Yaron Brook Interrupted By Robin Hood Guerilla Protest

Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham make an appearance at the MSU appearance of Yaron Brook from Ayn Rand Institute for Individual Freedom.
Original Script [cut off by being forced to leave]
Robin Hood Economics

(Sheriff enters)
Sheriff: Pay your debts! Come on, pay your debts!
(Grabs peasant 1) Wheres your money, or should I say my money. You owe me!
Peasant 1: But sir, I can hardly feed my family!
Sheriff: Your family?! You think I care about your family?! Ha! Now pay up!
(Peasant 1 sadly hands over a small bag of money. Sheriff moves on to Peasant 2. Sheriff grabs Peasant 2 by the scruff of the neck)
Sheriff: What about you?! Time to pay up!
Peasant 2: Sir, I was laid off from work, I can barely pay my bills!
Sheriff: Your bill you say, well dont you worry, you wont have to pay those any more.Now that Ive foreclosed your home!
(Sheriff laughs and walks on stage.
Sheriff: Now, for the rest of you, with your socialist federal grants! Cough it up!
(Robin Hood enters through back door)
Robin Hood: Stop right there Sheriff of Nottingham!
Sheriff: Who goes there!
Robin Hood: It is I, Robin Hood, here to instill Robin Hood Economics!
(Addressing audience) Do you know that even Adam Smith, the Father of Economics and Capitalism, believed that the rich should pay more in taxes because they have greater access to the commons!
Sheriff: But, have you not heard this man, have you not also heard the works or Ayn Rand! Lending a helping hand is Immoral! We dont need the poor!
Robin Hood: Ahh how soon you forget! It is the poor who make the wheels of the economy turn. Without us there would be no rich, there would be nothing!

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[grantsinmypants2]

"Guerilla protest" is being too kind. More like, "Yaron Brook interrupted by criminals using sound waves to violate the fundamental right to the freedom of speech."

[tito2502]

The protesters epitomise the anti-intellectual thuggishness that plagues academia.

[666dagstein]

@eaodak No it's not a cult and it's an insult to real cult victims to say that. You can be an "Randist" without ever seeing another "Randist." You should learn that words have definitions.

[notanotheraccount]

Grow up. You wouldn't see Dr. Brook interrupting your little play if you had the balls to present it and (try to) draw an audience on your own.

[christerryatl]

Adam Smith was not the "Father" of Economics and Capitalism.

[eaodak]

@akinobjectivist Are you seriously attempting to play the 'rude' card? Are you suggesting that Doktor Brooks' objective intellect could not hold it's own over his....eek... feelings?

Oh boo hoo for Herr Brooks....

[eaodak]

@tito2502 Puhleeze...... If it looks like BS, smells like BS...... Randism is aObjective, Randism is aintellectual because Randism is just a garden variety cult.

If I were a religious man I'd say that God struck down the Princess Bride Bishop here as punishment for his vile use of language. But I'm not, so let's just say that universe is a funny thing sometimes....

[ratrat48]

@tito2502 on the contrary, our organization is focused on educating the public about the politics that surround our lives. We use direct action to make the change we want to see, and theatrics like this to encourage others to become active. After the speech many more of us debated him.

[soitoldhimno]

You're a loser.

[lordhighexecutioner]

A small sacrifice to keep one's country from becoming a dystopian Hell is truly a virtue - a small sacrifice yielding a far larger reward.

Rand promises dystopian Hell... it probably explains why her theology was taken by Anton LaVey for the Satanic Bible and the Church of Satan!

[LegalizeCapitalism]

the argument in the script is poor. either way who here agrees that sacrifice is a virtue? lets see by show of hands or shackles?

[LegalizeCapitalism]

well lie and say its selfless concern for the preservation of your not looking like a moron in front of a large audience of whom only a fractional amount had the "taste" to find that kind of display amusing. but ive never been much of a liar.