Sri Lankan gov't: Tamil Tiger rebel chief killed (AP) AP - Sri Lanka declared Monday it had crushed the final resistance of the Tamil Tigers, killing rebel chief Velupillai Prabhakaran and ending his three-decade quest for an independent homeland for minority Tamils
FOR THE SOUND BITE GENERATION FREEDOM IS NOT BETWEEN BATHROOM BREAKS Things begin to change, however, when William Wallace secretly marries his childhood friend, Murron. Days later, an English soldier tries to rape her. Wallace helps her fight the solider off, then puts her on a horse to spirit her away before he too flees into the woods. But,unseen by Wallace, Murron is captured by another solider and taken to the English magistrate. Angry that a King’s soldier has been assaulted, the magistrate takes the opportunity to demonstrate English contempt for the rights of commoners. With distain he publicly slits Murron’s throat, and challenges Wallace to seek revenge. Although Wallace had before refused to entertain rebellion against the English, now he takes up the reigns of leadership... and freedom — Wallace’s battle cry to his dying breath Midway through the film (at 1 hr. 35 min.) Wallace angrily addresses the Scottish nobles who moments before have knighted him as guardian and high protector of Scotland. The scene is Wallace's Moment of Grace. Not only does he accept the truth of the story's moral premise, but he articulates it with force, and embraces the physical side of the moral premise as his life's goal: WILLIAM WALLACE You’re so concerned with squabbling for the scraps from Longshank’s table that you’ve missed your Godgiven right to something better. There is a difference between us. You think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom. And I go to make sure that they have it. This speech summarizes well the two sides of the story’s Moral Premise. The vice is the nobles’ cowardly compromise encouraged by their greed for position, and the virtue is their divine call to sacrificially provide their people with freedom — something our hero takes up ashis own call. What is also evident is that the commoner alone cannot win Scotland’s freedom. >From the first images of the movie to nearly the last, commoners die with >little progress toward true liberty. It is only when the rightful ruler of >Scotland, Robert the Bruce, takes up the battle cry for liberty that freedom >comes. Therefore, the long form of Braveheart’s Moral Premise is:The willingness of leaders to compromise liberty leads to tyranny; but The willingness of leaders to die for liberty leads to freedom. , to put it succinctly: Compromise of liberty leads to tyranny; but Dying for liberty leads to freedom. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Asalam o Alaikum, You Are Receiving This Message, Because You Are A Member Of FOCUS ON ISLAM, A Google Group [..:: The Best Group For Nice Islamic Mails ::..] \/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<>\/ You can Post Your Comments and Suggestions to Me [Moderator of this Group] on this email address: [email protected] To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.google.com/group/focusonislam/ To post messages/mails to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] Please forward our Mails to Your friends, and convence them to join our Group. Wanna subscribe to this group, send email to [email protected] \/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<>\/ *********************************************************** The Official Website of Group is LAUNCHED, http://www.geocities.co -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
