‘Boycott Scotland’ Not Likely To Have An Effect On Sales, Travel

In short. My family along with two other families have cancelled plans to visit Scotland and England, we will spend that portion of the trip in Ireland and will boycott any and all product coming from either country.  Shame on you Scotland !

Monkey?

Do you seriously fail to realize is that it is easy and painless to boycott Scotland? Your goods are neglibile to the rest of the world--- Susan Boyle records?  shortbread?  scratchy woolens?   ---  as for Scotch -- there is fine American whiskey.  Where your tiny economy will feel this is in the drop in tourism --- there is no compelling reason for Americans to travel to Scotland -- the scenery can be had in Ireland (ruined castles and all -- ) --- and places like Italy and Spain have better weather, better food and more attractive people. Americans are the largest source of your foreign tourist dollars --- why support a quasi-government (semi-free-ish parliament?) that has so little regard for the people killed on that flight (mostly American, want to argue that too? ) and the families left behind.  Try pitching your campaigns to the Libyans.  Apparently they are your fans.  

highlander09 I agree the USA should not forget the past & the present e.g. Iraq. But two wrongs do not make a right. This evil man should not have been freed. He should have died in prison & then buried in an unmarked greave.Not be released to an hero's welcome But the people of Scotland should in no way be held responsible. It was not one mans doing. It was the leaders of the British Goverment & a certain oil company who made this decision. Through a few greedy lets say men. The relationships between Britain & the USA is now at a low point. The world would be a better place if we could stand together against terrorism. Not give it a excuse to raise its ugly head by invading their countries.

I think the scottisch people do nothing to blame, they are fine, Dowing Street and the interest on OIL and Gas in Lybia is to blame, They are and they have been always the Bastards through the years.....

I think that scottisch people nothing to blame them, they are fine. The real to blame are Dowing Street and their interest in OIL and Gas in this rich terrorist country of Lybia.They don't  care the victims families, they just are behind the dammed pound.Sorry! That is the true.

Do you seriously fail to realize is that it is easy and painless to boycott Scotland? I don't think the thing will go by that way.I have seen something different on "Militaryflirting.c o m" last week which made me change my idea.

I have looked forward for so long in visiting Scotland. My father's mother was Molly Campbell and I planned to visit the area where she came from. And the places where so many battles were fought with England, and the Campbell castles etc. I had planned on meeting friends from England and Ireland and having a great time. Now, I will meet my friends in Ireland. Every action has a reaction. I will never go to Scotland. I will never buy another Scottish product: out of concern for the American's who lost loved ones on flight 103. I don't drink scotch, so that is not a problem but my presents to friends will never again enclude Scotch. The Scottish people seem to approve of letting the terriorist go. The anti-American posts really surprise me. But perhaps that is the way you feel. Your choice. My is to forever to boycott Scotland.

I am citizen of Great Britain and i find the campaign urging all Americans to boycott Scotland outrageous
It is very likely that Abdel Basset al-Magrahi is an innocent man, accused of an atrocity that he had nothing to do with.
Surely, it is important and crucial that the real perpetrators of the bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie be convicted of the crime and not a scapegoat.
It is the US that decided to frame Magrahi and it is the US who really know who were the real instigators.
The people who died deserve the truth not a scapegoat and surely an innocent man returning home to his home land naturally would lead to what we have seen.
The UK has stood by the US in Iraq and Afghanistan and an urge to all Americans to boycott Scotland is beyond belief.
The people of the UK can as much boycott the US - in particular, Florida, where a lot of tourism eminates from the UK and they can also boycott many American companies such as: McDonald's, KFC, Burger King, Starbucks etc etc.
Just think that our men are dying in current operations in the name of the US'  "War On Terror".

David, England, UK

tim, ya a fucking  prick, i'd love tae kick yer cunt tae fuck. ya fucking yankie wanker. FREEDOM

I think the recent outcry from some American's to boycott Scottish and British commodities just goes to highlight how much the media manipulates, corrupts and influences US opinion. There is a great cause of double standards here, particularly in light of past US events. Libya made it categorically clear that they had no involvement with the attacks but in order to ease diplomatic relations with the USA and to encourage business interaction they set up the lockerbie fund and paid over 1 billion pound to the victims families.  Now, what about the Iranian passenger jet that the American's shot down in the 80's? No prosecutions, no investigations and they only paid out 60 million in compensation. Furthermore, what about the illegal war(s) in iraq that fundamentally occurred for imperialistic oil gains. What about the inhumane treatment of untried suspected terrorists, out of which a significant amount are later deemed "free to go". Do you see the British government intervening by writing letters of outrage to the US government?It seems this so called war on terror alliance is a fraud and the USA only use it for their own imperialistic gains. After all, without Britain the war on Iraq would not have went ahead as our political support was imperative.It goes to show that the USA does not have any respect for Britain at all and sees them as someone who they can bully from time to time.Why boycott Scottish/British goods when a significant amount of British people died in Lockerbie as well. It was not just AMERICANS. And a large amount of the population disagreed with the decision. One man's opinion does not represent an entire nation. If so, the USA would cease to exist.I like American's but what is clear is the fact that a very large amount of them have very poor educational and problem solving abilities and immediately jump on the band wagon and make threats they have no idea about. There is also a perception that if someone makes a decision that the USA government was against, then it was an ATTACK on the American people. Wake up and start to focus on the Terrorists in your own government, who rage illegal wars and have funded Al Qaeda and the IRA in the last 20 years.

I put my comments in paragraphs but this website is not showing it in that form for some reason. Sorry if it looks a big read, but it is not really. Cheers

Europe is dying.  Scotland?  Who cares?  They don't even matter.  The United Kingdom is a joke.   No one takes them seriously and they're seen as being very weak, yet oddly very arrogant considering they're a non-entity. 

It is about time that the truth came out about what REALLY caused Lockerbie -  the downing of an Iranian airbus in 1988, over the Persian Gulf !

I remember that day, which was a Sunday morning in 1988, when i heard on the radio that the US had shot down an Iranian passenger plane with 290 passengers on board heading for Mecca.. The black box was never recovered and it is believed that the US patrolling The Gulf got to it first - The Gulf is very shallow.
Remember also that at the time the US were allies with Iraq. Iraq were at war with Iran.
It was never a coincidence that 5 months later, Lockerbie happened!

Tehran radio declared at the time in July 1988, that the incident would be avenged "in blood-spattered skies." There has never been an apology from the US!

Why did the U.S. accuse Libya of being behind the bombing when the involvement of Iran (and perhaps Syria) was obviously more likely? Because in 1991 the U.S. needed to have Iran and Syria lined up in the "coalition" directed against Saddam Hussein's Iraq. To accuse them of involvement in the Pan Am bombing would have been politically inexpedient. And, of course, to accuse Iran would be to remind the world of the murder of the 290 people on board the Iranian plane.

David, England, UK

well said joe9t. The hypocrisy makes you cringe eh? America's way of thinking has become so illogical that the terms objectiveness or reason don't have meaning at all. It is funny how American citizens are easily brain washed by the media. Clearly the least educated nation in the developed world.

Do any of you really think Scottish people will care if a few hundred of the uneducated, ignorant, easily influenced Americans decide not to visit Scotland? Nope! Americans like you are the reason the majority of the world hate America, which is a shame because America has many good people. Condemning an entire country of 5.5 million people for the actions of 1 man? There's no logic there whatsoever. I could sit here for days writing about everything America has done wrong against humanity, but you won't see me making childish websites like "boycottamerica.com" because I have common sense.