And gives to the rich
Stupid bitch!
Posted on 12/20/2014 12:53:40 PM PST by ProgressingAmerica
I just thought that fact needed to be stated.
Following up on a previous blog posting where I went a little bit into the revisionist history of Robin Hood, "Who polluted Robin Hood?", wouldn't recognition that the Sheriff was a government employee pretty much put the whole thing to bed?
"Robin Hood stole from the rich and gave to the poor"
No, not really. The Sheriff of Nottingham was a government employee. Robin Hood stole from the government and gave to the poor, because they were being oppressed by the tyranny of high taxation and only dear Robin had the spine to stand up and fight back.
Robin gave them back what was already rightfully theirs.
The Sheriff of Nottingham was a government employee.
Just a random thought...........
Right, Robin was “Taxed Enough Already”
Back then the “rich” were the “government”, and the corrupt church, who he also was supposed to have stolen from.
Back then the “rich” were the “government”, and the corrupt church, who he also was supposed to have stolen from.
I NOMINATE ROBIN HOOD FOR PRESIDENT OF THE TEA PARTY !!!
In reality Robin Hood “stole” what the government had taken from the peasants in confiscatory taxes and returned the money to them. The Zorro legend is exactly the same.
That truth cannot be repeated often enough.
Robert Hood, Earl of Loxley, was also by birth a man of privilege, showing that not all well-born are necessarily selfish, evil individuals ... Related legend also has him as a part of the group of noblemen who forced King John to sign the Magna Carta, which formed the foundation of further English common-law & our own Bill of Rights. (I’m sure in his day, he would have been against any form of “bow control” ;)
Exactly. The parasitic, predatory political aristocracy comprised the rich at that time. There was no business class or separation of economy and state. Robin Hood, real or not, was (like Ragnar Danneskjold in Atlas Shrugged) just taking back stolen property and returning it to the productive.
Thought that was Dennis Moore.
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