I wonder what might be the functional difference between being regarded and treated as a colony by the dominant power in a grotesquely asymmetric political union and being undeniably a colony. I wonder if there is any difference at all.
I wonder what defines a colony other or better than being regarded and treated as a colony by the dominant power in a grotesquely asymmetric political union.
Is Scotland a colony? Or is Scotland merely indistinguishable from a colony on account of the way we are being regarded and treated as a colony by the dominant power in a grotesquely asymmetric political union?
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Peter A Bell 
Your question seems to imply that there is no or little difference between being a colony and treated like you were a colony.
If so, I agree. The British Union has been used by one country (England) effectively to carry out the plunder, pillaging and piracy of the resources of another (Scotland) then sell these back to that country at the highest prices charged in the state (UK) then the former is exploiting the latter. When language, culture, history and beliefs of the latter are denigrated, sneered at and on occasion outlawed then the former (England or its rulers) is the imperialist power who has been contemptuously suppressing the exploited country (Scotland). That makes Scotland a ‘colony in a union’ but a colony nonetheless.
Separately Michael Russell, the colonialists lapdog, says
“WHETHER the word “colony” can be applied to the state of Scotland is debatable. What isn’t in doubt is that we were once colonialists ourselves.”
My question to Mr Russell is: who is/are “we”?
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Yes, colonialism is always ‘a co-operative venture’ with native elites and the various ‘agents who are pensioned off at high reward’. One need look no further than the Scottish ‘establishment’ who protected their privileges as scribbled in the Treaty and helped maintain the colonial hoax that is the ‘union’, enslaving their ain fowk. Now even the ‘watchdogs of colonialism’ privileges are under threat, but will they bother?
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‘Who is/are “we”? Most certainly not one of us who genuinely seek our nations Independence. Russell continues to live and deliver the lie!
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Yes.
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Lets stop calling it The Treaty of Union and calling it what it really is ;The Treaty of Subjugation.
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More to the point; why is Scotland STILL a colony? 63 other former English colonies have told England to get lost and simply taken back what England stole from them.
Michael Russell claiming we were willing participants in the colonisation of others, simply employs the English trick, of dragging us down to their level, by pointing to collaborators and claiming that the rest of us all went along with it.
Russell has revealed himself to be infected with the propaganda bullshit which has been employed to convince us that we were all complicit. We WERE NOT.
Russell is hopelessly unionist, and his lack of awareness of complete gullibility, explains why the SNP government is so timid and scared of its English paymasters. The SNP was colonised as well, by drinking at the poisoned font of unionist-written history.
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My response to a BTL comment on Mike Russell’s column may be relevant here. Particularly the final paragraph.
“The fact is that both Alba Party and the SNP, along with their respective supporters, do Scotland’s cause a destructive disservice. Each tribe accuses the other of having no credible strategy for restoring Scotland’s independence. So preoccupied are they with their puerile partisan spats, none of them is able to see that neither Alba Party nor the SNP has a credible strategy because both defer to Westminster.
It is appropriate to sympathise to some extent with those afflicted by a colonised mind. They are, after all, victims of a propaganda exercise conducted over generations. Difficult as it may be, those who have successfully decolonised their minds must resist the urge to dismiss the afflicted as shallow-minded fools.”
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Who needs Allister Jack when you’ve got Mike Russell.
Get back in your box!
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