Robin Hood

[a former soldier Robin (Russel Crowe), has been reminded of who his father was, a man who demanded liberty.  Now he is at a meeting of nobles and the king, who need to decided the fate of England.]

Robin over the course of the movie remembers who he is.  But ultimately becomes a "freedom fighter."  Why might you imagine this person has become a person of the hood, a criminal?  Sometimes in order to be just, we need to show the inadequacies in the law, or point to a Law.  Robin in this clip does exactly that, he makes it clear to the king that the best way to have the loyalty of the people is to allow them justice, and a law that even the king himself is bound to you.  "No servant can have two masters.  He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other." Lk. 16:13 The king himself must be subject to law. 

How often in our society do we see a gradation of who is under the authority of the law, like celebrities?  They should be held to the same standard that the average John Doe is.  The other aspect is that the laws of a land should reflect Natural Law, the Law to which we can discover is and is not good for man in general.  Think about it for a second the liberties that Robin talks about is that of which the Church would agree.  Take time today to think about the laws of this country, and whether or not they give us liberty, or bind us under a tyrant?  To quote from another movie, "why should I trade one tyrant 3000 miles away for 3000 tyrants one mile away?  A legislator can trample a man's right just as easily as a king can." -The Patriot