Sorry, this post has no IT content at all, but it is Easter!

A question people have asked is why did the Jews call for the release of the murderer Barabas over Jesus. I have often heard Israel in Jesus’s time compared to occupied France with Romans as Nazis and tax collectors as collaborators. Barabas would then be a member of the resistance.

However, after watching a certain TV program last Easter I’d like to suggest an alternative for us Brits. Imagine England under the Normans, the invaders stamping out our culture & language and helping themselves to lands (and property and women). Who in an English crowd at that time (or even now) wouldn’t have shouted for Robin Hood - an outlaw fighting for his people and even killing the ruling nobility. A freedom fighter? A hero? A murderer? Who would choose some pacifist, northern weirdo even if he did perform some alleged miracles?

We like to think we’d choose better but…

A murderer they save, the Prince of Life they slay
http://www.music-lyrics-gospel.com/gospel_music_lyrics/my_song_is_love_unknown_11109.asp