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Subject: It has historic reason

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Date Posted: 16:51:35 12/17/04 Fri
In reply to: Ed Harris (Venezia) 's message, "Righty ho." on 16:20:48 12/17/04 Fri

"they have been brainwashed by an English bourgeois conspiracy to make the Scottish Proletariat into canon-fodder for England's capitalist-imperialist foreign policy."

General Wolfe "No big mischief if they [Scottish soldiers] fall... what better way of dealing with your secret enemy"

Peel said much the same.

The Scottish economy has been run down, and the empire needed soldiers. It both helped the empire, and killed off the "secret enemy".

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