Well, Blackie, as you likely know white cops stop and frisk black teens in NYC and all throughout the USA. When a teen objects he is often roughed up and thrown in jail. People don't call that an assault though it should be as it represents government intrusionism. When the IRS or NSA does it, right wingers get riled up. But when cops like sheriff Arpaio do it, it's perfectly ok to those same right wing critics. So there is a double standard in this regard as well. Mind you this happens thousands of times a day (to all minorities, not just blacks) all through out the USA without the slightest objection from the right wing which shows their racist double standards.
What has all this got to do with the racist attack on a white woman by three blacks?
As a Brit you know fully well that this happens and many of your kinsman have voiced objection in the Guardian.
Nobody reads The Guardian anyway apart from a few mung bean-eating, sandal-wearing lefties in Islington. The Guardian's readership is declining. I prefer the Daily Mail.
As for Scots, last I heard was roughly a tie of 44% aye, 44% nay, with the balance unsure.
Polls have consistently shown, over the decades, that the vast majority of Scots are against independence. The 300-year-old union between England and Scotland is the most successful political union in history and Scotland has done rather well out of it. There is no appetite for independence amongst the majority of Jocks, especially when the Scots are given so many freebies, such as free care for the elderly, free medical prescriptions, free university education, which are all things which are paid for by the English taxpayer even though the English themselves are denied these freebies. Salmond and the SNP are going to lose next year's independence referendum. The Scots will say NO to seceding from the UK.
It also seems that Scotland's nationalist First Minister Alex Salmond's decision to allow 16 and 17 year olds to vote in next year's Scottish independence referendum because he thought they would be in favour of independence is going to backfire on him......
An opinion poll of Scottish teenagers suggests that under-18s will heavily reject independence in next year's referendum, after only 21% of those surveyed supported leaving the UK.
The poll is the first major study of likely voting intentions among Scottish 14 to 17-year-olds, some 16 months before more than 120,000 16 and 17-year-olds will be given a vote for the first time in next year's independence referendum.
The study, overseen by academics at Edinburgh University for the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) found that 60% of the 1,018 teenagers surveyed believed that Scotland should stay in the UK, with 19% undecided.
While the study provides only a tiny snapshot of the entire 4 million electorate, that margin is one of the widest against independence yet found in recent opinion polls. Excluding undecideds, the poll showed opposition to independence at 74% versus 26% in support.
The results are a blow to Alex Salmond, the first minister and leader of the Scottish National Party, and to leaders of the wider independence movement. While SNP ministers do not claim a majority of teenagers back leaving the UK, they did believe a significant minority would say yes.
Until this survey, most polls had tended to suggest a higher proportion of under 18s would vote yes on 18 September next year, while a poll by Ipsos Mori for the Times this year suggested a sharp jump in support for independence among 18 to 24s.
Scottish teenagers likely to reject independence | Politics | guardian.co.uk
And here's another good poll, one which shows that support in Scotland for Scotland remaining part of the UK is now at its highest for two years, and that Scotland's ruling nationalist party, the SNP, is being caught in the polls by Scottish Labour. None of this is very encouraging for those who want an independent Scotland:
Our latest poll for The Times finds that support for Scotland remaining part of the UK has increased to its highest level since August 2011.
Among those certain to vote, 59% would vote 'No', up four points since February, while 31% would vote 'Yes', down three points. One in ten Scots are undecided, down a point.
With the exception of a bounce following the SNP’s election victory in 2011, support for independence continues to hover between 30% and 35%, which is in line with the historical average recorded by Ipsos MORI over the last three and a half decades.
A closer look at the data indicates a strengthening of the Unionist position. Among those who are certain to vote and have definitely decided how they will vote, the ‘No’ vote leads the ‘Yes’ vote by two to one (67% v 33%) with a five per cent swing in favour of the ‘No’ vote since February.
In Scottish Parliament voting intention, the SNP’s lead over Scottish Labour has narrowed to three points. Among those certain to vote, the SNP are on 39%, down four points since February, with Scottish Labour on 36%, up a point. The Scottish Conservatives saw the largest gain since February with an increase of three points to 16%, while the Scottish Liberal Democrats are on 8%, up a point.
Ipsos MORI | Poll | Support for Scotland remaining part of the UK increases
Scotland and England are so intertwined politically, economically, and socially - with many people of each nation having family links over the border - that it is highly unlikely that Scotland is going to secede from the Union.
Lastly, as for the Fenians, well what New Yorker or Bostonian doesn't have a few friends among them? I did in the past but have lost touch with them.
What do you think this is? The 19th Century?
And just a question if you please - you were called racist above. What is your answer to that charge?
My answer to that charge is that the numpty who said it obviously doesn't know what they are talking about. How can it be racist to say, quite rightly, that we are constantly told to be "tolerant" of ethnic minorities in our midst, yet many of those ethnic minorities are themselves anything but tolerant? A perfect example of this was the racist attack on a white woman by three blacks for playing "black music".