tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8774141581856407262.post7246807384865127251..comments2024-01-22T15:31:47.187-08:00Comments on Wrong With Authority: WWA Episode 8: BraveheartJack Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12577724856056106531noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8774141581856407262.post-14136849246779568192018-05-08T20:28:57.659-07:002018-05-08T20:28:57.659-07:00looking forward to that looking forward to that Kandungan m-bio porasihttps://bit.ly/2FGXurunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8774141581856407262.post-66959609510725408242018-03-18T21:17:21.603-07:002018-03-18T21:17:21.603-07:00Historically, one important thing you missed was t...Historically, one important thing you missed was the Declaration of Arbroath.<br /> <br />Part of a diplomatic campaign to the Pope in an attempt to force Edward II to accept an independent Scotland and Bruce as it's King. <br /><br />Completely missing from the movie (the Declaration was written six years after Bannockburn) many Historians see it as an important step in the evolution of Western Political thought. Below is it's most famous passage;<br /><br />"As long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours, that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself".<br /><br />However the important part comes immediately after that;<br /><br />"But after all, if this prince [King Robert] shall leave those principles which he hath so nobly pursued, and consent that we or our kingdom be subjected to the king or people of England, we will immediately endeavor to expel him as our enemy, and as the subverter of both his own and our rights, and will choose another king who will defend our liberties". <br /><br />say farewell to the 'Divine Rights of Kings' right there...<br /><br />Apparently Thomas Jefferson claimed Bruce as an ancestor, so I'll bet there's more than a little Arbroath DNA in America's Declaration of Independence.<br /><br />nice disembowelling of a movie I saw once and wished I never had, embarrassing is just the start.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04931171941211196603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8774141581856407262.post-57047228076162138882018-03-14T14:13:30.733-07:002018-03-14T14:13:30.733-07:00As a Scot, I would like to say how embarrassing I ...As a Scot, I would like to say how embarrassing I find Braveheart - even if it didn't have a wife-beating extremist in the lead role it would still be awful. I protest at the thought of any sequel.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com