Comments by "Brad Williams" (@samsabastian5560) on "Biographics" channel.

  1.  @belle.m  REALLY? You have no idea and what you are saying is nonsense. Ned Kelly ambushed the police party at Stringybark Creek and murdered 3 police without giving them an opportunity to surrender or even draw a weapon. He chased Sgt Kennedy for 800 metres through the bush before murdering him too. So if you claim this is incorrect, let's see some evidence for your fake story.
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  2. alex williamson Actually, I think you mean farrier, not ferrier.
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  3.  @curtisbranagan  So true, yet Ned Kelly never uttered those words on the gallows. Mythological nonsense as usual.
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  4. nick hazelwood Ned Kelly does not qualify in any way shape or form as a legend. You would do well to go back to school and learn how to spell.
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  5.  @rossyeaah  Hero's do not murder, take hostages, rob banks, stand over their victims, and thieve from poor people, as Ned Kelly did. Take a good hard look at yourself Ross.
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  6.  lefthook southpaw  Ned Kelly often told people that he considered himself Australian. He was born here of Irish parents. Fact.
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  7.  Captain Cook  Hero's do not murder, rob banks, take hostages and threaten them with death. Hero's do not rob from poor settlers often taking the only horse they had which sent them bankrupt. Hero's do not stand-over their victims and threaten to do them more harm. How can you realistically suggest that a person of this ilk is a hero?
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  8.  lefthook southpaw  If you are born in Australia, you are Australian. Ned Kelly always considered himself Australian.
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  9.  @H0901-l4u  Actually there is no evidence to support your comment anywhere. Ned Kelly was a murderer and a very serious criminal. He did not want social justice, he just wanted the authorities to leave him alone, so he could carry on his criminal ways uninterrupted.
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  10.  @Adroyo  The rank and file police officers were not corrupt as the Royal Commission found.
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  11.  @alonsocushing2263  Although the RC recommended some members be retired, some reduced to the ranks, some demoted and some sacked, only 3 junior police were sacked. Supts. Nicolson and Hare, who had been stood down, were re-instated by the government and a few weeks later were promoted to become police magistrates. Sgt Steele, who was recommended to be reduced to the ranks following a false allegation that he shot at Margaret Reardon as she was escaping from the hotel, was cleared of that made up nonsense in 1882. The townsfolk at Wangaratta held public meetings and were scathing of the RC recommendation regarding Steele. He retained his rank until he retired. No other police were reduced in rank, and the only officers dismissed were the three who were in Aaron Sherritts hut when he was murdered. They had no right of appeal.
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  12.  @jadethornton7975  I suggest you read 3 books. The Kelly Gang Unmasked Ian MacFarlane. Ned Kelly A Lawless Life Dr. Doug Morrissey. Ned Kelly Selectors, Squatters and Stock Thieves Dr Doug Morrissey. Both of those authors are expert in the Kelly era and destroy the myths that proliferate regarding Ned Kelly. After reading those, you will have a very clear understanding of just how serious a criminal Ned Kelly was.
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  13. Carl, Kelly had to pay his criminal supporters who hid stolen horses on their land.
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  14. Barney, you are obviously unaware that even Ned Kelly confirmed that he shot Fitzpatrick and also that the officer never made an improper approach to Kate Kelly. You are seriously unaware of the facts, aren't you?
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  15. David Price. What is presented here is a load of fictitious nonsense.
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  16.  @glosh3091  Not true Glosh 30. Ned Kelly's head has never been recovered. It was not taken by grave robbers. That is nonsense.
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  17.  @glosh3091  Wikipedia is written by anyone who can write. Not a reliable source for anything.
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  18. Thorshammer If you claim the police were corrupt, where is your evidence?
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  19. Bejamin Maden, me too. He was a vicious criminal.
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  20. Laura Frost Your comment is not true. This presentation simply follows the mythological rubbish that has been written by Kelly fans, and it fails miserably in telling the truth. The police did NOT have stretchers, or body straps with them when they went to arrest the Kelly brothers. They did have handcuffs with them to secure their prisoners. Body straps were never issued to Victoria police EVER. Let's see some evidence for your claim that the police were going to kill Kelly.
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  21. Michael. What a pity what he is saying is mostly mythological nonsense.
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  22. King Dragon Ned Kelly was the head of the Greta Mob, and they placed the chin strap under their nose to indicate they were part of the Mob.
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  23. Gary Dargan Way off course with your comment Gary. The Eureka Stockade event occurred in 1854, where Victoria was still governed by a governor appointed by the Crown. His name was Sir Charles Hotham, and the event was regarding the imposition of a high licence fee. No question that police acted improperly at that time. Twenty years later, Victoria had its own parliament and 82% of the police were of Irish origin. In those early years, two of the premiers of Victoria were Irish. The Royal Commission of 1881 into Victoria police found that the Kelly's were not targeted at all by the police, and the police acted properly regarding Kelly's criminal activities. Your comments regarding Kelly follow fictitious nonsense and are not true in any way.
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  24. Elite It was not a rebellion, it was a criminal enterprise.
