A FIERY- CROSS
CIA B'E AL, NO AITE 'N GAIRM SIBH, LE CRANN-TARA SINN GU'R SEIRBHIS
[To whatever rock or place you summon us by the signal of war to your
After the 1715 rebellion against the
illegal union of Scotland and England, the Government raised a foreign
legion to keep the natives in order. They were Scots soldiers who were
allowed to wear their native costume, the kilt, banned by the
English under pain of death, on condition that they served the
expansionist dreams of England. They wore the plaided kilt as
opposed to the English red coats, [whom the Scots called the Red Army],
and were known as Feachd nam Breacan, [The Tartan or Highland Army]. The
English Government called them The Royal Highland Regiment. They are now
called The Black Watch. The crowning glory of the Black Watch regiment,
together with other Scotch regiments, such as The Royal Scots Fusiliers,
came in 1746 at the battle of Culloden when they and other Scots helped
Butcher Cumberland to defeat the army of Bonnie Prince Charlie. This is
why the Watch and The R. S. F. are the only Scotch regiments to
have the Royal prefix. They followed through their victory with arson ,
rape and murder so that England could achieve its centuries old ambition
to get a final solution to the Scotch problem by destroying the language
and culture of the oldest nation in Europe.
As Queen Victoria said of the Irish
"I look forward to the day when an Irishman on the banks of the
Liffey will be as rare as a Red Indian on the banks of the Mississippi.
" And so with the Scots.
In 1972, Currie and McGuigan, inspired by
the willingness of an elderly woman to starve herself to death for the
independence of Scotland, re-established the Tartan Army, this time to
"fight" on Scotland's side.
When the name exploded on the Scots
public it sounded comical. The Scots know little of their own history,
political, cultural or industrial and most of them suffer from an
endemic disease called The Scottish Cringe. However a journalist
in a Scotch tabloid, the Daily Record, hit on the idea of dubbing
the tartan bedecked followers of Scotland's national football team with
the name which has now passed into the everyday vocabulary, not only of
the Scots, but of soccer followers the world over; The Tartan Army.