When this culprit was brought to court she refused to enter the dock until forced and denied that the court had any jurisdiction over her. She then proceeded to quote passages from Burns’s poem Scots Wha Hae over proceedings and claimed the Scots had taken to torturing women. Interesting these attitudes of Suffragette militancy carry echoes of arguments used by certain militants a century on, and the attempt does beg the question if they had succeeded, just how could destroying part of Scotland’s cultural heritage in any way really forward their cause?