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  25.  Aussie Chunda  I am not twisting an argument at all. The people with PhD's have researched thoroughly and their work is in books that most Kelly fans have never read. In fact Dr. Doug Morrissey's thesis was on the people who lived in that area at the time of the outbreak. Try reading his books sometime, and be enlightened. Ned Kelly admitted to his hostages that he had stolen at least 280 horses. YES, I claimed that he stole horses, and that is factual and confirmed by Ned Kelly himself. He had a major horse stealing 'business' going. He also received a stolen horse from Wild Wright, and was eventually convicted by a jury of feloniously stealing a horse and he was given a 3 year sentence for that felony. What else do you want to know?
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  26.  Aussie Chunda  There is substantial evidence that Ned Kelly was stealing horses. He admitted to hostages that he held at gunpoint that he had stolen at least 280 horses. That came out of Ned Kelly's mouth. Is that sufficient evidence for you Aussie? Ned Kelly did not pay for the horse that was being ridden by Wild Wright. Kelly admitted to two people that he knew the horse was stolen, and he intended to sell it. A jury found him guilty, and he was sentenced to 3 years imprisonment. And may I ask why you have to resort to abuse because I correct your nonsense with facts? That is VERY un Australian.
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  27.  John Snow  So please tell me in what way I am wrong?
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  28. Brolando My information comes from documentary evidence, including the Royal Commission that was recorded and is available on the Internet. It also comes from authors with PhD's on the subject, who have studied Ned Kelly and his criminality for decades. In relation to the stolen horse incident regarding Wild Wright, that is well documented in court records and readily available online.
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  29.  @getreelproductions5737  So what historians don't agree? Can you name them please?
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  30. Max Tickner If you knew the whole story you would understand why his legs were not covered.
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  31. David Ruse You are correct. Ned Kelly's massive horse stealing empire had been brought down a few months before the Fitzgerald affair. He had several opportunities to turn his life around, but chose a life of crime.
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  32. Ande Fina What a dumb stupid comment.
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  33.  @ImRuined666  Your comment is not true. Ned Kelly was never a Robin Hood figure. In fact after he stole a huge amount of money from banks not one penny of those funds went to get his mother out of gaol. There is not a shred of evidence anywhere that Kelly gave to the poor, but there is plenty of evidence that he stole from the poor.
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  34.  @ImRuined666  That statement is mythological rubbish. The police were not corrupt as the Royal Commission found. There was no oppression. If you claim there was, let's see some evidence. Guess what - there is none. Kelly was just a serious criminal.
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  35.  @ImRuined666  Kelly was no underdog. He was the king of the criminals in the area and stole from plenty of poor settlers right across NE Victoria.
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  36. Dean Martin, you are right there sport. What is presented is mostly fiction.
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  37.  @BTheBlindRef  What is presented here is mostly fiction. Ned Kelly was a serious criminal and his adulation is only believed by unintelligent morons.
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  38.  @griff420blazer4  He put his revolver in the mouth of one man who stood up to him and threatened to shoot him dead at Euroa. He WAS a violent thug.
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  39.  @BTheBlindRef  What do you mean by absurd laws?
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  40. Wayne Hunter Only to uneducated buffoons.
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  41. RexiousX What is in this video is fictitious nonsense. Not a fact anywhere to be seen.
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  42. Holly Q, only dumb bogans have Ned Kelly tattoos.
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  43. Mya Starr Ellen Quinn was from a family of criminals. She didn't need any corrupting from John, as she was already a skilled criminal matriarch.
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  44.  @shannondixon9031  Your comment regarding government corruption is nonsense. In Victoria the government worked hard to provide for those less fortunate and in fact enacted legislation granting land to settlers, so they could make a go of it in Victoria, which most did and went on to better themselves.
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  45.  @shannondixon9031  There is no correlation at all between the events at Eureka and the criminality of Ned Kelly. At Eureka the miners were rebelling against the mining fee, that was being charged to anyone on the gold fields. It was excessive and caused great hardship for miners, decent men who were trying to make a living and who were not finding any gold. That is what Eureka was all about and after the insurrection changes were made to benefit the miners.
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  46. Aussie 100% May I ask where the evidence is to support your statement? The facts are that we do not know how they met their end, as no autopsy was carried out on their bodies, and they were handed over to their families and buried quickly. Your comment is made up conjecture.
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  47.  @aussie1005  But my friend your comment is still made up supposition. You have not a shred of evidence that they shot themselves. The facts are that we do not know how they died.
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  48. Metal Matt Decent Australians do NOT hold Ned Kelly in high esteem. Why would any decent Fair Dinkum Aussie hold a murderer, bank robber, hostages taker, thief and stand over thug, in high esteem. He was a vicious criminal and in the end got his just deserts.
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  49.  @metalmatt3431  You are so wrong with your comment. Ask the silent majority who know the true facts and not the mythological nonsense that you have been reading, viewing and believing, and you will find that Ned Kelly is just considered a serious criminal who got his just deserts in the end.
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  50. muuaji mpumbavu What a stupid comment. Nothing you have written is true. Kelly was born into a criminal family. Fitzpatrick had nothing to do with Kate Kelly. She made up that fiction 10 months after the event. You need to get your facts right sport.
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