Boy Scout kilts

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

Was our Country not founded by Law breakers, (it was indeed a Revolution you know)?

The American war for independence began as a demand by the British subjects in North America to be treated with the same equality under the law as was accorded to British subjects in the mother country. That these demands led, ultimately to rebellion and independence is an indusputable fact. However, to suggest that the leaders of that rebellion were law breakers ultimately casts gentlemen like Washington, Adams, Jefferson, et al, in the same light as petty criminals, juvenile delinquents, and other social misfits who choose to ignore, rather than follow and enforce, the rule of law.

Were the men who signed the Declaration of Abroath merely following the rules of the organization that they belonged to?

In a nutshell, "yes". They were exerting their rights as an independent nation which was under constant military threat from their neighbor to the south. There was absolutely nothing unlawful in their actions.

More to the point, I don't understand why Scout leaders in the Boy Scouts of AMERICA want to dress as though they belong to some other scouting organization. I agree totally with Gordontaos that the best troops are those where every boy is in the proper uniform, and where the leaders make scouting exciting by leadership, rather than by wearing the kilt as a costume to the meeting.

Especially when so many of them do it poorly and make a mockery of both the scout uniform and the kilt.