Scotland blocked from holding independence vote by UK’s Supreme Court
This is imperialism.<p>Forced inclusion in a political union is imperialism.<p>The fact that the Union was formed with the consent of some long-dead Scottish citizens doesn’t change the fact that this is imperialism. Does the will of the dead outweigh the will of the living?<p>The UK will hide behind the facade of Democracy, hoping that you forget that the point of democracy was always a means to an end (that of self-representation), and nothing could be more contrary to that right than an expectation that the Scottish people’s human rights are subject to veto by England, Wales, and North Ireland.<p>In the immortal words of Thomas Jefferson, people  <i>are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights… to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed… whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government.</i>