEOPLE OR PERSON
Official websites are linked to in this column    COMMENT
Links in this column are to this website      9
M.S.P.s         The Ministers of the Executive.    See COMMENTS for Ranks 5,6 &
7       10
Other M.S.P.s        All other Members of the Scottish Parliament. M.S.P.s may
practice quasi-subdivisions of this rank - promoting party or committee leaders
etc.    Scottish Liberal Democrat Failings
   MSPs parties and true allegiance
       11
Highest ranking non-M.S.P.s        The senior officials of the Scottish
Parliament (such as the Clerk/Chief Executive to the Parliament, appointed or
SACKED by the Presiding Officer).    The advice given to our trusting M.S.P.s by
these officials is often incompetent and therefore these officials do great
damage to the proper work of the parliament.            The senior officials of
the Scottish Executive (such as the "Permanent" Secretary and the Lord Advocate,
appointed or SACKED by the First Minister).
   The constitutional rights of individual Scots. The limits to command
authority.       RANK    PEOPLE OR PERSON
Official websites are linked to in this column    COMMENT
Links in this column are to this website      12
Traditional or unreformed commanders, if appointed or tolerated by the Scottish
Parliament.

They are NOT so independent as to be a law unto themselves.    Other persons
with Scottish command authority, such as the Judiciary and the Courts, the
Police, Military - 2nd Division Craigiehall, 51st (Scottish) Brigade, Stirling,
The Royal Regiment of Scotland, Army Training Estate Scotland, Royal Navy, Royal
Air Force, local authorities (check out their web sites) and so on.

These people used to command in Scotland pretty much as they liked before the
reconvening of the Scottish Parliament. Then, excepting the elected Councillors,
these commanders seemed as independent and unaccountable as Adolf Hitler was.

Now, their arbitrary exercise of power is under greater scrutiny but still many
of them are reckless, foolish and very damaging to the people of Scotland.

Historically, these commanders like to suck up to royalty but their royal seals,
warrants, charters, knighthoods or other honours won't of itself get them any
advancement in Scotland's command authority rankings.

Scottish authority is derived from the election mandate of the Scots.    Threats
from within Scotland. The fascist police state.

Arrogant and tyrannical judges

Police sadistic torturers

Law and order within Scotland

Make Scotland's commanders democratically accountable
       13
Any other person in Scotland or normally resident in Scotland.    Most
individuals in Scotland are ranked here. Never mind, all of us should get to
vote in the elections to the Scottish Parliament.

In a free Scotland, all persons should always retain the right to express
dissent, angrily or with contempt for the authorities but in a non-violent way.

It should be unconstitutional in Scotland for the authorities to impinge upon
the freedom of non-violent expression of any person.

Anyone OF WHATEVER RANK behaving in such an unconstitutional and treacherous way
is picking a fight with all truly patriotic Scots. (Not advisable, as the Scots
will fight ferociously to defend their freedoms!)

Visit Scottish political forums.    Scottish Republican Roll of Honour

The fundamental rights of the Scots

The Scots will never be slaves

The Declaration of Arbroath

Never impinge upon the sovereignty of the Scottish people.

             Why it is wrong to ban any MSP from the Scottish Parliament.  We
have seen highly undemocratic and unconstitutional bans or exclusions of elected
Members of the Scottish Parliament from the Scottish Parliament's premises for
periods of up to one-month on one occasion. When these bans are in force, the
full and free parliament is no longer convened with the authority to appoint
officers of the state.

For future reference, some of the normal constitutional ranks as advised here
would not apply so long as any MSP remains excluded. Ranks that are subject to
possible suspension and consequently would become constitutionally inoperative
during periods of exclusion of MSPs, are indicated by a grey RANK number.
Advice on acting sovereignty and constitutional ranks.
Acting sovereignty means here the authority of the parliament to enact law and
to appoint and to maintain officers of parliament and of state whose high rank
is recognised here by numbers coloured grey in the above table.

Only the full and free parliament can act with the sovereignty of all the people
Acting sovereignty can be properly exercised by the full and free parliament
only - that is, without any member of the parliament being excluded from the
meeting of parliament by a decision of the majority of MSPs.

