jdb1 wrote:
So . . . . where exactly does one get Scottish goods around here? No disrespect intended to the well-meaning Scots, but the haggis and plaid consignments around the NYC area appear to be confined to Kearny, New Jersey,and aren't exactly leaping off the shelves.
Klonny probably has a direct pipeline to All Things Scottish. Are you boycotting, Klon?
I believe were you to take a "person in the street" survey in Glasgow or Paisley or Sterling or Dundee, you'd likely find that 7 or 8 out of every 10 folks you spoke to are as disturbed and/or outraged by this man's release as are the majority of reasonable people in every nation in the Western World.
Boycotting Scottish goods is a silly concept for several reasons, regardless:
A) Politically, it would be about equivalent to boycotting Boston baked beans because the 9/11 World Trade terrorists boarded those two ill-fated airliners at Logan Airport where they
should have been stopped by Airport Security. Too random? OK, how about this one: Adolph Hitler invaded over a dozen peaceful nations, terrorized their populations, slaughtered over 6,000,000 detainees (Jews, Communists, Gypsies), and threatened to conquer & enslave the entire Free World. By his own admission, he could never have scrambled his way into winning the Chancellorship of Germany, nor have financed the assembly of his immense new German War Machine without the support, guidance, and massive monetary contributions of the American Industrialist he called "my greatest mentor & ally: Henry Ford!" Should we boycott all Ford automotive products? {
I've always thought so, but I'm voting through my Chevy bowtie, so can hardly claim objectivity.}
B) How effective is a boycott when you would only ever consider purchasing occasional durable goods, and/or cultural iconography? Go ahead, browse through your local Wal*Mart (
I won't, but if you lack all sense of regional identity & pride, you certainly can), I very much doubt you'll find any knock-off deck shoes or turquoise strappies or raffia beach sandals or melmac picnic-ware or back-to-school backpacks made in Edinburgh or Oban or Hawick. How do you boycott a nation that turns out no competitively priced daily/weekly/monthly consumables? This starts to sound as intelligent as renaming french fries "freedom fries" when those dastardly French poltroons dared to decry are efforts to invade Iraq in our quest for weapons of mass destruction. How
dare they think objectively, and advise patience & caution - when we're willing to spend eleven million dollars a day to
prove we're right - and dammit, what better proof than an escalating bodycount, and an outgoing VP whose Halliburton stock had jettisoned him into the Forbes 500?
But, I have digressed, j'avoir non?
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Bonnie Scotland . . by all means let us boycott them!!
To blazes with their scrumptious wild salmon, we'll save bucks by overpaying for the vacuum-packed farm-raised crap @ the Albertson's deli!
Real Scottish woolens? Faughh! Go ahead & order those half-priced balmorals & kilt hose from that outfit in Nebraska . . their stuff's not
too bad . . they claim it's "Scottish By Design", right? What do you care if it's sewn & assembled in Pakistan . . .
most of the people over there
aren't terrorists, right?
And Scotch? Hey, the whole Single Malt business could be overrated, right? Canadian whiskey's cheaper by far, just ignore the fact it's all cut with rye . . heck, I'll bet learning not to gag at every mouthful is part of the
provenance, for all we know!
Aye, it can be a bra'e new world out there, Laddies!