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From: William Lockhart <>
Subject: Re: Edgar : English Jacobite /Regular army recruits
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 08:01:41 -0500


Mark,
As a Scottish descendant in the "Texas Colony", I
have to admit we do deserve the horrible
reputation in capital punishment and the
expenditures on prisons now exceeds higher education.
It seems that when a people emigrate, they bring
with them the worst of the original culture. The
French in Canada and Louisiana for instance and
the Ulster Scots here in Texas. I imagine only
Pennsylvania out does Texas is Scottish surnames,
even on a per capita basis.
The Ku Klux Klan is an Ulster Scot institution
that brings shame all over this land. Our greatest
challenge is the prevention of a military coup de
e'tat in the United States, and we could see a
horrible worldwide holocaust.


> treated as traitors,
> rather than as
> prisoners-of-war. He and most of his Captains were among the last men in
> Britain to suffer the dreadful punishment of being hung, cut down just
> before they were dead, having their entrails removed while they were alive
> and then if they hadn't died with shock or loss of blood, watched as the
> axeman put them out of their misery. This was the execution William Wallace
> faced 450 years earlier. We weren't that terribly much more civilised almost
> half a millennium later!!
>
> Many places still are not. Many of the less civilized countries still have
> the death penalty.

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