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Braveheart, the movie, fully deserves
its place in the annals of Scottish myth.
Sorry, but in truth William Wallace
was a complete and utter bastard of the first degree.
Sure, he rallied
the people to arms and gave old Eddie Longshanks and his
boys a whipping or two, but history shows that, far from
the Super-Mel Freedom Fighter portrayed on screen, he was
a tyrant who lived and ruled, perhaps by necessity, by the
law of terror.
Beatings, executions and harsh reprisals,
often exterminating entire villages, were common weapons
in Wallace's War to win the hearts and minds of his fellow
Scots.
In a modern scenario he would most
certainly be labelled by the UN as a terrorist and would
probably get bombed to buggery. Stuffed the English though,
and that's good enough for us.
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