It’s kind of strange how people latch on to people who are breaking the law and hail them as heroes, whereas other law breakers are condemned. Obvious examples talked about in the lecture were Robin Hood and Jesse James, but they are very old examples now, I got thinking whether there were any modern day “bandits” and I could only think of one. There was a 69 year old woman who refused to pay council tax as her area hadn’t been cleaned up by the council.
In a way she was robbing from the council, but it was to make a point and I guess that that made her a hero for the normal person. She actually ended up going to prison for refusing to pay, and in the end probably cost the council more than the £800 that they wanted from her.
References
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/derbyshire/5115104.stm
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