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    #51
    Originally posted by minestrone View Post
    There was a real intimidation of business by the SNP and nationalists over the whole debate, promises of a "day of reckoning" after independence to any business that stood out against the SNP's proposals.

    The SNP were phoning companies up asking directors for their views, sane minded people were just keeping their heads down and voting no privately.
    One person tweeted about a day of reckoning and he was pulled up for it.

    Not in the same league as the No campaign phoning old folk and saying they would lose their pensions if we got independence.

    You can see the fear now on all the media by the way they are attacking Scotland for having the nerve to take part in the democracy that they wanted us to stay in.

    All the celebrity lovebombing, please stay with us Scotland, Cameron saying it would break his heart if we left then last week at PMQs attacking the very thought of the SNP having a say at Westminster. Isn't that what he campaigned for?

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      #52
      Originally posted by minestrone View Post
      You don't have a UK firearm certificate to have a firearm in the US embassy, only an American one.
      "U.S. embassies and consulates abroad, as well as foreign embassies and consulates in the United States, have a special status. While diplomatic spaces remain the territory of the host state, an embassy or consulate represents a sovereign state. "

      What is a U.S. Embassy?

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        #53
        Originally posted by Unix View Post
        No because that is not the definition of a country. Scotland is a country it is just a member of a larger union, are you saying Germany isn't a country because it's part of Europe?
        Well what is the definition of a country?

        Would you call the North of Ireland a country? Has the same democratic powers as Scotland, probably more so.

        Fife in our little fervent imagination is still a kingdom.

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          #54
          Originally posted by minestrone View Post
          You don't have a UK firearm certificate to have a firearm in the US embassy, only an American one.
          It would also help to have an immunity to being wounded/shot/killed by US Marines and Secret Service people if you're going to rock up at the US Embassy in London with a firearm

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            #55
            Originally posted by Ticktock View Post
            "U.S. embassies and consulates abroad, as well as foreign embassies and consulates in the United States, have a special status. While diplomatic spaces remain the territory of the host state, an embassy or consulate represents a sovereign state. "

            What is a U.S. Embassy?
            Well, why are we not getting Assange?

            No jurisdiction?

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              #56
              Originally posted by minestrone View Post
              Well, why are we not getting Assange?

              No jurisdiction?
              Since you can't be arsed to click on the link, the very next sentence from the one I quoted before:
              "International rules do not allow representatives of the host country to enter an embassy without permission --even to put out a fire -- and designate an attack on an embassy as an attack on the country it represents. "

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                #57
                Originally posted by Batcher View Post
                One person tweeted about a day of reckoning and he was pulled up for it.

                Not in the same league as the No campaign phoning old folk and saying they would lose their pensions if we got independence.

                You can see the fear now on all the media by the way they are attacking Scotland for having the nerve to take part in the democracy that they wanted us to stay in.

                All the celebrity lovebombing, please stay with us Scotland, Cameron saying it would break his heart if we left then last week at PMQs attacking the very thought of the SNP having a say at Westminster. Isn't that what he campaigned for?
                Or Labour party activists telling Eastern Europeans that the would be deported on the 19th in the event of a Yes vote, or Cameron demanding 'words of warning' from the likes of Baroso over Europe.
                When freedom comes along, don't PISH in the water supply.....

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                  #58
                  Originally posted by minestrone View Post
                  Well, why are we not getting Assange?

                  No jurisdiction?
                  Probably international custom and practice if there's no truth to the foreign soil urban myth then.

                  When it comes to the whole diplomatic thing I get the impression there's a load of "gentleman's agreements" tied up with a variety of treaties and bits of old laws from colonial times.

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                    #59
                    Look, I got the foreign soil bit wrong, it was a superfluous comment after a post.

                    After some foogling I was wrong.

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                      #60
                      Originally posted by minestrone View Post
                      Look, I got the foreign soil bit wrong, it was a superfluous comment after a post.

                      After some foogling I was wrong.
                      Every post you make you get it wrong. You're full of BS

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