[ClearCase_guy]

The Robin Hood story is a story about taxpayers fighting back against a government of looters.

The looters have told you that he was a thief. They said he stole from the rich, but that is a self-serving rendition. He stole from the tax collectors. He gave to the tax payers.

Robin Hood is the Tea Party.

[IronJack]

Robin Hood, in all probability, never even existed. He's a morality tale about taking from those you consider having taken from you unjustly. But Robin Hood had no more claim to the money he stole than the people who stole it to begin with. I suspect it's always dangerous to rob one person on behalf of another.

The only Tea Party I recognize is the one that featured the patriots from Boston, and their ideological heirs who want our government back. I don't include a mythical English highwayman, regardless of how you render his story.