A British patriot asked me to set the record straight about Robin Hood. He has a point - I used the little tale on "Hoodism" by using the term in the vernacular - as "taking from the rich and giving to the poor" the way the welfare state likes to distribute wealth taken from the hardworking, decent, honorable people while preening itself for handing it out to what many would say are undeserving trash.
The writer below says my story is askew - and the real Robin Hood deserves better than what I delivered. I am yielding today's ZGram to him:
That this writer cannot write English is self-evident. He is clearly not English, or even British, or else he would know more of Robin Hood.
Robin Hood was a Nationalist of his day. The Normans had invaded Saxon England and imposed their castles to rule the people, their Barons, their laws, their system of government - all of this was quite alien to the Saxon way of life. The Saxon lords may have been fierce warriors - but they were at one with their people.
When the Norman 'King John' imposed his tyrannical rule and high taxes, Robin Hood - who was part of the elite, some say he was a Saxon Earl or Lord - fought back. What did he do? He helped his people.
He redistributed the stolen taxes. Of course he and his men had to eat - but they lived in the forest [hardly 'The Ritz'] as outlaws.
Since when did Communists fight against taxation AND redistribute money to the people? If Robin Hood were a Communist he would have robbed the tax money and built a mighty palace in a bunker and swaggered around in fancy clothes and gold jewellry.
What would we call someone today who raided the treasury and redistributed taxes to hard-working farmers and workers? Would we sympathise with the government and call for his arrest? Or would we hail him a hero for helping his people against a greedy, grabbing regime which bleeds people dry?
That's all that Robin Hood did in his day... and he is - quite rightly - remembered as a hero.
We all know that the Communists were thieving, murderous barbarians. The facts of history speak for themselves.... but PLEASE! Don't confuse them with a real English folk hero.
Believe you me, Robin Hood does NOT feature in the textbooks of multi-racist UK plc, because he was:
a. Indigenous. [the Communists were not - their ethnicity is well documented].
b. A hero and a fighter. [the Communists were not - they used Russian 'fodder'].
c. He stood up against tyranny. [the Communists WERE the tyranny!].
These three traits are unthinkable - or else they'll spy on your e-mails, your phone calls, your letters, denounce you in the Sunday papers, and then lock you up - in Blair's Bolshevik Britain.
Please set the record straight Ingrid, Robin Hood deserves better than that!
FC EDITOR. http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/finalconflict/
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Thought for the Day:
"But one should never be too right if one would have the laughers on one's own side; a little grain of wrong is a necessary ingredient of good taste." :)
(Friedrich Nietzsche)