Are You Indigenous?

Just watched ‘You’ve been Trumped’, BBC1 10pm Sunday and I’m fucking angry. Clark Kent has left the building! The program is a documentary about Donald Trump’s planned golf complex in the west coast of Scotland. The Trump process on our good old British soil couldn’t be more like the American’s treatment of their own indigenous Indians if it tried. The scheme was thrown out by the Council planners as failing miserably their sustainability guidelines and would also mean the destroying of an important SSI. Trump took it to the Scottish parliament who overruled that decision. Then began a long process of harassment of the local people. Involved in this harassment were the local police assaulting, yes assaulting, and arresting a journalist for no offence other than reporting the situation. They strictly enforced Trumps wishes yet were strangely ‘powerless’ to act on behalf of the locals. Trump’s workers ploughed up a local’s wooden fence on his own land and ‘nothing could be done’ but when the local pulled up a few little red boundary markers the local was prosecuted for causing £15 worth of damage. When another local’s fence was demolished without permission he got a bill for over £2,000 for Trump’s rebuilding of it and again no prosecution for the original vandalism. Trump has now destroyed acres of sand dunes and natural habitat. His figures, on which he sold his idea to the Scottish parliament, are on inspection wildly inaccurate. The local farms and houses he wishes to destroy are typically rural but are described in the context of his wonderful scheme as eyesores, ugly and offensive, the local people, the indigenous people of Scotland, though he didn’t say as much, worthless white trash. What Trump is doing is the equal of the decimation of their own ingenious Indians; a concerted series of ignorant and offensive acts, but for his actions to be sanctioned and supported by the Scottish government and our police is barely credibly and equally offensive. Alix Salmond will be turning in his grave when he gets one. The question Clark Kent is struggling with in a phone box somewhere is, are we losing our fight with the Psychopaths Club, are we becoming an indigenous people?