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It seems to me that Bligh was damned if he did take on the
oligarchical group that seemed to run everything in NSW including the
courts and damned if he did not. From what the artcle says, the common
freemen were behind Bligh, but the people who ran everything were not
happy with this stickler for the rules who didn't want to just hand
out more land to keep them quiet. Perhaps that is what you should
expect if the law is judged by a group of self-appointed oligarchical
magistrates rather than democratic juries.

Just a thought.

Mike

On Jan 20, 12:19 am, "Peter Fogg"  wrote:
> Captain William Bligh, he who sailed with Cook and was subsequently rendered
> forever infamous (or unjustly maligned, depending on your point of view) by
> the Bounty mutiny, went on to suffer another mutiny, one that finished his
> career.
>
> To paraphrase Oscar Wilde: *To lose one command, Mr Bligh, may be regarded
> as a misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness.
>
> *Here is a link to a recent article that sheds a little more light on this
> second, much less well-known 
event:http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/captain-blighs-other-mutiny/2008/...
>
> I will just add that many of the actors in this tale - Macarthur (" *father
> of the sheep industry*" etc), Banks (genus *Banksia*, etc), King (Street),
> Johnston (Street, in Annandale, appropriately enough),  and especially
> Macquarie (streets, university, bank, dictionary, businesses, shopping
> centres, etc, etc) - have been given some lasting tribute via epynomous
> nomenclature, not excluding Bligh (Street).
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