Robin Hood Was An Anarchist

Now, we all have heard the saying,"Robin Hood took from the rich to give to the poor...", but this is a complete lie and fabrication.  He did not any sort of thing. He rather took from the government and gave back to the people, which makes him sound like Ronald Reagan more so than anyone else that people like to compare him too :). Look, I will quash this myth about the Robin Hood myth. Robin Hood lived in a time when England was ruled by a king who oppressed the common person, usually a tenant farmer, with crushing taxes. Robin Hood, being a commoner, did not like the way the government treated people, so he took to the forests to rob the "tax man" when he would come to collect, and this is seen by the constant conflicts he had with the Sheriff of Nottingham, hardly someone who could be said to cooperate with government authority. In all, Robin Hood was an outlaw who fought against the government and its oppression, not someone who aided it in the confiscation of peoples' hard earned sustenance.