A Man for our Times-BRAVEHEART

Rating: 10/10 (17 September 2006)

I had problems at first watching this movie because a major enemy of mine, a girl I had dated in high school and her vengeful family were of Scottish descent. But I put my hate for the Scottish aside and actually found this movie to be enjoyable and quite moving in parts. The Scottish girl and her family are why I also have an ax to grind with Washington DC. They broke up my seven year marriage to my former wife, destroyed my personal life and even caused me a nervous breakdown. I had said in 1986, if someone were to actually start a legitimate insurrection in America for a cause that I believed in, I would also bear arms against our government. When you take everything away from a man that he has and he has nothing to lose, he can become quite brave as well. I waited for the revolution that never came. I even felt emboldened by stores of the Judges (warrior prophet liberators of ancient Israel) as well as the life and death struggle between soon-to-be king David and his paranoid schizophrenic enemy King Saul who was trying to literally kill him! Yes, Virginia, there is "a time to kill" in the Bible book of Ecclesiastes. Most of the twenty years of hate that I have endured from my two brothers and the government revolved around the issues of my refusal to finish my PhD and my refusal to become gay for the government! I will say this much, as Braveheart had seen his wife's ghost looking lovingly at him before his lost his head, I remember lying on my bed and feeling the strange sensation of an affectionate large dog kissing my feet and I wondered if that was Jesus Christ himself or his angel? The government had tried to drive me insane with their threats.Teasing by sexed up women in church had also twice driven me to the brink of suicide! Yet, I am still alive! I couldn't imagine that God would amke me to become like Bravehart or Samson or David or Gideon from the Bible; but the hate that I endured for my principles and my integrity was severe. And phonies like Billy Graham for instance do not symapthize with my non-violent resistance.