Democrats assert that sovereignty rests with the people because democracy means
"government by all the people". Excluding any MSP from parliament is no less
than an undemocratic assault on the governing rights of those people who elected
that MSP.

A meeting in parliament excluding any person duly elected to the parliament -
excluded by a decision of the other MSPs - is not a meeting of the full and free
parliament. Such an exclusive meeting in parliament cannot therefore act for all
the people, nor can it exercise the people's electoral mandate to act with the
sovereignty of the people.

Undemocratic cliques of MSPs
So the constitutional advice here is that Scots are under no particular
constitutional obligation to recognise a decision of a meeting of some MSPs
excluding any other MSP as a decision of the Scottish Parliament, per se. An
undemocratic clique of MSPs should not be mistaken for a democratic parliament.

Each elected MSP maintains always their own mandate from their own electorate
but no clique of MSPs can outrank any other single MSP - only the full and free
parliament can outrank individual MSPs or promote and support MSPs in higher
ranking office.
           How excluding any MSP adjusts the ranks of all MSPsIn terms of the
constitutional rank table given here, excluding any MSP from parliament leads to
the following interpretation of the advisable constitutional rankings -

An exclusion of any MSP from meetings of the parliament, would derogate those
grey numbered ranks to the subordinate red numbered rank.

That is to say, rank numbers 3 to 9 would be derogated to rank number 10

In other words, from the perspective of someone wishing to defend a Scottish
democratic constitution,

the Presiding Officers would no longer have the authority to preside,

the First Minister would no longer have the authority to be first among
ministers,

nor would any minister have ministerial authority

and indeed the whole Scottish Executive, from Permanent Secretary to ordinary
civil servants would be in abeyance.

Rank numbers 11 and 12 would be derogated to rank number 13

In other words, from this Scottish constitutional viewpoint

the courts and the police would be Scottish constitutionally equivalent to any
other group of Scottish citizens carrying out citizen arrests and detentions,

there would be no special authority of police arrest

and questions about whether the police arrest citizens or citizens arrest police
officers would be purely matters of force majeure.

Although I guess that the police and the courts would try to claim legitimacy as
they do now under the UK's constitution from hell, or perhaps under another
non-Scottish constitution such as that of the European Union.
           Dangerous instabilityIn summary, one consequence of excluding any MSP
from parliament is to undermine the legitimacy and the unity of the Scottish
state. While some disunity may be unavoidable in some situations, only a foolish
anarchist or an enemy of Scotland would rejoice at this degree of disunity.

Exclusions potentially destabilizing
Thus exclusions of MSPs are highly undesirable and can lead to destabilizing
constitutional contradictions while all MSPs' ranks are levelled (here down to
rank number 10).

Suppose one excluded MSP decides to order, say, the assassination of the UK head
of state and further suppose that then other MSPs decide to countermand that
assassination-order. What then as neither the order nor its countermand is
clearly constitutionally superior to the other?

One could imagine then one faction of Scots trying to assassinate the Queen
(they'd get my support as a ferocious republican!) while another faction of
Scots is trying to save the Queen (boo, damn royalists!), and both factions
could construct a constitutional rationale for their actions!

Such violent disunity among Scots is the danger of unconstitutional exclusions
of MSPs from parliament.

Stabilize by not excluding
The easy way out of risky constitutional dilemmas is for the full and free
parliament to meet promptly, not excluding any MSP, and then for the newly
validated Presiding Officer or First Minister to countermand the now inferior
conflicting orders.

Thus the lesson for MSPs is that, unless they want to risk such things as the
Queen being assassinated by Scottish military patriots carrying out a valid
Scottish constitutional order from an MSP of the highest currently recognised
rank, DON'T EXCLUDE ANY MSP FROM PARLIAMENT!



