From: l.a.robertson@tnw.tudelft.nl   
      
   "soupdragon"  wrote in message   
   news:XnsA48DA09A367A6e912rbx@news.datemas.de...   
      
   Nicholas Benjamin  wrote in   
   news:16e1637f-7000-4e83-a528-61fc1afd3db6@googlegroups.com:   
      
   :> Now if you wanted to use this as a springboard to talk about the   
   :> Nobility's role in modern Scotland, or criticize them, or even   
   demand   
   :> a Scots-only-list,   
      
   :Nothing to do with a Scots-only group. This group is for those   
   :interested in Scottish culture, irrespective of nationality. Scotland   
   :has a long military history that is held in high esteem by its people   
   :including the sacrifice made by all who died in the wars. This guy   
   :doesn't even read the group yet insists on crossposting to it every   
   :Armastice Day a post that suggests the only Scots who died in war   
   that   
   :matter and are worth saluting are a few of the priveledged class and   
   :the rest of the Scottish war dead don't even merit a mention. Which   
   :is extremely offensive to the vast majority of Scottish people.   
      
   And probably also offensive to the men he insists on worshipping. By   
   the time they'd been through battle together, their "comrades in arms"   
   (for lack of a better term) were closer than those of similar social   
   position.   
   I'm beginning to think that Mr Epstein does it to annoy, and for no   
   other reason. If we ever get around to just ignoring him, he'll   
   probably stop.   
   Lesley Robertson   
      
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