#folk hero

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Word on the street

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William Tell Escapes from Gessler's Boat at the Axen Cliffs by Lake Lucerne — by François-André Vincent

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Hidden in plain sight

The wonderful wizard belongs to @willczek-art C:

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On December 28th 1734 Scotland’s famous outlaw, Rob Roy MacGregor, died at home in his bed.

Rob Roy has been represented as a bit of a rogue, a Scottish Robin Hood, a hero and even as an out and out criminal. The difficulty we have is that life in the highlands in those days was a far cry from the life we see today. Life was hard, and the highlands were still in the turmoil of the Jacobite risings and the beginnings of what was to become the United Kingdom.

The Clan loyalties were still fairly strong, some still are and Rob Roy is still a subject that can provoke fierce debates, many of you might think of him as the lovable rogue type but he was far from that. Much of his life was spent either stealing cattle or offering a protection racket charging farmers a percentage of their annual rent to ensure that their cattle remained safe. I say farmers but they weren’t the rich ones owning swathes of land, they were more like crofters, they paid the Laird to stay on the land and it didn’t come cheap so when the likes of Rob Roy came knocking it hit them hard in the pocket and those who did not pay regretted it he had them stripped of all they possessed.

A little known fact is that when the MacGregor name was outlawed Rob Roy used his mother’s name, Campbell, not a well liked name in the Highlands, especially after the events at Glencoe in 1692.

I’m not saying he was all bad just putting another spin on the story instead of the romanticised one that was perpetuated, first by Daniel Defoe then Walter Scott, both Royalists yet Rob Roy was a Jacobite! In my opinion he wasn’t all he seemed, as a Jacobite he was at the point of being transported to Barbados in 172 yet was pardoned by George I, there’s more to that story than meets the eye, in my opinion……

Throughout all these exploits Rob Roy managed to hold his MacGregor Clan together. Born into a protestant family, he became a Roman Catholic in his later years. He died peacefully in his own bed at Balquhidder in 1734.

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When Hitler killed millions of Jewish people (and others who were deemed "undesirable"), his evil was obvious. When the colonizers murdered natives without batting an eye, their evil was obvious. When anything like this that isn't widely known happens, we can spot the evil easily, especially with hindsight.

We're living in a new era of evil people. Their killing and genocides are far less obvious (in Billionaire US) and, hey, they have all sorts of mechanisms to hide behind. They control the narrative via the news outlets that they own, they control our government and they have us hating each other to keep our focus off of them and the wretched deeds they're doing.

Which brings me to Brian Thompson, United Healthcare's former CEO. Did he walk into hospitals and/or homes and put guns to anyone's heads? Did he or his executives pull life support and cackle as they did so? No. They hid behind "denying claims" for profits.. which pulled the life support for them.

People died, people ARE DYING, because of greed that won't stop. We tried changing things "the right way" via legislation, peaceful protests, even lobbying.. but we couldn't beat the cash flow. When people are desperate and they see no other way out, violence becomes the only answer. The only thing these ghouls value more than money are their own lives.

Which is why i must say.. Luigi Mangione is a hero. And just look at them.. they are trying so hard to turn us against him however they can bc they are scared. They see that we see that it's not the right vs the left.. it's the rich vs the poor. In their fear, they're showing us that the life of ONE CEO is more valuable than all the kids who have died in school shootings and all of Brian Thompson's victims, etc etc.. and that's on top of watching billionaires being appointed to government positions, even sadistic ones like Elon Musk. Large scale evil isn't obvious when you're in the middle of it and it's hard to see when they're doing everything they can to hide it from us. We have to keep going. That's my stance.

(And honestly if you couldn't tell that from my writing, i dunno how to help ya >.>)

DISCLAIMER: I AM NOT CONDONING VIOLENCE.

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