Who polluted Robin Hood?

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[LibertarianLiz]

John did sign the Magna Carta voluntarily, he was forced if he wanted to live.

Yeah, I think that is correct. He was not a good king.

[OldNewYork]

See if you can find him as Custer (pre-’deconstruction’) in They Died With Their Boots On. It’s also full of historical inaccuracy, but equally witty and fun to watch.

[YHAOS]

“This kind of language seems very familiar. Who does that sound like to you?”

It sounds like Prince John and the other looters of the land.

I remember reading Robin Hood as a little boy. Read during WWII, and thanks to Harriet the librarian (a family friend).

What I took from the story was that Prince John, in the absence of King Richard, sent his minions (principal among whom being the corrupt Sheriff of Nottingham) out to collect oppressive taxes from the productive people of England. The main purpose was to enrich the nonproductive looters of the country (principal among whom being the self-same horrid Sheriff and Prince John).

There were many adventures along the way (the main purpose and appeal of the story), of course, but in the end the productive people of England had their hard-earned meager savings returned to them. Plus, of course, Robin won back both his lands and the hand of the fair Maid Marion. Thus was peace and happiness restored throughout the Kingdom.

Thanks for the BEEP!

[Tax-chick]

The basic story line is pretty true to history, except for leaving out the fact that Prince John was collecting the taxes to support King Richard’s foreign adventuring.

[YHAOS]

“Prince John was collecting the taxes to support King Richard’s foreign adventuring.”

I thought Prince John had no intention of returning any of the wealth he seized to King Richard, but rather he meant to keep all the taxes for himself and his corrupt lackeys.

[Tax-chick]

Paid for the Crusade, bailed Richard out of jail in Germany ...

[Intolerant in NJ]

Robbed from the rich and the poor, and gave to himself is the way I heard it.....

[Rastus]

That was Trayvon Hood(ie).

[Alamo-Girl]

Great summary, dear YHAOS!

[1010RD]

Robinhood didn’t rob the rich to give money to the poor. He robbed the government to return the money to the producers impoverished by government.

[YHAOS]

“Paid for the Crusade, bailed Richard out of jail in Germany ...”

That was the ostensive reason for the tax collection, but I don’t know that Prince John wanted his brother to ever return from the Holy Land or to ever use the wealth he extorted from the productive people of the Kingdom to purchase the freedom of King Richard.

Surely, History records.

[YHAOS]

[Robin]“robbed the government to return the money to the producers impoverished by government.”

Yeah. That’s what I said (I thought).

[Tax-chick]

Oh, I very much doubt that he wanted his brother back. All the Plantagenets hated each other. Still, England did finance the Crusade, and Richard was bailed out.

[SunkenCiv]

This topic was posted 11/23/2014, thanks ProgressingAmerica.

• Robert FitzOdo de Loxley [Geni, a genealogical website]

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[SunkenCiv]

Tony Robinson sets out to sift the fact from the fiction on whether Robin Hood, the legendary dispossessed nobleman hiding out in Sherwood Forest did actually exist.

The Real Robin Hood Story | Fact Or Fiction | Timeline | January 20, 2018 | Timeline - World History Documentaries

[xzins]

Stephen Lawhead’s Robin Hood is my favorite by far

[ProgressingAmerica]

Thanks for re-pinging this SunkenCiv.

I regard Robin Hood as “low hanging fruit” - this one would be super easy to take back from the progressives if more would simply attempt to take it.

Ritson is the key. They can’t keep the door locked if we pick up the key.

[SunkenCiv]

My pleasure.

[Fiddlstix]

BUMP

[Weirdad]

Genius idea, plan, and description of it, you can make the cockroaches scurry better than anyone.