Unredacted U.S. History and the Wisdom of 'Braveheart'
‘The United States and many other Western nations are now going through an era where their heritage, traditions, culture, symbols, and religious beliefs are being suppressed to make way for globalist secularism…’
Not long ago, I ran across a quote attributed to Scottish martyr and hero William Wallace, depicted by Mel Gibson in the 1995 movie, Braveheart. Wallace warned against the consequences of crushing the cultural heritage, symbols, and traditions of conquered peoples.
“Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history or denies them their symbols, has sown the seeds of their own destruction.”— William Wallace, circa 1297-1305.
Born in 1270, Wallace was a Scottish Knight who became one of the main leaders of the First Scottish War of Independence (1296-1328). Scotland had been independent until 1296, when England’s Edward I, tried to force the Scots to make him Lord Paramount of Scotland. Along with Andrew Moray, Wallace defeated an English army of King Edward I at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in September 1297 and was appointed Guardian of Scotland. In August 1305, Wallace was captured, sent to London, tried, and publicly executed for treason with barbaric cruelty.
Wallace was from Southwestern Scotland, which was the origin of many “Scots-Irish” (or “Ulster-Scots”) Protestant immigrants to America. Many identified themselves simply as…