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Hood not so good? Ancient Brits questioned outlaw
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Posted on 03/14/2009 11:16:04 AM PDT by Turret Gunner A20
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In view of the undoubted attitude of the Church of that time, which Robin repurtedly robed as frequently as he robbed anyone else, I'm not so sure historians should put much credence in that marginal note made by a monk; he just may have been a bit biased in his opinion.
To: Turret Gunner A20
600 years is “ancient”....?!
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posted on
03/14/2009 11:20:04 AM PDT
by
lefty-lie-spy
(Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/)
To: Turret Gunner A20
I agree. The church and the government taxed the people into submission. Robin re-appropriated taxes.
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posted on
03/14/2009 11:20:36 AM PDT
by
D Rider
To: D Rider
The church and the government Difficult to make a distinction between the two, even after Henry VIII's kerfluffle with Rome. The Anglicans just picked up where the "papists" left off, after warring back and forth for a while. Seems like our own founding fathers took issue with this, themselves.
To: RegulatorCountry
"Difficult to make a distinction between the two..."Absolutely.
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posted on
03/14/2009 11:28:38 AM PDT
by
D Rider
To: D Rider
If only they had borrowed and spent the money first, it wouldn’t have been as easy to reappropriate the money, since innocent third parties like lenders were now going to be hurt.
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posted on
03/14/2009 11:29:26 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
(Impeach and Deport)
To: Turret Gunner A20
>”Around this time, according to popular opinion, a certain outlaw named Robin Hood, with his accomplices, infested Sherwood and other law-abiding areas of England with continuous robberies,”
Actually that really doesn’t sound too negative. If most of the people were paying, or trying to pay, their taxes then by that definition they are “law abiding”. Also note that there is no mention of the laws being just or unjust.
It sounds very much like a news-snippet. It may or may not have been that he gave the “proceeds” to the poor, but that he robbed is not in question, is it?
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posted on
03/14/2009 11:30:12 AM PDT
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: DannyTN
If only they had borrowed and spent the money first, it wouldnt have been as easy to reappropriate the money, since innocent third parties like lenders were now going to be hurt. Maybe that is why banks and capital based lending were really invented.
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posted on
03/14/2009 11:57:22 AM PDT
by
D Rider
To: Turret Gunner A20
Let's fix this popular misconception RIGHT NOW.
According to legend, Hood roamed 13th-century Britain from a base in central England's Sherwood Forest, plundering from the rich GOVERNMENT to give to the poor.
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posted on
03/14/2009 11:57:42 AM PDT
by
George Smiley
(They're not drinking the Kool-Aid any more. They're eating it straight out of the packet.)
To: lefty-lie-spy
600 years is ancient....?! 'taint very recent.
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posted on
03/14/2009 12:02:49 PM PDT
by
Turret Gunner A20
(Socialism is a good idea until you run out of other peopleÂ’s money. Margaret Thatcher)
To: Turret Gunner A20
Wouldn’t the monk have referred to him as, “Robin of Loxley”?
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posted on
03/14/2009 12:03:04 PM PDT
by
Deb
(Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
To: George Smiley
Exactly. People usually confuse him with “The Highwayman”.
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posted on
03/14/2009 12:05:33 PM PDT
by
Deb
(Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
To: D Rider
"Maybe that is why banks and capital based lending were really invented."No, that's just paranoid. If they had been invented in the last 40 years, you might be onto something.
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posted on
03/14/2009 12:25:34 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
(Impeach and Deport)
To: Turret Gunner A20
I remember a very anti-Robin Hood monolog in Atlas Shrugged.
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posted on
03/14/2009 12:41:22 PM PDT
by
ADemocratNoMore
(Jeepers, Freepers, where'd 'ya get those sleepers?. Pj people, exposing old media's lies.)
To: Turret Gunner A20
I really don’t care about 13th Century HOODlums; I care more about 21st Century HOODlums such as Pelosi, Reid, Obama, Biden, Murtha, et. al.
To: Turret Gunner A20
But Luxford, an art history lecturer at the University of St. Andrews, in Fife, Scotland, says a 23-word inscription in a history book, written in Latin by a medieval monk around 1460, casts the outlaw as a persistent thief.Assuming it's legit.... One note by one monk two centuries after the fact, and suddenly we have "Ancient Brits questioned outlaw"??
Kinda like taking the rantings of a few researchers, and spinning it into "Scientists agree that global warming will destroy the world."
To: Turret Gunner A20
“Robin” is a nickname for Robert in that time period I think.
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posted on
03/14/2009 12:54:04 PM PDT
by
autumnraine
(Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose- Kris Kristoferrson VIVA LA REVOLUTION!)
To: DannyTN
No, that's just paranoid. Yes, but it's funny. I bet somebody with a lot more time on their hands, (and talent,) than I have could develop a conspiracy theory with Knights Templars and Builderbergers in order to subvert the Magna Carta...etc. Probably could write a best selling book like the DaVinci Code or something.
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posted on
03/14/2009 4:47:09 PM PDT
by
D Rider
To: D Rider
And your conspiracy would be a lot more believable than something ridiculously simple like...
Kenyan born man runs for president of the U.S., has all his records sealed and wins.
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posted on
03/14/2009 5:10:12 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
(Impeach and Deport)
To: Deb
Wouldn’t the monk have referred to him as, “Robin of Loxley”? "Loxley" is a later (16th Century) addition.
Earliest references are to "Robyn Hode", "Robyn Hude", "Robyn Hood". And possibly one Robert Hod, described as a fugitive, who is mentioned in the York assizes record of 1226.
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posted on
03/14/2009 7:01:30 PM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
( As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities. - D)
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