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> From: Peter Dow <peterdow@...>
> Subject: [ScottishWarPrisoners] Banning MSPs from parliament is undemocratic
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> Date: Thursday, June 26, 2008, 12:46 PM
> An open letter -
>   Dear Members of the Scottish Parliament,
>
>   Well I note that yet again there are moves afoot to ban
> an MSP from parliament for a time - this time Wendy
> Alexander.
>
>   Labour leader faces one-day ban
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7474475.stm
>
>   Although only a one-day ban is being proposed, other MSPs
> have been banned from parliament for longer periods.
>
> Colin Fox MSP, Frances Curran MSP, Rosie Kane MSP and
> Carolyn Leckie MSP were given a one-month Holyrood ban,
> July 2005
>
> Mike Pringle MSP was given a five-day Holyrood ban,
> September 2006
>
> Brian Monteith MSP was given a five-day Holyrood ban, March
> 2007.
>
> Now, as I have explained in the webpage the text of which
> is appended as a PS to this email letter - and here is the
> link to the webpage
>
>   http://scot.f-sw.com/scotlandscommandauthority.htm
>
>   these bans are wrong in democratic theory and would be
> held to be unconstitutional under a democratic
> constitution.
>
> I also argue in my webpage that there are very serious
> consequential derogations to the democratic command
> authority of the officers of the state during the period of
> such bans.
>
> Even someone deemed to be a convicted murderer, who
> nevertheless was elected to parliament - should be brought
> to parliament - with a police escort if necessary - in
> order to carry out their duties in parliament.
>
> Now I do not know if Bobby Sands, elected as an MP, but who
> was imprisoned for terrorist crimes in Northern Ireland (by
> the UK state) would have wanted to go to Westminster - but
> he should have been allowed and facilitated to attend
> parliament when in session.
>
> Now sadly and to our severe disadvantage, we Scots do not
> live under a democratic constitution but democrats still
> should insist that there should be a duty on the state to
> defend elected parliamentarians' rights to attend
> parliament - therefore legal and military action to uphold
> those rights is very much in order, now today and at any
> time, and the bans themselves are very much "out of
> order" in democratic theory.
>
> These bans and the associated suppression of elected
> representatives are some of the most serious failings of
> the UK state rule in Scotland.
>
> These bans are very damaging to the nation and so Scots
> should put their minds to putting a stop to these bans
> which have hugely damaging consequences to Scottish
> democracy.
> _________________
> Peter Dow, Scottish National Standard Bearer
>   http://scot.bravehost.com
>
>
>   PS Here is the text of my web-page -
>   http://scot.f-sw.com/scotlandscommandauthority.htm#boxes
>
>   SCOTTISH NATIONAL STANDARD BEARER: Peter Dow
>   To identify and to flag up Scotland's current command
> authority.  All Ranks 1 to 13
> Click for: Ranks 1 to 4 ___ Ranks 5 to 8 ___ Ranks 9 to 11
> ___ Ranks 12 & 13
>     The constitutional rights of the Scottish people and
> parliament. The sovereignty of the people.            RANK
>   Flag, arms, logo, symbol or similar    PEOPLE OR PERSON
> Official websites are linked to in this column    COMMENT
> Links in this column are to this website      1
> Highest
> Rank
> National Anthem    The People of Scotland, who, as a
> nation, are sovereign.    Defending the Scots'
> sovereign political rights and independence       2
> Highest Ranking Body      The Scottish Parliament, having
> acting sovereignty.
>
> See the coloured boxes below for advice on acting
> sovereignty and constitutional ranks.     Worthwhile
> institution, mostly rubbish MSPs       3
> Highest Ranking Person
>
> View Mace    The Presiding Officer of the Scottish
> Parliament, who is ex officio entitled to act as Scottish
> head of state.    Presiding Officers Failings. Betrayal and
> surrender to Queen Elizabeth. Traitors!       4
> 2 M.S.P.s        The Deputy Presiding Officers.
>       RANK    Flag, arms, logo, symbol or similar    PEOPLE
> OR PERSON
> Official websites are linked to in this column    COMMENT
> Links in this column are to this website      5
> An M.S.P.         The First Minister.      First
> Minister's Scottish Executive Failings
>   Scottish Nationalist Failings   Scottish Green Failings
>
>       6
> An M.S.P.         The Deputy First Minister.      7
> M.S.P.s         The Cabinet Secretaries of the Executive.
>    8
> An M.S.P.        The Leader of the Opposition      Scottish
> Labour Failings
>
>       RANK    Flag, arms, logo, symbol or similar    PEOPLE
> OR PERSON
> Official websites are linked to in this column    COMMENT
