A UNIONIST EXPERTLY TAKEN DOWN.

This is a letter to the Scotsman from John Brown, another member of the SCOTTISH National Congress Steering Group. Sooner or later Unionists are going to realise that trying to put a spin on ancient and outdated Westminster legislation no longer works as we now have our own team of researchers pouring over the opportunities and everyday another lie is exposed.

Duncan McAra is correct when he states that The Treason Felony Act 1848 is still on the statute book. What he fails to mention is that like many out of date and redundant acts of the Westminster parliament most of its provisions have been repealed as no longer appropriate to the modern era. 

The tattered remnants of the 1848 act were the subject of a House of Lords Appeal in 2003 where in a unanimous judgement the judges agreed that the Act which appears to criminalise the advocacy of republicanism is a relic of a bygone age and does not fit into the fabric of a modern legal system. The idea that section 3 could survive scrutiny under the Human Rights Act is unreal. 
The last reported case under this Act was in 1883. 

In Scotland where the people are sovereign and the monarch is but the first among equals the pretension that the king, a government or a parliament is sovereign over the people has always been not just an alien idea, but unlawful. 

In fact it got King James VII & II deposed! The people of Scotland exercised their sovereign power over their monarch.

There is currently a significant shift in mood in Scotland, typified most recently by the protesters outside St Giles Cathedral on Wednesday 5th July, an open & voluble expression of the desire for less Less Majesty and more Liberty Equality & Fraternity. 

John Brown