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Poor Mel Gibson, victim of an English world conspiracy

I once spent an entire afternoon editing the Wikipedia Braveheart page, listing the historical inaccuracies that Mel Gibson's film contained. These included William Wallace's impregnation of Edward II's bride Queen Isabella (she was primary school age when he died), the portrayal of Wallace as some earth-hugging noble savage (he was a Norman, just like his enemy Edward I), and the ridiculous alliance of the Irish and Scots in the film (Robert the Bruce's subsequent invasion of Ireland was horrific, and not the last time that Irish and Scots would not live by Celtic solidarity). Anyway, after I'd wasted an entire afternoon someone went and deleted all my hard work.

So after that appallingly inaccurate film – an incitement to hatred so vicious it appealed to every aspect of racial paranoia, including sexually-motivated ("If we cant fight them out, we'll breed them out") - I developed a bit of a grudge against the Aussie actor (or American, no one's sure, even Mel).

But I take no joy in his recent downfall and marriage break-up, nor the mocking laughter around the world at his choice in women, one of whom he has apparently got pregnant.

American social conservative Rod Dreher laments sadly:

"The harder they come, the harder they fall. This really is a tragedy. He once made something beautiful for God. And now he has destroyed his witness and his credibility, and given a great victory to people who sneer at Christianity. He has ultimately given a great victory to the Enemy."

Personally I think Mel was always a bad advert for Christianity, and Catholicism especially. And now he confirms everyone's worst prejudice against Catholics - sexual hypocrisy.

This on top of accusations of anti-Semitism after his drunken rant about Jews. I don't know whether he's an anti-Semite but his father certainly is and that end of the trad Catholic spectrum doesn't have an enormous number of friends of Israel. But let's get it in perspective - any hostility he might have to the Jews is tiny compared to his rampant Anglophobia, if his films are anything to go by.

Before Braveheart he made Gallipoli, an overtly anti-British film, but at least one based on historical reality (Aussies did die in their droves in World War One). He then followed Braveheart with the even more hate-filled The Patriot, which presented the American War of Independence as basically modern-day Yanks against English Nazis. Never mind the nuasances of that conflict – that many colonials allied with the Crown, that they didn't call the enemy "the British" because they considered themselves British, nor that the rebels had considerable support in England - this was Mel's chance to pursue his personal grudge against the UK. They even featured a scene where the Brits locked civilians in a church and burned it.

Ever since then his cards were marked and it was only a matter of time before the vast English conspiracy who control banking, the media and politics got their own back. Right now, somewhere in Whitehall, there's a camp English gentleman stroking a cat and drinking a cup of tea, sniggering as he watches a TV screen showing the now semi-tragic Mel with his Russian girlfriend.

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