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Secure Scotland

@SecureScotland

We're a' Jock Tamsons bairns. Real security for Scotland? Nae nukes! Street lights, health & social care, safe grub & babyboxes . Check https://xitter.gq/t.co/MlVNihXE4s

 Edinburgh, Scotland
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Joined December 2019
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What makes a "nuclear umbrella" poisonous? One toxin is the real uncertainty that the umbrella would in fact be in place if there was real danger, an actual attack, conventional or nuclear. How much trust can reasonably be placed in a world power which puts its own interests first? The second toxin is based on how the umbrella offer is used to keep client states in line – a sort of protection racket. But it is the third element in the venom that is most deadly. A nation that welcomes the proffered umbrella accepts that nuclear weapons may be used on its behalf and thus could become party to mass murder and, potentially, a global catastrophe.
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securescotland.substack.com/…
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securescotland.substack.com/… Learning from Kenmure Street
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Silhouette of a women with a toddler who is learning to walk with a city street in the background and text: "Scotland -7th May Put both your votes behind a fairer land, a more peaceful land, a land that cares for its own cradle and the future’s cradle, that aye has space for others and quivers at their concerns – a land fit for these astonishing bairns"

ALT Silhouette of a women with a toddler who is learning to walk with a city street in the background and text: "Scotland -7th May Put both your votes behind a fairer land, a more peaceful land, a land that cares for its own cradle and the future’s cradle, that aye has space for others and quivers at their concerns – a land fit for these astonishing bairns"

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Happening now, today, if you are near do come along
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c.org/ndq4xFFrjN Petition - No US Airforce at Scottish Airports
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Silhouette of a women with a toddler who is learning to walk with a city street in the background and text: "Scotland -7th May Put both your votes behind a fairer land, a more peaceful land, a land that cares for its own cradle and the future’s cradle, that aye has space for others and quivers at their concerns – a land fit for these astonishing bairns"

ALT Silhouette of a women with a toddler who is learning to walk with a city street in the background and text: "Scotland -7th May Put both your votes behind a fairer land, a more peaceful land, a land that cares for its own cradle and the future’s cradle, that aye has space for others and quivers at their concerns – a land fit for these astonishing bairns"

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securescotland.substack.com/… " . . . the current focus on war and on the narrative of threats and counter-threats is making it impossible to address the existential threats faced by humanity and the planet."
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Replying to @FionaMont21
It's all here
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The UK government has been utterly dishonest about its part in this hideous war. It has allowed the US to use British airbases (and Prestwick airport!) for the transit of US warplanes to the Middle East. Whatever Keir Starmer is saying now the UK has been and continues to be a material accessory to the assault on Iran, with all the resulting death, mutilation, destruction and widening chaos.

ALT The UK government has been utterly dishonest about its part in this hideous war. It has allowed the US to use British airbases (and Prestwick airport!) for the transit of US warplanes to the Middle East. Whatever Keir Starmer is saying now the UK has been and continues to be a material accessory to the assault on Iran, with all the resulting death, mutilation, destruction and widening chaos.

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securescotland.substack.com/… Janet Fenton reflects on a day in court with Palestine Action protesters
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securescotland.substack.com/… BIG WIN FOR THE PLACARD PROTESTERS High Court Rules Palestine Action Ban Unlawful - Secure Scotland’s Response
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Outside Scotland's Crown Office Janet Fenton responds on hearing that the High Court has decided that the ban on Palestine is unlawful.
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Whoops and bell ringing outside the Scottish Crown Office as the English High Court declares the proscription of Palestine Action unlawful. @maggiechap @Ross_Greer
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Text on coloured background: Global security cannot be founded on sectional military alliances armed to the teeth, snarling and bristling, and pee-ing on their territorial lamp-posts, but on something rather different (and of course much more difficult) -the patient building of a worldwide collaboration in response to our existential crises.

ALT Text on coloured background: Global security cannot be founded on sectional military alliances armed to the teeth, snarling and bristling, and pee-ing on their territorial lamp-posts, but on something rather different (and of course much more difficult) -the patient building of a worldwide collaboration in response to our existential crises.

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