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Boycott Scotland? I'm McSpartacus (re-edit 2)

The author of www.boycottscotland.com - which encourages 

U.S. citizens to do everything short of haggis and

shortbread burnings on the Whitehouse lawn, in response

to the release of the convicted Lockerbie bomber

Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, may not have expected such a blistering 

response.  But the masked boycotter has stung something in scotland.  

Well, stung enough to unleash a stream of caledonian-style 'reposte' 

among it's twitter constituency anyway. 

From the witty:

 'aye, does that mean yer goin tae stop using yer TV's, bridges, 

tarmac, phones' 

to the devastating:

'ooh let me see now: US torturing =good, Scots compassion =bad' 

to the playful: 

'nae mair munching oan yer freedom fries and supersized burgers at 

mac'donalds’

to classics such as: 

‘..daft c**nts n bawbags and ...we'll boycott yer fat mamma’   

(for more hilarious examples: search #boycottscotland on twitter).

The most celebrated reposte came out of Glasgow in the form

of a website www.boycottscotland.co.uk, by local web developer

Aaron Bassett.   It apes the original in it's introduction and

 then skillfully morphs parody into absurdity- and is now, 

currently on a retweet roll, as I write this.   

 what can we learn from this I wonder?

global meltdown: what's in 'your' urban saint survival toolkit?

Feature Post: In this Scotland's 'Year of homecoming'  I'm using me blog to look at what's a happening around a scotland coming out of the mists of an auld world - a world where christianity was in bed with empire - into raging economic meltdown (thaw?).  Can this christianity be rehabilitated in time? it has a crackin story! can it be unfrozen from its entombment to stand before world empires in its robes of comedy and humanity?  

To kick off, here are 3 things we lost under the snow that are erupting all over the world right as acts of defiance and tools of resistance to empire in a global age:   1. outrageous prayer, 2.  gift-economy and 3. imaginative comic non-violent guerilla action... ring any bells with an ancient near east movement sparked off by a young activist called Jesus and brutally put down by the empire of their day?  check it oot!..

comedy IS the sword of the Spirit; comedy IS prophecy

watch

an example of comedy = prophecy

A clip from episode 8 of the Armando Iannucci Shows.
Armando tells us why digital TV is great. He also details his dreams about Scottish heaven, and why it's so crap

armando by using comedy- skillfully gets at some unconscious toxic attitudes and unhealthy beliefs that have been festering here for generations and have brought us into much captivity