R.I.P. The Scottish Enlightenment 1697-2024

[klondike]

R.I.P. The Scottish Enlightenment 1697-2024

The Scottish Enlightenment will die on April 1st 2024, exactly 327 years, eight months and 24 days after the incident that provoked it. For on April 1st the Hate Crime and Public Order Act (Scotland) 2021 comes into force, an Act which will criminalise speech and opinion deemed 'hateful' even if spoken in the privacy of your own home.

On January 8th 1697, Thomas Aikenhead, a 20 year-old student, was marched the two miles from the Old Tolbooth Prison on the High Street to a windswept sandy hillock just to the west of the causeway that crossed the marshes between Edinburgh and the port town of Leith, known as Gallow Lee. Surrounded by the pious prayers of the clergymen of the Kirk (the Church of Scotland), Thomas was hanged by the neck until he was dead.

What was Thomas – a murderer? A rapist? Was he one of Edinburgh's notorious 'Resurrection Men'? No. Young Thomas's crime was that in an Edinburgh tavern on Christmas Eve 1696, he had a drink and went on a rant offending the Church and its stranglehold on Scottish culture. He was reported, arrested and tried: "The jury found Aikenhead guilty of cursing and railing against God, denying the incarnation and the Trinity and scoffing at the Scriptures."

Thomas Aikenhead was the last person to be hanged for Blasphemy in Britain. As such he became a martyr and inspiration. The hanging of a young man for the crime of having a rant in a pub late at night became seen as an act of tyranny and oppression so heinous it was the spark that turned a barren minor nation on the north west fringe of Europe into the blazing furnace of ideas that was the Scottish Enlightenment. Ideas that would change the world forever.

Full story : https://dailysceptic.org/2024/03/20/r-i-p-the-scottish-enlightenment-1697-2024/

Well done the SNP 

[Diasi]

Freddy Boy isn't a fan of Yousaf, or the SNP.

Much of what you say here Is sure to be correct but let's focus on Useless Yousaf,s new decree which he's being trying to implement while he was Krankie,s lap dog ( more like a cuckoo actually) he wants this new law because he knows people will & are slagging him off !! So even this post would possibly earn porridge time !! HOW did the Scottish populace back the SNP while it's lurched along from Salmond , Sturgeon & now this slimy Sh1tbag of the highest order ! He brings nothing & I mean nothing of merit or benefit to anyone or anything , all over the uk these type of agents of discontent are being installed to finish Bliar,s devolved dirty work , the uk is going down the Shitter faster that last nights vindaloo , make no mistake this creep would have put the noose around poor Thomas's neck had he been there !! Get him out ASAP !!

[GrannyMac]

The Rangers/Celtic matches should provide some rich pickings!  If of course anti Catholic/Proddy insults are taken as seriously as anything about Islam. 

[Cassandra]

The Hate Crime and Public Order Act (Scotland) 2021

A very dangerous and potentially evil piece of legislation. From April the 1st in Scotland you are liable under 'Statute Law' to detention for what you 'might think' in the future. Interesting to see how that tort will be proven?

George Orwell's fictional work in 1984, has been surpassed by this trope of Machiavellian insanity. What is it with people like Drakeford in Wales and Yousaf. In the end they come to believe their own ideological fantasies, to the point of rendering the Nations' they mismanage to the brink of ridicule and destruction.

'The Ministry of Truth' and 'The Thought Police' are now here!

Please wake up the Scottish Electorate and banish these idiots to the oblivion to which they belong.

[Diasi]

The Hate Crime and Public Order Act (Scotland) 2021

A very dangerous and potentially evil piece of legislation. From April the 1st in Scotland you are liable under 'Statute Law' to detention for what you 'might think' in the future. Interesting to see how that tort will be proven?

The danger with this legislation is that it could become incumbent on you to prove what you might or might not think in the future.

A bit like a prisoner having to prove that he's fit for parole & not the parole board having to prove he isn't.