To: Travis McGee
...reclaim some of the ill-gotten gains of the wealthy.If I remember my Robin Hood correctly, he robbed the tax collectors and returned the "taxes" to the people from whom they were originally taken.
10 posted on
04/20/2009 4:19:51 PM PDT by
sima_yi
( Palin / Jindal 2012)
To: sima_yi
11 posted on
04/20/2009 4:21:49 PM PDT by
tomkat
(grow your ohms)
To: sima_yi
Yep. Robin Hood didn't steal from private citizens, he stole from the government.
12 posted on
04/20/2009 4:23:07 PM PDT by
Carling
("We've lost two people in my family because you dickheads won't cut trees down," - Warwick Spooner)
To: sima_yi
If I remember my Robin Hood correctly, he robbed the tax collectors and returned the "taxes" to the people from whom they were originally taken.
True, but back in those days, the tax collector was acting on behalf of, not any type centralized representative government, but on behalf of the whim of the landed aristocracy, i.e. the royals and their subservient gentry class who owed their position to their obedience of their king and had no compunction taking everything they could from the backs of the servant classes in order to feed the beast.
Now that I think of it, perhaps we are talking about the same thing. Some things never change.
22 posted on
04/20/2009 4:32:56 PM PDT by
Caramelgal
(When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.)
To: sima_yi
Correct - and the government he fought was an oppressive and tyrannical regime imposed by subterfuge and deceit. Should be an apt metaphor for today.
32 posted on
04/20/2009 4:48:11 PM PDT by
WorkingClassFilth
(Actually, it all started back in Mayberry. Helen Crump was a traveler and Floyd, well, you know...)
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