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JK Rowling Dares Scotland to Enforce Anti-Free Speech Law

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JK Rowling Dares Scotland to Enforce Anti-Free Speech LawJonathan Turley – We have previously discussed the growing anti-free speech movement in Scotland with the expanding criminalization of political and religious speech. The new Scottish law is a perfect nightmare for free speech, expanding the potential of a jail sentence for merely insulting language. In response, author JK Rowling has taken a stand and dared the Scottish police to come and arrest her for criticizing transgender status.

The Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021 illustrates how these laws create a slippery slope of speech criminalization as more and more speech is banned.  We previously discussed the law when it was first introduced. Continue reading →

Scottish Parliament Members Back Making Emergency Covid Powers Permanent

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Niamh Harris – Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) have voted to make some of the emergency Covid-19 powers permanent, including the ability to close schools and impose lockdowns.

Opposition politicians said the bill amounted to a “power grab”.

BBC reports: MSPs took five hours to debate more than 90 amendments to the Coronavirus (Recovery and Reform) Bill before passing it by 66 votes to 52.

The bill proposes changes in 35 specific legislative areas, many of which originated in temporary Scottish and UK Covid legislation. Continue reading →

Scotland: Investigation Launched Into Abnormal Rise In Newborn Baby Deaths

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Niamh Harris – An investigation has been launched following an abnormal increase in deaths among newborn babies in Scotland.

21 babies died during September within 28 days of birth, according to official figures.

Infant death rates vary widely from month to month but the increase was larger than expected from chance alone.

Public Health Scotland (PHS) and other agencies will are now looking into whether the Covid pandemic or other factors could be behind the increase. Continue reading →

Scotland Rejects Vaccine Passports: “We Are a Free Country”

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vaccine passportSean Adl-Tabatabai – The people of Scotland have had enough of the authoritarian government led by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, and now businesses are rejecting the vaccine passport scheme.

Business owners across the country declared that they would refuse to enforce Sturgeon’s new passport scheme after the technology behind the app failed within seconds of launching.

Football stadiums, nightclubs and other venues were expected to begin mandating proof of vaccination to citizens wanting to enter. Continue reading →

A Public Bank Option for Scotland

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“. . . From our western perspective, we tend to forget that, globally, around 40 per cent of banks are already publicly owned, many of them concentrated in the BRIC economies, Brazil, Russia, India and China.” -E Brown

ScottishIndependence1Scottish voters will go to the polls on September 18th to decide whether Scotland should become an independent country. As video blogger Ian R. Crane colorfully puts the issues and possibilities:

[T]he People of Scotland have an opportunity to extricate themselves from the socio-psychopathic global corporatists and the temple of outrageous and excessive abject materialism. However, it is not going to be an easy ride . . . .

If Alex Salmond and the SNP [Scottish National Party] are serious about keeping the Pound Stirling as the Currency of Scotland, there will be no independence. Likewise if Scotland embraces the Euro, Scotland will rapidly become a vassel state of the Euro-Federalists, who will asset strip the nation in the same way that, Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain have been stripped of their entire national wealth and much of their national identity.

To achieve true independence, Crane suggests the following, among other mandates: Continue reading →