> Links in this column are to this website      9
> M.S.P.s         The Ministers of the Executive.    See
> COMMENTS for Ranks 5,6 & 7       10
> Other M.S.P.s        All other Members of the Scottish
> Parliament. M.S.P.s may practice quasi-subdivisions of this
> rank - promoting party or committee leaders etc.    Scottish
> Liberal Democrat Failings
>   MSPs parties and true allegiance
>       11
> Highest ranking non-M.S.P.s        The senior officials of
> the Scottish Parliament (such as the Clerk/Chief Executive
> to the Parliament, appointed or SACKED by the Presiding
> Officer).    The advice given to our trusting M.S.P.s by
> these officials is often incompetent and therefore these
> officials do great damage to the proper work of the
> parliament.            The senior officials of the Scottish
> Executive (such as the "Permanent" Secretary and
> the Lord Advocate, appointed or SACKED by the First
> Minister).
>   The constitutional rights of individual Scots. The limits
> to command authority.       RANK    PEOPLE OR PERSON
> Official websites are linked to in this column    COMMENT
> Links in this column are to this website      12
> Traditional or unreformed commanders, if appointed or
> tolerated by the Scottish Parliament.
>
> They are NOT so independent as to be a law unto themselves.
>    Other persons with Scottish command authority, such as
> the Judiciary and the Courts, the Police, Military - 2nd
> Division Craigiehall, 51st (Scottish) Brigade, Stirling,
> The Royal Regiment of Scotland, Army Training Estate
> Scotland, Royal Navy, Royal Air Force, local authorities
> (check out their web sites) and so on.
>
> These people used to command in Scotland pretty much as
> they liked before the reconvening of the Scottish
> Parliament. Then, excepting the elected Councillors, these
> commanders seemed as independent and unaccountable as Adolf
> Hitler was.
>
> Now, their arbitrary exercise of power is under greater
> scrutiny but still many of them are reckless, foolish and
> very damaging to the people of Scotland.
>
> Historically, these commanders like to suck up to royalty
> but their royal seals, warrants, charters, knighthoods or
> other honours won't of itself get them any advancement
> in Scotland's command authority rankings.
>
> Scottish authority is derived from the election mandate of
> the Scots.    Threats from within Scotland. The fascist
> police state.
>
> Arrogant and tyrannical judges
>
> Police sadistic torturers
>
> Law and order within Scotland
>
> Make Scotland's commanders democratically accountable
>
>       13
> Any other person in Scotland or normally resident in
> Scotland.    Most individuals in Scotland are ranked here.
> Never mind, all of us should get to vote in the elections
> to the Scottish Parliament.
>
> In a free Scotland, all persons should always retain the
> right to express dissent, angrily or with contempt for the
> authorities but in a non-violent way.
>
> It should be unconstitutional in Scotland for the
> authorities to impinge upon the freedom of non-violent
> expression of any person.
>
> Anyone OF WHATEVER RANK behaving in such an
> unconstitutional and treacherous way is picking a fight
> with all truly patriotic Scots. (Not advisable, as the
> Scots will fight ferociously to defend their freedoms!)
>
> Visit Scottish political forums.    Scottish Republican
> Roll of Honour
>
> The fundamental rights of the Scots
>
> The Scots will never be slaves
>
> The Declaration of Arbroath
>
> Never impinge upon the sovereignty of the Scottish people.
>
>             Why it is wrong to ban any MSP from the
> Scottish Parliament.  We have seen highly undemocratic and
> unconstitutional bans or exclusions of elected Members of
> the Scottish Parliament from the Scottish Parliament's
> premises for periods of up to one-month on one occasion.
> When these bans are in force, the full and free parliament
> is no longer convened with the authority to appoint
> officers of the state.
>
> For future reference, some of the normal constitutional
> ranks as advised here would not apply so long as any MSP
> remains excluded. Ranks that are subject to possible
> suspension and consequently would become constitutionally
> inoperative during periods of exclusion of MSPs, are
> indicated by a grey RANK number.
> Advice on acting sovereignty and constitutional ranks.
> Acting sovereignty means here the authority of the
> parliament to enact law and to appoint and to maintain
> officers of parliament and of state whose high rank is
> recognised here by numbers coloured grey in the above
> table.
>
> Only the full and free parliament can act with the
> sovereignty of all the people
> Acting sovereignty can be properly exercised by the full
> and free parliament only - that is, without any member of
