Im glad that this has turned out to be a "storm in a teacup" I would have been dissopointed if this young man had been fed all sorts of fairy stories about clan rivalries, The reality is far more brutal and shocking than most of us could ever imagine, Mike rightly mentioned the events involving the Lamonts and I know that he is a very proud of his Lamont heritage and is dedicated to Scots interests, I would add that its Vital that we stick to facts and place the events that happened into context, they were very very brutal and violent times so the events reflect that time, our ancesters were forced-rightly or wrongly to use devastating force in order to simply survive, to judge them now from a modern viewpoint isnt really fair, tretchery, deciet, murder, massacres are all part of the history of this country and Scotland is a sum of its parts.