> the parliament being excluded from the meeting of
> parliament by a decision of the majority of MSPs.
>
> Democrats assert that sovereignty rests with the people
> because democracy means "government by all the
> people". Excluding any MSP from parliament is no less
> than an undemocratic assault on the governing rights of
> those people who elected that MSP.
>
> A meeting in parliament excluding any person duly elected
> to the parliament - excluded by a decision of the other
> MSPs - is not a meeting of the full and free parliament.
> Such an exclusive meeting in parliament cannot therefore
> act for all the people, nor can it exercise the
> people's electoral mandate to act with the sovereignty
> of the people.
>
> Undemocratic cliques of MSPs
> So the constitutional advice here is that Scots are under
> no particular constitutional obligation to recognise a
> decision of a meeting of some MSPs excluding any other MSP
> as a decision of the Scottish Parliament, per se. An
> undemocratic clique of MSPs should not be mistaken for a
> democratic parliament.
>
> Each elected MSP maintains always their own mandate from
> their own electorate but no clique of MSPs can outrank any
> other single MSP - only the full and free parliament can
> outrank individual MSPs or promote and support MSPs in
> higher ranking office.
>           How excluding any MSP adjusts the ranks of all
> MSPsIn terms of the constitutional rank table given here,
> excluding any MSP from parliament leads to the following
> interpretation of the advisable constitutional rankings -
>
> An exclusion of any MSP from meetings of the parliament,
> would derogate those grey numbered ranks to the subordinate
> red numbered rank.
>
> That is to say, rank numbers 3 to 9 would be derogated to
> rank number 10
>
> In other words, from the perspective of someone wishing to
> defend a Scottish democratic constitution,
>
> the Presiding Officers would no longer have the authority
> to preside,
>
> the First Minister would no longer have the authority to be
> first among ministers,
>
> nor would any minister have ministerial authority
>
> and indeed the whole Scottish Executive, from Permanent
> Secretary to ordinary civil servants would be in abeyance.
>
> Rank numbers 11 and 12 would be derogated to rank number 13
>
> In other words, from this Scottish constitutional viewpoint
>
> the courts and the police would be Scottish
> constitutionally equivalent to any other group of Scottish
> citizens carrying out citizen arrests and detentions,
>
> there would be no special authority of police arrest
>
> and questions about whether the police arrest citizens or
> citizens arrest police officers would be purely matters of
> force majeure.
>
> Although I guess that the police and the courts would try
> to claim legitimacy as they do now under the UK's
> constitution from hell, or perhaps under another
> non-Scottish constitution such as that of the European
> Union.
>           Dangerous instabilityIn summary, one consequence
> of excluding any MSP from parliament is to undermine the
> legitimacy and the unity of the Scottish state. While some
> disunity may be unavoidable in some situations, only a
> foolish anarchist or an enemy of Scotland would rejoice at
> this degree of disunity.
>
> Exclusions potentially destabilizing
> Thus exclusions of MSPs are highly undesirable and can lead
> to destabilizing constitutional contradictions while all
> MSPs' ranks are levelled (here down to rank number 10).
>
> Suppose one excluded MSP decides to order, say, the
> assassination of the UK head of state and further suppose
> that then other MSPs decide to countermand that
> assassination-order. What then as neither the order nor its
> countermand is clearly constitutionally superior to the
> other?
>
> One could imagine then one faction of Scots trying to
> assassinate the Queen (they'd get my support as a
> ferocious republican!) while another faction of Scots is
> trying to save the Queen (boo, damn royalists!), and both
> factions could construct a constitutional rationale for
> their actions!
>
> Such violent disunity among Scots is the danger of
> unconstitutional exclusions of MSPs from parliament.
>
> Stabilize by not excluding
> The easy way out of risky constitutional dilemmas is for
> the full and free parliament to meet promptly, not
> excluding any MSP, and then for the newly validated
> Presiding Officer or First Minister to countermand the now
> inferior conflicting orders.
>
> Thus the lesson for MSPs is that, unless they want to risk
> such things as the Queen being assassinated by Scottish
> military patriots carrying out a valid Scottish
> constitutional order from an MSP of the highest currently
> recognised rank, DON'T EXCLUDE ANY MSP FROM PARLIAMENT!
>
>
>
>
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